Hearted Youtube comments on TAKASHii (@takashiifromjapan) channel.
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As a woman who's lived in Japan for 5 years, I will say it's relatively safe to walk around alone, even at night (depending on the area). However, as with pretty much all countries, it is generally less safe to live here as a woman than as a man. I have been followed a few times and have had to loop around so as not to give away where I was living. If I'm walking alone in areas like Shinjuku or Shibuya, there is a good chance I'll be stopped by guys doing nanpa ("girls hunting"). When I first came here, I was very naive and didn't understand completely that that was what they were doing, because sometimes they were lowkey about it, like "Teach me English, please" or "Where are you from?". But make no mistake, people in Tokyo don't just stop and talk to you for no purpose. If they do, I would just be wary. Don't assume you're safe just because it's Japan and take precautions like you would in any other country.
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I'm African-American, my wife is Japanese and we have two children. I was always interested in the culture and spoke some Japanese before we met. Her parents didn't object to our marriage because I really liked Japanese culture. When we had kids however, I didn't want to force them to go to a Japanese tutor or weekend school but she insisted! I guess she realized knowing one's culture can ground a person. Both are polite, respectful and patient. They don't get frustrated like I did when they don't understand something they just commit themselves to practicing until they get it right. If you didn't understand algebra, for example, you don't feel bad or give up, you just get more practice. Same for any other discipline. If you're Japanese that probably sounds normal to you but in the US we handicap children with the idea that some people are "gifted". Some of us are just good at certain things. Now I'm watching my kids become better at things through the kind of sheer patience learned from Japanese culture.
And as far as their Black heritage is concerned, I make sure to talk to them about African-American accomplishments in science, politics and literature! I don't particularly like to drive but whenever I am forced to use the car (I'd much rather be reading a book on the subway), I'll play jazz or R&B. Sometimes hip hop. And when there are topics in the news about discrimination or civil rights, we discuss them and I try to give those topics historical context. I always think it's a shame when there are mixed children who don't know about one side of their heritage. We have a responsibility to give them both.
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I worked for a Japanese company for almost 12 years. The Japanese people that I worked with were very kind and respectful. My boss came to my wedding and his wife has dressed in a traditional formal dress. It was like she walked out of one of those japanese paintings on frosted glass. Absolutely stunning. She stole the show. That was such a sign of respect and admiration of me and my future wife by my boss. I will never forget him and many others that spent literally years working with. They were charming, funny, insightful and incredibly smart. Once they got a hold of English and could effectively communicate in a way I could understand I really got to get an insight of Japanese culture, traditions, hang ups opinions and such. There was a man in particular named Koji Nakai. He was freaking hilarious. The other Japanese that worked with Nakai called him " Machine gun mouth" because apparently he cussed like a sailor.....which I guess is unusual or provocative still in Japan. But he came straight to me and asked..."Ahhhh, Jim San. Please a, teach me a, American swear words...." 🤣 So I did. And he taught me Japanese profanity which I still use to this day. The day I thought him "M er F ing SOB" was one of the best days of my life, I swear. There were several of us screwing off at work and here he comes.....to screw off with us. He was hiding from his boss. The lesson ensued and literally we were all laughing to the point of tears listening to him try and say "M Er f ing SOB". And he knew exactly what he was doing and why were all laughing so hard and he just kept saying it in what would be the stereotyped way.
That was September of 1990. I think often of Koji, Koiso, Midori, Takashi and my favorite, Toshi Shibatsuji. Toshi saw something in me. I was 21 years old and he was the manger of this new department and he specifically requested me to come work for him. It was a big deal for me at the time and it put me on the track to eventually be part of the management team and really it was instrumental in how my career has developed over the last 40 years. I think of him often to this day. I doubt he even still alive because he was in his 40s back in the 90s. But he was a true gentleman and an inspiration to me. I will never forget those people. Ever. It always made my heart swell to think about how things were between America and Japan during WW2 and how they were in the 90s. The mutual respect and admiration and the almost apologetic nature that seem to just be there because of history made me so proud to be an American.
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As a Latino who has lived in Japan, I can say that Japanese people did not know much about Latin America except for the things they may have seen on TV or similar. Once I tried to explain where I was from and the young Japanese lady had no idea! I was confused because I thought Japanese people were more "cultured" per se, but they were genuinely curious to learn, which is why it didn't bother me as much when they didn't know about Colombia (where I was born). I lived in Okinawa and the people are different from mainland Japan, as they are more warm and inviting! Latin America is not all negative! In Colombia and the rest of Latin America, we have some of the most intelligent people in the world! We are not just "poor" people! We are rich not only in finance, but also in culture, family, unity, friendship and can't fail to mention, beautiful people inside and outside! Japanese people have to learn that Latin America is so much more than just Peru and Brazil. We have an immense amount more to offer the world! I will say that I ❤️Okinawa until the day I die, but my soul and spirit will always be Colombian!
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I got stopped by the cops a ton of times while living in Japan, as a black guy. One time, I got grabbed up , thrown in jai for hours, and it was mistaken identity. Pretty rough treatment for foreigners overall in Japan. They got a Napoleon complex.
Edit2: I like Japanese people , Asian people , all people … in japan , cops were fucked up, a lot of coldness, too much stress , anti love going on over there.
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I just finished teaching in Japan for a year and a half. I used it as a way to come to Japan as many do, and I got lucky and have a new job outside of teaching English.
Without substantial savings from home, I would not suggest it. My coming was a gamble. Come with goals and rules; mine was to teach for 2 years and if I couldn't find a "way out," I would go back home.
If you come and treat it as a year-long holiday, enjoy it. If you want to come and try to build a different/better life, you really have to ask yourself lots of hard questions. The language barrier is so massive; for reference, I have 5 years of work experience in my field with management experience, and it still took me 11 months, 19 recruiter meetings, 437 applications, 36 first interviews, 22 second-stage, and 6 final stage interviews before an offer came in.
You're competing with people who can speak Japanese better, or natively, and with a massive talent pool. Entry-level engineering is also really rough; you won't make much more than an ALT's salary while also having to work long hours.
This is a breakdown of my old salary.
Yearly: 2.2m JPY (most ALT jobs do not pay in August due to summer holidays, and again you don't get paid in March because the school year hasn't started yet.)
Monthly: ~200,000 JPY
After taxes, rent, phone, utilities, etc., assuming your tax situation is similar to mine, you'll have around 80,000 yen (about 800 USD, super rough) left over in your first year. However, your second year, due to resident taxes, it is lower and closer to 60,000 yen (600 USD). This is absolute poverty wages and not sustainable at all.
You are on a timer the minute you take an English teaching job here. The longer you are one, the harder it is to crawl out. It's a race to the bottom of what company will pay you the absolute least. As a dispatch ALT, you are VERY unstable and cannot plan for the future. You get a year-long visa and a year-long contract. You won't know if you have a job renewal until 2 weeks before (sometimes less time) the new school year.
I started learning Japanese on the plane here and after a year of constant study, every single hour I was free at work (which as an ALT you have a ton, it's very VERY easy, and anyone who has ever worked previously will have ZERO issues performing. First job, 21-year-old college kids might be overwhelmed at first) and managed to get JLPT N3 level, which is an absolutely abysmal level still. Most jobs require N2 or higher, and the gap between N3 and N2 is going from "I am going to the store tomorrow at 2:30" to "due to the downturn of the Japanese economy during the bubble era..." sort of reading and conversations.
That said, I would do it again; it's the most fun job I've had, but the industry is terrible. I have met a wonderful girlfriend and made so many new friends I would never have without taking the leap.
Build your career at home and try to get hired in Japan another way; not many people have the will power needed to succeed and transition out of English teaching work in Japan. Don't buy into the "I'll do it to get a visa and get something better," especially with hiring freezes and economic downturns. It's a massive personal risk.
If you insist on coming as an English teacher:
1) Learn Japanese now, and actually learn. Don't language roleplay with pointless low-effort apps like Duolingo. Learn Hiragana and Katakana, then give the apps Umi and Bunpro a shot and run through the Genki textbooks. Anki flashcards for kanji.
2) Have lots of money saved up. Minimum 5k USD, ideally more, to give yourself more runway to get a better job.
3) Have a STRONG, well-researched plan. Do not wing it; you are paid less than a conbini employee with a college degree. Enjoy your time here, but also work your ass off for yourself.
4) Be prepared to be disappointed and told "No" lots. If you have any issues at home, you won't fix them by moving to a place where you have 0 support structure.
5) Do not get comfortable with the easiest job on the planet and let yourself just coast by.
This isn't a terrible "keep grinding 😤" post; it's actually terrible to get out of. Best of luck. Job searching is hard even when you're a citizen and fluent in the local language; it was even more difficult as an immigrant with barely passable language skills.
There's so much more to say, but please do not make the choice lightly to come to Japan as an English teacher because you like Japan, or rather the idea of Japan, without properly thinking it through. I want you to enjoy Japan just as much as I have. If you're serious, wait a few more years with your new degree, work in your field, and transfer over. Remember, even if you learn Japanese to a business level as an ALT but have no other skills, you are just someone who can speak Japanese in a country where everyone else also can.
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Although our situations are different I can relate a lot to the first guy. I was born in Scotland but have lived in New Zealand since I was seven. Like him, I grew up seeing the UK as my home, seeing myself as British. In my friend group, in my school, I was always the Scottish one, that was my label. But then as I got older I came to realise that I wasn’t very British. I watched YouTube videos and stuff about the UK and I saw the people in the videos and I realised I was very different to them. I can relate more to a kiwi than a British person. But for me this has left me feeling lost. I based a big part of my identity around being British, I became more patriotic to Scotland than the average Scottish person but it turns out I don’t really know anything about the country. I only know few things that I had learnt as a young child, I know barely anything about the country and the culture. But at the same time, I am not a kiwi. I grew up eating Haggis and Jaffa Cakes, surrounded by British traditions. I know nothing about New Zealand family life because I have only experienced British family life because I have British parents. In New Zealand people see me as British, in Britain people see me as kiwi. My friends think I have a strong Scottish accent but another Scottish person would probably not call my accent Scottish. Wherever I go, I am seen as an outsider. There is nowhere That I just fit in. I feel like I am left unable to identify with either country and am left without a home. When people ask me where I am from I no longer know how to answer.
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In Japan, there is a noticeable problem in society: it has evolved into a purely work-oriented society.
How can we expect average or low-income earners to dedicate enough time to their children, family, or reproduction when they have long working hours, minimal vacation time, and potentially social obligations towards their business partners and colleagues? The working hours are excessively long, and vacations are too short. While most Japanese people earn more compared to other countries, they also have higher expenses.
Personally, if I were in their shoes, I wouldn't feel inclined to consider having children either. In my opinion, only well-off individuals can afford to have children without much concern, as they can handle a parent being absent from work for a few weeks or months or even partially or fully devoting themselves to household duties for the family.
Furthermore, the immigration of foreigners will not significantly alleviate the situation.
It is necessary for there to be a change in the excessively intense work culture, which is far from promoting a healthy and social environment within Japanese society. Without reforms that prioritize leisure time and improved salaries, as an impartial observer, I unfortunately see little hope for Japan.
It's truly unfortunate because Japan possesses a fascinating culture and traditions.
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I enjoyed the insightful comments from each woman you interviewed. I especially appreciated that each was able to remain strong in the sense of her own beauty outside the Japanese norms and expectations. Yet, each knew how to adjust a little to Japanese standards in order to navigate life more easily.
The clone culture in Japan is very strong. By the way they dress and the colour palette they choose, you can immediately categorize women (and men) as to age and socio economic status. Japanese women have told me that they envy my "ability" to wear certain colours they "can't" wear without enduring a lot of pushback. I also recall the shock when I removed my jacket on a hot day to reveal a very modest--boat neck with no straps, no cleavage, no midriff--but sleeveless top. Sleeveless!?! several people exclaimed. It's too hot, I said.
Then again, I had a firm awareness that had I put my jacket back on I would have gained nothing other than a dry cleaning bill. Besides, I am not Japanese so I feel no obligation to copy their standards; plus, I wasn't there permanently. They wouldn't think about me for very long after I left. Even if I were staying, I'd never gain acceptance by slavishly adopting Japanese standards. So, bottom line, it's best to be myself and I am totally at ease with that.
