How to Apologize, the Japanese way

1. Shallow Bow

You bump into someone in passing

You accidentally jump into your place in line

Note: Appear natural

2.Deep Bow

You've eaten all the food

Yours is the only child to make the grade

Note: maintain eye contact. Effeminacy is key.

3. OJIGI

A requested item is out of stock

Times when an apology is barely sufficient

Note: Both hands remain straight to the fingertips, back bent to 45 degree.

common mistake: 35 degree is a greeting.

4.LONG OJIGI

Scandal

Product recall

Note: do not lift head until given permission.

5.PERPETUAL OJIGI

Surrounded by troublemakers

A restaurant manager , after a waiter spills wine on a customer's dress

Note: Repeat until permission to stop is received

6.BOW ON ONE KNEE

You loosed a secret message

You violate the Ninja code by falling in Love

Note: Be wary of approaching enemies

7.DOGEZA

You are absolutely irrevocably in the wrong

caught red handed in an orgy of evil

Note : Elegance is key

8.DOGE-FUSE

Wishing to show you have done all you can do to apologies

Note: dirty ground is the best choice

9.DOGE-UMARI

When you will no longer complain ,whatever is done to you

Note: Incorporate the feel of pleading for your life

There we have it! Japanese SHAZAI let's all put our hearts into expressing it!