Japanese people when inclines their heads when they salutes it's to show respect. They don't do that to don't have physical contact. Every country and everybody has their form to salute. The most typical form to salute it's to shake hands with the right hand... this it's because formerly the people shake hands to demostrate they didn't have a gun... this it's because the right hand it's the typically hand to take a gun.

The reverence in Japan... isn't only as for courtesy, it's something deep, and although bowing to greet, didn't means humiliation nor subservience. Bowing the head in front of a person, literally means "hand over his head"(頭を差し出す - atama wo sashidasu). To offer the weaker part of the human body, meaning to trust in this person, it's an act of respect and trust.



The reverence is used to welcome, for laid-off… and also to thank.

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