12 Things I HATE about Living in Japan 

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Its like you're just waiting for the Japan gatekeepers to comment🤣

Hello

You missed putting Connor on the list

One thing british hate about japan... Everything

Not all heroes wear capes.

I wonder why he didn't mention the noise in the video. A big, two story pachinko parlour in Tokyio was probably the loudest place I have ever been in.

Man had to pretend to kick you out just to save your wallet from the pachinko overlords

While I was in Tokyo, I also wondered into a Pachinko parlour as I was actually tempted to play. Was loud and I could not stand the cigarette smoke (I am a non-smoker), so I quickly left. When I was a kid, we used to have a Pachinko machine down in the basement game room so I at least was familiar with it. Now that I think about it, I don't recall seeing any pinball machines as we know them here in the west while I was in Japan (was there for a month at the beginning of 2020, right before all the COVID shit).

I was threatened to get arrested for taking a picture of the machines as I tried to avoid the security guard and wander about. He followed me through every corner until I left as he kept saying police… 😂😂😂😂😂

Better love story than twilight! And twilight was really good!

It's oficial, isn't it?

@@frecuenciasoniricas2867 yeah, Chris called Connor his boyfriend once

Still daydreaming about Chris being gay? Talk about sexual harassment.... Calm down Francis!

Chris himself said that Mouse is Connor's wife, which basically mean....

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In UK and Poland there's a lot of betting shops as well. They don't do Pachinko, they bet on everything. Starting from football, to things like who is going to win the Eurovision song contest... And slots, I know some people who blow their weekly salary on slots, then to do it again next week. Lottery tickets, Lotto, Euro Jackpot, scratchcards... All of it is gambling and a lot of people lose a lot of money on them. It's just the form of gambling is different.

Strictly speaking, pachinko in Japan is not gambling. Pachinko is a gentleman's game where money is wasted and exchanged for trivial prizes such as candy and cigarettes. However, there happens to be a facility at the back of a pachinko parlor parking lot where you can exchange your points for money, and many users go home after redeeming their points there. It is all coincidental. It is not inevitabre.

@@Uncensored-ep8sf Yep, that's gambling with loopholes 😐😐

​@@JackassikYep, Germans also have a problem with betting on sport (especially people from the Middle East)

​@@Jackassikyes that's the joke genius

Same here LOL

@@Njsjdjdjdj Stop chatting BS.

The best part is he eats that dessert sandwich right after and actually praises it.

"Sandwiches should be savory" US and their overly sweet sliced bread: Uh....

I have lived in the US for years and have yet to find a half decent sandwich. Soggy sweet 'bread', no butter, with a fistful of tasteless pulverised ham rammed in the middle. I dream of those delicate Japanese egg sarnies you can get at every conbini.

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Can’t have the Japanese knowing that they’re the only ones in the world still forever masking.

Who doesn't like dango?

It's pretty common with all TV networks to do that, though they likely cut out your Covid comments for ulterior motives.

lmao

what if their mandarin was surprisingly good ?

People do like to hear that they're doing something well... I only speak English, & don't even do that very well, Lol! But if I did speak another language, I'd appreciate native speakers telling me I did it correctly & my pronunciation & grammar was good... that would be pretty cool...

I think it's a compliment, everyone is different, we shouldnt assume everything to be offensive...that is a very american thing.

@hoboeyjobi7020 Then you would assume they aren't actually a foreigner and just someone who lives there who's a different race?

​@@Road_Rash The difference is that you get complimented after saying two Japanese words, so even an absolute beginner would get that comment (because it feels insincere). And it does feel patronising when your Japanese is advanced and you still get that comment.

Yes, to me this frustrated me the most of all points Chris made in the video. It was such a beautiful building with historical value, just destroyed for an utterly generic station. It annoys me even more because here in the Netherlands they do it too.

Very sad to see timeless architecture replaced by functional crap ( sorry about my language).

Gonna need a bigger list

That'd be at a minimum a 3 hour opus, the Dr Zhivago of crankiness and bitter sarcasm.

The "Things I hate about the US" list is an open-ended project due for a spin-off channel...

@@Cotfi2 I think my toppers would be drivers who come to a complete stop at a green light, and those who insist on driving 5-10 miles under the posted speed limit. Granted, the green light issue might be from color-blindness, but they are always oriented in the same way to mitigate that issue.

so a Top 12 CDawg list then LMAO

This is a very classic chris video you can tell that he is enjoying youtube more than ever

When I saw this pop up in my feed I was almost shocked to see it was a new video and not something from 2 years ago or so. Instant click

No bike or complaining about being and/or getting fat?! What is this tomfoolery??

