Japanese Reacts to "12 Things NOT to do in Japan" by Abroad in Japan

hello guys it's moon from japan live entertainment so today i'm going to react to 12 things not to do in japan by abroad in japan this is a great video and very useful for the first time visitor to japan but there are few things i want to add from the japanese perspective okay let's eat it [Music] so walking down the street whilst eating and drinking isn't illegal you're not going to get shouted and you're not going to get arrested by ace detective sherlock bones but what you will get is the stare of disapproval a lot of people don't know this one until you get here and never see anyone doing it what you'll find is if someone wants to eat or drink something quickly outside they'll buy at the convenience store and then eat it or drink it out the front same with vending machines if they buy something from the vending machine they'll drink it there and then next to the vending machine the main reason is people are very conscious about keeping the streets clean here and you don't want to ruin someone else's day by having them walk through your spilled coffee that said all you need to do to avoid the stare of disapproval is uh just stop and eat and drink whatever it is there and then maybe it's on a bench maybe you're just standing at the side of the road whatever just don't walk whilst eating and drinking and you'll be all right stop this is basically true but you don't have to worry about too much because japan has a culture of tobacco which means eating around and it uses a lot of people while eating around the local foods in the tourist areas however in recent years a lot of places prohibited that walking around and eating due to a dramatic increase of people just rittering and dumping their garbages in the tourist areas so please be careful if you see a sign or not to eat or run in the tourist areas okay let's get back [Music] three things to point out here number one never put your chopsticks upright into the rice as this is part of a ritual conducted at funerals to the spirits of the deceased number two never pass things from chopstick to chopstick because again this is done during funerals to pass the bones of cremated relatives so that kind of imagery doesn't go down well over dinner as you'd expect probably best not to conjure up imagery surrounding death it's also a bad manner too thirdly don't do the rubbing chopsticks you know when you open wooden chopsticks do you like to do that to get rid of the splinters and just because it's fun everyone loves it don't do it because it's seen as rude disgusting yeah which let's face it they probably are but in fact they usually definitely are [Music] yes there's not a pink cartridge probably the greatest thing about japan ever and the reason that i eat out several times a week just because i save 20 automatically in japan it's believed that customer service should always be exceptional with staff giving 120 every time 120 110 120 would be ridiculous but it's not necessarily rude to tip someone it just creates this awkward situation where the worker the staff would feel like you're assessing their performance and they could potentially lose face so you might think you're being nice by giving someone a tip but you're not you're just creating an uncomfortable situation for the worker and they'll probably just reject your tip outright so don't be tempted to do it okay i think he pointed out very well it's better not to tip here because the waiter will be confused the service charge is already included in your bill so you just need to pay the money that you have been offered and you'll be fine and if you want to express your gratitude just add a thank you it was very delicious towards the staff members that should be enough to show your appreciation okay let's get back there's a real emphasis on being mindful when you're using public transport in japan uh that's often completely absent in many countries numerous of the times that i've been riding a train in the uk and someone nearby has been screaming at their partner yeah this is very true i felt like i was part of the argument japanese people japan's density it's especially important to be mindful when you're stuffed in a train alongside fellow commuters many of whom are sleeping as well with that in mind don't ever ever talk on your phone on the train that's a matter of you get the point no thing to do here and even talking loudly if you're on a local train or a subway train and you get a phone call just ignore it until you get off and if you're on a bullet train you can go to the little compartment in between the carriages and take your call [Music] there i remember for the first few years that i lived here whenever someone handed me a business card i was utterly terrified because until then business cards to me had always just been a bit of paper a bit of card with some writing on but in japan they are so much more once you've exchanged business cards the trick is to imagine you've just been handed the lost treasure of el salvador how do you treat the business card particularly the most important job when you enter japanese company either put it in your business card holder or just put it on the desk if you're at a business meeting just put it on the table never play around with business cards or put them in your back pocket because they're seen as a physical extension of the person themselves and you don't want to stuff somebody's physical extension down your back pocket if you're doing business in japan always always carry business cards foreigner who stood there writing out their name and number 50 times one hour on the back of a tissue and for the record i am usually that awkward uh scribbling down my details because i do forget to bring them back writing your name on the toilet paper as a business card okay stop you might feel a bit strange about exchange business card in japan and you shouldn't underestimate about it because the business cards are essential too to have a greeting when you start doing business with other people and as he said it shouldn't be treated poorly for instance in my experiences i sometimes work on my business card when i started working the company right after i graduated oh my god that was one of my most horrific moments i ever experienced this i thought i was gonna blow up the whole business meet in that time and they're so important that some companies are very particular about the design and the paper that they use for the business cards to make very good impression towards other companies okay let's get back [Music] if you've got a runny nose standard procedure here is just to keep sniffing or just to find a toilet or a broom cupboard to hide in blowing noses in public is pretty rude interestingly though hank achieves it's a biological habit people use them right now or even more commonly to dry their hands in public toilets because surprisingly many public toilets in japan don't have any hand-drying facilities despite having space-age toilets that reside in the same room it's quite a weird contrast that i don't quite understand stop well simply most japanese people feel embarrassed to be watched blowing their nose later than being rude and there are many japanese people having a fake fever so there is a very soft tissue for nose blowing in japan if you use tissue you won't paint around your nose so if you have a fake fever please try it when you come to japan okay let's get back [Music] yeah physical contact in japan isn't