Comments by "Yo2" (@yo2trader539) on "TAKASHii" channel.

  1. How do you arrive at the conclusion knowing what you know about Canadian history? Canada was created as a European transplant colony by seizing land from indigenous people and only has a history of a few hundred years. It's why you speak a derivative of a European language, not an indigenous one. Most of your citizens are descendants of immigrants from the last few centuries, while the first Japanese have been living in Japan from the last ice age. And this guy is a foreign citizen because their family never naturalized. Unlike former European colonies that recognizes Jus Soli citizenship rule, Japan only recognizes Jus Sanguinis citizenship. It's why he is a foreign national.
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  2.  @Rudysattva  No, not all Gaijin are treated the same way. If he is fluent in Japanese language, culture, and mannerism...he'll do fine. If he isn't, he'll be another extended tourist living in a expat bubble with limited contact with Japanese society. But I do think we differentiate and judge depending on ethnicity/nationality...based on collective experiences. Right now, we have a major problem with a ethnic Kurdish asylum-seekers. They're violent, dangerous, and frankly disgusting. Vietnamese and Chinese make up 60% of crimes committed by foreign nationals, so people have a poor view towards them. Others are usually Koreans, Brazilians, and Filipinos.
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  3.  @aimuaidehen1835  Angela didn't look like she was suffering from an identity crisis. She is culturally Japanese, which is why she will always be accepted in Japan. Her speech, mannerism, and mindset is no different from other Japanese. The first girl (Christy) is the one that appears struggling with her identity. The way she speaks, behaves, and dresses is exotic. It's not rare in the fashion, music, entertainment and nightlife business.
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  4. WTF?
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  5. @homie3461 Japanese kids today still learn KANJI by writing since it's still the most effective way. When typing we can easily choose between 速い and 早い because we already know the KANJI. Mandatory education only requires 2,000 KANJI (aka 常用漢字). Most of us remember how to read or choose the correct KANJI when typing (or google when confused). And it's true that we forget how to write some of the less common KANJI after we finish school. But I highly doubt whether you can master Japanese in a different method from a native. (The process of learning Japanese as a foreign language is receiving mandatory KOKUGO education condensed in 3 to 5 years.)
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  6. I thought she was American.
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  7. For people working in IT, Consulting, Finance, Law, Medicine, or Architecture...I doubt there is such a concept as overtime. Working over 100 hours per week is not that uncommon among young professionals whether in NY, London, Singapore, or Tokyo. It's a competitive world, you do everything you can to survive. It's either UP or OUT.
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  8. We often visit Hawaii and Guam.
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  9. She didn't know how to speak or behave like a Japanese...so I can imagine how kids would've treat her. She comes off too American, which is too aggressive and entitled in her behavior and mannerism. As whether she'd be considered beautiful in Japan, that's beyond my pay grade.
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  10. It's part of counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence. The half-brother of the current North Korean leader entered Japan on a fake passport. We arrested and deported the maternal grandfather of the current North Korean leader in the 1950s for human-smuggling. It's why his latr mother was born in Japan. We have had so many South Koreans trying to smuggle themselves into Japan since the Korean War period and committing crimes in Japan. Thus, Japanese immigration is trained to be suspicious of certain passports with no valid visa.
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  11. There are many Nikkei-Jin (Japanese Descendants) who are business-owners, public school teachers, engineers, bankers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, university professors, hairdressers, etc. I've met a few of them in Tokyo who were originally from Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Philippines, and US. But some Nikkei-jin who come to Japan start out as "contract workers" or "temp workers" in factories on hourly wages. Those who make the effort to absorb Japanese language, culture, and norms eventually are able to integrate socially. Some start their own businesses, others find careers in logistics, construction, hospitality, retail, tourism, transportation, education, healthcare, childcare, etc because there is so much labor shortage. It's a reality that Japanese Descendants who arrive in Japan without basic language fluency, education, or technical skills will face considerably more challenges. It will be difficult to work in a convenience store or fast food industry, if you cannot speak basic Japanese. Conversely, those who have fluency are given preferential conditions for Permanent Visa and Naturalization. (Nikkei-jin need only 5 years of continued residency to apply for Permanent Visa.)
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  12. Depends on your upbringing. If you're native in Japanese, obviously you won't be treated as one.