@@NationX exactly. i was like is this a reupload, but then i was like it has too many views for a reupload.

@@NationX Same haha

I went out to eat in the US with a friend of mine from Japan. When I asked for chopsticks, the lady brought them to him. I asked for another set and started using them in front of her. Blew her mind that this american girl was using chopsticks in america.

@@octogonSmuggler lol, that probably shouldn't be too surprising. I personally would be a little surprised but not too much. Did you hold them correctly tho?? 😬😛

@@yuletak Yes! Yes I did. I think that's the part that supprised the waitress so much.

@@octogonSmuggler This is such a great example of why professional discretion is so valuable. We often make slightly embarassing mistakes like that when we rely on intuition, but if the server instead brings chopsticks for both guests they got all bases covered.

99, yeah still cherishing their beloved old racial stereotypes about who looks "American" (Schwartznegger versus Wesley Snipes etc)

Ya I don't understand how they go from you're Japanese is good and can you use chopsticks to we have four seasons yano? 😅

Some places only have 9 months summer , 1.5 spring and autumnn Some places high up north have 10 months of winter and 2 months of mercy

@@DsiakMondala lol - yeah.. I live in the UK.. here we have damp and warm, and damp and cold - and there's a few weeks in-between those two seasons where all the leaves fall - that's called "leaves on the track" season, I'm from Canada though, so winter is -40, summer is +35 (and lately smoky) - spring and autumn are the mercy seasons.. one of them has leaves.

To be fair near the equator you often have a dry season and wet season, or four seasons but less distinct with temperature differences and not much else. But yeah anywhere with a similar temperate climate (ie much of Europe and the northern US) also has similar seasons.

Seasons come from the Earth's tilt. There are no seasons at the Equator.

Many thanks! It’s been a long journey these last few months and it’s awesome to finally be slimmed down and able to work out properly! 🎉

@@AbroadinJapan KFC Christmas Chris !! 😂

@@AbroadinJapan What are the gyms in Japan like? same as any other, or is there more of a "keep slim" mantra behind fitness over there?

Its all the camera angle like in the hobbit

Looks the the same.

My favorite in the US are liquor stores near homeless shelters and day shelters. Never fails.

Poorer cities and areas in Germany are also usually riddled with places where you can gamble (less fancy than real casinos though), places where you can bet on Sports, pawn shops for jewelry, and small shops for liquor and cigarettes. I also hate how these people who don't have a lot anyway are just being exploited for the gains of some greedy assholes. It's really depressing.

As a Japanese living in the US, I've seen both of these in person and damn is it depressing to watch people (either family or friends) lose their money and time to gambling and vices. I get gambling to a degree (I go to Vegas from time to time, but i don't lose myself at the tables), but don't make these places ubiquitous as actual important places like clinics or grocery stores.

The better analogy in the U.S. is going by some reservation where everyone is poorer than dirt, but the casino there is thriving. So much for the "money going to the community" B.S.

@@phoenix72999 It may be that people that have a weakness for alcohol, smoke and gambling are generally poorer ,, No ??

I think he means drunk karaoke with colleagues or at the hostess clubs

plastic houses? tell me more about it

@@yohanes7440 Perhaps this means those prefabricated houses selected from a catalog.

its called globalism and is not only a issue in japan. the whole world will become a post globalist hellhole with a few themeparks for wealthy tourists left. But even there will be a mc donalds in walking distance. It is what the us military industrial complex is fighting for.

I'd like to offer a different perspective though. We know that Japan has a traditionally xenophobic culture. As outsiders, one of the things we admire is how strongly the Japanese people have held onto their culture and architecture. Thus, when we see traditional looking Japanese architecture torn down to become a typical modern glass box we feel like the appeal is lost. To a Japanese person, that traditional styled building is just a normal everyday building though. There's no excitement, no mysticism, no fantasy, it's just the shop next door. To someone who was born and raised in Japan, modernism is something different that stands out; meanwhile to a foreigner it's just like any other city downtown (note: a city that the majority of Japanese people will never visit and have only seen in movies). So in a way, we should stand with the Japanese government in rejecting Western influence?

