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Diffarence Japan and Australia

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  • Country
    JAPAN     area : 377,846km2  
                       population : About 120 million people   
                       capital : Tokyo (About 12 million population, area 2,102km2)   
    Below picture is Tokyo tower. It's the symbol of Tokyo. This hight is 333m. Third picture is "SAKURA". It's cherry blossom and Japanese symbol blossom.

    Australia  area : 7,682,300km2   (About 21th times of Japan area)
                       population : About 20 million people    (About one sixth of Japan population)
                       capital : Canberra (About 0.35 million population, area 2,400km2)

    Time diffarence  a hour

  • Language
    Mishearing Japanese words & Australia words  
    Japanese mishearing on English
    • "Cann't pay" → "CANPAI" Its Japanese means is "cheers".
    • "Choosy"      → "SYOUSHI" Its Japanese means is formal "Stop laughing".
    • "Bin"             → "BIN" Its Japanese mean is the bottle of glass.
    Aussie mishearing on Japanese
    • "A SO" Its word is not means. Just Japanese giving responses. → "AXX hole"

  • Food
    Diffarence in eating   Usually Japanese people can have a raw eggs, raw fish, raw horse meets. And they eat some kind of puff fish (But its cooking is needed speciality licence ). Most time on eating, Japanese people have rice & miso soup (soy bean paste soup) with chopsticks. And they take a plate when they eat this. Australian people have firstly soup. Australian people like BBQ (They have BBQ plate with gas).
    Fast Food   Australia has red roobster, Hungry Jack's and Macdonald etc on fast food shops


  • Traffic
    Road   Usually Japanese road have a speed limit 60km/h. And Japanese pay road is more expencive than Australian one.
    Traffic light  Traffic light direction is different. Left below picture is Japanese traffic light, Right is Australian traffic light. Their size are similar

    Speeding   Japanese police begins to captuer about over 20km/h of traffic sign for Speeding. But Australian police is about over 2km/h of traffic sign.

  • Animals & Insects

  • Town

  • Lives
    Car  Most popular type of car in Australia is the UTE car. Most one in Japan is the car of sedan type. And small car of under 1 liter is popular in Japan. New car price is similar Japan & Australia but second hand car in Japan is cheaper than Australia one. And usually second hand car shops in Japan don't have the car of took over 150000km.
    When shopping   Usually Australian people use a card on shopping. But usually Japanese people use cash money on this.
    Communication of people  People in Australia has shaking hands, hugging and kissing as culture. But people in Japan has culture of shaking hands, bowing. Kissing and hugging is rarely in Japanese culture.
    Holidays   Australian likes outdoor. Their holidays is to camp with caravan, fishing with boat, driving and extending house. Japanese holidays is to practice of Golf, going to play "KARAOKE", going to Japanese hotel, driving and shopping. They enjoy traveling in Japan or outside Japan if they have longtime holidays.
    Garden   Australian house and sports ground have grass. Japanese house and sports ground have soil or artificial grass.
    Festival   Japanese loves the festival in hometown. Lots of Japanese pople are shy. But they are like crazy while festival. "MATSURI" is festival on Japanese language. Japan have lots of local "MATSURI". And it has lots of vending shops. Below photo is "MATSURI" in my hometown.


  • Religion
    Australian religion   Most Australian people are Christian.
    Japanese religion   Japanese religion is "Shinto" and "Buddism". But Japanese people don't firmly belive them. Because Japanese people celebrate Christmas and lots of Japanese have a wedding in the church. They have two main religion that usually their house has a miniature shrine and a Buddhist altar. Their things name are "KAMIDANA" and "BUTUDAN".





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