| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Currency of Japan | Yen | 99%
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| Country nickname: "Land of the ______ Sun" | Rising | 97%
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| Tree whose blossoms are celebrated | Cherry | 94%
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| Japanese animation | Anime | 92%
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| Famous movie monster and official citizen | Godzilla | 87%
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| Smileys used in electronic massages | Emoji | 83%
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| Traditional hostess and entertainer | Geisha | 82%
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| Title of the Japanese monarch | Emperor | 79%
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| "Japan" in Japanese | Nihon | 77%
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| National sport | Sumo | 77%
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| Most common form of saying "thanks" in Japanese | Arigato | 76%
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| Major car brand | Nissan | 66%
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| Over 300,000 were killed by the Japanese in the 1937-38 massacre of this Chinese city | Nanjing | 62%
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| Southernmost prefecture where karate was invented | Okinawa | 60%
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| Major camera company with namesake of a Greek mountain | Olympus | 57%
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| Current prime minister | Abe | 49%
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| Third most populous metropolitan area | Nagoya | 45%
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| Japanese for "number one" | Ichiban | 43%
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| Director of "Spirited Away" and "Ponya" | Miyazaki | 28%
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| "Sakoku" was the practice of this "ism" during the the Tokugawa shogunate | Isolationism | 12%
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| Hiromasa Yonebayashi animation about a tiny teenage: "The Secret World of ________" | Arrietty | 9%
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| Akira Kurosawa movie about a nameless Samurai with no master | Yojimbo | 6%
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