@cyrussmlee I see what you’re saying, but I think people from any culture value some of the traditional aspects of it. I’m American and am always disappointed when I see an older home with a more traditional style torn down to be replaced by a cookie cutter town home or bland apartment.

Except you won't find many japanese style houses in any other part of the world.

Indians are best architects since ancient times. Look at the colossal granite temples still staying for thousands of years! Sanathana Hindu Dharma is the source of architecture science and many other sciences too.

​@@tupums the only issue there is, right now? Nah the architecture is just blocks upon blocks with maybe some flair in between for offices. But yeah, the Shinto Shrines and the Temples do share similar structure.

@@MetaKnight964 Romania. No srsly.

You are an architect and you can't spell commercial or renowned ?

THAT’S THE POWER OF LOVE

Creepy nuts for life ✌️

@@AbroadinJapan Now that's what I call being affable

ah yes creepy nuts thats going on my discord bio

I love that tired singing xD

The daughter in school photo. 😂👍

himeno's ghost :)

"Micro aggressions" has certainly entered the vernacular, especially in relation to Japan!

I’m totally unsurprised that women love a toilet that can spray a jet of water at their lady parts 😂

Very nice for helping to avoid those awful uterine infections. I've known a lot of guys who could have used a cleaner - that is, less smelly - butt.

The days of Chris just sitting in a tiny room are over.

Yep, Mos burger sucks! Slimey burgers and about 3 fries.

Glad i listened to my instincts to not try out the local Mos Burger during my stay.

American are war criminals please don't comment on other people's ways

don't be surprised if that patty once went "woof"

If Mos Burgers truly uses 100% ground beef for their patties I'll spend two weeks in a hostess club that only plays Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and all the hostesses look like Amy Schumer. Mos Burger west wingers need a trip to the States and sample a few Fat Burgers or Five Guys or In&Out burgers for some help on their patties.

bread is harder to sell

Pachinko is like a casino not ah damn corner store 😂😂😂😂

@@NotReallyAya. smoke less

@@dusky6280 only difference, liquor store are jst stores , that sell shit and liquor. .

@@NotReallyAya. they sell a service; its a store

Waiting for Chris vs Natsuki six pack battle

@Jamesquarebush You forgot to count the most important thing - Chris' girl friend 🤣😂😅

Kiss those other boys on this video show

I absolutely agree. Chris looks really healthy now and acts with really cool and fresh energy.

He’s also someone who should do sweet kissing & rubbing & being wet to the friends & friendship.

@KDW whats it about this specific video that you find funny? bc he has loads of videos like this

If you're tired of the same old boring questions, give freakish answers that play on stereotypes . "Can you eat Japanese food?" "Yes, sushi off the back of a woman". "Nihongo jouzu" "Yes 💯 GF/BF taught me" How long will you stay in Japan? "15 cm" ok I went too far with that last one but there are plenty of borderline boorish J- Oyaji giving these types of "funny" "earthy" comments especially in drinking situations. You could make it even more post modern and ludicrous

Good go home and think about your country war crimes .please go to Afghanistan for your next holiday.

Lmao thats so funny

He gave us a crash course for experiencing all the funkiest Japanjank in a day 🤙

Until the Groundhog Day effect kicks in after a month or three of it.

What makes those nuts creepy? But the Bidet is exactly for that to wash your intimate area clean after using the toilet or whenever.

How much this comment made me laugh omg ahahhaah

It's fun to do as a visit. Not month after month year after year. Believe me, all that gets old FAST

Similarly here in the US, casinos and gambling facilities often are a core part of rural areas and are sold as economic development, often promising tax revenue that often doesn't materialize or isn't worth the burdens that casinos bring. Most cities outside of Vegas and a few others don't have casinos within them, and there's a good reason for that.

Just out of curiosity you ever ask them to stop saying it, because it causing EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.

You should have just started butchering the pronunciation to watch them still attempt to painfully say "Nihongo Jyozu" anyhow.

Since i am married to a Japanese i don't get complement about eating with chopsticks anymore... It helped 😂

Did you ever ask why they do this? This really intrest me. Politness is one thing, but this seems more like a passiv aggressive act to torture you xD.

i never got either from my in laws, maybe because they only speak japanese and we couldn't communicate otherwise?

Should have just gotten a soapie for $100 and guaranteed happy ending. Girls aren’t bad either.

