20 Year Japan Resident Destroys Jimmy Kimmel AND Ben Shapiro  

Jimmy is telling jokes whereas Ben is not.

Great job and thank you for correcting those inaccuracies!

My first trip to Japan was in January and February. Shinjuku, and Shibuya were filthy and I've noticed the younger crowd littering, busting glass bottles, and being heavily intoxicated in public. Funny enough they were pretty ashamed when I grabbed a bottle from a japanese who was gonna break it on the ground. I said it was dangerous and they apologies and started picking up garbage(This was teenagers, could have even been under-aged drinkers)

kimmel is a comedian and he makes jokes. sometimes jokes are funnier when ur not exactly telling the truth.

Hey Paul- great video! No one litters in Japan😂- we live in the countryside of Kyushu and if no one litters then all the roadside trash must appear magically. We were recently sitting in the parking lot at our new 7-11. Two guys ( adults) came out of the store with ice cream. They unwrapped the ice cream and just threw the wrappers on the ground! Like it was a normal thing. The police koban is right across the street! Kids here are notorious for throwing all their snack wrappers on the ground but they do it while no one is looking! Adults don’t care who’s looking. We see these things all the time. Nothing new. And me too- I don’t WANT to give up my US citizenship to become Japanese. Your video was truthful- 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

so pleased to hear you say, in relation to meiwaku..... "...if there's no-one around to see..." egzakkly!!!!!! （⌒▽⌒）

Of Course there's gonna be people who litter in every country, but I also noticed a stark contrast between Japan and Germany. On my recent trip to Japan I saw men in Osaka putting their cigarette butts in portable ashtrays. Then I returned to Germany and saw the ground at my local bus station littered with cigarette butts and food wrappers. I couldn't help but feel disappointed. It's gotten worse here.

I like Japan, love the language ever since I was five enough to wanted to learn it for fun. And for the most part I admire Japan for the sake of Japan being Japan not for other peoples idealized views of Japan. If I had the money right now to move to Japan and just start my own restaurant I love that, not because I want to get rich but just to do so and make enough money to enjoy living in a place I love.

Back in 1995 I might have been ignorant enough to have believed either one of those two but after ten years of Japan's long dress every so often getting blown around and seeing the occasional dirty socks, I know it to not be the case. Japan has its issues like most countries do but just has different priorities in which items and where they're taken care of mainly because of unique Japanese culture.

I also vaccum everyday.

Yeah, I remember the first few times being in Japan just completely being in awe at how clean everything was. I was in Tenjin in Fukuoka earlier this year and saw the same scene every day. Elderly people picking up trash in the park, then the young people coming out, getting drunk, and trashing the place. There was trash everywhere with a police box right next to the park, AND trashcans in the park itself with ポイ捨てしないでください written everywhere lol. Definitely just depends on where you go. Tenjin was convenient but kinda trashy, tbh. 晴れる空's ramen was tops though. I'm out in the outskirts of Kitakyushu City now and it's much cleaner, but way more rural. Give and take, I guess.

Greatly informative and unbiased review of the facts. I’m looking forward to checking Japan off my travel bucket list next year.

12:42 laughed my ass out in this part we all know where ben is going with this.

Good video. My wife is Japanese and I’ve been visiting Japan since the mid 90s. It's often frustrating watching mainstream media coverage of Japan, that includes tavel shows. They only seem to be interested in the extremes, we never get to see “normal” Japan. Anyway, I’m going to check out the resy of your channel 👍

Interesting video! Your commentary about 迷惑 brought to mind a poster above the sink in my break area at work: Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. I'm not implying that Japanese do not have integrity. What I'm wondering, though, is whether they think about the impact to others of doing something, even if no one sees them doing it? Using your example of trash dumping - if someone has posted a sign to not dump trash at a location, and you do it anyway, isn't that inconveniencing those that would have to clean it up eventually? Likewise, wouldn't littering on the beach or in a forest inconvenience those that come along later hoping to enjoy unspoiled scenery? Thank you for this video, as it provides clarification and dispels some myths about Japanese society. Isn't it all too easy and common for individuals, regardless of political stripe, to wander outside their 'swim lane' in the effort to make a point?

