Japanese fashion in college

After I have interacted with so many people from different country, I have noticed that Japanese wear fancy clothes in college.  I actually thought that is normal to wear really good clothes in college because we are seen by everyone even in school. It does not matter if you are seen by people whom you do not know, but it matters how you would be seen by people because Japanese people tend to care reputations from others.

 As you see in this picture, both Japanese male and female wear really good clothes in campus. when I asked them why they are dressing up like that, most of them answered this is because people might have bad impression if I wear pajama and so on.
when I stared asking many people, I found that people who commute to school always care their dresses. they have to come to school through public transportation. Since a lot of people use public transportation, they have more opportunity to be seen. therefore, they think they have to care looking.


Japanese great fashion style are not only clothes, but also accessories. As you see the picture on the left side, all three people are wearing accessories on their arms. this might be the point that Japanese people care about. they pay attention on very small things that they wear.

I think these Japanese fashion style is connected to their collectivism.  Japanese people concern that relationship is very important so they pay attention on impression of others.  that might be the reason Japanese people wear fancy clothes.

what do japanese people do?

When I think about what Japanese people do, I think about people using phones on train. As you see this picture, people are facing with phone and chilling with it. I do not know why they are doing it, but I guess this is because people are nothing to do on train, and they keep silent to not bother anybody. People are not supposed to make noise on train so that they have to kill the time with doing something either using phone or reading books. it is really normal to me but I learned it is different in abroad, and I even realized that it is really different  in America through experiencing train there.
Train in America is really loud. people are talking and even singing, but other passengers have never got angry. When I was there at the moment, I really got angry at the people, but my American friends told me that is normal in America. this is what I was surprised the most.

people are using phones even though they are standing on the train. I think it can be said that increasing the number of people using train is related to the development of technology. Japan is one of the most technology developed country so people are easily able to access to internet or play games, therefore, the time of using phone has become longer. Communication through phone became really popular.
 Another possibility that using phone on train is that people can avoid strangers. not facing people each other on train can be important for the sake of avoiding any troubles. Sometimes people have got in trouble by facing people. 
I found out the conclusion that people are not doing nothing on train, but are actually communicating with someone through cellphone, in other words, people are TALKING on the train through non-verbal communication.