@@FormerGovernmentHuman A soapie is a one and done experience. hell with the clubs and bars at all, hit up the shops. That's where shit is awesome.

Four months it took him??? Dang, that man had some confidence... probably unwarranted but still!

@@solitarelee6200 Military men are dumb creatures. Source: was one.

I love all the different forms and shapes of houses you can find. Took a walk yesterday during lunch and there is so many interesting shapes and forms, except the new built areas which are just so insanely boring. Now this I just private single family houses, so nothing big like a station. :) But I hate with a passion how badly maintained all the house and buildings are. Seeing all the peeling paint, moisture damaged wood and overall abandoned buildings.. breaks my heart.

Harajuku station needed to be renovated frankly, it was borderline non-functional for one of the more high traffic destinations in Tokyo. As someone who lives in the city and uses the trains every day, it was a big improvement. But that being said they absolutely didn't have to make it so ugly, why not at least make the new facade look nice? Especially for such a popular tourist destination you would think the Shibuya city council would ask that it retain its style at least. But honestly I think a lot of the shit architecture lately a result of the fact that the Japanese economy has been in a sorry state for like 3 decades now and in many ways it's a country in decline, so there is no forward-thinking vision to anything anymore, just a general oppressive atmosphere of stagnation and everyone trying to cut costs as much as possible.

Yeah. That was a crime.

Zaha Hadid architects would have been epic though

Edit: rereading this after five months (got a notif) and wow I used to write like such a nerd 😂 Point still stands though! TLDR; Harajuku Station is a terrible example, or not even a valid example at all, as they did replicate it. Traditional Japanese architecture was always made to be rebuilt, unlike in Europe, mostly due to seismic activity and the rest due to the humid climate. But, when they did rebuild it, the architects made sure to pay their respects. As a Japanese person who has grown up near Harajuku, Harajuku Station is such a flawed example of tearing down beautiful traditional architecture and replacing it with bland, cookie cutter cuboids and it's unfortunate that Chris has brought it up multiple times throughout his content. (This is around the third time as far as I know.) This trend in favor of sleek boring glass rectangles over beautifully detailed structures that Chris points out has actually been around for a while, but the poor example undermines this point. What they did with the station is exactly what you said, they replaced the old building with a replica, but also expanded the building, i.e. added the glass part, in the process. This is something that happens quite often. Case in point, my university building was also rebuilt to look the same from the street but have a glass structure augmented behind and above, obscured from view. I don't know if this is purposeful or he just missed it, but even though it is very deliberately an exact replica, it's always been hidden in the angles he presents. (Okay he probably missed it since he even says "Why not borrow a part of the old design and integrate it into the new?") If you want to know why they rebuilt it then to begin with, one issue surrounding traditional Japanese architecture is that you simply cannot make durable buildings out of bricks or stone in such an earthquake prone environment. That is why the traditional building material is wood. That is also what makes it so hard to just preserve buildings as they are, what with the humidity in the summer and the fact that the city was bombed to near oblivion mid 20th century. Part of what made people value Harajuku Station as the classic monument it was was the fact that it was last rebuilt in 1924 (the one shown in the old picture is actually still not the original) and survived the bombings. That is why it had such a distinct, iconic aesthetic, because while the rest of the city had to scramble to rebuild their infrastructure with critically limited resources, to hastily get it back up and running, Harajuku Station was an exception. A true remnant of a bygone era. But, all wooden things must come to an end, and a 100 year old wooden structure could not serve as a modern station any longer without major reconstruction. So they had to rebuild the whole thing from scratch, but to say the people behind the project neglected to pay their respects to the original architecture and the cultural hub that it came to manifest is an egregious misrepresentation of their work. That was a rant, but I'm just so deeply saddened that this is what people who've never even seen the station for themselves think of the new station and the incredible thought and effort that was put into restoring the quaint look. Easy W in my book. Edit: adding a preemptive disclaimer about the use of the word "traditional" since some hardcore architecture nerds might disagree with my usage of the term to refer to something built in the 20th century with heavy western influence.

Haha, I'm picturing the effect of a cold shot on a bitter winter's morning...

That's probably because you're not a gross human being who wipes with dry toilet paper and calls it a day

just so you know, "segue" is the spelling you want; Segway is the brand name for self-balancing scooters

For real though Chris is lookin like a snack.

He gotta do if he's gonna dominate at chess and boxing.

