JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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rodgerthedodger
Manners are all well and good coming from gaijin, but good manners are not always shown by the Japanese. Maybe it's just me but on many occasion the local populus have been less than polite, to the point of taking my shopping bag of the checkout and replacing it with their own! prompting the response watashi wa saki desu! people pushing in front of me on the train to be either first on or off! I once stood inches away from the door to prevent anyone pushing in front and by god I couldn't believe it when someone stepped sideways in front of me. Is it just me or have others out their experienced this? Japanese manners in todays society are no longer a requirement and are typicaly two faced.
Posted in: Do you think a man holding a door open for a woman, holding her chair for her when she sits down, or giving up his seat for her are outmoded gestures of politeness or do they still have their place in today's society?