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Originally Posted by MMM
j-walking is surprisingly uncommon, people will wait for the walk signal even if the road is absolutely empty..
Tell people in Osaka that. I see jay walking all the time there.
there's no button to push to trigger the cross-walk, it just happens on it's own and you wait for it.
Again, you say "Japan" but I think your scope is limited. In Nishinomiya there are buttons on some crosswalks.
if you look at someone in the eye's while walking in the opposite direction they'll think "what's his problem?" or "why's he looking at me?"
Is that not true anywhere?
eating in public is rude
Then how do restaurants stay in business?
I think you mean eating or drinking on the street or at a bus stop is considered rude, but this is becoming an outdated way of thinking held mostly by the very old.
while on the train or subway, be quiet, i put my cellphone on vibrate, people generally either don't talk to each other or whisper inaudibly
It's not quite as bad as a library.
there are specific cars on the train and subway that are women-only for certain times of the day, it's marked in english on the ground and walls near them, this is because japanese men are perverted and grope young girls frequently.
I think you need to choose your words more carefully. Not all, most, or even many of Japanese men are perverts. Not all the perverts are Japanese. It only takes a few to ruin it for everyone.
many people in Japan have no idea how to deal with foreigners, less than 2% of Japans population is foreign, we have to be understanding of this. having said that, almost everybody in japan under 55yrs old has studied english grammar and vocabulary for 3 years in junior high, and 3 years in highschool, so if you speak slowly, and clearly, they'll actually understand a lot of what you say, just leave out prepositions and stick to 3 or 4 word phrases, and use body language
Again, your language is very judgmental and degrading.
every time you enter and leave a store all the employees will utter some incomprehensible phrase that basically means welcome to the store, but they say it thousands of times a week so it bears no similarity to it's proper pronunciation. and you don't have to acknowledge it.
Do you like living in Japan?
That's as far as I can go for now.
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Lol I don't know what to belive now, I guess its a persons personal opinion?