浑天仪是什么-不屑的近义词
Japan, the Strange Country
Japan is a small country located in east Asia.
The population is around 130,000,000 (one
hundred and thirty million) people. The total
world population is 6,800,000,000 (six point
eight billion), which means that roughly 2 in
every 100 people are Japanese. Japan's land
area measures 378,000 (three hundred and
seventy-eight thousand) square kilometers. If
the earth's land area is 149,000,000 (one
hundred and forty-nine million) square
kilometers and the total area is 510,000,000
(five hundred and ten million) square
kilometers, then Japan is no bigger than this
red dot.
Japan is the most advanced
country in Asia. It is second only to America in
GDP and it's
proud of its high standard of
living and economic wealth. Life expectancy of
Japanese
men is 79 years and 86 years for
women, which is the longest in the world. And
there
are culture practices such as KABUKI,
BONSAI, SUMO, SADOU, KIMONO and
ORIGAMI, all
of which have developed into distinctly Japanese
traditions.
And we must not forget,
Japan was the first country in the world to
experience the
destructive power of not one,
but two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
in World War II. More than 220,000
(two hundred and twenty thousand) people lost
their
lives and as a result, Japan abandoned
its war time constitution.
In these ways
Japan is a country with its own original culture
and history, but nowadays
there are also many
strange things about modern day Japan. Let's take
a look at these
strange things in eight
different categories.
1. Character.
Japanese people tend to be short, have black
hair, small mouth and small eyes. This is a
typical Japanese salaryman and over here is a
Japanese schoolgirl. These days
Japanese girls
have a variety of ways to make their eyes appear
bigger. There's even a
function to make your
eyes so big when you have a photo taken. Japanese
technology
sure is amazing. Another obsession
Japanese girls have is with brands. Not more than
anything else, they're obsessed with diets.
Japanese women walk about town, carrying
their
high-quality brand bags. (Above??) for them, it's
the ultimate status symbol.
Japanese people
also have the worst eyesight of anyone in the
world with 40% (forty
percent) of people using
glasses or contact lenses. Japanese people are,
generally, pretty
shy. You could say that they
find it particularly difficult to express how they
really feel.
Thanks to this, Japanese company
meetings tend to drag on, and even after work is
over,
a Japanese person can't refuse an
invitation for drinks. They also need to be
careful of
(what's the??) relationships
between their boss and co-workers. Don't forget to
bow on
your way home, again, and again, and
again.
2. Tokyo
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Tokyo, Japan's capital city, makes up an
extremely small area, but it's the heart of
Japanese politics, economy, distribution and
fashion. A true megalopolis. Tokyo is the
Mekka, the place everyone wants to live. And
so in recent years, it's become
overpopulated
to the extreme. An example, compare to an
American, who can claim a
living space of 180
(one hundred and eighty) square kilometers to
himself, there are 11
(eleven) Japanese people
cramming to the same space, but in Tokyo alone,
there are 192
(one hundred and ninty-two)
people squished into the same extremely crammed
living
conditions. At the famous SHIBUYA
scramble crossing, about every green light
(drain??)
peak hours, around 3,000 (three
thousand) people will cross at the same time. At a
Tokyo's McDonald's, it's perfectly normal to
have just 50 centimeters of bench space per
customer. (Ain't that??) like being a chicken
in the coop, isn't it?
3. Food
From
traditional Japanese style food, to Chinese,
Italian, French and American style junk
food,
Japan is a nation of food lovers. However, the
amount of food actually produced in
Japan is
only around 40%. It's incredible to think that a
nation so obsessed with food lets
23,200,000
(twenty-three point two million) tons of it go to
waste every single year. That's
actually more
than four times the 5,900,000 (five point nine
million) tons of food that gets
sent yearly by
eight programs to assist starving nations. Right
now, there are
1,000,000,000 (one billion)
people in the world suffering from starvation.
That's equal to
one in every seven people. And
someone in the world dies from starvation every
four
seconds. Of those who die, more than half
are children under five. But despite that,
Japanese people will eat as much as they like
and simply throw away the rest. So,
Japanese
cuisine, really is a big deal.
