First of all I’m sorry for japanese readers who will read this post, but this is my experience and friends (who also a japanese) with your culture i won’t sugarcoatibg anything. This doesn’t mean japan culture is bad but it just not for everyone.
- The working culture
Japanese are known for their work ethic and busy bees but if you are foreigner you will surprise what a hell hole japanese working culture there. You basically go to work at 8 a.m and could get home at 9 or even 11 p.m depending on your boss and jobs. Yes I wrote boss, if your boss said “hey we will have a diner together” you better go there you can refused the invitation but it will seen it as rude and you will have a damaged reputation and relations with your boss.
You will basically work until burnt up, a working men sleeping on the street of entertainment district is not rare to see. Sure there are some companies that don’t do this culture anymore but in my experience its very rare.
2. Quitting job is shameful
Yes you read it right, job hopping in Japan is seen as a taboo there is even a firm that could help you with resignation. If you happen to get to the “black company” in Japan it could get worse.
My suggestion is you best to research the company first before applying in japan.
3. Friendship culture
Unlike in other parts of the world, getting friends in Japan is not as easy as going to bar, gym or coffee shop and hanging out with them there. You need someone to introduce you to. Even if you have friends and relationship you need an appointment to have a meeting or hang out.
Good thing is there are several people in japan now who are more easy going, they were called cafe hoppers. I happen to met one and she is quite a good company.
4. Hammer and nail culture
This culture is shocking to me, there is an old poverb, “If there is a popped up nail, you have to hammered it down.” This poverb basically saying if you are too different from japanese society and norms they will just shunned you until you became like them.
A lot of my japanese friends used to say, “its better to be unnoticed than be a colorful lily.”
Is it bad for this culture to have in japan? Not really, I still believe if you are a foreigner you better be adapt on the environment and obeyed the norms and laws of that country. However this culture might not for everyone outside japan since sometimes they applied this culture quite “harshly”.
If you happen to be a weeb or anime watchers, you better throw your expectation out the window. Japan isn’t a paradise as shown in the anime, it has its good but not as you expected. There is one of my friend who is an anime watcher who happen to be enrolled in a university, he left in disapointment and resentful because he has high hopes of Japan would be as similar as the show he watched.
You can have high expectation in Japan but not too high.
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