I've been to Japan once before for work when I was with HP. It was about 6 years ago and I knew almost no Japanese at all. Even linguistically handicapped as I was, still managed to have a fantastic time while I was there. While there, I also found the rumoured Japanese politeness to be no myth. Overall it was quite a cultural shock for me when compared to Australia and took me quite some time to get used to everything.
That said, I was also with about 8 other Australian and NZers, all roughly the same age (20-somethings) and all from HP. At least half of us are 6 foot or taller and we tended to congregate a fair bit. As you can imagine this went down an absolute storm with the locals. Loud, check, large, check, boisterous, check check check!
Hopefully I'll be able to mortify a significantly lower percentage of the population this time.
No promises though.
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