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Born in the United States,but sound like a German 😂

I think it's phenomenal 🔥 that you have decided to retire and spend your life in Japan 🇯🇵!! I myself is considering moving aboard!! The way inflation is here in states have made it very difficult to retire in Peace!! For what I spend on my monthly income here in Texas 🤠 I could move there and purchase a home like you and still not Break The Bank 🏧!! That's my mine set and seeing this video gives me encouragement that ANY IS POSSIBLE if you believe it!! So congrats 🎉 Sir on your home and getting it remodeled for all your needs!! Phenomenal 🎇 Video and Thanks for Sharing 💛🤍⭐🤍💛

keep doing these videos. they are very inspirational and unique. thank you !

This is the life i want

i would be more scared of a yakuza covered in hello kitty tattoos.

I love Japanese architecture and style, especially the older homes. When I first heard of Akiya homes (空き家) were treated as a burden by some families when older people die, I was shocked. Many people in America would pay good money for a chance to buy and repair a traditional Japanese home in the countryside. I'm trying to save up enough money so I can buy an Akiya house and restore it as a vacation home. It's a dream of mine to spend a month or two in the Japanese countryside soaking up the environment and culture. But I wouldn't be able to move there permanently.

Great video! I totally understand about wanting to know what Japanese really think.

So interesting :) Great video!

If you can expect to receive a pension, Japan's countryside may be a secret place for you to live a retired life. Even better is the area around Misawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Okinawa, where there are U.S. military bases. In Japan, there are dangers of earthquakes, typhoons, landslides, heavy rain, flash floods, bears, and wild boars. A hazard map has been created, so check it out at the town hall or city hall.

I had the pleasure of getting my first tattoo done by her yesterday while I'm still in Tokyo on vacation, and the experience overall was very pleasant. She is very professional, took to heart what I was asking for, and delivered more than I was expecting. I had heard from friends that their first tattoo experience wasn't great or that it was very painful, but for me, that was not the case. If I had to describe it, it kind of felt like she was being very gentle with the machine, by which I mean that you could tell she is very experienced and knows exactly what she is doing, I could really feel the confidence she has in handling the machine, which really made me feel at ease. So I can't recommend getting a tattoo from her enough! She is a great artist and very skilled in her craft.

My mate went to visit girlfriends family home. He was amazed the 600 year home was so immaculate and the roads

great video :)

Awesome thanks for sharing

nice tattoo artist

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Awesome stuff! Really interesting to know about the behind the scenes aspect of the life of a tattoo artist.

She speaks very calmly, and you can tell she takes her craft and goals seriously - love these interviews, inspiring

Interesting story, thank you!

Thanks again Riku, so so awesome!

Excellent video Riku! Keep it up.

LEGEND

Great video Riku!

Yes Andrew lets goooo!!!

Awesome video. Really cool to see people making their own way in a foreign country.

Very nice video! Keep up the good work.

I love Japan and I really want to live there but I can't 'cause I have a business and family with 2 kids.

I am planning to visit Japan by myself next May. I am attracted to the rural area of Japan. If Japan is what I hope it is, I would like to bring my 5 children to Japan as well to live for some time and see how we adapt. I'm envisioning renting an Akiya but I do not know anybody or have any connections in Japan. Will it be safe for a woman with 5 children to live in rural Japan?

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Sounds like Seagal

Beautiful Scenic

I have been to Japan five times and have even lived in Yamaguchi, in an old monastery, for a month as a volunteer. My dream is to live in Japan and I have the money to buy an old Japanese house - any tourist can do it, but how can I stay in Japan? I am not an IT specialist to work remotely and will not be able to find a job in the countryside.

Weebs being weebs

She’s seems a bit lost and confused. I’d be surprised if she stayed in Japan very long. But otherwise this piece was very well done!

You are living my dream.

You are like me with your desire to live in Japan and fixing up an old house to live, except I have more tools! My wife was the service member. I'm Bermudian and ex Bermuda Regiment soldier. That helped for the climb up Mt. Fuji! I also fell in love with Japan during my time there and have a very strong desire to return, buy an Akiya to restore and live happily ever after!

