Tokyo and Taipei

In a city like Tokyo, you don't expect to see much differences from the people you know already from Taiwan. Even you could still feel the trivial details for two groups of people, you'd be lost and confused yourself among tons of people in the central of Tokyo.
Before you noticed that you are different from them, you already started to act like a Japanese. By acting, I meant bowing like a Japanese. It's really an interesting culture of how they inter-act with each other. They have so many official 'sentences' and 'movements' maybe to use for certain situations. They invited so many sentences and movement just to fit the situations they encounter everyday.

It made me wonder that whether it's an easier way to do between people. It's like you have a standard for everyone's everyday's encounters. You have a standard way to act to people and you don't have to think about how you have to behavour among people. Just following this way. On the other hand, it made us easily to judge or critise people's behaviours based on these standard. So you have an example for you everywhere in daily life, and you have a rule to judge people's behaviour. If you asked me, it's like a living textbook for human beings, how you interact/live in a society. As growing up in a society like Taiwan with crammed educations, one question always come to my mind that since school/education system seems to have every answer to everything. How come I never learnt something about relationship between two human beings? How come I never had an exam about acting among a group of humn beings?

On a street like Tokyo, you'd be so surprised to see how clean the city could be. Even there are signs of you cannot smoke while you walk on the street. You have to STOP and finished your smoking. The most amazing thing is not just how clean the city is, it's when you see how many people on the street, and you're still fighting so hard to find a piece of crap on the street. NOTHING. Maybe not nothing nothing, one or two pieces maybe. But have you ever realized how big Tokyo is and how many people she has in her? Even you don't see the public trash can on the streets, still ZERO!!

I've been to London and lived there for like 5 and half years, and I have confident to say that it's one of the most dirty city in the world, especially Friday night. You wouldn't believe how dirty London could be so that you'd wonder is this a city of developed country. I heard New York is not too good either. So what's wrong with this city? I meant where does all these so-called messness, if you like, for a freedom and advanced city like Tokyo? What happened to her attachment of being developed and big city?
Singapore has her cleanless because of the strict and hard laws. How about Tokyo then? Does she have strict and hard laws to press on people to maintain all these? Or is there something else to keep this city running?

Sitting in the small apartment in Tokyo, coming from Taipei, I'm wondering what's this about Tokyo and what's this about Taipei so that I feel so familiar but yet so different. What's confused me in this big and beautify city? Is it something I miss from Taipei or is it something I miss from Tokyo? How come among all these obvious differences between two cities, I still feel confused and puzzled here. Late alone in Tokyo, wondering and thinking....