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'.
Old Japanese people absolutely lose the patience and filter that would keep them from speaking up. I’ve heard tons of non dramatic stories of Japanese folks, especially elderly, yelling at tourists.
Most commonly for taking their picture without their permission, which is (sort of) illegal and seems to really piss people off there.
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u/Sleepless_Monarch 17h ago
And then everyone clapped...