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• ...Japan consists of the large islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Sikoku, plus another 3,000 smaller ones around the Pacific Ocean coasts of Asia and the greater islands?
• ...gastronomy has an outstanding role in Japan, and it is considered a branch of arts?
• ...the city that is Kyoto today became the capital city in 794? This was the place from where the Japanese emperors governed the city for a thousand years.
• ...the international driving licence issued in Hungary is invalid in Japan? Hungarians have to get a special copy issued by the Hungarian Embassy complemented by an official Japanese translation, and Hungarians have to take another exam to receive a driving licence valid in Japan.
• ...during the centuries numerous earthquakes - smaller and greater - have shook the country often resulting in deadly tsunamis (the Great Hansin earthquake killed 6,400 people in 1995)?

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