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I’m in a relationship rn. So basically an healthy relationship needs a lot of sacrifices and efforts to continue. You have to give an immense portion of your time and money ,energy to your partner. Again after all this there’s no guarantee of always a positive outcome (your partner can cheat on you, death etc) So many people don’t find going into romantic relationship into the age of individualism worth it anymore .

If I’m at least 30 minute from a decent size town , I’ll take the countryside anytime. I can do what I want without issue and if I get to hang with the locals cool if not, no problem.

how is the coverage with high speed internet (landline & mobile) in those rural areas? i might be fine if there's not much going on in the neighborhood, but i can't without proper internet access to stay somewhat connected.

Similar story here. Although salaries in Japan can't compete with Australia (one of the highest in the world) we decided to live in Japan. No drugs, no guns, affordable housing & a culture of respect were the attractions. Daughter walks to school everyday. Everyone is polite. We never lock our house, ever. For us, there's no comparison.

at the end of yr vid. I've lived in several big cities over 5 mill. seoul, osaka,melb and spent a month in each of orlando, guangzho and bangkok. i am worn out with crowds and currently live in the outskirts of a 90k small city, i grow many vegies and fruit and go dumpster diving. i prefer this life at this age. good vid. okini !

CONGRATS on the viewership. GAIJIN NO NINZU WA oi sugitara oretachi no daitsuki na nippon ga nakunaru shimpai wa nai ?

I look forward to reading further about Japanese rice milling in Bienvenido Juliano’s book. I wonder if that machine was produced by Satake Engineering? There are compact friction whiteners and single pass village-type rice mills.

Sounds like rural areas in Nebraska. Conservative, depopulated, laid back, interdependent. Traditional too. The big difference would be Nebraska towns where large numbers of immigrants were brought in to work in meat processing plants.

If I get bored, I can always go into the city for 4 or 5 days 95% of my friends in Japan are locals, not foreigners and they are all over the country. Distance has never been a problem I am 70 and retired I dont need a job My Japanese wife of 33 years can handle all the cultural or community duties. I delegate everything to others. No one tells me what to do.

​@larrikinjapan i dont live in japan but i want to and im 25 and idk i wanna live not in the city but sort of rural area maybe like 30 min away from a city i wouldn't mind living in rural japan and im from Az live in city called phx and i had lived in Northern California for like a year and a half it was nice beautiful scenery and nothing but Douglas Fir trees and some redwoods and I'd sit outside almost everyday even when id eat and i was 23 at that time it was nice and peaceful compared to the city i remember when first arriving i felt calmness wash over me didn't feel uptight anymore or angry it was interesting but in the city felt the opposite not peaceful and angry and on edge

They definitely have a very bad and negative view of us now especially since these foreign nuisance cretins behave in a very disgusting and disrespectful way while visiting the country. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Personal interaction with foreigners ? They had a big interaction with foreigners in WW2.😮😊

That film footage you use looks old. Everyone wearing masks. 😮nice job anyway

We returned home to Oz from Wakayama to have our kids and i think it has been a good decision. My daughter is just about to graduate from UNSW and just did 1 year at uni in Kyoto she loves Japan . My boy plays cricket for NSW and has the U17 nationals in Tasmania in January comming up . He loves baseball too .

Great job mate, well laid out.

Peaceful is not Boring, is gold. Specially in a world of deception and war. Enjoy the Nature!

Really interesting to hear your story! We have had parallel lives at each end of the world. My wife came to Australia on a working holiday in 1992. We met in 1997, married in 1998 and our daughter Anna was born in 1999. Then our son Liam was born in Nov 2001!!! Anna looks more European and Liam looks a little more Japanese with darker hair and skin. It will be interesting when we meet! Sadly, our kids don't speak great Japanese (my Japanese is way better than theirs). We didn't do the Sunday Japanese school thing as we are also in the country and would have had to travel to Melbourne, so our kids are just culturally totally Australian. I'm 61 and my wife is 5 years younger. How old are you?

