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When l was last in Japan, how many times did l see Australians, Americans just wander into a cafe, restaurant and start speaking English to the staff like they would back home!!. I know same people don’t like lining up to get into restaurants. We couldn’t believe how cheap the restaurants were. I recently went to a ramen 🍜 restaurant in Melbourne and it was $4 extra for an egg and $3 extra for seaweed!! ( came to $27Aus).l have said it before, just learn some basic Japanese it will bring a smile to the staff and it will make you feel good knowing they understood you. Thanks again for the video. Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and your family.

I'm surprised more people who don't know Japanese use DeepL or Lens to translate the menu and then speak from that.

I would love to live in the mountains of Japan, but I have no hope nor desire to learn Japanese at this point in my life. Fortunately I'm conversant in Spanish, and Colombia has an abundance of gorgeous mountain communities. It is not as safe or clean as Japan but it's more vibrant and I understand the societal rules and expectations better.

I grew up in Japan with Japanese family. He will have a much better time even in the city if you speak the language and try to understand the culture. The Japanese language can be difficult for foreigners to understand due to implied context. This context often has roots going back centuries. But you spend more time in Japan. You will pick this up as you respect the traditions and try to fit in. Growing up we visited some cousins that lived in the rural area. We have another cousin that live by the beachside in a all traditional wooden home. It actually had a hearth in the middle of the house. I think that for most rural living is too distant from the city. I prefer a small modest size town on the border of rural areas. Where you have a little bit slower pace of life. And people tend to be a little more friendly and accepting. Where you get the traditional culture but also have a little more diversity with a city amenities not too far away.

can you share the thumbnail picture?

Hydraulic press channel moved to japan?😂

Probably, one major cause is that the things are too small for larger-framed foreigners. Like, desks, workable are too low for taller mates. Rooms, toilets, etc., the same story.

Maybe you should consider an “expat”when you are acrually an “immigrant”. It’s rude to the host people.

I think the concept of the western countries being inclusive is a myth. Also gender inequality is starting to present itself in the form of women being given preference over men in workplace environments as they become feminized so I think you are out of touch with the modern western workplace and the changes that have taken place and its not for the better. Get your head out of your ass!

very interesting

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foreigners? you mean white people? We Southeast Asians are just fine. Japan is easy peasy compared to home.

We Germans are among the most efficient workers on the planet - but we are undoubtedly also among the laziest. Apart from the crisis of the last five years, we have always been at the top of the list of booming economies in the world. If the Japanese ever want to copy this way of life, they can ask me. If a single company ever wants to adopt this way of working, I could imagine applying to them.

I've worked in multiple Japanese companies in the US including the big ones like investment banking, trading company, car manufacturer, and the two big travel agencies because I can speak Japanese. But there's a lot of waste going on that is hierarchical. When a senior executive from the head office was visiting, my office tried to hide the empty desks by moving books and installing actual live phone lines and have the clerical staff sit in those desks until the executive went back. They also spent a lot of money looking for restaurants that served his favorite foods before he arrived in order to take him, it was ridiculous to spend that much for internal entertainment. Japanese executives on rotation often do as little as they can get away with until they get called back to Japan. When I was working for Nippon Housing & Loan which was being liquidated, I let my boss go home to play golf at 2 pm while I stayed until 5pm doing homework in the office before going to night college. When it was down to just me and the President, who was facing mandatory retirement as soon as he got back, he used to take his wife to 4 star French restaurants in New York City, then make me write it up as entertainment expense with other financial executives including adding fake names. One boss tried to coerce me to lie about how long he worked in the US so that he could claim US Social Security benefits, luckily for me the corporate attorney advised him not to do it. Same company but London office, had to fire their Japanese employee from Tokyo for embezzlement while in the UK thinking he could get away with it if he were overseas but got caught. The vice chairman of Daiwa Securities, a brokerage house, used to gargle and spit into the wastebasket under his desk. I've seen bullying among my Japanese co-workers, calling them names behind their backs because they just didn't like their chosen victim, collectively. The poor woman was just a little older, shorter, and awkward and they harassed her including when she had a miscarriage, until she quit. Basically, the methods may be different but the power harassment in Japanese companies is as frequent as any Western one. In the US, the trend around me is to fire people by text. In my city, a man was recently hired by Tesla and flew all the way across country to start employment leaving behind his family because he was eager to start, paid his way taking classes to meet requirements. Because he wasn't settled, he didn't have a car so he rode a bike, Tesla said he needed to commute by car, didn't offer the corporate shuttle service. He found a co-worker to car pool with. But Tesla fired him anyway just days after he arrived for lack of acceptable transportation alone, and he had to rely on charity to fly back home, it was on the local TV news. At Amazon, some warehouse workers had to piss into bottles because they wouldn't give proper bathroom break time. Their grocery workers (Amazon owns Whole Foods Grocery) are surveilled even during breaks and their productivity quotas are so extreme employees get injured on the job and still have to work, or quit. I doubt Japanese can hack it at some of these US companies.

Only foreigners that can hack it are people that are from like SEA's where working in their home country are more worse.

When l worked in Japan 🇯🇵 it was long hours ( sometimes) 8.30am to 5.15pm and maybe staying behind until 7.30pm. I worked with some people who when a deadline was getting close would work until 11.30pm !! . But l liked the team atmosphere of everyone together. Even after work we would all go out for food 🍱 and drinks 🍺 and had a great time. I tried to do this here in Australia 🇦🇺 but everyone wanted just to get home after work. Thanks again for the video. Keep living the good life in Japan 🇯🇵.

