1) Which Japanese city used to be the country's capital before the capital moved to Tokyo?
 
2) What is 'Sakura'?
 
3) Which is the fourth largest Japanese island?
 
4) In which prefecture will the Olympic Winter Games 1998 be held?
 
5) In which country live the most Japanese nationals who live abroad (USA excluded)?
 
6) What is the meaning of the following Chinese character?
    
 
7) What is 'Edo'?
 
8) What is 'Enka'?
 
9) 'LOVE LOVE LOVE' is which music group's song?
 
10) Which Shinkansen line was inaugurated on October 1, 1997?
 
11) Half of all the Non-Japanese residents of Japan come from which country?
 
12) Which is the Japanese company with the highest income?
 
13) What is the meaning of the following Chinese character?
    
 
14) Who founded the Muromachi Government?
 
15) Where is the Chugoku region located?
 
16) What is 'Yakyu'?
 
17) Who won the Sumo Aki Basho in Tokyo 1997?
 
18) In which century was Buddhism introduced to Japan ?
 
19) What is the name of the first great collection of Japanese poems?
 
20) In which year did Tokugawa Ieyasu destroy Osaka castle and the Toyotomi family?