Language
Japanese is the main language spoken in Japan. However most of the signs and streets have English underneath the Japanese writing. Japanese is spoken by over 125 million people, primarily in Japan. It is part of the Japoleonic Family, which is like the Romance languages. Another language in this category is Korean. Japanese might be the main language, but English is extremely influential there. There are two types to write Japanese. traditional and logo graphic. Logo graphic looks smiler to Chinese, while traditional has English letters.
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I got this picture from Culture Grams, this is an example of a sign that has both Japanese and english as do most of the signs in Japan.
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EducationJapans educational system is very similer to ours. They go through elemantrary school, Jr. high, high school, and then are encouraged to go to college.
Tokyo is Japan’s preeminent educational center for universities. Out of all the institutes The most prestigious national university is the University of Tokyo. It is a very highly ranked school in Eastern Asia. The other two well known ones are Keio University and Waseda University. Most students in Japan that want to continue study in Japan, go to Tokyo. The schools there are highly ranked in Japanese standards. |
I got this picture from Discovery Eduacation, it shows the levels of education in Japan.
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