This is about Japan, you probably did not know
2012-11-01 | views: 736
1. In ancient times, the Japanese fishing with tame cormorants. Fishing takes place at night, with the fishermen in the boat lit torches primanivaya fish. Each cormorant was intercepted by a flexible neck collar, which did not allow cormorants swallow prey.
2. When the phone has entered the life of Japanese, they are responding to the call, saying, "Oh, oh!" That reminded us, "Yes, yes." Now they greet each other with strange sounds "Mossi Mossi," which means "I say, I say."
3. In Japan, the green light - blue. When Japan appeared first street lights, signals were red, yellow and blue. Later it turned out that a bunch of green color is much easier to see at a distance, than blue, and traffic lights replaced. But the custom of allowing traffic signal called "blue" remained.
4. The banknotes in Japan shows a man with lush vegetation on the face and head. But the reason is not that the Japanese used to be more hairy, but a desire to impede counterfeiting. Therefore, the graphic representation on the bill should be the maximum number of various small parts - for example, luxuriant beard, mustache or wrinkles on the forehead.
5. The Japanese there is an expression "mountain whale" (pit-kudzira). It began to be used in the time of the ban on the meat of wild animals, which is not allowed Buddhism. But the fish, these prohibitions did not apply, so the word "mountain whale" masked by the Japanese authorities and priests forbidden to eat the meat of wild boar.
6. Japanese money was referred to as "en" and the whole world knows the word "yen" is only the result of the interpretation of the names of foreigners of Japanese currency.
7. A cup of coffee in Japan is very expensive. The cost of a cup of up to 400 yen, but this is due not so expensive imports and significant taxes. Said fee is charged, more likely, not for a cup of coffee, and a place in the cafe. A drink, a person can sit quietly in a room for several hours, a break from the bustle of shops, to wait out the rain or read a book. It will not be disturbed, and the waiters will just pour it into a glass of cold water, always with a polite smile.
8. Japanese drivers who stopped at a traffic light, turn off the lights. Foreigners have assumed that the Japanese way to save battery power, but it really is a matter of courtesy. After all, when the car is stopped at an intersection, the driver does not need lighting, and turning it off, it is not blinding oncoming. I wonder why other countries do not?
9. Grocery stores in Japan called "yaoi", which means "store 800 products." Previously, these stores sold only vegetables and herbs, but with a range of shop changed its name to "yaoi" because the number 800 mean to the Japanese "a huge amount". This name emphasizes the varied selection.
10. In Japan, the winner of the main sumo tournament gets a very special prize. He is presented with the keys to a new car, a years supply of gasoline, a thousand shiitake mushrooms, beef cow weighing one and a stock of Coca-Cola for a year.
