I like how disney felt like they were the ones who got screwed after trying to screw them with a 50 year contract XD If they accepted the 5-10 year contract, they would have been alot happier
I like how Asianometry always bring many unique topics which are original as well as interesting while rest of the RU-vid is just filled with same repeated random trash
As a person who has been to Japan a few times and appreciates attention to detail, I can tell that you have experience with some of this and did your research. Your pronunciations and information are very good. In my personal life, I’m a very avid distance runner and have lived in the Orlando area for over 25 years. Urayasu, Japan has been one of Orlando’s sister cities for a very long time. Since the 1980’s, the Orlando Runners Club has shared a cultural exchange program with the Urayasu Runners Club, and every year each group sends between 4 to 8 runners to each city’s half marathon. I had always had interests relating to Japan, but when I was chosen in 2013 for the program, I really fell in love with the country and culture. Since then I’ve returned to run the Tokyo Marathon, hosted Japanese runners in Orlando, and even worked in the Japanese division of the television network I used to work for. But I always do a lot of research before visits and have tried to learn some of the language with proper pronunciation and customs. The Japanese are an incredibly polite people, are very respectful in every way, very clean, not greedy or excessive, and appreciate even the smallest things. Definitely an example for how that I would like to see Americans behave more like. Great video. It was nice to watch such a thorough short documentary, and see some photos around Urayasu.
Never been to Tokyo Disney but from other Disney RU-vid videos it seems like people enjoyed it better (better value especially hotels) then World Disney.
Nice segment. I first got to go to Tokyo Disney in 1986, when living just 30 or so minutes away by back streets, in Edogawa. First time I had even attended a Disney park. Was pretty good, and ended up going in the middle of the week a few times, before summer vacation started. The Tokyo Sea Disney was/is better in my opinion. It seemed to me that the Oriental land company managed to do quite well with that agreement. And yes, knew they had gained the project without any ownership by Disney. Funny to hear about Disney advising on behavior - Japanese customer service and interpersonal communications at the retail level had been much superior to that found in America, including Disney, since the 80s.
It's not about behaving better or worse, there's specific Disney nuances, like the way public facing employees are referred to as cast members and to a degree behave as though they're part of a performance.
I've been going to the Tokyo parks for 25+ years now. And the really old school Japanese fans tell me that Cast Members were much better then than they have been in the past decade here. As for me, I love the CMs in Tokyo.
@@westrim Yes. Not talking just about good/bad behavior. When it comes to supporting the corporate culture of a firm, the Japanese workforce, or a good portion, has displayed a rather good ability at doing so successfully, for quite awhile, especially when it comes to customer service. Including in hospitality (nuances and all; see Edo Wonderland near Nikko for a more contemporary example). Now am not sure how extensive their parks industry was back then, but the video clip talked about other ideas being pitched; and if you go to places like Sagamiko, there are still dated amusement parks up there.
Thanks gods that Disneyland close to Fuji never happened. I lovd visiting Fuji and nature surrounding it! The last thing this place need is a huge plastic town...
Happy Christmas my friend. It's the same with every curve ball you throw. I shrug, I click to watch something I know nothing about and 'bang!' I haven't looked away for 20-30mins.
Regarding the railroad around Westernland only, I always heard that if they gave it more than one stop, they would have to charge a fee to ride, just like the monorail (and my head canon was that they decided that having a railroad around the entire park would be too long without a stop). It's possible it was a combination of the point you also brought up and the fee issue.
Both. The fee requirement was a legal barrier. The outside world look was an artistic one. However, both requirements changed by the time the DisneySea Electric Railway opened in 2001.
I knew that Oriental Land Corp owns Tokyo Disneyland/Disney Sea but I did not know this was only done in Japan. For those interested in Nara Dreamland's history, Defunctland did a video on it some years back.
Okay now please do history of Sanrio world. That place was like a two hour train ride to an empty part of the city. And the theme looked like it’d been a German park and Sanrio just bought it
Some of this is missing context for the time OLC was a huge land developer, and that was part of the reason they got the leasing rights to the theme park. OLC doesn't own the Disney license but rather leases it, similar to a franchise. Disney does have stuff to a limit. Notice how Splash Mountain hasn't been rethemed this is because Disney had asked for the retheme but because the wouldn't help with the cost of the retheme OLC declined. This licensing of the rights came at a dark time for Disney which was under attack from all side and was under a green mail attack.
Orient is only offensive for Americans for some reason. It doesn't offend anybody in Asia. Nor in the near east, nor in the far east. Stop getting offended on other people's behalf.
Wokists especially don't know anything about the world because they only know their own elite bubble. They haven't set a foot in Asia and therefor will never understand that discrimination/racism and stereotyping is a universal thing and that in Asia, there is way more discrimination of Asians against Asians (and anyone else not from Asia) than whatever you will find in Europe or USA/Canada.
I love this topic. Can't watch now but I enjoy all your videos! Also, have you made a video/post about the japanese keitai scene in the 2000s? I think it would make an awesome topic
The railroad doesn’t go round the park because if it did it would have to stick to a timetable - Japanese rail would not allow a theme park to operate differently
Never understood why "oriental" could be offensive. It just means exotic, mysterious, over there and a method of knotting a tie. I think that'd be kinda cool. I'm just a boring old westerner slamming cheeseburgers but I don't find "Westerner" to be a slur. Depends on who you talk to. It's just a label to categorize things you experience through life. Oriental doesn't make me assume anything other than "Easterner" unlike let's say "gypsy". For that I'd assume the archetype of vagrant, lawless, rogue. Oriental is simply too vague.
It's more of an issue for Asian-Americans than for Asians, they view it as potentially pejorative term separating them as a permanent 'other'. They don't want to be exotic and mysterious, they want to be your trustworthy neighborhood insurance agent or whatever.
Offensiveness has no logic, it is just when some people start to feel offended. Like the n word is literally just the Latin word for black, but one is offensive the other is considered normal. Or even more ridiculous in Germany we have streets named in honor of the people called Mohr that brought us medicine and now people claim this is offensive and should be renamed, just because they payed no attention at history.
@@cherubin7thoffensiveness does have a logic. But there is no logic in this case. Japanese don’t see the “Oriental” word as offensive, whilst everyone sees the n word as offensive.
I've been to Japan many times. Nobody there is offended by the word Oriental. The word simply means from the East. They call everyone else Westerner. We have to stop the nonsense.
The other nice thing about Tokyo Disneyland is it hasn't caved to 'modern sensibilities' over in America yet. Its Splash Mountain hasn't been desecrated by discount bin imagineers.
Did the executive ever say, " I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden"? (sorry...flashbacks) I can't believe how popular that place is! Almost more so than the domestic Disneylands...I wonder how the demographic shifts will affect that in the future?
For the longest time since the Bubble Era and afterwards, the single Japanese woman had the highest disposable income of any demographic group in the world. And THAT was the exact target OLC focused on for years.
I stopped watching and down-voted the video after I heard the words, "vaguely offensive name." The ignorance is staggering. "Oriental" is a synonym of "eastern" and an antonym of "occidental." And, the Oriental Land Company, of course, was created by Japanese people. Were they offending themselves when they gave the organization that name? "Oriental" is only potentially offensive when one uses the word to describe human beings. Oriental rugs, and the like, are anodyne.
