As of 2002 there are 126,974,628 people in Japan. With 126,974 people in a country there is going to be a lot of culture.
Japanese culture is highly based on the after life. They have a great respect for those wholived before them and follow their family trees back to where they came from. The Japanese have festivals for the dead at graves of their ancestors.
There are Japanese gardens. 
These gardens are sometimes used as Zen gardens for the Shinto religion.
Anime is a popular way to tell storys in Japan.
The Japanese people enjoy music (especially American music), baseball, and monster movies.
SONY is a Japanese company that has created many of the products that you are probally very familiar with and use often.
This is the typical outfit that people often accociate with Japan, but now the kimono is only used for celebrations.
The younger children wear regular clothes to school. 
The middle schoolers and high schoolers wear uniforms to school. Notice the tags on their uniforms. They have their name, age, grade and school on the tags. Out side of school they wear clothes like we do.
Pottery is a very important form of art in Japan.
This is a Shamisen. This as well as other instraments are also a very important form of culture.
Kabuki and other forms of theater are very important to Japan's culture. (See Kabuki)
There are other forms of theater just as popular as Kabuki. If you caught MVHS' drama departments One acts you would have seen Matsukaza. A Japanense form of theater that was not Kabuki. 
There is also Bunraku puppet theater. This is the most detailed form of puppetry. To learn more about Bunraku visit Introduction to Bunraku
Everyone has heard of and maybe even tried Origami. Origami is the ancient form of Japanese paper folding.
Make an Origami Crane
