„Japaner sind zu wählerisch“ – Nachbarn äußern ihren Unmut über die vielen neuen chinesischen Bewohner in Tokios Eigentumswohnungen und Apartmentgebäuden

they can mind their own business.
as long as I am not causing trouble- then bug off!!!

A lot of older Japanese people especially are jealous of the status these younger people have and that they no longer have since the 1980s bubble. That’s why they’re so nitpicky. If they had the wealth and privilege they once had, they wouldn’t care as much

Once the police was called on me for eating ice cream outside while I waited for my uber. The police officer and I were like wth so 😝

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I had my neighbor tell me my alarm is too loud in the morning…my alarm to wake me up…was too loud for her…it was on the lowest setting with vibrating lol

Some Chinese people really don’t know how to behave or keep even remotely quiet. But this is not only about Chinese people — it applies to people in general. Maybe Japanese society is different, but I have seen this in many places.

The second problem is related to first one. Japanese homes feel like they are made of cardboard, and the sound insulation is unbelievable. I lived in several apartments and rented a few short-term places, and the noise transmission was shocking. I could hear not only doors slamming, but even my neighbor’s alarm clock — and it was not even at full volume.

Japan is the only country where I have heard an alarm clock from another apartment. It is simply unbelievable.

When you’re in Japan, follow Japanese customs. They aren’t being overly picky. If you don’t like the way people do things in a country you’re visiting, then you’re the one who should leave.

Generalizations are annoying. Yes, when I first moved in, there was an old lady neighbor who nagged me about trash sorting. But then when I talked to other neighbors, they said she nagged everyone. She was Japanese, but so were they. I asked her why she focused on me so much, and she said she thought “foreigners wouldn’t be able to read the instructions.” Once I showed her I could and that i spoke Japanese, and talked to her about day to day stuff, she became one of the nicest neighbors; even cleaning our mutual yards for us.

TLDR: there are nitpicky people of all all nationalities. In my experience, Japanese simply care more about that nitpicky minority within their communities than other nationalities do.

I spent 2 weeks in Japan and even in that short amount of time, I noticed that the majority of faux pas that people talk about are broken by Japanese citizens on a daily basis.

Oh the Japanese aren’t confrontational! If you raise your voice in public, you’ll definitely get weird looks or if you are really belligerent, you might even get arrested! Except the salaryman I watched scream at two young girls walking side-by-side up the steps at a train station, or the guy in the suit who got pulled over by a cop in Kyoto who proceeded to get out of his car, get within an inch of the cop and had a screaming match with him.

Oh the Japanese are super polite! They always wait in lines! Except for every night in Shinjuku station where you would see at least one Japanese person standing to the left/right of a line and cutting everyone when the train got there. Or the complete anarchy of the trains in Aomori during the Nebuta festival.

And nobody really says anything to them… because they are Japanese. These same people will go on to complain about how foreigners just can’t fit in with Japanese culture. I assume Japanese neighbors have a similar approach to magically noticing every little thing that bothers them… if you happen to not be Japanese and are living next to them.