I'm not talking about those repetitive, cringey "Hey guys, did you know Japanese people do/don't do this because of their this and that culture?" kind of nonsense by those influencers on Instagram. I'm talking about the small, subtle differences you notice after living here for a while that people don't usually mention.
For example, Japanese novels are actually shorter than they seem because they use a lot of line breaks in writing. Compared to English novels, they have a ton of blank space, so there are fewer words per page. This makes the reading process feel much faster since you flip through the pages more quickly.
Another one: like every other language, Japanese has various regional dialects. However, unlike in my home country, where everyone born and raised in a region speaks the dialect with the same "level of thickness", many Japanese people don’t speak their regional dialects strongly, if at all. I know many people born and raised in Osaka who rarely use typical Kansai dialect words like "wakarahen" or "yade." They mostly use standard Japanese (標準語) vocabulary. I don't know about your home country but compared to mine, it's a bit strange…
by Jealous-Drop1489