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Four things our new-mother reporter felt riding the Tokyo subway with her baby

• Dale Roll
  Mar 13, 2020
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Our reporter worried she and her baby would be harassed on the trains, but what she experienced was quite unexpected.

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• (babies • etiquette • kids • manners • Parenting • parents • society • strollers • subways • Tokyo Metro • trains)

Do you need to apologize when using a credit card in Japan?

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2020

Online commenters have a strong reaction to textbook’s advice, but there might be another angle to consider.

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• (COK • credit cards • etiquette • Japanese language • linguistics • manners • shopping • society)

Japanese manners videos show how to be a “really cool” traveller in Japan 【Videos】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 28, 2020

Japan Tourism Agency uses ninja, sumo and geisha to demonstrate what to do and what not to do in Japan.

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• (ads • etiquette • geisha • Japan Tourism Agency • japanese manners • manners • Ninja • Sumo • tourism • tourists • train manners • travel • videos)

Japanese apartment renter gets told he “sucks at rapping,” asked by management to shut up

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 23, 2020

Diss is backed up by landlord in an example of Japanese renting etiquette.

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• (apartments • COK • etiquette • funny • manner • music • rap • society • weird)

Izakaya etiquette: Stacking your plates after eating doesn’t help waitstaff in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Jan 22, 2020

Japanese restaurant worker says there’s a better system that diners should use.

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• (cheap eats • culture • drinking • etiquette • food • izakaya • japanese manners • manners • restaurants • society)

10 tips to remember for your first trip to izakaya, Japan’s awesome traditional pubs【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 28, 2019

Suntory’s for-foreigners video has plenty of great info, and we’ve got a few things to add.

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• (alcohol • etiquette • izakaya • manners • pubs • restaurants • travel • video)

Japan votes on the rudest behaviors seen on trains and at stations this year

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 26, 2019

This year’s ranking includes Kanto vs. Kansai regional variations in addition to the overall list.

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• (etiquette • Japan Private Railway Association • ranking • rude behavior • survey • train • train etiquette)

Is it OK to bite through your ramen noodles while slurping them in Japan? Internet debates

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 16, 2019

Slurping is the norm in a Japanese noodle house, but is it OK to bite off your ramen if it’s more than you can chew?

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• (COK • culture • etiquette • food • manners • Noodles • ramen • society)

Super-polite bowing shoebill in Japan wins hearts with its incidental grasp of Japanese etiquette

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2019

Video shows Futaba-chan’s polished manners.

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• (animals • cute • etiquette • manners • shoebills • video • zoos.birds)

Japanese man expects woman to serve him at drinking party, gets helping of delicious sass instead

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2019

“This is the first time I’ve met a woman who doesn’t dish up for other people.”

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• (COK • etiquette • food • funny • manners • society)

Pregnant woman takes teen boys to task for calling their friend “lame” for offering her his seat

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 5, 2019

Pays thoughtful youth a compliment while demonstrating how sometimes “kindness flies like a boomerang.”

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• (COK • etiquette • manners • moving • pregnant • priority seats • touching • trains • youth)

15 rude things not to do on trains in Japan【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 29, 2019

In a country famous for its manners and famous for its trains, of course there are plenty of train manners to keep in mind.

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• (COK • etiquette • manners • society • trains • travel)

Japanese manners: Majority say “Loud laughing during a movie is rude” in survey

• Casey Baseel
  May 20, 2019

Survey finds a big, and surprising, gap between what young and old people think is acceptable behavior.

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• (COK • etiquette • manners • movie theaters • movies • society)

Love Live otaku takes up two seats on bus for himself, four for his anime plushie crushes

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 9, 2019

Love Liver stretches his anime idols out for a relaxing ride, but online critics aren’t a fan of his manners.

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• (anime • buses • crazy • etiquette • Idols • love live • Love Livers • manners • otaku • weird)

Tokyo governor criticized for “unbelievable” rudeness of putting hands in pockets during ceremony

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 5, 2019

With midwinter-level cold and rain at the outdoor Tokyo Marathon awards ceremony, Yuriko Koike wanted to warm her hands, but started a firestorm.

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• (etiquette • manners • politicians • scandal • sports • Tokyo • Tokyo Marathon • Yuriko Koike)

An illustrated guide to the proper way to give and receive business cards in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 13, 2018

If you want to look suave and polite, these are the four steps.

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• (business cards • COK • culture • etiquette • manners • society)

New train ad in Japan advocates for leaving texts a while without a response, sparks debate

• Katy Kelly
  Nov 6, 2018

These new train safety ads tell travelers that any friends who’d drop you for a late response aren’t friends at all.

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• (etiquette • manners • Smartphones • social media • society • trains)

Should you dip your egg sushi in soy sauce before you eat it? Survey asks Japanese diners

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 31, 2018

Pretty much everyone agrees that soy sauce for fish is a must, but what about the most popular kind of non-seafood sushi?

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• (culture • eggs • etiquette • food • manners • society • sou sauce • sushi • tamago)

The must-have item to avoid being a jerk at Tokyo’s biggest Halloween street party

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 26, 2018

Bring a bag, and no, not to put candy in.

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• (COK • etiquette • halloween • litter • manners • Shibuya • SNO • society • Tokyo • trash)

The Japanese language has a special honorific suffix just for talking to athletes

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 24, 2018

Soccer star wants more fans to mind their manners and remember to use it.

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• (COK • etiquette • Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • manners • soccer • society • sports)

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