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Japanese Politeness
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Japan has a very distinct culture compared to its neighbors, and one aspect noted by many visitors to Japan — especially Western ones — is the extreme emphasis on politeness, often to the point of obsequiousness or just being annoying. Although other Asian cultures often come across to Westerners as obsessed with confusing rules of etiquette, the Japanese are impossibly polite even by Asian standards.note Although averted historically when Korea was considered much more polite than Japan due to its extreme adherence to Confucianism to the point where the Japanese thought of the Koreans as soft and weak. It's Truth in Television, but seems to come out in broad parody. This is all a relic from the Feudal Era, when Japanese society was built around a rigidly hierarchical system of aristocracy — just like Medieval England, which produced its own strange flavor of politeness. The Japanese, in general, take the art and tradition of Sacred Hospitality very seriously. They will have many unwritten rules on etiquette and public social behaviour, not just amongst themselves but also to guests, visitors and anyone they may encounter in life in general. These include but are not limited to: avoiding explicit disagreement or refusal at all costs as to not offend the guest; refraining from criticism of one's own in-group (whether that's your family, your company, your school club, or whatever) in front of outsiders; never bragging, either about yourself or about your in-group (you do not use honorifics about people from your own group while speaking with someone outside your group); extraordinary deference toward others in general, especially on guests and authority figures; and indirectly praising others but always downplaying one's own accomplishments. In a Japanese household, whenever introducing oneself to new guests and friends, offering a Tea Ceremony is always a must. These are all taken to such extremes that it's necessary to learn a drastically different vocabulary and even set of grammar rules for expressing degrees of politeness in the Japanese language. The rules can interact in ways that are hard for foreigners to predict. For example, it's polite to diss your superiors when talking to outsiders, but only behind your superiors' backs. If you're present and your superiors aren't, you're a representative of your group, and talking about your excellent leadership would be bragging. If one of your superiors is present, you have to present a united front; intra-group tensions aren't just disturbing to watch in action, they're impolite. Contrary to what is sometimes believed, it's fine to say "no" in Japanese — to neutral questions. "Do you know Ben?" "Have you ever been to Tokyo before?" But turning down a polite request with "no" is rude; the right way to do it is to apologize, then trail off without giving full details, which is very common in general in Japanese. ("I'm sorry, that's a bit difficult..." — or even just "I'm sorry, but...") The Japanese will do this with all reasonably polite requests, but not necessarily with factual questions — which is about the same level of politeness as upper-class Europeans and Americans, but with an emphasis on different things. However, this stereotype has only become truly popular relatively recently, and the older generation of westerners as well as Chinese and Koreans will likely be more familiar with the two other stereotypes associated with the Japanese: the angry, screaming, Katana-wielding, Tenno-Heika-worshipping, bushido-on-steroids Proud Warrior Race Guy (primarily because of memories of World War II); or (in Cyberpunk works) the corporate executive or investor of a MegaCorp, who acts superficially polite but is utterly ruthless in the pursuit of efficiency, profit and technological domination at all costs. Of course, both of these stereotypes are colored by anti-Japanese feeling, and have rather been discredited. From the Japanese perspective, just about everyone in the world except for Western aristocrats is unimaginably rude. Modern Americans, in particular what with their freedom-of-speech culture, are often stereotyped as loud and obnoxious even when they're not unleashing actual Cluster F Bombs — though almost as often they're portrayed as overly polite thanks to most Japanese learners defaulting to polite vocabulary and grammar. They do, however, have a lot of respect for the British due to shared norms of politeness, which tends to be reciprocated. Likewise with the old American South; Gone with the Wind is huge in Japan for its depiction of Southern Belles and Gentlemen who are similar in many respects to idealized images of Japanese behavior, with the latter having a Bushido-like code of honor, and KFC owes a lot of its popularity in Japan to Colonel Sanders. Western counterparts to Japanese politeness include British Stuffiness, Courteous Canadian, The Friendly Texan, Minnesota Nice, and Sweet Home Alabama. If this is portrayed negatively, see also Inscrutable Oriental. See also Yamato Nadeshiko, who aspires to excel at this. See also Overly Polite Pals. Contrast Japanese Spirit and Anime Land, where Japan is portrayed as a World of Ham (and also The Idiot from Osaka for a specific region of Japan that's stereotyped to be crude and impolite). Contrast also Asian Rudeness. Examples |
