A Report On Japanese Culture

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Taboos:
Wearing any type of shoes while walking into someone’s home is considered a sin in Japan. It is even restricted in the case of some business establishments, and other places.
The rule of conduct in these cases is that you must leave your footwear at the door, and put on the slippers supplied just inside the doorway. The types of slippers often change from one season to the next. In the summer the slippers might be made of loose thin material, while in the winter wooly ones are supplied. There are also different slippers you must change into while entering the bathroom or kitchen.
This might seem tedious and useless to some, except that it not only serves as a mean for cleaner dwellings; it also gives the impression of greater size to the many small homes found in Japan.

Culture Traits:
Manga is a type of art in Japan. This drawing style is considered to be the Japanese equivalent to the American comic book. With its sometimes ...

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