Well done Paul!

lets say its a japan thru a jewish lens thats also not japan through some other lense :D (view from a extra law abiding citizen perspective i mean)

What do you think about the chinese cities cleanlines in the last five years (I suppose you visited China in the last five years?)?

厄介者. Ive gotten headache in Japan.

I'm gonna make a reaction video to your reaction video

I hate when people romanticize Japanese and Japanese culture. I’ve lived in japan for over 10 years now (since 2013) and i think its one of the worst cultures on the country. Yes, it is safe, yes you can leave your wallet somewhere and expect for it to be returned to a nearest police station. Japan is GREAT country- but this only is applicable if you are Japanese. Yes, foreigners can visit here under guise of being a resident, but you will never seen as Japanese. You will constantly be asked “why are you here?”, “where are you from?”, “why do you speak Japanese so well?” “Do you live in Japan?” “Is your card valid “ etc. every time you speak Japanese, wear yukata, or even use chopsticks, the Japanese will gasp in surprise at your knowledge of Japanese culture. So you will always be reminded that you are foreigner. Its not like the USA where as long as one has an American passport and speak native level English that is all the reason one will need to say they are American. Also, in Japan if you are a foreigner and if you break Japanese customs like talking on the phone in “quiet” zone, you will be unequivocally rebuked for breaking Japanese customs. However, if Japanese breaks the same laws, their is a general consensus that they have good reason too. While i love Japan for the society that they have built - japan is still very much a closed country and i don’t see them truly opening themselves up like other western countries anytime soon. I think this will be the downfall of japan. In the end, Japan will hold on to dear life to preserve their homogeneity and archaic culture. This is fine and they have every right to worship and idolize their race and history. But i think everyone else will just pull out and isolate them for being so stubborn and incompatible with modern ideals. Japan needs to really think about its future. Does it want to evolve and change and accept people who from anywhere as long as they have similar values or will continue to mistake race and culture for destiny? If that is the heel they want to die on- all power to them. But as long as this situation continues, i think it is in everyones best interest to look at japan as a place to visit for short term and not a place to work in or even live in tbh. This is my two cents

there is no criminal law against littering. not in japan, thats singapore . you cant dump industrial waste, but simple littering is not a crime. 廃棄物の処理及び清掃に関する法律」の第 16 条には、「何人も、みだりに 廃棄物を捨ててはならない」と記されています。 ・不法投棄をすると、5 年以下の懲役または 1,000 万円以下の罰金（法人の場 合は 3 億円以下の罰金）が科せられます。 i guess this is Shapiro is talking about. but depends on significance, it could be a misdemeanor. 軽犯罪法第1条27号は「公共の利益に反してみだりにごみ、鳥獣の死体その他汚物または廃物を棄てた者」 and dont report a crime to japanese police, unless its violent crime. i think they dont want to deal with small crimes. because of amount of paperwork they have to do. once, I reported car accident to police, they make me feel , I was doing something wrong. i had to give out my phone number and home address to police, everything. not worth it.

I've noticed meiwaku applies basically to everything the cops do and deal with. You can do almost anything in Japan as long as you don't make a scene, cause someone trouble, or fall asleep in a very public area. If you start a fight, steal, or cause chaos, expect to be dealt with swiftly by the police. honestly their goal is to "keep a lid" on chaos, not really law enforcement.

Such a great balanced perspective on this from someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.

STOP SAYING "WE WILL GET TO IT IN A MOMENT" GET TO IT NOW, OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE

Good video and spot on on the critic only comment isn't Kemmel more of a comedian so I understand his misconceptions. Shapiro got the bubble wrong. The bubble was the 70-80s. The 90s（when I got here) was the start of the decline.

