Is Japan Safe? [Ft. jakenbakeLIVE] 

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Been living in jp for 8 years now... Once, I had my bike stolen (left it unlocked) from my building's bike area... came back later in the day and it had been returned. Haha!

Thanks for another great video :D Japan is definitely one of the safest countries but as what was said, people also need to realise that anything can happen anywhere and no where is completely safe.

I think Finland is also pretty safe. Most of the situations that you guys described could happen here as well.

yo this episode got real intense really quickly lol

Very interesting discussion, you guys had me hooked the whole time. Thanks a lot once again for the awesome video.

except your umbrellas - your umbrellas are never safe in japan

There is always that one situation where you find yourself in japan experiencing something...a little off or not quite right. Mine isn't dramatic or bad but I was waiting for the train to go back to Kyoto from Arashiyama, this was in the afternoon, wasn't even night time. So i was on my mobile looking at twitter, and as i stood more people started to come onto the platform, and one person with a face mask stood next to me, and started leaning towards me as if they wanted to see what i was doing on my mobile, so i took a step over to create some distance between us, and then they closed the space I had made by stepping closer to me, i thought it was a fluke so i moved over again and then they did the same, by that point i was like "nopeeee this guy is doing this on purpose" so i turned locked my mobile and moved myself completely away from the guy onto the more crowded part of the platform inbetween people (i'm fairly short so i disappear easily), saw him looking around but he didn't follow me thankfully. That was when I was like okay, Japan is safe but there are always those stray moments that can happen. On contrast I was walking at night time back to my airbnb in Kyoto every night and no one gave any sh*ts. So, there are fluke moments, but majority Japan is pretty darn safe.

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Wow I’m surprised how calmly you both told your stories... I would have reacted telling the story different or even responding to it differently... both are very brave glad you both are okay.. I knew already not by experience but just the thought that anything could happen to everybody it’s just by chance... gives me a different perspective but I hope coming to japan alone will be okay since I already book my ticket lol

A cup of tea and my tea talk!!! A husband is naturally protective of his wife. We went on our honeymoon and 3 years later I went on my first solo trip to Japan and he was totally fine with it safety wise because of what we experienced the first time!!

I was stationed in Yokosuka for 2 years and never had a problem with safety. No one really bothered me all that much unless I went into the city, but they were mostly just trying to aggressively sell me something so I ignored them.

Thanks for the insight, TCT always delivers! :)

Your experience of being ignored in times of crisis reminded me once more of 冷たい東京

True, nowhere is really 100% safe, except maybe Antarctica, nobody is going to steal your stuff there, because there's nobody around. What you said about leaving your expensive stuff such as a new phone and going to get a coffee, returning and your stuff is still there is very nice. Maybe me think (in a joking way) how someone in Switzerland would walk in the street and their gold bar fell out of their pocket, but the person hadn't noticed it and the other Swiss people call out to him because the poor man lost his only gold bar, he needs it for the day to survive and not starve. Which then reminds me of my country where if you leave your bike outside unlocked, it can get stolen, does not happen all the time, but there have been cases where the bike was locked, they took the seat and left. Oh and there people who enter buildings and if they see bikes, they might steal them. Sometimes the bikes are parked behind stairs or just there, the best is having them all behind a locked door so anyone who manages to enter the building, also need to get into that room. From my perspective, Japan seems relatively safe, might even say much safer than my country, which is again much safer than USA (or so I heard from some people from the US). Going there would be really nice, but first comes the language. After that comes the money, then the loooong travelling. Thanks for making this video, it was nicely informative.

Great episode! 😁 I would also like to know more about earthquakes in Japan, how foreigners feel about it, experiences etc. 🤔

Nice intro! ✨

Honestly, every time I hear more about Japan going on the honor system, it makes me fear for the upcoming Olympics. While you would HOPE that most people dumping that much money into attending the event wouldn't be stupid enough to take advantage of Japan or cause problems, its still unlikely that nothing will happen. There's far too many people who will be getting wasted, be high on victory celebrations, angry from their country losing something, etc, who will cause problems (some of these countries being notorious for rioting after losing matches). I'm hoping that that's part of what Japan is preparing for, but my biggest hope is that it won't force them to adopt a lot of our extreme security measures or be more wary of foreigners.

