Website review: The life Nippon - Ten Mistakes Youl...
25Bendow14 discovered this in Japan
•15 reviews since May 13, 2008
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25Bendow14 discovered 8 weeks ago- Ten things you should avoid or remember when you travel to Japan, silly gaijin.
- F3nr1L rated 4 weeks ago
- I've seen this list six times. Three times were stumbling this particular page. I still new all but one of the "ten mistakes" when I first saw it. So apparently a more accurate list would be "One mistake someone as amazing as Jeffrey might make, if he weren't apparently the gaijin god of everything about Japan."
- ultraspectrum rated 7 weeks ago
- Handy reminders.
- linjam rated 7 weeks ago
- Some of these points are really for Americans - the queuing, portion sizes and public transport would be second nature to us Brits. The rest is pretty handy for when I visit Japan in future.
- droe82 rated 7 weeks ago
- You're going to order a grande and feel swindled when they give you a tall. But that's the way it is here, everything is a size down. After two years of life here, I can honestly say I've learned to live... smaller.
They also have a 3% obesity rate to our 30%, incidentally.
- frogwalloper rated 7 weeks ago
- This was fun, and will be useful to you if you ever visit Japan. For the record, I made at least two of the mistakes here. Or maybe one-and-a-half. I'll explain. I never went to a Starbucks in Japan, so I never got to breeze past a queue of waiting people. But I did go to a restaurant called 'Gasuto' (intended, I think, to mean 'gusto') and walked straight past the line of empty chairs inside the door. Apparently it's polite to wait in that area until you're invited into the main part. I just shrugged at the cute Japanese girl and said with a fatuous grin, 'Watashi wa Igirisu-jin desu!' Which was my excuse for pretty much every gaffe I committed while in Japan. And the toilets! In a hotel, you might get lucky and find they've got the ones that squirt water up your bum (which at least gives you something to do when you get sick of watching Sumo on the TV). But if it's one of those porcelain-slot-in-the-floor jobs, you're in trouble. I, too, assumed that you're meant to squat over it. (I didn't even know which way I was supposed to face!) But I found that if you try to simply drop your trousers below your knees and squat over the hole, you tend to lose whatever's in your pockets. Small change, keys, phone...oh dear. You don't want that to happen. You don't even want to think about it. I must admit, the idea of taking my trousers off altogether never occurred to me; but as the blogger says, you'd be there for ages. Still, I might try that next time...
- cinnamonsui rated 7 weeks ago
- Ten things you should avoid or remember when you travel to Japan. Funny!
- Lambdoid rated 8 weeks ago
- The swastika is an ancient symbol used by the Hindus and Buddhists. It's a shame its use has been tainted by its association with Nazism, as it was a symbol of good luck. Not that it helped the Nazis much.
- Billykerr rated 8 weeks ago
- Not to knock the author, but I must have a really good Japanese teacher, because I thought things in the list were supposed to be common sense things. But I guess I suppose this would be common mistakes people would make in Japan if they had no previous knowledge of the culture.
