1. Your school has no professors of Japanese, a language you want to learn before visiting Japan during the coming summer holiday.
    在暑假去日本之前你想学日语，可学校又没有日语老师。

2. Japan is an island country.
    日本是个岛国。

3. Japan is a populous country.
    日本是个人口稠密的国家。

4. Japanese workers labor about 200 more hours per year than the average of their American counterparts, according to figures from Japan's Labor Ministry.
    据日本劳动省的数据，日本工人每年要比一般的美国工人多干200小时的活。

5. Under pressure from the United States and other trading partners, who complain about the labor force working too much, Japan is working hard at the notion of working less hard.
    美国以及日本其它的贸易伙伴抱怨日本劳工过分辛苦，在他们的压力下，日本正努力推出干活不要那么拼命的观念。

6. Once on the edge of the educational system, such schools, or jukus, are now so common in Japan that, especially for those people at the top level of society, they have begun to function as a kind of shadow educational system, replacing regular school
    这些专门对付考试的课外学校（日语中称为juku），曾是教育体制的次要成分，如今却在日本非常普及，尤其对上层社会的人群而言，它们已经开始成了一种影子教育体制，在家长和学生、乃至两三岁的孩童心目中，它们的重要性已经取代了正规学校。

7. One apparent exception to the general trends is Japan, where single-parent households and unmarried mothers have remained relatively rare.
    对于这一总体趋势，日本明显是个例外，该国的单亲家庭和未婚妈妈一直相对较少。

8. Other countries — France, Italy, Spain, even Japan and Korea — have provided more applause (and profit) where Chaplin is concerned than the land of his birth.
    就卓别林而言，其他国家，如法国、意大利、西班牙，甚至日本和朝鲜，比他的出生地给予了他更多的掌声（和更多的收益）。

9. In Japan, the most important thing is what organization you work for.
    在日本，最重要的是你为什么单位工作。

10. In Japan great consideration is given to the thoughts and opinions of everyone at all levels.
    在日本，更多的是对各阶层所有人员的想法和意见都予以认真考虑。