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My father was invited to Japan to speak about his book regarding the importance of communication. I have been invited there for skate tournaments, break dance competitions, soccer, and basketball. In these settings there was so much honor, and respect. Outside of those experiences there are several times both of us have been, misjudged, mis-appropriated, and discriminated upon by the same culture for no reason other than the color of our skin. My experience with this has led me to believe this:
Like every single other country in the world, Japan has decent people and assholes, and like every single other country the decent deal with people based on the content of their character and the assholes continue to exhibit logistical fallacies. Regardless where one is from it is all our responsibility mind ourselves to proper behavior, because failure to do so, in a very direct way, makes you an asshole that is ruining the world. Seems like too many people in all cultures are okay with the latter, and that is, by my logic, THE ACTUAL PROBLEM. Bless.
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Being Brazilian, the biggest culture shock I had when I lived in Japan was probably how safe it is. I could see little children walking together (to or from school, I assume), or women walking alone at night. Something that in Brazil would be a very stupid thing to do, especially in big cities, since crime here is very common.
A culture shock that I guess is kinda negative is how hard it was to make friends with Japanese people as a foreigner. Sure, I could have some interesting conversations with them, but it was very hard to actually become intimate friends with any of them. This is a common experience for many foreigners, from what I have seen.
As a bonus, a culture shock that I didn't personally experience, but heard about happening, was that in Brazil it's common for people to kiss and make out with no attachments. We call it "ficar", which means "to stay", which isn't officially dating.
So a Brazilian guy that studied at the University in which I was also studying made out with a Japanese girl once, and after that he was somewhere else, a party I guess, and made out with another girl. The first girl got really mad saying that he was cheating on her, and he was like "Wtf? We're not dating, we just made out". That was a culture shock for the Japanese girl, I'm sure, lol.
Thanks for the video!
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Can we just pause to appreciate what an absolute YouTube genius Takashii is? Seriously. As a viewer who subscribed when he was only at 20k subs in late 2021, I've followed his growth for awhile now. He's at practically 1 mil subs in under 3yrs, he uses no B-roll, no music or SFX (n hence saves on subscriptions), he does very basic video editing which saves time n effort, and doesn't use any copyrighted content at all so no copyright claims. With >170 million views in the last 6 mths, his Adsense revenue must be fantastic. Not to mention sponsorships and affiliate links.
As for content, yes he used to spend hours looking for interviewees but the content is basically generated from them with some well thought questions from him. Meaning little (if any) time wasted on scripts and storytelling, no studio set-up, no props, no costumes, no website, and very little gear which means low expenses. This is just what I see as an outsider.
If anyone ever wanted to succeed on YouTube in one of the most resource efficient ways possible, I would highly recommend them study Takashii's channel. Congrats Takashii! Looking forward to what you've got planned next! 🎉
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We have the biggest Japanese community outside Japan.
Obviously, as the time goes, the miscigenation will keep hapenning and new different people with japanese blood will be borning.
I am a Gossei, my great great grandfather came around 1910 looking for a better opportunity and he married a brazilian white girl and they had a daughter, my great grandmother. She married a Portuguese guy, then the miscigenation continued. We preserved the slightelly slanted eyes and the body structure through the generations of mixigenation.
The Japanese immigrants contributed a LOT for our country till today, specially in São Paulo. All brazillians are proud of having such different population, mixed w Japaneses, Europeans, Indigenous and Africans. It not only made us a different people, but our culture that became diverse and rich.
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Hi, TAKASHii! I wanted to leave you a comment about my opinion on this specific issue, as a current member of the U.S Army who had the opportunity to spend time in Japan (Itami-shi) this past winter. It is unfortunately very true that many Americans, including soldiers, think and behave very individually. It is common for Americans to think "I will do whatever I want, because it makes me happy" and do not care how their actions may affect other people, instead thinking only about themselves. This way of thinking creates many different images of what an American person is like. One American may be very different from another, depending on where they are from in America and how they were raised to behave, because there is not an "American mindset" that everyone tries to follow, which makes it difficult for many Americans to understand and interact with Japanese people who are very mindful of other people and the society they live in instead of thinking about themselves. These are things I believe Americans, and our military, must improve on if we wish to have a healthy relationship with Japan. This is very important, because we consider Japan as a very close ally. I had the privilege to work alongside some amazing soldiers from the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) in Itami, and we have an extraordinary amount of respect for each other and view each other as equal partners. I speak a very small amount of Japanese, and I was even able to make a few friends from the interpreters I interacted with. Japan is a beautiful and culturally rich country, and the people of Japan are very respectful, kind, and deserve to be treated with respect and kindness in return. I think having our bases in Japan is important for us to continue working on our relationship between Japan and the U.S. both as countries and between the people. I hope that, in the future, Americans will learn to be more open to Japan's culture and the Japanese people, as well as learn to present a better image of what Americans are like. We are not all violent and rude people, I promise! I think my service, the U.S. Army should teach it's soldiers who are living in Japan more about Japanese culture and how to interact with Japanese people in a healthy and respectful way! Maybe we should all watch your channel! As a side note, I would love to hear about your experience in Kyoto so I will go follow your Instagram to see how it compares to my visit there from Itami-shi. I personally enjoyed Fushimi Inari-taisha (forgive me if I spell this incorrectly please) the most!
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I've been living in Hawaii for a while which has a strong Japanese culture. The differences between between "forward" or "shy", "polite" or "rude", really come down to how the individual person relates to the larger society. In Japanese culture, people (by American standards) are very deferential to the group. People don't WANT to be different. Blending in, following tradition, not standing out are the overriding values. In American culture, it's the opposite. Being independent, thinking for yourself, standing up to the group, etc, are the overriding values. "Conformity" in America is weird - it means being independent like everybody else!
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Já ouvi dizer que, se você é brasileiro, no exterior dá pra reconhecer brasileiro pela cara, e vendo todas suas entrevistas, realmente kkk brasileiro tem a "cara diferente" kkk
Grande vídeo, o interessante é que conheci seu canal hoje, e coincidentemente saiu vídeo sobre Brasil.
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I've heard that, if you're a Brazilian, you can recognize others Brazilians by their face, and seeing yours interviews, really, Brazilians have a "different face" 😂
Great video, the interesting thing is that I met your channel today and by coincidence this video about Brazilians came out today!
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I went to Tokyo two weeks ago, and one thing I really like was how integrated foreigners were in society. In comparison to Korea, there were so many foreigners working typical jobs like at Uniqlo, owning their own restaurants, working at the airport, at the mall etc. In Korea yes, some foreigners work in cafes, but usually only part-time. People who are full-time are usually English teachers, students, factory workers, and in rare cases, business people. It was amazing to see how Japan is a bit more accommodating for foreigners wanting to stay long-term in Japan. Also, the foreigners in Japan blow the foreigners in Korea out of the water. Their level of Japanese was truly a beautiful thing to see because, in my experience, there are so many people who've been living in Korea for years and yet cannot have anything more than a basic conversation for their necessities!
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This video is really good, my friend who is Black-American wants to go to Japan so badly.... but he is worried of the racism, so I am going to share this to him to show it's ok. He is trying to understand Japanese Culture a lot, he got a good idea from some of his friends and such. He told me that "He mostly got interested about that culture because of anime, but a big part of it was interacting with you." Saying that he wanted to learn MY culture of where I came from and how my life is, so he went ahead and started studying. We did date before, it only lasted a few days. No racism or anything bad, but we are SUPER close friends that we both felt uncomfortable. We still are really good friends, and he wants to help with my biological family's business. So he wants to come with me when I do go back home, so he is super excited. We just have to wait a bit longer on my side for my biological family to give us the ok, but everyone cant wait till the boarders are fully open. 😁💖 so if we do bump in to each other, maybe you can asked my friend some questions including me of how we see Japanese People in the US. Not like typical "oh they are super nice!" And such like that, but how we saw them as "foreigners" in US.
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I'm Asian American and studied abroad in Japan for a year. I pretty much blended in in terms of looks. People didn't really suspect me of being a foreigner until I speak English or Cantonese or the little Korean I knew with my friends, or sometimes by the way I dressed (it was so humid there, I'd go to class in shorts and a tank top at times which isn't a thing there). I spoke English with my American counterpart on an elevator once, and this middle-aged salaryman was like, "Wow...your English is amazing." haha
I have to agree with the two women from the Philippines about having difficulty expressing oneself amongst Japanese people. I feel like they're very conservative and even if they disagree with something, they may not voice that; however, they may agree with someone who does (I see it happen in some of these online interviews of Japanese people as well). I'm...different. Being American, I'm not really afraid to express my opinions, especially when something is wrong; on the other hand, I understood where they're coming from since my parents came from Asia, so our household culture is still very traditional. I was often told that my 正義感が強い, or that my sense of justice is strong, because I'd often stick up for my fellow Asian dorm mates, who might let people walk over them because they're afraid of stirring up trouble. Despite being a female, I'm also rough around the edges, so I do tend to intimidate people (not intentionally).
I took a Korean class one semester. The teacher also taught Japanese at the Japanese Institute, so he recognized me and my Taiwanese dormmate. He asked us if it was weird, coming to Japan to study Japanese and yet taking a Korean class taught in Japanese. He made us introduce ourselves in front of our Japanese classmates. Let's just say....no one really wanted to sit near us or partner up with us when we practiced Korean even though we spoke Japanese at an advanced level.
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as a half-japanese, half-filipino person living in america, seeing videos like these, from people that have both similar, and differing experiences as i do, is so genuinely interesting to see.
i relate a lot to them honestly, especially in the aspects of not feeling connected enough to my japanese half/wanting to connect more to that side of myself (since in my household, my parents decided to raise me to identify a bit more with my filipino side in comparison to my japanese side. even though my mom is japanese/is fluent/would talk to me in japanese/etc., she still grew up in the philippines).
however, as much as i want to live in japan, i've also always been very afraid to, since i've always felt as though i'm "not japanese enough"/would get viewed negatively as a "hafu" or, once again, "not japanese enough" if i were to live in japan (i definitely have experienced the weird looks many times when i visited).
so, seeing this video feels very...nice, yknow? gives a bit of insight on how it would be for myself if i were to potentially move there one day.
so, thank you so much, takashi-san!
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Hello, Here in Brazil we have so much admiration and respect for Japan and its people, we think they are so polite, we have so many tributes to Japanese culture, like literally a completely Japanese neighborhood in downtown São Paulo, several temples (very beautiful by the way) and several restaurants throughout my country, we also have the largest Japanese community outside of Japan, where you can see some statues honoring the japanese, several events honoring japanese culture, i studied with japanese here and had a lot of contact with them, it is common in my city to see descendants. and it is also very common to find people in Brazil who want to go to Japan and who love its culture. But it saddened me a lot to know that my country was not even remembered in this video... :c.
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I love this video! Growing up half-Japanese in the United States has been an interesting experience, and I always wondered what other half-Japanese kids felt. I grew up and went to school in a very diverse area, but I felt like I was unable to connect with other Japanese kids. I was often given weird looks because I couldn't actually hold a conversation in Japanese, and since I didn't go to the weekend Japanese school, it felt like others viewed me as "not a real" nihonjin. But my caucasian friends and classmates assumed I did know how to read, write, and speak in Japanese, and would often show me stuff and ask me to translate. And I think all the other half-Japanese kids (if there were any) just kept that part of them hidden or didn't want to talk about it.
I feel one of the most difficult things about being half is my physical appearance. I am very obviously not caucasian (dark skin, dark hair), but I don't really look particularly Japanese, or even Asian (facial features). Everyone assumes that I'm Mexican, Middle Eastern, or Filipino. Strangers will often assume I speak Spanish and will just talk to me in Spanish, then get upset with me for not actually knowing any. And a lot of people, when they hear my name, assume I'm Persian or Indian, because apparently "Mina" is a common name in those cultures (but mine is Miina). I think the only reason others may possibly think "is she... Asian?" is because I bow a lot :/ it makes me kind of sad to think that my physical appearance doesn't match either of my cultures
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Hi Takashii! Thank you very much for your interesting videos
I would like to make a suggestion, I know you don't have to take it into account, but I think it could be interesting, even if it probably wouldn't be easy.
