2. Point out that you have a matching item: “Look, we have the same smartphone.”
One way to quickly get close to a Japanese woman is to find an item that you both have. A woman in her 20s told us, “We have more to talk about when we have a matching item. We can ask each other things like ‘when did you buy it?’ or talk about how easy it is to drop it.” If you don’t have a matching item, look for anything that you have in common, such as the color of your clothes.