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This interview has been the most realist about Japan on RUclips so far. Some of the same reasons this guy has stated are some of the many reasons why I would never permanently live in Japan as it is now unless it changes drastically in my lifetime plus I prefer all the tourist benefits anyway
A nice little microphone lol This man is smart and nailed it. He is still young and should go back to the U.S. or try Okinawa but when he gets older like in 40-50s, he would much appreciate what Japan could offer! Japan got strict feudal system in place, which is good for Ojisan or Obasan but not so great for younger generations.
Interesting video. Your interview style is great... you let the guy speak, but asked some good prompts & questions to get deeper into the subject. Cheers!
No country is perfect and I understand his view of Japan. Not sure what he does for a living but if I were him I would stay in Japan. It's getting tough surviving here in U.S.A. Everything is getting expensive: food, rent, insurance, utility bills, gas, tuition and etc. Crime is increasing depending where you live. I hear a lot of my friends that cannot find a girlfriend because they are expecting a ridiculous status. For example, if you are not making 6 figures, they don't even want to talk to you. Anyway, goodluck to him.
@@Mwoods2272 I understand. I hope he knows what it is like living here in America right now compared to Japan. He might hate living here too but that's his decision of course.
@@anthonyxavier6300He has a Japanese passport. If he can't handle things back in America he can just hop on a plane and move back to Japan. Its not like us gaijin that have to jump through a million hoops just to get a long stay visa in Japan.
@@jw841 Didn't he mentioned that Japan won't accept dual citizenship? So either he has to choose Japan or America. Maybe he can stay there for a working visa I guess.
I cant believe how i underestimated him because of his chill and calm demeanour for the few first minutes and seconds of the interview... but as i watched and listened to him the longer the interview went ... the more intelligence and extremely observant he is about the problems regarding Japanese society. i could easily watch a 1 hour podcast of him just rambling about japanese problems.
@@Vininjapan We Spanish Speakers have the pleasure to have had Kira Sensei and Dharma/Phase2. A smart duo analyzing Japanese Culture. Both are Spaniards and Kira Sensei is a Psychologist focused on Education and Learning. Their dynamic and analysis are similar to this young man's observations. Kira analyzes a theme and Dharma/Phase2 fleshes it out. Both are hilarious AND educational. This young man's ideas are very clear indeed!!!.
I noticed over time living there that people went from looking at me like a foreigner to thinking I was half-Jap. I have brown-hair, brown eyes and even wavy hair.@@Vininjapan
That doesn’t mean you’re Japanese. It’s like the word Umami. It’s hard to translate directly to English but it’s there. Being Japanese according to the Japanese is being born and raised. If you’re born and raised elsewhere, you’re probably not Japanese. Re: Japanese-Brazilian and Japanese-Argentinian. Even Ryukyuans or Okinawans are a bit different.
His west coast accent and attitude make this interview pretty funny to watch and super unusual compared to most Japanese "man on the street" stuff on RUclips.
@@TOOTOO-f6v Probably cause he was originally a U.S. citizen then got Japanese citizenship after a while of living in Japan. I had a friend who was from Chendu, China. He only had Chinese citizenship with a visa or green card or something. But he didnt get his U.S. Citizenship until his service in the U.S. Army, and I remember my commander helping him get it too and expediting his paperwork for it. Then I remember he had dual citizenship for a long time, but then he mentioned something like he stopped having dual citizenship after 6 years, then he just decided to keep his U.S. Citizenship and got rid of his Chinese Citizenship.
This dude is extremely negative and has a pretty bleak outlook on things. I find that as someone who has lived in both america and japan, he's right that Japan isn't a perfect place like a lot of youtube channels make it out to be. However, he's on the other end of the spectrum here where it seems like he's let his bad attitude dominate his view of the world. I hope he finds happiness, it's not in Japan or America. It's within.
This is the truth. But it's very easy to get overshadowed by negative views and many people, including myself, have to remember that it's all about perspective.
Everything he’s talking about happens in the usa if not worse.. a lot of companies will just pay fines too. I’m also from SoCal. I can’t really sympathize with what he’s saying much.
This was very insightful.. great video for folks thinking about moving and wanting to find out the potential downsides to setting up a life in Japan. Thank Vin and PlayStation 🖤
I liked this dude, he directly tells the truth. As a foreigner living in the Netherlands, if you are a foreigner, there is always discrimination and I have encountered such situations, it is not only related to Japan.