Normally I realise that most of your interviews are with people living in a big city like Tokyo, but I think it could be interesting, how a rural person sees these same topics, or even foreigners living in those rural areas. Or for example, how young Japanese people live in rural areas, where they have fewer job opportunities, or what their daily life is like, going to school... Or what it is like for a foreigner to live or work in a rural area and interact with the locals.
I think it would be interesting, to have a more complete view of Japan, and less known.
As always your content is very interesting!
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I was raised overseas, lived in the Middle East (Jeddah, 🇸🇦), but I traveled throughout parts of Asia, Europe, and Africa before coming to the U.S. back in 95. I remember so much, and it gave me perspective that a lot of people found “weird” or “confusing.” It’s like, the sky above your head isn’t all there is out there. It’s why now in my 30s I’m picking my languages back up (Japanese included) and really would like to spread my wings again and see the world through my grown up eyes. If people ever get the chance, please do yourself justice and experience a different country. Prepare, do your research, and it’ll be a time you’ll never forget. I’m happy for this family and these kids. I hope the kids cherish this gift from their parents.
I love these interviews!
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Thank you so much for this video.
I visited Japan in 2019 and, being Muslim, I did find some restrictions but most convenient stores stock Onigiri with Fish. Muslims are allowed to eat most seafood, which is what is the protein eaten most in Japan, so I think that was easy. We also bought our own salmon and cooked it at the house we were living in, which was also easy to find and much cheaper than where we were from, so it was a real treat.
Pre-Covid there were lots of halal restaurants in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hiroshima, which we took full advantage of and the Halal ramen is really tasty, so I was really happy to have experienced that. I know many of these places have since closed down, which makes me pretty sad, but I understand the reality of those places.
I'm really eager to return to Japan - I think the Japanese have a lot of traits that Muslims should have, so being in the country is definitely easy. When I was there I would pray in the park and it would not be a problem, which I think is very different to Western Countries --- I think if Japanese people learnt a little bit about Islam, they would probably be welcoming to it, but currently it's not very common in Japan, as well as Japanese media being linked to US media, it's very easy for Japanese to be incorrectly educated on Islam, from the American perspective.
The Japanese friends that I have who know about Islam are all understanding.
Thanks for the video and much love from South Africa.
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Visiting Japan for the first time in 2002, I was shocked by men's fashion in Japan. Coming from Los Angeles, where T-shirts and shorts are the norm, I was blown away by Japanese fashion for men. The same with the hairstyle. At the time, everyone in the US had simple, short hair, and in Korea, it was all bowl cuts. Japanese men had long hair, short hair, colored hair, permed hair, etc. - a shocking variety of hairstyles. There were also millions of different hair products for men at the stores; whereas, at the time in the US and Korea, men's choice of hair products was limited. A lot changed in twenty years for Korea and the US, but I still think Japan leads in men's fashion and hair in terms of diversity.
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My dad is also nikkei,,, Japanese-Brazilian. He was born and raised in Brazil but fully Japanese by blood. I think my grandma is also nikkei. Dad decided to move in Japan since 30+ years old, and until now he's in Japan like 20+ years. He's fluent in Portuguese and understand Spanish, he also can speak Japanese since he was in Brazil because my grandma was a teacher before, she's both fluent in Portuguese and Japanese so maybe she taught him. Before, I'm very confused with my father's identity, also myself🥲 (my mom is Filipina, so I'm half Filipina but in my dad's side, I didn't understand about his identity. Like is he half Japanese half Brazilian? Or Brazilian quarter?? lol). Growing up I thought I have a Brazilian blood😭 (I was born in Japan, and I moved to the Philippines with my mom since I was 8 years old). And in 2020, I asked grandma on video call if she's half Brazilian, but her answer was no😭 Like they're fully Japanese by blood but she and dad was born and raised in Brazil. So I was so shocked that time lmao😭😭😭. This year, I talked about nikkei to dad and I find it interesting especially like these videos hehe. じゃ、やっぱり私はフィリピンと日本のハーフか🥲 コメントが長くてごめんなさいw
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That’s really interesting.
The girl who was half Colombian and half Japanese, looked Japanese but, she also had a Latin look too. She didn’t seem like she was comfortable, but is in another way. The guy just looked straight Latino 🤣🤣
But then, you also have Naomi Osaka who is half Japanese and half black (American), and is comfortable with herself.
I guess maybe it’s a cultural thing in Japan, and not just there…. Pretty much anywhere else it could happen. My Nan was half Irish (her dad), and her mother was black Barbadian(her mum). However, she could’ve passed for white. And had she been raised by her father’s side, they would’ve raised her as such, with no connection to her black side. It’s important we all know where we come from. And learn and embrace both sides of our cultures.
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Warning: LONG POST AHEAD!
I taught at one eikaiwa for a few months - pros: you meet a lot of great people. Especially if it's one of the more expensive eikaiwas, you can meet uni professors, CEOs, artists etc and become friends with them. If you're in such a situation - just make them friends, ignore the eikaiwa rules, this is what actually helped me stand on my feet. Another good side is that working hours are flexible often, and you can earn less for more free time. The last good thing is easy visa, even for non native speakers (you just need to prove you got experience in the field). That's where the pros end.
Now the cons: ooh boy, do they have cons...
well, first of all, if you actually have enough clients to fill 8h working shifts 5 days a week, your salary will come to the teacher average of around 250k. Take taxes/health out of that, and you got some 220k left for rent+utilities+everything else - now a lot of my coworkers lived in sharehouses or somewhere far away from Tokyo hubs. For me it was tough cuz from the get-go I found an apartment in an accessible fancy area within walking distance to one of the biggest hubs. I was paying double rent compared to most other teachers (and worked less). The real problem is actual exhaustion - in a normal company, during a 8h shift, you work maybe 2-3h with 100% focus, the rest is meetings, socializing or just 'pretending to work' (very common in japan). As a teacher, you are 100% focused permanently, with some short 5 min breaks between lessons. Yes, you need to talk for 8h straight for that average teacher salary. Too much.
Now, another big con is how you're viewed and how you're treated by both Japanese and Foreigners. As someone in the interview mentioned, teachers don't have a good reputation among Japanese. It's common knowledge they make crap salaries (for Tokyo standards), and it is highly positive and tolerated if you're a student or fresh-graduate, but some of my former coworkers were fossils with dead eyes that stayed in the same eikaiwa for 15 years and literally walk like zombies and talk like zombies. No one respects them. Foreigners will pity you if you're still in the industry after a few years, and Japanese, well, they'll treat you as they would any temporary employee in a very common field of work.
Next is the working environment - highly unflexible with tons of unnecessary archaic things like wearing suits in summer, treating clients as gods and terrible learning materials which limit you a lot in the way you want to build rapport. The companies usually brainwash you into adopting their methods and nothing else - and bored managers will sometimes walk the isle and eavesdrop on your lessons only to bother you about it after. I've literally had a manager come up to me after the lesson saying "I've noticed your mask fell off for more than 2 seconds during the lesson. If this ever happens again, I will have to escalate this issue." Some managers are nice though. Really depends on the school/branch.
The last big bad side (we're not gonna go deep into the small issues teaching has) is the absolute 0 job security (at least for eikaiwas). They will keep you as a 'freelancer' under short 3-6 months contracts that they will renew if you aggressively compete with your coworkers. The system they designed is to make all teachers fight each other for lessons and bonuses, so the teachers that follow the method the most with consistent high reviews will be getting bonuses (trust me not worth it, in my school it was something in the lines of 150+ lessons taught at specific hours they assign you to for just 10k more). If they don't see you constantly performing under their specifications and attend their useless 'development' seminars, they will simply not renew your contract. Why would they? They got a line of fresh stock always incoming.
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Now, let's not make it so dark - I made it out of it, I know many others who have too, sooner or later. Some advice:
(for people interested in progressing beyond teaching asap and building themselves up in Japan)
- Teaching is only your entry ticket to Japan. Depending on your visa, you got 1-3 years to settle yourself. That's a lot of time - make sure you dedicate at least several hours per day towards that goal.
- Make friends with as many Japanese as you can. It will boost your Japanese and offer opportunities. Don't go to HUB or foreigner bars. Go to Japanese bars. Hit people up. Tell them your story. Listen to theirs. You'd be amazed what kind of people you can meet. If you know where to go, you can easily meet celebrities, business owners, artists, professors etc. and if you have some skill aside from English, these people could help you out, or point you in the right direction.
- Stick to urban hub areas - you're far more likely to meet interesting people there: if a company offers you some deep Chiba, Kanagawa, Gunma, Shizuoka or whatever - throw that away (if you have any ambition). You ain't 'gonna make it' in the countryside. If you do end up there, the next goal before anything else is getting yourself to Tokyo. Stick to Shinjuku, Shibuya, Minato, Meguro, Setagaya. This is where cool stuff happens. It's expensive, it's a very high tension high speed lifestyle, but it also offers the most. It's also likely the only standpoint that can unlock the absolute most of Japan for you. (countryside and travelling comes later, when your feet are solid)
- Do stuff for free. Seriously. If you meet a really cool professor that might be interested in your research in the school you're teaching at, once your relationship is good enough, get their contact and teach them for free. It comes back. 1000x. Don't do it for the gains. Do it because it's super rewarding to make friends and deep connections. A lot of foreigners complain Japanese never let them in their 'inner circle' - you need to first open yourself enough and show them you care deeply.
- Be a 'yes' man. If someone invites you to an event (perhaps your client is having some presentation somewhere, or a performance) - go there. If you get invited to drink with your coworkers - go there. If you get invited to something REALLY REALLY boring - GO THERE! From my experience in Japan after several years, I NEVER regretted going out A SINGLE TIME out of countless times when I debated whether I should or not. Never say no.
(for people interested in being an English teacher forever - but want more money, more free time, and more reputation)
- Steal clients - in expensive eikaiwas clients pay 7000-9000yen per lesson with you. The company will give you 1500-2000 and take the rest. Build a good rapport, and then steal them. Offer them a longer, more customized lesson for 5000. Win-win for both. And no suits or boring rules.
- Work towards getting yourself in an international school - these places often pay better, 250k-400k (pre taxes) and are considered decent (often giving you a real contract).
- If you have a master degree - get some education credentials, push some papers and go teach English in a uni - same as above, much better
- Find clients through friends you already made - chances are if you are helping a friend out with English, they will recommend you. At some point I had over 15 people reaching out to me for lessons from just one person (I taught for free). I still teach some of them for free when I got time.
- Be in the right place at the right time. (this is closely related to my point about being in the big Tokyo hubs) - If you hang around areas where successful people gather, there's a greater chance you'll find high level clients. Getting just a few of those would be enough for you to have tons of free time cuz 20 lessons a month would cover your livelyhood. (compare that to the 150+ you'd have to grind out in the eikaiwa)
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Finally - observation about the future of teaching:
1) Teaching will not be here for a long time. There's too many teachers, and ChatGPT powered apps and AI teachers are becoming better and better. By next year, we'll have fully animated deepfake teachers that can completely replace human teachers with perfect knowledge of grammar and every single word.
2) It is likely that eikaiwa schools will stay the longest - a lot of clients just come to chat with a foreigner. They don't care about studying. Companionship is something that Japanese people definitely lack - and you'll often find yourself flirting with lonely people, becoming their therapist or something similar.
3) Japanese are still very behind English ability (compared to rest of Asia), however they are getting better. While the demand for teaching soared again after tourists came back, it's reaching a plateau and is slowly declining. Younger folks in Japan also tend to know English better - they would only take English lessons to talk to foreigners.
4) There are more and more English conversation cafes, language exchange meetups and similar events. This is both good for you and bad. The bad part is that there's less demand for you as a teacher. The good thing is - as a teacher, you can go there and fish for clients, or simply meet friends.
Thank you for reading. Good luck in Japan!
