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THE OGACIOUS RACE

By Alex Henry SFW

Country: Japan

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Contents Country Flag Map Tokyo: Food Tokyo: Food Pictures Shizuoka Provenience Flag Shizuoka City: Famous People Photos of Famous People Nagoya Transport Photos 1 Photos 2 Osaka Prefecture Flag Osaka Glossary References

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Tokyo Food

Question: Find Out The Main Foods Of Japan and how they are made?

Sushi: Japanese sushi can feature rice, seaweed and raw fish or tuna.

Bento: Bento is little boxes with assorted foods. For example, it could feature: Rice, fish or meat and with some pickled vegies.

Mochi: Can be Confectionary, Ice Cream or Soup. It is made with pounded sticky rice. mochi ice cream Can be in flavours of chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry

Taiyaki: Otherwise called Baked Sea Bream often filled with Bean Paste or Custard ,Chocolate Or Cheese

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Shizuoka Provenience Flag

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Shizuoka City: Famous People Research Question: Find and research about the famous people of

Shizuoka City? Master Shoichi (1202 ～ 1280) When he returned to Japan on

official duty from Sung (China), Master Shoichi brought back tea nuts and thousands of Buddhist scrolls. It is said that the tea nuts were planted in Suruga-Ashikubo (Ashikubo of Shizuoka City today), near his hometown. He is considered to be the Father of Shizuoka Tea.

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542 ～ 1616) Carrying on the quest of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi to unite the nation, Ieyasu established the Edo Bakufu feudal government, of which he was the first shogun. Despite having transferred the title of shogun to his son Hidetada after only two years and retiring to Sumpu (current-day Shizuoka), Ieyasu continued to wield political power as a de facto "shadow " shogun from this base.

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Photos of the Famous People

Master Shoichi

Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Nagoya Transport

Focus Question: Find and give in detail about the transportation of Japan?

Shinkansen( 新幹線 )(Bullet train): The Bullet train runs at a speed of 300km. The Tokaido Shinkansen (which is that one that stops at Nagoya) that is the oldest and most popular transportation.

Also there is a Toyota Automobile Museum. Ferries Connect the Japanese islands. Most domestic ferries

transport people, vehicles and cargo. While shorter routes are served by small ships, able to carry a couple of cars and a few dozens of passengers, large liners are employed on longer routes.

Air transport is booming as well with Haneda airport being in the top 5 airports in Asia. Osaka International Airport, New Chitose Airport outside Sapporo, and Fukuoka Airport.

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Nagoya Transport Photos 1

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Nagoya Transport Photos2

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Osaka

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Glossary

新幹線 :Shinkansen(Bullet Train)

Shogun: is the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century.

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References Wikipedia Planettokyo http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/english/history/index.html http://web-japan.org/atlas/historical/his10.html http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3302.html

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