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we in slovakia need to open the doors on taxy almost everything is outdated we dont have sea so everything is transported by land that means that we travel by taxi bus or car and many of buses and taxis are rusty and old and I dont even mention our catastrophic trains but enought criticising japan is one of if not only country that have automatic taxis
Before I moved to Japan I had a notebook filled with a lot of these cultural differences so I don't make any mistakes. It came in handy, but there was some I learned when there.
For the laundry (underwear) stealing I’ve only heard of that happening in the USA when an apartment building/complex has a communal laundry room, where people have to share the washing machine(s) and dryer(s) and if you leave your laundry unattended someone might grab your clothing. (I haven’t moved out on my own yet so I haven’t had this problem but some friends have said it does happen). I’m not sure the percentage but as far as I know the majority of Americans use a dryer for their laundry (either in their house/dormitory building/apartment building or at a laundromat) though there are probably those who dry their clothes outside.
If you give 3 10,000 notes, the symbolic meaning is a bit clearer. Obviously, any multiple of 10 is also a multiple of 2, but 10 yen is very little money...
The umbrella thing is Japanese, because most countries don't have public umbrella racks, so you take it with you. Human cloning is actually an international crime that is prohibited in most countries, except for highly-regulated government-run facilities.
Shogo u do not need to wrap a banana in plastic there’s literally no point and it’s annoying a banana already has skin protecting it. It just doesn’t make sense 😂
Trains are not that busy for tourists most of the time. The worst time to travel by train is during the month of August. Especially early august during the max rush for Japanese people to get out of the city to visit their homeland in the countryside or for vacation travel. I experienced a jammed packed Shinkansen Bullet train in August 2018. It was packed tighter than a sardine can. Everyone was pressed tightly against each other. People were literally climbing over me and my luggage to get to the restroom. Fortunately I only rode the train for a little over 1 hour. I made sure to stay near the exit so I could get off. I boarded on at Shin-Osaka and got off at Fukuyama. If I got stuck in the middle of the train, I would likely had to wait to get off in Hakata so that everyone in the way would get off. That would have sucked. Commuter and subway Trains were not as crowded as that Bullet train, but I had to stand most of the time using the train. I have used the Shinkansen more times than I can count and I have used them in far less crowed Spring season of 2012 and 2014. I always got a seat in spring. It’s far more comfortable than a plane. One could just decide to go somewhere on a whim and just board the next Shinkansen via unreserved seat. The Shinkansen has ample space overhead for luggage and even the back of each car. Shinkansen stations are in large stations that have easy access to commuter or subway lines. With plane travel, the flight might need to be booked weeks in advance. If airport is large and busy, the traveler would need to arrive to airport early to get through security lines and find gate. Airlines also start boarding 1 hour prior to departure time. When arriving, any checked luggage would need to be retrieved from baggage claim, then the traveler would need to either rent a car or take an airport express bus or train to a major train station to then transfer to a local train.
No, having your clothes stolen from your line/drying rack isn't a common occurrence in the US, even in crowded apartments in big cities. I have to line dry all my clothes because I'm very tall for a woman, and none of my undergarments have ever been stolen, nor has it been a problem for anyone I know here in the US.
I have a bad habit of walking in my house in shoes and even put them on in my room 😅😂 but I saw that if visiting like a Japanese castle you take off shoes too Is that true?
About handing over things with both hands, I use a walker so I mostly need to use one hand to hold onto the walker so it's pretty difficult for me to use both hands to hand over something. Is there any other way I could hand over things respectfully?
just got up to the individually wrapped bananas. so ive got a question. why are they wrapped individually? bananas are naturally protected by a wrapper when they are grown. or do people in Japan eat the banana skin also?
I'm so confused! I replied in a thread about driers in Europe and it has disappeared, but I still got notifications about people answering it. Even weirder, if right now I ctrl+f key words from my reply or the ones I got notified about, it finds the matches but they don't display. It just sends me to a specific part of the comment section, without highlighting anything. Anyone know what that's all about?
Most people in the US use dryers to dry their clothing so stolen clothing isn’t a problem. I had a bike stolen when I was around 12 so stolen bikes is a big thing here
I believe that a postbox is considered a government property, hence putting ice cream in it is considered vandalism. This really raise me a question to the one to did: Why? What in the world compelled you to do that? I'd love to hear the story behind it. As for the taxi automatic doors, I think it's fairly uncommon outside of Japan. At least where I'm from, I've perhaps only seen less than 5 taxis with the automatic door stickers on it throughout my life here.
My guess is that the person wasn't complaining about the specific amount of the money but that you have to pay to be involved at all. Guests at weddings in the US are generally expected to bring a present but not required a pay a fee. Just my guess.
People don't dry their clothes outside, we have drying machines for that! But people who use communal washers and dryers can have their clothes stolen. It happened at the apartment building I was living at a few times.
I think the cloning law came from the ethics of cloning that cloning human is very likely the cause a loss of life, and if successful, would be incredibly prone to abuse. Also it would make any criminal investigation nightmarish as for the first time, two (or more) people have the same DNA.
the whole "dont waste your food" thing is in the west too, but its a bad culture imo. if your full, dont over eat or force yourself to eat too much. save it for later or dont eat it at all. theres no benefit to over eating, and if you do eat even though you arent hungry, that might as well be the same thing as wasting it
Here in the U.S. getting your bike stolen is pretty common but I've never really heard of clothes getting stolen from clothing lines also I think you'd be hard pressed to find a place where you can park on the stairs
Stealing laundry from the clothesline (where it's hanging to dry) became much less common when Americans became wealthy enough that almost everyone had clothes dryers.
