Guy visits a Japanese Slum run by the Yakuza | Guy Martin Proper 

Tell me ... I live in Africa

they might be living in the slum but they dont act like a slum. maybe living in slum and poverty to them doesnt mean you have to lose your morals and discipline, and lived disorderly. great mindset indeed.

This is the reason i love Japan. There is an order, people are clean and considerate. This is missing in many western countries.

@@14KroshTV Caused by a generous welfare system, even the poorest can be affluent enough to not get pulled into gang activity and delinquency

Texas is smiliest slum in the world state full of big fat blondes holding confederate flag while she sucking there uncles , white powders living that American dream

Impossible to have free wifi, it will cripple the economy.

That’s because this isn’t a slum by any stretch of the imagination

To achieve a developed country depends entirely on the people living in that country. Some countries can never develop because of the people living in those countries.

X X so what’s your impression of Japanese people in general? Or maybe your image of them as a nation?

@@shizuokaBLUES The Japanese have a high mean IQ. This enables them to build a fully developed, highly advanced, modern country. The Japanese have a long history and a rich, unique and diverse culture. Japan is one of the few modern "western" countries that has kept it's homogeneity and core culture intact. A fact envied and applauded in equal measure by so many in the West that have watched helplessly as successive governments have dragged them into a dark, dangerous abyss of multiculturalism and multiracialism. The Japanese are gentle, honourable people, but woe betide anyone who does not recognise or understand the warrior that runs deep in every true Japanese heart and soul.

Haha fr man japan seems so clean and futuristic almost ;0

😂

Sweet Pea sounds like you know the slums, you must be from India

@Sweet Pea the most ignorant comment of the month. And yes, i live in Japan.

you should realy visit berlin at night the ghettos there "wonderfull" (no go areas) oh and bring some guns with you otherwise.. well .. can get pretty fast ugly...

@@christianmunsch5590 You know that's not true.

@Sweet Pea I live in Yokohama and have never seen new construction like you're describing. Everything is quite sturdy. I've seen some older buildings that were cheap metal construction though.

@Sweet Pea No that's me.

japanese goverment do keeping thing clean... apart of shibuya and shinjuku.... which is nearly impossible to keep it clean all the time... they just increase more police..like new year or halloween.

Nor east, middle east, south america, africa,

Wouldn't say all of the west per sé

that being said slums are usually ''safer'' especially for tourists when there's a local mafia running them

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(Where the slum,where the slum where the slum at,looking better than a hood in the u.s.)

After living in Japan for three years, visiting Yokohama, Tokyo and Kyoto I can tell you that really does look like a slum compared to the rest of Yokohama. Even now I live in sasebo and it doesn't look like that slum

Barbars...knows nothin'

@@Dys05 You consider that a slum from a japanese standards?...... In our country we call that Rich Man housing.

Not in japan

@Terry Francona Can agree, Japanese and live in Tokyo, umbrellas and bicycles are fair game to the select ruffians of society here. Of course if your umbrella or bicycles are clearly unique in appearance or how expensive it looks I feel people will leave it alone.

same in italy, if you befriend some mafia thugs... Difference is Slums in italy are literally "slums"...

Japan is a heavenly place for bikes. BMX is HUGE in Japan and you can let your bikes by themselves on the street and nobody will steal them!

@Hermann Goering there are. There even is a very popular and known one who has his own show in Japan. Saitama

"high tech" lol. It's the exact same tech as a vending machine, but probably less complicated.

The "Hotel No-Tell". 😉

but you don't want to used black light with it....

that's super simple technology

@@ffghjj9996 I mean in 95% of countries this is top of the line, imagine an actual high quality love hotel in japan

Curious, what would be a Japanese equivalent of a slum as an American would understand?

It’s true that trafficking and extortion are not considered a petty crimes generally.

You're not very bright are you? If you actually watched the video you would know how it was repeated multiple times that these "slums" are much different than the ones in other countries, dummy. They're visiting both the best and the worst parts of the country, and if the worst parts of Japan are better than the worst parts of some other countries then so be it, they're still relatively bad for Japan's standards

Mfw when japan’s lowest is better than the highest of some countries.

krunkle There isn’t an equivalent - a slum implies a concentration of old dilapidated or make shift structures where poor people live. They don’t exist here, so there isn’t an equivalent. I have lived in Japan for 15 years, traveled to 43 of its 47 prefectures, and am fluent. It seems to me that this anthropologist and reporter were just trying to get views. Yakuza aren’t dangerous to most people of you don’t own them money or insult them.

