Haha, the tissues. When I first came to Japan in 2000, I went on a tissuing collecting spree. I thought it was the funnest thing. Now I don't even take them, but my kids have taken my place, joyfully collecting them.
The Japanese addressing system is so annoying! Aren't we supposed to be a well-organised country? :D Even China's got a more comprehensible system. I can't count how many time I got lost in Japan.
+That Japanese Man Yuta Haha I know right! You should do a challenge on seeing how long it takes foreigners vs Japanese to find streets without using a gps :P would totally join in haha! Thanks for watching anyways, Yuta!
+That Japanese Man Yuta I think the addressing system in Japan can seem quite confusing at first especially if you are from a North American city where most of the streets are arranged in regular grids and can be given names or numbers. But I think this would be almost impossible in many Japanese cities, especially Tokyo, where many areas have tiny streets that are windy and go in all sorts of directions. Even if the streets were given names or numbers I still don't think it would make sense. For the last few years I have always rented a pocket wifi when I am in Japan so Google Maps often comes to the rescue but before that I often got lost trying to find somewhere. About 10 years ago I was trying to find a little Tapas place in Ginza while in a taxi. I had the address and the taxi had a SatNav but he still couldn't find it. He stopped a few times to ask people walking by if they knew where it was. Eventually I just got out and walked around on foot and after about 20 minutes and asking several people I finally found it! I have had a few similar situations to this in Tokyo or Osaka but since I am usually in Japan just for leisure I don't mind to get lost. It adds to the fun and you might discover something you weren't looking for!
i like the idea of the oldest building being numbered first, it honoring its longevity. although, i say this having never, unfortunately, having been there. i can see how that could be difficult.
actually, high schools in Asia Pacific are generally very strict! No matter if you're studying in a Chinese school, Korean school, Taiwanese school, Thai school, Malaysian school, Etc, high school students and below aren't allowed to dye their hair! ^__^
Megan Beh in Iran not only we weren't allowed to dye our hair but also plucking our eyebrows, waxing our face, wearing accessories, wearing make up, having long nails and wearing nail polish was forbidden too. Also every female school had a very specific uniform and if you didn't wear it you wouldn't be allowed in school. Even making your uniform tight or shortening the pants wasn't allowed. Some schools even didn't allow you to use vibrant colors on your bag or shoes. No cellphone no laptop no CD no flash drives without the principal permission. All of these super strict rules and we always did them and got in trouble for it. I got suspended for 3 days for plucking my eyebrows. Some private schools look past it but in public schools they were intense.
Here is something about Japanese history to further inform you: women and girls were forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II. “Wartime crimes It's not known exactly how many women served as so-called comfort women but the Japanese government disputes the previously reported number of 200,000. The use of forced prostitution in Japanese-occupied parts of East Asia was first suggested in 1932 and revived in 1937 after the "Rape of Nanjing" -- in which an estimated 300,000 people died during a weeks-long spree of mass killings, rape and looting in the Chinese city. Japan disputes the scale of the incident and the Chinese death toll. "The rationale ... was that such an institutionalized and, therefore, controlled prostitution service would reduce the number of rape reports in areas where the army was based," according to a UN report on the issue. To this end, the report said, the Japanese army began recruiting women, by deception, coercion and force, for its brothels. “A large number of the women victims speak of violence used on family members who tried to prevent the abduction of their daughters and, in some cases, of being raped by soldiers in front of their parents before being forcibly taken off.”” -CNN You can read the entire article here: www.cnn.com/2017/02/05/asia/south-korea-comfort-women-statue/ and here: www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2061990/why-koreas-comfort-women-must-be-remembered and here: www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/25/comfort-women-wanted_n_4325584.html
Subbed. Your videos are super interesting and full of info. Not to mention you have pretty good editing skills. You're also a very upbeat and cheerful person. You're quite beautiful as well. Shocked that this channel isn't even at 1,000 subs yet. Well, good videos and keep up the awesome work.
+Based Erza Thank you!! Appreciate the support :) I mean, at the end of the day if someone can get something from my videos then that makes it more worth it than having thousands of subscribers :P
I love Japan, I've been dreaming of going to Japan since I was little. and I hope one day ill follow my dream. please tell us more about japan, I want to know more about it. arigato
that trash can thing is SO TRUE... when I was traveling in Japan I thought it might be fun to eat a convenience store bento on the street bench and yeah, it's quite fun... but after I'm done, I'm really struggling to find a place to throw that empty plastic box with some leftover soy sauce 😂😂😂
internationally ME hahaha.... cos I was curious how ppl in Japan would eat street food as commonly ppl would casually walk around wit food on hand in other country if eating street food when I heard about that info.
