Japan-the strange country

Japan－－the strange countryJapan is a small country located in East Asia. The population is around 130,000,000 people. The total world population is 6.8 million which means that roughly 2 in every 100 people are Japanese. Japan's land area measures 378,000 square kilometers. If the earth's land area is 149,000,000 square kilometers and the total area is 510,000,000 square kilometers, then Japan is no bigger than this red dot.日本是个东亚的小国家，人口1.3亿，而世界人口68亿.也就是说……每100个人有两个是日本人.日本国土面积378000平方千米，如果地球陆地面积是1.4亿，地球表面积是5.1亿，那日本比这个红点大不了多少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 cultural practices such as KABUKI, BONSAI, SUMO, SADOU, KIMONO and ORIGAMI, all of which have developed into distinctive Japanese traditions. 日本是东亚最发达的国家，GDP仅次于美国。

生活质量很高，经济发达。

人均寿命男的79，女的86，世界最高。

文化方面则有歌舞伎、盆栽、相扑、茶道、和服和折纸，都源于日本独特的文化传统。

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 wartime constitution.In these ways Japan is a country with its own original culture and history, but nowadays there are also many strange things about modernday Japan. Let's take a look at these strange things in eight different categories.当然我们不会忘记，日本是世界上第一个尝到原子弹厉害的国家，不只一颗，而是两个：二战期间的广岛和长崎。

220000人丧生，此后日本也废弃了战时宪法。

总之，日本这个国家有独特的文化和历史，不过现代的日本有些奇怪的地方，让我们一起来从八个方面看看奇怪的日本。

1. Character.国民性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 havethe 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 their work relationships between their boss and co-workers. Don't forget to bow on your way home, again, and again, and again. "So, when do I get my vacation?"日本人一般……比较矮，黑头发，小嘴巴，和小眼睛，这就是典型日本工薪族。

这边这个是日本女学生。

日本女生有各种办法让眼睛看起来大一点，在照相的时候她们甚至可以通过某种方法让眼睛更大一点。

日本科技，确实神奇。

日本女生的另一执念是……名牌，当然还有……减肥。

日本女人逛街，提着名牌包包，对她们来说，这是身份的终极象征。

日本人视力全球最烂，40%的人带眼睛，或隐形眼镜。

日本人一般来说……比较含蓄，可以说，他们很难说出自己真实感受，因此，日本公司的会议一般没完没了。

就算下班，也不好意思拒绝应酬。

同时还要注意上下级或同级之间关系，下班的时候别忘了鞠躬一鞠躬，二鞠躬，三鞠躬……（那么，什么时候可以批我的假期？）2. Tokyo东京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 ninety-two) people squished into the same extremely crammed living conditions. At the famous SHIBUYA scramble crossing, about every green light during 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. Aren’t they like being a chicken in the coop, isn't it?东京，日本的首都，面积极小，却是日本的政治、经济、物流、时尚中心，真正的超大城市。

东京也是所有人都想去的地方，所以近几年来极端拥挤。

比如说，一个美国人可以独占180平方米的地盘，同样大的地方，在日本要11个人挤，而在东京，这块地方要塞192个人。

在涩谷的scramble路口，高峰时间，每次绿灯都有3000人通过。

在东京的麦当劳，平均每人50厘米宽的吧台座位是很正常的，像养鸡场一样，对吧？3. Food餐饮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 23.2 million tons of it go to waste every singleyear. That's actually more than four times the 5.9 million tons of food that gets sent yearly by eight programs to assist starving nations. Right now, there are 1 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.从传统日式料理，到中华料理，意式料理，法国大餐，美国垃圾食品，日本是美食家的国度，不过只有40%的食物产自日本。