This week's folk song is "Ame Ame ", a popular children's song from Japan.
Photos
Mt. Fuji
Tokyo at night
Map
Music in Japan
Food in Japan
Traditional Japanese foods include:
plain white rice
main dish (fish or meat)
side dish (often cooked vegetables),
soup (often miso soup)
pickled vegetables
noodles called soba (made with buckwheat or udon (made with flour)
sushi and sashimi (raw fish)
tempura (deep fried in batter)
Sports in Japan
Sumo wrestling is Japan's national sport. Baseball, although originally from the USA, is also very popular,in Japan. Martial arts, such as judo, karate, and modern kendo are also very popular.
Sumo wrestling explained
Language:
Japanese writing uses 3 characters: 1. kanji 2. hiragana, and 3. katakana
How to speak Japanese
Song Lyrics
"Raining, Raining"
Raining, raining How it's raining Rain a little more Mother's bringing my umbrella It can rain and pour Pitter, patter, pitter, patter Drip, drop, drop
Pitter, patter, pitter, patter Drip, drop, drop
in Japanese:
Notes*"Pitch pitch, chap chap, run run run" is the sound of rain. Amefuri (Rainy day)
Ame ame fure fure kaasan ga Janome de o-mukai ureshii na Pitchi pitchi chappu chappu ran ran ran
Kakemasho kaban wo kaasan no Ato kara iko iko kane ga naru Pitchi pitchi chappu chappu ran ran ran
Ara ara ano ko wa zubunure da Yanagi no nekata de naiteiru Pitchi pitchi chappu chappu ran ran ran
kaasan boku no wo kashimasho ka kimi kimi kono kasa sashitamae Pitchi pitchi chappu chappu ran ran ran
boku nara ii n da kaasan no ookina janome ni haitteku Pitchi pitchi chappu chappu ran ran ran
Bullet Train
Geography: Japan is a country made up of a group of islands off the East Coast of Asia.
Capital: Tokyo is the capital of Japan
Climate: Most of Japan has 4 seasons (winter, spring, summer and fall) but the weather varies depending on the region.
The origins of Japanese music came from China over 1,000 years ago. Over the years, however, it changed and developed it's own style and instruments
Popular traditional Japanese music instruments include the shamisen, the shakuhachi and the koto
JAPANESE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SLIDE SHOW: Scroll over image and click "Play"