Why Rural Japan Doesn’t Want Foreign Residents |  

I'd grown up in rural Wales and if I moved to Japan I'd want to go to a rural area, my old village had a very similar situation where the schools were closing, they had a small population etc, but it was a very closeknit community with a lot of traditions, stories etc. But it's nice to hear it's not too awkward in rural Japan.

Rural Japan is my idea of heaven!

What was the name of the izakaya?

XD I got to respect the trolling, she even warned XD

@@Alex-03 it's called Noche, near the Shirokitakoendori station. If you ever go there, tell them Tonkatsuyarou sent you ;)

Even if I wasn't a spice fiend, I'd do like you and ride all the way. I can't stand the thought of discarding food. 😶 Though for the eye, I'd immediately run to the sink and rinse until their water supply hit low. Capsaicin in the eyeball is just too much.

My mouth felt hot reading this.

I understand it. The West is obsessed with diversity as if it has no negative aspects. Dealing with foreigners from completely different cultures can go many ways. It's probably so safe there because they have a strict hierarchical culture that's not very diverse. There's valid reasons to dislike foreigners, but still judge an individual on an individual basis.

@@matsalvatore9074 omg, dude gtfo “there’s good reasons to dislike foreigners” No, there isn’t you dimwit. Take all that bs back to whatever Trump Channel you came from. You obviously know nothing about Japan or much of anything at all. One thing japanese people know to do is to stfu when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

While it's a good principle to not judge a group of people by the actions of a few, I don't blame some Japanese people for their attitudes towards foreigners. For every time I see a foreigner doing something that makes us all look like utter c**ts, I try to undo the damage by being extra polite, considerate etc.. I notice the locals reactions of surprise and relief.

The language barrier is what craps on everything.

@@Mwoods2272 true but I don’t understand people who want to live in a country but refuse to learn the language.

While it's the absolute best way to get rid of smells, be careful as I hear that it will damage the plastics in the car. So yeah, try to keep the ozone generator to a minimum and when you're done, unplug the extension cord and leave the car to sit for a good long time before carefully opening a door and walking away

Ozone generators are bad for certain plastics but also fabrics, paint, rubber and metal.

Do the reverse and buy portable air filter. Or dehumidifier. Most of the time bad smell are exemplified by high humidity (as the molecules bond with water vapor). Keeping the air dry will minimize the stench.

That sounds like some shit from a mecha sci fi anime

Ozone is toxic. If you have a smell problem then burning hippie stuff like sage is a better areal disenfectant lmao. Otherwise just having it cleaned is a go to

Somehow I completely forgot that existed.

I just looked it up and it is a complete trip. He sounds exactly like an American singer but I cannot comprehend a single word, except the "all right". What an incredible achievement

@@ratoh1710 exactly! It’s all made up gibberish besides “all right” but he managed to achieve perfect “American sounding”.

That song is famous in the U.S. too.

An old bandmate had an Italian dad and shown us the song as we had a conversation about how English sounds to foreign people. It is such a funny song.

Get ready for the sequel

@@AbroadInJapanPodcastOh god there’s going to be photos on the dust jacket aren’t there.

Same.

And I presume you speak the language?

@@DinnerForkTongueyes, so maybe that’s why

@@DinnerForkTongue Yes. I mean you need to learn the language of the country you live in. As someone from a country that has lots of Russian-speaking (old people) from the Soviet times, who never bothered to learn the language of my country, even after we finally got our independence back and the people had the choice to go back to Russia but did not but still expected to be able to get by with only Russian...this is an issue that's a given to me. You learn the language of the country you live in. Not to say my reading and writing of kanji skills are good (it's a process that needs time), but speaking Japanese is not so difficult. Randomly getting back to my original comment, it was interesting what my Japanese MIL said and she is a usual rural Japanese obaachan. She said that in the beginning she thought that foreigners were a completely different species and wondered how was she supposed to deal with me....but getting to know me and learning of my life in my home country and hearing the old sayings and proverbs we have in my country, she realised that foreigners were usual people and not that different from Japanese at all. I'd say this could be the rural mindset of Japan - if there is no closer connection (and ALTs are not that close in this meaning) with foreigners, they think of us almost in the same terms as aliens from space. But when they get to know the foreigners, then they realised that we are all the same. I mean, proverbs tend to be so similar, even though my country is half a world away from Japan.

