Japanese never talk directly to someone becauese they want to avoid the conflict with others. So foreinger are often misunderstand their intention. Japnanes are really eager to maintain peaceful relationship with other groups in their country because they know they cannot go far away from their land. If the civil war broke out in island, they cannot run away. They have to fight until one of them demolished. So they have storing mind that they should avoid the conflict in anyway. Japan’s indirect culture is originated from that.