Thanks for the feedback! The strange thing about videos like this for me is that I remember taking video that day and as I was recording scenes with my video camera, it was "Today", and now it's "History". Of course the whole point of recording images is to see them in the future, but at the time I wasn't exactly imagining 32 years in the future... which is, as I type this, again "Today".
@@lylehsaxon It was the pre-digital era. Neither JPEG nor MPEG had been invented yet. Nobody ever expected that we would be able to have a platform like Youttube or that we could communicate today the way we do. I had the same surprize when watching this video from 1990 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jyu3Z0AuqV8.html from the Harajuku Street Festival (ホコ天). Someone made a video from the very concert that I have seen myself at that time. I only had one photo, but when watching this video last week, I would recognize this band, and my photo did match ... it was incredible time travel experience
@@jangelbrich7056That's interesting to see. While watching, I ended up thinking "I wonder what I was doing that day..." and did a search for 901014 at my channel... and nothing came up. I have videos from 901013 (Shakujikoen) and 901015 (Tamachi), but nothing from the 14th. I went to that channel and tried seeing if any of their other 1990 videos matched up with days I posted, but none of the days match. The content of that channel's 1990 videos reminds me of something I noticed back then... I would occasionally go to some kind of event (Tokyo Motor Show, etc.) and see a lot of people with video cameras, but I can only recall one time seeing someone with a video camera recording something ordinary and that was a woman standing still recording the crowds at a station. I could often overhear people passing me saying to each other "Why is he taking video here?" and I was directly asked that on occasion. Do you know of other channels with 1990-91 material?
@@lylehsaxon unfortunately not many, just Yours, erinasariko and JACK IN THE BEAT with the band SEEK band playing are the only "dinosaur" channels I found so far. And finding the first SEEK video was yet another miracle by the algorithm, because only after that video I started looked for more actively, using ホコ天. There are other channels posting similar videos from later years, though. So it's pretty rare to find anything like this, at all, which is plausible, as there would be few people having taken those private videos in the first place, as You said, and then that they would digitize and post those videos here. At least, I can go to the Japanese Wikipedia today and find out more about SEEK. I did not know their name for 33 years, only now. Alas, ホコ天 is history since 1998.
I found another one. This would be an old TV documentary about it. Pretty good, in Japanese. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n41boGvxMzc.html
I was born in the year 2000 and currently living in japan for almost 8 years now. I really appreciate you sir for taking and editing these videos during this time. Probably one of the first "vlogger" i saw. Thanks you for this!
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, back then "vlogger" wasn't a term. Actually, people laughed at me back then for periodically aiming the camera at myself.
Japanese know best how to use( train, bus, bikes, bicycles, cars)....Finland & Netherlands r the only other two countries which I know that use each of these mediums effectively without causing Traffic/Accidents/Pollution.
I was back there in 1974 and these trains have different color for different route, such as for Chuo-line, the orange, yellow was Yamanote line and so on. If you go Akihabara back that time, you will see one railway on top of each other. Train system in Japan is most efficient and almost 100% right on time.
They still are color-coded somewhat, but generally are stainless steel with just a color stripe now, although they have done some odd things - like swapping colors on two lines (the Seibu Line ran a Keikyu-red style train and the Keikyu Line ran a Seibu yellow-style one), and whatnot, so it's not as easy to identify them as it used to be. Also, since they installed Emergency Stop buttons all along the platforms, people sometimes push the emergency stop buttons for frivolous reasons (that are usually issues, but certainly not emergencies). And... they have drastically cut down on the number of employees, so sometimes it takes a while to clear an issue. They still usually run precisely on time, but less so than before. I moved over here in 1984 myself... I wonder how many changes there were between 1974 and 1984. Did you take an photos or movie footage while here?
Amazing how things changed over the course of 30 years. Almost everything you see here is gone. Tokyo Station is almost completely surrounded by tall buildings now.
Thanks You very much for upload 90s of Japan video. I am 40 years old man from Hong Kong. Day back to 90s, I am 10+ years old kids, like many Hong Kong peoples, we all love Japan, so much Japan culture, Jpop, Drama, TV game (SFC, PS, Sega saturn etc...)and much more things from Japan attracted us. However, at this time, air ticket is expensive and really no idea how to go Japan because I am still 16 years old. Many years later, about 2010, I go Tyoko, Osaka few times, however , like other country goes too fast and losing their characteristics and culture. I had view you channel and really appreciate I can know how is Japan in 90s that I looking for when I was kids. I love 昭和/大正時代 and 90s of Japan , all in my memorial.
