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Akihabara card shop asks visitors to stop getting liquored up inside the store

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 4, 2022
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Sir, this is a place for Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh, not beer and shochu.

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• (Akihabara • collectible card games • collectible trading card games • crazy • etiquette • manners • Pokemon • Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Sustainable Otaku Goals: A framework to help you avoid fan burnout

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 30, 2021

And also to avoid becoming the reason for someone else’s burnout.

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• Japan
• (anime • clever • etiquette • funny • manga • manners • otaku)

Japan’s most annoying train behaviours: Passengers reveal the things that irk them most

• Oona McGee
  Dec 23, 2021

Stay on everyone’s good side with these pointers on Japanese train etiquette.

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• (commuting • etiquette • Japan Private Railway Association • Japanese trains • manners • railways • Surveys • train manners • trains • transport • travel)

A lesson in doujinshi convention manners from our resident doujin artist

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 10, 2021

How much chitchat is OK with an artist who doesn’t know you?

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• (anime • COK • dojinshi • doujinshi • etiquette • manga • otaku • SNJO • society • Udonko)

Train etiquette poster features legendary Japanese folklore hero in an unusual plot twist

• Katie Pask
  Aug 31, 2021

As the old saying goes, yesterday’s enemy may be today’s friend.

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• (etiquette • funny • manners • Momotaro • ogre • Peach Boy • poster • train etiquette • train manners • trains • travel • twitter)

Japan is so polite even its hanko stamps bow to show respect

• SoraNews24
  Jul 21, 2021

Unique aspect of traditional business etiquette surprises even Japanese people.

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• (business etiquette • etiquette • hanko • Japanese business • Japanese etiquette • Japanese office • manners • personal seals • work in Japan)

Japanese manners coach’s tips for elegantly eating sandwiches has people baffled

• Dale Roll
  Jun 3, 2021

Have we all been eating our sandwiches wrong all this time?

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• (COK • etiquette • food • funny • manners • sandwiches • table manners • weird)

Should you turn your bowl upside down after eating at a Japanese restaurant?

• Oona McGee
  May 21, 2021

Japan’s etiquette police weigh in on an unusual trend spotted amongst diners.

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• (donburi • etiquette • food and drink • fusedon • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • manners • restaurants • table manners)

Should you add wasabi to your soy sauce at a sushi restaurant?

• Oona McGee
  May 5, 2021

Japanese sushi chefs weighs in on customers who practice “wasabi joyu”.

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• (etiquette • fish • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • manners • soy sauce • sushi • sushi restaurants • table manners • wasabi)

Saitama officially forbids walking up and down escalators

• Master Blaster
  Apr 2, 2021

They’ve become the first prefecture in Japan to do so.

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• (culture • escalator • etiquette • law • ordinances • safety • Saitama)

Foreign citizen arrested in Japan for throwing his bento trash in a mailbox

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2021

U.K. citizen claims he thought it was a trashcan.

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• (bento • COK • crime • etiquette • Kamakura • littering • manners • society)

Saitama begins plans to regulate how to use escalators, prohibit walking up and down

• Master Blaster
  Feb 14, 2021

Although walking is common practice, support for banning it is strong online.

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• (escalators • etiquette • laws • ordinances • safety • Saitama)

Is there any point to holding your chopsticks the “correct” way? Let’s find out【Experiment】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 30, 2020

After years of using her own style, our Japanese-born reporter finally does what her parents were trying to get her to do all along.

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• (chopsticks • COK • culture • etiquette • experiment • food • manners • SNJO • video)

Kobe hospital gets anonymous 5 million yen cash donation, gives it back, gets it again, keeps it

• Master Blaster
  Oct 29, 2020

Random acts of kindness can sometimes be tricky to pull off.

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• Japan
• (anonymous • charity • coronavirus • COVID-19 • donation • etiquette • Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital)

How should you respond when a Japanese person gives you a compliment?

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 9, 2020

You may have heard there’s only one proper phrase to use, but that’s not true.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • etiquette • Japanese language • linguistics • manners • society)

Japan’s public broadcaster renames “correct way” to hold chopsticks, gets nods of approval

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 16, 2020

Those who struggle with the orthodox grip are happy for a bit of validation.

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• Japan
• (chopsticks • COK • culture • etiquette • food • manners • society • table manners)

The polite way to eat onigiri rice balls sparks debate online

• Oona McGee
  Sep 8, 2020

Even the humble onigiri isn’t safe from the complexities of Japanese etiquette.

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• Japan
• (etiquette • food • Japanese etiquette • Japanese food • japanese manners • manners • onigiri • rice • rice balls)

Two incredibly important phrases to remember when shopping in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 14, 2020

Japan is known for its excellent customer service, but being an excellent customer is important too.

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• (COK • customer service • etiquette • Japanese language • linguistics • manners • shopping • society)

Japanese store stops talking to customers because of coronavirus, some hope change is permanent

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 11, 2020

Is silence golden, or is chitchat a necessary part of running a store?

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • etiquette • manners • shopping • society)

Fusedon: the mysterious Japanese subculture of flipping your bowl to say “thanks”

• Master Blaster
  May 25, 2020

It’s gross and annoying, and yet some people won’t stop doing it for some reason.

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• Japan
• (culture • eating • etiquette • food • fusedon • manners • ramen • restaurants • rice bowls • twitter • yamabushi • Yamagata)

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