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As a Muslim Arab person, I haven't had any discrimination there, but they were very curious about my country. I've been there 3 times, and I kind of got used to it, and the last time I've been there was in 2019 for one whole month. It's interesting how some people actually know my country which is Kuwait, and their reactions were like "暑!" which means hot in Japanese lol. Probably the reason I didn't face any discrimination because I look more Asian than Arab since I'm half Thai, but I was born and raised in Kuwait. The only problem I had was food, I'm quite picky with food because I don't really like vegetables, while 70-80% of Japanese food is filled with vegetables, and also because of halal and haram food. The main problem is, on my last visit, I had a Japanese friend with me most of the time, and whenever we enter a restaurant, he asks the waiter if the soy sauce or rice have any mixture of mirin or sake in it, and there I realized that... eating there has gotten much more difficult. I have eaten way too many things without knowing these kind of food also have alcohol in them. So yeah, finding halal restaurants there is kind of difficult, but I'm happy I found a halal Coco Ichibanya which is my favorite restaurant.
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Almost a week I'm in Tokyo, I will stay here for at least 5 years. I've never felt so free and respected (especially I'm black) in a foreign country like in Japan. From the airport to the stores. I have nothing negative since my first day. Japanese people are amazing, respectful and very kind even though the only thing I can say in japanese is "thank you" but I go everywhere, (shopping, administration...) alone and they're always willing to help me. I landed at Haneda airport, nobody came to take me there, from the airport people were just kind, helpful (customs officers, immigration officers) they gave some advices like learning the japanese language in order to integrate quickly, visiting good places, wearing masks ( I couldn't believe they were customs and immigration officers). It was at night, and I met an iranian guy living in Tokyo already for along time, he helped me a lot (we took the train together till my station), when I was exchanging money at the airport I forget my small bag and some cash and the guy told me "Don't worry, nobody will take, It's pretty safe here", he was right. After the station, I was supposed to take a taxi, so I asked a random japanese guy at the station, he showed me directions (He doesn't know english very well) and he left. And I just stay there alone It was already 10 pm and it was raining not so many people outside, noticing that I wasn't moving, the japanese guy came back to me and told me "Let's go I'll help you to take a taxi". He took it for me, the taxi driver (old guy) was very kind and respectful, he held the umbrella for me, accompanied me till the door of my dormitory. the dormitory was locked, then a japanese girl came, called her friends (boys and girls) they carried my luggage put it into my room, they all introduced themselves first. long story, I'll just stop here.
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I just turned 21 in 2013, backpacked June, July, august, 3 whole months. Knew no Japanese. Had a 2 week JR rail pass used to go to Kyushu and back to Tokyo than up to Hokkaido. I was so excited for my trip I would walk and walk til 2am find a hostel or internet cafe, maybe use couch surfing to stay at a locals, I'd usually wake up at 6am sharp to immediately leave and go out exploring again. Walked alone through towns in the countryside and walked the Tokyo streets at night, perfectly safe I never once had an issue. Never once felt in danger. I felt so much more safe and secure, free and able to walk than in my own country.
Children got to school on their own, the more I keep telling people that here they think it's the worst idea because the crime and missing children is so high here. school buses or parents dropping children off, rarely do children go to school on their own.
I definitely miss walking a city feeling safe, I miss Japan.
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I'm Brazilian and I can't speak like a Japanese, but I believe that the tension and the high level of demand with the youngest in which a failure in the entrance exam or in a high test, as if that was the end and there was nothing else to do in life causes many young people to go into a depression and give up everything, I live in Portugal but I used to live in Brazil and our parents always told us to study but if we didn't want to follow an academic line, we could undertake something and work everything to conquer everything we want, I see this more in Asian people, if I'm wrong, I'm sorry and I ask you to correct me, but the life of the person in these countries is geared towards an academic education in order to find a high-level job, but never in terms of investment, knowing how to open a business and seek ideas for your business to prosper, of course we always need knowledge but not everything revolves around that, I read a lot of business books and always talk about how investment and the will to undertake changes lives, I know self-taught people who have incredible knowledge and who are rich because they focused their lives on what they liked despite not having the money to go to university.
Edit 1- I read these days that paid universities in Japan are very expensive and depending on your performance you get the best jobs and vacancies, when the person fails the first entrance exam, this often condemns the person as a failure in their life, I think this is wrong, you can be whatever you want to date self knowledge made people like Steve Job , Bill Gates and Elon Musk being very smart even before they graduated in something 😊
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I was in Tokyo in 2019 and it was a surprise to me that the prices was not that different than the small town I live in Italy...Big Italian cities are expensive as fuck, but in Tokyo I could get for example great meals with just 10-15 euro...If you ever come to Italy please avoid tourist traps, like places unreasonably expensive. It's a plague here, in Rome for example you shouldn't go for those restaurants near touristy places, they're all scam, garbage food at high price. Even I, when I visit touristy places in Italy, don't know where to eat because every place is shit, I can say that.
If I was a tourist, I would go for smaller cities, they're cleaner, safer and much more cheap.
In tokyo I felt that there were much more quality food and prices were normal, not artificially inflated, as it should be. Same with transportation and such services, high quality for a reasonable price.
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I just got by the age old saying "Treat others how you yourself would want to be treated" and it works out almost 100% of the time.
Also, if you're visiting a foreign country, as a rule of thumb, it's almost always good to pick up some traveling books or do some online research on the basic etiquettes, greetings and behaviors of that countries cultures.
Like Japanese culture I've learned is VERY serious about cleanliness, hygiene and good manners, as most of the folks mentioned in this video. Things like bathing before entering an open bath, not littering, waiting politely in line... etc, are things that we should ALL do...
But in the US, we're very boisterous and rushing everywhere, so we tend to overlook sometimes signs that say "Please Wait to be Seated" or rush passed someone waiting to get on a train perhaps...
But it's usually overlooked because while it's somewhat rude, it's not necessarily insulting, so no one says anything, but in Japan it seems people take far greater offense to behavior like that, and while they won't get confrontational, they consider it far more insulting than we do here in the West.
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I'm torn on this topic. I'm currently a university student and I am living in South Korea right now which is also known for a culture of overworking, while not necessarily in the same exact ways that Japan is known for this (I have also lived in Japan in the past).
Since staying here, I felt that while there is definitely a culture of overworking, there is also a completely different perception of work than the general perspective in the United States.
The idea of having respect for, pride in, and loyalty to your company is a lot stronger here (in South Korea, and also in Japan compared to in the U.S.). In addition to that I've encountered more Korean people that say that they are passionate about their work or that they are working in a job that they love than I have encountered in the U.S.
For me, when I am working on the things I am passionate about (graphic design, videography, or other creative work), I often work well over 8 hours a day. I also work all through the night or work through meals and holidays. I choose to do that because I'm so excited about my work or passionate and interested in it.
So, I really appreciate your video on this topic. I think it is really amazing to see you and other Japanese individuals engaging in honest and open discussion on this aspect of Japanese culture. It seemed like the individuals that you interviewed gave really honest responses.
Moving forward, it is important that everyone is able to reasonably and openly critique their own culture and discuss constructive ways to create positive change in the future.
For people that watch this content who are not Japanese and may be inclined to judge or critique the culture without an understanding of it, or without context, I hope that we can take the time to consider that there is more to the discussion of what is reasonable for work than our initial opinions and that it is good to keep an open mind and learn from each other.
Thank you for making this video! 🤍
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My personal favorite would be Rurouni Kenshin. Fell in love with the story, action, and soundtrack. I was pretty much exposed to late 80s and 90s anime. So along the lines of DBZ, Supergod Masterforce (the only Transformers I will ever love), Shadowskill, Gestalt, Claymore, Gatekeepers, Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, Oji The Section Chief, Macross, Ninku (yes, before you guys had Naruto, there was this), Flame of Recca, Yuyu Hakusho, Cooking Masterboy... just to name a few.
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Yes, this is an interesting topic Takashii. I am studying Hikikimori & Suicide in Japan & the world. The Hikikimori are identified in other countries too including Australia, Bangladesh, Iran, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the USA. I think what Japanese folk call "Culture" may actually be "Inherited Thinking" so if my Elders worked over time so too will i, symbolizing a group mind as opposed to individual Thinking. The Lady brought up a good point about "no time for Children" of Family, indeed oneself really. We work to live, not live to work, play is very important. What each country has in common is being over worked, especially in South Korea, people take their lives, no quality of life. Bravo on asking about a subject, rarely talked about. :hand-purple-blue-peace:
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I love your videos! It's so nice to hear many different people's perspectives on one topic.
I'm renting a room in Seattle, Washington, from a lovely older Japanese woman and completely agree that having a friend to help critique your progress is very helpful. COVID cancelled my previous plans to visit Japan, but I hope to arrange a trip within the next six months.
For a casual tourist I would also suggest using Google translate's camera feature to help with realtime written text translation, especially with signs, instructions, menus, or product packaging. I use it often in grocery stores here in the USA. Apps can't replace thousands of hours of studying, but can help you navigate as a tourist, or pick a tasty snack. 😋
I would definitely recommend visiting a country as a tourist, even with limited language skills, before investing years of studies, and not having your first visit be your relocation.
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I think for english native speakers, traveling abroad and learning the hard way that mostly nobody speaks english outside of their country is quite a hard eye opener. I still remember a friend that went to Europe and thought english was ok and then after he came back he told me that the only place english was perfect was England and maybe Netherlands and thats it, everywhere else (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, etc) english was almost completely useless.
Sure some places have some of their stuff written in both the local language and english (airports, train/metro stations, highways, etc) but that doesn't mean the local population will understand you if you try to communicate in english, and in some places people would find super rude if you don't even attempt to use the local language to communicate and just assume they know english.
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Thanks to you I found out Tokyo Revengers has a movie, and the movie is live action and I'm excited for it. I got into GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka years ago through the Japanese drama--the one Oguri Shun played in. And then through that got into the anime, and have been rewatching the anime again recently. It's such an old anime, very lewd but funny. Made me wonder if there are any reckless teachers in Japan, but I highly doubt it since I know there's lots of rules in Japan. Nonetheless, are there any particular teachers in your life that made a difference for you? Or any teachers who vividly remember and will remember?
For me, for instance, one of my college professors made a huge difference in my life. He became my mentor, someone I could confide in, he helped me so much! I was really close with him and took many of his classes because he didn't teach like from a book. He really was an amazing teacher. He was also a chaperone for a study abroad trip to Japan that we took through my university. He was always rooting for me, no matter what goal I was set out on, it's because of him that I became motivated to want to teach one day. Unfortunately, he passed away due to cancer. It kind of sucks because he wrote an amazing recommendation letter for this program I was going to do in Japan, but then the pandemic thing cancelled it and I feel sad because besides my previous boss, he knew me best.
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Yeah, I can definitely relate to the first person. I'm Puerto Rican and have grown up my entire life in a Spanish speaking house with only my much older siblings knowing any deep English. Both of my parents have a basic enough understanding of English with only one of them knowing a lot more but not by much. I've been able to have conversations, but one of my parents is much more difficult due to the language barrier. All of the older people in the family all speak Spanish, so growing up I didn't really have many conversations with just about anyone other than either the younger people or my immediate family (brothers, sister, and their kids). So yeah, going to Puerto Rico twice, I felt like a fish out of water even more so. As I got older it got easier because I picked up a lot of Spanish, so I can understand it at a near fluent level (I've had incredibly complex and deep conversations with people who understand English but don't speak it, so they'd talk to me in Spanish and I'd talk to them in English, I've done some help translating for people as well due to this).
Essentially what he faced/faces in Japan today has been my entire life, so yeah, that experience hits close to home. Honestly to this day the language barrier is still a challenge, but due to my experiences, it's gotten a lot better, and I've worked harder to get better at speaking my native language, something I'd encourage anyone to do.
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I think that maybe the most prevalent feeling/attitude that foreign/gaijin ppl meet there would be xenophobia, not particularly racism...which might be inaccessible anyway (meaning people don't express it that easily anyway, only to close friends that they choose and develop relationship in time, building trust and so on).
