Early next year i plan to expand my rural Japan cafe to include rescuing stray cats in my area to turn it into a unique Cat Cafe. Any help is very much appreciated. www.buymeacoffee.com/realruraljapan
I am currently in Japan for the first time on 14 day trip. I like what I have seen so far and it kind of reinforces my view that Japan is a wonderful country. Btw, I enjoy your videos. Great insight to rural Japan. Happy New Year.
I like a lot of the motivational things you say in this video. Telling people they will have to work hard, but they can reach their dreams. I unfortunately notice much of that same negative content on the internet, and you're right, it gets clicks, so I appreciate when someone goes against that. Thank you for being positive!
Love Japanese culture and I also fell in love the media they put out, got fascinated with the language about a decade ago and submersed into it everyday looking and listening to Japanese, even though my listening skill ear is still weak at understanding the language my fascination of the kanji went deep and now I understand most of the kanji I see even more than the Japanese words. I'm not sure I ever make it there it takes a lot of money not sure if I would even have place in their society but I will still always love them from afar and wish japan the very best, just learning about the culture over the years has subtly influenced me to become a better person in life. Opps I edited my spelling mistake and your like went away but that ok, good videos and thanks for what you do.
Sorry, I don't mean this to come across as spiny - everyone learns at their own pace etc - however if your listening skill is poor after 10 years of study then you're doing something wrong.
@spartan.falbion2761 More exposure vs doing something wrong most likely. My language speaking skills aren't good, but my listening is better in comparison because i run a cafe and hear it all the time.
I'm a Canadian and did a 1 year working holiday in Japan (right after my 30th birthday, so just in time to squeeze in a working holiday at the very limit of the WH system) and spent a huge chunk of time looking for permanent work there when I should have been more focused on enjoying the country (which I eventually did, after about half way through my working holiday). I was lucky to have a partner at the time that I met back in my country when she was also doing a working holiday there. Later during my stay in Japan, I took a language course (subsidized by the Japanese govt., so it was free!) and learned a lot. The impost important thing I learned was that actually a lot of jobs in Japan that have international equivalents (think; IT, game development, etc.) pay less in Japan than elsewhere and that it's actually better to just make your own business in Japan. I'm back in Canada and am working towards my goal to make a business that I can then take to Japan. It's good to be reassured here by this video that, that seems to be the better way to go if wanting to immigrate to Japan long-term.
I don’t think Japans popular culture really conveys the values of hard work, conformity, consideration of others/ “Tatemae” and narrow traditional views that prevail in the country. Those sorts of things can really chew a person up on the inside, even their own people who grew up with it as evident with high suicide rates and hikamori. I really like the message of “If you want to come, do so on your own terms….ie business.” * edit- At the same time what can be very appealing about Japan are their excellent ethics, tradition and culture.
I came here as an English teacher, incase i didnt mention in my previous comments. But I also do art and my work goes for sale for a good penny. I'm considering starting my printing business from my home in Kamisuwa and moving away from teaching. Its very demanding and not particularly rewarding. The kids are great but the company really doesnt care about it beyond pushing as many kids into the classroom, quality of the lessons be damned. So yeah. This year, i wanna make good on this advice youre offering and hopefully go on to start my own printing business.
You seem to be fairly knowledgeable about this. Have you considered putting up a firm that helps people set up businesses in Japan? You could maybe partner with local legal consultancies, and with your knowledge and English proficiency help others set up their businesses?
I think a subset of westerners have a fantasy idea of what Japan is. Going there as a tourist and living there would be vastly different things. I recently watched some of a video about a woman who lived there for five years and could no longer tolerate it, so she's leaving. I think Japan is a great place to visit, but I imagine it would be very difficult as a foreigner living there.
Its interesting to see which countries have good under the table relationships with who. Australians are hated in places like Thailand and Bali (because of the bogan trash who go there and cause problems) but the quality of visitors from Australia who go to Japan is generally very good so its possible Japans policies reflect that...
The bogans couldn't afford Japan before but now they can, and they are here in record numbers. High yen kept the trash out and the rupiah and baht they got the best value.
Thank you for more great content. I really like the way you speak plainly and always note that your words are full of wisdom. I really feel a lot of what you say is aimed at a younger more single or mobile crowd. I am 56 with a family and a 12 year old who is still in school. We have travelled to Japan a number of times. We all love it! We understand that travelling there and living there are very different things...but you never know until you try! I live in regret every single day that I didnt have the courage to move there and give it a go 20 years ago! What advice would you give an older person like me??
I gotta go a few more times before I decide I want to work or plant roots there. Gonna go once in 2025, and again in 2026. Currently glancing at Mitsubishi and Panasonic, they use my controls skillset, but if I wanted to move out there I'd need to get in touch with a recruiter and see how much they value my experience. But that's getting ahead of myself. And the idea of starting a business there needs to stay far away from the table until I've stayed there there for an extended period and decided if I like it.
