@@Buzzramjet blame the common foreigner that goes nuts and starts acting like Logan Paul or Tyler The Creator in japan just making fun of the locals and bothering them. its gonna get worse after the Olympics. I do not trust my own kind to leave with a good impression at all. I know the negatives of my culture so well.
What I love about Japan? Music. A lot of amazing music is being produced in Japan. What I hate about Japan? The work culture needs to change. Stop working yourselves to death.
@pierusofpella They literally work themselves to death and die because of power harassment. Productivity might be low, but the pressure definitely isn't: Being bullied by your boss, no consideration for family or private life, being moved to different departments without consent or different locations are all part of office jobs in Japan. And when you get a project it's not uncommon to work till ten and weekends (unpaid) with little else than a pizza as reward.
The problem of the apartment has decreased, but there is still. In the 1980s, many foreign workers came to Japan. At that time, the apartment had a lot of tatami floors. Tatami had to be replaced with a new one when it was soiled with shoes, and the owner sometimes had trouble managing it. In addition, most people could not speak Japanese, so many foreigners gathered with each other and made noises while drinking outside. When the Japanese paid attention, they threatened. It is true that japanese were made fun of by foreigners at that time. The apartment industry, especially the owners, still remember sit. I think it is difficult for people to understand in foreign countries living in Japan today, but I think it will be improved in the future.
We are very sorry for obstacles and difficulties for renting an apartment to foreigners. This is definitely very shameful. Japanese gov't tries to let them work and live better than before. Japanese gov't, listen to her and improve the real estate business!
@@elisdeliofa5570 Oh yeah Foreigner: Hello, I would like to rent your apartment. I have spent several years studying your language and culture because I have been really interested in Japan, as you can tell from my good manners and near perfect pronunciation. I would like to start a new life here as a productive and hardworking member of your society. The landlord: No F: May I ask why? The landlord: You're a foreigner which means you want to destroy us F: But I never- The landlord: GTFO You did it, you saved your country from total destruction. Congrats.
i think that's a major pitfall that many Westerners fall into when looking to live in Eastern countries; just because you like a culture or an aspect of a culture, doesn't mean that the culture inherently resonates with you, or vice versa. they think of life there on a fantasy or dream level and not a simply basic human one. kinda weird, but at the same time, kinda interesting, the dynamics of it all
Being from Hong Kong, Japan (specifically Tokyo) is basically heaven for someone is really into metal and electric guitars. Will be there again in March 2020 for the 2 day Knotfest.
What I love about Japan is the convenience and collectivism. What I hate is the lack of hope. I mean they seem to work themselves into hopelessness and it seems (as an outsider looking in) that there is no time for family, love, joy, or contentment. It’s constant work and perfection which are two things that will run anyone into the ground
My lists are too long I’ll say 4 of each: Love: -Group harmony -Cleanliness -Toilets -Conveniences Dislike: -Many times people will not sit next to me on a train as I’m a foreigner. (Too many times and circumstances to think it’s coincidental) -Many many places are cash only. -Crowds! (But I live in Tokyo, so...) -Smoking in some restaurants. 😷
My family moved from the US to Ireland when I was a teenager, so I definitely understand! The Irish culture is very much community centered as well instead of self-centred like the US, so I've definitely grown to love that.
Oh my gosh, Cathy: You are doing a great job and I wish you the best. I am enjoying SO MANY of your videos tonight and VERY MUCH look forward to sharing the things you've taught me with my wife. 💗
ゴキブリの件ですが、元々ゴキブリは日本のものではなく、外来種です。色々試しましたが一番有効なのはゴキブリ団子 でした。その上一番良いのは死ぬときは外に出て行くので死骸を見ずに済むことでした。薬屋で売ってます。 Originally, cockroaches are not Japanese but alien species. I tried various things, but the most effective one was the cockroach dumpling. Best of all, when it die, it go out so I don't have to look at the corpse. You can get it at the pharmacy.
I liked the video and request an autobiography. When speaking English, your accent seems to slip between British and West Coast USA and somewhere in between. Just curious about the Cat.
Haaaaa it is sad with apartments. But on the other side I am foreigner in Germany (Bavaria) I have also the same problem. When I introduce myself, is the apartment always "sold out". I also speak fluently german and living here for 5 years. That is the risk of being foreigner.
I think a company that specializes in foreign friendly apartments, while also providing apartments to everyone could do quite well. I think I will need to purse this venture.
Cathy is thinking about stories in the 23 suburban areas of Tokyo. Other regions are more conservative and closed. In general, there are no cockroaches in Hokkaido.
If i get turned down from an apartment or living space because i am a foreigner, or turned down from anything for being a foreigner, this is my take on it: well i didn't want to live in a place with someone like that anyway. XD It actually helps me to see the personality of the owner more, so i saved myself from a lot of heartache and headaches. Let them show their colors so that you know where you can best be accepted. Better to give your business and a space in your life to someone more worth it.
I love the diversity of culture, traditions, languages, religions, food, etc. in the US as well as the freedoms we enjoy. However, I do not like the recent polarization of the population on very critical issues, nor do I enjoy the fact that people use freedom of speech as a license to spread misinformation and hate. We also have people who use their basic rights to such an extreme that it ends up being a detriment to others and themselves (e.g., ignoring public health issues like vaccines).
The Best part of my Culture is ' EKTA ME ANEKTA' & 'ATHITHI DEVO BHAVA' ... It means people live in peace & Harmony with mutual understanding irrespective of caste, religion, etc. & its totally different in my country than Japan. If you are a foreigner you have given all special VIP treatments & facilities.
Well, it's kinda jarring to know that the things Cathy mentions on the LOVE patt have more to do with commodity and convenience, so a material side of living. And then, the things mentioned on the HATE side are sooo much deeper and have to do with society, equality, rights, and inclusion. The integral part of living and well-being. Which side says more about the country and the fundamentals of its society?
guys about this appartement?! if you're an asian and you're foreigner like indonesian Etc. and you're so well at japanese can you get in that appartment or really just no foreginer?! because many japanese are half they look like from US or Nigeria but they are japanese can they join this apartment also?! i'm curious
In Canada, what is good about our culture can also be what's bad. We are very welcoming of immigrants and we don't tolerate hate speech about them -just recently a very well known public figure was fired for saying that immigrants "just want to come here and enjoy a better life but don't want to honour our traditions or become Canadian" specifically in regards to remembrance day when we honour our war dead. Now where this immigration policy can be bad is in that there is some truth to what he said. We see a lot of Indian people coming here and exploiting their own or other recent immigrants to try to run things the way they did in their old country rather than adapting to the Canadian way of doing things. Most Canadians still remember what happened to the Humboldt Broncos after almost the entire team was killed by an inexperienced new Canadian behind the wheel of a transport truck that he wasn't actually qualified to drive but he was put there by another immigrant who exploited the fact that his residency was contingent on his employment. So maybe while our immigration policy is good, the people who would take advantage of it are the problem.
