JAPAN FACT: In Japan will never find a hotel room, hospital or airline seat marked with the number 4, which is not very popular even in phone numbers. Because the number 4 (四) can be read in two ways: yon / shi. Reading “Shi” would indicate the number 4 so that the word for death (shi, 死). #japan fact  #japanese  #numbers  #death  #curiosity  #fact  #kanji  #language  #japan  #nihon 

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JAPAN FACT: The samurai practiced Seppuku (切腹 cut belly) a ritual suicide as atonement for a fault or as a means to escape from a dishonorable death at the hands of enemies. Because it was thought that the belly was the seat of the soul, and therefore the symbolic meaning was to show his soul to the onlookers blameless in all its purity. #samurai  #seppunku  #kanji  #japan fact  #fact  #death  #japan  #nihon  #japanese 

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JAPAN FACT: This morning (21.05.12) the annular solar eclipse was visible from Japan and millions took to the streets to glare up at the “ring of fire” - called Kinkan Nisshoku [金環日食[きんかんにっしょく]]。 #japanese  #solar eclipse  #japan fact  #language  #kanji  #hiragana  #katakana  #japan  #nihon  #people  #fact