第538回 特別編：日本のルール、破ってもいいの？ ー信号無視、電車マナー、そして秘密の恋愛ルール

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Welcome to Hapae Kaiwa Podcast with Jun Senesac, episode 538! Hey, what's going on, everyone? Jun here with Hapai Eikaiwa. In today's special episode, I'm sharing an episode from my brand new podcast, Jiggy's Japanglish Podcast. For those of you who haven't heard about it yet... I recently launched this new project with my good friends Imran and George. It's a fun laid back show where we mix English and Japanese and chat about everyday topics with a lot of laughs along the way.

In today's episode, we're diving into the topic of following the rules. I kick things off with a funny story from my morning run in Tokyo, where I found myself stuck at a crosswalk, wondering, should I wait? Or just go for it. From jaywalking debates to eating McDonald's on the train, we break down those little cultural differences that really shape daily life in Japan and the US. But it doesn't stop there.

We also get into some interesting talk about the right timing for dating after a breakup. Is it one month, three months, or does it depend on who did the dumping? And of course, George and Imran jump in with their own hilarious takes, including whether George is really a playboy or just misunderstood. If you've ever been curious about how differently rules are followed between Japan and the US,

You're in for a treat. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this episode of Jiggy's Japanlish Podcast. 今日の特別編では、私の新しいポッドキャスト、 Jiggy's Japanlish Podcastのエピソードをご紹介します。 I'm not sure if you don't know who you are, but I recently started this new企画. Today's episode, I'm going to talk about rules and rules. I started talking about the interesting episode from that interesting episode. But that's not what it is.

I'm going to talk a little bit about the time. 1ヶ月? 3ヶ月? Is it different from the end of the day or the end of the day?

Of course, George and Imran have a full-time opinion of his own. George is really a playboy, or he is only a playboy, or he is only a playboy. Jiggy's Japanglish Podcast. What's going on guys? Welcome back to Jiggy's Japanglish English. Hold on, that's not right. Let me try that one more time. Japanglish English. Let's try that one more time.

what's going on guys welcome back to jiggy's japanglish podcast i'm your host june and i am here with imuran and george what's going on guys how you guys doing today great So, yeah, you know, it took us a couple of episodes, but we have officially updated our name from Jig's Japanglish podcast to Jiggy's Japanglish podcast. I know some of you may have been a little bit confused. We decided it might be better to switch it to Jiggies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jiggy sounds cuter and cooler and sexier, I guess. That's right. Sexy and cool or something like that, right? Yeah, exactly. We definitely got to, you know, appeal our sexiness, you know, to our listeners. get that feeling across all right guys well today um i want to you know share a little story that uh i you know kind of experienced while i was living in japan and it kind of like made me think about you know

cultural differences in a sense between the U S and Japan. And I wanted to kind of run it by you guys and see what your thoughts were on this. So back in February, I went back to Japan to do some seminars out there. And, uh, you know, one of the, Things that I like to do when I'm in Japan or, you know, just traveling in general is to go for a morning run. It gets like my blood flowing.

It's like a good way for me to just, you know, explore the city. So the second day after I landed, I got up first thing in the morning and I went for a. Early morning run.

It was a Saturday and it wasn't that busy in the streets of Tokyo. So I wasn't really sure where I was running. I just opened up my Google Maps and said, i was running a little bit um so as i was running um i tried to pick like a street or like an area without too many signal lights because you know you're running it's really really annoying when you have to constantly stop for stoplights.

I try to pick, you know, smaller streets, but as I was running, I encountered this like really small street that I don't know. They had a signal light and. For me to cross the street… どれぐらいだろうね? Maybe like 15 feet? 3mぐらい? 車が1台ぐらいしか通れない ちっちゃなちっちゃな道 And it's in the morning. There's nobody there except for one person. It was the light was red and I was running and I had to stop and think for a moment. ここはしっかりとルールを守って、青信号に変わるまで待つか。

At the same time, I was like running a good pace. I didn't want to stop. There is nobody on the street except for one person. I could tell he was waiting for the light to turn green. But obviously there is nobody. I was like, what do I do here? If I cross the street, I am going to look like a bad person. But I wanted to run. You know, I didn't want to stop. I waited. I felt bad. I was in Japan. If that person wasn't there...

