You can find out about lots of festivals from around Japan in our Annual Calendar section. For example, the Sanno Festival in Tokyo features portable shrines that are paraded through the streets. Some examples of Japanese boys' names are Daisuke, Kentaro, Yuji, and Masayuki. Examples of girls' names are Akiko, Mai, Kaori, and Yumiko. Japanese names are written in kanji, each of which has one or more meanings.
Parents try to choose names that sound good made up of kanji with positive meanings.
Check out the Kanji Names Project site to see how some Japanese students explained their names in English. Believe it or not, sumo wrestlers have to obey a strict diet to reach the right physical condition for wrestling. Senior wrestlers often eat several bowls of chanko nabe and several bowls of rice at each sitting. To learn more, check out the Greetings lesson our Language Lab section. Mount Fuji, known to the Japanese as Fujisan , is the tallest mountain in Japan and a famous symbol of the country.