Happy he was able to pull himself away from crack cocaine and prostitution

Realizing that you are the baddy is the first step towards positive change!

@@STINKFISTBOBCAT he's participating in a ChessBoxing Match soo

siting in a room? but he was clearly at a ramen shop. behind the counter.

@@sirBrouwer I think he's referring to Chris' old videos, where he sits in his apartment and it just feels like he's chatting with friends. Perhaps Chris can put a tatami room set in this studio?

@@GigiLowe I know those. this was just a literal observation of this video. in other videos he more often is sitting at the barstool. for the tatami like room he could use the other part of the studio the office part. that already has most there.

100% this.

Damn Chris is looking great

@@messagemeontelegramam_abro1311 explosives

8 years ago they randomly showed up in my youtube feed. They were the gateway to japanese hip-hop for me.

@@NICHOLSON7777 I started following their music after reading a manga called "call of the night" and the author said the manga got its name from their song

Welp, screw it. Gonna have to check them out.

@@magmarr8304 and they made an anime recently of "call of the night", and it's not only using Creepy Nuts for the opening AND ending songs, but they also have a small cameo, even voiced by the guys themselves. such a great circle of appreciation

Why if they bought it with their money. I could careless about another person's meal that they paid for them selves.

@@FusionKush It's a waste. We produce enough food to feed three times the global population without any starvation. Yet here we are with such a vast food surplus yet mass starvation.

@@Inucroft that's the problem you care to much about nothing. Just because someone paid for there food and doesn't finish it doesn't mean it's the end of the world. What if they didn't like it? I know if bought food and it tastes gross or it didn't meet my taste buds then I might as well throw it away. After I paid for it. Yes I know it will be disrespectful if some else paid for it but to be fair I won't eat anything I don't like even if someone else paid for it.

Carbon footprint. I do care about it. Buying and not consuming, generates a big carbon footprint, the food that arrives to table took many steps: logistics, transportation, packaging, etc.

@@FusionKush Waste of food - and a lot of other things - is a huge problem in this world. We use up more ressources from poor countries than we need, our way of life currently is too much for the planet. It would even be too much for two planets.

Have you come up with any good standard answers, though? There should be a self-help group out there about this.

@@seregruin At this point, my standard answer for why I came is that it was just to study, which is only maybe 5% of the real answer - it's just not worth trying to explain the whole thing. What really sucks is what I call "Gaijin English Training," in which you're automatically targeted by people who have 0 interest in you except as a practice dummy for conversation - especially at bars. Sadly, GET doesn't have the payroll or benefits of JET. When I'm knee-deep in my fifth pint, I'm not exactly looking to give an English lesson - or even capable of it!

I just always answer women. If men they leave me alone and if women they show if interested

"Violated by a toilet" made me laugh really hard! Cheers!

Holding grudges seems to be very common and a motivation for suddenly violent but meticuleously planned outbursts like the assassination of Shinzo Abe or attacking Idols with a hacksaw (althought that might be of sexism and general consumerism and generally bad working conditions and contracts for idols).

I imagine it is a problem from cultures like Germany and the Nordic countries, where being very open and direct is the norm.

Yep....I have had so many similar experiences in SEA...particularly in the Phils...but, I have learned to blow of things that don't matter...my more aggresive Westerner side exhibits itself when things do matter (such as money)...it is actually entertaining to watch a Filipino's reaction when you point out the absurdity of their propositions when make assumptions about your Western ignorance

This is why one of my closest friends I made in Japan was super direct. She will always state her opinion very clearly. It made conversation much easier and more fun, and as a result we got much closer than we probably would have otherwise!

If I didn't grow up dealing with haughty Southerners in the US, people notorious for passive aggressiveness(see "bless your heart") and backhanded compliments, I don't think I would have been able to get my head around that aspect of Japan so easily. It's particularly similar to dealing with certain parts of Tokyo

I wonder if Japanese people do the same but with a Chinese accent 🤔🤣

Except Americans are usually absolutely awful at British accents, or merge them, or just do an Irish accent...

@@beepboop5491 That might start a war!😂

This is my first time seeing this channel and I thought he sounded a lot like Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.

And then there is FriendlyJordies who just dips into whatever accent he pleases for the punchlines. It ranges from the most Australian accents ever to a smooth cool radio broadcaster.