The guy from Australia brought an interesting point, which is Asian nationalities/ethnicity have this type of "hate", and I'm not even sure that is racism... because it's historically very common to have conflicts of various scale with neighbours, depending on specific wars and political interests at a certain time. I totally get the frictions between Koreans, Chinese, Japanese people (and so on), humans can show despicable sides in wars and everybody loses. I can think of examples from Romania (my country), where for examples Romani (gypsies) face/d racism for centuries now, and most Romanians do not know or want to acknowledge that there was slavery here for at least 500 years (we just call them differently, "slaves" are what they had during the antiquity period, during the middle ages they had different names, but basically the same thing - maybe it's all just a language gimmick used collectively to excuse the behaviour), but also some of our neighbours are at the receiving end of some horrific name calling (a.k.a. xenophobia)...to put it nicely that is. Unfortunately there are many things that humans share, no matter the continent, and one of those is hate... of all kinds. But I think that by filming these videos you open conversations and we get to find out more about Japan. I am definitely planning a visit, but it will take a while, for sure...
Trying to simplify here - I really liked this video because it shows real ppl, on the street, you can also tell that you are genuinely curious and wanting to learn more about what people say and how they see things. I think it shows a raw, day-to-day side of Japan, a.k.a. ppl who live there - you're quite the ambassador for Japan I might say (/•-•)/
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I live in Canada and have been traveling regularly to Japan for the past 25 years. The notion that Japan has been in economic crisis for 30+ years has always been puzzling to me, since the outward manifestation of this "crisis" is completely different from what our economic crises look like in North America. No mass unemployment or social unrest, but just a progressive adaptation of everyone to a relatively frugal yet still comfortable lifestyle. I personally live a fairly luxurious life in Canada, but only because both my wife and I work in a high-income profession and live in an apartment (albeit a very nice one). Much of the vaunted (but precarious) North American lifestyle consists of enormous amounts of waste (stupidly large homes in distant suburbs or astronomical rent or mortgage in the cities, multiple big vehicles, long commutes by car, stuffing yourself with a lot of meat, buying a lot of useless junk, etc.). As a result, most people's happiness here is determined by the price of gas, which is pathetic but explains a lot of our politics and geopolitics.
The weak Japanese yen is in many ways good for the Japanese economy (through exports, tourism, and repatriation of manufacturing) and it should eventually improve. If Japan could open up to immigration and unleash the untapped talent of women in the workforce and in decision making roles, its future would look brighter. More broadly available childcare and elderly care is needed for any of this to happen. Easier said than done, but Japan has adapted brilliantly to challenges in the past.
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Very nice video. Among my favorite anime there are several from the 80s that perhaps almost nobody knows 😊:
- Lady Oscar, Japanese name ベルサイユのばら (80s)
- Lady Georgie, Japanese name レデイジョージイ (80s)
- Red-haired Anna, Japanese name 赤毛のアン (80s)
- ガラスの仮面 (80s)
- Bem, Japanese name 妖怪人間ベム (80s)
- Ken the warrior, Japanese name 北斗拳 (80s)
- Marmalade boy ( 90s )
- Monster, Japanese name モンスター ( 2000s )
- Pretty guardian Sailor moon Crystal ( 2015 )
- Nana
- Psycho pass, Japanese name サイコパス ( 2012 )
- Hell girl, Japanese name 地獄少女 ( 2005 )
- Higurashi when they cry, Japanese name ひぐらしのなく頃に ( 2006 )
- Elfen Lied, Japanese name エルフェンリート ( 2004 )
- Detective Conan, Japanese name 名探偵 コンアン.
To the next video. またね! 🙂
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I spent 20 days in Japan. My knowledge of Japanese is fairly limited as I only learned it by watching subbed anime as a kid (a LOT of anime, yes, I'm an old nerd), meaning I can't read kanji and my vocabulary is fairly limited. Despite that, I had an absolute BLAST of a time. People are respectful, quiet and don't bother you unless you insult them in some way. Kyoto and Tokyo are amazingly clean and tidy. There's a feeling of safety that I haven't experienced anywhere else, at least away from my home. Were there issues? Sure, even in some hotels the receptionists couldn't speak english. Sure, coming from a mediterranean culture they were weirded of my more handsy approach to greeting my friends (a sort of "what do you mean you refer to them by their given name, hug AND kiss their cheeks?! what kind of relationship do you have?!", absolutely hilarious it was!). I, personally, experienced not even a hint of racism or anti-foreigner sentiment. They treated me like anyone else, even if I made the odd faux-pas. 10/10, I suggest visiting if you have the chance!
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Takashi, I love your content, I really do, but I humbly request for you to drop your routine of asking people to speak Japanese. With a lot of your guests, I can visibly tell how uncomfortable it makes them. Especially with your Japanese American guest, it is a painful reality for him that he was removed from his ancestry and language through the concentration camps. That is a common identity struggle of many Japanese Americans. It was also not cool that you laughed at his Japanese ability. I would recommend for you to check with your interviewees if they feel comfortable to be asked that question before the interview starts.
Edit: on second thought, perhaps it is more of an appropriate question for your guests who live in Japan, as it's the language of the country in which they reside. However, I think just for this interview, the dynamic was a bit different. Anyway, love the content as always, and looking forward to seeing more.
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Something taht always interested me is the experience of people with mental disorders in japan, there's alot of talk about "reading the room" and "unspoken rules" all things that might be simply invisible and incomprehensible to people on twb autistic spectrum, they might learn of course over time, but when you take things at face value based only on the words you get told, expecting either people to not lie to you or to ONLY lie(due to politeness, something that i also absolutely despise as an autistic person myself, i'd rather be insulted than politely lied to) you will not get those things and so... Yeah, i'm just curious to see how people with mental disorders fair in japan vs other countries, even japanese people with said disorders as from experience with japanese people on the spectrum, the experiences seem to vary, but when they're rough, they seem particularly rough...
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One thing I do wonder about, do 100% Japanese people like the honne vs tatemae culture? You mentioned Japanese people who speak English, generally are more open and that's true, i've met such people. But then the Japanese people who only speak Japanese and never travelled, I do wonder, are they happy with that aspect of their culture?
Along the same lines, would be good to see, if people are even happy with their own culture, but again, the one aspect that bothers me the most about Japanese Culture is the tatemae, it just bothers me when people are "fake". In Europe, you act fake, that's a giant red flag, if one of my friends does that, I might actually break off the friendship if he keeps doing that.
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Kanazawa was awesome—it’s like a little Kyoto. The JR Station was great with the shopping (omiyage desserts and food), the architecture, and “water fountain” digital clock. Tottemo oishii (very delicious) seafood at Omicho Market, historical Kanazawa Castle that lights up at night and adjacent parks nearby, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (amazing “swimming pool” exhibit), onsens near the area, gold-leaf dessert cake and soft cream, old-style Japanese shops, temples, maiko, etc. An all-around memorable time👍🏼
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Takashi I have the feeling apart from Egypt, Japanese don't know any other countries in Africa. Ironical because the TICAD (Tokyo international conference for African Development) is held in Japan often. Since 1993(Tokyo) ,1998 ,2003(Yokohama) 2008 and so on ... Can you ask Japanese to name 2 African countries and 2 languages spoken in Africa.(of course, English, Français, L'espagnol,le portugais,and Dutch) colonist language,pure African languages are too many to name, I can't even name all in my own country ,talk less those in all 53 African countries. Better not go there 😂. ありがとうございます。
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A nice way to open the new year where everybody can talk about their favourite anime stories and art.
I would say the best anime have more interesting stories and diversity of genres and different dynamics than Hollywood films these days. Then to add more interest: The skill and craftmanship put into the Art, Animation and Voice Acting along with the writing, and in some cases enjoyable music scores: There's a lot more entertainment as well as culture, language, invention to enjoy. It feels like the creators are really professional and focused to deliver the highest standards they are capable of. It comes out in the high quality, the daring to imagine...
It seems no surprise that anime (and manga) are more popular with people across a wide range of age-groups. There's a lot of skill and craftsmanship and level of care. Hollywood films don't feel like they're as cared for or loved as they used to be in the making by contrast.
One of the people interviewed, felt Chainsaw Man was too s-ized which I would say is a personal reaction not a universal description. It's also very gory and violent. If you don't like those things due to taste or values then it might not be the best choice to watch. However, that is describing personal taste. In fact Chainsaw Man is really taking the world through Denji and saying it's ugly, full of evil happenings, a struggle to survive and yet in all of that amid the violence, there's things that matter or make life bearable... Pretty cool story-telling underneath the gloomy grey, hopeless, washed-out colours and grim and gritty outcomes such as loss of loved ones and friends... That's good if not great story-telling to achieve that subtext and theme on life, albeit probably suitable for older teens onwards.
Overall, anime with great art and great story-telling and craftsmanship of love and care: That is the same in any media or culture, is something life-enhancing.
iTalki seems a perfect tie-in with a discussion about enjoying Anime, as both involve listening and speaking Japanese!
Great video and fascinating answers shared by people who were kind enough to be interviewed.
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Living in rural Japan I have found that 99% of Japanese people here are really nice and welcoming, and very open minded to foreigners (at least towards me, an Italian)
Some Japanese people are very enthusiastic to meet foreigners but are kinda shy, hence why they might just stare , I know it bothers some of my foreign friends a lot, but I really don’t think it’s a big deal. It’s just curiosity…
Usually though people are friendly and wanna talk about my country and ask me many questions , at my job it’s the same - I get on with pretty much everyone - some people haven’t spoken to me yet but I believe it’s just a case of language barrier (since I’m still learning Japanese), and not everyone has to be interested in me anyway - this is normal anywhere.
Ofc I’ve had a handful of negative experiences where someone might have been rude to me, and tried to tell me off, usually about talking in a public place. Honestly I just ignore these instances since it’s a very small minority of people. I don’t think it’s even xenophobia, rather just people being rude (they probably tell Japanese people off for the same thing) and rude people exist anywhere, if anything there’s less in Japan.
- I also want to emphasise that this happened 2 or three times compared to thousands and thousands of positive interactions I’ve had so far.
So as a foreigner, from my own experience Japan is a really great place to come, so safe, welcoming and open minded!
- I really enjoy living in Japan and I really like Japanese people - I think this is a very kind country!
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I was in Japan for the first time for 33 days. Just got back two weeks ago. What surprised me the most was public toilets not having soap, towels or hand dryers. Just water. But had hand sanitizer 😂. Need soap. I bought a towel at Don Quixote to use in public toilets
Visited Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Saitama, Kobe, Nagoya, Nagano, Matsumoto, Kyoto, Nara, Hiroshima, Fukuyama, Kanazawa, & Anjo.
Liked Fukuyama, Nagano, & Akihabara best. Also liked Ryogoku. Rained whole time in Kanazawa.
Everyone was really nice except two taxi drivers(Nagoya & Shinjuku) who wouldn't drive me. Nagoya driver said in Japanese "Walk".
Look forward to returning. Saw 31 wrestling shows in 33 days!
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This is a bit long and rambling and I was just about to delete it but after spending so long writing it I thought I might as well post it…
I think it comes down to Japanese men being less likely to make the first move and being scared of rejection. There is definitely a smaller percentage of foreign women that find Japanese men attractive. That is not the case with me but I am definitely an exception to the rule. I lived in a gaijin house when I lived in Tokyo (do they still exist), with about 40-50 gaijin men and women, and a few Japanese guys. In our house it was mostly Iranian men, African men, Australians, Israelis and the rest from Europe and a few Canadians. All of the women either worked teaching English, hostessing or both, like me. There was a lot of hooking up going on but I was the only girl who had a Japanese boyfriend. I had two Australian friends there that ended up marrying Japanese guys and staying in Japan but they had Iranian and African boyfriends when I first met them and said they didn’t like Japanese men.
That was in the mid 80s, I was young with very little experience with dating. I worked as a hostess so I dealt with Japanese men all the time and some of the customers became life long friends. I rarely met Japanese guys my age and when I did they were guys that lived or hung around the gaijin house that I lived in, usually they were friends of the gaijin guys that lived there, one was interested in me but he was only seventeen. I dated only two Japanese guys, one (the love of my life) lived in New York and was briefly visiting his family. He asked me to dance at a very cool club that as a foreigner I was privileged to go to. He spoke very good English and we bonded through music and queer culture, he was bisexual. We had a lovely few weeks together and I was very sad when he left. The other I met through a mutual friend. He asked her to introduce us. He spoke no English, I had very little Japanese. I was the first gaijin he had met and he assumed I was a lot more experienced than I was. He pursued me, I was flattered and relented. He took me away for a romantic weekend but it turned out that he had a girlfriend already. We actually had very little in common, he just liked showing me off to his friends. On the plus side, I learnt a lot more Japanese with him and he was the father of my son, who is easily the most important person in my life. My son met him and his wife and kids a couple of times as an adult but was never officially acknowledged so he wasn’t eligible for Japanese citizenship which still makes me sad.