I work for the post office in the US and that would be considered vandalizing the mail and there would definitely be a hefty fine. Destroying mail or stealing mail would lead to jail time, but Ice cream in the mailbox would probably just be a fine.
In the US, it is very rare for people to hang their clothes outside. Usually people use a dryer. I do hang mine to dry but I use racks inside of the house. At laundry mats I have had the issue of people taking out wet clothes and stealing the drying time before and just leaving my clothes on top.
I lose a lot of umbrellas. I’m forever leaving them on busses and trains. You’ll see cheap “Bunnings” umbrellas everywhere. *Bunnings is a local hardware chain store where you can buy common household items
When I'm still in elementary, my umbrella also got stolen 6times on rainy day. 1 time during my college day. Now I'm using folded umbrella and never get caught fever again. And personally I also train my kids not to waste food if they can finished it. Because I want them to be grateful. Lot of people not only in our country die due to starvation.
In Germany, if you have leftovers in a restaurant, you are allowed to ask to get it packed for you and you can eat it the next day. Furthermore, if something is left over, there are a lot of dishes that can be done out of it the next day, such as if you had potatoes the day before, you can do potato salad the next day - and it is often done in private households in Germany. Thank you for your reaction video though.
We don’t have the “ take home leftovers“ culture in Japan unfortunately… it’s because the restaurants want to avoid their customers suing them for eating food that has gone bad after taking home…😓 Yeah you would think that’s the customers responsibility, but in Japan it doesn’t work that way💦
I have encountered a few restaurants in Yokohama that offer taking food home, but it is the minority and always involves a piece of paper making a big deal about the customer taking responsibility for eating it in a timely manner.
I have never had a single umbrella stollen before living in Tokyo. During rainy season, I had four stollen in a week. In my hometown, high dollar items like bicycles get stolen all the time, but cheap things like umbrellas just don’t happen
As a Child, I have also been told not to Waste Food. Also, in Europe Today a lot of People are talking how a lot of Food is being thrown away. The Fact that In Japan individual Pieces of Fruit and Vegetables are being Wraped in Plastic, is, to my Knowledge, only a Japanese Thing. In Europe that never Happens. The EU wants to Reduce usage of Plastic.
@@nothereanymore3941 Yes, but that is usually avaiable only in Rich Big Members like Germany and France. Hungary and Croatia usualy don't get Products with them.
In my experience, trains are really only very crowded during rush hour. When traveling as a tourist, I am rarely out and about until after morning rush hour is over, so never experienced that crazy amount of train crowds.
the rule specifically applies to human clones, the sentence of ten years are because it is against the scientific code of ethics and the geneva convention to clone a human being
Uh, identical twins are natural clones. I can just see parents sadly waving bye-bye to their new babies for ten years! Yeah, yeah, I know the law is about artificially produced human clones.
I once heard about the ice cream in a mailbox law. It was because a teenage boy once put an ice cream in a mailbox, ruining about a dozen letters. It was around new years, so all were new years cards. The post office was able to clean up the letters, and send them out.
In the UK most people hang their clothes to dry outside ... many are the times my colleague looked at the rain n the office window and ruefully commented about hanging her washing out! It's a whole thing here but the only time I did it was when I lived in a top floor flat and used the Victorian washing line which sat outside one of the windows. Wild birds also used to bounce up and down on that from time to time to wind up my cats. Because of all this laundry getting dried outside, it has also been a thing for underwear to get stolen : it's kinda a pervert thing ... but usually more annoying than harmful
Most of the people in the US whom I've spoken with dry their clothes in a machine dryer.... Which I understand are available in Japan but not often used due to the size and energy consumption. I personally dry my clothing on a line.... But inside though. (I'd be nervous about outside drying attracting bugs, or neighbors' glances)
Im from norway and bikes gets stolen all time here and we dont really use bikes alot i dont really see it as a japan problem its more that there are more bikes so more bikes that can get stolen
I mostly hang laundry outside but I also bought a combined washer-dryer for those occasions, in winter, when it rains all week and you can’t hang washing outside. Over here, apartment blocks often have communal washing lines (usually a “hills hoist”) and stratas often have rules banning residents from hanging laundry on balconies, as it’s considered a fire hazard.
Hashi in left in bowl..... YES, some folks will scold you if you do such a thing. Usually it is done by my in-laws or "important" people sitting close to me in a restaurant... but since being scolded several times when I first moved to Japan, I do my very best NOT to do such a bad thing.
In regards to the rice, I just remembered how different cultures can cause a very funny situation. Individual A is teached to eat till the plate has no food anymore and has to eat of what has been given to them as a sign of respect. Individual B is teached to give guests another serving, if the plate is empty. If both come together you can imagine the result.
Hello Shogo! The name of the channel is let's ask shogo so here i come to ask: why there is two types of writing the same thing in japanese? For example: 浮揚 or 空中浮遊 / 公園 or ガーデン . And sometimes there are even more ways, are they used for the same purpose and only the writing changes? You use different types of writing for certain occasions? I love the japanese culture and would be happy to see you talking about this, thanks!
Just like there are different words to represent “big” in English like “large” “huge” “humongous“ etc., each word has different nuances or specific occasions to use!