really a thing you'll bow a lot you're not enthusiastically daily uh but occasionally you might shake hands with someone if they're a good friend or a business client that you get on well with but generally i avoid it unless someone makes the first move and hugging in particular doesn't go down well it's just met with expressions of awkwardness and despair and also amongst couples public displays phenomenally rare here so don't be surprised if you get the stare of disapproval if you're kissing your partner frantically in the street yeah japanese not even donkeys it should definitely be this but we don't care about them so you should be worried about it if you're the sort of person who feels the need to have a debate or an argument about things or throw your opinions out there constantly people will find you obnoxious and dislikeable and probably just avoid you embedded heavily within the culture is this idea of keeping harmony and avoiding concrete at all costs and it's a lot easier to do that when people aren't at each other's throats throwing around opinions sometimes it can be frustrating when people are just unwilling to speak their minds or give you a clear yes or no answer i mean one time one of my colleagues when i was teaching i asked him do you have any pets and he said to me maybe my cat is dead maybe your cat is dead what does that mean is it is dead or is it not dead it's not schrodinger's cat is it it turned out the cat was definitely dead but he was just the sort of person that always liked to use the word maybe and just not express certainty uh but if there's one reason i've never seen a fight anywhere in japan in the last five years it's probably this reason that people are a lot more careful about expressing their opinions and holding back what they really think okay so japanese people tend to express their opinions in direct ways like for instance we don't directly say no or refuse something towards other people instead we just rephrase like we will think again or we will consider this is because we don't want other people get offended about their relationship we have been built very strange culture right okay let's get back yeah i couldn't be bothered to yeah everyone seems to know this one already anyway when visiting someone's house or entering a public building like a school or going to a hot spring you take off your shoes and switch to slippers before you go in the easiest way of knowing if you have to change your shoes is there'll be a change in elevation in the floor so when you go in there'll be a little stare and that's when you know this is the one thing on the list where failing to stick to the rules will have noticeable results a few years ago a friend and i visited a public bath house in kyoto and we went in and you're supposed to take your shoes off for some reason he didn't i don't know why i don't think he noticed or saw there was a little woman sitting behind the entrance counter where you kind of pay the character his shoes on and she shot up with terrifying energy and ran over and grabbed him and took him to the front and was like get your shoes off get your shoes on and that image has stayed burnt into my mind this quiet little woman suddenly becoming so alive and animated by this terrible event and ever since then i've never forgotten to take my shoes off when entering the building [Music] this is really something you need to pay attention when you come to japan by the way it is said that the reason why japanese people started taking their shoes off is because of a hot and humid climate in the past we only had a huge paved roads and rain and humidity would cover their shoes in the mud so they began to take their shoes off to keep their houses clean okay let's get back [Music] yeah for whatever reason rubbish bins and trash cans are disturbingly rarely done outside of convenience and the reason i put this on the list is because so many people uh so many of you guys messaged me on twitter saying i'm in tokyo and i can't find a bin what should i do i've wandered through tokyo for up to 20 minutes sometimes just in search of a bin and can't find one shockingly clean here because people they can't find a bin they just take the rubbish home with them it can feel like some kind of miniature tree sometimes going in search for reviews because you feel a real sense of achievement but uh despite that they'd be tempted to litter just keep trying and you'll find a bin one day okay so there are several reasons why we don't have many trash cans in japan including the fact that they were removed to prevent from the terrorism that has been occurred in 1995 since then japanese government has been promoting to reduce the public transparency anyway there really aren't many trash cans so as he says it could be the fun minigame here in japan ok let's get back [Music] no jay seems like a fairly obvious addition to the list and yet in the uk we just cross the street whenever the hell we want whenever there's an opening in traffic as opposed to waiting for the green light same as many countries in japan however people do not cross the road on a red light it's incredibly rare and it's one of the greatest ways of seeing this sense of order and obedience to the laws of japan there's no cars coming you can't see any cars whatsoever people still will not cross the road until it goes green over the years of the many friends i've had come to visit me here this is the thing that shocks me it's amazing only huge and yet for me personally the main reason i abide by it is after a few years of being here you don't want to stand out you don't want to be this stereotypical rule breaking foreign and as well as that you don't want to run the risk of getting caught out by the police so those are two things worth taking into consideration before you dash across the seemingly empty road and the last one don't worry about not knowing anything about japanese etiquette when you come to japan as i said earlier in this video there aren't going to be any real consequences to not following any of these things apart from maybe the footwear one that's that's quite scary you don't want to get dragged off by an old woman the reason i say don't worry too much is because i find a lot of people come here and they're very nervous and very anxious about following the etiquette etiquette they don't really comprehend and that includes even me when i came here i didn't know anything and i was constantly anxious and nervous that i was making mistakes but really as a foreigner in japan you get kind of a free pass to make mistakes people are understanding and they're kind and they will let you off so don't become too nervous about following all the rules do your best but don't become a nervous wreck so those are my twelve things not in japan yes i agree actually there are too many causal manners in japan but i don't think you need to be that nervous at all we're very happy that foreigners are willing to accept japanese culture and mothers so we really feel bad even if we do it wrong and above all we are very happy that many foreigners are coming to japan and experienced many japanese cultures so please just don't get too nervous about it and enjoy our country anyway thank you very much for watching our channel and don't forget to subscribe to our channel too see you soon bye bye

Channel: SHUGY'S JAPAN HOUSE

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Length: 15min 22sec (922 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 16 2020