For me...definately anime and manga! Everything I like are mostly from Japan. The food, the music, the everything.
Japanese food
Instant noddles
Japanese cars
Anime & Manga
Digital watches & calculators
Electronics in general
Robots
Toto toilets (with seat warmer, bidet, etc.)
VHS video tapes
Video Games
Martial arts (judo, karate, kendo, aikido...)
Karaoke
J-pop
Japanese women
Hentai & AV
Purikura (photo stickers)
Japanese men
For me...definately anime and manga! Everything I like are mostly from Japan. The food, the music, the everything.
Hmm, I'm changing my previous opinion:
Not instand ramen, but instant Udon--that is Japan's greatest contribution to the world.
Like ramen, it's cheap, poor, lazy people (like me) can live off of it indefinitly with almost no money or effort, and it's 10,000x better than instant ramen so it wins.
Baka ningen.
Reiku, how common is udon outside Japan ?
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Not terribly...
...actually, I only learned about it at an Obon festival last year. You can get it in Japanese resteraunts, and even some of the sushi bars serve it, but I've never seen it in stores until recently. There's a place that has these instant udon noodles in the refrigerated section--basicly pre-cooked noodles with a flavor packet like ramen has. Not nearly as good as the kind from resteraunts of course, but it's still alot better than instant ramen.
Hey, I wonder, why nunchaku and tonfa aren't included in the poll? I understand nunchaku's geographical origin is subject to debate as that it is said to originated either in Okinawa or in China from where the merchants introduced nunchaku to Okinawans but I think tonfa is an Okinawan tool.
tonfa is used as a police baton in many countries including U.S., France, etc. I saw French riot police carrying tonfas on a photo of the TIME magazine.
Also, many martial arts enthusiasts in most countries, including Netherlands use nunchakus as well. There was a Netherlands based organization called World Nunchaku-do Association
http://www.nunchaku.org/
I was going to comment on what a shame it would be if the nunchaku was Japan's greatest contribution to the world... but I looked through the options in the poll and thought better of it.
FUTURES MARKETS .
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9/1 is the day for everyone to do evacuation drill and was large-scale one. I think this sort (very large scale) of training is not around in the world other than japan. Know-how would contribute to any place around the world.
i believe it is sudoku. i can find sudoku books and hand held games everywhere. they even sell sudoku hand held game pink for breast cancer. books are sold in the dollar store and it is a gulity pleasure.
I didn't know sudoku when I was living in Japan. From the first day I went back to Europe, I found sudoku magazines everywhere (airport, newsagents, supermarkets...). I wonder why that is that sudoku is so much more popular in Western countries (apparently in the States too, as that is where you live) than in Japan. It's become so popular in the last few years that many regular magazines (TV programmes, news, women's magazines) have their sudoku page, in addition that the numerous sudoku books and mags that have sprung up like mushrooms.
I don't see the point to have earthquake prevention training in countries or regions where there are no earthquakes (e.g. all Europe but Greece, the South of Italy and the South of Spain). If you are talking about fire evacuation training, I do not know any school that doesn't have it (although not on the same day for all schools nationwide as there wouldn't be enough firefighters to supervise and explain).
Really ? Depends on your sources.
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AH i didn't know what to vote for Japanese Men,anime and manga,jpop,video games,Robots,Martial arts, Japanese men (did i say that already) Seriously couldn't there have been an all of the above
Canadian Annual Derivatives ConferenceReally ? Depends on your sources
Montreal Exchange
Montreal, Canada
you can not believe that Conference and Montreal Exchange??
you misunderstand the origin of options dealings ?
this is a kind of futuers.
however it was only call option( there was no Put)
Greatest contribution?
Japanese poetry, Japanese classical literature, Kinkakuji, Kiyomizu Temple
Japanese theater , Japanese mythology and festivals
Japanese gardens and the concept of nature (traditional one)
Ikebana (it is not just flower arrangement, it is a philosophy!), Japanese style interior, Japanese pottery
Writers like Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe (Nobel prize winners), Yukio Mishima, Dazai Osamu, Mori Ogai,Natsume Soseki
Kurosawa's movies (oskar winner!)
Wanna walk like a normal human being again
most important:
robots
personal favorite:
purikura
To bad clothes are not part of survey I like the zorie and think it is superior to European and Eurasian sandle. Also the rubber work boots with a section for the big toe it is like having a third or forth hand when doing certain type of work like working with ropes.
I voted Hentai & AV,Hentai is definitely Japanese one of a kind contribution to the world haha
If I follow my heart, I would say Japanese women hehe. But if I follow my mind, electronics it is !
I find that Japan's total quality management systems and control made significant impact in the business world.
On a more personal touch. Anime rocks! Nothing can replace it. So are the various video games created.
Takoyaki!!
(didn't vote - Japanese food is too broad an area for that magnificent tabemono! )
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