signs that will tell you that you've been in  Japan for so long that you started turning a  

little bit Japanese and forgot that you may be a foreigner

It feels more natural to you to pay

by cash and not by credit card

It's not weird  for you to see coffee cold and in jelly form

you don't get that surprised anymore when  you find a pair of panties on the street  

when you hear the word Japanese sour plum  "ume" your mouth immediately starts to water  

the convenient store near your house is super convenient but you always spend too much time and money there  

you know that when you go to the hundred  yen store you don't get what you need  

you go to the 100 yen store and the  100 yen store tells you what you need.

you feel like taking a bath without having had  a shower beforehand is a sin

when you get a gift from a friend you immediately start thinking about what kind of gift you have to give back now  

you say karaoke instead of karaoke

when you meet someone for the very first time it's natural to you to bow and not to shake hands

You wave  your hand when you want to say no no no no no no

you feel like Baumkuchen is a Japanese food

you got used to having sweet corn and mayo on  your pizza and you start to think it's great

you never close the taxi door neither open it  

there might be days when you  don't say anything at all

if you meet another foreigner  living on the countryside of Japan  

you feel some sort of sympathy (she meant camaraderie) wow

if you see obnoxious tourists in  Tokyo you feel some sort of apathy  

you realize you're bowing  to western foreigners too

you don't talk on the elevator

you don't talk on the train

you don't talk on the bus

you say "Otsukaresama deshita" every day

while the first few years you are fine during hay fever season

the next few years you're  suffering through it just like everyone else

you frown when you accidentally  drink sweetened green tea  

you realize you're nodding a lot even on the phone  

you go wow and are super surprised when you see  a big dog but you never do that for small dogs

cute

you realize you say "sorry" more than "excuse me"

you don't get nervous anymore when you put a 10 000 yen bill into a vending machine

that's like 100 dollars!

you started calling your stapler a hotchkiss

none of your friends thinks it's weird  that you ate an American dog last night

instead of asking for a power  outlet you're asking for consent  

consent?

you get more hot canned coffee out of  the vending machines than going to starbucks

you think the opposite of red is white

you  answer the phone with moshimoshi instead of hello

you know that tonkatsu's best friend is cabbage  

you buy a strawberry shortcake on christmas

you buy a strawberry shortcake on your birthday

you buy a shorsh... you buy a strawberry  shortcake on any other celebration

you never bump into anyone when you're crossing shibuya crossing

on a tight month you hope that your senpai pays your lunch bill

you think  that salt and rice is the best onigiri there is

you're searching for a button in a restaurant

you know that a drink bar does not contain any alcohol

even though you get asked to  check your change you never do  

when a Japanese person says "raito" you know whether they meant right or light

you're learning more about the difference between chinese usage kanji and Japanese usage kanji

you know more fish and flower names in Japanese than you know in English

you stopped thinking that a magnitude 4 earthquake is scary

but you  know that in magnitude 5 would be very scary

you have a hundred receipts in your wallet

you have dozens of point cards in your wallet

when a Japanese person tells you "Oh you can use chopsticks so very well" you smile but internally  you think "of course"

someone compliments you and tells you your Japanese is very good and you internally wish you'd said more better now wait a second

Like... "hey I didn't even speak something yet!" but then Dogen said something similar...

when someone compliments you  how great your Japanese is  

you instead of accepting it turn it down with the words of "no no not at all" even though you .... 

even though you speak it fluently

for you the week starts on a Sunday

so these are a couple of things you realize  you've been doing if you've been living in  

Japan for a long time is there anything I missed  let us know in the comments down below looking  

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