FAST FACTS
Capital city
Tokyo
Population of country
126,961,329
Language
Japanese
Current leader
Shinzō Abe is the Prime Minister
National airline & IATA code
Japan Airlines (JL) & Tokyo IATA (NRT)
Unique forms of transportation
Bullet trains (Shinkansen) go as fast as 320km/h, Subways, Buses
The Japanese eat more fish than any other people in the world, about 17 million tons per year.
There are more than 5.5 million vending machines all around Japan
Currency
Yen
Documentation Canadians require to travel to Japan
Canadian passport
Health considerations
vaccines include: measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, varicella (chickenpox), influenza and others.
Diversity of religions
Buddhism and Shintoism