Japanese people are remarkably tidy. It's sort of a point of national pride.

@@andrewsinclair7159 national pride and most of them are only themself to blame for them beeing homeless. so its not its countries fault. thats why they wont litter and be terrible. like in the states etc.

​@@blablabla983 Well let me ask you this, guy. The US has about 2.6 times the population of Japan, but it has 145 times the number of homeless. Why do you think that is? I'm interested in your opinion as someone from Norway, a country with a high standard of living propped up by a world-renowned social welfare system.

@@andrewsinclair7159 well im absolutely no expert. but i saw a documentary about homless in japan and many of them said they couldnt bear the guilt of not providing for their families, (loosing their jobs etc) and they would rather leav them and become homless than be stepped on by guilt and sorrow.. pretty remarkable. and yes, i am pretty damn lucky to grow up in norway. love it here :)

@@blablabla983 You are really lucky to live in Norway. You guys also have a lot fewer homeless because you have social safety nets that keep people from being bankrupted by medical expenses. You provide comfortable and dignified lives for the disabled. The system reflects a society where people have a sense of responsibility toward each other, and that government therefore has a responsibility to care for communities. That's something Norway has in common with Japan. It's the opposite in America. You can become homeless for 20 different reasons that aren't your fault, but if you ask for help, people tell you to quit being lazy and get a job. They think you're to blame for being homeless because you were lazy or made bad decisions. It's twisted because 40% of homeless people in America are disabled, and disability assistance is a joke. Honestly, that surprised me about Japan though. I had no idea anyone in the world would ever choose to be homeless, because I'm used to how Americans talk about the issue and blame the victims. But for Japan, it makes a weird kind of sense. I can easily see some salaryman getting fired and choosing to live on the street because he's too ashamed to fill out the welfare forms. It still sounds insane to me, but it also seems like a pretty Japanese thing to do. But that just reinforces my belief in the effectiveness of social safety nets. Japan has apparently been so successful at eliminating homelessness that just about the only way to be homeless in Japan is to do so on purpose and actively refuse government help. Thanks for teaching me something new!

theif are everywhere...

He's from Grimsby isn't he? That's as rough as Fk.

Blessed Runcorn

Heard the UK has terrorist and rapist walking around in broad daylight

yea so by your logic gangsters cant be tidy huh?

The point is, Japan is safe even in the slums no1 will rob or beat u, i think thats the whole point of the video so no need to compare whats most dangerous. The sickest part is the most crime you will experience if any at all is someone stealing your umbrella, because you leave your umbrella outside the store!

@Chadwicked B rather new damaskus or neo instanbul indeed...

@@maiy8786 Habe den LinksCuck gefunden woop woop. Schaut mal wie ich ihn trigger achtung achtung. A F D :O :O: :O

@@maiy8786 deswegen bleibe ich ja hier ;D ;D ;D

cringe

*germanistan meanwhile japan still japan even in his worst neighborhood

Cleaner than my neighborhood LOL

@@ezadviper much much cleaner than any town, city or village ive ever seen in the entire of the UK

@@giraffe3718 speaks volumes doesn't it.

@@adamsharkey9579 It does.

@@giraffe3718 because the UK is scummy as fuck

Depends what part of Hull, it wasn't too bad when I went back last year

Matt Smith Walgrave street was closed off with armed police because of some lunatic with a sword

Matt Smith lets be fair tho, this place is a ‘slum’ Hull is just a shit hole 😂

Japans dont have blacks and muslims :)

if the Germans had won the war, you'd all be speaking sense.

You mean exactly

If you look at him, you see sneaky nob jockey.

I've seen them for research purposes only.

Doesn't matter. All the naughty bits a pixelated out anyway.

The criminal thinks wow perfect they went into an alley way for me how convenient

Did you notice the alley led to a dead end too? lol

The yakuza also run human trafficking rings, dog fights and they use their women as gang prostitutes, what's your point?

Alastair Wright Point is they are not all bad. Dog fighting, not that I approve, is only banned in certain prefectures. I right beside the so called red light district and it’s safe 24x7.

