Japanese’s Savagery

As much as I love Japanese people and their manners, there is one aspect I do not understand about them. The metro station seems like the Japan’s jungle. Anywhere else, they are extremely polite (sometimes too polite). They always look after others,.. But when it comes to get their way around in the metro nobody else exists.

A lot of people walk while looking at their phones. They don’t pay attention to where they are going, who is behind or in front of them, what is the distance between themselves and somebody else, … Therefore when walking in station, you have to be ready at any moment to see one of them jump off on your road.

I guess, for the rest of the civilians, it is just an otherway of surviving. There are so many people in some of the station, if everybody was watching out for each other, no one would move anymore.

Maybe, I just expected Japaneses to be polite and perfect everywhere, all the time that is the reason I am so shocked of their behavior in the metro. If I was in France, it would not have shocked me.