I think I would have just completely ignored the light, looked left, looked right, make sure there's no cars coming, and just cross the street. So that got me thinking about rules in Japan. I think it's like pretty widely known around the world that 日本って結構ルールを厳密に守る国文化 例えば大地震があった時とかでも like pretty well known um like just following rules i feel like in japan is a pretty big thing you know on the flip side

In the United States, there are a lot of people that break rules all the time. Rules are made to be broken in the United States. And the other thing is, like, do you break rules? What kind of rules? Is it okay for you to break? And what kind of rules do you have to follow no matter what? Or do you never break rules? Do you always follow rules regardless of the situation? Okay, so let me talk about this. The first, following rules. That's what makes Japan beautiful.

what i love about japan and um so have i ever broke any rules yes i have when i was in high school virginia high So we had a strange classroom rules there. There was like... Oh, yeah, yeah.

Wow. No relationships. Did you go to like an all-boys school? No, no, no. No, it was just like a regular public school and they couldn't date somebody? That's really crazy. And me? I broke all the ropes. How many girlfriends did you have, George? I had three. At the same time? No, no. I wish I could. Play-a, play-a, play-a. We know daily sun care protection is crucial, but it's often hard to find one that sits well under makeup.

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It was like probably like very calculated, huh? So like you're dating somebody and then there's like somebody else that you like. So you would break it off with one person. I want to know about this too. One month? After breaking up, if you give yourself like a one month break... It's okay to date another girl in Japan. Yeah, that's when, you know, try to calm down.

I think it's a depression period. Yeah. Wow. I was mentally shocked. Maybe you guys are talking from like two different angles. Because it sounds like George, it sounds like... You're talking from the point of view of being dumped. Is that what it is? George is talking about being dumped. Imran's the one dumping people. Yeah, that's the story. Dumper and Dumpy. So, okay, cool. So if you are dumping somebody 1ヶ月, if you're getting dumped 1ヶ月くらいっていうね、そういうルールね. Yeah, very good.

But how about you, Imran, aside from like the whole dating stuff? are you like the type of person you feel like follows the rules you know by the book or are you kind of a little bit more like loose when it comes to like following rules uh Yeah, I might sound... When no one's watching, I would cross the street. But in Azabu, near my school, there's this...

This is a place where I guess it's like where you were crossing. It's really short. Yeah. The crossing is really short, but people wait in front of convenience or not. I just wait with them. you wait yeah yeah but if there's no one else i think i would just cross it yeah it's really it's like like five steps yeah five ten steps yeah Yeah, so I tend to keep the rules when people are watching. I break the rules when people are not watching, I guess. You're the worst kind, man. Yeah.

yeah yeah that's like using phones on the train i i never do that but i see people doing it but Recently, I think it's all right. I guess it's an emergency. When it's an emergency, I guess it's fine. Like talking on the phone? Yeah, talking on the phone. Eating on the train? How about that? I used to do that when I was in high school. Well, actually, junior high. Elementary school and junior high. I think, yeah, we were eating McDonald's on the train. Yeah.

Yeah. It's really crowded, right? McDonald's is really intense. After school, it was not that crowded. Gotcha. Yeah, so we're like, yeah, we would like sit on the floor and just start eating McDonald's. On the floor? Yeah, yeah, sometimes, yeah. George, do you think it's impossible to eat in the train? Yeah, it's not good for the臭 of it. McDonald's or something. Yeah, yeah. Stinky, smelly, and that's what I'm talking about. Snacks are fine, I guess. Yeah. Gumi. Yeah, I think so.

How about in the US? Do people eat on the trains? Well, there's really no train, like a public transportation system in Los Angeles. If you go to like New York or like maybe San Francisco, Chicago, it's a little bit different. And I'm not exactly sure what it is like here, but yeah. They definitely don't follow rules like they do in Japan. I feel like it's a lot of smell. You guys can tell me actually. So like every time I go to Osaka, there is always a place I stop by. And that's...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, the shumai. Oh my god, the shumai is so delicious. Really? Because that thing is potent. It smells intense. So you know when somebody's eating that and it's that garlic smell.