@ my wife thought she recognized it. She lived in Ibaraki for many years. Nagano is close to ibaraki. We are getting ready to move back there soon as our house sells here in the Philippines. We like watching your videos.
I have been obsessed with Japan, its people, and their culture since I was 10. If I ever leave my homeland, Japan is where you would find me somewhere northwest in a small rural/country area.
Interesting! I'm not moving anywhere, I'm just interested in life in different places, but I do have a question. How is home and property insurance there? Is the coverage good for natural disasters and is it really expensive?
I’m always thankful for your videos and advices about japan. I’m currently learning Japanese at my university and I plan to come to japan for a year on a working holiday visa. My question is that, when I read the government’s websites on immigration, the visas offered always required highly skilled workers or entrepreneurs in the fields of sciences (ai, biology, etc.), so can a person get a visa, if he opens a pizzeria for example? Thank you for your answer. (I’m sorry for any grammatical errors, English is my second language.)
been to Melbourne recently...yes so many Indian looking people there already..... but the amount of Chinese people there is so overwhelming especially in the downtown area ... I think whites are now a minority in that city ... don't know if this is a good or bad thing.....I hope you don't interpret my comment as racist .. this is just my observation
Talent from India and China is what has made the tech industry thrive. The visa holders in Silicon Valley are the ones doing all the hard thankless coding work while the yuppies are getting most of the credit. That is why you are seeing a reluctance from the incoming US government to stop such immigration programs like these H1 types of visas. There is always a pragmatic solution for every countries needs despite the politics.
@@RealRuralJapanbut they're refusing to invest in their own people by improving the education system. Importing people who are good at a job is not a sustainable strategy, and causes long term friction with people being displaced by more successful foreigners enabled by bad policy. Countries are not mere collections of human resources. Also, the tech industry in America is increasingly losing whatever good image it had, as people are realizing that the increased reliance on smartphones is making more things into skinner boxes, and the development of AI is revealing the power dynamic that people in tech are resources that can be swapped out. I'm American and am not proud of this monster thats being fed, as we march on like zombies toward a lie.
@@RealRuralJapan I like your video and I just came across your channel for the first time. I would like to say that it's not the visa holders that are the issue but the fact they're being used as a fulcrum for bigger corporate tech to move working standards in their economic favor rather than the yuppies'.
@krunkle5136 and @clane6992 Every industry is like this just as the cartoon/anime industry was. The artists that got in early got paid well for their drawings and then it became a low paid job with people churning out the required drawings like a sweatshop to keep up with demand. People were recruited to do the ditch digging ie- drawing repetitive things with just slight changes that were required to make movement. Cartoons could not have been done at the scale it was without these ditch diggers. The tech industry is no different most of it is ditch digging boring repetitive work like coding which also will have its last days soon like the hand drawers did in animation to automation. People think just because they have a degree in tech or in the case back then they were artistes who should be paid a fortune for their art that economic reality doesn't apply to them. Think about this - if the animation industry didn't do what it did the new computer guys who got paid extremely well later on would never have happened and everyone would have had far less content to watch. Many of the guys in tech doing the work now who don't start to pivot are next year's horse wagon repairmen who won't have a job at all soon. Whenever an industry first starts the guys at the top are always thinking about the next and how to get there before the next guy does or their company will fail. There is a huge race on at the moment and the US wants to win.
Hope they continue balancing economic prosperity with keeping their own people and culture in good health and as the majority, as a country isn't merely a collection of resources.
@RealRuralJapan Yeah but look w hat happened to Germany couple weeks ago, soon to be Islamic Republic of UK, ISIS France, open border USA..... I wish it makes sense but glad that my country makes sense.
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Early next year i plan to expand my rural Japan cafe to include rescuing stray cats in my area to turn it into a unique Cat Cafe. Any help is very much appreciated.
www.buymeacoffee.com/realruraljapan
I am currently in Japan for the first time on 14 day trip. I like what I have seen so far and it kind of reinforces my view that Japan is a wonderful country. Btw, I enjoy your videos. Great insight to rural Japan.
Happy New Year.
I like a lot of the motivational things you say in this video. Telling people they will have to work hard, but they can reach their dreams. I unfortunately notice much of that same negative content on the internet, and you're right, it gets clicks, so I appreciate when someone goes against that. Thank you for being positive!
Love Japanese culture and I also fell in love the media they put out, got fascinated with the language about a decade ago and submersed into it everyday looking and listening to Japanese, even though my listening skill ear is still weak at understanding the language my fascination of the kanji went deep and now I understand most of the kanji I see even more than the Japanese words.