@@ML-cc7gj "I mean you need to learn the language of the country you live in." You'd be flabbergasted by the sheer amount of arrogant foreigners that don't just not believe this basic fact, they actively go against it and feel proud of living in a bubble of their own language. I've been faced with so many of these goits that I've taken to asking first, unironically.

Im already back now from my trip, but i will try this next time. Thanks for advice!

@@MrJapanApan @Andy-4342 i've been going to underground/local concerts in japan since late 2016 and put this together in 2019. ticketing policies have slightly changed since then due to that 3 year event i dont know if we can mention yet on youtube, but majority still applies. the only difference is most use ticketing platforms now ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0MgZaVHuGvc.html

@@poleosisCool! Thanks.

Can confirm. Godzilla Minus One was insanely good.

I had an amazing time watching godzilla minus one, but shin godzilla will probably always be my number one

yeah absolutely loved Perfect Days. Wish i had seen it in Japanese but i still enjoyed it regardless

Ok. Please let me know if you remember the name of the site. Thanks. Also, next time i will look up the venues . Cheers!

"anmari nomanai", I don't drink much. "Non-arukooru onegaishimasu" (non-alcoholic xyz). I would say in the last 10 years (since I fisrt came to JP) non-alcholic options are MUCH more common across japan, especially since so many people drive for work. I'm basically the same age and nobody pressures me to drink; maybe like, 23-yr-olds have a different experience.

Great. I though I was the only one

Yeah turns out that 630am record time has god ol' Petey a bit turned around 😂😂

@@petedonaldson2698 The bigger question is; Why didn't Chris notice?

@@petedonaldson2698 Actually, you should just keep telling the same glasses story until Chris notices, loool!~

I was confused too, thought they had accidentally uploaded the same episode again lol 😂

You’re like the opposite of most jdm car nuts. Wishing you luck!

@@KMakoENVtuberThanks... it's been a huge pain but it's almost over. About five months but **should** be done next week!

It's strange because the sound is created by a tongue position they're not used to. Explaining that yields far better results. For example, for the "ny" in Japanese, similar to the "ñ" of spanish, you touch the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Meanwhile for the similar but different "nh" sound of Portuguese, that's also in Vietnamese (under a different moniker), you touch the MIDDLE of the tongue to the palate. I explain the 'th' sound as putting the tip of the tongue close to the front incisors, close enough to vibrate when you speak but not close enough to touch the teeth.

@@DinnerForkTongue that ended up being the exact way I went about it. It occurs to me that the tongue position is only very slightly more forward than for making r/l sounds in Japanese. That might also have been helpful had I thought of it at the time.

Godzilla Minus One is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. It lands like an 80’s American action movies. Unfortunately, America and Europe are struggling to make decent movies nowadays.

Creepy

That's some subtle shade. 😅

@@rovidelarosa Creepy? It's not serious! I wish RU-vid had an option to make your comment history public, I saw this video minutes after it was published and couldn't think of anything else to say 😭I was just trying to echo some of the absurd openings of their letters, not be creepy!

Yup. Luxottica owns... most everything.

Thank you for mentioning this. The director was heavily involved in the VFX from what I remember. I’m very proud of this movie and all it has accomplished thus far. Also, Stephen Spielberg is quite a fan of the movie!

Oh really? I have been there many times (love it) but i only knew it as a secondhand spot. I will for sure check it out next time. Thanks!

Another tip is searching the live acts names in Kanji!!!! That was a LIFESAVER for me!

@@dukealbert7017 I will try that. Thanks.

@@MrJapanApan Also, in addition to the Kanji trick, most ticketing sites ask for a Japanese address or phone number, just use the address and number of the hotel you plan to stay at.

@@dukealbert7017 Good to know. I also have many japanese friends (i can use their adress or number) Only problem with searching kanji is finding new bands.

Just also have to account for the fact that it severely degrades rubber and plastic parts too, as well as accelerates rusting of exposed steel.

What amused me most about that was that her “people” issued a statement saying that the lovely Miss Swift wasn’t actually on a lot of the flights, but had chartered the plane to others - so not was she only contributing to climate change, but was actually making a profit doing it! 🤣 Hilarious!