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The Amuse-Bouche segment in Were You Raised by Wolves? often teaches listeners about different elements of Real Life Japanese politeness, making this Conversational Troping. | |
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All Japan Pro Wrestling is famous for taking pictures of all the wrestlers in the locker room at once, with even mortal enemies behaving themselves for this short period of time, making it akin to a Truce Zone. | |
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Similar to the Hanar, the Quaggan from Guild Wars 2 never refer to themselves by name, instead preferring to call themselves "this Quaggan". In their case it's because they're extremely non-confrontational- although rather than being Actual Pacifists, it's because they're afraid of what they do when they ARE forced into confrontation. | |
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Many WWII era cartoons, like Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators feature the Japanese saying "Ah, so solly!" as they fired on Allied forces. | |
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In Tokyo Ghoul, the ever-polite Amon brings his passed out partner home after a night of heavy drinking. He takes the time to greet and apologize to her cat for intruding. The cat, being a cat, couldn't care less. | |
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While famous for awhile for rioting when Big Van Vader was beating up Antonio Inoki, over the years since, New Japan Pro-Wrestling's fan base has built up a reputation for being among the most subdued and respectful in the entire world. Its wrestlers, on the other hand, have a reputation for being arrogant kung fu guys. | |
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Mocked, like everything else, on The Simpsons. In "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson", a yakuza man is chucked through the family's kitchen window because of a Mob War on the lawn, and he bows politely and asks forgiveness before rushing out the door and rejoining the fight. Also mocked in "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?", where Homer becomes a food critic and gives negative reviews of all the restaurants in town. The restaurant owners meet around a conference table and discuss how best to seek revenge on Homer. One of the chefs at "The Happy Sumo" (a Japanese restaurant that infamously serves fugu, or Japanese blowfish) is concerned about the conspirators appearing rude, and suggests that the most polite course of action would be to simply kill Homer. Also happens in "30 Minutes Over Tokyo" (understandable, since it's actually set in Japan), especially when the Simpsons are competing on a game show to win tickets back to the U.S. The host and audience is unfaillibly polite despite the show's incredibly painful and cruel contests, with one exception; the host gets angry when Marge calls him the wrong name. He also gets mad at the backstage crew for making one the questions too easy (the answer to a question about Japan was just "Japan") |
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An episode of F Troop had the boys protect a Japanese woman from "honorable bad man". When she's told "dishonorable" is the better word, she replies, "Must be polite to everyone." | |
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An episode of Are You Being Served? featured a broad parody of a "cledit caa"-wielding Japanese Tourist who bows deeply and says "soooooooooooooo" at the least provocation. | |
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The manga Hana-Kimi has the main character, who was raised in America, attempt to make friends at her new school in Japan by marching up to people and literally shouting "HI I LIKE YOU LET'S BE FRIENDS!" — because that's pretty much how Americans' emotional expressiveness comes across by Japanese standards. | |
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Thomas & Friends: Hiro the Japanese engine doesn't have a mean bone in his body. He's even kind to Spencer, who tried to kill him. Deconstructed in "No More Mr. Nice Engine", where Diesel tries to make Hiro lose his cool. | |
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Masi Oka appeared on Regis and Kelly. He said that Japan has only just started watching Heroes at season one. When he was there to promote the show, he said his fans would rush up to him, shout "YATTA!", bow deeply, and then "scurry off." | |
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Discussed Trope in Record of a Tenement Gentleman. Tane berates herself for not being nicer to Kohei, then starts ruminating about how the traumas and deprivations of the war have eroded Japanese Politeness. | |
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In Hikaru no Go, Akira asks his club president to put him on third board for the tournament. The club president responds with "I will consider it." Akira doesn't immediately realize that he's just been told no. | |
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Hashimoto Daichi from Greek Ninja, is impolite even by Western standards, yet he seems to place some importance on politeness when it comes to other people addressing him casually. | |