I don’t think that’s exclusive to Japan. Even for me, as an American living in Canada, I get those little micro aggressions whenever I tell someone I’m American, and it’s always the same questions. And people are really passive aggressive about it too. They just wanna hear me say how much I love Canada and how much better it is than America. Which I don’t even necessarily think, but that’s just the answer everyone’s looking for

I found that it’s really hard to make real friends in Japan. Like way harder than in other countries. Idk why but Japanese are reluctant to show you who they really are or what they really think. It takes a long time for them really warm up to you. So I give up before that

​@@FransceneJK98 For me it was the opposite. I made a handful of friends on my first time visiting over the course of a single month, many are still in contact. It's going to be hard to make friends just on the street or something (even here in America), but if you're in a nice work environment, or playing sports or something it's not hard at all imo. My closest Japanese friend I met while playing football in some random field lol

@@FransceneJK98 Japanese are genetically hypocrites.

You Gaijin!!!

*_N I H O N G O J O U Z U_*

I was also in japan in 8 years I’m still here

Why do you 2 assume every japanese is the same person?... Quite uttery insane aint it...

@@insiainutorrt259 they lived there longer than you.

Yeah, can't mess with the classics

Japan is not America.

@@23Lgirl That's a great observation. Thanks for cluing us in. However, neither are Australia or Singapore, so his point stands. The bigger thing to note is that Aus and the US, in particular, are very diverse countries with large immigrant populations and colonial roots. By nature these countries will be less likely to use the term "foreigner" because being Australian or American isn't necessarily tied to one's genetics or cultural heritage. In Japan, it is purely tied to these factors.

I think that's fine if they just met you and don't know you personally.. like I've seen many videos in different social media platforms, where half Japanese people are offended if they are not seen as a Japanese person when meeting someone new in Japan (due to different physical characteristics: hair, skin, eye color, eye shape,etc.), and foreigners, who also get offended when they were thought of as Japanese lmao Idk what to think of this world anymore, people are just so sensitive and get offended in every little thing. Like for instance, do you see any blasian in every Japanese neighborhood everyday? Even if they look mixed Asian, how do you know if they're Japanese? They could be a mix of other Asian nationalities too. Also, East Asians and SEAsians gets mixed up a lot and can blend in with the Japanese. So is it rude to think they were Japanese if they look similar, can speak fluent Japanese, and live in Japan? Like you can be proud of your country/culture, but nobody can guess what you belong to at first glance... I'm not Japanese, but I meet foreigners of different nationalities a lot due to my work, and I always treat them the Japanese way, which is to not assume other people's nationality and just treat them as a "foreigner". And until they tell me what nationality they have, I will always refer to them as Foreigners...

@@23Lgirl What an incredibly useful response! I would add: "comparing countries does not mean you think all countries should be the same." Since you seem confused on this point. For example, I could say, "I've read Jacob Smith's and V's replies, and I think 23Lgirl's comment is useless compared to theirs," but that doesn't mean I think you should become those people! :)

@@23Lgirl a 28Mboy is not a 23Lgirl

Nowadays I just ignore the compliment, especially if it comes from someone I have just met and hasn't really heard me speak Japanese.

Got told this yesterday by the radiologist at the hospital because I was able to say my name and birthday in Japanese. Wow, imagine!

@@ChrysusTV I suppose at the end of the day, it's harmless small talk and people mean well, but it's a bit...eh...when it's after two or three basic words.

Thank you is never the answer if someone gives a complement. it should be "iie iie.." (no no not so much). else the speaker will think you are full of yourself.

@@ChathushkaPeiris I'm not really concerned with what someone I don't know thinks of me in conversation honestly. Like I said in the comment above, I appreciate that it's harmless small talk, but sometimes it does come off as patronizing. My response to people are on a case by case basis.

lol...I understand ...in the 80's I lived in Italy and besides speaking the language fluent I was always "the Stranger" ...awful ..couldn't wait to get out ..

You may not be proud of telling him off, but you should be proud of the manner in which you told him off. That's brilliant! 'Go f*** yourself' would provoke defensiveness and anger. Go find an empty room and be ashamed for a few minutes, that can make a person stop and question himself. "Wait, do I need to be ashamed?" 😆

Its like he was walking around and said “oh yeah, add that shit to the list so i can rant real quick”

He said custard, not custom. Like shit custard, lol.

same😂

i definitely heard custom as well

Oh sorry!! Hahaha.. I'm hearing custom 🤣

Oh god the Brits always have a way to make you feel you're not one of them ... I can't really explain how they do it. It's really weird.

