It makes them look like weak cucks
Bowing is like submitting to the other person saying your inferior
That's what they're.
For every single citizen of Japanese, their country and it's laws are absolute divine authority that they must follow. The written laws equals moral. Hence their attitude with copyright infringement by westerners "Just because it's illegal".
For every salaryman, Their corporation are the authority, if the corporation dies they'll lose job and become homeless.
For students, the studying culture is their authority. If they don't get into at least decent university, they will not get a job.
And these submissive culture are the only idea they're given. The japanese autists would drop out of school because it was simply too much for them, and then blame themselves for not reaching the standard their culture required.
I am glad that I had my computer and internet to discover different ideas, so I could escape this self-blaming shaming of my own culture and identify as something else that I fit in more.