This book looks really cool to learn literal meanings of words and how to speak them in Japanese, I'll have to keep it bookmarked for later if I ever go there!

This book looks really cool to learn literal meanings of words and how to speak them in Japanese, I'll have to keep it bookmarked for later if I ever go there! However, the big difficulty for me when I studied Japanese in school was how indirect you have to be when speaking. Even once I could follow along simple conversations and translate the literal meaning of everything, it turns out Japanese people generally only imply what they really mean, rather than state it directly. I have similar problems with American Southerners. I wonder if that's a cause of someone becoming a hikikomori (basically a shut-in), as they may be unable to keep up with the huge number of unspoken social rules.