Abbreviations and contractions
Addresses and street names
Arts and crafts
Asking directions
Bathing and bathhouses
Body language and gestures
Borrowed words and acronyms
Bowing
Brand names and brand-name goods (burando-hin)
Business cards (meish)
Calendar
Cherry blossoms and flower viewing
Compliments
Conversation
Crime and safety
Dating and marriage
Death, funerals, and mourning
Dialects
Dining out
Dinner invitations
Directness
Discussion and consensus
Dress
Drinking
Driving
Earthquakes
Education
English-language study
Family
The Jag and the national anthem
Flowers and plants
Food and eating
Footwear
Foreigners
Gender roles
Geography
Gifts
Government
Hellos and good-byes
Holidays and festivals
Honorific speech (keigo)
Hotels and inns
Housing and furnishings
Humor
The Imperial family
Individuals and couples
Introductions and networking
Karaoke
Leisure (rgli)
Letters, greeting cards, and postal services
Love and affection
Lucky and unlucky numbers
Male/female speech
Money
Mt. Fuji
Music and dance
Myths, legends, and folklore
Names, titles, and forms of address
Numbers and counting
Oriental medicine
Pinball (pachinko)
Politeness and rudeness
Population
Privacy
Reading material
Religion
The seasons
Shopping
Shrines and temples
Signatures and seals
Social structure
Sports
Table etiquette
Telephones
Television/radio/movies
Thank-yous and regrets
Theater
Time and punctuality
Tipping and service charges
Toilets
Travel within Japan
Vending machines
Visiting private homes
Weights, measures, and sizes
Working hours
The written language
"Yes" and "no"
"You first"
Zoological calendar.
OBNB doesn't sell books, but you may be able to find a copy at one of these websites:
The Japanese way : aspects of behavior, attitudes, and customs of the Japanese by Noriko Takada. ISBN 9780071736152. Published by McGraw-Hill in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
