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  1. I liked this episode. But I think it was a bit unfortunate that both of them basically had the same story. It would have been interesting to have a few more people share their experiences.
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  2. Thank You for This Valuable Content. What a cheerful lady she is 🥰, totally unfazed by the world around her who would judge her. 'When God is for Us then what can stand against' - surely
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  3. Dude looks like a certified badass.
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  4. Great video. It's very interesting to know how people with ASD deal with their condition in such a different culture
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  5. Top reason that comes to mind is people using the dual citizenship loophole by having a child in another country, allowing said child to automatically gain citizenship and then later on gaining dual with their actual home country. So you then have issues of citizenship solemnly for economic convenience and not for actual national identity. Prime example are pregnant Chinese citizens going abroad to the US or Canada and lying on their visa applications so that their child automatically gains citizenship and then the parents can also apply for citizenship through their child.
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  6. Don't worry about the mistake bro. Your English is way better than my Japanese lmao
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  7. nobita, wow this interview hit kinda hard on the emotions. i teared a little. great work as usual with these videos about your country!
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  8. I’m from Hawaii, I have a few friends that are fluent in Japanese because their grandparents/parents taught them. It also helped that one of my friends would go to Japan for summer school from a young age. When my friends that can speak fluently visits Japan it seems that they are accepted as Japanese, however that could also be because they look full Japanese or of the Hawaii culture of being laid back. I think even though Hawaii is apart of the United States, we have a lot of roots from Japan and other Asian cultures because of its rich history of being a “melting pot” of cultures
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  9. As someone who has lived on and off in Japan for more than 4 years in total now (living there atm), I have been discriminated against, that's for sure. The Gaijin seat on the train or the fact people stare at you is a bit surprising at first but you get used to it. Certain things get old fast though like when you talk to people in Japan and they feel the need to reply in English or comment on your Japanese EVERY SINGLE TIME you speak. You get used to it but it gets tiresome after hundredth and hundredth of time. I have been lucky not to live in big cities most of the time as I think discrimination happens more in big cities as people in the countryside are more curious about foreigners than anything. Usually. I have lived in the Osaka prefecture for a while and I have been arrested by the police 3 times. As I answered in Japanese, the first 2 times were pretty cordial and didn't last more than a minute but the last one lasted more than 10 minutes (checking my bicycle ID, my passport, etc...) and I was getting a bit irritated as I was in a hurry. The look of disappointment on the 2 cops when they couldn't find anything incriminating (didn't steal my bicycle and was not an illegal immigrant) was worth it though. The other thing is when walking around Nara city, a Kuso-jiji (An older gentleman -to put it very mildly-) started talking to my Japanese girlfriend at the time and told her in Japanese not to date white guys as it was bad for the country and some other shit. When we ignored him, he just finished in English with a "No more white". I wanted to reply in Japanese something but my gf just said it wasn't worth it so I let it go. It was like 10 years ago, but even though it might have been an odd racist grandad, it is still engraved in my mind to this day. So when some Japanese people in the video say there is no racism or discrimination or try to deflect the blame and say other countries are more racist than Japan, that is a bit concerning. Some Japanese tends to get quite defensive when you are critical of Japan though (And also weeaboos), so to me, it is not surprising. I just wish they would be open to discussing it instead of completely denying it.
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  10. wow jsut watching her I can name at least 10 people I ment at school etc in germany and japan who were not dignozed but had the same charactaristic features ... indeed having an enterpreneur /startup visa needs a solid biz plan and cash... speaking of the coltural simmularities netherlands are quite simmular to germany. I knew duch guy back in the days and have seen many german features in him
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  11. 動画を作ってくださってありがとうございます。来日して、周りの人に真面目に会話したり、繋がったりするのは難しく感じたのでこの動画が凄く役に立つと思います。ありがとうございます。
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  12. I feel like Japanese are not that great at explaining things to foreigners in general. Sometimes they think that foreigners should just understand what they're thinking when foreigners have no indication how they should think or react to certain situations. There aren't a lot of resources on etiquette for foreigners other than the basic ones either.
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  13. Here in Argentina, we have a serious problem when it comes to mental health and depression among young people. I saw a lot of boys and girls of my age with high levels of sadness, some of them are constantly depressed. In fact, i have a friend who is passing a serious depression, when we do our meetings, he is constantly angry, at the border of breaking in tears, saying me that her friends are constantly "kicking" him out of relations.
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  14. This was very inspiring! To see so many people learn how to turn their challenges into something that can help others is wonderful to see. Especially in a society that encourages conformity. Thank you so much for this video!
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  15. Excellent video.Thanks for uploading.