My brother lived with me in Japan, he ended up marrying one of his many Japanese girlfriends and they have lived very unhappily in Australia ever since.
I have a few female Australian friends who married Japanese men, one lived very happily in Australia, they were both artists and had heaps in common; the other unhappily in Japan. Their marriage is over but they still share a house in Tokyo. They have very little in common, apart from their kids. I’m not even sure why they got married in the first place.
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I can completely relate to wanting to escape reality and refuging myself with a fictional character or characters because of bullying, social anxiety and depression. These characters are made to be likeable, sometimes even relatable, so it's easy for you to feel identified, and somehow “safe” if you’re surrounded by something that reminds you of them, in my case for example, action figures.
It is no surprise men commit s*ic*de 3 to 5 times more than women. While fortunately, we’re moving towards a new era of normalizing mental health and were speaking about your feelings is no longer considered being “a p**sy”, there is still a fair amount of machismo out there brought on by decades of violence and ridiculous social stigmas.
And while I respect this man because of his commitment to his happiness, and if this is what he needs to be happy, then so be it… I cannot in good conscience endorse this behavior for other men. It is okey for you to get a hobby and escape reality, but do not let that hobby become your reality.
Do not be afraid of getting help, of going to a therapist, a psychiatrist, or even taking medication if they prescribe it to you. Sometimes you’re not aware, but depression is an actual physical disease that you CANNOT control, and medication WILL help you be better with time and proper guidance. Same goes for anxiety. You’d be surprised as to how much our body chemistry changes over time due to depression. It’s not as easy as “Oh, tomorrow I’ll wake up and feel fine”, no, those chemicals in your head need a push to get back in track. That’s what medication is for.
You’re always stronger than you think you are, and there is always someone out there willing to help. Also, and most importantly, if you’re in an environment where you’re constantly surrounded by negativity or where you’re mistreated, and you feel this puts your mental health at risk… then get the hell out of there. It’s better to work at a 7eleven or a call center and being happy than to work somewhere where you’re miserable and mistreated.
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I hope you can go abroad soon! If you come to America, you can get quite a different experience or impression depending on which city you choose. Some cities are more diverse and more open-minded than others.
These ones I recommend, but maybe you can go to multiple cities during your stay. We have the Amtrak train you can take around the country. It's also a great way to see sceneries of America. They have beds on the train too!
1. NYC - biggest city, subway/don't need car, very diverse. They call it the city that never sleeps
2. Southern California (Los Angeles, San Diego)
Northern California (San Jose, San Francisco)
- Sunny warm weather, lots of palm trees make you feel like you're on vacation. Very diverse(lots of Asians). Many events and activities. Especially in LA. Food hub of many different cultures
3. Washington, DC - Capital of U.S. Smithsonian Museum is free. Lots of things to do, architecture to see.
4. Hawaii - nice sunny weather, diverse, many Japanese restaurants and people here. Like you're on vacation. Many tourists.
5. Seattle, Washington - Diverse, Liberal, weather is usually cloudy.
One con about U.S. is that we are a car-dependant society, which I don't like. I really like public transportation like the trains in Japan. So you will see that there are a lot of roads for cars and everything is more spaced out. NYC will give the closest feel to Tokyo.
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Japan has long operated a sort of parallel economy with it's own set of rules and operating procedures compared to the rest of the world. Japan has the world's highest public debt per capita (more than 250% of GDP) which is kept practicable by an inextricable collaboration between the bank of japan, the ministry of finance and it's many subsidiary arms. This sort of collaboration would never fly in other developed countries, but the people in charge still like to believe in Japanese exceptionalism, i.e. Japan is a 'special case' somehow, and in typical Japanese fashion, no one likes to rock the boat so we keep on going.
Long story short, Japan has been overtaken by the consequences of it's long term monetary policy, and by the looks of it, things will only get worse (not to speak of the aging problem).
Edit: The policy here being, running up your national debt (i.e. printing more yen's) in order to keep afloat zombie companies, finance useless infrastructure and other public projects etc. just to keep people in (unproductive) jobs and ministries spending their yearly budgets.
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Cardcaptor Sakura was a Studio Clamp title.
It's hard to say if I have a single favorite, but the closest would be "Aria". Who could resist gondolas on the canals of Mars? It's a very beautiful and poetic title.
My favorite comedies would be "Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu" or "Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid."
I'm not into sports, but I do like four titles. "South Kamakura High School Girls Bicycle Club", "Girls und Panzer", "Bamboo Blade" and "Taisho Baseball Girls". GuP would be my overall favorite, but I think "Taisho" is probably an objectively better series.
My favorite high school drama, hands down, is "Hibike! Euphonium". I love the music.
I also like the isekai title, "Ascendance of a Bookworm". There are other good ones, but . . .
For quiet, but a little offbeat, domestic stories, I love "Hakumei and Mikochi" and "Mokke". I can also recommend "Binbou Shimai Monogatari".
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I always appreciate these videos.
I am very interested in Japanese women in particular and am currently in a period of my life (for the last 4 years or so) where I'm trying to shape myself into an extremely desirable person. I'm out of my early 20's, on the edge of my 30's, I understand it's not enough to want someone who is "wife material", I have to be "husband material" at the same time. So I have been working out physically, studying Japanese, finding productive hobbies and generally enjoy household chores, working on my credentials, etc etc.
There is this old joke some people have, "Be the American the Japanese think you are and not the American the Europeans think you are", and I have internalized that hard.
I'm greatly invested in this culture, one of my dreams is to move there one day but it is a process I am working on. I always fear typical "weeb" stereotypes and coming across as some foreign barbarian (I am a 6'1ft, big MMA dude, so that fear is real) and these videos placate a lot of those fears hearing there are some people there that just appreciate guys like me as I am.
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With the Philippines and Vietnam's huge population, it is pretty wise for Japan to open its borders for immigrant workers. This can be a season for a melting pot of culture for SEA Asians. However, given the group mentality of Japanese people, possible cultural conflicts may worsen in the future in Japan. I was an IELTS teacher for Japanese students and I salute their dedication in studying. The Philippines and Japan had some history that we Filipinos no longer entertain because we focus in the future not in the past. They are hardworking people, but their hardwork are often exploited by black companies there. One of my male students before who was a salesman for modern medical techy supplies shared his fair share of love and pain in Japan. The country's debt to GDP ratio is insane. Given the fact that Japan's population is declining, it makes me feel sad to think about it. A fading population means a fading culture, history, and identity. I wish the atmosphere there will be more friendly to women. Women are smart. They will know it if they're not given any priorities. The moment a woman realizes that, it transforms into power. A power for them to rebel or conform. Currently, it is rebellion against social norms and rising cost of living that's stopping women to give birth. Who doesn't want a child? It's the most innocent thing that you can teach goodness in this world. But, due to social pressure, women no longer want to participate in that romantic ideal. Unless things change, the government's propaganda will be useless. An intense social reformation is what the country needs. It's painful to see a future Japan where 50% of the population are foreigners. The sacrifices of the ancestors will be wasted for naught. Wish this will have a turning point. Laban Japan.
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Hi Takashi! Congratulations on your wonderful channel. I'm Hispanic/ Latina and have lived in New York, USA since very young. I can related to your guest, because here in New York City either we, or our parents are from a foreign country. Usually, here in New York, after people introduce themselves the next question is- "Where are you from?". The reason for the question is because even if the person we meet was born here in the USA, what were are really trying to learn is their country of origin. For example, there are millions of Latinos here, but we still want to know what country the person is from because they can be from Puerto Rico, México, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, etc etc and we each have cultural differences in language dialect, food, music, dance, humor etc. etc. Even though we all speak one language (Spanish), our countries are miles apart and while there are similarities there are also differences. When I was young, I felt very different and out of place from my neighbors in the building I grew up in, but over time I came to like their culture and appreciate their warm welcoming lifestyle. In fact, I dare to say the culture from my South American country of origin is not as warm as the culture my caribbean neighbors expressed. So, growing up with so many cultural experiences has been great for my life and could not see my self living in a country of just one race or culture forever. I could visit and live for a short while, but ultimately, I would have to return to a melting pot as I need variety in food, dance, shops, museums, etc. etc.
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I wonder what expectations Japanese guys have in a girlfriend; traditionally, she should be able to cook, clean, sew, serve the food, etc. When they go out, she will make sure his glass is filled and so forth. From a Western point of view, it sounds a bit subservient, but Japanese girls seem to not mind, though in recent decades they have become more independent and less willing to be traditional wives. Anyway, perhaps Japanese guys regard foreign women as "untrained" or unable to meet expectations; thus, they are fun to go out with and have a drink together, but not good marriage material, unless the guy is very Westernized. Just some theories :)
As a side note, Takashii always picks such kind and charming people to interview. I think his friendly personality brings out the best in people.
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Thank you for the interviews from everyone who agreed to share their thoughts and interests (or not) on anime.
Anime is a good genre that works as well as Live-Action Films from Hollywood, let's say, in it's own way? The same could be said of Bollywood "Song & Dance" movies that are popular from India. Each is very different, but each gives something very enjoyable in terms of story and drama but with a different emphasis of addition.
With Anime, not only can the stories be enjoyable but the art and animation can add a lot of extra interest. For non-Japanese, perhaps, also the Japanese culture and language is another area that is rewarding in the same way Bollywood songs might be enjoyable for aficionados of that genre of film?
As for the lady that did not find Spy x Family anime very enjoyable, I would say the Manga is better as you can enjoy the drawing skills or draftsmanship more with that art style and equally the jokes work better with more time to take in the panels, than the anime allows, I would say? How things fit together and also each person's own preferences all interplay variously producing different reactions and different "takes".
Bearing that in mind, Chainaw Man has a solid psychological depth imo, that is vibrant while portraying a story that is morbid. It's a fascinating combination if appreciated in that way? Likewise other anime have other such qualities to offer at their best or otherwise only shine as such to the given individual who sees it in that way.
I could not answer the question of favourite anime or movie or novel, but if "push comes to shove" then it might be a story that I would never have imagined and could only enjoy thanks to the inventive and creative work of the original artists. I think anime (and manga) has a lot of those stories, fortunately. As for "putting my head on the block", in that case, a story where many different threads are woven together in a bizarre but enjoyable and skillful way would be the anime, Overlord. It may be about a fantasy game but it ends up being about a bit more than that.
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Its so great to see people's perspective, thank you for showing, i was really curious about japan living and how people from other countries feel about it.
In my opinion from what i see in this video and friends and other brazillian youtubers that go to and live in japan is like one side, people are really well treated, and welcomed by most japanese people.
yet in some conservatives places some old people and close minded people can not treat you right, there is this youtuber that i follow, he is brazillian-japanese, his name is Haruyuki, and had some bad times where he live. But I guess even tho is wrong, Japan has been closed to the world for so much time that this is kind of understandable, i think in some years in there will not be this problem anymore since japan has really opened their doors to other countries
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I lived in Japan for 2 years and also had a similar situation to the first person. I'm originally from LA. I was on a train commuting to work one morning, and I sat next to an older Japanese woman. Probably in her 50s. At the time, I didn't speak much Japanese. Suddenly, she elbowed me pretty hard. I scooted over thinking she needed more room. But then she elbowed me again, tore my earphones from my ears, and starting yelling at me. I really wish I knew what she was saying but all I could do was apologize, over and over, to try and calm her down. She was yelling, almost in tears, and left the train at the next stop. The train was a full train. Everyone just watched it happened. I wish I could have known why she was so upset, but from her actions, I think she was terrified of me. This took place in a city where there are not a lot of forgeigners. However, besides this, in terms of safety, I felt extremely safe in Japan, during my entire stay. I love the Japanese people so much. It was because of them that I wanted to live in Japan in the first place. But when it comes to confrontation, they tend to avoid it as much as possible. Thank you SO much for making these videos. It's so important for people to understand these experiences and learn from them. Love your videos.
