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Love the guys who were saying objection, perhaps lawyers in training or ace attorney fans 🤣

Lol loved the elderly woman, she's so baffled by the questions.

Gotta love the old lady, she laughs at every question 😂

May the system of tipping *never* take root in Japan. It's a horrible system that guilt-trips customers and can lead workers getting lower wages without the restaurant prices going down, like what happened in the US

Objection! Haha those two guys at the beginning were very polite with their different opinions :D That was very funny

1:26 I love these guys's chemistry!

Objection guys were hilarious. Just saying.

Your content has helped me learn about Japan so much, that my visit to Japan was quite a fun experience.

most of those "rules" are simply politeness and apply not only in japan

I love the pair of girls who are dressed with green and Black shirt They looks so adorable ❤️ And the guys, they look so closely 😂

I love listening to people in Japan on their opinions. Way more calmer than most reposnses you'd hear in the U.S. Very casual and chill.

The Objection guys were hilarious. Also, my Japanese is greatly improving! I can understand about 80% of what is said in this video

Yuta san, this is a great video! People can learn so much about Japanese people's manner and culture just by watching video👏😊✨ I love how Japanese men having fun / joking each other while being interviewed😆

like a lot of other Yuta "man-on-the-street" interviews about Japanese culture, my take away is "be polite and considerate and you'll be just fine"

The only thing i kind of made me go «!» is about that they thought card instead of cash is completely fine. For those traveling to Japan it’s not a case of «don’t do it» but more like.. a lot of businesses like shops and hotels don’t accept foreign cards because they don’t have them registered in their systems yet. So please keep that in mind and bring extra cash just in case! I think most Japanese people don’t need to worry about such because local people don’t own foreign cards and therefore didn’t think about it right away when being asked that question! Otherwise good video!👍

3:40 it's not as strict as it seems in Japan but in Germany i would say it's polite to pour your guests first. The age doesn't matter. I think it's a general rule that the guest comes first. In contrary when everyone is a guest for example in a restaurant and obviously no worker is refilling your glasses from the bottles it's normal that everyone handles their glass themselves.

This is enjoyable and informative. I like Yuta style. Speaking with a variety of Japanese people gives great insight to social etiquette.

Yuta-san, I am a fan of your videos. As an older person myself, I appreciate it when you interview people of all ages, not just younger people! ;-)

This is actually very useful! I’d heard a lot of these before so it’s very helpful to hear them separate fact from fiction

I love all the interviewees! They are hilarious~ It's good to know that Japan isn't that strict and some rules have good rationale behind. So I can enjoy travel without worrying too much.

The objection duo were interesting. The older one seemed more open while the younger more conservative. When the younger answered in a way that disagreed with the older the older would often stretch, subtly or not so subtly almost as some sort of stress release.

Yuta, it is nice to see the range of responses from your interviewees. Thanks for presenting this topic!

While Japan does have strict rules and regulations, I like how most of the people interviewed are still down to Earth.

Man, I love these interviews! ありがとうごさいます。

I love how the old lady was baffled by half of these HAHA what a sweet heart!

Thanks for these info, it really helps people who wish to visit

its so beautiful that these acts of kindnesses are engraved to the culture and therefore the society.

It feels that most of the things mentioned are the same in Europe, or at least they are common curtesy in Europe. How much people follow them depends from place to place. Also the degree of when something is considered rude may change from country to country or even from person to person. For example I think it's fine to talk on the phone in the train if you try to keep it down but not if you are loud. I can't speak about the points for common baths because we do not have them in my country (although some European countries do). One thing that is definitely different is handing over and receiving things using both hands. It would not be considered even remotely rude to do either with one hand, at least in my country.

was smiling through a lot of the video, great video!

Thank you for another informative video.

Excellent participants! Very insightful

The one guy is right, whether you hand money or put it on the tray you're still spreading germs. When you touch the money with your dirty hands you're getting germs on it, you then put it on the tray getting germs on it, the cashier picks it up and gets germs from it. The next person in line places their money on the tray picking up the 1st person's germs and leaving more of their own. That tray is a petri dish full of germs, as where handing it to the cashier only you and the cashier get your germs.

This a bit more on "good manners" than on what "not to do". Happy to got all 30 more or less right. I enjoyed the guy's take on giving tips but I think he is a bit ahead of its time. :-)

The business card thing was very interesting, I never would have thought of that. To me, my pockets are a safe place where I keep things so putting anything in there is like ok I will keep this. I’d understand like folding it to go in ur pocket is rude. But just putting it there instead of a wallet or something. Good to know if I go there on business!

I loved the two "objection" guys. Such a wholesome interaction!

