I was speaking in English with just a normal Japanese guy and in like a business kind of situation and I stood up After a meeting and I stood up, and I'm going to shake his hand and we shook hands, and then we bowed very gotta like Hello everybody and welcome to the waka Pais We're gonna be talking about Japanese Gestures and the body language in Japan if you're a westerner coming to Japan you're gonna notice that people use Kind of a different body language than we're used to and it's good to know how to read specific gestures You put up your pinky for a woman or a girlfriend Yeah, like this okay, and then you put out your thumb for a man This is most commonly used when someone's on the phone, and you say that this okay like is it your girlfriend? Call it like yeah, like you know friend I'm making this kind of bold gesture, but Scratch the back of your head when you feel embarrassed Like whenever you see any drama or anime you probably notice that people just do this Often you see it as a form of saying no in a polite way Like they don't want to say you know directly, so they would be like yeah, that's kind of difficult And you're supposed to take the message that is know exactly don't I? Guess foreigners sometimes make this mistake in Japan that they want the explicit no to happen at some point they push like so they're saying It's difficult, but doesn't mean no for you They just don't like saying no yeah, yeah, it means no You make a small cup with your two fingers And you pretend to drink it to ask someone if they want to go up to for drinks tonight. Okay, yeah Like an offering a sock any couple like a small cup you put suck it and you go like that's okay When you want to invite somebody from drinks suits me, yeah You point your finger to your nose when you address yourself to your nose you can point the face region Especially to your nose kind of telling the other person, but it's like me, but my nose. Are you talking to me like? Okay, the way we do it in Europe is more of like this is like that like are you talking about me? you're talking to me I Would never think about it, but yeah, it's weird. Are you talking to me? This is the kind of stuff if you focus a lot of people do that's truly all these Japanese gestures You kind of once you start noticing them. They're everywhere, but before you notice them. You're kind of Oblivious to them. Yeah sometimes you see a foreigner who's been living in Japan for like twenty years And they have all the body language you have to have nice person which is confusing to me because we've you know foreigner foreigner you never know if you're supposed to be playing the kind of the Behaving the Japanese way to each other or it's so It's often like a polite nod, but you don't know if you're supposed to do the handshake or you Know an x-point make a circle with your fingers like this Signal money for instance you're talking about like a really fancy piece of clothing And then you want to ask how much it was but it's not really polite to ask directly so you kind of go like this Also so to a person who photos and not like in a story, but yeah, yeah funny For us is this means like okay. Okay? Yeah, I think it has to be an assister angle, I'm Yeah Put your hands together in front of your face to mean please and "itadakimasu" Which is I'm gonna eat right now and "gochisosama deshita", which is I'm done eating okay? It's pretty common, right yeah. Yeah, you see that Your arm out. I kind of tilted to this side a straight stripped out Put it in front of your head And you go through a crowd, and if they see my sexy my fancy my family or something yes. This is very common Yeah train stations everywhere There's a tight spot. Everybody's trying to be be like coming through some people think you never like yeah Actually works, and it works. Yeah, cuz I creates this like this space around yeah It's like magic really I I Think like I can magically make people move in other countries too because you're supposed to just do that yeah And people kind of like it go around you magical feeling yeah, it's really cool Waving your hand in front of your face to mean several things you can It can mean that I can do it or it's not me or no. Thank you a lot of things It's kind of like when someone's asking your favor, and you don't want to be too impolite. So you better like this You can't did you do this and it's not really me in them or or just some kind of service like a really kind thing that you can't really eat or Like have enjoy that service Efficiently, so you kind of go like that yeah, it's kind of like a no. Thank you Maybe if a restaurant doesn't have something that you're trying to order. They would something to do that or not Yeah Make a fist with your right hand and hit your left palm open palm with it And it means I'm listening to you usually occurs in a first time like you met someone for the first time in Conversing and you can tell them how I'm listening to you by building that oh, I never knew and I think this is in Western countries is used to signal, but oh I got it or something right Never made this gesture Oh Okay kind of like okay, I acknowledge what you're saying and it's really interesting kind of thing okay? I think it's like a this one's difficult. I don't have it in my body. I don't have it Use your index finger to draw a line or dots from the corner of your eye, you know yeah, right? Yeah, yeah people blow their nose a lot more when their cry in America then wipe their tears So that's why it's like covering their nose at that Already cry they go like this Memory like memory and then tears while in Japan is blowing you're super rude. Yeah, they just don't do that Do you anyone they cry yeah? This is this might be a myths I mean when you cry your tears go through here Yeah, trust me I would know This reminds me of like anime yeah when you have like the like tears coming out of animated characters They're usually like on the outside anything You help numbers by folding down instead of 49 this one's confusing. I know I don't understand fit fun. Oh one two three four five That's so weird. Hi. I don't understand because I think if I if you raise your hand like this, and I'm a hound You you always countdown me the way I do like you count from your thumb to your No, I would do my get is like 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 I feel like it's psychological because when you show it Like that I feel like you kind of so so do it 1 2 3 4 5 and I think if it's here, I don't know I think yeah Actually, I think I'm Japanese okay. I could do Japanese be chopping Despite your weirdly good English you are a Japanese hands your home This makes sense to me because you see that many fingers right one hanging your two fingers three two things and with this It's like I think in some countries they do Also know some yeah, they do like this was like that like a thing in Inglourious Basterds the movie well nevermind You bow with your hands on your stomach in a 45 degree angle I think this is pretty standard generally, okay. I think it just yes Yeah, I'm just gonna add that foreigners are not really expected to do The proper technique of bowing yeah in Japan, so you don't have to worry too much like if your bow is not Proper Japanese sense of the way well obviously the bowing is the huge Japanese Gesture and body language element that we're only Mentioning here because it's I think too obvious even for this for this video that people bow they don't Shake hands unless they want to be like cool Western nice You could make an entire separate video about hand shaking in Japan because yeah often times. It's super awkward Yeah, what is when people want to shake your hand and you're done You know you just don't know how to approach the situation I was speaking in English with just a normal Japanese guy and in like a business kind of And I stood up after meeting and I stood up, and I'm going to shake his hand and we shook hands and then we bowed very Gotta like nah, dude We immediately decided we shouldn't shake hands, and we kind of shook hands like across each other I don't but it's just like a bad omen in Europe About I don't know if it's even a thing in the US but in In Poland for example you're not supposed to when two people are shaking you're not supposed to shake across well I don't think they were aware of that During a restaurant and you want to pay you just do this two index fingers crossed and this means check, please So they're just gonna come up one write you a check what's kind of interesting is how you get people's attention? In Japan for example you're sitting in a restaurant and and you want the waiter to notice you in general it's polite to call people just say sube us and pretty loud sometimes which is sometimes weird for four days because In Europe it would be kind of impolite to do like Excuse me Sounds Excuse me. It's fine. Yeah, or just get somebody's attention anyway possible just like wave your hand or anything Thank you wrap it up. The big Japanese just you two Stop whatever you're doing if you're filming in a place where it's not allowed Okay, so this is if you see that stop whatever you're doing Alright, thank you very much thank you Lane something new I sure did make sure to LIKE this video if you found it helpful and Share it with your friends and subscribe to our channel. Thank you. Hey Yeah, that was really fun
