Japanese Way of Speaking

Men and women use similar ways to make requests and use speech patterns in Japan. Both making requests and using speech patterns seem to be related with Japanese cultural way of speaking.
Since it is always important to be polite when people ask others for something or to do something in Japan, neither men nor women demand it but they use words such as “can you,” “could you,” and “please” to show their respect. Women might use “could you” and “please” at the same time to make very respectful sentence while men use less of those words but still, men like women, try to be polite when they need to make requests. The importance of such indirectness in Japan makes Japanese people say “sort of,” “a bit,” or “kind of” so often. By using “sort of,” “a bit,” or “kind of” and making the sentence unclear, they do not have to make their statement strong. Usually Japanese people do not like to disagree with others and they are sometimes scared of being against others, so using these phrases is a good way to state their opinions without disagreeing with others but also completely agreeing. I saw many women saying “very,” “really,” or “much” but less men in the United States, but not only women but also men use intensifiers in Japan.