It is really interesting seeing what is the same and what is different culturally compared to how I was raised in the southern US. I feel like the general idea to be considerate of the people around you and not make scenes or be rude is the same lol.

I like hearing the calm pace of refective speech.

I like that the older people are considerate but also more laid back. I just like the more laid back attitude in Kansai in general. Tokyo is too uptight at times.

No tipping is good. This way, employees are properly compensated. I get the wanting to show appreciation part but if it becomes the norm, it's a problem. Businesses will start taking tips into account for income and that can result in employees actually needing the tips to survive. As long as there is a clear distinction that the money is only for the worker and not for the business, then maybe it's fine. I think it's fine leaving it as it is currently for simplicity's sake.

I like so much those street interviews cause this is the best way to learn japanese and hear regular speech from people. Oh, and hello from Russia, Yuta! Thanks for your amazing content.

Great vid Utah, keep it up

This is actually quite similar with the unwritten social rules that I follow. I was born in, and have lived in England all my life. A lot of things in this piece are about consideration and respect, which is what I was taught as a child. A lot of our public pools have showers in the changing room so you can clean before entering the pool area. Many folks here don't take too kindly to folks being loud and playing music on buses and trains, especially with explicit lyrics. My grandmother has always had the rule about taking off shoes before entering the areas of the house beyonf the door, and still maintains that rule. Theres differences in etiquette of course but It all comes down to respect and consideration. Something that is being lost in the UK unfortunately.

Thank you! I’d like to go there someday, so I watch a lot of videos like this. It seems that people are a bit more chill there than I thought. I’d like to learn Japanese, and more about the culture. Most of my free time I spend reading manga so I guess it makes me think of Japan often.

in beppu, oita prefecture i went to an natural hot spring in the forest with some friends. we were all college students at an international university so we wore swimsuits. some middle age guy pulled up and started yelling at us that we were disrespecting the hot spring gods by covering ourselves up. the one japanese guy among us started yelling back at him that he just wanted to see our foreign girlfriends naked. i got strong vibes that my friend was correct.

I'd like to point out how many of them said it was a good idea to put money in the tray because of the virus and stopping the spread. Only the one guy actually noticed the problem. I guess from the tray the money instantly teleports into the cash register.

These guys are as considerate of others as I am while I'm out and about everyday. I think it's a nice trait for a country to have.

Arigato gozaimasu for the video. I'm starting to learn Japanese. I love your culture too. Very polite.

13:11 fall in love with her laugh, girl in green i mean

The 2 girls giggling that you shouldn't cross at a red light totally do it, but know they're on camera so trying to give off the best impression 😂 But yeah when I lived in Japan for a couple of years I picked up on a lot of these things that are unspoken rules, or you are told once to do or not do something and you follow it without question such as eating every grain of rice, not crossing your legs, not crossing at red lights, put your bag between your legs on the train, so many cultural rules.

man, the not talking on the train thing is really a relevant one not that you can't talk, but when i'm on the train back from wherever, super tired and this group of teenagers enter and keep yelling their social life and laughing for the whole car to hear, oh boy, it's so annoying i never regret so much not having my headphones

I needed this 😊

The objection guys close friendship reminds me of the trio of “Konto ga hajimaru “ ma favorite drama 😻 . Yuta san what about adding j-drama recommendation or lists ?

I feel like a same way if I come the Japan so this is very great advice from Japanese male and woman .

Yuta your hair looks so good in the beginning

1:26 Hire these guys to play characters in a live action adaptation of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 😂😂😂

I love those too dudes . They are just so fun . I like their energy

thanks!!! that was good one

Nice video 👌

most of this are even common in india, but because of westernisation it's not seen very often, like we still follow a lot rules and try not to be rude infront of others, like letting the elders to start eating first, not pinting fingers, placing ur backpacks infront while traveling in train

I'm wondered if Yuta might have watched Abroad in Japan's Video "12 Things Not to do in Japan"? I did seen some of the Reactions that he watched that they point it out the stuff he got incorrect and did get surprised to hear about it. By the way @That Japanese Man Yuta, can do an interview video of "What Japanese Animes that they watched had Bad Voice Acting in Original Language" or "What is their Least Favorite Japanese VA"?

0:22 Ooh, they talked about that one on Trash Taste. They said it was not allowed to eat while walking in general. Hey Thanks Yuta-san, for providing us with actual Japanese insight into these mysteries.

