they usually bring along some sort of electronic device.
A PSP, a Nintendo DS, it doesn't matter.
Even a book.
But just have something on you at all times because sometimes you'll have to
wait for prolonged durations of time in order to get something done.
And Japanese people are obsessed with lines.
If you make some people, when they see there is a line, they just go it.
They don't know what is there.
[LAUGH] There is something good for sure so they stay.
>> There is a line.
>> I think it was at a ramen shop in Ikebukuro and I was like, so, apparently,
there are a couple of really metropolitan young teenagers
in front of me in the line I was like, okay, so, what do they serve here?
And they're like, we don't know, we just saw a lot of people and
decided to step in line.
I was like, okay.
>> Another topic that I had is often times, along with these queues,
I started feeling that the Japanese people were very inefficient, in some sense.
Almost to the point where I started feeling superior.
And when I noticed this, of course, I felt really bad because you cannot feel that
when you don't completely understand the culture or anything.
For example, before you come to Japan,
you have to sign a lot of forms and you have to get everything in order.
You have to send it to the Japanese university and you get stuff back,
you have to sign it again.
Well, it's a lot of fun, for sure.
So, whenever you get accepted, you're like, yes, and you're going to Japan, your
big day with your flight, then you come to Japan and it just starts all over again.
There's so more forms you have to do, and at some point, I was like, please,
Japanese people, why don't you digitalize everything?
And I just have to write my name one time instead of on one form,
I have to write three times my name.
But Japanese people love forms.
That's what my Japanese friends told me.
So yeah, you have to take care of that.
>> There are a lot of paperworks, but here in Japan, it really works.
Maybe it took you one day, but it's all over.
>> Yeah.
>> In a sense, they are very efficient, actually, yeah.