I came back to Japan in mid April. I was happy to see my parents, sister and niece. Also, I was happy to eat delicious food. However, I am disappointed with impolite behavior of Japanese and disorder of public rule. Especially, traffic rule is not respected. When I am in a crosswalk, car drivers often ignore pedestrians and pass crosswalk without reducing the speed. Sometimes, they pass even though I'm right on the crosswalk. Bicycle riders are also so rude! There is a narrow sidewalk near my house and there is a plate saying "Walk your bike". However, many people are riding the bike even there are some people on the sidewalk. I sometimes say "please walk your bike". Some people ignore me and go through, and other people say "sorry" but go through. I am irritated about such rude riders and drivers. I am not sure if Japanese were so rude before I left Japan???
I talked with my friend that Japanese moral degenerated in these couple of years. She agreed and said "it's true". We couldn't find the reason why our moral degenerated. When I went to Geneva, Switzerland, I found many good aspects of Japanese. Especially when the Tohoku earthquake happened, I thought that Japanese are good in moral and I was proud of us. Why did they change?
Anyway, I have to live in Japan for the moment and I am Japanese! Little by little, I have to try to ask people around me to behave with good moral. "Priority" lane or seat should be respected. Yes, we lack of "respect" now in Japan.
Now, I would like to change the topic because Japan has many good aspects too. The best thing in Japan is food (in my opinion).
Tsukiji is a famous place for Sushi and Fresh fish because there is a market.
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| Small street in Tsukiji Market, Tokyo |
If you go there, you can find good Sushi restaurants. I went to the small Sushi restaurant called "
Okame" where we often went when we were freshman of the company (I was working for the computer company after I finished my master's degree). Here is a link of the website of
Okame.
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| Omakase (special) set of Sushi restaurant Okame. |
Actually, Sushi is not only Japanese food. I would like to introduce Houtou which is a thick noodle made by wheat flour.
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| Pumpkin Houtou |
It is traditional food from Yamanashi prefecture where my mother's hometown. I went the restaurant called
Kosaku with my mom. The restaurant is like an old Japanese house and the scenery from the restaurant was good.
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| Kosaku (restaurant of Houtou) |
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| Scenery from the restaurant Kosaku. |
I remember my grandma made Houtou when I was a child. There were a lot of pumpkin and the taste was wild! It was hot and good for the winter time.
I am looking forward to discovering new food in Nagoya where I will work from June!
