The effects of spatial intrusion and of observation anxiety were examined in an interview situation using feeling reports, person perception ratings, and non-verbal measures. Sixteen Japanese females were interviewed twice by can-federates who were appropriately or intrusively seated with video tape equipment running in the presence of half the subjects during their two interviews. No effects were seen for observation anxiety. In response to the close-sitting interviewers, however, subjects reported a wide variety of changes in feeling, interpreted as withdrawal, and rated the intrusive interviewers negatively across a number of person perception scales. Subjects gave longer pauses, fewer glances, and backward-leaning postures during intrusion, a non-verbal pattern of withdrawal consistent with their cognitive responses. Relationships of these results to other Western and Japanese non-verbal research were discussed.