Reports of rude behaviour are becoming increasingly commonplace in Japan: a society that has long prided itself on politeness and respect towards others. Such incidents have led to a number of ...

Last year, a giant 65ft barrier to block Mount Fuji from view was installed in a popular photo spot to deter badly behaved foreign tourists, and, in 2023, a Japanese store slammed foreign tourists for ...

“Whole,” a 2019 Japanese film directed by Bilal Kawazoe, has a scene in a ramen shop where a rude Japanese patron keeps pestering a fellow customer, a young biracial man, with questions.

Would this analogy be considered rude? The president of a subcontracting ... His flattery reflects Japan’s pathetic diplomatic portrait itself. Even if one stages it beautifully as entering ...