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  13. In East Asian agrarian societies, skin-tone denoted social status for thousands of years...probably since agriculture became a thing around 8,000-10,000 years ago. The traditional Japanese word for "make-up" is OSHIROI (白粉), literally meaning "White Powder." If you want to see traditional Japanese make-up look at KABUKI or MAIKO make-up styles. As for Eastern European and Russian women, they are considered most attractive in Japan because: (1) they have varying/small degrees of East Asian ancestry from ancient migrations; (2) phonetic overlap, or the way they sound when they speak Japanese; and (3) vibe and mannerism. Canadian/American/Australian models popular in Japan often have Eastern European or Russian/Soviet ancestry as well.
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  14.  @bobsyoruncle4583  Japanese government statistics only cover Japanese citizens worldwide. Each year there are far more international marriages with Japanese men compared to women. And most international marriages of Japanese citizens are with people from neighboring countries.
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  15. Unlike the half-Iranian girl who was raised in Japan, the Colombian dude must've been in some kind of expat Gaijin bubble after moving to Japan. To be blunt, he's not culturally Japanese, which is why he struggles more than the other two. When he speaks Japanese, he sounds a little drunk. I met a few Nikkei-Peruvians and Brazilians who work in Japan, and they have near-native fluency in language/culture. So I don't know what happened to his education. He speaks like that after 13 years in Japan, which can only mean he doesn't use Japanese in his daily life.
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  16. If you go to any fancy restaurant in most cities around the world, the waiter/waitress will take to your seats. I thought it was common sense.
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  17. We do have quite a few half-Japanese politicians, celebrities, and athletes. I can't imagine why he hasn't reached near-native fluency if he's been living in Japan since 12 years old. It can only happen if he's been in an expat bubble and without any formal Japanese schooling. (Most international/foreign students who graduate from Japanese universities are near-native speakers.) For reasons unknown, he failed to learn Japanese language, culture, and mannerism despite being in Japan for so long, which is why he's not viewed as a local/native. And it has more to do with his upbringing than him being half-Japanese or not.
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  18.  @wolfinthewheatfields3224  You need one parent to be a Japanese national to inherit Japanese citizenship. So how can he be Japanese by birth? There is a naturalization process for foreign nationals if they wish to become Japanese citizens. And unless you have a Japanese passport, you're legally not Japanese, which is the only definition the Japanese government uses to identify who is Japanese or not. As for culture/ethnicity, that's a complicated question on identity as each person, family, or generation is different. We have an ethnic half-Uyghur and half-Uzbek politician who was born and raised in Japan and naturalized with her family as a child. She used to work for the Bank of Japan and later the United Nations. She has a Japanese identity and works for Japanese society, which is more than enough for the people of Japan to vote for her.
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  19.  @Azad_2024_  A team-setting is a great opportunity to experience Japanese dynamics. We don't need to communicate as much because we can sense or figure out what needs to be done. It's our responsibility to know what needs to be done. This an important social skill that we develop since childhood. But we do talk a lot among ourselves when drinking...so perhaps it's a social mannerism more than anything. Some academics define Japanese as a "high-context language," because we don't rely as much on verbal communication. If I recall correctly, German language was defined as the polar opposite in which almost everything needs to be put in words. Everything from conversation, poetry, industrial design, architecture, or gardens... I suppose Japanese preference of aesthetics is minimalist in nature. I even notice it with minimalist philosophies such as "Dan/sha/ri (断・捨・離)," which can be applied to human relations, physical possessions, or life choices.
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  20.  @alexandros8361  "Do come again" in South England sounds like the "Would you want some Ochazuke/Bubuzuke?" in the stereotypical Kyoto dialogue...which traditionally meant that it's time for you to go home now. Japanese social cues and norms are aristocratic in nature. So depending on which country/culture one is from, it may be difficult to adapt. I've met Russians, Canadians, Kiwi, and Brits in Japan who've assimilated and integrated so well, it's as if they were Japanese in their previous lives. They also know how to "bridge" the cultures and explain from both sides, which is why they are so valued at work. (I suspect the Mediterranean and Latin people may struggle more than others, as they seem to need a lot of attention.)
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  21.  @crissybunbun  Japanese people will display emotion through behavior, more so than words. They would allocate time, thoughts, and energy and only show interest in things/people that are important for them. And we can immediately notice the interest level just by how one by responds.
