After reading many articles, watching many videos from YouTube and also from some anime, I found that there are some similarities between Japan and Singapore.

Japan has a cram school known as "juku" (塾), a special private schools where students who could not catch up in their studies goes. In Singapore, we also have these kinds of school as well, and is known as "tuition centre", and they are thriving. In my country, grades are important and parents are very worried and "kiasu" (scared to lose) about their child not been able to keep up with their studies. So they send their child to tuition centres hoping that their child can study well and will be able to get into a "good" (reputable) school.

In schools for both countries, when a teacher enters the clasroom, the students would all stand up and greet the teacher before sitting down. They would repeat the actions again when the teacher dismisses the class.

As for languages, Japanese started learning English in middle school (around age 12), while the rest of the subjects are conducted in Japanese. In Singapore, all the subjects are conducted in English, except for Mother Tongue languages. If the student's race is Chinese, he/she will learn Chinese. Chinese, Malay and Tamil are the most common mother tongue languages taught in Singapore, and the students start to learn them at primary school (around age 7).

I know that some Japanese struggle with English. This is the same situation in Singapore - I know some Singaporean Chinese friends who struggle with Chinese as well!

In Singapore, students in primary (elementary) school, secondary (middle) school, and junior college (high school) wears uniform, while in Japan, only elementary school students do not wear uniforms. Singapore's school uniform is pale in comparison to Japan's. うらやましい！

Japanese removes their shoes when in their homes or visiting other people's home. We also remove our shoes here in Singapore as well (for most homes).

In Singapore we affectionately call older people "uncles" or "aunties". While for Japanese, I think they call them "ojiisan" (old man) or "obaasan" (old lady).

What I have written above might be wrong, so please correct me if you found anything wrong.