For the « stolen clothes thief » in France I’ve never really seen my parents in houses/apartements without a laundry room. In houses (case of my mom) the laundry room is downstairs and in apartements (my dad’s case) the laundry room is the same room as the bathroom. But it depends with the people who lives inside the house/apartement, and there are cases where the laundry of someone can be seen outside of apartements it’s just that it’s too high for thieves to steal it. But yes it is usually inside.
In Mexico we dry the clothes in the backyard, which is outside, but still within four tall walls. You'd have some trouble jumping in and out to steal clothes.
I did request a Japanese TH-camr to mail a Wagyu Burger 🤤from Tokyo to my home in Houston,Texas, and I was willing to pay extra to Fedex it "overnight" in an insulated cryo box. Unfortunately, "Lemi from Japan" thought I was joking, so I never got to eat an authentic Wagyu Burger 😢.
I’m an exchange student living in the Kansai region. Are there any particular places or restaurants you would recommend for someone on a student budget?
I live in a post communist/socialist country. And we all live really close. Especially in huge cities with communist type of block, but it's rare to see underwear to be stolen. It's usually shirts, jeans and other stuff you wear besides undies and bras. Ig it's just a Japanese thing
Hi Shogo, yet another beautiful video, it was really informative, and also the cloth hanging outside a house is very common in Czechia, but I feel like I've never heard about any panty thief from the Czech Republic in the news so it's probably just a Japan thing, after all, I've only seen it in anime and manga.
The taxi door thing is only Japanese yes. It was made by a Japanese man and became common i believe during the Olympics in the 60s as a hospitality if I recall correctly.
- I think the shoes etiquette is something common in Eastern cultures. Here we have it to (and for reasons other than cleanness) and here also it is considered somewhat impolite to put or leave the shoe with the down side (sole) up, and if seen it is better to turn it around and make the sole down. - Money wedding have something parallel in fact, originally in the Islamic teachings but it's not like a must but it is ought to help the newly wed couple to start their lives (and it's not supposed to be limited to money but can be other items as gifts). However, in some places, some people ruined this tradition by "bragging" about their gifts and I heard that some families (family of the bride and family of the groom) would compete and even fight on whose gift is better, so the ending result was that some of these groups of people would put an ad for the wedding and politely ask people not to give gifts. One example of something beautiful turned ugly by misbehavior.
I would love to learn more about Shinto. I am an anamist looking to become Shinto. Would you ever do a video on it? Thank you so much for your content.
how come google translate cannot translate japan latiniations into english when mostly dutch/german loan words all does add mauri to end of some words Ketatamashii keikoku ga Demo motto douka nacchaitai no Motto douka nacchaitai no Mechakucha ii ne Yogoreta KUMA daite Yake ni sameta shisen ni Hi wo tsukete odorou yo PARTY no aizu sa "Atashi wa atashi" sashizu shinaide Koe ni naranai sakebi wo agete Anata no sono te de fureta kara Sekai ni hitotsu itoshii no yo SIREN Ketatamashii keikoku ga Demo motto douka nacchaitai no Motto douka nacchaitai no Motto douka nacchaitai no Taikutsu to iu na no kyoufu Mechakucha ii ne Ano ko no TEDDYBEAR Yaburekake no houtai ga Yodonda kono machi ni CONTORASUTO de saikyou sa Anata no sono te de fureta kara Sekai ni hitotsu itoshii no yo Anata no sono te ga tsukamu kara Sekai wa hitotsu utsukushii no yo Honto ni mechakucha ii ne Yogoreta KUMA daite Yake ni sameta shisen ni Hi wo tsukete odorou yo PARTY no aizu sa Mechakucha ii ne (ii ne) Ano ko no TEDDYBEAR (Ano ko no TEDDYBEAR) Akaku someta houtai wa Junsui na hitomi ni Yokuniaunda "Atashi wa atashi" sashizu shinaide Koe ni naranai sakebi wo agete
Hey Shogo. Since RGG studio has just announced their new games and one of them is about bakumatsu, will you do more videos about them? Like sakoku, Sakamoto Ryoma, or Fushimi
In my country, I think it's pretty common to dry clothes outside, my family has always done it at least. But most of the time it's either in a backyard where no-one goes in, or in apartments it's on a drying rack on the balcony to the apartment, where no-one can get to either In regards to umbrellas, we use them a lot in Denmark, since it can rain a lot, but we usually keep them on our person so they don't get stolen And I think the bike thing is just a common thing all around Edit: I really appreciate you putting sound effects when you add the little text things at the bottom. I often just listen to videos, and it makes sure I don't miss anything!
You can ride in the front seat of taxis? I didn't know that! In many countries taxis have a glass wall between the front and back seat to protect the driver from robbers and other bad passengers who could harm the driver.
Packed subway trains in rush hours in Japan are in no way, like *no way* near packed trains in Mexico. Japan's are heaven, like really really respectful, ordered, beautiful. I would switch gladly any rush hour in Japan subway system rather than one not-so-rush hour in México. Like, any day. Also, the umbrella thing, yeah, when I got there (summer) I was like "This people have something for umbrellas!"... Then after two days of that burning sun in sweaty summer, we ended up buying them to protect our skin. I loved visiting your country, wished I had found this tips before! But when I come back, I'll be prepared!
30,000 can be divided by two. 15,000 and 15,000. Technically though, any number can be divided by two. Now if only whole numbers count, just add 1 to it. 20,001.
