- Instead of using hash marks
 to count things like points, the Japanese use the five-stroke character 正, meaning "correct," to count.
- When they're one space away from having Bingo, the Japanese say "Reach!"
- In restaurants, getting a doggy bag is rarely an option.
- Milk containers are available in sizes of a half gallon or smaller-- no gallon jugs.
- Sandwich bread is generally sliced twice as thick as American sandwich bread.
- Sliced turkey lunchmeat-- or really, turkey of any kind--is totally unheard of.
- Junior high school and high school classes are started and ended with the students standing, bowing, and saying the appropriate phrase: "yoroshiku onegaishimasu" (something akin to please) or "arigatou gozaimasu" (thank you).
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