Comments on: When your dreamboat sinks http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/02/05/when-your-dreamboat-sinks/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: Losing one’s secret lustful feelings | 世論 What Japan Thinks http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/02/05/when-your-dreamboat-sinks/comment-page-1/#comment-250407 Sun, 20 May 2012 16:46:07 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4704#comment-250407 [...] Ranking recently reported on a survey quite similar to one last year, only this time it was looking at the stage before relationships, the point at when one’s [...]

]]> By: Steven http://whatjapanthinks.com/2012/02/05/when-your-dreamboat-sinks/comment-page-1/#comment-249793 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:10:32 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4704#comment-249793 I’ve had an experience with a (non Japanese) woman who told me she liked men who had bad manners in western terms of talking with their mouths full and chewing with their mouths opened and stuff like that.

I think that it’s also important to note that lifting one’s bowl/plate (depending on what it is of course) is kind of how it works. It would be weird to not lift one’s bowl of rice and eat out of it that way. To call it rude to do so is looking at it from a non-Japanese perspective in my opinion. However, elbows on the table are, from my experience, considered rude even by Japanese standards.

Nevertheless, I too would love to see a survey done on Japanese table manners and how Japanese women and men view each others’ habits. I’m looking forward to your translation.

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