This comment I'm making Destroys all the others 😈

I'm pretty sure Tucker Carlson was not simply impressed by shopping carts and travolators, but pointed out that according to the Western media there can be no shopping carts in Russia because there are no shops, and no food, and Russians are eating oak bark and hedgehogs, and they don't go shopping anyway because everybody in Russia was executed and then sent to gulag. He also pointed out the absence of shit and hobos in the subway, which was a contrast from American subway.

you take everything literaly. He might have exaggerated little bit for dramatic reason.

No need to feel like debunking for the sake of debunking. Trash on Japanese beaches is in big part washed ashore from other countries. Metropolises such as Tokyo and Osaka do have areas that tend to be more littered than others, mainly due to nightlife leading to trashcan overcapacity, and tourism. Also, the original videos are about public spaces and do not touch on the cleanliness of private homes, and trying to conflate the two here is disingenuous. It is a very real sociological distinction. For instance Italy has an attitude that's completely opposite, where public spaces are dirty and badly kept by the general population, while private homes are squeaky clean, tidy, and tastefully arranged, as opposed to the cluttered and at times spotty houses in Japan. The claim that Japan is super clean, if compared to things that actually exist, namely other countries, IS true. The fact that you seem not to take the scale of comparison into consideration by citing anecdotes about a used tissue, cigarette butts or yes, even a remote dumping site, frankly denotes a sheltered point of view. "Dirty", on a nationwide scale, is something else. The "nuisance" part you got right, but missing the point: it's not limited to the temporal fragment acts are committed in, otherwise perfectly unnoticeable things would accumulate in no time giving rise to streets full of trash everywhere, which is not the case in Japan and actually is in other areas of the world. Also you point at a supposed logical fallacy in Ben Shapiro's reasoning (which by the way, is indeed laughable garbage, just like Jimmy Kimmel's naive and simplistic take is) while failing to notice that you're making it a point of yours to establish a causal link between population growth and GDP per capita (only for you to casually retract it a moment later without cutting it out), and completely ignoring the biggest blindspot, that being the (quintessentially American) lack of understanding that bigness, or numerical superiority in this case in GDP or wages, does not equate to better overall quality of life. The act of balancing the "Japan is a perfect utopia" delusion by countering it with "It's like anywhere else" is utterly misleading, as the latter exposes the same amount of ignorance. Japan displays a set of pros and cons, and cultural mores they're informed by, that are very much idiosyncratic to it, in its distribution in quality and quantity. It does by orders of magnitude do better in and at various quantifiable and less quantifiable international parameters. Compared to other countries, it *absolutely* is clean, on top of being very neatly organised, both in gigantic metropolises, smaller cities, towns, rural and other natural areas. That combination at that scale with that consistency is just unheard of in any other country, and does warrant the admiration for it that it overwhelmingly gets from visitors and expats alike from all over the world.

As usual great video mate. Thanks! Always love seeing your non-sneaker content on my feed😊 As for the naturalisation of japan, i know that you have to give up your original passport. But if i am not wrong its not enforced that strictly right? Because i did read that some have kept their original passport while having the jap passport. Or am i wrong over here and japan does checks it out very minutely that you have given up your passport of your origin country? A bit confused here

downvote for the title

Kensington, Philadelphia.

I believe Ben’s point is that small countries with homogeneous population and strict immigration policies tend to be clean. You are just mixing dual citizenship logic to prove Ben wrong. For USA, 900k is just naturalization. On top of it add illegals, undocumented and visa overstay folks. I don’t think Japan has any southern border migration problem.

Finally an immigrant in Japan who doesn't live in a Disneyland bubble, looked around him and bothered looking beyond the surface and that's not something easy to do in Japan. Moreover people don't pick up after themselves but elderly people who need to keep doing menial jobs to survive pick up the trash behind people all day.