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Answer
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What is the name for the medieval act of seppuku (ritual suicide), which was done following a master's death?
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Junshi
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Which form of poetry, used a thousand years before the haiku, contains 31 syllables?
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Waka
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What is the title of what is considered to be Japan's first modern novel?
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Ukigumo
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Which type of Shintō Shrine is dedicated to the kami (gods) of war?
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Hachiman Shrines
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What is the name for the Japanese art of flower arranging?
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Ikebana
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What is the name of the first written history of Japan, which is not considered accurate?
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Kojiki
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What was the nickname of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki?
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Fat Man
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Sebastian Michaelis and Ciel Phantomhive are the protagonists of which anime series?
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Black Butler
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Name any one of the three Japanese members of the K-Pop group Twice
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Sana Minatozaki/Mina Myoui/Momo Hirai
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What is the name for a man who is dressed as a woman in a play?
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Onnagata
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What is the name for the genre of erotic woodblock print art?
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Shunga
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What is the name for the Japanese dish of blowfish, which is fatally poisonous if not prepared correctly?
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Fugu
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The character "Gudetama" is an anthropomorphic version of which food?
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Egg
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Tatsuro Yamashita and Mariya Takeuchi are artists of which subset of pop music?
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City Pop
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Which type of tree is always painted on the background of a nō theater?
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Pine Tree
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What is the name of the controversial shrine which honors Japan's war dead, including hundreds of war criminals?
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Yasukuni
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Which religion was banned from 1620 until 1873?
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Christianity
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What is the name of the gift of money that is given to children at the new year?
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Otoshidama
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What is the name for Japan's bicameral legislature?
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National Diet
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What is the name for the Japanese writing system which is used to write words that come from foreign languages?
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Katakana
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What is the name for the hand gestures on a Buddhist sculpture?
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Mudra
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What is the name for the outcast class of Japan, traditionally associated with "impure" jobs such as killing animals?
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Burakumin
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What is the name of the current era of Japan?
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Reiwa
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What does the "AKB" in AKB48 stand for?
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Akihabara
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What is the name of the first of the three unifiers of Japan?
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Oda Nobunaga
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At what age does one celebrate their "coming of age" ceremony?
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20
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A "shinobi" is another name for a what?
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Ninja
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What is the name for the national policy films from the 1940's?
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Kokusaku-Eiga
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