[Crownedinterror]

@Sashimister : I'm not saying I hold the infinite truth and wisdom, I'm telling you guys what I felt. Which is far away from reality. When I say "Japanese are crazy", that's from my point of view. And I'm not saying all Japanese are the same, I would like to believe that everybody is human and therefore, the same. But the really, because of several cultural aspects, it's hard to measure

And about the language difficulties... I speak Japanese. And about me wrongly perceiving Japanese cues. I don't know. I would say you are right, but I'm not a 100% sure.

For example, my friend had a meeting with a Japanese he met back in US. They both agreed to meet up somewhere at Shinjuku station. He waited but she didn't come. And then she said she lost her phone... I mean, yeah maybe she lost her phone. But the chances are that she didn't want to come, but didn't want to say it. So she made him wait instead. It wasn't even a date. She could have said like "Oh it might be a bit hard to do it" or something like that. Then we could have guessed she couldn't come.

Ok maybe it's a bad example because it's a guy and a girl. But then we met her and she had this extremely phony intonation in English when she was talking to us (even while laughing) but would speak "normally" with her Japanese friend.

Not all Japanese I met were fake though. I met this very friendly old man who helped me find my way in Asakusa. I walked with him since he was going to the same direction (not only because he was being nice). We talked and I didn't feel a second he was being fake. And another strange women I met on the train to Nikko was very expressive. She told me things she thought about Japanese girl being shy in bars and how men she would go out with would be too shy to kiss in public, walk hand in hand. I guess some of them are more true to strangers because they feel it's easier with them. (She even asked me if I was gay. It was pretty direct.)

Isn't it true that Japanese have communication problems with each other?