Thank you very much for the video. It was very informative. Now that I live in Japan it was really helpful learning about the different types of bowing.
I just got back from Japan this week and the address system was so confusing! LoL I keep of seeing my "address" on multiple places. Also, was shocked at how clean Japan is. After a few days I found myself carrying my bag of rubbish around town until I came across a 7/11 who have dumpsters.
We are running through all your videos, in preparation for visiting Japan (Tokyo and Kyoto) for the first time, although I am half Japanese...all are both entertaining and informative. I particularly like the street food segments, as that is my preferred dining experience when I visit countries outside the US. Have you done a segment on unique clothes shopping experiences? For example, I will be purchasing Japanese denim during my visit...but there are so many options available...the two I have targeted are Studio D'Artisan and Momotaro, but I feel I am probably missing a few local manufacturers. Thanks! John and Lynn Adams
+internationallyME the address thing I knew but i didn't know how the buildings were numbered. my building is numbered 19, but what happens when the building in my block gets built? it replaced the oldest building in my block...will my building's address change ? lol
I want to go to the cat island or rabbit island! I've had friends go on the Monkey tour, but one of them got splashed because they were staring at one of them for too long! They found out later from the guide that the males especially perceived that as a challenge, and the poor guy got cold from the water, as it was winter at the time he went! 😆
Thank you for sharing this video. Regarding the bowing, if you're bowing while saying konichiwa or arigato, is it okay if you maintain eye contact with the person you're greeting?
Hi,I love your videos and I have Been in Japan too .can you please make a video of about how to interact with Japanese ladies because they just don't easily communicate . Arigatou gozaimasu
Free tissues baffle me. Although I do plan to go to Japan, hopefully in two years or so, I can't see what I'd do with those aside from throw them out. I loath wasting stuff.
Your statement about Japan and its lack of both trash and trash receptacles confirms my own experience as a tourist. At baseball games in Japan, I was politely informed not to leave my trash at my seat, as almost everyone does in the USA (after all, that's what the janitors are for, right?). But I had to walk a very long way to find a receptacle in which to dispose of my trash. This struck me as paradoxical: if they want people to dispose of their own trash, why not provide more convenient trash receptacles? Maybe we should send them ours that people dont use. Yeah, the free tissues are a good way of advertising while providing something useful to people.
+jazznik2 Thank you for your comment. Yes that is very true ... Having more bins would be much much more convenient! Hopefully they will have more by the olympics!
sorry for a bit out topic, but how do you make your hair curly little to bend inside like that ^^. by the way, thank you for the tip on bring cash-on-hand. I'm about to visit Japan. great tip
Let's see, I knew about the trash, the tissues, the hair dye and sticking your chopsticks in the rice (not the other one about chopsticks). And the only reason I knew half of this list was because I experienced some of it in Japan when I visited in 2007. 😅
Japan and Germany are compared in the case of forced labor and comfort women. This is not a matter of Korea-Japan relations or national relations, it is a matter of war crimes. Germany has admitted to the crime, made practicable reparations, and Chancellor Willy Brandt got down on his knees and apologized. Conversely, Japan turned to the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Korean people and covered up their war crimes. I think Japan's attitude is close to the essence of history. I had been in Japan for about 3 years, and I was quite surprised to see that Japanese people had no war criminal consciousness at all. They only thought of themselves as victims of the atomic bomb. The defeat in World War II was an opportunity to abolish not only militarism but ultimately the imperial system, but the United States interfered with it, such as granting indulgences to the emperor. Since modern times, Europe, Britain, and the United States have mainly targeted China and used Japan as an ally. If the Japanese perspective does not change, there will be no peace in East Asia. The root of the East Asian problem is the Japanese right wing. Japan must first come up with a solution to the issue of comfort women and forced labor. The solution isn't great. It is to admit that the issues of colonial rule and aggression, which were not recognized even in the 1965 Korea-Japan agreement, were illegal and cannot be justified, and even pretend to apologize and compensate. If not, Japan should be ashamed.
I'm still on Junior High and i planning to go to Japanese highschool, either exchange students or really go to that high school. I've my hair dyed, what should i do :((? My natural hair color is black and i dyed it into light brown. Unfortunately in my religion, we aren't allowed to dye our hair to the same color as our natural hair. Should i wait till my hair grown longer and cut my dyed hair or what ? Please answer, Thank you!
I had learnt how to read diretions in japan the hard way ... me And my husband were lost, we couldn't find the correct House And it was raining, finaly we make it 😅.