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  16. I summarize it in one word: tatemae
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  17. I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, I would like the average Japanese person to be more aware of at least some of the details regarding the war. Just knowing more details about the war would help Japanese people to empathize with other nation's opinions. On the other, I don't want them to dwell on it. It's history, and it doesn't involve almost anyone alive today, if at all. If an old man raped a girl in Korea 70-80 years ago, that has nothing to do with his granddaughter in Japan today. She's not responsible, and shouldn't blame herself for it or be pressured to do so. You mentioned Germany, and while the general opinion of other countries is "Good on them for acknowledging it", it often comes down to people in Germany blaming themselves, or being pressured to do so, for things done by their father's father - who himself was probably just doing what he was told. I don't think that's fair, and I don't want Japanese people to similarly demonise themselves just because it's "the right thing to do". If it's to be approached with Japanese people, I think it should be done so quite late into high school, when they are hopefully mature enough to accept it as what it is - The Past.
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  18. I think it's more complicated than people make it out to be. People make these generalisations, but I think it's because they're missing something. For example, a first reaction I get from Japanese people isn't "Nihongo jouzu" it's "Nihon de sunde imasu ka?" Because I look like someone who has a job. I'm sure Joey has a more robust experience than I do, but... don't buy into the popular myths.
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  19. Japan adopted the capitalist society and online dating app culture, but did not upgrade the social norms. Old social norms in work and private life are still followed hence only the top 20% get the girls. This problem is not seen in India or many western countries even though their birth rate also declining, but Japan is SOCIALLY. IMPLODING in every sense from work to private life to making friends to having relationships or having children!!!!!!
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  20. I was surprised just how quiet Japan was, i suspect that it is convenient to be able to watch TV while it is muted, and what little Japanese i learned showed me that the written form could clear up miscommunications from the spoken form. Also i have a pet theory that the reserved nature of the Japanese results in them over compensating with over expressing in other ways.
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  21. I myself struggle with my stutter, so this topic really hits home. Thank you Nobita!! For bringing more exposure to the struggle!
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  22. I don't know, I've been here about 15 years and the "gaijin treatment" thing doesn't bother me that much anymore. It's unreasonable to expect some random store clerk to understand your full background when you are interacting with them for the first time. Probably 90% of the foreigners who that clerk has dealt with probably didn't understand Japanese well so why should I expect them to assume I'm different. Also, no one (well almost no one) who I have known for longer than a 5 minute interaction has continued the "gaijin treatment" beyond that and after living here awhile I just took the initiative to start interactions confidently with fluent, well pronounced Japanese, and that breaks through any "gaijin treatment" 95% of the time. I have many stories of Gaijin treatment but it's almost all from my early days before I started doing this. Yeah you get the occasional 日本語上手ですね, but what's wrong with that. They are showing an interest in you and attempting to be nice. There isn't any malice behind it. And it's the perfect opening to have actual conversations that are rare what is generally a very robotic routine of everyday life in Japan.
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  23. So glad to see them living such a happy life. Thanks for the great video!😊
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  24. Good job man. I watched most of the NTR hentai manga and each time it pisses me off. Sometimes even more so when brothers get involved. Me and my older brother, have lots of disagreements but we never ever do this stupidity. It honestly makes someone gets depressed
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  25. It seems to me 95% of the women shown are pretty and don't even need make up.
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  26. I mean as a general content creator he is loved, his documentary style of videos are really good almost like on par, nay even better than what BBC or NHK could come up with and he should know since at some point he did work with them, he has mastered the documentary style video just in his stay in Japan and honestly that says a lot, he really managed to make a documentary entertaining and not just informative and his tip videos where he just talks to us mano e mano on the camera are very well done and well articulated.
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  27. First of all: nice video. Thank you Nobita-san for making this video and also a big big "Thank you" to lovely Lemi-chan and Emi-chan for talking about their situation. I may be only a Male from Germany but i have same "problem" and know how they feel. I hope they will find their soulmates someday. I really like these girls and wish them all the best.🥰
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  28. These families give so much positive vibes !! I have the feeling they are even happier than families with both parents I definitely can say these fathers all succeeded to be good ones Beautiful families for a beautiful video ❤️
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  29. Very joyful and uplifting lady, full of life. Great video.
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  30. This video is amazing! I appreciate you giving both the perspective and opinion of each side and then your own opinion and perspective on top of that!! Keep up the fantastic work!!!!
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  31. How interesting, thanks! I watch a lot of Japanese YouTubers even though I am still learning, and have found their simple captions on the screen have really helped me learn a lot.
