I was in japan recently in tokyo and i was amazed at how often the guyz bow their heads (even when using the cell phones they bow to the guy on the other side.
Then i was invited to visit a hot spring by some guyz and i was so embarassed coz before going i thought like you enter the water with your costume like in swimo but wooiiiii!!!! I was told that i had to strip to the skin and God i was so embarassed coz like its a communal hotspring and guyz ok all men enter one big pool (hot spring )and man guyz were actually admiring my cock God i was so embarassed most of them had never seen an african cock before and were like wispering in japanese (okiii ne) which translates to (big).
Anyway thats the fun i like in travelling sometimes funny things happen. Also i liked the jap technology and little things .coz its true everything over there is small. small girls with small butts small houses small small everything.But very interesting and very different.
something about Japanese culture that people sometimes mistake for rudeness..
if you were to give a presentation to a room full of japanese professionals chances are that 3/4 of them will have their heads bowed down as if they are sleeping. No you are not boring! its just in their culture to assume that position when they are litsening to something serious..
Did you get time to visit the SONY showroom in Ginza? I was there in summer 2000 and was amazed at the 6 floors of Japanese technological wonders.
I worked with a Japanese firm in Nairobi for a bout 5 years.