This will be an ongoing post, as I collect more trivia along my adventure in Japan.
Trivia 1
Do you know... the green lights for traffic lights are called 青い (aoi) which means blue, instead of 緑 (midori)?
Trivia 2
Before exams or competitions, Japanese will eat カツ丼 katsu don, because it sounds like winning 勝つ (katsu).
Trivia 3
Japan follows the American way of abbreviating dates: 31 January -> 1/31. I did a check with other ALT friends: New Zealand and England uses the same abbreviation as Singapore's which is 31/1 though.
Trivia 4
Japanese, almost in all situations, will have shoes on (or at least socks). That's why, there are two sets of shoes, outdoor shoes and indoor shoes. When we reach school, we have to change our outdoor shoes for a pair of indoor shoes. The same is applied at home, ryokans, restaurants with tatami seats, etc.
Trivia 5
"Oosu!" The first day when school opened, some students and teachers greeted each other with "Oosu!" And I had been wondering what it meant... Oosu is actually a shortform for Ohayogozaimasu, Konnichiwa, Konbawa, etc. And mainly used by guys, especially those in sports clubs.
Trivia 6
Do you know... the lines on the circumference of the 500yen coin are actually slanted? Take a closer look, and you can spot them. Most coins have straight lines, so it is pretty special (and also very trival, I know :P) that the 500yen coins have slanted instead of straight lines.
Trivia 7
When marking, the Japanese uses circles (丸, maru) instead of ticks to represent correct.
This will be an ongoing post, as I collect more trivia along my adventure in Japan.
Do share with me other trivia that you know of :)