8) cheers fella

I've been learning a little Japanese, so when I visited Tokyo few months ago, I got to use some of it. Older people really seemed to appreciate it, even the simplest stuff. Younger people seemed indifferent, especially once it becomes apparent you aren't even close to fluent, which I obviously am not as I'm pretty sure I made several mistakes actually trying to speak it and understand it (mixing up "kau" with "kaeru" when I tried conjugating it for example). I did at least get a laugh out of a man and woman working at a sushi place though. I was tired of saying "arigatou gozaimasu" so I thought I'd mix it up by using "kansha shimasu" instead. Turns out "kansha" is, I dunno, way too formal I guess to say thanks for a glass of water 😂. Japanese is definitely an interesting language.

The places you are describing is rural indeed. But there are very accessible rural areas as well. Take Atami for example. 1 hour 45 minutes to Tokyo by regular train and 39 minutes by bullet train to Tokyo. One can buy a secondhand home for 50,00,000 Yen or $35,000 USD. Live close to the ocean, eat the best seafood and veggies, and make a trip Tokyo when you get the itch for a big city.

I've been living in Kyushu now in the boonies for 10 years, fully intergrated, speaking Japanese all day every day and living the dream. Something I learned about life that I was VERY surprised is this. You can grow bored of anywhere. End of rant.

Japanese are too strict. Way too strict. It's all about culture and custom. Honestly, they don't move from that at all. Not even a little. You have to talk to a woman a certain way, you have to talk to your coworkers a certain way. There's no room for spontaneity. Even the cops are strict. The youth of Japan are super antisocial. And most weeaboos. They just consume bad anime nonstop. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Japs aren't even having children. So you can't expect to find good schools in the area at all. Then there's the old people. Man there's a lot of old people there. Get used to seeing that. Cause it's what Japan will be famous for for a long time. On one side, they want tourists, but they don't want the problems that tourism causes. You can't have one without the other. The level of immaturity in that regard is insane. People are now hiring others to be their friends. To pay someone to be your friend? Are you kidding me? Are people that sad?

As a city slicker I cannot imagine living in the rural areas of my own country, let alone a foreign one and that too a foreign country whose language I'm no good at. More power to those who want to live in the rural areas but a lot of people just plain don't want to do it no matter which country they're from.

I'd prefer living in a rural area that isn't incredibly far from a decently sized city.

Very informative.

whats the internet speed like? hahaha.

Well the same is true in most countries. Immigrants tend to stick to cities for a reason and the western immigrants in Japan sticking together in urban regions is perfectly normal. I still hold that immigrants should learn the language or they do themselves a disservice.

Why would someone move to a country without learning the language?

Japan must remain Japanese in order to remain Japan. In short, Japan needs nationalism. Strict borders, very limited tourism and immigration.

It's inconvenient. And that's a deal breaker for many no matter the country they move to. I can live without all of the "stimulation".

Beautiful

A few sober and bare figures from Germany for comparison: Germany has around 84 million inhabitants, of which 13 million are foreigners. This puts Germany in third place worldwide. Crime statistics for 2023: 367,000 crimes, of which 60 to 70% were committed by foreigners. In the case of capital crimes (murder and rape: 80 to 90% committed by foreigners. Of almost 3 million foreigners, the German authorities do not know who they are, what their intentions are and where exactly they are. The German justice system is looking for 892 foreign serious criminals ( Murder and rape) with an arrest warrant. Within just one week, there were 66 knife attacks by foreigners, 8 of them fatal, including a police officer. Many of the 3 million foreigners were from the Muslim world and hardly anything about them know, are also illegal in Germany, the German government promotes uncontrolled and illegal immigration to Germany by even allowing or bringing illegal foreigners into Germany. The EU itself plans to bring in around 1 million illegal migrants every year The result is that there are schools with 90 percent of migrants. 95 percent of the children in the first grade (in certain problem cities and districts) do not speak or understand German. We have migrants in Germany who, even after 30 or 40 years here in Germany, cannot speak a word of German. In many large cities in Germany there are ghettos in which over 90 percent foreigners live. We have foreigners in Germany who sometimes have multiple identities, up to 27. This person was found to have committed 22 serious crimes.

Omg this is Nagoya. I hate that I know this because I live here. 😅

In this April our government officially stated that recovering from a disaster in the rural area is optional.

