What are the traditional Japanese meeting etiquette?

Djry thinks that the traditional Japanese meeting etiquette is to bow. Shaking hands is also one of the traditional manners, and many Japanese bow after shaking hands. When bowing, pay attention to put your hands on your legs and put your knees together. The degree and length of the bow depends on the identity and qualifications of the other party. The higher the qualifications, the lower the bend. When you meet an acquaintance, you should bow wherever you are. Nodding between peers can also be used as a simple bow. Pay special attention to bow to the boss.

Japanese people don't like hugs, kisses or any other intimate physical contact when they meet. Shaking hands is the best thing they can do. Japanese people don't use first names (especially women), even though they have known each other for many years. Young people are an exception. On informal occasions, they will call each other by their first names. When you are talking to someone in high position, please use a title without a surname.

Talk to each other

Good conversation topics include: your impression of local cultural accidents or Japanese culture, baseball, golf, food and tourism. Japanese people think their culture is very unique and like to consolidate and deepen this concept through foreigners.

Taboo topics include: family, personal affairs, war, property and political issues. There are also most Japanese who are not religious, so it goes without saying that they believe. Pay attention to these topics and don't bring them up at will.

Young people may make friends with you to practice English. Many Japanese know more about written English than spoken English, so they hope to have an English learning environment to practice English. Meanwhile, you can learn Japanese from them.

prescribe a diet

Japanese cuisine takes fish, shrimp, shellfish and other seafood as the main cooking ingredients, and there are four ways to eat them: cold, hot, raw and cooked. Japanese people pay attention to food nutrition and have higher requirements on the quality of ingredients. They pay attention to the color and shape of dishes, and the taste is mostly salty and light with little oil, slightly sweet and sour and spicy. Japanese people like to eat fish and all kinds of seafood, lean meat, beef, chickens and ducks, eggs and all kinds of wild birds and vegetables, tofu and seaweed, but they don't eat mutton, pig offal and fat pork.

Japanese people talk about tea ceremony very much. They like to drink tea before and after meals, especially green tea. It is forbidden to use a pair of chopsticks to take turns to pick up food for others in Japan. Don't put chopsticks in rice.

There are eight taboos in the use of chopsticks in Japan: no use of midway chopsticks, swimming chopsticks, broken chopsticks, peeping chopsticks, pricking chopsticks, signing chopsticks, tearing chopsticks and sucking chopsticks.