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You should take off your shoes before entering
You should remove your shoes and your host will provide you with slippers.
I would think the person entering the room should be the first to speak. It can also depend on the gender, and ag of persons involved. Out of respect, the elderly should be spoken to first regardless of whether they are in the room or entering. If you are entering the home of someone, you should be the first to speak.
Before entering a Japanese house, it is customary to remove your shoes and put on slippers provided at the entrance. This is done to keep the home clean as shoes are considered dirty from outside. It is also polite to greet the hosts with a bow and say "sumimasen" (excuse me) before entering.
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The Doolittle raid.
Walk around with your shoes on in the house?
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On April 18, 1942, Colonel James H.Doolittle led the first air raid on the Japanese home islands.
If you share a communal home with him you can't prevent him from entering. You and your wife need to move out and get your own apartment. If your wife invites him in your home there is really nothing you can do about it since you both have equal rights in the home. You would need a court order to keep him out. Perhaps you should consider leaving that relationship.
You don't. You should actually keep the windows shut to try to prevent wind from entering your home.
First home buyer should wait how long before refinancing?