I'm not sure I ever make it there it takes a lot of money not sure if I would even have place in their society but I will still always love them from afar and wish japan the very best, just learning about the culture over the years has subtly influenced me to become a better person in life.
Opps I edited my spelling mistake and your like went away but that ok, good videos and thanks for what you do.
Sorry, I don't mean this to come across as spiny - everyone learns at their own pace etc - however if your listening skill is poor after 10 years of study then you're doing something wrong.
@spartan.falbion2761
More exposure vs doing something wrong most likely. My language speaking skills aren't good, but my listening is better in comparison because i run a cafe and hear it all the time.
I'm a Canadian and did a 1 year working holiday in Japan (right after my 30th birthday, so just in time to squeeze in a working holiday at the very limit of the WH system) and spent a huge chunk of time looking for permanent work there when I should have been more focused on enjoying the country (which I eventually did, after about half way through my working holiday). I was lucky to have a partner at the time that I met back in my country when she was also doing a working holiday there. Later during my stay in Japan, I took a language course (subsidized by the Japanese govt., so it was free!) and learned a lot. The impost important thing I learned was that actually a lot of jobs in Japan that have international equivalents (think; IT, game development, etc.) pay less in Japan than elsewhere and that it's actually better to just make your own business in Japan. I'm back in Canada and am working towards my goal to make a business that I can then take to Japan. It's good to be reassured here by this video that, that seems to be the better way to go if wanting to immigrate to Japan long-term.
Only way to do it IMO.
I don’t think Japans popular culture really conveys the values of hard work, conformity, consideration of others/ “Tatemae” and narrow traditional views that prevail in the country. Those sorts of things can really chew a person up on the inside, even their own people who grew up with it as evident with high suicide rates and hikamori. I really like the message of “If you want to come, do so on your own terms….ie business.”
* edit- At the same time what can be very appealing about Japan are their excellent ethics, tradition and culture.
I came here as an English teacher, incase i didnt mention in my previous comments. But I also do art and my work goes for sale for a good penny. I'm considering starting my printing business from my home in Kamisuwa and moving away from teaching.
Its very demanding and not particularly rewarding. The kids are great but the company really doesnt care about it beyond pushing as many kids into the classroom, quality of the lessons be damned.
So yeah. This year, i wanna make good on this advice youre offering and hopefully go on to start my own printing business.
Sounds like an interesting business! People always want stuff you just got to find out what that is.
Out of curiosity, can I ask what zoning your property is, and what zone would you need for a small cafe/diner/ retail shop?
All prefectures and cities have their own rules.
You seem to be fairly knowledgeable about this. Have you considered putting up a firm that helps people set up businesses in Japan? You could maybe partner with local legal consultancies, and with your knowledge and English proficiency help others set up their businesses?
I offer Patreon for people who like to ask me questions and it also has a boatload of business advice videos already on it.
Great insight as always. Happy new year Steve 👍🍻🥳
Happy New Year!
I think a subset of westerners have a fantasy idea of what Japan is. Going there as a tourist and living there would be vastly different things. I recently watched some of a video about a woman who lived there for five years and could no longer tolerate it, so she's leaving. I think Japan is a great place to visit, but I imagine it would be very difficult as a foreigner living there.
They are a product of what they watch, and they watch the rubbish that most youtubers put out here unfortunately.
Its interesting to see which countries have good under the table relationships with who. Australians are hated in places like Thailand and Bali (because of the bogan trash who go there and cause problems) but the quality of visitors from Australia who go to Japan is generally very good so its possible Japans policies reflect that...
The bogans couldn't afford Japan before but now they can, and they are here in record numbers. High yen kept the trash out and the rupiah and baht they got the best value.
Thank you for more great content. I really like the way you speak plainly and always note that your words are full of wisdom.
I really feel a lot of what you say is aimed at a younger more single or mobile crowd.
I am 56 with a family and a 12 year old who is still in school. We have travelled to Japan a number of times. We all love it! We understand that travelling there and living there are very different things...but you never know until you try! I live in regret every single day that I didnt have the courage to move there and give it a go 20 years ago!
What advice would you give an older person like me??
Start a business
I gotta go a few more times before I decide I want to work or plant roots there. Gonna go once in 2025, and again in 2026. Currently glancing at Mitsubishi and Panasonic, they use my controls skillset, but if I wanted to move out there I'd need to get in touch with a recruiter and see how much they value my experience. But that's getting ahead of myself.
And the idea of starting a business there needs to stay far away from the table until I've stayed there there for an extended period and decided if I like it.
Were you driving tru ibaraki?
Outskirts of Nagano City
@ my wife thought she recognized it. She lived in Ibaraki for many years. Nagano is close to ibaraki. We are getting ready to move back there soon as our house sells here in the Philippines.
We like watching your videos.
what kind of small businesses could foreigners do?