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  32. i enjoyed your "senpai" sections of the video, got the feeling you had fun doing them and hope you can add more of him into future videos every now and again
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  33. Goddamn this video brought a smile and tears to my face at the same time. Thank you Nobita. :') I like Yumiko's attitude and wow her English is impeccable. Seguchi-san is also on point with everything he said, especially the "afraid to try new things". This is especially evident with businesses in general, Japanese companies WILL NOT TRY SOMETHING NEW unless the success rate is 120%, 90% is not good enough. Baffling how a country known for its technological prowess is afraid of taking a leap to improve their business, including going more digital and stop with damn fax machines. Regarding robots, they will not help make more babies. Regarding foreigners, I definitely vote for that but they need to be able to speak the language and the government needs to accept both longer Visas AND immigration (for those who speak Japanese and have AT LEAST N3) otherwise it'd be too expensive to "babysit" foreigners who can't speak at all. This is a part of a much much MUCH bigger discussion about "Japan wanting to remain "pure" and therefore not accepting as many foreigners as they should". So if that's the case they should prohibit mandatory overtime. If you have nothing to do because you finished your job for the shift then go home and have a life, not stay at work to "look good". Overtime leads to stress that leads to suicide. Having overtime gives you less free time for yourself and going on dates, getting married, having kids. It's the extra babies being born that will help balance the elder population in all aspects, mentally, physically, emotionally.... Early in the pandemic, many countries (Japan included) felt like they didn't declare a state of emergency quicker so they could conveniently let seniors die because they "cost too much" because they have to pay their pensions and stuff. This is a big domino effect and it's all intertwined. Regarding your points: DEFINITELY YES!!!
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  34. This was so interesting, I never thought about the porn industry for women and the interviewee seemed likeable
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  35. I lived in Japan for 5 years, and I started feeling social pressure of not wearing makeup when I was 18. During my years in Tokyo, I was very insecure about my すっぴん(natural face) and started to feel very low self-esteem. This kind of feeling had haunted me for years. Even at the beginning years when I moved to Singapore, I wore makeup every day. Now I am living in Brazil, and I have started to feel confident about my natural look again and am more focused on my physical and mental health, which helps me rebuild my self-esteem. I would say it is very interesting that you can tell in East Asia, that our societies have more social norms that have put pressure on women, which is unfortunate. However, I do believe this is a global phenomenon, and I am so glad you can speak up about this topic. Wish us all live free❤
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  36. Hi Nobita. I see you've interviewed both Lemi-chan and Emi-chan in this video. Well I consider them both as very attractive women both in looks and personality. Not losers at all ( I hate the word loser btw because everyone can be a loser at certain times in life). For me it is important in a women that she is a warm and interesting personality. Well both Lemi and Emi are lovely ladies. They are both great Youtubers and persons and I am subscribed to both their channels. By the way the livestream with you, Lemi, Emi and Yuka was golden. Keep up the good work. Most important is to have fun in live and try to be a great human. Then if circumstances are right you reflect that in your environment. I struggle with it often just to make that happen. Although I do my best ;).
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  37. I love how reasonable, fair, and understanding these people are about the discrimination issues in Japan. If this were America, they would be throwing viscous alt-left slurs out every other word with no regard to intention, context, benefit of the doubt, or the humanity of the people they perceive as their “enemies”.
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  38. As always, it is an excellent topic. Please pass along to the women you speak to, that "leftovers" (as applied to food) taste better the next day because time creates more flavor within the dish. This is a common thought in America. And you are correct; Western men prefer maturity in women because of realistic expectations.
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  39. Loneliness on a global scale is definitely a very complex issue. I do feel like in Japan strong work culture definitely affect people's Loneliness and mental health. Sometimes I feel like japanese people don't want to speak their mind. I do have a few japanese workers whom I enjoy spending time with working with but its so difficult for them to talk about the issues they're going through. Im not going to force it out of them but it's just sad seeing someone struggle. I can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves. And this applies to everyone. Some people just struggle to take the first step and give up. They're too comfortable with their current lifestyle or Loneliness in which the first step is a huge stress wall for them. People don't want to be lonely because they want to. It's just a very stressful embarrassing thing. Also the thing with social media is It may make connecting to people easier but it's not the same. I feel like social media is just where you post your life so you can be acknowledged by someone. It can also affect people's mental health in terms of their confidence in their social life. I've struggled with Loneliness especially with social anxiety. And it's a definitely not a easy hill to climb. But as you get yourself out there and actually talk to people and make new friends. Things in fact can only get easier.
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  40. 1, 4, 5, 9, 10 - lack of sleep leads to all sorts of poor emotional states. As well eating sugar, carbs and high calorie foods doesn't help. Many of these issues can all (my opinion) be related to each other, and many related to not being able to communicate openly. Thanks for highlighting the list. #1, very sad.
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  41. Thanks for sharing this Nobita-San! I really hope there could be something we could do to help with the situation, but not sure what it could be...
