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Is it the same for you? Whenever I eat a cake or candy in Japan, it seems like they forgot to put in sugar. In next year's Christmas video: Cheese macaroni and cake.
In Germany, some say "I've been whamed" when they encounter this particular song in the wild. We loathe this song so much that we try to avoid at all times. It's the same here, really, at least in the music department.
Yes, thank you very much. All the people I know in Berlin were safe. I have to say, George Michael dying during christmas is a rather cruel joke of 2016. *_*.... I hope you and your family are well!
@@Dogen Do you know about Japan's obsession with Germany? No? Lemme introduce: 1. Last Christmas by wham! dominates the charts 2. Christmas is celebrated on 24th of December 3. Kentucky is kinda not successful in Germany, sorry. It looks like Japan hadn't have goose or duck either. XP
Yeah that’s true, even though younger generations still enjoy it. While that may be a bit repetitive, we do have a lot of other lovely and traditional Christmas songs over here, mostly for children though haha (like “In der Weihnachtsbäckerei“)
This is my first Christmas in Japan instead of England and it is slowly killing me so far. Whenever I ask people where I could possibly buy a turkey, they look at me like I am insane. I am half wondering whether to drown my Christmas sorrows at Universal Studios for the day at Christmas, because I know they have turkey there! This video was both funny and very relatable!
KFC KFC KFC KFC! No, but for real, I hope you didn't expect Japanese people to be cooking whole turkeys for Christmas. If so, I can understand why you'd be disappointed.
Actually some people eat turkeys for Christmas in Japan too! That’s not majority tho😕 And you could buy them in Costco or some supermarkets like normally.
The ONE TIME I visited Japan was in December. This song came on while I was in a konbini. I swear everybody turned to glance at me, as if to say, "Is this not the song of your people?"
I can literally never tell if you're overjoyed to be in Japan, or these videos are all coded cries for help. Also, is it on purpose that your English matches your face perfectly, yet your japanese sounds like a very tired old man doing his best to be polite when he really wants to break a window with someone else's head?
If he wasn't overjoyed he wouldn't even be making the videos in the first place tbh. Someone who hates their stay in a country will tell one story about their experience, then never talk about it again, not that they could because they left after a month. Well, i supposed there's the occasional unlucky idiot that gets unwanted kids or something.
Hahaha right, Japanese, they take something from other culture and mostly make it becomes something that's totally different from the original, for example, KATAKANA.
same with anime and games. for example: in both fate/stay night (anime) and xenoblade 2 (game) there are a lot of biblical references but they usually completely misrepresent anything from the bible giving it a weird sort of Japanese-i-ness to it . It's as if they're trying to make something European or American, then don't understand it, and end up creating something super-over-the-top Japanese.
Don't forget that Christmas in the US is all about spending time with family, often the only time the extended family sees each other all year. In Japan, it's.....pretty much exclusively for couples. Yeah, there's stuff for kids too but the real focus is those Christmas Eve dates.
I never actually saw the music video for Last Christmas, but from the clips shown it kinda looks like the generic videos that are played during karaoke
The fact that he played that Underoath song implies that Dogen had a significant emo phase growing up, or perhaps he is a closet emo kid who releases all of it during Christmas
These videos are such a unique and refreshing exploration into the challenges of dealing with the pet peeves of living in a foreign country. He expresses these feelings in such a lighthearted, unoffensive way and doesn’t retread over the same ones we hear about over and over again.
I just watched one of your videos one time because it randomly popped up in my recommendations and now my recommendations are flooded with your vids. ... _not that I'm complaining_ Subbed!
When my mom and I went to Japan briefly in December 2018 to enjoy the christmas season in Tokyo Disneyland, we were flummoxed by how christmas is a romantic holiday in Japan??? It made no sense to us. But as we watched the christmas music show in Tokyo Disneysea harbour, listening to 'all I want for christmas' and 'santa baby' and 'let it snow', we started to see how Japan had gotten the impression it was a holiday for couples...
Emo Japanese christmas sounds great, It's a place where I can just sigh and smoke around the street and look as depressed as I actually am.....wait......damn it Wham! XD
The story about Last Christmas is still true to this day. I went to Japan for the first time two weeks ago and that song played on a loop at a Book Off in Osaka o_O I probably heard it at least three times during my time there.
It's the second day of December. I've just heard "Last Christmas" (cover with delightful melody) played at the shoes store on my way back from work, just an hour before. Then I came back here...
