{"id":3555,"date":"2021-12-01T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T04:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2021-12-09T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T05:01:22","slug":"mimi-bunpou011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/mimi-bunpou011\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Japanese people hardly give up their seat to the elderly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8211; Vol.11 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ARC teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-line4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3412\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"border: 5px solid #e2cdd9; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px; background: ##ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\uff31\uff1aWhy Japanese people hardly give up their seat to the elderly?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\uff21<\/strong><\/span>\uff1a<\/p>\r\n<p>\u3000<span>One day I was abroad on a subway train, and I saw this scene where every time an elderly passenger got on the train, everyone jumped up from their seats to make space for them. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span>I was surprised by how many times seats changed and people who were sitting stood up immediately to let others sit. I<\/span>\u2019ve never seen such a thing in Japan.<\/p>\r\n<p>Is it because Japanese people are cold? More than that, I think Japanese people hesitate too much, even though they want to give up their seat. \u201cI\u2019m still young enough to stand!\u201d Many people may think that. And if you end up saying \u201cPlease, have a seat\u201d, some people will more likely respond \u201cIt\u2019s okay to stand up!\u201d rather than \u201cThank you!\u201d.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s rare but sometimes you can hear on the train someone saying \u201cHow rude you are to think I\u2019m that old!\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s hard to take actions when you think of the other person that much. But in no way Japanese people are cold&#8230; That\u2019s what I want to believe at least\uff01 ?<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cc92568ea9a864e06088f932be9e768f-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cc92568ea9a864e06088f932be9e768f-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cc92568ea9a864e06088f932be9e768f-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cc92568ea9a864e06088f932be9e768f-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cc92568ea9a864e06088f932be9e768f.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Vol.11 &#8211; ARC teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language. &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[25,26,28,23,24,27],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mimi-sensei-oshiete","category-news","tag-japanese-grammar","tag-japanese-writing","tag-jlpt-n4","tag-jlpt-n5","tag-katakana","tag-katakana-from-english"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-sensei.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}