Andrew Gallimore

It's all me.

In Japan, you flip that.

It's about the first thing on your mind should be everybody else.

When you hear Japanese people talk about people who cause problems in cities, they use this word mewaku, which means often translated as nuisance.

So people who come from the West, often America, but not just America.

I'm not blaming everything on Americans, but it is often.

And they come with their own problems.

they're the main character, this kind of main character syndrome.

So they're talking.

They often... You see these Instagram videos of people on the metro, on the train, and they're like, it's so quiet.

Nobody's talking or nobody's kind of listening to music.

And that's because...

they're always thinking about the people around them.

They are thinking, am I obstructing anyone?

Am I getting in anyone's way?

Am I annoying anyone?

Am I making anyone feel uncomfortable?

You're always thinking about those around you.

And that leads to this very respectful, polite society where you can have 40, 37 million people, whatever it is, crammed together in this relatively small area of land and they're not killing each other.

They learn.