I think the trick for most foreigners is to make money overseas and live in Japan or start a business there. Working for a Japanese corporation is really hard not just due to higher level of language expected but also the actual rules and actions within the work place - work culture. If it makes any difference, in reverse the Japanese really struggle in Australia with the complicated language too, they often end up working for a Japanese restaurant or boss.

I worked in a Japanese company and hated it.

So I have a question. If you working ten plus hours a day. Do they at least pay you for the overtime? Also if you end up working to death. What would be the point of even living there? Here in america. There are two types of people here. Those who want to work as little as possible and those who want to make as much as possible. But if you can't take a vacation whenever you want or enjoy japan. Why even move their or work there?

I think so much of this goes back to the military culture. We could consider it honourable but it's also akin to paid slavery. It's such a long history of total and utter control by threat of violence in Japan stemming from the Edo jidai. I could only work in Japan in my own business. I have respect for the Japanese people and their incredible loyalty, work ethic and tolerance, but is working as a paid slave 70 or 80 hours a week what life is really about? Not for me thanks. My life in Australia has been a nice balance.

Part of this work culture...is why I'm moving there. I am that type of employee and while it has made me great success in America, as I got into management, having to deal with people that you have to motivate to do just the bare minimum can be immensely frustrating. After 20 years of managing that, I felt I may give Japanese culture the chance too.

That's because even the most normal person who passes themselves as someone who only has a healthy passing interest in japan is secretly a cringe inducing weeb who wishes to live in a Shibuya or Harajuku Megacity.

Can’t believe I’ve never been there, looks like a nice place for a walk.

Thanks for this video. I’ve never been to this part of Nishio. I hope that I can meet up with you soon in the new year. Until we meet up sometime I don’t have any way to communicate with you privately.

i wear shorts + sun glasses + point fingers at my children sometimes + give money in even numbers without using any envelope + drink while walking around + answer phones 100% inside restaurants/shops + almost never give any gifts except when I am invited to the events (birthday partys).... I wonder if I am going to get expelled in the first day when arriving to Japan.

There is no such as cold weather, only inappropriate clothing! 😃 Beautiful looking park!

I love the autumn 🍂 time in Japan. I couldn’t get over how many people turn out to watch the changing colours of the leaves. Your lucky to see this every year. Thanks again for the video.

This looks suburban not rural. Expats are ruining communities world wide.

Beautiful places. You said “it’s cold” about ten times!

Yes but the Best part of JAPAN IS THE RURAL its very zen beautiful the japonais culture is there pepoles are very wellcome where i am yachimata sanmu shi chiba préfecture to Tokyo its 45mn

I live in semi rural Australia in Queensland south east it is getting build out now. I moved here to get away driving a hour to go to the shops or work is fine. I want to move to rural Japan it would suit me fine.

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My father also used to make similar machines in Alibaug and Chennai, India.

No electric bikes???

5:16 I think this is why Persona 4 hit it off in the US so well about 10-14 years ago. It was very similar to a rural American town, cars everywhere not much to do, maybe a nearby city you could go to once in a while if you were lucky. 10:01 yes but I’d have to talk with my girlfriend about it.

I think there is also this financial contribution that a member has to commit to the community too that you did not mention. It goes towards a community chest to fund community activities and upkeep of the environment. You are also obliged to contribute a stipulated amount of money towards any family in the village suffering a bereavement or celebrating a marriage or birth. I think such financial commitments is one of the big reasons why young Japanese people prefer the cities, not the rural precincts. I must say that suburban areas expect such commitments too. If your neighbourhood is big, could you imagine the hole in your pocket. As young people, trying to save up for personal growth, or a young couple building a home for kids, such commitments would best be avoided.

I am in Nepal I want to be there

I remember ride my bike to the train station and making a mental picture of where l put it because after work there were 100’s of bike in the bike area.

I’ve got one of those bikes you were talking about putting a basket on, little 20” wheels. It’s quite good for short trips. I’d be going straight to the mountain bike section.

Was there any BMX parts/bikes at that shop?

Would be interesting to go for an extended visit to get out of a big city.

I would just bring my $150 mountain bike from the States to Japan

I don't talk much as is and don't like living in a city. That would be almost perfect for me, if I knew basic Japanese.

Seems pretty crowded

Nice. I always get liquorice and mint jelly from Aus. When I can bring in booze; a nice bottle of Bundy goes a good way.

I live way out in the suburbs of a town with like 1 million people. Most would call this rural. To live here and have any kind of quality of life you absolutely must speak and read Japanese and must be able to get a drivers license and afford a car. It also helps if you don't need to get a job (retired or remote business) as otherwise you will need to commute, by car of course, to the areas that hire foreigners all of which pay like garbage. If you are coming here from the US I would look into getting a license from one of the states that are part of the treaty where you can just convert your license as driving school is hell.

Rural Japan is not easy, even for a non local Japanese. Difference in culture, local rules, dialect, etc. Some people are also very conservative, and hardly anyone would be able to speak English.

Because it's quiet peaceful politeful space respected clean everything The divided States isn't human let's go with human perhaps

I feel sorry for the Japanese for the glut of immigrants, ruining the unique culture and customs.