Japanese customs top 10(1-10) - Japonly

Because Japenese are "wise".

3/ Manga

In the country of manga, there is something for everyone:
Shonen for young boys, Shojo for young girls, Seinen, Redikomi... We have found a very nice Shitei (Humor) : Norakuro, he looks like Felix the cat !
We found Tetsuwan Atomu, Astro Boy, the super-hero at the Manga Museum, Kyoto, a must to see!

See sections Kangi & literature.











"4" / No 4

It is an unlucky number that evokes death, it is pronounced the same way, we will also put No. 9 "suffering" in quotation marks.
So let us see the 5 ways to write the word superstition in Kanji:

迷信 - の迷信 - 迷信は - 信が et 迷信の

Search the intruder and beware of google translations, a friend asked me a psalter, the reaction of the monks when I presented my translation on my little paper, they were hilarious.

5/Courtesy, respect (for others and the rules)

6 /Organisation

Schedules, traffic, directions, access for the disabled, the path for the blind in the subway, the magnetic card access to public transportation which which you can also make purchases in shops and stations and in the most convenience store 7-11, the smoking-areas ... to bags to pack umbrellas at the store entrances.

7/Service

Service orientation is innate in their culture.
Probably still a characteristic of the samouraïs.
Please note that the custom of tipping does not exist and can even be considered offensive.

8/Cleanliness (a luxury found at this level nowhere else)

Everything is clean, spotless, immaculate, scrubbed, washed, bleached, ...

9/See 4

10 /Hyper-security (civil, traffic, health ...)

We could give a lot of examples but we will settle for 3 :

Although crime in Japan is extremely low, parents want to track their children and let them move alone without getting worried.
To meet this demand, a Japanese company has developed a monitoring system via a smart card to follow them on the way to school, it works at the subways and schools gates and inputs back home by sending an alert via SMS to parents.

They are also the inventors of the smart car that detects obstacles and warns the driver and other motorists if there is a risk of collision via some sort of gps connected to terminals at the dangerous intersections.

And finally to silence the famous legend of the mask, it should be noted that it is more often used for health reasons to avoid spreading the disease and rarely (happily) because of nuclear disaster, the image of the city of Tokyo hyper-polluted is slightly exaggerated.



















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