wow... I was suprisedto be guided by this video... I have a dream of speaking English and wanting to get along ... Verry fun but difficult for me...So... I respect you who can understand Japanese in English as your mother tongue
It's okay to eat while walking separately. However, unless it's a festival, if they see someone eating while walking, they just think that he has the terrible problem (excessive work, lack of shelter, unbearable hunger, etc.) that compels him to do so. And no one wants strangers to think that.
Japanese people stop at red lights even if no cars are coming because they always ask themselves whether they have the strength of mind to do the right thing. Since ancient times, Japanese people have believed that they cannot do anything wrong because "the providence is watching. They feel that a transcendent being such as God or nature is watching them and constantly testing them. And they believe that their inability to endure such trials is evidence of a lack of mental discipline. Japanese people are born practitioners and philosophers. The spirit of Bushido was born out of this cultural background. It is the Japanese who believe that a person who decides that there is no need to stop at a red light because there are no cars running is a being whose mind is weak and who will put his own desires first if no one is watching.