I am of Mexican decent and can't imagine not being able to get the best Mexican food. I'm on the west coast. I thought the British would be more welcoming. Wow😒

@@janboomstam1727 Brits are made up of 4 distinct nations and there is a strong regional component too. It's actually hard to define a British identity and now even more an English one. Once you can participate in British humour and banter you're probably safe.

Really? You must live in a smaller town? As long as someone speaks fluent Swedish they usually are treated normally where I live/have grown up

If you move to another country, you are an outsider

@@9.5.9.5 not most of the U.S. Thats one of the reason why i like it here. Almost anywhere in America, usually in or near the city i can meet people from another country. Ive met hundreds and i always ask them how is it living here? Do you feel alone? Treated as out of place? Or something along those lines. And the answer in overwhelming "yeah there are a few people but most people are nice/don't care." It doesnt matter in the U.S because of the large foreign population, especially in and near cities but even in rural areas. Its crazy the amount of people you can meet. I love it.

@@9.5.9.5 Not in North American cities PAL! Go to a Toronto mall and it is like a rainbow. I assume nearly every brown, black, and East Asian is born here.

Japan is far less multicultural than Western countries and that is the reason people that visit Japan walk away saying their culture is so different and unique from Western countries and the day that they decide multiculturalism and immigration is a strength is the day Japan becomes another multicultural shithole!

Fun facts: glass buildings are like greenhouses and require a shit ton of AC, resulting in an absurd waste of energy and money....

@@LG-te4vh Sure thats in the summer, but being a greenhouse is efficient in the winter?

@Zonka There's no good way to put that many people in a single block and not look like a dystopia.

they got great architect like 伊東豊雄, 安藤忠雄, 隈研吾...etc, yup i like them but unluckily not all the others built like them cause of budget or anything else

since there are several earthquakes that happen there, do the buildings that are copy pasted at least build with that in mind....cause isn't all that glass just going to break if things get crazy, the cities will have some glass showers if it ever were to happen. Also the glass like mentioned previously...would that not just become an oven and freezer during seasonal changes e.e what is da logic wea

My country, for instance, only have 2 seasons, the dry and wet season lmao😭💀

Weirdest flex ever...

Sometimes I feel some places have like 8 seasons

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 can have all the seasons in one day

@@annierutter5398 Same in Texas

Microaggression is not based in intent, but rather it's reception. That's the "micro" part of the word, it's because it's not actually what you're saying that's the problem it's the reason you might say it to a fellow resident or even native. When you ARE a tourist these things are definitely not an offensive or "aggressive" thing to say, in fact it's normal and polite. The "aggression" comes in to play when you assume that all foreigners are tourists. It's "generalizing" and "profiling" It's racism is what it is. For the most part people brush it off, but when the entire culture perpetuates the belief that a white person can't be a resident it is "aggressive" even if the person saying it meant no harm.

@@SherrifOfNottingham I ser your point. Makes sense overall.

@@SherrifOfNottingham Not to mention, unfortunately, Japanese people have a tendency of treating half-Japanese people born in Japan, and even Japanese people who have been living outside of Japan too long, as "foreigners". It's not just the way they talk to you, but the way they behave towards you... Almost anywhere you go or work in you are seen and treated as if you are an eternal "tourist", as if was natural to assume that you would simply at any point decide to "go back home"... Even if you actually have been **born** there and lived there most of your life. To be fair, I'm not even sure if most Japanese realize they do that, but it doesn't make the person on the receiving end feel any less passively shunned. Renting stuff in JP is a pain if they perceive you as the stereotype of "foreigner"... Quite often you have to bring a local Japanese person to vouch for you! As times goes by I find most people feeling like they can't never truly "fit in", no matter how perfectly natural their Japanese sounds, or how on culturally knowledgeable they are. It's just so tiring for some, and then they **indeed** leave Japan...

“I have to live here.” No you don’t. It’s a choice you made. Nobody forced you to go live abroad. If we’re going to play the “Everything is racist, I’m so sensitive” game…. I love how you’re culturally appropriating somebody else’s culture. See? It’s a bit goofy when you pick and choose what to be offended about. Call it racism if you want, but YOU actively set out to go live in THEIR country. With your obvious Western morality, it’s no shock that you believe everybody else in the world should make YOUR life more comfortable.