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On Neon Genesis Evangelion, Asuka, who was raised in Germany and America and is only a quarter Japanese, complains about Shinji and Rei being so polite. She particularly hates how they refuse to admit their feelings. This is rather ironic considering she does the same in regards to Shinji. This is ironic because when Asuka's English and Japanese voice actors once met each other, her English actor was amazed by how (paraphrased) "polite in the Japanese way" her Japanese actor was, unlike the character, and they quickly became friends. |
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In one episode of King of the Hill, Hank visits Japan and it turns out that he has a Japanese half-brother. The two had to race to stop their father Cotton (who got his legs shot off by a Japanese machine gun in World War II) from spitting on the Emperor at an apology ceremony. Hank is impatient with the slow, measured pace of interpersonal interactions, while his brother criticizes Hank's rash, cowboy attitude. By the end of the episode, both of them see the value in each other's approaches. First, the importance of Japanese Politeness is shown when Junichiro's (Hank's half- brother) method of asking everyone he meets to call him if they see Cotton actually works. Then Hank's urging Junichiro to get in a subway ticket-taker's face in order to stop wasting time proves effective, much to both their surprise. Towards the end, while trying to push through a crowd, Junichiro forgoes asking and just blurts out, "I KICK-A YOUR ASS!" | |
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Charite has Doctor Kitasato who stands out among his German colleagues with his perpetual politeness and patience. The stereotype is lampshaded when one of the other doctors says that "even the most polite Japanese won't endure Behring for long". | |
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Puni Puni☆Poemi parodies this when Poemi meets the Aasu sisters and bows so enthusiastically that she cracks her head on the coffee table. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood: Hingashi, which largely serves as Hydaelyn's counterpart to Japan, features a lot of this. Most notably, when an attempt to bribe the Kugane law enforcement for an ally's release seems to be taking a long time by Eorzean standards, Alisaie observes that there's a "right way to do everything" in Hingashi, even bribery, and the delay is chalked up to formalities rather than a Bribe Backfire. | |
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Melody: Xianne, upon learning of her mistake in offering the protagonist a handjob, shows up at his home to apologize in person. In fact, she is never rude to anyone. Averted with the owner of the karaoke bar, who is blunt about not letting the protagonist and Melody bring food into the booths. |
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Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling fans tended to be oddly sedate, even during the garbage matches. They were actually at their most sedate during the most terrifying garbage matches, leading some to suggest it was less politeness and more Stunned Silence. | |
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Invoked by Connors in Carefree (1938). Over the telephone, he pretends to be a female reporter named "Miss Satsuma Naguchi" from the Honolulu Daily Bugle. He ends virtually every sentence with "please." | |
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Molly of Denali: Tooey Ookami, who is part-Japanese, is a complete sweetheart (and considering Qyah is already a friendly town, that's saying something). His father, Kenji, is also polite, almost never getting angry. | |
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In The Shadowspawn, Tokairin Hajime and his wife provide classical examples—Justifiedly so, since they are aristocratic Japanese vampires who grew up in the 19th century. This makes them no less murderous than most other vampires in that setting, however. | |
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Old Harry's Game: One episode has Satan mention Japanese people in Hell take twice as long to torture because demons have no idea if they're legitimately screaming in pain, or just going along to avoid being rude. | |
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Ascendance of a Bookworm This causes a few minor problems for the main character Myne when making business deals. Making polite excuses is how she was taught to say no when offered a deal, but she's in a medieval European esque setting that, unlike many isekai, does not ignore the cultural differences that would actually be present in such a setting. She has to be informed that if she is against a deal she needs to directly refuse. More subtly, you can also see that her manners often cause adults to pause slightly when responding to her. By Japanese standards, her attitude is fairly normal, even casual. By the standards of the setting, she's being very polite and well spoken. She's later assigned three assistants to help her. Two of them are children and a respectful but not overbearing attitude is enough to win her quite a bit of loyalty. The third attendant is an adult and is actually increasingly offended by her good manners. As his master, she's not supposed to be so polite to someone well below her in the social hierarchy: He's being a good servant, but she's being a bad master by not showing a properly decisive and direct attitude. |