I don’t remember where I got my US mottainai culture from … my grandparents and public broadcasting? “Don’t waste food!” “Waste not, want not.” “Reduce, reuse, recycle.”
Wait a minute though. 30,000¥ can be divided into two equal groups of 15,000¥. So how does the rule still apply? Perhaps, 33,333¥ would be more acceptable, since it is properly indivisible by two?
The problem with the fruits packed in plastic is, they have their own natural packing. A banana dont need a extra shell. you will never find a banana in plastic in germany. 😂 It hurts in the stomach to see it, from an european perspective.
Two things: 1st, you grew up with having fruits and vegetables individually wrapped. If you hadn't, the first time you encounter them (or ever the first few times), you can damage and bruise them. 2nd, on the cloning, that should be obvious. Cloning plus genetic manipulation equals -- neko-girls (and neko-boys as well). 😏
I'd suppose the underwear stealing happens because of the out of proportion amount of sexually frustrated weirdos that live in Japan. That, however, is a symptom of its current culture. 11:50 Indeed, some people are a bit more conscious about how big their carbon footprint is. Generating lots of waste by almost unavoidable individualized wrapping is therefore a bit chotto..... 30000/2 = 15000...
Never thought of giving someone something with two hands as respectful. It is something I noticed about Japanese stereotype. But now that I’m thinking about it, if someone handed me something with two hands it would be a more pleasant experience. I like it!
In the U.S., nobody pays money to attend a wedding. The marrying couple pays all expenses except for guest accommodations. Guests have the option to buy gifts such as from a registry, but it's not required.
I read the banners on the "Don't park your car on stairs" and it said "氷川神社", or Hikawa Shrine, far away from Kyoto, but almost near Tokyo. Edit: I noticed there are a lot of Shinto shrines named "Hikawa", one in Saitama, one in Kawagoe, and one in Akasaka
1. musical umbrella 2. used underwear have higher value in Japan 3. I guess that's universal Last one, the scientific societies and some governments limit research of clones only if it benefit humanity and/extinct species. It is to limit cruelty to experiment because of 90%+fail rate and extreme short life. It is also their way to keep the highest standard of respecting life/living being and keeping social order. And, normal scientists should apply to work in research group instead of basement.
We had a maid in thailand that stole my wife's underwear so she could wear them I suppose out of poverty though she had a decent job with us but perhaps my wife's underwear was better quality. She also stole jewelry but who knows why. We leave bikes outside our property all of time now that we are in a different place where everyone knows everyone and never have heard of a bike being stole in 10 years.
Honestly, the 30,000 yen thing doesn’t really make any sense to me. Whether it’s 30,000, 50,000, or 70,000 yen, when dealing with numbers like those or that high they’re usually divisible by 2.
Don‘t park your car on stairs… I don‘t think that‘s Japanese only no-go. Honestly I‘m pretty sure that‘s prohibited in most countries with infrastructure.
Unfortunately, the eat everything on your plate like we were taught when I was little, apparently contributes to obesity. That's what I've heard from some weightloss places. Also, I remember the time after Dolly the sheep was cloned, you could get kits to clone a carrot. Why a carrot, I have no idea...
The plastic on the fruit (especially something like a banana) does seem really wasteful, which I would dislike as well. I try to minimize how much single use plastic I buy so this would be very frustrating to find.
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we in slovakia need to open the doors on taxy almost everything is outdated we dont have sea so everything is transported by land that means that we travel by taxi bus or car and many of buses and taxis are rusty and old and I dont even mention our catastrophic trains but enought criticising japan is one of if not only country that have automatic taxis
30,000 yen can be divided by 2 is 15,000 yen
From what I learned from the Yakuza games is that your bike won't exactly get stolen, it gets obliterated on someone's head in a huge group fight
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Before I moved to Japan I had a notebook filled with a lot of these cultural differences so I don't make any mistakes. It came in handy, but there was some I learned when there.
9:00 - I’ve learned about the escalator sides playing Yakuza Like a Dragon. 😂
For the laundry (underwear) stealing I’ve only heard of that happening in the USA when an apartment building/complex has a communal laundry room, where people have to share the washing machine(s) and dryer(s) and if you leave your laundry unattended someone might grab your clothing. (I haven’t moved out on my own yet so I haven’t had this problem but some friends have said it does happen). I’m not sure the percentage but as far as I know the majority of Americans use a dryer for their laundry (either in their house/dormitory building/apartment building or at a laundromat) though there are probably those who dry their clothes outside.
7:17 I thought leaving a bit of food behind meant that you got fed enough or if you ate everything it meant that you were still hungry.
you can actually divide 30,000 yen in two, which is 15,000 yen each
If you give 3 10,000 notes, the symbolic meaning is a bit clearer. Obviously, any multiple of 10 is also a multiple of 2, but 10 yen is very little money...
In my state of North Carolina, elephants cannot be used to plow the cotton fields
The umbrella thing is Japanese, because most countries don't have public umbrella racks, so you take it with you. Human cloning is actually an international crime that is prohibited in most countries, except for highly-regulated government-run facilities.