Good point 3: They take things way too far though. They work themselves to the bone until they become physically ill, don't get enough sleep, and don't have a life. I think it's kind of horrible. Good point 5: This one to me WOULD be a good point, but again they take it way too far, and we get things like students with brown hair having to dye their hair black in several schools just so they can all look the same, in order to satisfy this group harmony mindset. They have a saying: "The nail that sticks out must be hammered down". I rather hate that way of thinking. Bad point 2: Agreed. But I just have to say: the giant butterflies are lovely. :-) Bad point 3: This one is both good and bad to me depending on the specific thing or mindset that they're being traditional about. Bad point 4: Yes. Tremendous focus on rituals and the proper way to do things (you can't just give your business card to someone, you have to give it to them in a very particular way. You can't just write a normal letter to someone unless they're good friends of yours, you have to write them in a certain way. Etc), and hierarchy. Also, related to that: keigo. Such an annoying cultural thing. More bad points from myself: 1. having to pay only in cash, and not being able to pay separately either, in izakayas etc. 2. The food. This is just a personal thing for me though. Japanese food doesn't suit me. 3. Noisy and obnoxious garbage trucks, noisy and obnoxious commercials etc in convenience stores. In my country both are silent. 4. People will often not help other people in trouble. Once, at night, I had to step in and help a Japanese girl who was screaming "Help me! Help me!", as a Japanese guy wouldn't let go of her arm and let her get into the taxi she was trying to get into to get away from him, because none of the other Japanese people around would help her. They just stared. Even the taxi driver, although he kept the back door open for the girl to try to get in, would not step out to help her at all. This kind of shocked me. The guy wasn't a big or scary guy or anything either, and he was alone, and there were all these Japanese guys around, many of whom were much bigger than this guy, who could have just banded together and told the guy to fuck off. Obviously I was hoping I would be able to avoid trouble, but I quickly decided my conscience and sense of human decency wouldn't allow me to turn a blind eye either. I just told the guy to let her go and pushed him away. That was it. He thankfully didn't decide to start a fight or anything. Before she got into the taxi and it drove off, the girl said thanks, and told me the guy was a stalker. 5. Inefficient and inconvenient banking systems. 6. Almost no trash cans. 7. For some reason, moving from one prefecture to another can be a legal nightmare, involving a bunch of headache and complicated paperwork... 8. Get arrested for something you didn't do? You refuse to plead guilty, because you didn't do anyhting? You're unlucky enough that the cops, for whatever reason, also feel certain about you being guilty, and decide to charge you? Have fun being guilty until being proven guilty, and being held in prison for up until a YEAR while you wait for the cops to finally take things to trial, all legally, and with your lawyer not being able to do much to help you. Also, only 2/1000 cops being able to speak English. Woo. As for good points, eeeh......Japanese people are polite, the girls are cute and fashionable, and Akihabara is cool I guess? :-P Oh yeah, and nice temples and hot springs. But uh...yeah....in hindsight I might not have picked the best country to move to...For ME, personally, that is.
What a love about Japan is the care and preservation that they have for their ancient cultural roots. Growing up in Australia we don't really have things like old temples, traditional dress and cuisine ect. But on the flip side I also love how it's so modern yet people still have a strong sense of collective community. One of the few things I Hate about Japan is certain attitudes are also 100 years in the past like how strict dual nationality and immigration policys are and I understand they have that in place because they are fearful that foreigners will take advantage and drag the country down so you need a degree or a sponsorship so be allowed to live there. But they make little distinction for those like me who genuinely love the country and want to assimilate into it's culture but because I've struggled with Dyslexia all my live I haven't been able to get a degree, from those who who seek to take advantage and care little for the country, it's culture and values. So I'm fearful I will never be able to move there even though I want more than anything...
To be honest... and not trying to offend anyone... I would look for a place that don't allow foreigners. I'd rather not live beside foreigners than risk the slim chance of living with a stubborn or ill mannered one. NA and EU people are better at adapting and accepting cultures, but it's more of the middle east and brown countries, especially the religious ones where they expect to come into your country and have you change for them.
Depend on the person it can take you years. I learnt it in 2 and a half years I went to japanese courses with native japanese teachers and it was pretty good. You need to study hard and practici a lot
Thank you for mentioning the negative aspect of the hierarchy. I feel that Japan could achieve so much more if the society leveraged the ideas and energy of young people instead of suppressing them. Senior people could be more accepting of ideas without seeing it as a loss of control. I love Japan for the respect most people have for shared property and for traditions and older people. But you can retain respect without requiring all ideas to come from the top down.
1. I can appreciate that Japanese people will respectfully leave you alone, rather than negatively comment on your style/clothes/etc, but on the same hand, it’s sad that they won’t compliment your clothes/style/etc. or just smile at you while y’all are walking down the street, nod, and say hi! That’s something I love here in the States, where I’ve always lived! 2. It’s sad how inflexible they can be. Here across the pond, we call that being hard-headed! 😂 3. I love that some traditions are still around; kimonos and that style, for example. I’m glad that some things aren’t accepted, but I’ll leave it at that. But it is unfortunate that some equality things they seem to refuse acceptance of. 4. It’s always been a seething hatred of mine, the strict hierarchy; it’s an inability to adapt and accept. Now, it’s nice that some bosses will look out for the lower guys and maybe buy them a meal or something, but their businesses will stagnate if/when they refuse to consider and/or accept new ideas when said ideas come along and are fresh! From the few things I’ve heard, it’s like “Know your place and don’t think you’re good enough to list options to help!”; the way I live is “If you can’t show respect at all times to everyone (whether it’s the boss or some poor, random stranger), then you don’t deserve any yourself.” That’s how I feel with businesses, but especially the hard-headed hierarchy in families! I believe who you are is determined by how you live/act. In Japan and China, who your family was determines who you are; if your family has a good reputation, overwhelming expectation is placed on you from the moment you’re born; if someone in your family or your ancestors was bad, you and your entire line will be judged and treated as just as bad/evil, no matter how good you are. THAT is my greatest, burning hatred! 5. It’s so sad that some/many still feel prejudice over others simply because of where they were, or weren’t, born! 😔 There still some prejudice, of course, here across the pond, but not as much as you’d think. Where a mixed up melting pot of different colors, beliefs, languages, ideas, and loves! ☺️
If this really is how japanese people treat foreigners, I'll stop learning japanese and saving up for the trip I've been planning for the next summer. I love Japan, and I've dreamed of seeing it since I was a kid, and tried my best to make this dream come true. But if I'm gonna get treated like garbage in return and not even be given a proper place to live, I'll give it all up. I just want to experience Japan and be a good, hardworking member of their society in return. But if I'm gonna get labeled as just another potential threat to them, get hated, feared, and avoided, all just because I wasn't born and raised in the same country as theirs no matter how good my japanese will be and how well I'll adapt to their culture, going to japan will be one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
@@schmingspud Thank you for your reply. To be honest, I'm just fine with being an outsider, as long as what it means is having few friends and people to talk to, since I've always been a loner and not strongly desired company of others. My only wish is to be treated fairly and like a human being. I'll definitely give it a shot if all goes well. Thanks again.