Donald MacDonald no. Their deed is not indicative of their morality. It’s indicative of the government’s immorality. They are the Kandata from Akutagawa’s Spider’s Thread.

@@donaldmacdonald4901 Mate they're bloody criminals are we being serious now? Having "organised" infront of "crime" doesn't make it any better. Is human trafficking also not banned in certain prefectures? How about extorting money from business owners using the guise of "protection fees"? And you can learn all that with a quick google search, imagine delving any deeper.

Alastair Wright well the ones I know are fine. Sometimes people just don’t have the same choices.

ye noticed it as well! same colour as mine! :)

My first was like this silver, ap1.

Lol I had a silver one too.

Texas is smiliest slum in the world state full of big fat blondes holding confederate flag while she sucking there uncles , white powders living that American dream

@@user-kz2op2ge6u wut

I totally agree. That's the only bad thing about it, the episodes need to be five times longer.

Lol

no japan river is dirty.. it clean due to fast water and people don't let anything toxic in it... i look at you people who throw shit in river...

There's only so much you can do before circumstances brick wall you

yep... All about culture...

Where do you think the circumstances come from?

David Smith outside influences maybe? Things you have no control over? But you can choose how to play the best hand with what you’re dealt. I believe anyway. Obviously there are individuals that have very sad circumstances, but we’re talking about a community here.

Columbakin yes, the circumstances are a given. I believe a strong community can surpass them though. I’m not well travelled, but I have noticed, through books and documentaries that even some of the poorest communities in the remotest parts of the world seem to laugh and live and love far more readily than wealthy nations.

So the Yakuza basically help desperate people live normal lives outside mainstream society?

They go way beyond that. The whole premise is based on honor. Only in Japan would a gang come out right after an earthquake and help people. They do more than any gangster would over here. Yakuza=Honorable Gangster. I'd be willing to bet that there is less trouble there than anywhere else in the city.

Just because some gangster are honorable don't mean all are. Don't get it twisted they still Rob kill steal etc. Stop being romantic about them. Sure it's nice they helped out, but that's just like drug dealers giving out turkeys during Christmas.

@@thanors2 I won't condone the crime aspect of their doings, but they are decidedly a far cry from the gangsters we have here.

@@macgyveratlarge2133 I can admit they are tamer than most. But I just don't like how ppl condone crime if it's honorable. At the end of day these guys still hurt people. I'm glad though your realistic about these guys

LOL. Seriously.

I think Yakuza generally are cool with you if your cool with them

@steve gale only 110.000 or so ,so yeah hardly any left haha

@steve gale they cant fight i knocked 4 out in a fight in the summer

@John Murdoch LMFAO

Stephen Fox tough guy huh, I’m really scared.

no way london is beautiful with nice architecture.

MrWalker1000 yeah central posh areas and hipster area but normal places

@@MrWalker1000 go to ladbroke grove or peckham haha

Probably because they didn’t let a bunch of immigrants in

@@user-fz3sz2dj4r That's 100% true

Probably safer than any place I south Africa.

SA is wild land....

Texas is smiliest slum in the world state full of big fat blondes holding confederate flag while she sucking there uncles , white powders living that American dream

@@user-kz2op2ge6u lmao this is fucking funny since its true

@ Favelas are worse. Even Manenberg, Hanover Park, etc...

@ I totally agree that Cape Flats is utter shit, I was just giving an opinion that it's not the worst out there. Luckily SA has lots more to offer and is a decent place to live (unless you're poor). I'm not leaving SA anytime soon. I'm sure expats like @serpentza won't agree though.

Gill the liberal sycophant holier than thou.

until you see some wreido.... that is when the feeling unsafe are...

alot of Yakuza don't had home.. no bank account nor their own cell phone number... mostly owned by local boss...

That's crazy man, I've watched several documentaries about Yamaguchi Gumi and their HQ seem to be in pretty beaultiful area. Have you ever seen a police operation going up there, where hundreds of policemen line up in the street?

You beat me to it. It's the cleanest "slum"/"ghetto" I've EVER seen!!

in America we'd just say criminal

if you got 2 square meters of property you can buy ent vending machine and for monthly payment it's gonna be refilled every morning, that's why everyone's doing it.