This will be an ongoing post, as I collect more trivia along my adventure in Japan.Trivia 1Do you know... the green lights for traffic lights are called 青い (aoi) which means blue, instead of 緑 (midori)?Trivia 2Before exams or competitions, Japanese will eat カツ丼 katsu don, because it sounds like winning 勝つ (katsu).Trivia 3Japan follows the American way of abbreviating dates: 31 January -> 1/31. I
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