So that means in fact, japanese are nationalists, french are nationalists, for me its understandable, but when this would happen in germany...oh my oh my.🙈.everyone would say they are a nazis 😟!!That makes me really sad!!
Ms. Cats story about the "On Sale" rack was intolerable because what the sales woman told her friend wasn't an answer, let alone a reason, why Ms. Cats friend wasn't allowed to try on the clothing. And whats really frustrating is that this kind of thinking can't be reasoned with on a logical level.
Can we at least let Cathy read the title before the video is posted so she can check the grammar, sometimes it really sets off my OCD when I see a simple mistake like that
Good points Cat. I love my “oshiri” washlet toilet. Can never go back to using only toilet paper ^_^ I dont like how nihonjin will usually avoid sitting next to me on the train. Been told its because i look like a foreigner even though im hafu. Doesnt bother as much now but it used to make me sad T.T shoganai ne
I imagine you will look neither tiny nor pretty. Nohonjin don't like physiologically sitting next to men who look huge and coercive, but it's never with malice. Understand please.
@@alansu65ahus Is it the same with woman? I am not skinny, cute and uhm.. modest? shy? If japanese woman are a soft pastel colour then I am a bright one. But not neon. That are latinas. They have fire in theire veins.
I'd like to say this topic because my relatives are managing real estate. First of all, real estate management is neither charity nor volunteer. It's BUSINESS. Our lives depend on them. So we don't want to lend it to people who can't afford to pay the rent or can't find guarantor that we can definitely recover the rent from. Nothing more, nothing less. Since it is better to have less vacant rooms, we don't refuse just because of the emotional reason "because of being a foreigner". We don't want to lend it to a person who doesn't have a guarantor who can surely collect unpaid rent, who doesn't have a regular job and has no stable income. So many foreigners are such type. We do not want to lend it to such Japanese people. Otherwise, we are willing to lend it to foreigners when they fulfill conditions. It's very disgusting that you refer to it as if it was discrimination
I think everyone understands that the building owners don't want to rent to foreigners because of the financial risk because of the reasons you mentioned. But even though Cathy was able to provide all of the necessary paperwork that proved she was financially stable and therefore not a risk financially, they still wouldn't rent to her because she was a foreigner. They wouldn't even see her. It could very well be that they just don't want to do business with foreigners because they think there is too much potential trouble (because of miscommunication, different norms and values etc), and whilst that is understandable that is still discrimination. Luckily there are businesses that provide the service of making it much easier for foreigners to find apartments in Japan. I'm not sure those were around when she first came to Japan though.
@Plain Popcorn Did she really find a proper guarantor: a Japanese whose living in Japan or a Japanese company that guarantees someone as business? It's not enough that she has only stable work. Plus, for foreigners, the most common reason that we refuse to rent is not that they don't have stable work but that they don't find any guarantor Both stable work and guarantor are necessary to rent in Japan It's same even when Japanese rent
@@さき-h8q Cathy said that she didn't even get to the point where she could provide that information to the building owner looking for tenants because they refused to see her in the first place.
I'll be frank, I think at some level I do love how unique Japanese culture is and I do love a lot of aspects of it, however the deeper I go into it, the less I like it. I don't think it's very likely I'll ever live there, but you never know... It's actually mainly 1 thing that bothers the shit out of me: how narrow minded the majority of japanese are, obviously not for everything, but for a lot of things that could easily be changed, they just won't. I mean, their work hours/overworking, their group mentality backfires when it comes to creativity and improving an existing system. There's a soft kind of racism too when it comes to several issue like the appartement thing and the Japanese only places. Here you live for awhile, you adapt to the culture and you speak the language and people will consider you 100% of this country, meanwhile in Japan that's just not the case, you're always seen as the foreigner by most. I do/did notice that Japanese people who've travelled abroad are usually a lot more flexible and open minded. If someJapanese were more flexible, they could solve some of their current problems, I mean just take one very specific example: English classes. I know generally Japanese have way more hours of english than I had at school, yet midway highschool I was fluent in english, meanwhile in Japan you finish school and you still need a tutor to maybe some day speak fluently, that is not normal. Their would have to start by admitting they have a problem in this area and they need to fix it, considering the hierarchy and way of being, that is very unlikely to happen. I mean you have to make them admit that up to this point they've all been failing at teaching english, what are the problems? What are the solutions? I don't really think they're are willing to listen to either the problem would know there's a problem or the the people that may have the solutions to this problem, this is very frustrating. Being narrow minded and unflexible stands directly in the way of progress, that is something so ironic considering Japan is considered one of the advanced societies in the world. Japanese culture is great, but it's too unflexible, I do think with time it will have to change for the better, slowly...
Hi Cathy - if you want to see huge crows, cockroaches and spiders, come to Australia! Is fear of insects in Japan a real thing, not a manga cliche? And what's with the fear of moths as though they're poisonous? I was super lucky when I lived in Japan because my employer organised the apartment for me.
@steve gale I doubt that half those diseases exist in Japan. According to the WHO, they may be associated with the spread of disease but it hardly warrants the sort of reactions suggested in manga. Flies and mosquitoes are probably more common vectors. I was actually more curious about some Japanese people thinking that moths are poisonous.
@steve gale The Gypsy Moth caterpillars are poisonous not the moths. I have had Japanese people claim that adult moths and their wing scales are poisonous.
@steve gale please point me at a reference which states that all moth and butterfly wings are poisonous. Odd, because Australian Aborigines used to travel from all over Eastern Australia to feast on Bogong Moths, so I am curious where you get your claims from.
@steve gale Ok, so you resort to abuse rather than evidence. Maybe you're the one who needs to do some study, unless you think that Aborigines ate poisonous moths for thousands of years without being affected. Maybe dial it back a little and relax.
LGBT is strict in terms of law, but I suppose it is more advanced in term of culture than Europe. JP culture is traditionally a female or bi culture,like a "HIRAGANA(AKA 女手）" culture against a "KANJI（AKA 男手）" culture. The reason why room rental is difficult is NO foreign credit... There are many cases of “fleeing” and foreigners need to establish trust in it.