These are more stuff from my first trip to Japan back in 2008... perhaps because I paid more attention to it back then in comparison to the last trip in 2018. xD Dunno why. But situations: - a line of bags just laying around in train stations. We thought it was super weird, but like, people just left their bags there and went to do other stuff... go to the restroom, buy something from a vending machine, get a bento. The bags were all there unattended; - we spotted a few different honor system stores - like, products or produce just laying there neatly on the sidewalk all priced with a box for you to deposit the payment, no one watching, no one around. I remember several parks also had those for stuff like carp food or something; - upon arriving, we found kinda weird how many people were just sleeping on trains and metro, leaving bags unattended and all. A week in we were doing the same thing. Those friggin heated seats; :P - we went into this clothes shopping mall... I don't remember where in Tokyo. Probably Shibuya. The entire floor was open, such a weird sight. Like, you had a route to go through with a different color and style of flooring, but that was basically all that separated one store from another, no windows, no gates, no doors, no clear visible separation between stores other than the flooring. It was a bit confusing for us who are all used to shoplifting deterrents, metal gates, windows displayes and all that jazz. Now, for cases... nothing really happened bad to us in that sense. But we were in a big matsuri in Tokyo, can't remember which park, our relative who had been living there for 40 years already said we should be careful about pickpockets in that particular park during crowded matsuris because there had already been cases. I remember there was someone with a monkey doing some sort of presentation, and it was specially withing those crowds that some pickpockets got their way. Mind you, this was previous to smartphone era, so the worry was more about money in purses. I feel like both cases that Jake and Shizuka talked about are only likely to happen in big cities like Tokyo.... too many people, frantic life, there's bound to be some crazy folks, gangs, and stuff like that. Tokyo having some violence, some danger and some problems are more related to it's size more than anything else. In comparison to some other countries, probably smaller cities in Europe, US, Canada might be safer... but if you compare major metropolitan areas from other countries, then I think it's still way more relatively safe. Like, if you are really going to do an apples to apples comparison, it'd be Toronto vs Tokyo, New York vs Tokyo or Madrid vs Tokyo and others. I have personally been in New York and Madrid... Toronto only in the airport. xD But I think all of those cities are way more dangerous than Tokyo. My country has no basis for comparison... even the smaller cities here are way more violent than Tokyo - I live in Brazil. Apples to Apples would be either Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, which requires no analysis - those cities are both basically under civil war between violent police forces and criminal factions 24/7.

5:50 Nah, Shizuka, I do that all the time in my country(Norway). I leave my fairly expensive(at least for me) camera and backpack out on the street sometimes when going into stores. Also we have like unattended farm stores where you can come and take eggs and potatoes and stuff, and just leave the money for it in a box, or even take out your own change. No-one ever steals from it. I know you got similar stuff to that in Japan too. The big exception in Norway is the Oslo region, and anywhere in general lotsa with tourists and/or immigrants. Obviously if you grew up in another country, you won't have the local attitude. So Tokyo being a 20x bigger city than Oslo, it's impressive they still have this "rural" attitude of trusting their neighbour.

The punishment in japan is so much harsher then most other countries, which relates to the "lower" crime rates

I always learn so much from your videos,,,,thanks for a job well done guys

I knew about Jake's story from before, but for Shizuka's I expected her to say it was a friend of hers joking, or something. That's really scary! :o Personally I'm worried about yakuza people, but I think in general it's a good feeling that Japan is pretty safe. But you should always still be cautious when it comes to serious danger.

My friend has had similar experience as Shizuka, but the guy followed her home then attacked, soo scary, lucky she had her backpack and fended him off. 😖 So far i've not had any bad experiences...

quite close to fukusima. do you think it is safe?????

They might not cat call, but propositioning a stranger is not unheard of.

