Japanese Culture THE JAPANESE ARE A HOMOGENEOUS CULTURE and have restricted immigration since 1951. "Immigration likes policies because they are flexible, and can be changed as the bureau likes." In order to be a Japanese citizen, your parents have to have been Japanese citizens and you have to be born in Japan. Japan does not allow dual citizenship. You have to give up any other foreign citizenship to become a Japanese citizen by naturalization.(5 years) The only exception is if one of your parents is a citizen of another country, you will have dual citizenship until you are 20 years old. At that age, either you choose Japanese citizenship or you lose it!

JAPANESE MIRACLE 1954-1993 The US helped Japan to rebuild after WWII. The cooperation of manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and banks in closely knit groups (keiretsu); along with the powerful enterprise unions and cozy relations with government bureaucrats was so successful that this period became known as the “Japanese Miracle”. By the 1960’s, Japan was exporting many of its goods to the US and around the world – ironically turning Japan into an economic powerhouse.

Living in a small island nation 80% covered in forests and mountains isn't easy, especially when there are 127 million of you.

Japanese Cities

Their job is to push as many people as possible into Japanese subway cars

UNDERGROUND CITIES This project is called Alice City, after Lewis Carroll's heroine who went underground by way of a rabbit hole. The company, which has drawn up elaborate plans, envisions two huge concrete "infrastructure" cylinders, each 197 ft. tall and with a diameter of 262 ft., that would be built as much as 500 ft. below ground. They would house facilities for power generation, air conditioning and waste processing. Each cylinder would be connected by passages to a series of spheres, which would accommodate stores, theaters, sports facilities, offices and hotels. Taisei's initial $4.2 billion design could support 100,000 people. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north. Seikan Tunnel

Japanese Underground Storm Sewer The city of Saitama Japan started construction of its colossal storm sewer system in 1992 and is now open for tours.  The extensive system was built to avoid city-wide flooding during the typhoon season and is composed of giant concrete silos (65m tall and 32m wide) connected by 6.4km of underground tunnels.  Extending 50m below the surface, the system also contains a giant tank that is 25.4m tall, 177m long, 78m wide and a total of 59 concrete columns.

Japanese Home Pool

Japanese Toilets Toilets use recycled grey water from the sink when flushed. Toto, Japan's No. 1 toilet maker, teamed up to develop a bathroom that lets users monitor their health. It analyzers urine samples, measures your blood pressure, and checks your body fat. Inventor: Toto Company.

Artificial Beach in Japan

Interesting Japanese Inventions cockroach swatter slippers portable office tie 10-in-1 gardening tool

Other inventions hair noodle protector Washer that sits on the table and washes a few things at a time instead of having a huge washer for laundry. hair noodle protector