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Anyone else feel like she was ready to cry talking about foreigners being discriminated against because i was 1000% gonna join her if she did
Alex - leave then
You're right I thought she was going to los it for a moment. Damned shame they are so racist in Japan against ALL foreigners.
@@chech5774Kind of a DICK comment.
Buzzramjet pretty based tbh fam. Would be pretty cool if other countries could adopt this since foreigners are replacing the native populations.
@@Buzzramjet blame the common foreigner that goes nuts and starts acting like Logan Paul or Tyler The Creator in japan just making fun of the locals and bothering them. its gonna get worse after the Olympics.
I do not trust my own kind to leave with a good impression at all. I know the negatives of my culture so well.
What I love about Japan? Music. A lot of amazing music is being produced in Japan.
What I hate about Japan? The work culture needs to change. Stop working yourselves to death.
@pierusofpella They literally work themselves to death and die because of power harassment. Productivity might be low, but the pressure definitely isn't:
Being bullied by your boss, no consideration for family or private life, being moved to different departments without consent or different locations are all part of office jobs in Japan. And when you get a project it's not uncommon to work till ten and weekends (unpaid) with little else than a pizza as reward.
And the racism. They do not like foreigners living there. They don't mind foreigners visiting but they don't like them living there.
@@Name-jw4sj The worst part of that is that they don't even consider that racist or discriminating. It's a very common sentiment.
7Lee7 yep exactly. It’s very sad.
@@Name-jw4sj よく日本で日本人は外国人を差別していない、外国人扱いしているだけだという日本人がいる。しかしそれは嘘で差別は存在していると私は一人の日本人として思っている。人種差別なないと言っている人も多いが、そんなことないよ。黒人に対する差別はアメリカ合衆国よりも酷いよ。隣のCやK国は日本よりも酷いから。黒人はスポーツ選手やエンターテイナー、アフリカの槍持っているマサイ族のようなイメージを今だに持っている人間が多いから仕方ない事だが、悪いことする人間と決めつけているのは確かだ。
Japan-related youtube channels are so much better than any other country I've found.
身内が不動産経営やってるのでちょっと言わせて頂きたいです。
まず第一に不動産経営は慈善事業じゃないんです。自分たちの生活がかかってるんです。ですから家賃を確実に回収できる見込みが無い人には貸さないんです。ただそれだけです。空き部屋は少ない方がいいので「外国人だから」という感情的な理由だけで断りません。確実に未払い家賃を回収できる保証人がいない、定職に就いておらず安定収入が無い人には貸したくないんです。単に外国人にこういう人が多いだけです。日本人でもこういう人には貸したくありません。
これをまるで差別をしているかのように言われるのは非常に不快です。
The problem of the apartment has decreased, but there is still.
In the 1980s, many foreign workers came to Japan. At that time, the apartment had a lot of tatami floors. Tatami had to be replaced with a new one when it was soiled with shoes, and the owner sometimes had trouble managing it.
In addition, most people could not speak Japanese, so many foreigners gathered with each other and made noises while drinking outside.
When the Japanese paid attention, they threatened.
It is true that japanese were made fun of by foreigners at that time.
The apartment industry, especially the owners, still remember sit.
I think it is difficult for people to understand in foreign countries living in Japan today, but I think it will be improved in the future.
It's still not fair to judge an individual by the actions of a group a generation ago.
yeah. also wish more people takes their shoes off when walking indoors
"Forginer not allowed places" are going to appear around more often after the Olympics lol.
I wouldn't doubt this at all.
Not during the Olympics? I have the feeling that there will be a flood of cheap apartments as the owners go back to regular tenants instead of "bnb".
Im terrified about that
I guess I will see since I will be in Japan around the Summer Olympics.
what olympics?
We are very sorry for obstacles and difficulties for renting an apartment to foreigners. This is definitely very shameful. Japanese gov't tries to let them work and live better than before. Japanese gov't, listen to her and improve the real estate business!
no, no gomenne. Japan needs still be strict about accept immigration.
@@elisdeliofa5570 I think you have major misunderstandment for the differences between immigration situations to Europe and Japan.
rofl foreigners going to criticize and tell em to change..
@@elisdeliofa5570 Oh yeah
Foreigner: Hello, I would like to rent your apartment. I have spent several years studying your language and culture because I have been really interested in Japan, as you can tell from my good manners and near perfect pronunciation. I would like to start a new life here as a productive and hardworking member of your society.
The landlord: No
F: May I ask why?
The landlord: You're a foreigner which means you want to destroy us
F: But I never-
The landlord: GTFO
You did it, you saved your country from total destruction. Congrats.
@@elisdeliofa5570 you're comment is racist
外国人の日本称賛動画多いけど、各国語に翻訳して世界に日本を拡散してくれているカティーさんは本物です。間違いなく”本物”です。ありがとう。
i think that's a major pitfall that many Westerners fall into when looking to live in Eastern countries; just because you like a culture or an aspect of a culture, doesn't mean that the culture inherently resonates with you, or vice versa. they think of life there on a fantasy or dream level and not a simply basic human one. kinda weird, but at the same time, kinda interesting, the dynamics of it all
もういい歳のおっさんですが、私もゴキブリは苦手です。（笑）
アパートの件ですが…、
外国人の入居を嫌がる大家さんの意見としては、
留学生や出稼ぎ目的の人が多く、家賃滞納やそのまま逃げられてしまう事があるそうです。
又、日本語でのコミュニケーション能力の問題で、近隣住民とのトラブルが起こる事があるそうです。
（騒音問題、ゴミだしの仕方、共用部が汚す、タコ部屋にされる等）
これらのリスクを嫌い、外国人というくくりで一律に拒否されてしまうようです。
（管理会社が）借りる外国人の資質を、一人ひとり確認することも難しいのだと思います。
これらのリスクが存在するために、何の問題も無い外国人が割を食うことになるのです。
私見ですが、日本人の友人に保証人になってもらえば、かなりハードルが下がるのではないかと思います。
It's on us foreigners. We need to learn to adapt to your society. This is true. Most sadly are lazy, they don't even want to learn all the language.
Being from Hong Kong, Japan (specifically Tokyo) is basically heaven for someone is really into metal and electric guitars. Will be there again in March 2020 for the 2 day Knotfest.
Greetings from Germany 🤘
Wow, all that graffiti Cathy walked by caught me by surprise.
Jet Set Radio Future
Has the look like they actually did that for decor, rather than people just walking up. :)
Let's all appreciate that bird scene 04:46 for which I'm grateful to be able to experience ^w^
First I thought I smoked too much but it is reality.
I learn so much from these videos! Thanks for the advice! I plan on going to Japan do stuff like this really helps me get an idea of what to expect!