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  22. From context he's saying "daitai...go-nen gurai wa" だいたい5年ぐらいは・・・
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  23.  @kageyamareijikun  Most of the crimes committed are not by pure-blooded Japanese descendants, rather non-Japanese Brazilian husbands who are legal dependents of Descendants wives. And it's a bit more complicated because some Japanese Descendants in South America are racially mixed. Frankly, if we only issued a Descendant Visa to pure-blooded male lineage Descendants with a Japanese surname, the crime rate would've been much lower. Descendant Visa was a necessary legal remedy as Japan banned dual-citizenship after 1985. Prior to the changes, children of Japanese emigrants born in Jus Soli countries were able to maintain Japanese citizenship. Alberto Fujimori (the former President of Peru) was a natural-born Japanese citizen for that reason. Japan exists for Japanese people, which is why children and grandchildren of Japanese citizens/emigrants are given preferential treatment in everything from residency status to permanent visa. 2/3 of Japanese Descendants are in South America, because significant number of Japanese citizens who moved to South America got stuck there for financial reasons, family situation, or due to the war.
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  24.  @Overthinktank  Because 99% of the Japanese population have zero use for foreign languages in their daily lives. Children of Nikkei-Brazilians who've received Japanese education are able to assimilate. We have Nikkei-Brazilian public school teachers, bankers, IT engineers, doctors, professors, and lawyers. But children of Nikkei-Brazilians who've attended Brazilian schools in Japan can only survive in their bubble. As such, the government has been making it increasingly more difficult to obtain a Descendant Visa.
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  25. Don't worry, a "traditional Japanese man," assuming there are any left in 2023, would never fall for a banana. It would be the opposite of what they find attractive.
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  26. Please try to study as much Japanese language/culture as you can while in Brazil. If you can obtain N4-level or better, it will be a life-saver for you. (N4 is the bare minimum language requirement for foreign nurses to work in Japan.) The work opportunities will expand exponentially as your fluency improves. We have Nikkei-Brazilian bankers, IT engineers, doctors, nurses, university professors, consultants, public school teachers, and lawyers. We have witnessed many from the Former Soviet Union, China, Korea, etc who reach N2-level fluency in university, so it's doable. Foreign/international students who finish Japanese university and graduate programs usually have N1/N2 fluency. We've also heard of many Japanese Descendants from Brazil who struggle in Japan at the initial phase due to lack of basic language skills. This is because Japanese Descendants are the only exception to Japan's visa policy, in which they are allowed to live/work in Japan without language skills, professional experience, or university qualification. It's really difficult when you need an interpreter for everything like going to the doctor, opening a bank account, or enrolling kids in day-care. Lack of language skills is the main impediment, so Japanese Government requires minimum Japanese fluency for the YONSEI Visa scheme. As for Nikkei-Brazilians living in Japan, the ones who have successfully "re-integrated" into Japanese society tend to keep their distance from the Brazilian community in Japan. I'm terribly sorry to have to say this, but there are two types of Japanese-Brazilians in Japan. The ones who can speak/read and function within Japanese society, and the ones who cannot and live in a Brazilian expat bubble. The successful ones who integrated wish to raise their kids in Japan and eventually become Permanent Visa holders or even go through Naturalization. They've all experienced first-hand how dangerous, difficult, and deceiving some in the Brazilian community are, so they prefer to work or live in regions where there aren't many Brazilians. This is also why they appear to become more "COLD" to other Brazilians.
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  27. It means you were treated like an insider. The same expectations, mannerism, etc. Obviously, we don't have the same expectations to foreigners.
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  28. I recall Kamila Valieva is also from Kazan, Tatarstan. Not just their exquisite technique but their physical beauty is why Russian ice-skaters are always extremely popular among Japanese ice-skating fans who are predominantly women.
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  29. That's actually a very humane justice system. In Japan we don't even allow our prisoners to attend family funerals, as it is punishment and forced isolation from society. But they will often will be released earlier than prison sentence on good behavior. It's our strong belief that prison has to be a form of deterrence.
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  30. I don't know. My local store has cheap bananas imported from Ecuador and the Philippines, sakuranbo, apples and MIKAN...so I never felt fruit is expensive, unless you're talking about really brand ICHIGO and KYOHOU.