Seem to have answered my question by just typing in a bunch of different spellings - Noi the Albino

I tried to get my head round their imperial phase as it doesn’t really suit them , apparently there’s a book written by a Japanese man that I haven’t read yet, which argues that it was a type of “keeping up with the Jones’s” mentality to be taken seriously on the international stage. That I can believe. Seems like a more organic reason , from what I know of Japan, than any other reason.

@@KantoCafe715 I think the Japanese saw what was happening to the rest of East Asia and didn't want to end up like them. So they chose to become like the Europeans who were running roughshod over the region. Makes sense considering how Meiji tried to change everything in the upper echelons of Japanese society to be like the Europeans, more specifically the Prussians. So I can see where the "keeping up with the Jones'" idea could come from. I can also see genuine paranoia in them not wanting to share China's fate. What I don't understand is the abject cruelty and sadism shown by the the Imperial Japanese army.

@@fattiger6957 after decades in Japan I only just learned about what they did in the last century, not proud of my own country's history (especially Australia( but I have a special horror of medical experimentation style shit, it just seems so methodical and hopeless for the vicitim. (Also, children wtf) The British killed on the battle field (and I'm from a defeated and colonised nation in UK ). Slavery - British were the first to ban it and it still exists in some places and existed within Africa among Africans when the British were involved in it (who do people think the British were buying slaves from?( Nazis were beyond the pale. And now I'm hearing the Japanese did similar and they were both on the same side during the war. Due to recent events here also, on a personal level, I'm starting to pack my things, I reckon.

@@KantoCafe715 The imperial Japanese were horrible, there's no arguing that. But those responsible were dealt with during the American occupation. The Tokyo Trials were like the Nuremberg Trials, but for Japanese war criminals. I don't think modern Japanese people should be held responsible for the crimes of people from nearly a century ago. Japanese society was fundamentally changed and reorganized after the war, whether they liked it or not. The Japanese government could do a better job in admitting to the previous regime's atrocities and apologizing for them. But time moves on and we can't hold onto grudges forever.

@@fattiger6957 of course I do agree with what you say. I don’t have any grudge against Germans , of course not. I don’t agree with blaming people who weren’t responsible for any crimes themselves (wish many other people would also think like that as white women seem to be the easy target for everyone these days). I had thought things were long forgotten. But sometimes the scab gets scratched when you least expect it and we are confronted with things , and when we are, we have to deal with it afresh.

Oh I'm interested for you needing that unique a perception. I had open eye surgery and I've seen pictures what it looked it like as I was taken to hospital with my eye out of socket as a very aggressive version of tag we played as ten year olds in a summer camp. So The fact I have -280 on my left eye instead of just being eye patch kid is a miracle of modern science. So whenever I go to optometrist I'm like here's the starting problem.

I agree. Best movie I’ve seen recently besides The Boy and the Heron. I wonder why Hollywood doesn’t make good action films like Minus One anymore?

Because it's all about profits so they only producing the same stories again and again even though the public is sick of it.@@automaticshelter130

A german expressionism gojira movie could be interesting. Bmovie stryle, the stranger the better. Maybe about having gojira as neighbout and the life with it having hissy fits? It could say, something about politics? Bu then make betrter your own bozilla knockoff thats , a big lovecraftian bear like mutant? Or beaver, or squirrel as symboil of imported not good for renviroment animals. Squirrel mutant sounds terrifying and funny.

I completely agree. The American Godzilla movies fundamentally misunderstand the meaning behind Godzilla. It’s hard to overstate how much of an impact the atomic bomb and reconstruction had on the Japanese people and country. If you think Godzilla is just a mindless monster movie you missed the point. I think a lot of Studio Ghibli movies are like that too. There’s a large anti-war theme in many Japanese movies post-WWII. The shock, horror, and loss that you experience because of Godzilla in Minus One is a similar feeling that people felt after the atomic bomb and firebombing in WWII.

i went to his twitter but could not find it. On what date was the pic posted?

@@arichan6423 Feb 9. Look for a picture of Mount Fuji behind a hotel. You will have to download the picture to be able to zoom in on the text on the back of the guy's jacket.

Probably not. There are a few small competitors. The company they’re thinking of is Luxottica

​@@jinxedpenguinas someone with a "heavy glasses prescription" I gotta do some research. Thank you for the reply.