Abroad in Japan Blog

 For this blog post I decided to watch some more of one of my favorite youtuber: Abroad in Japan. I think he has some other great videos, and I also watched the most recent one where he talks about how living in Japan has changed some of his perspective and mannerisms in his daily life. This video focuses a little more on the Japanese dining culture though which I also find really interesting. Japan, especially during the lunch hour, is a place of efficiency. People come and go throughout restaurants and go back to work. Because of that, the Japanese view on eating out is a lot more different than how we view it in the west. While we may see eating out as a leisurely, sometimes expensive activity, Japan has a lot more of a practical view on dining. 

This is not completely true for the dinner hour though, and not true for all restaurants, but dining alone is a very common thing for the Japanese salaryman. I kind of got a taste of this when I was in Japan, I had to dine alone a lot, and I found it actually a lot less awkward than I think it would be in America.