Shogo u do not need to wrap a banana in plastic there’s literally no point and it’s annoying a banana already has skin protecting it. It just doesn’t make sense 😂
Trains are not that busy for tourists most of the time. The worst time to travel by train is during the month of August. Especially early august during the max rush for Japanese people to get out of the city to visit their homeland in the countryside or for vacation travel. I experienced a jammed packed Shinkansen Bullet train in August 2018. It was packed tighter than a sardine can. Everyone was pressed tightly against each other. People were literally climbing over me and my luggage to get to the restroom. Fortunately I only rode the train for a little over 1 hour. I made sure to stay near the exit so I could get off. I boarded on at Shin-Osaka and got off at Fukuyama. If I got stuck in the middle of the train, I would likely had to wait to get off in Hakata so that everyone in the way would get off. That would have sucked. Commuter and subway Trains were not as crowded as that Bullet train, but I had to stand most of the time using the train.
I have used the Shinkansen more times than I can count and I have used them in far less crowed Spring season of 2012 and 2014. I always got a seat in spring. It’s far more comfortable than a plane. One could just decide to go somewhere on a whim and just board the next Shinkansen via unreserved seat. The Shinkansen has ample space overhead for luggage and even the back of each car. Shinkansen stations are in large stations that have easy access to commuter or subway lines. With plane travel, the flight might need to be booked weeks in advance. If airport is large and busy, the traveler would need to arrive to airport early to get through security lines and find gate. Airlines also start boarding 1 hour prior to departure time. When arriving, any checked luggage would need to be retrieved from baggage claim, then the traveler would need to either rent a car or take an airport express bus or train to a major train station to then transfer to a local train.
In America I’d say 80% of people dry their clothes at their homes or at a laundromat
here in the west, all you can eat asian food chains will charge you extra if you leave too much food on your plates
So if the rice tastes bad, put it aside and stick your spare pair of chopsticks in it. If anyone asks say it's for your dead relative.
No, having your clothes stolen from your line/drying rack isn't a common occurrence in the US, even in crowded apartments in big cities. I have to line dry all my clothes because I'm very tall for a woman, and none of my undergarments have ever been stolen, nor has it been a problem for anyone I know here in the US.
I have a bad habit of walking in my house in shoes and even put them on in my room 😅😂 but I saw that if visiting like a Japanese castle you take off shoes too Is that true?
If you’re going indoors there’s a very high chance you have to remove your shoes!
@Shogo, I have a question I can't find an answer for. What do you do with the food put out as an offering? Considering wasting food is bad.
About handing over things with both hands, I use a walker so I mostly need to use one hand to hold onto the walker so it's pretty difficult for me to use both hands to hand over something. Is there any other way I could hand over things respectfully?
just got up to the individually wrapped bananas.
so ive got a question.
why are they wrapped individually? bananas are naturally protected by a wrapper when they are grown. or do people in Japan eat the banana skin also?
I'm so confused! I replied in a thread about driers in Europe and it has disappeared, but I still got notifications about people answering it. Even weirder, if right now I ctrl+f key words from my reply or the ones I got notified about, it finds the matches but they don't display. It just sends me to a specific part of the comment section, without highlighting anything. Anyone know what that's all about?
30,000 yen is $208.90
20,000 yes is $139.30
Also 30,000 is absolutely divisible by 2
Isn't "3" considered lucky? Maybe that's related.... or maybe it's traditional to give 3x 10,000 yen notes?
Most people in the US use dryers to dry their clothing so stolen clothing isn’t a problem. I had a bike stolen when I was around 12 so stolen bikes is a big thing here
I never knew japan let you walk up escalators in America were taught to stand stock still until we reach the top or bottom
I believe that a postbox is considered a government property, hence putting ice cream in it is considered vandalism.
This really raise me a question to the one to did: Why? What in the world compelled you to do that? I'd love to hear the story behind it.
As for the taxi automatic doors, I think it's fairly uncommon outside of Japan. At least where I'm from, I've perhaps only seen less than 5 taxis with the automatic door stickers on it throughout my life here.
why will you park your car on stairs in ANY COUNTRY
My guess is that the person wasn't complaining about the specific amount of the money but that you have to pay to be involved at all. Guests at weddings in the US are generally expected to bring a present but not required a pay a fee. Just my guess.
People don't dry their clothes outside, we have drying machines for that!
But people who use communal washers and dryers can have their clothes stolen. It happened at the apartment building I was living at a few times.
We do, please
@@mayshusakuhanamurasufferli5438 most people in the west do not. :D
I cant use chopsticks would utensils be provided at restraints?
I think the cloning law came from the ethics of cloning that cloning human is very likely the cause a loss of life, and if successful, would be incredibly prone to abuse. Also it would make any criminal investigation nightmarish as for the first time, two (or more) people have the same DNA.
the whole "dont waste your food" thing is in the west too, but its a bad culture imo. if your full, dont over eat or force yourself to eat too much. save it for later or dont eat it at all. theres no benefit to over eating, and if you do eat even though you arent hungry, that might as well be the same thing as wasting it
30÷2=15
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name tags on umbrelas. check! 😁
Here in the U.S. getting your bike stolen is pretty common but I've never really heard of clothes getting stolen from clothing lines also I think you'd be hard pressed to find a place where you can park on the stairs
PANTY RAID!
Stealing laundry from the clothesline (where it's hanging to dry) became much less common when Americans became wealthy enough that almost everyone had clothes dryers.
@@ColonelMarcellus makes sense
I work for the post office in the US and that would be considered vandalizing the mail and there would definitely be a hefty fine. Destroying mail or stealing mail would lead to jail time, but Ice cream in the mailbox would probably just be a fine.
Your expression in describing the 'non automatic front door' in taxis: priceless. Thank you!