Having already lived in Tokyo, I wanted to move out to the countryside to be able to stretch out and not hit a wall or person while having a good yawn. The pandemic of excuses was a good wake up call that the Japanese government had not changed and saw foreigners as second class citizens, outsiders, no matter how long they had lived in Japan. Whether they had married Japanese, had children, bought a home, had a job or owned a business, THEY WERE LOWER THAN JAPANESE. Not being able to re-enter Japan while Japanese were able to come and go as they pleased during the pandemic of excuses reminded me of the history of Japan and that not much had changed. Friends in Japan lost their jobs, some lost their marriages, some lost their homes because of the stupidity of the Japanese government blocking them from returning to their families, homes and the jobs that they paid Japanese taxes for all those years. I really hope you were NOT affected by that dark time at the beginning of the pandemic of excuse but if you were, could you please make a video about it because it really helps to bring light to the reality of life in Japan. I know it can be mendo kusai at times with the language barrier but I really still wish to make the move back to Japan. My fear, however, is another senseless act by the Japanese government could make me have to choose whether I travel to a family member in the hospital or their funeral or lose my job and/or home being locked out of the country I call home. Thank you for sharing your story.

This is a beautiful nice video speaks volumes of how nice Japan is. And you do a great job showing Japan for its nice side and good people. However there is a flip side to this and thats how they treat disabled people in their community and disabled vacationers. My friend that has a ServiceDogwas discrimated againstbased on why she required her service dog from the moment she hot off the plane and her 2 week vacation was not all fun, excitement and wonderfulvacation because she was denied equal public access because she was not blind or in a wheel chair. She wanted a great 1st experience, but told me to go to South Korea instead so I would not have the same bad experience if I go to an Asian country with my own Service Dog. Its sad 21st century but Japan still has issues towards how they treat disabled vacationers with a service dog. They make it difficult for handlers with a Service Dogs in public access accomedations, often refusing a Handler and Service dog at trestraunts, markets etc. and in general its based on why the person requires a sercice dog. Sadly Japana is just one of the few Asian countries like China that has a double standard policy on who they will acknowledge as a Handler with a Service Dog coming into their country. And yet refuse others if you have a service dog that is legit for a medical, physical or psychiatric condition they feel the need to claim your condition is not relevant to need a service dog so they dont treat you as legitmate when coming into their country and force you to go through pet check in when your service dog is not a pet....and it's all because your not blind or physically handicaped Japan picks and chooses who they will accomedat upon entry with a service and who they won't. Its a huge disservice to those with privately trained service dogs, and preventms us from wanting to go through all that discrimintauon just to visit Japan as a vacationer and so many look to South Korea that doesn’t pull that and other Asian countries and despite wanting to go Japan we skip Japan as a tourist because of howJapan makes it hard on hamdlers with a service dog to feel welcomed, apprectiated for their buisness and paying to go there because we are disabled people. When you arrive they claim your service dog is a pet because your medicsl or psychiatric condition is not acknowledged for a need to have a service dog. They then take your medical lifeline service to a kennel cell and say they will hold your pet for 48 hrs then you can have them back. It undermines all coming to Japan who are protected under government and fenderal ada laws that forbid a country upon entry to isolate your legit service dog from you at any time and nno excuse no exceptions. However Japan and China think they can violate these laws based on bias opinions towards a Handler and Service Dog from out of country. Japan and China have this view that if your service dog is through an unrecognized organization ir privately trained it somehow cant be legitimate. And yet if your dog is for someone who is blind or physically handicapped welcome come on in you know you get to bypass being to train your dog like it's a pet and a service dog is not a pet. Japan does not recognize psychiatric service. They do not acknowledge service dogs for people who have pots or Autism or PTSD or any medical condition that is not physically handicapped well the undermind people with different medical condition to actually need a service dog in the dog is task to negate alert and help you well you are considered as a lesser being and that your service dog is not considered a service dog in the Japanese view it's considered a pet and even if explain to them what your dog does they couldn't care less you have to treat the dog as if it's coming in as a pet that means they going to take your dog and isolate your dog for 48 hours before they handed back to you I'm like are you kidding me this is a service dog I can't be without my service dog well we don't recognize your disability or your psychiatric disability or your medical disability because it's not physical handicapped accessibility and you're not blind. So many people are choosing to go to South Korea where they understand that service dogs are represented to multiple areas of training and not just physically handicapped and not just blind people need a service dog and just because you have a psychiatric service dog or medical alert service dog plus a diabetes doesn't mean your dog is a pet it's a service up but Japan will not acknowledge that and they will not let you in and give you that same treatment they give people or physically disabled and handicapped or blind when coming into their country with a service dog instead they teach your dog like it's a pet and then they charge you extra fees for it and then they tell you have to have your dog held up for 48 hours and you can't get to see her dog for that time because I was somehow you're able to take care of yourself so you really didn't need a service dog that's their view of people with different disabilities who actually have a legit service dogs that's how they treat them when they come into their country and if I many people with service dogs are not going to Japan for vacation because that's how we're going to be treated When we arrive weather legit service dog they say they can pick and choose and police who they're going to acknowledge that has a right to have a medical condition or disability that needs a service dog and anybody else that they don't agree with your disability or medical condition that was why your doctor or your specialist recommended you get a service dog Japan will not acknowledge anybody who has a service dog training privately because they think they know they can claim there's a difference between a service archange privately or through an organization over a service dog from a facility and newsflash not everyone can afford a service dog from a facility but attend Japan comes down to well we are going to keep out fake so only those who get her service dog from a facility can go bypass at 48-hour hold and we will acknowledge the dog as a service off but anybody else trying to get in as a legit Handler with a service dog for a medical condition like hypoglycemia and PTSD well we're going to treat you as if you are pet owner and pet and we're going to be holding your dog for 48 hour which they do for pets because he just want to make sure in quarantine at the pets don't have any . And my cousin who has a service off of autism son and I who I was service dog for hypoglycemia and PTSD I'm like that 40 hours you're putting me at risk in your country that something can happen I can have a cardiac situation I can stay and get dizzy vertigo and fall and injure myself and you want a lawsuit because you're basically telling me I have no right to have a service, it's not okay for me to go into Japan with my service dog because we don't acknowledge Your Service as a service. Because you're not blind and you're not physically handicapped. So we've been thinking about where we're going to go on a vacation unlike or nothing they're not going to Japan even if I wanted to go there even if she wanted to because we're not going to have are dogs held for 48 hours held up for valuation when we entry into Japan because they wanted knowledge are service dogs that are legitimate as legit service dogs and we're not going to our house our well-being or safety her son's autism and his safety at risk by being told our dogs are not acknowledged in Japan as legit service dogs so we have to treat them as pets coming in absolutely absurd. There are so many things happened to Penny's people do that really good like we see here on this TH-cam but they need a reality check when it comes to service dogs, and I totally do they're going to keep losing significant amount of people who would actually vacation there but won't because they don't acknowledge their service dog as alleged service dog when it is legit. I'm like many after hearing time and again same issues with those with a Service Dog visiting Japan it's not worth risking a great experience only for it to be miserable and bad in Japan because of Japan's bias double standard of who needs and who they think doesn't a service dog, so I'm reserved on going to Japan this or next year because of the matter. I can't be separated by my Service Dog he is not a pet but Medical Alert and additionally anxiety stress aler so being told he would be treated as a pet and held from me at entry puts my cardiac and health issues at risk so I will look for a different country like South Korea that won't do this to me.

