1. JAPAN

2. Where is Japan?

3. Japan The equator ★ Australia The Northern Hemisphere We’re here
The Southern Hemisphere

4. How far is it between Australia and Japan?

5. Let’s work out how many kilometers it is from Sydney to Tokyo.
It takes about 9 hours to from Sydney to Tokyo by plane.
The plane travels about 900 km per hour.
Let’s work out how many kilometers it is from Sydney to Tokyo.
9hours X 900km =
8,100km
(Japanese Culture Resources and Activities, Nelson Thomson Learning P.2)

6. How big do you think Japan is?

7. 8,000,000 sq km 380,000 sq km The area of Australia is
The area of Japan is
380,000 sq km
The area of Australia is 21 times larger than the area of Japan. Look at the way the map of Japan fits into the map of Australia.
(Japanese Culture Resources and Activities, Nelson Thomson Learning P.1)

8. How many people live in Japan?

9. 127million The population of Australia is 23million
(2014:23,344,735)
The population of Japan is
127million
(2014:126,981,371)
(World Population Review:

10. About 5.5 times more people live in Japan than live in Australia!!!

11. Japan is an island group (archipelago) of 6,852 islands.
Do you know?
Japan is an island group (archipelago) of 6,852 islands.
(Japan Talk: Japan Travel and Culture Guide:

12. Hokkaido Honshu Shikoku Kyushu Okinawa Tokyo
There are four main islands in Japan: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku.
Hokkaido
Honshu is the main island and the location of the capital city of Japan, Tokyo.
Hokkaido is Japan's second largest island. It is north of Honshu.
Kyushu and Shikoku are close to the south of Honshu.
Japan also has a chain of tropical islands to the south called the Ryukyu Islands. The biggest island here is called Okinawa.
Honshu
Tokyo
Okinawa
Shikoku
Kyushu
(Japan Talk: Japan Travel and Culture Guide:

13. How many states and territories does Australia have?
Australia has 6 states:
1. Queensland (QLD)
2. New South Wales (NSW)
3. Victoria (VIC)
4. South Australia (SA)
5. Western Australia (WA)
6. Tasmania (TAS)
There are two mainland territories:
1. Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
2. Northern Territory (NT)
How many states and territories do you think Japan has?

14. The 47 prefectures of Japan
The prefectures are also often grouped into 9 regions.
Hokkaido
Tohoku
2. Aomori
3. Iwate
4. Miyagi
5. Akita
6. Yamagata
7. Fukushima
Kanto
8. Ibaraki
9. Tochigi
10. Gunma
11. Saitama
12. Chiba
13. Tokyo
14. Kanagawa
Chubu
15. Niigata
16. Toyama
17. Ishikawa
18. Fukui
19. Yamanashi
20. Nagano
21. Gifu
22.Shizuoka
23. Aichi
Kansai
24. Mie
25. Shiga
26. Kyoto
27. Osaka
28. Hyogo
29. Nara
30. Wakayama
Chugoku
31. Tottori
32. Shimane
33. Okayama
34. Hiroshima
35. Yamaguchi
Shikoku
36. Tokushima
37. Kagawa
38. Ehime
39. Kochi
Kyushu
40. Fukuoka
41. Saga
42. Nagasaki
43. Kumamoto
44. Oita
45. Miyazaki
46. Kagoshima
Okinawa
47. Okinawa (

15. Let’s travel to Japan!

16. Sapporo
The Sapporo Snow Festival One of Japan's largest winter events in February.
Every winter, about 2 million people come to Sapporo to see a large number of splendid snow and ice sculptures.

17. Tokyo The capital of Japan A Pedestrian scramble in Shibuya
Tokyo tower is a communications and observation tower.
Tokyo Skytree is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower.
A Pedestrian scramble is also known as an 'X' Crossing (UK), diagonal crossing (US), scramble intersection (Canada), and, more poetically, a Barnes Dance, is a pedestrian crossing system that stops all vehicular traffic and allows pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction, including diagonally, at the same.
Tokyo Tower &
Tokyo Skytree
Tokyo Tower: Built in 1958
Height 333m
Tokyo Skytree: Built in 2012
Height 634m
The capital of Japan
Aria: 2,188 sq km
Population: million
A Pedestrian scramble in Shibuya
One of the world's most heavily used pedestrian scrambles, at Hachiko Square in Shibuya, Tokyo. Over 2 million people per day use this crossing.

18. Shizuoka
Mt. Fuji
Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24m. Mt. Fuji was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site on 22nd June 2013.

19. Kyoto
Kyoto
Kyoto is formerly the imperial capital of Japan for more than 1,000 years.

20. Hiroshima Nagasaki An atomic bombing of Nagasaki
The atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on 9th August ,000 to 80,000 people were killed in Nagasaki.
An atomic bombing of Hiroshima
The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945.
90,000–166,000 people were killed in Hiroshima.
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
The Atomic Bomb Dome is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
The Population of Darwin is 136,245 (3013).
The Atomic Bomb Dome is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

21. Which part of Japan are you interested in travelling to?

22. Ogre (oni in Japanese)
Other words for ogre include monster and demon.
peach
(momo in Japanese)
Obaasan –
Grandmother in Japanese
Ojjisan – Grandfather in Japanese
pheasant
Kibi dango – sweet dumplings made from sugar, rice flour and tofu
bowing

23. Oni in Traditional Culture
Oni are prominently featured in the Japanese children's story Momotaro (Peach Boy),
Oni (鬼?) are a kind of yōkai from Japanese folklore, variously translated as demons, devils, ogres or trolls. They are popular characters in Japanese art, literature and theatre.[1]
Depictions of oni vary widely but usually portray them as hideous, gigantic ogre-like creatures with sharp claws, wild hair, and two long horns growing from their heads.[2] They are humanoid for the most part, but occasionally, they are shown with unnatural features such as odd numbers of eyes or extra fingers and toes.[3] Their skin may be any number of colours, but red and blue are particularly common.[4][5]
They are often depicted wearing tiger-skin loincloths and carrying iron clubs called kanabō (金棒?). This image leads to the expression "oni with an iron club" (鬼に金棒, oni-ni-kanabō?), that is, to be invincible or undefeatable. It can also be used in the sense of "strong beyond strong", or having one's natural quality enhanced or supplemented by the use of some tool.

24. Setsuban (Bean Throwing) Festival
Some villages hold yearly ceremonies to drive away oni, particularly at the beginning of Spring. During the Setsuban festival, people throw soybeans outside their homes and shout "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!" ("鬼は外！福は内！" " Oni go out! Blessings come in!").
Mamemake (bean throwing). Roasted soybeans (called "fortune beans" (福豆, fuku mame)) are thrown either out the door or at a member of the family wearing an Oni (demon or ogre) mask, while the people say "Demons out! Luck in!" (鬼は外! 福は内!, Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!?) and slam the door. This is still common practice in households but many people will attend a shrine or temple's Spring festival where this is done. The beans are thought to symbolically purify the home by driving away the evil spirits that bring misfortune and bad health with them. Then, as part of bringing luck in, it is customary to eat roasted soybeans, one for each year of one's life, and in some areas, one for each year of one's life plus one more for bringing good luck for the year to come.
The gestures of mamemaki look similar to the Western custom of throwing rice at newly married couples after a wedding.
A supermarket shelf with masks,
roasted soybeans and other materials for the festival.

25. King Yemma from Dragon Ball Z
Oni in Popular Culture
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