There are many things I've learned about Japan or Japanese culture that don't require an entire post, so I'm dedicating this post to some of those things. (I'll number them so I can add more later)
1. The Japanese are very concerned with cleanliness. (for garbage) Whenever they feel the need to place a trash can somewhere, there will be 4 different ones. One for cans, one for bottles, one for burnable trash, and one for nonburnable trash. It's moderately difficult as an American to know which place to drop our trash since we just have 'trash,' and in some cases 'recyclables.' The streets and buildings are very clean, it's rare to see trash on the sidewalk. (not sure if this is true of tokyo as well?) The crazy thing about it is that it is very hard to actually find trash cans. They're usually only next to vending machines. I think it's amazing that an entire society has this level of cleanliness, it's definitely something Americans need to learn.
2. The Japanese expect much better service from their car companies than we do in America. Our culture told us a story of one of his friends who wanted to install sensors on his back bumper to help with backing up and parallel parking (super tiny spaces in Japan). The dealer came to his house with an array of sensors for him to look at and decide which one. After he had decided, the dealer asked him what time was good to pick up the car. Since he had to commute to work to Tokyo everyday, he needed the car picked up before 4:30am, which was no problem for the dealer. After the car was serviced, he brought it back. This is the kind of service that Japanese are used to from car companies, and that's why American companies don't do well or don't even try to sell cars in Japan. And that's just the service, they also care a lot about the quality of the cars too, and nowadays the eco aspects too.
3. In Japan, it's not socially acceptable to walk while you're eating in public. Drinking and walking is just slightly better. Prettty weiirrdd.
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