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In the US, it is very rare for people to hang their clothes outside. Usually people use a dryer. I do hang mine to dry but I use racks inside of the house. At laundry mats I have had the issue of people taking out wet clothes and stealing the drying time before and just leaving my clothes on top.
Not so rare in more rural areas.
The stolen umbrella thing is so true. I had so many umbrellas go missing when I lived in Tokyo.
I lose a lot of umbrellas. I’m forever leaving them on busses and trains. You’ll see cheap “Bunnings” umbrellas everywhere.
*Bunnings is a local hardware chain store where you can buy common household items
@@belindamilne4922 mine mostly disappeared after I went into a combini and I would come back out and it would be gone.
When Japan learns about 15,000 the wedding industry is doomed. Wedding gifts will have to be prime numbers.
When I'm still in elementary, my umbrella also got stolen 6times on rainy day. 1 time during my college day. Now I'm using folded umbrella and never get caught fever again.
And personally I also train my kids not to waste food if they can finished it. Because I want them to be grateful. Lot of people not only in our country die due to starvation.
In Germany, if you have leftovers in a restaurant, you are allowed to ask to get it packed for you and you can eat it the next day. Furthermore, if something is left over, there are a lot of dishes that can be done out of it the next day, such as if you had potatoes the day before, you can do potato salad the next day - and it is often done in private households in Germany. Thank you for your reaction video though.
We don’t have the “ take home leftovers“ culture in Japan unfortunately… it’s because the restaurants want to avoid their customers suing them for eating food that has gone bad after taking home…😓 Yeah you would think that’s the customers responsibility, but in Japan it doesn’t work that way💦
I have encountered a few restaurants in Yokohama that offer taking food home, but it is the minority and always involves a piece of paper making a big deal about the customer taking responsibility for eating it in a timely manner.
....So then Germany is.... a country that exists? Um yeah, we knew that already!
I have never had a single umbrella stollen before living in Tokyo. During rainy season, I had four stollen in a week. In my hometown, high dollar items like bicycles get stolen all the time, but cheap things like umbrellas just don’t happen
As a Child, I have also been told not to Waste Food. Also, in Europe Today a lot of People are talking how a lot of Food is being thrown away.
The Fact that In Japan individual Pieces of Fruit and Vegetables are being Wraped in Plastic, is, to my Knowledge, only a Japanese Thing. In Europe that never Happens. The EU wants to Reduce usage of Plastic.
EU also uses a lot of biodegradable alternatives, like plastic made out of corn husks and similar materials
@@nothereanymore3941 Yes, but that is usually avaiable only in Rich Big Members like Germany and France. Hungary and Croatia usualy don't get Products with them.
What is Plastic? Is it a famous band?
In my experience, trains are really only very crowded during rush hour. When traveling as a tourist, I am rarely out and about until after morning rush hour is over, so never experienced that crazy amount of train crowds.
the rule specifically applies to human clones, the sentence of ten years are because it is against the scientific code of ethics and the geneva convention to clone a human being
Uh, identical twins are natural clones. I can just see parents sadly waving bye-bye to their new babies for ten years! Yeah, yeah, I know the law is about artificially produced human clones.
I once heard about the ice cream in a mailbox law. It was because a teenage boy once put an ice cream in a mailbox, ruining about a dozen letters. It was around new years, so all were new years cards. The post office was able to clean up the letters, and send them out.
In the UK most people hang their clothes to dry outside ... many are the times my colleague looked at the rain n the office window and ruefully commented about hanging her washing out! It's a whole thing here but the only time I did it was when I lived in a top floor flat and used the Victorian washing line which sat outside one of the windows. Wild birds also used to bounce up and down on that from time to time to wind up my cats. Because of all this laundry getting dried outside, it has also been a thing for underwear to get stolen : it's kinda a pervert thing ... but usually more annoying than harmful
Most of the people in the US whom I've spoken with dry their clothes in a machine dryer.... Which I understand are available in Japan but not often used due to the size and energy consumption.
I personally dry my clothing on a line.... But inside though. (I'd be nervous about outside drying attracting bugs, or neighbors' glances)
I dry my clothes indoors too!
Im from norway and bikes gets stolen all time here and we dont really use bikes alot i dont really see it as a japan problem its more that there are more bikes so more bikes that can get stolen
3:28 Canadian here, having your bicycle being stolen is very common here, but clothing set out to dry and umbrellas almost never get stolen here
I'm glad I saw this! I was just getting ready to send Shogo some mint chocolate chip through the mail, but now I know better.
I mostly hang laundry outside but I also bought a combined washer-dryer for those occasions, in winter, when it rains all week and you can’t hang washing outside. Over here, apartment blocks often have communal washing lines (usually a “hills hoist”) and stratas often have rules banning residents from hanging laundry on balconies, as it’s considered a fire hazard.
Ice cream in the mailbox...maybe that was a common prank when the law was passed?
Hashi in left in bowl..... YES, some folks will scold you if you do such a thing. Usually it is done by my in-laws or "important" people sitting close to me in a restaurant... but since being scolded several times when I first moved to Japan, I do my very best NOT to do such a bad thing.
In regards to the rice, I just remembered how different cultures can cause a very funny situation.
Individual A is teached to eat till the plate has no food anymore and has to eat of what has been given to them as a sign of respect.
Individual B is teached to give guests another serving, if the plate is empty.
If both come together you can imagine the result.
