Statistics for Famous Japanese People

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Clue	Japanese Person	% Correct
John Lennon's wife	Yoko Ono	86%
Emperor during World War II	Hirohito	82%
Current Emperor	Akihito	52%
Princess Mononoke director	Hayao Miyazaki	51%
Rashomon director	Akira Kurosawa	47%
#31 from the Yankees	Ichiro Suzuki	32%
Starred in Inception and Letters from Iwo Jima	Ken Watanabe	30%
Japanese Prime Minister, 2001-2006	Junichiro Koizumi	29%
Female novelist during the Heian period	Murasaki Shikibu	29%
The Great Wave off Kanagawa	Katsushika Hokusai	28%
First unificator of Japan during the Sengoku period	Oda Nobunaga	28%
Writer who committed suicide by seppuku	Yukio Mishima	24%
Actor who collaborated with the above	Toshiro Mifune	20%
Breaststroke swimmer who won gold in 2004 and 2008	Kosuke Kitajima	17%
Founder of the world's top manufacturing car company	Kiichiro Toyoda	14%
Mentored The Karate Kid	Noriyuki Morita	12%