Where can I buy the espresso kinokonoyama? I’ve been looking in my local conbini, but to no avail.

if the reference is USA i feel like most places are safe... its not unusual in Canada to have people stop you if you drop your wallet take it to a "lost and found" or ship it in the mailbox with all the cards and money intact...

I lived in Yokohama for 11 months while studying at university on exchange. I felt pretty safe most of the time but I have witnessed some... things. - One of my friends had her bag stolen on the train - it was returned at a station in Saitama (we were going to Ikebukuro), but whoever had stolen it had rearranged her purse (like they'd cleaned it up for her, lol) AND stole her money. Strangely, they touched nothing else. - I've had my umbrella stolen once during the rainy season, just before I had class and was running out of money - I was SO bitter in that moment. lol - Had random drunk guys come up to my friends and I on the street to call us beautiful, etc. This was in the burbs, too. But I didn't feel as unsafe with them approaching me as opposed to the things I've experienced walking on the streets in Aus. - I've also seen guys pissing on the side of the road many, many times. In broad daylight. - One time, after a local festival, there was a massive fight with people yelling and the police just outside my local train station. It was also the dirtiest I'd ever seen Japan look. But I guess people were pretty rowdy from all the alcohol and festival, lol. Apart from that I've never felt really uncomfortable or unsafe walking home by myself, even late at night (which I did a lot because of a circle I participated in). Of course, I still kept note of my surroundings - just from habit from living in Australia, where women are often sexually assaulted/harassed on the streets (or worse). I've heard horror stories from Japan too, so no place is ever truly safe. But I do really think Japan is a lot safer than Australia, imo.

15:27 Pretty sure she’s talking about that incident that involved Lonzo Ball’s brother.

One time, I was on a packed train in Tokyo with my brothers and mother and we noticed an older man standing behind a salaryman and a woman. He was mad dogging my brother and I. We tried not to have eye contact with this man but he was mumbling as if he was angry. Then we noticed him looking at the woman in front of him, staring at the side of her face and she was tensed up and trying to avoid looking at him. He kept mumbling with his voice occasionally getting louder. The salaryman moved over a little bit. I guess he got a little scared and didn’t want to be near this guy. The man looked like he wanted to stab us or something. When he got off the train everyone around had a sigh of relief and relaxed. That was the only “scary thing I’ve experienced in Japan, but I’ve experience so much more worse things in the States.

What is the gender mix of gaijin in Japan?

Lack of rowdy drunken nighttime behaviour on the street is so unique Japanese

When me and my friend visited Japan, we felt pretty safe, but we did loose a bag in a bus; never found it, we even went to the lost and found central and we saw people getting lots of stuff back, cell phones, manga, skateboards, glasses, but our bag was nowhere to be found (It was our fault though for forgetting it on the bus in our ride from the airport ^^) But I was surprised to see a very small girl riding the train on her own from school, I was so scared for her XD

What is interesting to me is the red light district with one of the highest crime rate in Japan is so popular destination for tourists. You know it's Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Normal Japanese people don't go there because it's dangerous and full of Yakuza people but tourists like to go there. Why?

Honor system fruit and veggie stands all over the boondocks.

I never thought I'd hear someone say scamaz in a non gaming related video. Had a good chuckle :D

You can leave your stuff anywhere in Singapore too and it won’t get stolen loads of people do it

but don't shops everywhere have part of their goods outside on the sidewalks, especially in pedestrian streets ? i live in a very 'touristy' area in southern Germany & i've never heard anything much being stolen from the outside bins . i was surprised to see that on the swiss side of the border the shops even left some of the heavy stuff outside after hours and on sundays, too, when the shops don't open at all ...

Wait. The young lady in the middle looks so much like Kawakami from Persona 5 (The teacher). Both are very cute as well

In my opinion I would MUCH rather be robbed than have somebody physically touch me or take me somewhere...I've been followed a couple times in busy areas in Japan and just the thought of what they want of me is so scary and gross.

Not something bad or anything but the last time I was in Tokyo I was walking with a friend of mine just outside of Tokyo station and a woman came up and asked for money, I gave her 1000 yen and then said to Taka, "I thought that wasn't a thing here." He said, "We just ignore them."