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The only thing i hated in Japan was the harassment, not even the earthquake. It got to a point where i had to go out with one of my brothers, because that way these disgusting creeps wouldn't approach me when i just wanted to buy ice cream. They probably thought that i was japanese too, since i am half japanese, but look a lot like my mother who is japanese, so they'd just do these disgusting things to me and got shocked when i screamed at them. When people say that Japan is safe, it might be in some aspects, but don't hope that it'll be 100% when you're a woman, or at least a woman who can pass as japanese, because they really think that you'll be submissive and just accept it with no reaction, that's why i screamed, when i actually wanted to kick them, but was afraid of the police believing in them and not in me.
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I'll suggest you Death note, Haikyu,Demon Slayer, Banana fish,Your lie in April, Tokyo revengers,Erased,AOT,Another, Orange, Violet Evergarden,86 and Charlotte.
Do watch these🐸
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NYC is a very fascinating City with many Museums,Clubs,& Other things to do. However,Many things in Manhattan is expensive. The City smells,Has big Rats,& is indeed Nasty. Be careful in the Subways,because it's loaded with Mentally ill,& frustrated ppl,Who will slice,rob,& Shoot You. Us Black ppl cannot get a Cab in this City because of racism. Fascinating City,but I'm ready to relocate to the West Coast. Great Video,hope to come to Japan One Day!!!👍✌️
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Some of these guys saying foreign women are better than Japanese women... I guess some of this is just politeness, because they know a lot of the audience are foreigners. I wonder if they would say slightly different opinions in private?
However if you were to come to America and interview non-Asian guys about Japanese women, I think 99% of them would say "YES!!! I want to date a Japanese!" because they are considered very exotic and beautiful, they tend to be thin, they smile a lot, they are good with children, and they can cook fantastic food -- of course some of this is just stereotypes, but this is what American guys would generally believe. Probably also European guys.
Would the marriage work out, though? I know a lot of mixed couples who broke up because of cultural differences. The one good thing is, when for example she is Asian and her English isn't perfect, and he is American and his Asian language is poor, they can't have long arguments because they lack the vocabulary. It's like a kind of sea wall against big waves.
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For me personally as a foreginer - Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and other 'famous foreigner-welcome places are big nono... I am nature-based dude, introvert and don't like ppl so much, so for me Hokkaido Region is no.1 doesn't matter where, nature, winter, less ppl.... but i think Sapporo, as a capital city of Hokkaido, would be no.1 for me if i would like to live among the 'foreigners too... Love winter, snow and freezing <3 Wish to have some Hokkaido waifu <3 It's quite painfull, i personally gotta say as beer lover, Sapporo beer ain't for me that tasty as Asahi, so sorry Sapporo for that :'(, but even though Asahi is Nipon beer, so for me, Asahi is the total luv and no.1 from all beers i ever tasted... Love Asahi, even bought Asahi beer t-shift, becaouse Japan and beer is my luv <3
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Poor man!🙀😭
I live many thousands of kilometres from Japan, but I also have Hatsune Miku🤣, from the age of 13 I started to collecting anime figures. Since they were quite expensive for me at the time, I could only buy five pieces (3 of them are Hatsune Miku and the other two are Kirino Kousaka from "Ore no imouto wa..." and Honoka from "Love live") in two years. When I bought them, my brothers, mother and grandmother started laughing at me🤣. I was even a little ashamed, but damn! I still love her design so much, especially her long hairs, skirt and high boots😍.
Yes, frankly speaking, I started collecting them not from a good life, I had practically no friends, and I felt lonely, and therefore I was looking for something pleasant in books, games, anime, music and figures.
I almost forgot😅🤣, also I have game "Hatsune miku project diva: mega mix" on my Nintendo. It was the most expensive software I have ever bought in my life🤣.
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As Japanese myself, I still find it strange. But he might be right in what he believes tho, because there was a time in Japan too (like 10 years ago, I'd say), talking about anime in public, for example, used to be considered as kinda cringe 😬 But now, not at all, I never feel embarrassed about it.
This, I suspect, is still probably the case in some countries. I know for a fact "weeb" is a quite pejorative sounding word to many.
Idk, let's see how we will see him in 20 years...
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When it comes to the the impression of a foreigner's image, being tall seems to come up outside this video quite a bit too. I've spent quite a bit of time in Denmark (mom's side of the family) and some of that rings true for sure. Now if only I could have taken some of that Scandinavian height into my genetic make-up 😛. I've bulked up some to be able to pull a stupidly heavy recurve bow, and I notice I am a bit bulkier than the 100% Japanese but I don't know how much of that is genetic. Conversely, I'm sure there are plenty of people who may be jealous of the 100% Japanese person's capacity to stay thin.
Hearing about wanting to come to the home of hip-hop, I start thinking about how much I dig Japanese rock music and how it's a lot easier to find tunes I like when I go back (or check that side of YouTube).
I totally get the part about being (un)able to speak your opinion in Japan, or dealing with the social hierarchy. While in America, speak your mind, talk to your elders without the strict adherence to hierarchical rules, you're good to go. While in Japan, or in a Japanese pocket of San Diego (or wherever), I start thinking about whether I should put -san/-kun/-chan at the end of someone's name, whether I can toss the -desu, -masu, etc. or whether it's too familiar; age definitely plays a big role in that. If I moved back to Japan, I wonder whether I'd have minor issues with "reading the air" as it's often put, but like with any environment I'm sure it takes some practice to get it down. When in Rome, I guess?
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I recently had a conversation with a Japanese friend of mine who spent a decade in the United States before going back home. They talked about feeling as if they didn't strictly belong to US culture or Japanese culture. I could relate to that because I grew up in a multicultural, bilingual household, and felt like I had a spotty relationship with my mother's Mexican culture and my father's Americanized, Chicano culture.
We also talked about how, in counseling psychology theory, there is the concept of cultural identity development, and how every individual takes on the task of developing their own personal cultural identity. It's composed of bits and pieces of all the cultures that one has been exposed to throughout their life. People can have similar cultures to that of their parents'; they likely with identify as being from the same broader culture, but the ways in which values, norms, beliefs, etc. are communicated, experienced, and expressed can be unique to a family or an individual member of a family/community.
It's a semi-western concept developed by Asian American psychologists, David Sue & Derald Wing Sue. According to the theory, we develop our cultural identity/identities both passively and actively at different times in life, and in response to different experiences.
Although the concept has much to do with the individual's experience, we do not grow, age, and learn in isolation, and our relationships with others around us (e.g., family, friends, community, environment, nation, etc.) influence us in deep ways.
Their book Counseling the Culturally Diverse is an interesting read.
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America promotes itself to the world as some paradise, but it’s actually horrible. Yes, it is very racist. Yes, a lot of our cities are ugly and disgusting. New York is full of rats, and has tiny, over priced apartments. LA is full of neglected homeless people, crime, it’s expensive, and it’s hard to travel there. The majority of America outside of the cities has been abandoned by the youth with an aging population, just like the Japanese countryside, but more racist and hostile. As an American I will say that this country is not great and I don’t recommend anyone coming here. This country will only look good to people from poor third world countries who only know worse. If you are from a place like Japan you will not think highly of America.
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Thank you Takashii and Brian Kito for shedding a light on America's dark past of Japanese internment in concentration camps. The YouTube crowd only focuses on the cool side or internal dysfunction of Japanese culture, people, and diaspora. It's nice to remind people that not so long ago, our crops were destroyed, our dreams were put on hold, our homes were lost, our families were torn apart, our lives were disrupted, and our labor and contributions were taken advantage of all because we were of a different race. This generation may not believe it, but identifying as Japanese or Japanese-American just 40 years ago could prove fatal. In the 1980's, automotive industry competition lead to a strong anti-Japanese sentiment in America that ultimately inspired the attack of, our brother, Vincent Chen. The East Asian diaspora has always had issues with their respective larger societies, the Chinese Exclusion Act being one of such issues. Our struggle in America, by no means, begins nor ends with the Stop Asian Hate movement or the pandemic. Even our homelands are vassal states to the US. To be jealous of our culture is to be jealous of our united struggle, and to over-identify with us, due to our hard-work and prominence in pop culture, is to minimize our tribulations. From our displacement from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to our struggles for independence in the East, to our return to America, a place from which we have ancient ties, peoples of East Asian roots, relation, and diaspora have faced great obstacles to arrive where they are today. I can only ask others to be cognizant of this; as we all belong to an oppressed group. It's easy to be fooled by our successes (vassal states have been historically, since the Persian Empire, allowed to hold a degree of autonomy in cultural expression and surface-level leadership). However, remember, the world is a Hollywood stage, and we are, and always have been, the deeply layered villians.
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Is it possible that One Piece is just the safe answer, or are there really that many people that think it's the best? I'm curious. Also, when you say "anime" to Japanese, does that automatically mean a series? I was surprised that no one asked whether a movie or a series was meant. Also, knowing that many words don't translate directly between Japanese and English, I wonder what "best" means in Japanese, or if he used a word meaning something slightly different. It seems like many people were picking their favorite anime and not what they think is the best. Of course I could be totally wrong. It's just a thought I'm having. I don't really think there can be a "best" anime, but when I think of best I tend to think of most significant and/or influential to the art form or the world. I would be curious to hear answers from people even just one generation older than those asked in this episode. I would imagine they would be different.
So many questions! Hopefully someone(s) has some answers. lol Thank you for any help!
I will say, when I first thought to answer the question myself, as a 42 year old American male, I thought of Akira immediately. It was my introduction to anime, and I have fond memories of afternoons in middle school spent watching it on the Sci-Fi Channel. I do really love everything Miyazaki though, and Satoshi Kon. I don't think I'm qualified to pick a best anime series. Maybe Ranma 1/2 if I had to choose. I haven't watched anime regularly in years though. Most recently (last year) I watched Toradora! for the first time, and really really loved it.
Well, thanks for enduring this long ramble of mine!
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Jojo, Doraemon , Hunter X Hunter, School Days, Stein's Gate, Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaitsen, One Piece, Space Brothers, Saezan San, Haikyuu, Dragon Ball, Tokyo Ghoul, Detective Conan, Crayon Shin Chan, YuYu Hakusho, Demon Slayer, Gintama, My Hero Academia, Naruto, Oshi no Ko, Blue Lock, Akira.
(Posting comment for future reference 😊)
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There's nothing wrong in foreigners living in other countries. The only problem is when that country loses its culture and identity due to mass immigration. The problem is when that country is replaced by foreign cultures when that country already has an established culture for centuries, which is what is happening in some European Countries, like France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Berlin in Germany. I'm from Brazil and I just love when foreigners visit or start living here, because Brazil is a country made by immigrants. There's a lot of African people, Germans, Japanese people, Venezuelans, etc.
EDIT: I don't like when a country is too closed like North Korea, for example. I do love when a country is opened to foreigners and receive them well and the people from that country are kind and have nothing against foreigners.
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First of all, I have to say that I really like your channel. I think Japan is an interesting place and here I get a different glimpse of your culture. Very nice!
Now, regarding the Swiss woman that speaks French, a simple investigation shows that what happen to her in the bus with people not getting involved to stop her assault, this is common in big cities all over the world. It isn't something exclusive of Japan. In general, people don't get involved in issues affecting other people in public places. In this case the fact that you are a foreigner most likely is not the reason others didn't get involved. Had you been assaulted in public in Paris, New York, Mumbai, Dubai, Cairo, etc the very same thing would had happened. Japan may have a lot of xenophobia, but this is simply human nature.
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I'm surprised no Haikyuu, Ao Ashi, Kenshin, Evangelion, Demon Slayer, Code Geass, Berserk, Madoka Magica, A Silent Voice, March Comes in like a Lion, Spy x Family, Gurren Lagann, Mob Psycho, Lycoris Recoil, Made in Abyss, Jojo's, Hajime no Ippo, Erased, Monster, Vinland Saga, Kids on the Slope, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, 86, Initial D, One Punch Man, Promised Neverland (season 1), Golden Kamuy, Steins Gate, Spice and Wolf, etc. There's just too many good ones to name. I was just surprised at the ones he showed that said the same thing
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In my country it was very very common for kids to watch anime, we didn't even know exactly where they came from, everything we watched was called cartoons.