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Hello Shogo! The name of the channel is let's ask shogo so here i come to ask: why there is two types of writing the same thing in japanese? For example: 浮揚 or 空中浮遊 / 公園 or ガーデン . And sometimes there are even more ways, are they used for the same purpose and only the writing changes? You use different types of writing for certain occasions?
I love the japanese culture and would be happy to see you talking about this, thanks!
Just like there are different words to represent “big” in English like “large” “huge” “humongous“ etc., each word has different nuances or specific occasions to use!
@@LetsaskShogo how about female version of japanese speaking and male version of japanese speaking?
For the « stolen clothes thief » in France I’ve never really seen my parents in houses/apartements without a laundry room. In houses (case of my mom) the laundry room is downstairs and in apartements (my dad’s case) the laundry room is the same room as the bathroom. But it depends with the people who lives inside the house/apartement, and there are cases where the laundry of someone can be seen outside of apartements it’s just that it’s too high for thieves to steal it. But yes it is usually inside.
In Mexico we dry the clothes in the backyard, which is outside, but still within four tall walls. You'd have some trouble jumping in and out to steal clothes.
1:23 Japan is known as one of the safest countries in the world
Iceland: i beg your pardon?
Can I purify my mouth with sake before entering a shrine? 😁
It has alcohol in it, so it should be anti bacterial after all 😁
Genetically, Hinata and Nagi are half Shogo clones so it's our duty to get Shogo arrested.
I did request a Japanese TH-camr to mail a Wagyu Burger 🤤from Tokyo to my home in Houston,Texas, and I was willing to pay extra to Fedex it "overnight" in an insulated cryo box. Unfortunately, "Lemi from Japan" thought I was joking, so I never got to eat an authentic Wagyu Burger 😢.
I'm pretty sure you shouldn't park on the stairs in any country!
I’m an exchange student living in the Kansai region. Are there any particular places or restaurants you would recommend for someone on a student budget?
You should absolutely check out my “Kyoto Hidden Gems” series😊
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the no shoes rule is definitely an Asian thing in general. in southeast asia you take off your shoes before entering a house.
no wonder there aren't any Ninjas around, they all been arrested for their cloning techniques! xD
The smart ones got their clones arrested.
I live in a post communist/socialist country. And we all live really close. Especially in huge cities with communist type of block, but it's rare to see underwear to be stolen. It's usually shirts, jeans and other stuff you wear besides undies and bras. Ig it's just a Japanese thing
Hi Shogo, yet another beautiful video, it was really informative, and also the cloth hanging outside a house is very common in Czechia, but I feel like I've never heard about any panty thief from the Czech Republic in the news so it's probably just a Japan thing, after all, I've only seen it in anime and manga.
The taxi door thing is only Japanese yes. It was made by a Japanese man and became common i believe during the Olympics in the 60s as a hospitality if I recall correctly.
I'll add 1 yen next time so it can't be divided then
Making clones = twins ;-)
- I think the shoes etiquette is something common in Eastern cultures. Here we have it to (and for reasons other than cleanness) and here also it is considered somewhat impolite to put or leave the shoe with the down side (sole) up, and if seen it is better to turn it around and make the sole down.
- Money wedding have something parallel in fact, originally in the Islamic teachings but it's not like a must but it is ought to help the newly wed couple to start their lives (and it's not supposed to be limited to money but can be other items as gifts). However, in some places, some people ruined this tradition by "bragging" about their gifts and I heard that some families (family of the bride and family of the groom) would compete and even fight on whose gift is better, so the ending result was that some of these groups of people would put an ad for the wedding and politely ask people not to give gifts. One example of something beautiful turned ugly by misbehavior.
I would love to learn more about Shinto. I am an anamist looking to become Shinto. Would you ever do a video on it? Thank you so much for your content.
I actually have made a couple of videos before!
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This one is probably my most recommended one✨
Ok I think I will survive in Japan (:
I feel like this japan on would be confusing without shogo to a none native Japanese
how come google translate cannot translate japan latiniations into english when mostly dutch/german loan words
all does add mauri to end of some words
Ketatamashii keikoku ga
Demo motto douka nacchaitai no
Motto douka nacchaitai no
Mechakucha ii ne
Yogoreta KUMA daite
Yake ni sameta shisen ni
Hi wo tsukete odorou yo
PARTY no aizu sa
"Atashi wa atashi" sashizu shinaide
Koe ni naranai sakebi wo agete
Anata no sono te de fureta kara
Sekai ni hitotsu itoshii no yo
SIREN
Ketatamashii keikoku ga
Demo motto douka nacchaitai no
Motto douka nacchaitai no
Motto douka nacchaitai no
Taikutsu to iu na no kyoufu
Mechakucha ii ne
Ano ko no TEDDYBEAR
Yaburekake no houtai ga
Yodonda kono machi ni
CONTORASUTO de saikyou sa
Anata no sono te de fureta kara
Sekai ni hitotsu itoshii no yo
Anata no sono te ga tsukamu kara
Sekai wa hitotsu utsukushii no yo
Honto ni mechakucha ii ne
Yogoreta KUMA daite
Yake ni sameta shisen ni
Hi wo tsukete odorou yo
PARTY no aizu sa
Mechakucha ii ne (ii ne)
Ano ko no TEDDYBEAR (Ano ko no TEDDYBEAR)
Akaku someta houtai wa
Junsui na hitomi ni
Yokuniaunda
"Atashi wa atashi" sashizu shinaide
Koe ni naranai sakebi wo agete
Hey Shogo. Since RGG studio has just announced their new games and one of them is about bakumatsu, will you do more videos about them? Like sakoku, Sakamoto Ryoma, or Fushimi
He's already done videos on the shinsengumi!