If you are interested check websites and your consulate. Many options.
I have been obsessed with Japan, its people, and their culture since I was 10. If I ever leave my homeland, Japan is where you would find me somewhere northwest in a small rural/country area.
Interesting! I'm not moving anywhere, I'm just interested in life in different places, but I do have a question. How is home and property insurance there? Is the coverage good for natural disasters and is it really expensive?
Depends on what coverage you want and where your house is. The big insurance companies here are the same multinationals everywhere.
I’m always thankful for your videos and advices about japan. I’m currently learning Japanese at my university and I plan to come to japan for a year on a working holiday visa. My question is that, when I read the government’s websites on immigration, the visas offered always required highly skilled workers or entrepreneurs in the fields of sciences (ai, biology, etc.), so can a person get a visa, if he opens a pizzeria for example? Thank you for your answer. (I’m sorry for any grammatical errors, English is my second language.)
Businesses in agriculture and tourism offers a broad array of options.
Hi I have 3 years of experience in qa automation engineering how can i move to japan
Start with a quick manners course in both English and Japanese. Learn the words please and thankyou and go from there.
@RealRuralJapan what about process how to find job? Do you know any websites?
by "soft" power i assume you're referring to cat girls?
I have been watching Kumamiko. If I can't find a village with a talking bear I will be so disappointed 😂
Australia is now lenient to India. New agreements with India mean unlimited Indian migrants to Australia. Fun times...
been to Melbourne recently...yes so many Indian looking people there already..... but the amount of Chinese people there is so overwhelming especially in the downtown area ... I think whites are now a minority in that city ... don't know if this is a good or bad thing.....I hope you don't interpret my comment as racist .. this is just my observation
Talent from India and China is what has made the tech industry thrive. The visa holders in Silicon Valley are the ones doing all the hard thankless coding work while the yuppies are getting most of the credit. That is why you are seeing a reluctance from the incoming US government to stop such immigration programs like these H1 types of visas. There is always a pragmatic solution for every countries needs despite the politics.
@@RealRuralJapanbut they're refusing to invest in their own people by improving the education system. Importing people who are good at a job is not a sustainable strategy, and causes long term friction with people being displaced by more successful foreigners enabled by bad policy.
Countries are not mere collections of human resources.
Also, the tech industry in America is increasingly losing whatever good image it had, as people are realizing that the increased reliance on smartphones is making more things into skinner boxes, and the development of AI is revealing the power dynamic that people in tech are resources that can be swapped out.
I'm American and am not proud of this monster thats being fed, as we march on like zombies toward a lie.
@@RealRuralJapan I like your video and I just came across your channel for the first time. I would like to say that it's not the visa holders that are the issue but the fact they're being used as a fulcrum for bigger corporate tech to move working standards in their economic favor rather than the yuppies'.
@krunkle5136 and @clane6992
Every industry is like this just as the cartoon/anime industry was. The artists that got in early got paid well for their drawings and then it became a low paid job with people churning out the required drawings like a sweatshop to keep up with demand. People were recruited to do the ditch digging ie- drawing repetitive things with just slight changes that were required to make movement. Cartoons could not have been done at the scale it was without these ditch diggers. The tech industry is no different most of it is ditch digging boring repetitive work like coding which also will have its last days soon like the hand drawers did in animation to automation.
People think just because they have a degree in tech or in the case back then they were artistes who should be paid a fortune for their art that economic reality doesn't apply to them. Think about this - if the animation industry didn't do what it did the new computer guys who got paid extremely well later on would never have happened and everyone would have had far less content to watch. Many of the guys in tech doing the work now who don't start to pivot are next year's horse wagon repairmen who won't have a job at all soon. Whenever an industry first starts the guys at the top are always thinking about the next and how to get there before the next guy does or their company will fail. There is a huge race on at the moment and the US wants to win.
Hope they continue balancing economic prosperity with keeping their own people and culture in good health and as the majority, as a country isn't merely a collection of resources.
There's no more economic prosperity
Hot I am India🎉
JIJI IS BACK BABY!!!
Jiji is too reliable to retire, he lives for this!
He said it’s like riding a bike these shoutouts. He never forgets how to keep it real!
@RealRuralJapan you just can't keep a good cat down... or out, or off of anything really! 🤣
Don't underestimate my people,🇯🇵🗾🎌
All countries have a similar policy because it makes sense.
@RealRuralJapan Yeah but look w
hat happened to Germany couple weeks ago, soon to be Islamic Republic of UK, ISIS France, open border USA..... I wish it makes sense but glad that my country makes sense.
@kens6560
American soft power is as strong as its hard power they aren't jumping turnstiles at the border because they have a low opinion of it.
@@RealRuralJapan Yeah but I believe that will change quickly when Trump takes office in few weeks