Japanese Culture
Japanese Etiquette for Visitors: What Actually Matters
Japanese etiquette splits into rules of form, which nobody minds you getting wrong, and rules of boundary, which everybody notices. Only one of those lists is worth learning.
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Japanese Culture
Etiquette, festivals, seasons, superstitions and the small rules nobody writes down: how to hold chopsticks, when to bow, why gift wrapping is a whole grammar of its own. Context for the questions that start with a tool and end with wanting to know why.