Postcards from Japan
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- Japan
- a country made up of about 4,000 islands
- Tokyo
- the capital of Japan
- yen
- Japanese money
- chopsticks
- two sticks used for eating food
- restaurant
- a place where people go to eat meals
- Mount Fuji
- the highest mountain in Japan
- bullet train
- the fastest train in Japan
- complex
- group of buildings
- cushion
- a soft pillow
- festival
- a time of celebration
- Shinto
- Japanese religion
- torii
- a gate to a Shinto shrine
- shrine
- a place where people go to pray
- Children's Day
- May 5th
- kimino
- a long robe worn in Japan
- headdress
- a fancy covering for the head
- emperor
- man who rules several different lands or kingdoms
- empress
- a woman who rules several different lands or kingdoms
- Nippon
-
the Japanese name for Japan
"the land of the rising sun" - democracy
- a country where the people choose the leaders they want to run the country