I moved to Miyazu 5 years ago. I am alone most of the time and when someone calls my name in a store to say hello. My heart melts. I love my old house. Winter is tough for me. but I stay in Hawaii where i spent 40 years. I put in three floors. rebuilding my old kura that was full of treasures to me. My old house found me. Changed my life. I work until I cry. but the rewards are the friends who to me are masters at life. At 65 I could never been as happy and grateful for life as I am now.. Aloha i love you Japan and i love Okuhami.

Aussie here. Done the same in Mie. Look me up!

This is country living anywhere honey.

Congrats

Lucky you, living in Japanese countryside is a blessing.

This is where I'd love to end up.

How fortunate for you. This has been a daydream in my life for 40 years.

Wherever someone finds their peace it makes me happy to see. I was born in London, moved to the south coast several years back. Much better quality of life and if you want to get into a big city nowadays there are high speed trains.

This is any introverts best dream

Loved it when I was over there. I could inline skate 20 min from my apartment and be in the country. Great vid!

You were born in the US...but did you grow up in a different country...hearing a accent that is not USA. And, that is Yamaguchi.....prefecture..I suspect that is what you mean.

I’m a Canadian living in southern Shikoku, Japan for over 12 years now. I also bought an old house that is 70-years old. I’m also renovating my house doing the work myself.

The best country to live in peace… Bought my house a month ago- nothing better than being at peace with my community