Bow and Scrape

Detour at Ebisu
Always apologise and bow. Japan is famous for it. My sister Loes e-mailed me about the weather man in the Dutch television news who told about a mishap of his colleague in Japan. The Japan Meteorologists forcasted the blossoms to appear but it didn’t happen in time. The weather man apologised and (of course) bowed for the spectators.
My sister asked if this was a personal drama for that poor weather man. It took me some time to figure it out. Until I realised that apologizing in Japan is not such a capital crime as for example in the Netherlands.