14:37 that actually reminds me of the Philippines. it's just quite funny because there will always be *that* last piece left every time (at least in my experiences) 😂

Honestly, for the majority of these rules, I have either at least struggled with the described consideration myself or could people see to be concerned about it very easily.

i think in terms of avoiding germs during payments would only work if you’re paying digitally like here in china everywhere i go people only use wechat pay or alipay. Using card or cash would touch something or somebody no matter how much you try to avoid it and one way or the other you or someone else might get infected by it.

Cool video!

I would love to see a romaji transcript of this. It'd be a great to study real time interaction.

i love the conversation at 1:26

Your hair looks very nice Yuta 👍🏼

3:22 Holy shit, they've even started to incorporate 'yes' into their language

Those two lads are so funny haha

I call it a Nod Bow..just the neck movement will do enough for a bow . Really depends on time and place...and relationship with your aquintances.

関東編も見たいです！

They all look so polite and respectful.

1:38 Can't live in society without money, thats a whole other subject...I nearly spit out my drink I laughed so hard.

some of these were kind of strict, like the not talking on the train. not on the phone i can kind of understand, but not even to each other? lol and i like how the tray and mask thing is talked about in this, because they're just starting to use the tray at some places here in america because of the pandemic. and even though i started wearing facemasks in the winter like back in 2019 during flu season to not get sick, you never saw anybody wearing them. it's like somethings in your culture might become permanent fixtures in ours. i hate that covid was the cause to why that happened, but i like how those are more things that our countries can relate to more with now.

they are teached about manners first rather than normal school subject since elementary. i think this need to be applied to every elementary school in the world

12:07 lol I was thought the light blue guy is showing middle finger! this absolutely a comedy duo XD

I find it funny that people (Americans) seem to be so complexed by the idea that you can’t tip in Japan. The only country I know with such a tipping culture is America. I live in New Zealand and tipping isn’t really a thing here. Sometimes you’ll see cafe’s with a tip jar but that’s really the only tipping and people usually just put spare change in there just to get rid of it. One time I was buying a drink and they didn’t really have change so I said to just keep the change but that flustered the cashier and she was trying to give me the change so we just worked it out. I think if someone tips here they’re seen as arrogant. Like they’re rich and can just give out there money because they have so much of it and are only helping to make themselves look good. I don’t know if tipping is a think at like fancy hotels or restaurants because I’ve never been to anywhere fancy.

Thanks, I was questioning myself, are all of those things true? and I finally got the answer, thanks

The two guys where sooo wholesome(blue n brown shirt)

I like the two guys who politely raised their hand to contradict their friends

I was amazed how dicipline and law abiding Japanese people are. Kudos!

My god do I wish I was spending the pandemic in Japan. This is the right attitude. I'm in a country that is completely inconsiderate and people don't care if they infect others. I'm extremely vulnerable to covid and because of those attitudes I haven't been able to leave home other than medical appointments for 2.5 years so far. I'm one of the only people left who wears a mask at all, let alone a high-quality one. The first thing I'm going to do when it's safe for me to travel again is return to Japan.

That impromptu manzai session is priceless!

In Taiwan we do changes entirely differently. About 10-20 years ago you can still see signs saying "Please count your changes on site. Once you leave the counter, we cannot be responsible for any issues that may be only noticed afterwards". (找零請當面點清，離櫃恕不負責)

Loved the older lady and the two objection guys 😅 Some of the questions were rather ridiculous👀

Listening to native speakers helps a lot

The guys who were acting like a comedy duo absolutely made this video for me

Broh, are those two dudes a manzai conbi? Damn, they were so funny!

Many of the rules here are the same in Latin America, or at least in Mexico and Mexican-American communities I was raised in. We're much more open with physical contact including hugs and (gasp) cheek kisses. But the biggest difference is definitely lateness. For important appointments, you should definitely strive to be on time or at least less than 5 minutes late, but for most things, being very "late" is somewhat expected of you. If you're just hanging out with friends, for example, it's not weird at all for someone to show up an hour "late." We're casual with time and we often go way over whatever curfews we set for ourselves. Parties usually go until 2am or more!

Lookin' good with the facial hair!

Those two guys are so goofy and joke around a lot its fun to listen to them.

Handing money seems weird just because it's not being handed doesn't mean your hand didn't already touch the money. I get more if you wanted to just do digital transactions because that way you avoid contact altogether.

I found the yawning question quite interesting, because they saw it as a generalised rule of thumb for all communication not just to the boss. it's quite difficult to prevent a yawn, let alone with zero motion used.

Please. A second part would be necessary.

That two dudes next to the vending machine are hilarious!

I really liked the attitude of the short-haired lady in front of the greenery. She always seemed to have a laugh at the expense of the rules.

I love the fact that in japan, in train thay has the similar manners when we're in library

It's really interesting to me how many of these guidelines also apply in Britain.