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In Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich, Red Sun, an Energy X-infused Japanese army captain who reacted to the energy by turning into a lot of physically identical people who have a Hive Mind, follows this trope. He views Freedom Force as a Worthy Opponent and spouts phrases like "You are a most worthy adversary. Please die.". At one point he kills a Nazi Mook over a Back Stab on Tricolour and apologizing to the heroes for the Mook's rudeness. The game is an extremely faithful homage to Silver Age comics, which often featured well-meaning writers and artists perpetuating unpleasant stereotypes while attempting to be anti-racist (Red Sun is also a Third-Person Person and spreaks, er, speaks, with a pronounced Asian Speekee Engrish accent). | |
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In Welcome to the NHK a group of people who just barely avoided committing group suicide get a stern lecture from the local janitor — for having been selfish and inconsiderate by not thinking of how much trouble they would have caused for those who would have had to investigate the deaths, clean up the mess, and fill out the paperwork. | |
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Heavily and repeatedly criticized in Domestic Girlfriend where this trope results in a lot of harm being done due to characters being unable to communicate their true feelings out of politeness. | |
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In Interesting Times, the Fantasy Counterpart Culture for the Far East is going through a revolution. However, as politeness and respect for authority are deeply ingrained in their culture, the Red Army uses revolutionary protest signs and slogans that are incredibly polite and harmless, and makes appointments when they want to burn down guard checkpoints. | |
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Tale of Yashima features a majority of characters exhibiting Japanese politeness at some point. | |
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Yuki in Ménage à 3 invokes this when politely and amiably accepting Angel's card while he insults the band she's currently in (with Zii, in front of Zii). Yuki explains this by saying "Zii, I'm Japanese and Canadian. I know how to be double polite!" (Of course, knowing how doesn't always equate to being willing to...) | |
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In Dirge of Cerberus, Vincent uses the ritual phrase 'It's been a long time' when talking to the main party members over the phone. It's customary to do this when talking to someone you haven't seen in a while in the same way that the Japanese have ritual phrases for use before eating and on leaving and returning home. | |
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Mass Effect: While not expressly Japanese, the hanar are large jellyfish who believe in politeness before all else. They believe speaking in the first person is rude, and any hanar expected to interact with other species has to take special classes so that they don't freak out at all the perceived impoliteness. In the first game a hanar religious zealot can be convinced to leave quietly by pointing how rude he is being to those around him. In the second game, Jack mentions that when she dropped a space station on a hanar moon, they called it "vandalism" ("They really liked that moon"). Much like Feudal Japan, they have a booming assassination industry, because killing each other face to face would be rude. | |
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Referenced in The Mikado several times, for comedic purposes. For example, when Pooh-Bah describes the (made-up) execution of a criminal, he states that the man's severed head stood on its neck and bowed three times to him. Similarly, the Mikado himself is very polite and even apologetic to the people who supposedly murdered his son, while stating that nonetheless, they must suffer the legally-prescribed penalty "something lingering, with boiling oil". | |
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At one point in The Great Ace Attorney, Ryunosuke, a lawyer from Japan (that's right, they averted Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change), apologizes a lot. When told by a Brit that he doesn't have to apologize that much he grumbles to himself "(Let me just tell that to the entire nation of Japan.)" | |
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When Yoshihiro Tajiri, Sakoda and Akio (later known as Jimmy Wang Yang) were a heel faction, they would sometimes subvert the trope - and gain Cheap Heat - by smarmily bowing to their non-Japanese opponents with sardonic grins on their faces. | |
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In another Ozu film, Late Spring, Noriko is getting pressured by multiple people into getting married. She is smiling and cheerful as she tells Prof. Onodera that she finds it "distasteful" and "filthy" that he got remarried after his wife died. She is also grinning broadly when she tells her divorced friend Aya "Who are you to lecture me about marriage?" | |
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BattleTech: Zig-zagged with the Draconis Combine, which is based on Imperial Japan. In civilian life, politeness is very heavily emphasized as the Combine operates under a caste system based on the Bushido code. In military life, there's less emphasis though it's still present. One example is shown when the Dropship that Takashi Kurita, the then-ruler of the Combine, is traveling on is sabotaged as it is descending to a starport. The general with Kurita saves both their lives by evacuating the Dropship in his Battlemech - and apologizes beforehand for not having time to reprogram the Battlemech so that Takashi could pilot it himself. | |