So... I'm not really sure about that one. Is that like something I should not do? Or if I'm in Osaka, is it something that everybody does so I shouldn't have to worry about? I've never smelled shumai on the Shinkansen. Oh, so maybe I shouldn't do it. Yeah. People eat takoyaki. Oh, yeah. That smells, too. So, yeah. I live in神奈川, so it's famous for the show. I've seen a lot of people eating shumei bento. I don't really care.

So you guys would say like generally speaking that in Japan, even if it's like a really minor rule, like people do follow them and most people don't break. Is that like kind of the general consensus here? I think so, yeah. The other thing, too, that I was thinking about is when I was working in Ishikawa, I got an opportunity to go to elementary schools. like teaching English once or twice a month.

A part of the culture that you don't see in the U.S., right? So, like, the one thing that really stood out was like, Right. Or like after school, when they clean the rooms, everybody has to work together. Everybody has a role. And so. Every student, like during Kyushoku, one person's like bringing out the food. Another person's like bringing out like the plates. Everybody has a role. And when I was watching this, there was this one kid that was just. messing around. He wasn't helping out.

So he was the one kid that wasn't, like, really following the rules. But the other kids noticed that. And they told Yamada-kun that, hey, like... We are all working together right now. I'm screwing around. Come and help us. Unless everybody follows the rule, it doesn't work as a group. There, there. We can do it on a team. In Japan, it's a political party, but in America, it's completely personal. Yeah, it's about the individual, yeah. Individualism. So. So, so, so, so, so, so, so.

Exactly. Yeah. So we have janitors in the U.S. So, yeah, kids, you know, I mean, it's terrible because like in high school, there are like some bad kids that litter. Right. So they'll eat like the trash on the ground because they know. I feel like that is that they really, really need to implement in the U.S. education system. And even now, you know, like when there's like World Cup events being hosted or like, you know, the World Series happening or Classic Series.

I feel like that always gets picked up in the news. And that's definitely like one of the... amazing things about Japan. Well, I guess that means when I do go to Japan, I should wait for it. Even if it's a small street, you know, when in Rome, you got to do as Romans do. And when you're in Japan, you got to make sure you follow the rules. No jaywalking. No jaywalking. No jaywalking. Make sure you follow the rules. How's jaywalking in the US now? I think they used to have a fine for jaywalking.

Do you still have it? I'm sure you could get fined. It probably depends on which city you're in. If you are in a... sketchy neighborhood where there's like a lot of like serious crimes taking place. then they're not going to give you a ticket for jaywalking because there's more serious crimes that police officers have to attend to. If you live in a really safe city where no major crimes are happening and the police have...

has a lot of time on their hands and, you know, they have to hand out tickets. You know, he might get a jaywalking ticket, but. I don't think I've ever got a jaywalking ticket. I don't really know anybody getting a jaywalking ticket.確かにニューヨークでなんか法律変わった気がしますねなんか jaywalkingし放題みたいな I think it's a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of a kind of I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you about it, but I can't tell you about it. What happened in Japan?

I've never crossed the road when the lights are red in Japan, but... I have no idea how it works in Japan. Yeah. Yeah. All righty, guys. Well, I will definitely keep that in mind the next time I go to Japan is to always follow the rules because in Japan, it is very important. a very important part of the society. Alrighty guys. Well, that's going to wrap things up for today's episode. If you guys want to jump in on this conversation and share your thoughts about.

Following rules. Come in, find us at Jiggy's Japanglish podcast on Instagram and share your thoughts about how you follow rules. And maybe you are somebody that lives in another country visiting Japan. What are your thoughts about Japanese people? and how they follow rules uh we'll love to hear your thoughts again come and find us at jiggy's japanglish podcast at instagram all righty guys well that's a wrap for today george imuran thank you guys very much and

Catch you guys again next week. Thanks a lot. Take it easy, guys. Peace. All right. That's it for today's episode. I hope you guys enjoyed our conversation and had a few laughs along the way. If you want to read the full transcript of this episode, it's available for our Podcast Plus members. Podcast Plus is a paid subscription service for the Hapa Eikaiwa podcast, and you can try it out for free for one month.

If you're interested, just check the link in the description or visit hapaekaiwa.com. And before we wrap up, I'd love to hear from you. When do you think it's okay to break the rules? Or should you always follow them no matter what? Come and share your thoughts with us on Instagram at jiggies.japanglish.podcast. Thanks for listening and I'll catch you in the next one.

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