8 things and habits of the Japanese, which are difficult to understand for foreigners

  • Dec 24, 2019
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8 things and habits of the Japanese, which are difficult to understand for foreigners.
8 things and habits of the Japanese, which are difficult to understand for foreigners.

Japan has been and remains the country with the traditions and customs, incomprehensible to most Europeans. Japanese leadership makes taking off around them a lot of cartoon theme, and women and did shave their faces. Why do they all do it - then the material.

1. Service company relocations

Helpers when moving. | Photo: AllTravel.
Helpers when moving. | Photo: AllTravel.

The Japanese are very value their time. Perhaps it is due to over-employment in the country a huge popular support for the relocation. The employees of the service will take care of all the hassle of packing and transporting things to a new location.

About a week before the day of the X service workers come to your old apartment to measure the dimensions of the furniture, as well as to evaluate the amount of things. The moving day was coming to you a whole team of professional packers with a huge range of different boxes, cases and organizers. They carefully collect all the things from small zakolochek, finishing overall furniture and appliances, write down what and where packed, and then carefully lay down in the car. When the car comes to a new home, the team also carefully and scrupulously all unload and put in places.

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2. Masks show

People in masks. | Photo: Time Magazine.
People in masks. | Photo: Time Magazine.

Wear medical masks Japanese began 10 years ago than any outright frightened and continue to frighten tourists. This is not surprising, because in our country, the presence of a mask most often indicates a serious disease. In Japan, wearing masks to protect themselves from the flu virus from the pollen of flowering plants, as well as by dirty air. It is worth noting that over time the masks are no longer solely perform a practical function and turned into a fashion accessory.

3. lovely gizmo

Cute little things in Japan. | Photo: ofigenno.com, Japanese stuff - LiveJournal.
Cute little things in Japan. | Photo: ofigenno.com, Japanese stuff - LiveJournal.

As we know, the vast majority of Japanese people - terrible workaholics. Long working hours and excessive load leads to the fact that most people live in a constant state of stress. That people do not get depressed, streets and places in Japan are full of all sorts of gizmos cute. In many cities, school buses ply, stylized fairy-tale characters and animals, lawns and fences hang humorous signs, and in the cafe you will prepare coffee with foam in the form of cute small animals. All these small pleasures are designed to ensure that at least a little to brighten the gray days of the Japanese workers.

4. Particularly garbage collection

Features of the collection and sorting of waste. | Photo: Automotive News - Drôme.
Features of the collection and sorting of waste. | Photo: Automotive News - Drôme.

Many tourists are surprised that the Japanese do not throw garbage on the street. Moreover, this is not possible, since there is no place. According to information Novate.ruOn the streets of Japanese cities do not have dumpsters. For them, set aside specific locations. Even more visitors are surprised that throw garbage only in designated for that hour and day of the week, for example on Wednesday to 10 hours.

Waste in Japan carefully sorted and divided into combustible, non-combustible, recyclable and bulky. Most often incinerated waste can be disposed of twice a week, non-combustible and recyclable garbage - once a week, paper, cardboard and large items - once every two weeks.

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5. Shaving feminine

Shaving is a lifestyle. | Photo: 5funfacts.
Shaving is a lifestyle. | Photo: 5funfacts.

Perhaps someone is shocking, but shaving in Japan is something of a standard daily cosmetic procedures. And the question now is not about men who shave their faces, and not a standard procedure of hair removal from the legs. Yes, many Japanese women shave every day face and hands. These manipulations are performed not only to get rid of unwanted vegetation, but also to clean off the dead skin cells. Thanks to this procedure, the face of Japanese women are very smooth and the skin looks like porcelain. Perhaps because of that the women of this country manage to slow down the aging process.

6. homeless apartments

"Palaces" homeless. | Photo: Bomz.org.
"Palaces" homeless. | Photo: Bomz.org.

Despite the fact that Japan is a very advanced and progressive country, there as elsewhere, there are homeless. However, their way of life is somewhat different from the lives of such people in Russia. Homeless people in Japan do not sleep on benches in the town center, and construct for himself a whole apartment of the boxes and other materials that will be able to get. In the mornings they go to public restrooms to brush your teeth and wash my face. Not surprisingly, they look very well, sometimes even a decent than tourists.

7. previous employment

Features of employment in Japan. | Photo: ISI Japanese Language School.
Features of employment in Japan. | Photo: ISI Japanese Language School.

People in Japan are not used to mess around. Most of them go to work immediately after graduation. Most often students looking for their future place of work start at the beginning of the 4th year. To understand why they are doing it, you need to know a little about the nuances of the educational system in the country. The fact that the school year at the Japanese students begins in the spring, not in autumn as we are accustomed to. The latter half of the students devote work on the degree project, which is always a very large scale and preparing for exams, and therefore time to find a job they simply remains.

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8. forced off

Rest under duress. | Photo: Photo hosting.
Rest under duress. | Photo: Photo hosting.

At this very difficult to believe, but Japanese employers are forcing employees to take time off. And all because the Japanese inveterate workaholics and often work overtime, resting only on Sunday. Without even noticing, they are subjected to enormous stress your body and polls suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome.

Note: One of the most common causes of death in Japan, is the death of the processing. By 2015, the number of reported cases reached a record high. This year in the workplace took the life of 2310 people.

To resolve the problem situation, to April 1, 2019 came into force a law requiring companies to compulsorily provide employees with 5 days of vacation per year. For our man it may seem a trifle, but for the Japanese - a lot. It is worth noting that the holiday in the Land of the Rising Sun is only 10 days.

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A source: https://novate.ru/blogs/070619/50596/