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In Ouran High School Host Club, the fact that Tamaki was raised in France and still doesn't fully understand Japanese Politeness explains a lot about his personality — he doesn't take hints, he's never learned to hide his emotions to avoid making a fuss the way many Japanese people do, and he's constantly suggesting harebrained schemes because he genuinely thinks people would just refuse if they didn't want to go along. This comes up most obviously in one of the last episodes, which flashes back to how he met his best friend Kyouya shortly after moving to Japan. His enthusiasm drove Kyouya nuts until the latter realized he could just tell Tamaki no without having him take offense. | |
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The Jumping Bomb Angels smiled and bowed to the different sides of the crowd after being the sole survivors of the Team Moolahnote Moolah/The Angels/Velvet McIntyre/Rockin' Robin-Team Sherrinote Sherri/The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin)/Donna Christanello/Dawn Marie (Johnston, no connection to the ECW/WWE Diva) match at Survivor Series 1987. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei parodies this with Kaere Kimura, a Japanese-born transfer student who spent much of her childhood in the West before returning to Japan, and has a Split Personality as a result. In Westerner mode, she's a brash, loudmouthed, selfish and arrogant Jerkass. In Japanese mode, she becomes an Extreme Doormat who's constantly contemplating suicide in order to avoid becoming a bother to anyone. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità : Japan refers to himself as "watashi", refers to others as "anata"—"kimi" for Italy and Italy only—speaks formally in Japanese, and uses honorifics for everyone. Except Russia of course. | |
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Invoked and inverted in The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H.. When Anastasia explains that her attraction to Simon Skinner-Chalmers began when she noticed how polite he was to her, Hikaru responds thusly: | |
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One of the bosses in Monster Party has been slain before you meet it. It tersely apologizes to the player for being dead. | |
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The Executioner. When Mack Bolan is in Japan in "The Invisible Assassins", there's a scene where he's wondering what to do next and a line of school children file politely around him rather than disturb his contemplation. | |
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In Big Bird in Japan, Big Bird is coached on how to bow formally when meeting someone new, and to remove his shoes on entering a home. The shoes prove difficult because it turns out he doesn't have any shoes to take off. But he becomes quite accomplished at bowing, so much so that in trying to show extra respect to his hosts' grandparents he manages to fall flat on his face. | |
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Like New Japan which it split off from, Pro Wrestling ZERO1 fans tended to be pretty quiet as they watched matches. This didn't stop AJ Styles from screaming at them to shut up though. | |
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Army: A badly wounded soldier staggers into the Takagi pawnshop in 1866. As he's getting bandaged up he says "Sorry to bother you, but can I have some tea?" | |
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While Samoa Joe got "an unexpectedly negative" reaction in Pro Wrestling NOAH during his match with Mitsuharu Misawa, you wouldn't be able to tell just from watching the show, as the crowd decided to keep most of their displeasure to themselves until after the men were done wrestling. | |
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In Tari Tari, "Wien" tends to accidentally parody this trope because he's been away from Japan for most of his life. While introducing himself to the class, he nearly planks on the floor instead of doing a normal bow and speaks excessively formally, thoroughly perplexing his classmates. | |
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Samurai Gourmet is Japanese-language and Japanese-produced, so it's certainly not a parody of Japanese Politeness. But it is an intricate and critical look at it. Most of the social dilemmas Kasumi encounters amount to his being paralyzed by social mores, even when his Inner Monologue admits that more assertiveness is called for. This is the cue for a trademark Indulgent Fantasy Segue, where a nameless Sengoku samurai shows him one way such a problem might be solved. Sometimes this inspires him to action, sometimes it doesn't. Two themes underlie this. First, modern Japanese Politeness and the samurai ideal are very, very different, but they do have a speck of common ground that's worth examining.Second, what Kasumi is really coming to terms with is a subtlety of Japanese Politeness that's often overlooked: the privilege of age. Kasumi is sixty and has just retired, so he's "served his time" and earned a position in the hierarchy he's not used to. For example, when his enjoying a book and coffee in a quiet café is interrupted by a pair of obnoxious patrons, he notices that all the other patrons are staring him down. That's when it dawns on him that, as the oldest one there, he's the only one who's really allowed to speak his mind, and they're counting on him. (Except the waitress beats him to it. He remarks that she's "the real samurai".)The show also can turn Japanese Politeness on its head. When two young American tourists wander into a yakitori joint, Kasumi is not the only one appalled at the chef's prejudice and overbearing hostility toward them, even while acknowledging that the Americans are being slightly rude. It leads to a twist in the fantasy sequence, where Kasumi concludes that the situation calls for the touch not of a samurai, but of a Western knight in shining armor. | |
