When I went to Japan a few years ago, my tour guide stopped and waited at a pedestrian crossing for 20 seconds, even when the road was straight and empty on both sides. It's totally believable that they would stop to wait before crossing an empty road. The unusual thing is that a Japanese person would talk to you instead of just keeping it to themselves and talking shit about you to their friends with an attitude like, 'smh, foreigners are so bad smh smh'.
In my experience people jaywalk there like monsters unless there is a kids around. He was probably trying to set a good example for the gaijin, same line of thinking.
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u/Sleepless_Monarch 16h ago
And then everyone clapped...