Yeah, I've heard a lot of stories from my friends saying that they struggled a lot to get their apartments due to being foreigners T.T
本当に残念で何か解決法があればいいとは思うけど、
もし自分がアパートのオーナーで、
トイレに生ゴミを流されたり、
バスタブや便器を破壊されたりして
家賃も滞納したまま国に帰られることが続いたら
「外国人お断り」って言いたくなるだろうな。
それで敷金礼金にまで文句を言おうとは、、、
Hiroyuki K 日本人が求めるマナーのレベルが高すぎるんだろうね。でも貸す側に人を選ぶ権利は当然あると思うから難しいね
家賃も踏み倒して帰国されて、大家さんは泣き寝入り、なんて話も結構ありますからね…。
今更なんですが、「外国人お断り」というのは当たり前のことだし、どうやってそういう判断ができるのでしょうか。。体験ができないことなのに、どうやってそれに気がつくんだろうとびっくりしました。
例えば、帰国のことはまだわかりますが（ただし、Cathyさんみたいな場合はきっときちんとビザが持っていると思いますし、帰国することなんてそんなに日常的なことではないので、日本人が故郷に帰ることにまったく変わらないとは思います。。）。。。トイレにゴミを流すとは？ｗ
外国人に関してはどんなイメージを持っているのでしょうか？
そういう人はもちろんどこかにいるとは思うのでそういう偏見がわからないことはないんですが、そういうのを避けようとするんだったら、国籍が関係なし、その人に会って、その人を判断することは正義です。
これは当たり前のことだと認めてくれる世界になってほしい。。日本だけじゃなくて
What I love about Japan is the convenience and collectivism. What I hate is the lack of hope. I mean they seem to work themselves into hopelessness and it seems (as an outsider looking in) that there is no time for family, love, joy, or contentment. It’s constant work and perfection which are two things that will run anyone into the ground
アパートなど賃貸に関しては日本人だけではなく外国人の意識改革もとても大事で
正直私がオーナーであっても拒否する可能性が高いです。
外国人も日本人も一部の人が騒音やアパートのルール(ゴミ問題)など破りますが
日本人の場合は管理会社から改善させる方法や最悪退去させたり法的手段に出る方法も簡単に出来ます。
しかし外国人が同じ事をした場合に退去させようとすると「差別」と言われ言語コミュニケーション不足もあってルールを守れない人も多いのも事実です。
「外国人がアパートを借りるのを断られる！差別的！」みたいに言うビデオも多数ありますが
逆に外国人が上や隣の階に引っ越してきて騒音騒動がひどい！という動画も多数あるのが事実です。
最初は日本人が9割の中に外国人が1割の場所が最終的に外国人10割のアパートになった例などもあります。
他の方の外国人のビデオ(th-cam.com/video/iZ5f_QokinY/w-d-xo.html)の動画内での
Kyde and Ericの2人のコメント17:05など興味深いと思いますのでご覧になるといいでしょう。
初めて日本に来る外国人に優しくしてあげたいってのはありますがオーナーや管理会社の気持ちも察してあげて欲しい。
一言で言うなら「郷に入れば郷に従え」です
The 1hit, 2hit part hit me... 😂
Also can pretty much agree with Cathy on which things she hates and likes...
My lists are too long I’ll say 4 of each:
Love:
-Group harmony
-Cleanliness
-Toilets
-Conveniences
Dislike:
-Many times people will not sit next to me on a train as I’m a foreigner. (Too many times and circumstances to think it’s coincidental)
-Many many places are cash only.
-Crowds! (But I live in Tokyo, so...)
-Smoking in some restaurants. 😷
My family moved from the US to Ireland when I was a teenager, so I definitely understand! The Irish culture is very much community centered as well instead of self-centred like the US, so I've definitely grown to love that.
Oh my gosh, Cathy: You are doing a great job and I wish you the best. I am enjoying SO MANY of your videos tonight and VERY MUCH look forward to sharing the things you've taught me with my wife. 💗
入居を断るのは先人の知恵だ
文化の違いは当然だが、「郷に入っては郷に従う」
これを出来なかった外国人が多かった結果だ
日本人が損をしてまで外国人に貸す道理はない
逆もまた然り
変わるのは日本人ではない
悲しい経験だったのなら、なおさら次の世代に
そのようなことが起きないように努めることが唯一の答えだろう
不動産の場合、貸主の信頼に足る日本人を保証人にしてみたらいかがでしょうか？
借りる側の都合で柱や壁を変えると建物の強度が下がり建物の価値に影響することもあります。
地震が原因でしょうね
ゴキブリの件ですが、元々ゴキブリは日本のものではなく、外来種です。色々試しましたが一番有効なのはゴキブリ団子
でした。その上一番良いのは死ぬときは外に出て行くので死骸を見ずに済むことでした。薬屋で売ってます。
Originally, cockroaches are not Japanese but alien species. I tried various things, but the most effective
one was the cockroach dumpling. Best of all, when it die, it go out so I don't have to look at the corpse.
You can get it at the pharmacy.
Very well done. Would be interested in Director-San version.
賃貸の件ですが多分変わることはないと思います。
外人には外人という理由だけが見えていると思いますが
日本人でも単身赴任はダメ、男性の独身はダメ、子連れはダメ
その賃貸のオーナー次第でリスクと判断するものは全部ダメとされます。
理由は例えば主さんのようにマナーを大切にしている外国人も勿論いますが
そうでない外国人も多く、リスクは大きいと思われるでしょう。
特に入居時退去時のお金の問題で揉める事は
オーナーにとって時間の無駄と考えられていていかにスムーズに入居させるかが大切なんです。
第二に、いくらでも借り手がたくさんいるのでオーナーが入居者を
いくらでも選べるということと、現状ではオーナーの善意に縋るしかないというのが現実です。
I liked the video and request an autobiography. When speaking English, your accent seems to slip between British and West Coast USA and somewhere in between. Just curious about the Cat.
she is german
German born and raised, educated in the UK.
That lowkey Harajuku sightseeing was nice.
アパートでは無いけど 私の近くの一軒家で貸したら友達呼んで中でバーベキューして丸焼けだった 消防団で行ったけど 保険とか後どうなったか？今は更地になってます。
Haaaaa it is sad with apartments. But on the other side I am foreigner in Germany (Bavaria) I have also the same problem. When I introduce myself, is the apartment always "sold out". I also speak fluently german and living here for 5 years. That is the risk of being foreigner.
Keep your chin up! Your one of the select few youtubers I'd actually like to meet one day 😁😊
不動産に関しては外国人が昔、無茶苦茶やったせい。特にアジア人。これからは緩和すると思うけどね。
I think a company that specializes in foreign friendly apartments, while also providing apartments to everyone could do quite well. I think I will need to purse this venture.
Cathy looks so awesome! Super sugoi! And Japan is life and home!