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JAG: Harm and Mac faces this trope in the episode "Innocence," which is set in Japan. | |
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Played seriously in The Last Samurai, where Nathan does appreciate the incredible levels of politeness of the Japanese village, though as a 19th century career officer he should be extremely versed in etiquette. And at this time he is technically their prisoner and killed one of their best warriors before he was captured. | |
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Pretty much Yoshi Tatsu's entire gimmick on WW/ECW, "THANK YOU!" | |
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In Amazing Fantasy, all of Izuku's English is extremely formal and apologetic due to his discomfort in speaking the language, not helped by the fact that he electrocuted Peter a few minutes ago. He refers to Peter as "Parker-san" before changing it to "Peter-san" at the latter's request. | |
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In The Loners, Mickey, who is of Japanese descent, employs Japanese Politeness to save her team from an ass-kicking after they run afoul of Fujikawa Industries. | |
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Parodied in Casey and Andy, where Lord Milligan manages to become prime minister and dictator of Japan through asking for it in the right way. | |
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It's cause for major political tension in Waking To Another Sky — when ten thousands people find themselves trapped in a deadly virtual simulation, the American Project Bluebook offers to take care of the victims. The Japanese government answers "it might be difficult", which meant they wanted for the Americans to leave them alone, but the American military thought they had been given the green light for deporting the victims in a secure facility, and proceeded. Cue accusations of mass-kidnapping. | |
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In an early Starslip comic, Captain Vanderbeam and his crew visit 35th century Space Japan, which still fits this trope perfectly. | |
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A gag in the opening scene of Walk, Don't Run, in which no fewer than five hotel workers all come up to Sir William to apologize for his room not being available, because everything's booked up by tourists arriving for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. | |
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As mentioned in the literature section, Yoko and her mother from the Timothy Goes to School Animated Adaptation are very polite with people. Especially Yoko's mother who would give cookies to Timothy when he visits his best friend Yoko. | |
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Kuukiyomi is this as a game, requiring the player to read the situation and react accordingly, in the most polite and considerate manner possible, though some players can have the choice to subvert it for added hilarity. | |
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An interesting variant of the "maybe means no" rule appears in Katawa Shoujo. After Hisao loses the game of Risk, he will be asked if he wants to join the Student Council, to which will essentially say "maybe" (with his answer being more reluctant if he makes the choice Shizune disapproves of). Misha says she hopes he isn't merely saying it so that they don't feel bad, hoping that he'll come around if his answer is "maybe" rather than "no". However, Hisao does not join the student council in any of the routes besides Shizune's, and even in Shizune's route, he once reflects that he was initially unwilling to do so. | |
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Bennett the Sage: For his review of the Troubled Production of Gundress, Sage shows us behind the scenes footage of the creative team not adhering to this, openly complaining about how lousy Masamune Shirow's mecha design were (which he had blatantly reused from Appleseed). They ended up missing every deadline and had to release the film to theatre unfinished. That's how badly things went. | |
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Not Always Working has this story, about a Japanese-American working at a Japanese restaurant, and is criticized by the manager for telling a customer that they do not serve the dish (kimchi, a Korean food) that the customer wanted. Although as it turns out, the restaurant's owners were more in tune with American standards of service and thought the manager was the one out of line. | |
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