Portal:Japan/Did you know
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- ... that a six-year-old boy was killed in 2004 when his head was crushed in a revolving door at the entrance of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (pictured) in Tokyo?
- ...that Battleship Row bore the brunt of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor?
- ... that Summer Wars was the first Japanese animated film to be included for competition at the Locarno International Film Festival?
- ... that in the 1960s, Yōji Kuri was regarded as the creator of Japanese animation most known to the West?
- ... that mainstream Japanese film journal Kinema Junpo chose director Tatsumi Kumashiro's The World of Geisha as one of the best ten Japanese films of 1973 despite its being in the softcore Roman porno genre?