Japanese greetings -bowing

 The Japanese bowing

The Japanese unlike the English use bowing as the method of greeting for each other in each and every circumstances.It is naturally the nod of the head 90 degree bent at the waist.Men and women have the same patterns of the bowing.However,depending on the circumstances and the social status of the people has very huge influence on bowing.Specially,if the person is very higher social figure the bow should be deeper and longer than the usual bow.

The Japanese bowing(Google images)

The Japanese are unlikely to shake hands

.However,when a foreigner and a Japanese person meets they usually shake hands.The reason is that the Japanese people consider people outside from their country is a different person and a new comer to their culture.Hence,he or she is a outsider.As a result of that they shake hands with the foreigners.