Even my mom has watched tons of anime as a kid.
I'm realizing now I've watched a lot of anime as a kid, like Naruto, one piece, dragon ball, detective Conan, Doremi, lady oscar, lupin, pokemon, Heidi, Arale...
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I would like to recommend: haikyuu, aoashi, mirai, aharen is indecipherable, sweetness & lightning, erased, violet evergarden, your lie in april, hotarubi no mori e, kyouka no kanata, Charlotte, daily lives of high school boys, my senpai is annoying, flavors of youth, etc etc 🙂☺️
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it seems like a lot of people think the whole "natives don't see me the same" is a uniquely Japanese thing
if it helps anyone dealing with that: it's definitely not a unique thing
my family is greek, and while my mom is pure greek, my dad is only half (he and i don't look greek either); family has always treated us like family (with occasionally trash talk over politics. lol), but many greek people (in greece) see us as dumb americans.
in fact, last summer my parents went to greece and my dad wanted to work in the family's olive grove. all of the older, local farmers gave him a hard time, thinking he was another idiot foreigner who didn't know his place. but by this point he's used to that, so he went out in the fields in the heat of the day (110+ Fahrenheit) and worked all day long, nearly every day. by the end of their trip, he was practically a celebrity in the village, and multiple farmers offered him a job. haha
what i'm getting at is, if you acclimate and assimilate, you'll have a far better time in a foreign country; even if you're "from" there.
as a japanese friend of mine said, "your feeling is what's important"
great video as always, takashi
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I spent approx 3 weeks in an AirBnb in Nishinari-ku during my travels in Japan and gotta say it was interesting. From the 1970s Nishinari has seen an influx of (mostly) male ex-construction workers in their 50s-70s, living in cheap dormitories or in the streets due to economic and demographic reasons, but I never once felt scared or intimidated there. I've never been in a truly dangerous slum in a dangerous country, but someone summarized it nicely to me once by saying: "people who call Nishinari a slum have never been in a latin american or indian slum for sure". On my way to the AirBNB late at night from bar hopping I was often offered drinks, asked for money, approached with weird conversations and got complimented or even bro-hugged by semi-homelss drunk sleepless geezers due to being a white tall dude who speaks Japanese, but always respectfully. While it's true some people there surely do meth, pills and other illegal stuff, the main drug that's been destroying the health and lives of Nishinari residents is booze. Kind of weird from a modern westerner's perspective to hear someone say that they don't do drugs but then they say they drink alcohol. Regardless, if you plan on staying in Osaka and wanna be close to Shinsekai, Shitennoji temple, Osaka ZOO etc., airbnbs in Nishinari are super cheap and you should not feel unsafe. Considering how polite, reserved and group-oriented most Japanese people are culturally, even the beggars, hobos and crusties of Japan will most likely seem like decent polite, yet unfortunate people to you if you're not from Japan. Definitely never felt any criminal vibe or danger myself. Great video too! Your editing and topics getting better with each video!
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don't drink alcohol in public? lol this guy serious. and then says to be quiet and don't bring others into your business. Oh my god, lol the amount of times Japanese drunks yelling on streets and then will straight-up butt-in to our group that is minding its own business, and start slurring loudly asking, "WHERE R_U FROMU!!??" And then these girls hating on no maskers, give me a break, sheep, it's time to move on from masks and get used to the fact that virus is here to stay but we can move on. The line waiting, I agree with some people don't know what they are, and I think we all know which foreigner they're referring to. The loudness on trains I agree with, it's so embarrassing to be even in the same train car as some foreigners who are speaking way too loudly, I get up and go to the next car. The best and reasonable advice came from the older gent. And that last guy, what gem!
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Hi Takashi, I heard you mention Philadelphia at the end of the video! I’m actually from Philadelphia, so I know a lot about the area! If you end up visiting, and you hear about a food called a “cheesesteak”, do not go to a place called “Pat’s” or “Geno’s”! Any place is better than there! Also, there’s a really cool place called Reading Terminal Market that has so many amazing things inside of it, from artisanal food, to great souvenirs!
If you like history, I highly recommend you go to the Liberty Bell museum, or Independence Hall! If you like art, I highly recommend going to the Philadelphia Art Museum! There’s infinite amounts of things to do in Philly! Hope you have fun visiting it!
Edit: You will most likely want to bring nice and warm clothing to Philly/NYC, as right now it’s around 0°C, and it’s only gonna get colder 😂
Edit 2: it makes me happy to hear you mention Philly/PA as well, I feel like many Japanese have never heard of it, despite the fact that it is the birthplace of America 😂
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May I share an Old Testament Verse with you from Daniel 7:14 "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a Kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should SERVE Him; his dominion is an Everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not pass away, and His Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."
God the Father loves you so much that He sent Holy Sinless Jesus (His Holy Son) to earth to be born of a virgin.Then, to grow up and die on a cross for our sins. He was in the tomb for 3 days, then Father God raised Holy and Sinless Jesus Christ (Y'shua) to Life! He appeared to people and went back to Heaven. We must receive Sinless Jesus sincerely to be God's child(John 1:12).After we get saved by grace through faith in Christ, if we truly love the Lord Jesus Christ, then we will obey Jesus(John 14:15). Mark 1:15 "And saying, the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: Repent ye, and believe the gospel." Jesus said in John 14:15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. "There's a real hell. It says in Revelation 21:8 "But for the cowardly, & unbelieving, & abominable, and murderers, & immoral persons sorcerers & idolaters & all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire & brimstone..." Please sincerely receive Holy Jesus & put your true faith and trust in Him today and please repent. Will you have a Real encounter with Holy Lord Jesus (Y'shua is His Hebrew Name) and stay in a Genuine relationship with Him daily please?
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for me, if our intention is to make our children happy and make sure everything is fine, why not just allow it, yes, I know it's hard to accept, but love and a deep sense of desire make us able to build what we want, are there any Muslims who dare to marry Japanese people because deep love, willing to sacrifice anything, there's no need to have problems because we're human beings the same, even though we're different, with the human nature our relationship will always be close and good 🥺🙂 after all, it's the most meaningful experience to successfully marry a foreigner not because of being able but because he himself wants and has a noble heart to want your daughter to be his wife, it will be an introduction not to one race but to another race, that's interesting and good 😌
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No love for Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop ? I think for kids born ine 90's in france those where the biggest anime series, with FMA, Love Hina, Card Captor Sakura, GTO, Escaflown, and the already classics like Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Saint-Seya, City Hunter. Then came Naruto, One Piece, Death Note, Nana, and Bleach, those took everything by storm. For me S.E Lain, FLCL, Kaiba, Paranoia Agents, Rumble School, Ghost Hound, Psycho-Pass, Elfen Lied, Last Exile, and maybe Air Gear (but the manga is way better) are also in my tops
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FLCL, Tomorrow's Joe, Ping Pong the Animation, Berserk, Neon Genesis, and Cowboy Bebop for me. In terms of films, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies, Porco Rosso, Phoenix: 2772, Roujin Z, Belladonna of Sadness, and I guess Akira and Mindgames (the first half). I watch a little bit here and there.
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And Nick, I’m probably another 10+ years older than you. lol You’re accent is actually really good! As you’ve probably noticed, there are a number of foreigners who are fluent these days, but there is something… off.. with their rhythm and intonation. Forgetting English words for things! Oh man, I remember those days… still have them sometimes.
YouTube? There were only BBS, IRC, AOL and eventually HTML 1.0 with Netscape (eventually Internet Explorer came out as the lighter, faster browser…?!) and no Flash when I started learning Japanese. So the internet was fairly useless. Cellphones were large and expensive and service was expensive. I started with first year Japanese language class at University in the US. I immersed myself in anime, J-pop and would regularly go through my new vocabulary in my head naming things as I walked around campus. Our textbooks were a mixture of Japanese 1st grader textbooks and foreign-learner of Japanese texts (but all Japanese was always written in kana). When the Japanese exchange students came from our sister college in Japan, I spent a lot of time making friends and hanging out with them. I would spend evenings practicing my kana and then kanji on a whiteboard for my weekly character tests. This was year one. Year two opened with studying abroad in Japan with a two week homestay and a little later another week long homestay… of course neither family spoken any English. We had Japanese classes in the morning everyday for 3 or 4 hours until lunch time and another class taught by faculty from home. We made friends with the group of students who would be the next ones to come study at our university in the following semester. The next semester I spent even more time with the exchange students (for obvious reasons) and would continue to befriend and take care of the exchange students every spring until I graduated. I took Japanese language, history, politics and cross-cultural communication classes all 4 years of college. At some point someone came to visit our Japanese class and talked to us about the JET Program, which I ended up applying to and participating as a CIR (Coordinator for International Relations). I worked in the public relations section of a city hall in northern Japan and, there were only 2 or 3 people (out of like 4 or 500) that really could speak any English, so my days were spent speaking only Japanese. If I didn’t meet up with my fellow JETs, I’d speak no English at all and for the first month after orientation in my posting, we didn’t know where each other lived in town, getting situation, etc. so it was tv in Japanese at home in the evenings too. I mention all that because… even after everything that came before, it was pretty mentally exhausting. Did I also mention that I had to do lots of translation and interpreting at work? I’d basically pass out for a couple hours in evening once I got home. After JET I moved to Tokyo and worked in IT for several companies before moving back to the US after almost 8 years…when went to work at a Japanese automaker for a couple years in the US.
That was more or less my road to fluency… at my best I could have passed JLPT Level 1 (never took it though as it never would have really made a huge difference on my job prospects). However don’t grade me on my fluency today though… lol. I don’t use Japanese nearly enough these days. Takeaways? Japanese isn’t really a “pickup” language… you have to purposefully study it and it will be a lot of work. Immersion as best you can achieve it, is not only best, but necessary… basically eat, sleep and s&!t Japanese. Lastly… you need to adopt a certain amount of Japanese culture as part of you. Really it’s acquiring a deep learning and understanding of Japanese customs and mannerisms. I call it selling a piece of your soul to Japan and making it Japanese. 😉
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Americans may seem to have their own opinion, but they can't truly do anything with it. You can never ever compare The USA with Japan.
It's like comparing Miso Soba with MacDonalds.
I mean, aside the most highly educated ones, the rest are just a uniform. How could a sane nation assassinate their best presidents and human beings in general ( Lincoln, JFK and than Martin Luther King etc.)and allow monsters to rule? Everything truly progressive doesn't have the chance to prosper in that country. I suggest you watch Michael Moor's documentaries for the start, and read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Think of Aaron Swartz and Snowden and put the jigsaw together.
You should have gone to Alabama and Gary Indiana and see what the majority of Americans are and what the US truly is. Why people always go to LA, New York or Miami? That's not America, that's the American Dream. A DREAM.
BTW everything is a dream, of course, but the American dream is the most rotten one.
"Little snail
Inch by inch,
climb Mount Fuji."
Kobayashi Issa
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2:28 "They can use their first language in other countries"
Echt? Srr, ha'k na es gen idee van, zene.
Kunde echt vloams Klappe in andere lanne? xD
( Thinks of speaking Dutch to German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, English, South African.,. srr, Somehow I doubt that and thinks he's referring mainly to stereotypes. )
Makes me kinda think,
I need to know 3 languages in Belgium, German, French and Dutch,
srr, but, needing only one language in a nation that size feels like a luxury. ^.^'
7:30 srr, but from me as a Belgian, from my perspective, anyone who acts different as the general consent, is generally being outcasted by society and scorn the same as brak people ( village People )
I can't translate brak people very well to English, bc I don't know a word for it, srr.
Brak people are lower class citizens, being stereotypicaly seen as, dirty, smelly, poor, ill mannered, etc.
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My most fav.anime: 0) Tokyo Godfathers, 1) Kara no Kyokai (character: Touko Aozaki), 2) Monogatari series (character: Tsubasa Hanekawa), 3) Samurai Champloo, 4) Soul Eater, 5) Ergo Proxy, 6) Cassern Sins, 7) Monster, 8) Mushishi, 9) Wolf's Rain, 10) Kikis delivery service.
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