8:30 I like all the graffiti while Cathy is talking about culture
Heated toilets is 90% the reason why Cathy is in Japan.
Cathy is thinking about stories in the 23 suburban areas of Tokyo. Other regions are more conservative and closed.
In general, there are no cockroaches in Hokkaido.
If i get turned down from an apartment or living space because i am a foreigner, or turned down from anything for being a foreigner, this is my take on it: well i didn't want to live in a place with someone like that anyway. XD It actually helps me to see the personality of the owner more, so i saved myself from a lot of heartache and headaches. Let them show their colors so that you know where you can best be accepted. Better to give your business and a space in your life to someone more worth it.
I love the diversity of culture, traditions, languages, religions, food, etc. in the US as well as the freedoms we enjoy. However, I do not like the recent polarization of the population on very critical issues, nor do I enjoy the fact that people use freedom of speech as a license to spread misinformation and hate. We also have people who use their basic rights to such an extreme that it ends up being a detriment to others and themselves (e.g., ignoring public health issues like vaccines).
The Best part of my Culture is ' EKTA ME ANEKTA' & 'ATHITHI DEVO BHAVA' ... It means people live in peace & Harmony with mutual understanding irrespective of caste, religion, etc. & its totally different in my country than Japan. If you are a foreigner you have given all special VIP treatments & facilities.
Well, it's kinda jarring to know that the things Cathy mentions on the LOVE patt have more to do with commodity and convenience, so a material side of living. And then, the things mentioned on the HATE side are sooo much deeper and have to do with society, equality, rights, and inclusion. The integral part of living and well-being.
Which side says more about the country and the fundamentals of its society?
guys about this appartement?! if you're an asian and you're foreigner like indonesian Etc. and you're so well at japanese can you get in that appartment or really just no foreginer?! because many japanese are half they look like from US or Nigeria but they are japanese can they join this apartment also?! i'm curious
In Canada, what is good about our culture can also be what's bad. We are very welcoming of immigrants and we don't tolerate hate speech about them -just recently a very well known public figure was fired for saying that immigrants "just want to come here and enjoy a better life but don't want to honour our traditions or become Canadian" specifically in regards to remembrance day when we honour our war dead.
Now where this immigration policy can be bad is in that there is some truth to what he said. We see a lot of Indian people coming here and exploiting their own or other recent immigrants to try to run things the way they did in their old country rather than adapting to the Canadian way of doing things. Most Canadians still remember what happened to the Humboldt Broncos after almost the entire team was killed by an inexperienced new Canadian behind the wheel of a transport truck that he wasn't actually qualified to drive but he was put there by another immigrant who exploited the fact that his residency was contingent on his employment.
So maybe while our immigration policy is good, the people who would take advantage of it are the problem.
Good point 3: They take things way too far though. They work themselves to the bone until they become physically ill, don't get enough sleep, and don't have a life. I think it's kind of horrible.
Good point 5: This one to me WOULD be a good point, but again they take it way too far, and we get things like students with brown hair having to dye their hair black in several schools just so they can all look the same, in order to satisfy this group harmony mindset. They have a saying: "The nail that sticks out must be hammered down". I rather hate that way of thinking.
Bad point 2: Agreed. But I just have to say: the giant butterflies are lovely. :-)
Bad point 3: This one is both good and bad to me depending on the specific thing or mindset that they're being traditional about.
Bad point 4: Yes. Tremendous focus on rituals and the proper way to do things (you can't just give your business card to someone, you have to give it to them in a very particular way. You can't just write a normal letter to someone unless they're good friends of yours, you have to write them in a certain way. Etc), and hierarchy. Also, related to that: keigo. Such an annoying cultural thing.
More bad points from myself:
1. having to pay only in cash, and not being able to pay separately either, in izakayas etc.
2. The food. This is just a personal thing for me though. Japanese food doesn't suit me.
3. Noisy and obnoxious garbage trucks, noisy and obnoxious commercials etc in convenience stores. In my country both are silent.
4. People will often not help other people in trouble. Once, at night, I had to step in and help a Japanese girl who was screaming "Help me! Help me!", as a Japanese guy wouldn't let go of her arm and let her get into the taxi she was trying to get into to get away from him, because none of the other Japanese people around would help her. They just stared. Even the taxi driver, although he kept the back door open for the girl to try to get in, would not step out to help her at all. This kind of shocked me. The guy wasn't a big or scary guy or anything either, and he was alone, and there were all these Japanese guys around, many of whom were much bigger than this guy, who could have just banded together and told the guy to fuck off. Obviously I was hoping I would be able to avoid trouble, but I quickly decided my conscience and sense of human decency wouldn't allow me to turn a blind eye either. I just told the guy to let her go and pushed him away. That was it. He thankfully didn't decide to start a fight or anything. Before she got into the taxi and it drove off, the girl said thanks, and told me the guy was a stalker.
5. Inefficient and inconvenient banking systems.
6. Almost no trash cans.
7. For some reason, moving from one prefecture to another can be a legal nightmare, involving a bunch of headache and complicated paperwork...
8. Get arrested for something you didn't do? You refuse to plead guilty, because you didn't do anyhting? You're unlucky enough that the cops, for whatever reason, also feel certain about you being guilty, and decide to charge you? Have fun being guilty until being proven guilty, and being held in prison for up until a YEAR while you wait for the cops to finally take things to trial, all legally, and with your lawyer not being able to do much to help you. Also, only 2/1000 cops being able to speak English. Woo.
As for good points, eeeh......Japanese people are polite, the girls are cute and fashionable, and Akihabara is cool I guess? :-P Oh yeah, and nice temples and hot springs. But uh...yeah....in hindsight I might not have picked the best country to move to...For ME, personally, that is.
You think roaches are bad, you haven’t come to Texas 😂.
Oh god no
Love to travel to see Japan.
But I wouldn't want to live there!😬
不動産の件ですが、自分の近所にもアジア系外国人がアパートを出て行く時に、使ってた冷蔵庫とか家電製品を指定していない場所に捨てて、不法投棄状態で放置されている現場があります。ヨーロッパや他の先進国の教育を受けた方なら全く問題ないのですが、日本にはそうではない地域から来た外国人も多くなってきていますので、外国人として単純に括ると今後も難しいと思います。ここは日本ですし、きちんと日本のルールを守ってくれる方々ばかりなら問題はないと思うのですが。
What a love about Japan is the care and preservation that they have for their ancient cultural roots. Growing up in Australia we don't really have things like old temples, traditional dress and cuisine ect. But on the flip side I also love how it's so modern yet people still have a strong sense of collective community.
