Comparison of Japanese and American Cultures

In the case of business, employees are provided with both hands and exchange business cards accepted (Japan). Greetings by other words depend on individual relationships (Japan). Japanese customs are also official. Visits are usually arranged in advance and are rarely voluntary (Japan). When someone visits, they need to take off their shoes at the entrance of the house and summarize them to point outdoors; the interior (Japan) usually wears slippers.

As we all know, American culture has fundamental right to ask freedom of speech and authority. Compared with the United States, Japanese culture is more hierarchical. The elders of Japan are respected in their families, and their wisdom is highly appreciated. When talking to Japanese or more authoritative people, direct eye contact is often unpopular in Japan. In Japan, when talking about greetings of each other, it is often that you are lowering your head when saying hello.

America talks directly to the United States and Japan in Japan, so they often give cultural shocks to Americans and Japanese visiting each other's countries. Most of the Japanese who came to the United States got a shock at the beginning and had a question about the direct way of speaking in the United States. Cultural shock occurs because most Japanese can not easily eliminate the expression "courtesy = indirectity". Japanese is more indirect than speaking Japanese.

The history of Japanese Americans is the history of Japanese Americans or the history of Japanese Americans. Following the political, cultural and social changes of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japanese began immigrating to the United States in large quantities. Immigration of Japanese Americans to America began in 1868 and moved to Hawaii during the first years of the Meiji era. On June 27, 1841, Captain Whitfield, who commanded New England Sailing, rescued the five Japanese crews aboard the shipwreck. Four people got off at Honolulu, but Manjiro Nakahama returned to Fairhaven, Massachusetts, with Whitfield. After attending New England and adopting the name John Manzillo, he later became a translator of Commodore Matthew C. Perry.