I lived in a small city in Ibaraki for seven months. It was tough to get by without speaking the language and especially not being able to read. Once you knew where things were, it wasn't so bad, but it absolutely wasn't as rural as in this video. There were still supermarkets, some conbinis, and it was only a two hour bus trip to Tokyo. I had a car for my work as an English teacher which I could use outside work, but I think it was speed limited to about 80 kmh so I couldn't use motorways. The first couple of months were extremely isolating, especially because back in 2002 I couldn't get a mobile phone and could only access email at work (and was charged for it). The only ATM I could use was at the post office, and most stores didn't accept my Australian bank credit cards. By the time I left, I wanted to stay longer. I think living in a more rural area would be easier now than it was twenty years ago. I'd suggest looking for a happy medium if "real" rural living is too hard. A small city might have more facilities and work opportunities while not being as stressful as a big city like Tokyo or Osaka.

Nice cat!

Been living rurally in south-west Japan since 1999 and you couldn't pay me enough to live in a city or even a town area, ever again! Hard work keeping the farm upkeep in summer, but I wouldn't change it.

In the end it depends on a lot of factors. While I've never lived in the Japanese countryside, I have spent a lot of time there (especially in Gunma-ken), and I did live for a while in an area best described as semi-rural - a short train ride away from the downtown area with its department store and shotengai, but my apartment was also a short walk from an endless stretch of rice fields where I used to go for walks in the morning. In my late 20s/early 30s I lived in Tokyo and could never have seen myself being anywhere else, but as I got older the idea of moving away from the urban center became more appealing. Now that I'm in my early 60s I could see myself retiring to a home in the countryside. As for work, there are many examples of gaijin decamping to the inaka and starting up businesses such as cafes or restaurants. I knew of one Canadian who quit English teaching and moved to a rural corner of Kanagawa-ken where he built guitars.

What are the dating prospects for a single foreigner in late 60’s/early 70’s interested in romance with a Japanese woman of similar age?

Ey Nagoya Station 😁

I have been living in rural Japan for almost 25 years (lived in Tokyo for 15 years before that). I think the issue you raise has as much to do with living in a small town as it does with Japan. Obviously if you dont speak the language, you cant expect to have an easy time of it. That shouldnt require explanation. The issues of "isolation" and "social integration", however, are points that need a little bit more context. Having grown up in a very rural area of the US, much of the social "standoffishness" that you describe has been a far greater problem for my wife -- who is Japanese -- than for me. I guess my expectations about what things are important to my rural neighbors are more in tune with how they actually behave. If you move into a tiny town in Iowa or Cornwall, I bet you find the same sort of difficulties. I can recall how even when I graduated from high school, people in my home town still referred to our farm as "the old Roberts place". Ive had the same experience here - after a quarter century, only now are people in town starting to see us as "part of the community". If acceptance and a busy social life are priorities for you, then certainly rural Japan is a poor choice of domicile. But those who understand what its like to live in a rural area, and want that slow-paced lifestyle, Japan is one of the best places I can think of, to live. Inexpensive land and housing, good education and a pretty comfortable standard of living, even if all you are capable of doing is teaching English.

Rural Japan is EXACTLY where I dream of living more than anything else.

As an English and music teacher you gave me some nice frontline insights, appreciate it.

Because they have to work to survive.

I want to live in countryside of Japan, it’s very beautiful and peaceful. I don’t like big cities. Find me a nice place I will be there.

There was an article about many Japanese in Sydney in a homeless shelter and getting handouts because they are broke. Someone told them Australia was the land of milk and honey neglected to mention that although we receive a lot income we also have a high cost of living. I also wanted to mention that a lot of Japanese pretty girls are trying to entice a lot of Australian boys to sponsor them, these girls have zero life skills and mostly just want to be taken care off their whole life - single men beware lol

One thing that they don't mention about Akiya is that most insurance companies might not be able to insure them, and Japan has a lot of different natural disasters and extreme temperatures, hot and cold especially. I'd say with some luck the price is about 50-60k Australian but more like 80-100k for a decent one.

The biggest issue is that most foreigners never bother learning Japanese. The other issue is that most foreigners can't convert their drivers license easily in Japan or can't drive altogether.

Looks beautiful minus the poisonous snakes!

I remembered watching a female Japanese RUclipsr who was sexually harassed and threatened. By an old man who had a high position in the small town. The other old seniors didn't help her. Smh