One of the few things I Hate about Japan is certain attitudes are also 100 years in the past like how strict dual nationality and immigration policys are and I understand they have that in place because they are fearful that foreigners will take advantage and drag the country down so you need a degree or a sponsorship so be allowed to live there. But they make little distinction for those like me who genuinely love the country and want to assimilate into it's culture but because I've struggled with Dyslexia all my live I haven't been able to get a degree, from those who who seek to take advantage and care little for the country, it's culture and values. So I'm fearful I will never be able to move there even though I want more than anything...
To be honest... and not trying to offend anyone... I would look for a place that don't allow foreigners. I'd rather not live beside foreigners than risk the slim chance of living with a stubborn or ill mannered one. NA and EU people are better at adapting and accepting cultures, but it's more of the middle east and brown countries, especially the religious ones where they expect to come into your country and have you change for them.
Uhm ... hey may I ask how long it took for you to learn Japanese fluently and to perfect it as well?
Depend on the person it can take you years. I learnt it in 2 and a half years I went to japanese courses with native japanese teachers and it was pretty good. You need to study hard and practici a lot
I imagined you in an ultraman suit fighting a Kaiju roach! XD I hate them too!
damn, if you are turned down cause of being a foreigner then damn, even when your japanese is extremely good
If you know someone that is willing to help put in a good word/co-sign that is a good way to get a place I heard.
Thank you for mentioning the negative aspect of the hierarchy. I feel that Japan could achieve so much more if the society leveraged the ideas and energy of young people instead of suppressing them. Senior people could be more accepting of ideas without seeing it as a loss of control. I love Japan for the respect most people have for shared property and for traditions and older people. But you can retain respect without requiring all ideas to come from the top down.
1. I can appreciate that Japanese people will respectfully leave you alone, rather than negatively comment on your style/clothes/etc, but on the same hand, it’s sad that they won’t compliment your clothes/style/etc. or just smile at you while y’all are walking down the street, nod, and say hi! That’s something I love here in the States, where I’ve always lived!
2. It’s sad how inflexible they can be. Here across the pond, we call that being hard-headed! 😂
3. I love that some traditions are still around; kimonos and that style, for example. I’m glad that some things aren’t accepted, but I’ll leave it at that. But it is unfortunate that some equality things they seem to refuse acceptance of.
4. It’s always been a seething hatred of mine, the strict hierarchy; it’s an inability to adapt and accept. Now, it’s nice that some bosses will look out for the lower guys and maybe buy them a meal or something, but their businesses will stagnate if/when they refuse to consider and/or accept new ideas when said ideas come along and are fresh! From the few things I’ve heard, it’s like “Know your place and don’t think you’re good enough to list options to help!”; the way I live is “If you can’t show respect at all times to everyone (whether it’s the boss or some poor, random stranger), then you don’t deserve any yourself.” That’s how I feel with businesses, but especially the hard-headed hierarchy in families! I believe who you are is determined by how you live/act. In Japan and China, who your family was determines who you are; if your family has a good reputation, overwhelming expectation is placed on you from the moment you’re born; if someone in your family or your ancestors was bad, you and your entire line will be judged and treated as just as bad/evil, no matter how good you are. THAT is my greatest, burning hatred!
5. It’s so sad that some/many still feel prejudice over others simply because of where they were, or weren’t, born! 😔
There still some prejudice, of course, here across the pond, but not as much as you’d think. Where a mixed up melting pot of different colors, beliefs, languages, ideas, and loves! ☺️
Seeing the foreigners wearing hardly any clothing in the background ,,,,, aghhh
Great vid guys! 😋
Awesome! 😉☺
Olá ask japanese Nice video as always keep it up!!!!
Saaaayonaraaa
If this really is how japanese people treat foreigners, I'll stop learning japanese and saving up for the trip I've been planning for the next summer. I love Japan, and I've dreamed of seeing it since I was a kid, and tried my best to make this dream come true. But if I'm gonna get treated like garbage in return and not even be given a proper place to live, I'll give it all up. I just want to experience Japan and be a good, hardworking member of their society in return. But if I'm gonna get labeled as just another potential threat to them, get hated, feared, and avoided, all just because I wasn't born and raised in the same country as theirs no matter how good my japanese will be and how well I'll adapt to their culture, going to japan will be one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
@@schmingspud Thank you for your reply. To be honest, I'm just fine with being an outsider, as long as what it means is having few friends and people to talk to, since I've always been a loner and not strongly desired company of others. My only wish is to be treated fairly and like a human being. I'll definitely give it a shot if all goes well. Thanks again.
ちょっと一部分にこだわるけど、日本のサービスでフレキシブルでないものが多いというのは悪く言えば型どおりで融通が利かないってことだけど、一例をあげればチェーン展開しているような外食店の多くは工場でパッケージングした商品を店舗では温めているだけのようなものが多くて、そうすることで価格や提供時間の短縮が維持できているんだからある意味仕方ないと思う。そこに融通を利かすことは結局は値上げや提供時間が長くなることにつながってしまうし、日本人はあまり食材のことは言ってこないというのもあるのかもしれないけどそれ以上の文化的な意味は特にないだろう。個人の店やある程度高級で値段がはっきり決まっていないようなところであればある程度可能だろうし。
the kohai and senpai hierarchy is just a plain master and slave thing....
All the points Cathy don't like about Japan: is what makes Japan Japan. Never change, Japan. Never change. Let us foreigners adapt to you.
同感です。特に「融通がきかない」のは日本人の私でもイラッとすることがあります。
最後のアパートメントについては所有者がリスクを少なくしたいからでしょうね。
外国人だけでなく歳をとった男の単身者も探すのは大変だとききます。
いわゆる「孤独死」を恐れているのでしょう。
So that means in fact, japanese are nationalists, french are nationalists, for me its understandable, but when this would happen in germany...oh my oh my.🙈.everyone would say they are a nazis 😟!!That makes me really sad!!
I didn't think you could get any cutter Cathy Cat but I think you just did 😍. What are you doing to me woman I need you in my life 😭.
I'm shocked that there was graffiti on the wall ....and in English or romaj too.
Your fun to watch and see but please please sometimes slow down the commentary a bit❤❤❤❤❤❤
I enjoy this review in japan...👍👍
But what do you do about the bugs?
@pierusofpella Life imitates art?
Imagine if there were a no foreigners places in America. Like that’s crazy Japan still has anything like that in 2020.
great video!
I like the 1hit and 2hit that was funny 😆
Love , love Japan and Japanese culture, but I would not leave Germany for it.
ゴキブリは、排除できませんよ、お風呂場、洗面所、洗濯機排水溝配管が日本中に繋がっています。排水溝に、各部分に金網口を取り付ければ、排除できるかな？
You are so stunning, as always amazing outfits. Gonna be in tokyo, kyoto, osaka in april
Ms. Cats story about the "On Sale" rack was intolerable because what the sales woman told her friend wasn't an answer, let alone a reason, why Ms. Cats friend wasn't allowed to try on the clothing. And whats really frustrating is that this kind of thinking can't be reasoned with on a logical level.