In my country, I think it's pretty common to dry clothes outside, my family has always done it at least. But most of the time it's either in a backyard where no-one goes in, or in apartments it's on a drying rack on the balcony to the apartment, where no-one can get to either
In regards to umbrellas, we use them a lot in Denmark, since it can rain a lot, but we usually keep them on our person so they don't get stolen
And I think the bike thing is just a common thing all around
Edit: I really appreciate you putting sound effects when you add the little text things at the bottom. I often just listen to videos, and it makes sure I don't miss anything!
so cute how Shogo tries to find the reason why someone would put icecream into a mailbox
You can ride in the front seat of taxis? I didn't know that! In many countries taxis have a glass wall between the front and back seat to protect the driver from robbers and other bad passengers who could harm the driver.
Packed subway trains in rush hours in Japan are in no way, like *no way* near packed trains in Mexico. Japan's are heaven, like really really respectful, ordered, beautiful. I would switch gladly any rush hour in Japan subway system rather than one not-so-rush hour in México. Like, any day.
Also, the umbrella thing, yeah, when I got there (summer) I was like "This people have something for umbrellas!"... Then after two days of that burning sun in sweaty summer, we ended up buying them to protect our skin.
I loved visiting your country, wished I had found this tips before! But when I come back, I'll be prepared!
30,000 can be divided by two. 15,000 and 15,000. Technically though, any number can be divided by two. Now if only whole numbers count, just add 1 to it. 20,001.
I don’t remember where I got my US mottainai culture from … my grandparents and public broadcasting? “Don’t waste food!” “Waste not, want not.” “Reduce, reuse, recycle.”
Wait a minute though. 30,000¥ can be divided into two equal groups of 15,000¥. So how does the rule still apply?
Perhaps, 33,333¥ would be more acceptable, since it is properly indivisible by two?
Wait, Japan has automatic doors on taxis? Wow. I wish we have that here in Australia.
The problem with the fruits packed in plastic is, they have their own natural packing. A banana dont need a extra shell. you will never find a banana in plastic in germany. 😂
It hurts in the stomach to see it, from an european perspective.
Wait... 30,000 is divisible by 2; it's 15,000 each... or am I missing something?
Two things: 1st, you grew up with having fruits and vegetables individually wrapped. If you hadn't, the first time you encounter them (or ever the first few times), you can damage and bruise them.
2nd, on the cloning, that should be obvious. Cloning plus genetic manipulation equals -- neko-girls (and neko-boys as well). 😏
I'd suppose the underwear stealing happens because of the out of proportion amount of sexually frustrated weirdos that live in Japan. That, however, is a symptom of its current culture.
11:50 Indeed, some people are a bit more conscious about how big their carbon footprint is. Generating lots of waste by almost unavoidable individualized wrapping is therefore a bit chotto.....
30000/2 = 15000...
Never thought of giving someone something with two hands as respectful. It is something I noticed about Japanese stereotype. But now that I’m thinking about it, if someone handed me something with two hands it would be a more pleasant experience. I like it!
In the U.S., nobody pays money to attend a wedding. The marrying couple pays all expenses except for guest accommodations. Guests have the option to buy gifts such as from a registry, but it's not required.
I read the banners on the "Don't park your car on stairs" and it said "氷川神社", or Hikawa Shrine, far away from Kyoto, but almost near Tokyo.
Edit: I noticed there are a lot of Shinto shrines named "Hikawa", one in Saitama, one in Kawagoe, and one in Akasaka
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Omg The Shade🌴🌴🌴 I love it!
In SA, clothes dryers are only for when the weather is rainy outside (and Eskom hasn't cut your area's power from scheduled rolling blackouts).
1. musical umbrella
2. used underwear have higher value in Japan
3. I guess that's universal
Last one, the scientific societies and some governments limit research of clones only if it benefit humanity and/extinct species. It is to limit cruelty to experiment because of 90%+fail rate and extreme short life. It is also their way to keep the highest standard of respecting life/living being and keeping social order. And, normal scientists should apply to work in research group instead of basement.
I love these videos 🥰😇 I’d love to see you react to “Mrs Eats” channel
We had a maid in thailand that stole my wife's underwear so she could wear them I suppose out of poverty though she had a decent job with us but perhaps my wife's underwear was better quality. She also stole jewelry but who knows why. We leave bikes outside our property all of time now that we are in a different place where everyone knows everyone and never have heard of a bike being stole in 10 years.
Honestly, the 30,000 yen thing doesn’t really make any sense to me. Whether it’s 30,000, 50,000, or 70,000 yen, when dealing with numbers like those or that high they’re usually divisible by 2.
Don‘t park your car on stairs… I don‘t think that‘s Japanese only no-go. Honestly I‘m pretty sure that‘s prohibited in most countries with infrastructure.
Huh? Paying to go to weddings doesn't exist in the USA where I live, in fact, many people don't even give gifts.
Unfortunately, the eat everything on your plate like we were taught when I was little, apparently contributes to obesity. That's what I've heard from some weightloss places. Also, I remember the time after Dolly the sheep was cloned, you could get kits to clone a carrot. Why a carrot, I have no idea...
The plastic on the fruit (especially something like a banana) does seem really wasteful, which I would dislike as well. I try to minimize how much single use plastic I buy so this would be very frustrating to find.