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  31. And for the same reason you've mentioned, a European language (including English) is difficult for Japanese people too. We cannot translate word for word, thus we have to memorize an entire expression or phrase. There is a famous Swedish lady on Japanese public broadcasting (johannainjapan). Her Japanese is near-native. So I don't think it's impossible for a Swede to master Japanese. I would highly recommend following the advice from the Austrian lady in this video. Just listen to music, watch TV, YouTube, movies in Japanese in your free time as part of entertainment. Grammar is pattern recognition. The more you're exposed to it, the more it will make sense. Just based on my personal experience, Europeans seem to be able to master Japanese far better than Americans. There are French, Germans, Romanians, Bulgarians, Italians, Hungarians, Brits, Ukrainians, and Russians who have near-native fluency in Japanese. And I think those from former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have one of the best language abilities. We have witnessed some Ukrainian refugees without any Japanese training reaching N2-JLPT in just 2 years in Japan. Just looking back in how much I struggled learning English, I cannot imagine myself mastering Ukrainian/Russian in just 2 years.
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  32.  @biduparnadas7886  We don't place the same expectations for foreigners as most of them are not part of Japanese society, rather they're extended tourists who'll be gone in a few years. But people higher-up in the socio-economic echelon will never trust somebody with a visible tattoo. High-end restaurants, hotels, or retail stores will never hire somebody with a visible tattoo as it will make many customers uncomfortable.
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  33. In Japan, there are more international marriages with Japanese men compared to Japanese women. Most foreign wives are women from neighboring countries. And most Japanese men will marry foreign women who are sufficiently fluent in Japanese language and culture, unless they plan to live abroad forever. Honestly, there is a lot of things men have to think about such as inheritance, family business, tombs, seasonal family gathering, etc. If your wife cannot function in Japanese society, it would be an enormous amount of inconvenience. From funerals to household finance to family trips to picking schools for kids, the women in the family do a lot of it in Japan. I would even say they arrange and organize most of it. So if she cannot read Japanese, it would be unrealistic and irresponsible to marry her. There is a famous UNAGI restaurant in Tokyo run by an American wife. She is more culturally Japanese than many Japanese. The other part is subjective and a matter of preference. Women from Eastern Europe and Russia appear to assimilate far better than those from Western Europe, North America, or Australia. Their Japanese fluency is far better than those from English/Germanic countries, and they tend to be more aligned to Japanese traditions and culture. The modern liberal woke American women aren't perceived as attractive in Japan. Japanese women marry foreigners from developed countries mostly because they are not perceived as attractive in Japanese perspective or they simply wish to live abroad. Most of their marriages are also with people from neighboring countries, mostly Koreans, Chinese, and Taiwanese.
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  34.  @gopalramanathan7062  She went to American school, as you can tell by her accent. I've no idea why her parents have Japanese citizenship, but what they did to her was pretty cruel in terms of surviving in Japanese society. She probably won't be able to file taxes or negotiate contracts in Japanese.
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  35. ​ @akita_inu-il6em Most half-Japanese are children of international marriages with neighboring countries. They are treated Japanese because they are born, raised and educated in Japan and have a Japanese name. Most foreign nationals living in Japan are Asians. They speak Japanese far better than these half-Americans from the US who have the stupidity to think they will be treated Japanese despite not having received formal Japanese education. Clearly, they're just Americans with partial Japanese ancestry. We don't see them as Japanese because they don't share Japanese language, culture, and identity.
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  36. ​ @TakahashiTakami 日系移民に多く見受けられますが、戸籍から除籍された「除籍謄本」という証明書があったと思います。日本国籍を喪失した後に、国籍を回復する方法はあります。帰化や永住許可を専門とする行政書士が詳しく説明出来ると思います。 自分は親の仕事の関係で幼少期に海外を転々としました。実生活や仕事に関して問題がなくても、日本人のアイデンティティーと日本国籍はほぼ同一視されてるのは御存知の通りだと思います。日系人と日本人を別けて捉えてるのもそのためです。メリットやデメリットの問題ではなくて、元々が日本人として生まれてるし、日本人としてのアイデンティティーを持ってるなら日本国籍を再取得するのもありかなと思います。
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  37. There are a few Italian YouTubers in Japan. They have no Japanese ancestry but they blend in just fine because they're fluent in Japanese. It's more about the person than anything else.