What if a foreigners bought hostels and set them up to cater for the foreign workers / population?
Can we at least let Cathy read the title before the video is posted so she can check the grammar, sometimes it really sets off my OCD when I see a simple mistake like that
ずいぶんと嫌な思いをしたみたいで申し訳ない😵
全てがそうとも限らないので嫌いにならないでね😅👍
6:12 Same in South Korea. You can't get the desired order at resturants.
Good points Cat.
I love my “oshiri” washlet toilet. Can never go back to using only toilet paper ^_^
I dont like how nihonjin will usually avoid sitting next to me on the train. Been told its because i look like a foreigner even though im hafu. Doesnt bother as much now but it used to make me sad T.T shoganai ne
I imagine you will look neither tiny nor pretty. Nohonjin don't like physiologically sitting next to men who look huge and coercive, but it's never with malice. Understand please.
@@alansu65ahus Is it the same with woman? I am not skinny, cute and uhm.. modest? shy? If japanese woman are a soft pastel colour then I am a bright one. But not neon. That are latinas. They have fire in theire veins.
→@Aura Luna I think Japanese usually will not avoid sitting next to woman even if who doesn't look neither skinny nor cute.
Don't like roaches either
living on a second floor helps. roaches usually infest the lower levels first
外国人が住めない賃貸物件の主な理由は家賃を払わないで母国に帰られてしまうとか、代わりに補償する人がいないとかだろうね。
No there are no reasons to discriminate.
I'd like to say this topic because my relatives are managing real estate.
First of all, real estate management is neither charity nor volunteer. It's BUSINESS. Our lives depend on them. So we don't want to lend it to people who can't afford to pay the rent or can't find guarantor that we can definitely recover the rent from. Nothing more, nothing less. Since it is better to have less vacant rooms, we don't refuse just because of the emotional reason "because of being a foreigner". We don't want to lend it to a person who doesn't have a guarantor who can surely collect unpaid rent, who doesn't have a regular job and has no stable income. So many foreigners are such type. We do not want to lend it to such Japanese people. Otherwise, we are willing to lend it to foreigners when they fulfill conditions.
It's very disgusting that you refer to it as if it was discrimination
I think everyone understands that the building owners don't want to rent to foreigners because of the financial risk because of the reasons you mentioned.
But even though Cathy was able to provide all of the necessary paperwork that proved she was financially stable and therefore not a risk financially, they still wouldn't rent to her because she was a foreigner.
They wouldn't even see her.
It could very well be that they just don't want to do business with foreigners because they think there is too much potential trouble (because of miscommunication, different norms and values etc), and whilst that is understandable that is still discrimination.
Luckily there are businesses that provide the service of making it much easier for foreigners to find apartments in Japan.
I'm not sure those were around when she first came to Japan though.
@Plain Popcorn Did she really find a proper guarantor: a Japanese whose living in Japan or a Japanese company that guarantees someone as business?
It's not enough that she has only stable work. Plus, for foreigners, the most common reason that we refuse to rent is not that they don't have stable work but that they don't find any guarantor
Both stable work and guarantor are necessary to rent in Japan
It's same even when Japanese rent
@@さき-h8q Cathy said that she didn't even get to the point where she could provide that information to the building owner looking for tenants because they refused to see her in the first place.
7:50 Ich kann dich da so gut verstehen 😂 Vor allem bei fliegenden Insekten 😣
I'll be frank, I think at some level I do love how unique Japanese culture is and I do love a lot of aspects of it, however the deeper I go into it, the less I like it. I don't think it's very likely I'll ever live there, but you never know... It's actually mainly 1 thing that bothers the shit out of me: how narrow minded the majority of japanese are, obviously not for everything, but for a lot of things that could easily be changed, they just won't. I mean, their work hours/overworking, their group mentality backfires when it comes to creativity and improving an existing system. There's a soft kind of racism too when it comes to several issue like the appartement thing and the Japanese only places. Here you live for awhile, you adapt to the culture and you speak the language and people will consider you 100% of this country, meanwhile in Japan that's just not the case, you're always seen as the foreigner by most. I do/did notice that Japanese people who've travelled abroad are usually a lot more flexible and open minded. If someJapanese were more flexible, they could solve some of their current problems, I mean just take one very specific example: English classes. I know generally Japanese have way more hours of english than I had at school, yet midway highschool I was fluent in english, meanwhile in Japan you finish school and you still need a tutor to maybe some day speak fluently, that is not normal. Their would have to start by admitting they have a problem in this area and they need to fix it, considering the hierarchy and way of being, that is very unlikely to happen. I mean you have to make them admit that up to this point they've all been failing at teaching english, what are the problems? What are the solutions? I don't really think they're are willing to listen to either the problem would know there's a problem or the the people that may have the solutions to this problem, this is very frustrating. Being narrow minded and unflexible stands directly in the way of progress, that is something so ironic considering Japan is considered one of the advanced societies in the world. Japanese culture is great, but it's too unflexible, I do think with time it will have to change for the better, slowly...
Hi Cathy - if you want to see huge crows, cockroaches and spiders, come to Australia! Is fear of insects in Japan a real thing, not a manga cliche? And what's with the fear of moths as though they're poisonous? I was super lucky when I lived in Japan because my employer organised the apartment for me.
@steve gale cockroaches are dangerous?
@steve gale I doubt that half those diseases exist in Japan. According to the WHO, they may be associated with the spread of disease but it hardly warrants the sort of reactions suggested in manga. Flies and mosquitoes are probably more common vectors. I was actually more curious about some Japanese people thinking that moths are poisonous.
@steve gale The Gypsy Moth caterpillars are poisonous not the moths. I have had Japanese people claim that adult moths and their wing scales are poisonous.
@steve gale please point me at a reference which states that all moth and butterfly wings are poisonous. Odd, because Australian Aborigines used to travel from all over Eastern Australia to feast on Bogong Moths, so I am curious where you get your claims from.
@steve gale Ok, so you resort to abuse rather than evidence. Maybe you're the one who needs to do some study, unless you think that Aborigines ate poisonous moths for thousands of years without being affected. Maybe dial it back a little and relax.
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Bravissimo++ und Danke schön Another great 5 in 1 Show.
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LGBT is strict in terms of law, but I suppose it is more advanced in term of culture than Europe. JP culture is traditionally a female or bi culture,like a "HIRAGANA(AKA 女手）" culture against a "KANJI（AKA 男手）" culture.
The reason why room rental is difficult is NO foreign credit... There are many cases of “fleeing” and foreigners need to establish trust in it.
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Nice like😊👍
2:40 Self aware Cathy
11:30 Cathy...
今、悲しい。
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