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  42. Man, the sincerity and directness of that young man insisting... Really defending his ai gf. Makes me feel sorry really. I think as a form of therapy this could be good, but not a real daily relationship.
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  43. endless cycle of wearing makeup eventually damages your skin long term to hide it with even more makeup. I don't blame the makeup company to profit off those suckers cause to me it's a giant scam in my opinion but I respect the hustle.
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  44. It's good that you enjoy makeup as a fun hobby or a little art. It won't harm you for that. It's only bad if it turns into pressure for you to do it.
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  45. There's tremendous pressure to conform in Japan. So people who don't fit in easily are ostracized and are seen as dysfunctional. Some people like to live or work alone or with a few close friends. Leave them be.
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  46. Imagine how much money companies are profiting from women who just wants to search for or keep a job. It's heartbreaking to think I need wear makeup to work to be respectful, as if our bareface is offensive 😢
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  47. I got bullied because i had really bad overbite. I looked like a rabbit with it and they kept makig fun of it. It was bad for me and i almost stabbed one of them at some point. I just pulled through somehow, but i don't know how. Years later i met one of them again but i had become a very big guy with a group of at least 10 people behind me, that guy was scared as hell and tried to talk it away like "it was so long ago". I let him go, and that was the closure for me. But i understand not everybody is so fortunate, and in the end i wish i would have stood my ground more. On a sidenote tho... if i saw that in japan, being a big bearded, 186cm western guy, i think just walking up would scare them. I wish i would have had that luxury when i was young
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  48. Nobita, what a sensitive and complicated issue, and you handled it professionally and honored the family. You're the best journalist in the world.
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  49. He has a great sense of humour and he knows how to laugh about himself too, the thing that many streamers lack because they're a bunch of cringey Weaboos. He learned from his mistakes and despite of any situations he looks happy in Japan,which is not easy because it requires a full mind-reset. He made what a very low percentage of streamers have made: to feel part and love Japan with its ups and downs. Chris is the best!!
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  50. I'm really glad you posted this video. It's given me alot of hope that, even though it's unlikely I will ever get to live in Japan, I should be able to visit without much difficulty as long as i have someone with me. I was born with a mitochondrial disease (if you think of your body like a car, the mitochondria are the engine. They're what gives your body strength (through your muscles) and give you the energy to move). Over time, as a side effect, it caused many other complications and illnesses to manifest. Nowadays, like this young woman in your video, I am also wheelchair-bound and cant even leave my house without assistance. As for where I live. Here in Texas, USA (and note: Texas is a big place, so it's very likely things vary alot throughout different parts of Texas) it is very difficult for physically disabled to live alone. There are certainly options to try, though. One option that was explained to me was this assisted living home. The waiting list was 8 years long though, and even then I would have had to pay to live there, and as someone unable to work, that would have been very inconvenient. Another option is hiring a nurse to come help you do things like bathe and any medical-related assistance. I havnt needed that though because luckily my mother happens to be a nurse. Aside from that, the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is placing yourself in a Home, and by that I mean the type of place the elderly tend to be sent when they have nowhere else to go. But it's another situation where you have to be able to pay for it. In my specific situation, if anything happens to my mother, I will very likely end up on the street because I cannot afford any of the services provided to disabled people. On the note of how the disabled are treated, it's disgusting. In the area I live in, any disabled using government assisted medical insurance, such as Medicare or Medicaid, gets treated awfully by doctors. Most doctors here wont even accept patients with that kind of medical insurance. I wont say all, but most that do accept them just use them for tax exemptions. From my own personal experience, I get treated like I am less than a person. For example, earlier this year my bipap machine (a machine that helps me breathe when I am asleep) started faltering and needed to be replaced. We were told by both the nurses at the doctors office and by the people who work for the medical supples office where they get bipaps from that it shouldnt take longer than 5 days to get what I need. It took three months, with no explination. You may be wondering what that has to do with what medical insurance I use. As I mentioned before, my mother is a nurse, and has been for a long time. She knows from working in the field how people like me are viewed. She is also very good at getting other nurses to say what they normally wouldnt say in front of other patients. Kind of like a "Oh, she's one of us" thing. And on many occassions she has gotten a nurse to admit (usually very ashamedly) that the reason something is taking so long is that I got pushed behind patients with medical insurance that is not government-assisted. I'm going to stop there. I am very sorry for the novel I just wrote in your comments section. Once again, I am happy you posted this video. No matter what the struggles of being disabled in Japan are, it doesn't sound any worse than what I already experience, so I'm confident I can find a way to manage if I am ever fortunate enough to go there (probably with my mother). I hope so. If you're even still reading at this point, sorry again for saying so much. Please take care, and please keep doing what you do.
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