Hi, I just found your channel while learning Japanese and first of all a big thank you and I am so impressed with your language skills!!! One thing from your video... You said they are one day off in Japan with celebration Christmas... When is the date then in Japan? Just asking because basically the whole countries in Europe celebrate Christmas on 24th December... And it's always strange to hear from Americans that they celebrate on 25th...
This just happened to pop up thanks to the algorithm but "Last Christmas" being played so frequently in Japan is 1000% true! Honestly, I hardly ever heard that song before I went to live there but now...
I just realized this... mas and matsuri. While the mas in Christmas has nothing to do with a matsuri, but derives from mæsse. But it nearly has the same meaning... mind blown!
Some norwegian traditions = 1. Christmas calender show, 24 episodes. 2. ONE MILION KINDS OF COOKIES, I kid you not. It's not uncommon to forget about them, then only to find then two Year later.... Hehe... 3. Putting out "grøt" for the small people, the "nisse" 4. This might be a bit personal, but a candy tabel. 5. Xmas soda!!! 6. In general we eat A LOT. Not only do we make many big family dinners, but theres all these xmas topping for bread, and lots of fruits... In Norway, you do gain during this season.
Meanwhile in germany (12.01): *all radio stations* Last Christmas countdown! Every day! Until Christmas! We wont stop, even when your ears are bleeding. Merry Christmas
haha, This video is the best! Although in Japan and America christmas is one day. In South Africa it's almost a month. Almost the entire country closes between the 19th of December and the 2nd of January. Try and find a shop that's open between then and all you'll get is one dimly lit super market with one lady behind the till. Odds are you'd have to wake her up to ring up your groceries!
haha yeah, it is the middle of summer. Nothing like a hearty family meal, with windows wide open, fans blowing away all your serviettes and the smell of sweat. The funny thing is that we sometimes get left over christmas adverts from the UK, so they all have snow in them. Some of use have never even seen snow.
xxD That's great Naa I grew up atheist in the `States but I still celebrate Christmas, the traditions are so fun and cute! I just think of Santa and the cute myth of putting decorations on the tree to coax the Spring faires out of the evergreen trees to bring back warm weather... it doesn't really make much sense living in the US South where it's often hot in the Winter but... I still love the story. xD
Apart from the 2 million christians (both japanese and forgeiners) living in Japan its really interesthing to see how some non christians only celebrate it for the celebration and family/friends gathering itself without any religious connotation amd make it a tradition of their own, I do the same in my christian majority country despite being an atheist and I would probably do the same for Ramadan ot Hanukah if it was celebrated here.
In Ireland, the only Christmas song you'll hear is Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. Once was working in a field in the arsehole of nowhere only to have a postie pull up blasting that song. No escape.
Wait, Santa Claus is a human in America? In Norway, he's kind of a spirit. You could joke that he's the most powerful spirit/elf-like creature in the world since every child gives him tribute. (In the US it's milk and cookies, in Norway it's rice porridge. Not congee mind you.)
I watch this 4 years later, a few days after Christmas. This video was hilarious. Even without this video, Last Christmas is the last song I would put on my Christmas playlist. 🤣🤣 I'm not from Japan nor US. My meeting with "Japan" mainly came from anime and manga. And indeed, whenever I find "Christmas event" on anime and manga, I only find the "mas" part. Not to mention the SANTA costumes. Sometimes it disturbs me that they even put a sexy santa costume on one's character. Does this happen on Japan's Christmas irl? 😅😂
You failed to mention one thing about Christmas songs in Japan: This experience could have been way out of the ordinary (it happened to me once in two months that I was in Japan - which means this is obviously a common occurrence, and I know all about Japanese culture and experience). In the US there are strict requirements for playing Christmas songs on the radio: you may not begin playing Christmas songs any sooner than the 31 of October (RIP Halloween and Thanksgiving), and may not play Christmas songs after the 25th of December. Going beyond these dates is an unspoken faux pas. However, this past June, when I was in a *small* town in Japan, some odd instrumental, disney-esque (and possibly royalty free) version of some common Christmas jingle (maybe jingle bells) was undoubtedly playing over the speakers at a restaurant. I was seemingly the only one of my Japanese cohort to take notice (or they also noticed just didn't want to point out the oddity - it's not like I said anything out loud either. I probably just looked a little crazy making a quizzical expression, then smiling to myself).
Here in Norway, everything seems to be a bit of a mix between the two, where we listen to all the songs you listed (although it might be a bit annoying after you realize that some start playing them in august). We don't eat turkey, or fried chiken however, amd have either a for of pork, or sheep (Idk how common this is in other countries, and don't know what it would be called). And although 60% of Norway is supposedly christian, most people just seem to use it as an occasion to celebrate the holiday with family, rather than anything religious
