{"id":104,"date":"2024-01-24T23:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/?p=104"},"modified":"2024-02-01T23:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T14:05:06","slug":"little-differences-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/2024\/01\/24\/little-differences-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Little differences, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I am going to have to be a lot more disciplined to make sure that I adequately document my time abroad, but as I need to get to bed after a good (but long) day of classes and other tasks, here are more little differences I&#8217;ve noticed, continued from <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/2024\/01\/09\/little-differences-part-1\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"60\">last time<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep to the left&#8230; most of the time. Actually, it&#8217;s better to look for directional arrows that will show you which side of the path or stairs to stay on. It&#8217;ll also keep you from accidentally colliding with someone coming from the opposite direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Expect little courtesies. I bought a few things at a bookstore the other day and the clerk accidentally forgot to include the pen I paid for. The pen probably cost less than $2, but she actually chased me down to make sure I got it. The same thing happened again at the Post Office&#8211;a clerk came running down the block after I&#8217;d left just to make sure that I got all of my change!<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You will see virtually no homeless individuals or vagrants on the streets of Tokyo&#8211;after a week of walking around, I spotted just one outside of a shoe store in Ginza. I saw one more the week after. The official numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/japantoday.com\/category\/national\/gov%27t-study-finds-only-3-065-homeless-people-in-japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are astonishingly small<\/a>, so small that they seem unrealistic&#8230; but if they&#8217;re deliberately skewed, it does make you wonder where &#8220;the rest&#8221; are.<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most toilets, including those in public restrooms (e.g., those in schools, malls, etc.) include a built-in bidet. Getting used to using one of these is something that I shall not discuss here!<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are <em>diagonal freakin&#8217; crosswalks<\/em>. These are amazing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I am going to have to be a lot more disciplined to make sure that I adequately document my time abroad, but as I need to get to bed after a good (but long) day of classes and other tasks, here are more little differences I&#8217;ve noticed, continued from <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/2024\/01\/09\/little-differences-part-1\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"60\">last time<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep to the left&#8230; most of the time. Actually, it&#8217;s better to look for directional arrows that will show you which side of the path or stairs to stay on. It&#8217;ll also keep you from accidentally colliding with someone coming from the opposite direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/2024\/01\/24\/little-differences-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Little differences, part 2&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":18087,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,29,20,24,30],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-behavior","tag-environment","tag-shopping","tag-social-interactions","tag-socioeconomics","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/files\/2024\/01\/AdobeStock_114301517-600x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/files\/2024\/01\/AdobeStock_114301517-600x600.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Ryan Eanes","author_link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/author\/tul72118\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tujeanes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}