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Unlike young people in other countries, Japanese kids and young people have few online friends. Japanese kids aged 8-14 have only one online friend they haven't met, compared to a global average of 5, while Japanese teenagers have only seven online friends they haven't met -- compared to a global average of 20. Japanese teens ... used IM and email the least out of the 16 countries surveyed.
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Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has been and is still sometimes spoken elsewhere. When Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of the Chinese mainland, and various Pacific islands during and before World War II, locals in those countries were forced to learn Japanese in empire-building programs. As a result, there were many people in these countries until the 1970s, who could speak Japanese in addition to the local languages. Japanese emigrant communities (the largest of which are to be found in Brazil) frequently employ Japanese as their primary language. Approximately 5% of Hawaiians speak Japanese and Japanese ancestry is the largest single ancestry in the state (over 24% of the population). Japanese emigrants can ... be found in Peru, Argentina, Australia (especially Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne), the United States (notably California (1.2% of the population has Japanese ancestry) and Hawaii), and the Philippines (particularly in Davao and Laguna).
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The Japanese commonly address each other by last name. Only close friends and children are usually addressed by first name. In addition, people rarely address each other just by name, but usually attach an appropriate title to the name. There is a large number of such titles depending on the gender and social position of the person you are addressing. Some of the most frequently used titles are:
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Most Japanese people employ politeness to indicate a lack of familiarity. That is, they use polite forms for new acquaintances, but if a relationship becomes more intimate, they no longer use them. This occurs regardless of age, social class, or gender.
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[Y]ears passed, and the Chinese cultural influence definitely swayed popular Japanese thought. By the year 700 A.D., the art of tattoo had become increasingly unpopular, and it didn’t take long to become a common form of punishment for criminals and a way to easily identify outcasts. People with these tattoos were faced with permanent ostracism by their families and communities. While sought out as a way to identify and control outcasts and criminals, this practice soon led to problems for the Japanese government. Many of the outcasts with tattoos were known as ronin (or samurais without masters). In order to survive, these highly skilled warriors joined together into organized gangs.
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At least 19 people were exposed to radiation in an accident at a Japanese uranium processing plant, national broadcaster NHK said. The accident involved 16 kg (35 lbs.) of uranium, NHK quoted a plant worker as saying. Five of the injured were believed to be non-workers.
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