@@Wagyuary it IS racism, it's just so ingrained in the society that it's "normal" While a LOT of things are ok to say it's a cultural difference, pointing out that there's blatant racism in Japan is not one of them. You wouldn't go to a country that practiced slavery and say "it's just part of the culture" there's lines that are drawn, cause the reality is defending it is saying that YOU agree with it.

sounds terrible! I can only imagine... and its already painful. Hope your government(?) wises up and closes down all of them

Yeesh. I visited Honolulu in 2007, and traffic was a fustercluck then. I couldn't imagine it now with the go carts.

Hi Ashley, really bad place to put this but me and my Japanese girlfriend are taking her parents to hawaii and some places are so insanely expensive. Do you know anywhere that might be good but not the most expensive touristy spot?

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Haha that made me chuckle 🥰

it's got some very cool stuff and some terrible stuff, I think the best way to experience it would be a few months at a time. I'd love to stay there for a while and still be able to come back home to the creature comforts that I grew up with

US military, in Japan, during the postwar? Boy must have been fun.

There's no pride in anything Americans do. Our service sector is a joke

@@Heidegaff If I remember correctly the US military has a bit of a rape problem.

Good Japanese food can be found on the west coast of the US mostly. Proximity and historical populations. NYC has good Japanese food too.

I can see how a lonely man with nothing to lose besides money could enjoy attention from someone even if it is only because he pays. Japan is filled with lonely people as are most countries.

Looks like Japanese Hooters

In some ways it's sadness or loneliness. They really want to have connections without any work or any risks of commitment attracts them there. The girls who are employed are just earning money and care only so much as it's a paycheck. Other girls who are fully employed in office jobs work such brutal schedules that they don't want to flirt and waste time endlessly just for sex. Mastrubation is up in all population groups for good and bad reasons and the social hesitance,imperminance and lack of work life balance in my opinion is one of the bad ones. People making meaningful connections with the expectation of money exchange for the privilege doesn't strike me as particularly healthy. I'm not against sex work but I am against cultures who so flagrantly dismiss the importance of deep human conversation and relationships. Hopefully, people who have grown up in healthy households feel loved and appreciated without an expectation of sex or emotional or physical extreme servitude for that love or acceptance. Selfless friendships and marriages or long term parterships are essential to good mental health. We are a social species despite many of the permutations which assume people can survive alone. No man is an island. The base of many relationships exists WITHOUT the expectation of payment but simply because you enjoy each others company. Japan's suicide rate seems to indicate that for the many good things about Japanese culture this is not one of them.

@@rootfish2671 Hooters is a family restaurant.

Same here. It takes too long to earn money to blow on an experience like that

Makes me wonder what they learn in school sometimes. Most people don’t seem to know the sun and moon cause the tide

I find it pretty baffling that while generally considered smarter than most of the world, they apparently don't understand anything about seasons around the world. Not like you need to know what it's like everywhere, but kinda weird that even Americans know more places than not have the "full set" of seasons, some are more just rainy and dry, some just one extreme or the other. Like wtf do they actually think is in Europe and North America?

What's up with that? Do they think all Americans come from Florida?

The high suicide rates aren't a surprise in that context.

@@amh9494 Very true it wouldn't be a surprise. Their feeling of not wanting to be a burden rather than seek help. Definitely a mindset which needs to change.

I remember seeing a Japanese psychologist express this same thing. He said people like him, that is people who understand people need help some times to deal with shit, are very rare and that the negative stigma around has led to Japan having serious problems with peoples' mental health.

I have a friend in Tokyo. One day she wrote to me asking my opinion related to mental health. It was one of the most awkward questions I've been asked. Do I give the American answer or something more Japanese? I no longer have any acquaintances from Japan to ask what I should do. Finally I decided to go with an American answer because it's the honest one. I still am not really sure if it actually helped or if she was being polite.

big reason why the suicide rate in japan is alarming considering no one sees it as mental health but instead it's you being weak. it's sad because the culture there is reserve and shy so even if they can get help they're embarrassed to do so.

Wow, I thought Bump of Chicken was weird, but apparently I know nothing.

Grindcore is cheating!

I did the JET programme 1989 -1990 and love the insights and well structured videos. Keep it up❤

his early stuff was gold. I've watched them all over and over and I hope he has more coming in this style

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I thought the same. But it is a Hate Video so... I hope He will create more Videos like this one without Hate.