[konbini]

Last year I was having dinner with some other tourists in a small town restaurant. Before ordering we told the waitress that we want to split the bill. While eating dinner a group of locals told me that something dropped from my pocket. After I got talking to them. When I went to pay the bill, they would not split it for us. I asked half jokingly for the locals to help. But no one stepped in. In the end we sorted the bill out between ourselves. I am not surprised about the lack of intervention. The locals did not mean offence. Things are just different in Japan and there is a difference between kindness and intervention.