Back to 92' Texas Southern University famous for its marching band visited Akihabara and stoled over 100 items worth over $22,000.

By all means, leave your stuff in plain view, and the Japanese people won't steal them, but if you're in a popular area, what's stopping any of the other tourists from taking things. Being banned from the country only works if the person is caught, and I would guess a tourist losing something isn't very high on the police's list of priorities. Take the necessary precautions that you would take when travelling anywhere else, and everything should go smoothly.

Last week on the train to Narita, I got slept on by a salaryman. Don’t know if he was drunk or if he was just down right tired, but yeah I felt his head in my shoulder which woke me up from my sleep and I had to try to move away and let him sleep on the chairs. His feet was on the chairs up while lying down while his shoes and briefcase was on the ground. I just wondered if he missed his stop or if he was going all the way to the airport in Narita lol. The most part I felt safe in Japan just so as long as I mind my own business and not make direct contact with shady looking people

Typical story of if you are a gaijin and something bad happens.....hey ! if you weren't in Japan it could not have happened.

Jake was fast af boii

Nice vid. However you can't only compare Japan against every single country in the world. In New Zealand it's pretty good but be aware, as you will always have the odd person that will take your stuff. I am sure non big US cities or small towns are safe as everyone looks out for each other. And same for the European countries are safe outside the large centres.

You could be anywhere on 🌎 earth and something will happen. Stuff just happens!

4 girls talking this time,nice

I thought bike theft was pretty common in Tokyo, though? Is that true?

Why is the white guy “blacking it up”?

When they're talking about how it's not like that in other countries, all I keep hearing is "US"... A more mixed group might have been nice here. :)

I remember I too hot my camera bag multiple times in highschool at lunch I freaked out but got it back from s freind

im only here for jake

Are y’all subtly playing the circle game? 😂

oooh i hope shizuka isnt traumatized.

im japanese but ive never even heard of that scary story like they said lol maybe japan in safe for japanese ppl not for foreigners lol

You guys have a great thing going here......please avoid becoming too Tokyo-centric.

I agree that Japan is VERY safe but I have seen and experienced a few things that remind me of the fact that people are people... in general I think it's best to just keep your wits about you. I've seen theft, experienced someone yelling drunkly and aggressively at me when I passed by and had another guy who was very angry about me being a non Japanese person hanging out with a Japanese girl.(That was the oddest one) Aside form that, definitely in Kabukichou and Roppongi there are people/places that you should just avoid as said in the video...

キノコの陰謀か？

Jakes the goat of Irl @jakenbakelive

6:00 Switzerland

Get rid of the background muzak please ...

No more 'likes' please, except in the form of a simile.

Jake is gay, GACHIBASS

The police recently busted a Korean group and a Chinese group with theft. The groups took advantage of the of tourists leaving their things at tables to save their seats because the tourists heard the stories of how safe Japan is and you can leave your things without someone taking them. I would leave stuff if I was in Aomori or Ehime but not Tokyo.

Elsa is so hot

Maybe Japanese are rich so don't need to take it?

Just speculating here: the guy who come up from behind and grabbed you might have mistaken you for someone else who would appreciate this prank. Maybe someone he knows. The reason I think this is because he really wasn’t going anywhere with that move. There is no way he thought he could do anything more than immediately let go. I mean, I’ve done something similar to people I know. Now that I think about it, had I mistaken someone else for that person, the random person would probably think they were going to get raped. Again, just guessing.

Can you talk about the restriction on having moustache as Salaryman in Japan...Pls.

Jake is awesome 😅

Scamazzz

the black girl was talking about gelo ball from ucla and that incident happened in china WTF

Japan is no different to other countries. Is it safe?? It depends to on where you go.and they are soft Japanese and harsh angry Japanese. Why don't the members of TCTalk just come out and tell the real full truth instead of getting another paycheck!?

I really can't understand why you keep using this disgusting pick up artist Jake on you channel. It's terrible for your image linking yourself with someone who objectifies and degrades women in all his video. Haven't you seen his content? Crazy that you keep having him back, you've been duped