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love-seoul-korea asked: So, after spending 4 months in Japan and returning to the States, I'm curious... did you experience reverse-culture shock?
1. When I stepped off the plane in America, I noticed that Americans looked HUGE. Japanese people are all so slender I guess I had gotten used to assuming everybody looked that way.
2. Driving and biking on the left/right/wrong side of the road.
3. The food portions. I had a hard time dealing with the small portion size of Japanese food, so the first few days I was back in America I stuffed my face.
Overall, I think I had less reverse culture-shock than I would have if I had gone to almost any other country. Japan is very Americanized, which made it easier to fit in as a 留学生 (ryugakusei - international student), but also disappointing because it sometime obscured the Japanese culture underneath - the reason I had come to Japan.