4.
Technology
Japan is a technologically advanced
nation with bullet trains that reach a speed of
300
(three hundred) kilometers an hour. And
mobile friends that can act as a credit card and
television all-in-one. Robots that walk like
humans? Now truly. There are even restaurants
that employ robots to make your RAMEN for you.
The toilets in Japan now (lift
technological
marvels?). The seat warms your bottom. The lid
automatically opens and
shuts. And if you
like, your toilet will even wash your ... and hhh.
But for some reasons,
old-style Japanese squat
toilets still remain popular. Can't imagine why.
5. Water
In Japan, if you turn on the
tap, the water that comes out of it is perfectly
safe to drink as
is. Being an island country,
Japan has water in abundance, but despite this,
Japan
imports huge amounts of mineral water
from Europe, like about 580,000 (five hundred and
eighty thousand) kilo liters every year. That
amount equates to more than 1,160,000,000
(one
point one six billion) 500 (five hundred)
milliliter PET bottles. By the way, more than
1,100,000,000 (one point one billion) people
in the world, or about eight times the
population of Japan, don't have access to
clean drinking water. A large portion of those
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who have to drink dirty
water suffer from diarrhea and other diseases.
6. SUSHI
When you think Japan, you
think SUSHI. There's a traditional style counter
SUSHI
restaurants, but now SUSHI train
restaurants are also popular. You can choose from
shrimp, salmon roe, egg and any number or
types of SUSHI. Recently, you can even
order
pudding or Korean BBQs. We don't really know why.
By the way, the king of SUSHI
in Japan is
TUNA. That almost 2 million tons of it fished
worldwide every year, Japanese
people eat
710,000 (seven hundred and ten thousand) tons.
That's a third of the world's
total. Or Japan
consumes 80% of the world's supply of bluefin
tuna. In the past thirty
years, the total
population of tuna has decreased by a third.
Because of that, the bluefin
tuna could soon
be designated a threatened species, just like the
giant panda, blue whale,
tiger and African
elephant. Now, for the amount of disposable wooden
chopsticks that you
use to eat that SUSHI
with, Japanese people use 23,000,000,000 (twenty-
three billion)
pairs of chopsticks per year
and every person will throw a two-hundred pairs
each. And
these days, 90% of those chopsticks
are sourced from China. Did you have any idea that
Japan was using Chinese natural forest
resources to make its disposable wooden
chopsticks?
7. Love
Have you
seen those amazing buildings that look like
fairytale castles? Well, you're in
Japan. Of
course, they are love hotels. There're around
30,000 (thirty thousand) love
hotels in Japan
and in a single day, 1,850,000 (one point eight
five million) couples will
visit one. That's
quite a lot, but consider this, while every
Japanese couple has sex of a
grand total of 48
times a year, the global average number of times a
couple has sex in one
year is 103. And then
there are those sex-loving Greeks who (for a??)
cate on average
138 times a year. That's more
than once every three days. Incredible! Oh, for
the record,
this is an actual Japanese castle.
Please, don't mistake it for a love hotel and try
to have
sex in it.
8. Suicide
For
a country with such a strong economy and the
luxury of throwing away unwanted
food, you'd
think Japan would be a happier country, but it
also boasts one of the highest
rates of
suicide in any developed nation. Even Mount FUJI,
a revered symbol of Japan, is
a notorious
suicide spot for the around 100 dead bodies
discovered in the surrounding
woodiness every
year. It's so not important, but every year,
around 35,000 (thirty-five
thousand) people in
total kill themselves in Japan. That's 90 people
every day. Every 16
minutes in Japan, one
person takes their own life. I guess a healthy
economy does not
necessarily make a happy
country, does it?
So, this is Japan.
When you look at it from a global perspective, do
you see what I mean
when I say Japan is a
strange country? Does Japan seem a bit different
from what you
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first
imagined? After all, Japan projects an image of
wealth and prosperity. There's
probably a lot
you can't see behind that image. But take a step
back and you can see the
bigger, strangier
picture. And who created this strange country? You
did.
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