Chinese also describes time in terms of “in front” (前) and “behind” (后), and it’s the opposite of what you might expect: the past is “in front”, the future is “behind”.

I find the concept fascinating. It makes sense: what’s in front of you can be directly seen, much like you can remember and “see” the past. But the future is unknown, like something behind you that you can’t see.

Or you do not so conscious of time due to lack of tense. Still remember spending 1 hour on one economist line on the English implied sense of time and event sequence. All just used a few grammar not really exist in Hans language until forced into it in the last 100 year. Still not in its native form.

So is Japanese …