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A Survey Ranked Japan’s Most Ill-Mannered City. The Winner?

Unseen Japan
5 min readApr 15, 2024

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A survey asked people in Japan if their city had the worst manners. You won’t believe which took first place. (Okay, maybe you will.)

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By Jay Allen

A recent survey asked 2,008 men and women in Japan if they considered their city to be the worst-mannered in Japan. The result may shock you. But probably not.

And the winner is…

The survey, by online language tutoring company Preply, asked people two questions: Do you consider your city to have the worst manners of any city in Japan? And what about your city makes it ill-mannered?

Preply published the results of the survey in Japanese on the site PRTimes. It also included some advice for Japanese readers on how manners differ between Japan and countries they may want to visit in the near future.

Preply gave respondents a list of manner violations and asked if they thought denizens of their city were often guilty of the offense. It then averaged the answers together to compute a “manners score” for each city. A higher number indicates a greater lack of manners.

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