Telling facts about our country By Shamus My Cultural profile Telling facts about our country By Shamus

My country and city My second country is japan and my gran parents and great gran parents lives in a place called Okayama. It is near a place called Shimane.

Japans national symbol The National symbol of Japan is a circle. For the meaning of land of the rising sun. They call it the land of the rising sun because they say Japan is first for them to wake up compared to China and Korea.

Japans national colour Did you think Japans national colours were red and white. Well your it is actually blue. Blue is the national colour of Japan. Our national team of football or soccer has been wearing blue uniform all the time. About baseball our national team wears striped uniform. But they had worn blue uniform before. Blue is a favourite colour of the Japanese. It is the colour of the sea that surrounds us. And the colour is the symbol of youth.

Hobbies and sports Hobbies I like are playing in any sports that are new or old, watching Bajan Canadian and Jeromeasf play on Minecraft servers, going on big adventures with friends and play Minecraft. Sports I play is Cricket I love going down to the nets and practise with my dad and brother.

Family heritage and tree Edith nz Obachan Japan Ochichan Japan Liam nz Yoshimi Japan Tony nz Shamus nz

Language I can speak to different languages, First one is Japanese and English. Japan has 3 different kinds of writing 1.Hiragana is a syllabic alphabet. In other words, each character represents a sound. There are 46 different characters each of it represents a different sound. Hiragana is used to represent native Japanese words. You will mostly see small Hiragana characters above or below Kanji to indicate how the Kanji should be pronounced. 2.Katakana is another syllabic alphabet. Katakana has the same amount of characters as Hiragana. 3.Kanji the big one, Kanji has over 8000 Kanji characters. Kanji is not a syllabic and are used to represent abstract concepts as well as names and any day words.

Festivals in Japan Japan has a lot of festivals more than I can write on this. One of the festivals are called TANGU NO SEKKU Children's Day Boy's Day May 5th. Children's day is to celebrate about the Samurai families that stood up the flags and streamers in celebration of the victory. Others believe that the unification of the country by the Ashikaga Shogun in the 14th century had been celebrated in this fashion on every May 5 until the interior decorations came to be emphasized. So every may the 5th we celebrate children's day. One more celebration we have is still Christmas. In Christmas for our dinner it is most popular to eat chicken in Japan a lot of Japanese people eat KFC for dinner during Christmas. And during Christmas eve we celebrate by doing a 10k run in a Santa Claus outfit. We have much more festivals but it will take a lot of time to write.

Clothing I wear to school

Clothing I wear at home I grab some lotto shorts any T-shirt and a jacket or jersey but in weekends I wear shorts jeans or some track pants a T-shirt and a jacket. Some vans, dc or puma.

Food I eat at school I eat a apple my mums home made bread sandwich witch is the best a packet of chips sometimes Korean noodles and a brunch bar.

Food I eat at home Food I eat for dinner is most of the time steak and veges sometimes on Fridays when mum is to tired to cook we get Korean noodles from Korean shop. For breakfast I mostly have Weet-bix or a omelette.

Food I eat on special occasion On a special occasion like Christmas the most popular food in Japan is KFC or chicken.

Japanese music Traditional song or music is with big hand drums and some kind of shaker and there is a dance with it. It is like a group dance or single dance you where a costume and a mask called the hanya.

Fun fact about Japan Did you know mount Fuji last blew up in 1707. Raw horse meat is popular in Japan. Poor English writing is around every where in Japan on shirts and more. Why is it poor English because when we say it in Japanese it sounds right but in English it doesn't make sense.