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  38. She didn't receive Japanese education, which is the main struggle for her to be accepted in Japan.
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  39. それでも日本に住む外国人の大半より上だと思います。日本の大学を卒業した外国人留学生や、母国の大学で日本語を集中的に学習した人以外は、日本語の読み書きが出来ない。だから日本で就ける仕事も限られるし、日本人との接点も少ない。お子さんにも日本語を教えてあげてくださいね。日系人に多く会いましたが、日本語が出来なくなると、本当に日本との繋がりが無くなってしまう。
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  40. They can apply but they won't get it. Japanese Immigration checks all the tax filings, social payments, and criminal history.
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  41. Sorry, nobody in Japan would expect anything from you. If you don't speak Japanese, we won't be expecting or treating you as such. We have a lot of tourists from Asia, North America, and these days Europe. Most of them don't speak Japanese.
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  42. You're obviously not Japanese, nor have you ever received formal education in Japan. I've never met a Nihonjin who believes they descend from Amaterasu...because that's the same as saying they're offshoots of the Imperial Family. You're a typical Gaijin. FYI, Yayoi people started arriving in Japanese Isle and Korean peninsula around 3,500-3,000 years ago. Their unique rice-farming culture, pottery, architecture, tombs, mythology, clothing, and genetic traits indicate some similarities with rice-farming people in Southern China and Southeast Asia.
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  43. Quite a few Japanese citizens have died on 9.11, as many Japanese financial institutions had their NY offices in the WTC. Others have died in terrorist attacks in Tunisia and Algeria. So it would be silly to claim there is no anti-Muslim negativity in the minds of Japanese. Japanese Counter-Intelligence has dedicated divisions to monitor against radical Islamic threats in Japan. That said, we also don't allow uncontrolled migration. So only the educated ones from Muslim countries are allowed to live in Japan, which is why Japan is relatively safe compared to other parts of the world. And not all Muslim countries are treated in the same way in terms of work/student visas. Obviously somebody from Southeast Asia, East Turkestan/Xinjiang, Central Asia (and Russia too), will be treated differently from Muslims from Middle-east and North Africa in terms of visa policy because the threat-level is very different. The first Muslims to arrive in Japan in a large group were the Kazan Tatars after the Russian Revolution. They were well-educated and part of the upper-echelon of Russian society at the time (who felt unsafe to stay in Russia because they historically sided with the Tsar.) The Kazan Tatars weren't dogmatic like Middle-eastern Muslim, to be fair. They were hard-working and adjusted to life in Japan well, which is why the Tatars left a very good impression. They were the ones who built the first Mosques in Japan. The fact they spoke Tatar/Turkic helped them to learn Japanese quickly as well.
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  44. English teachers are in an mini-expat bubble. They can survive but not really assimilate or integrate with locals.
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  45. It depends on where they grow up. Most Japanese expats will put their kids in overseas Japanese schools. There are more international marriages with Japanese men than women each year, and if they are raised and educated in Japan, they naturally become fluent in Japanese. And because they have Japanese surnames, they'll usually be accepted as Japanese.
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  46. Sorry for a dumb question. Do you lose US Permanent Residency if you decide to live outside of the US?
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  47.  @Sunshine-zi4nq  Thank you. I had no idea there is an Indian diaspora in Singapore too. I've met somebody from HK, though.
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  48. If your father's name was registered in Japan's KOSEKI system, it implies that he had citizenship. Since Japan only follow Jus Sanguinis, location of birth is irrelevant. All male lineage children of Japanese emigrants born before 1985 were able to inherit citizenship if they were registered at birth. From a legal perspective, I thought your legal category in Japan would be 『日本人の実子』 or "Child of a Japanese citizen," which is the strongest connection to Japan. (配偶者 means "spouse," so did you imply you were both a child and a spouse of a Japanese citizen?)
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  49. It goes both ways. Asians are discriminated in Europe, but they get physically attacked and robbed by Blacks in the US. When a White police officer shoots a Black guy in LA, the Blacks burn downed Korea town. Most of the attacks on Asians in the US after COVID were from Blacks. Half of the prison inmates in the US are either Black or Brown. That's just the reality.
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  50.  @smashman8828  There are nearly 200,000 Brazilian-nationals living in Japan, many of whom are Japanese Descendants and their families.
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