Emoji, Edo and Snow: teacher key

Japan, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. Where emoji began, how Edo became Tokyo, and why heavy snow falls on one side of Honshu.

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Questions and answers

What was Edo renamed in the Meiji period?
- Kyoto
- Tokyo (answer)
- Osaka
What does the Sapporo Snow Festival attract?
- Ten visitors a year
- Only cranes
- More than two million visitors a year (answer)
Who ruled Japan from 1603 until 1868?
- The Tokugawa family (answer)
- The Meiji emperor
- Commodore Perry
Why do most Japanese people live outside the Tokyo area?
- Tokyo is closed
- Edo is far away
- About 30 percent live there, so most live elsewhere (answer)
Where did emoji begin?
- In a school
- On Japanese phones in the late 1990s (answer)
- On a train