Interesting fellow. His SoCal bro English is kinda annoying but he isn’t wrong about a lot. I worked in Japanese Co in the US and have Japanese wife and a lot of Japanese friends both expat and in Japan. Everything. He said I have heard before. Child custody stuff in Japan international marriages is the stuff of nightmares. The US govt has even got on Japan to sign new agreements to try to address the issue. Funny how Vin doesn’t seem to have any opinions. Just a good listener I guess.
Interesting interview. Theres not much foreign people living in japan that are this knowledgable about Japanese policy and tell you sth about the dark side of the culture. Japan has become really good at exporting its culture, which causes many foreigners to fetisjize their culture, but this is not an accurate view. It is a very traditional conservative culture, which can look nice from the outside and has some beneftis but also comes with some really ugly inequalities and taboos.
Answering some points from my point of view. -Low BR. I think it’s not a problem only in Japan but it’s happening in many other countries as well. Allowing immigrants to become Japanese won’t change the real Japanese BR, it will only change an Asian race to a western country, especially if the immigrants started to breed only their own race, and to prove the low BR in Japan is not exactly only a Japanese(nationals) problem but a world economic problem, even foreigners living in Japan struggle to have a child here. Allowing all kind of immigrants to become Japanese will not only change Japan’s identity but it will create the low economic class in Japan based on those (families) who will come from abroad. Imo, that’s why Japan opened the doors to immigrants firstly to only work. If you marry a Japanese or in rare cases, prove you deserve being a Japanese (read below), you will become. -Accepting foreigners to become Japanese. It’s not about handling a red passport, it’s not about being fluent in Japanese, it’s not about knowing the culture. It’s all about you are able to live and DIE literally for Japan. To get the benefits, it’s easy to say I wanna become a Japanese, but are you ready to fight in a war for Japan? Are you ready to kill someone from your ex home country? If yes, so you can be a Japanese. If you think it’s exaggerated, this was literally what the US did to the Japanese living in the US during the WW2. They were forced to kill Japanese in the front line to prove they were Americans. I live for more than 30 years in Japan but I’m ok with my permanent visa. But of course if one day I have a child and he/she decided to become a Japanese, he/she will be free to choose. -Discrimination towards women about work/wages. I know this is a problem from a long date and Japan is still a patriarchal country. But imo they keep this system to precisely ‘force’ women to be a house holder, to become a wife, in other words, to increase the BR. If you notice, you will still find some girls who ‘dream’ to become a house holder (to be financially free), so in the end, it’s something bad for a good cause. -Agree with the increasing of wages but it’s not that simple, increasing wages will also increase everything’s prices. In the end, it will end up the same. The gov is already helping the couples and single mothers/fathers to raise their children. I think the main problem is to change the (global) youngsters mentality about the importance and how it can be ‘fun’ to have a child. I can see even rich people not having children just to enjoy more their lives. It’s selfish and individualist. The number of entertainments we have today, takes the focus of building a family. Earning around ¥350.000~500.000 is not a low wage but in Tokyo, where everything is more expensive and there are so many things to be entertained, you feel like you don’t earn enough to build a family. If people move to the country side, stop going out to drink, restaurants, etc, and start to enjoy a family life, I really believe people can make it with these wages. The real problem is the (global) individualist life style mentality.
@@missplainjane3905 I had gfs from different places. Big cities and country side. Country side people, imo, are more focused to build a family than the people from the big cities. I have learned more about the Japanese culture in the country side than in the big cities, where people are more focused to work and build a career. One example. I have dated 2 single mothers from both places. From the big city, she had only one kid and didn’t want another. From the country side, she had 3 kids and still said it was ok to have another one (with me). The mentality is different. It’s way easier to live in the country side. The cost of life is lower and there is less pressure in their work places. Right now I’m with a girl from Tokyo, she is 38 but still doesn’t think in having a baby, she is very rich. That’s why I’m saying it’s not only about wages. It’s about the mentality. She likes to travel, hang out with her friends, go to the gym, playing tennis, golf and of course, work. Having a baby means they have to stop working for while, wake up in the middle of night, feed the baby all the day, change diapers, etc. They (people from the big cities) don’t see it as something fun (Globally saying). For last, if money was the main problem, poor countries should have the lowest BR in the world ranking but we don’t see that. It’s all about their mentality.
@@missplainjane3905 The country where I came from has a great potencial of development and has a rich culture. They created the technology to search and extract oil from the deep sea. They also have good scientists in the medical area and they have developed cheaper treatments to certain diseases like AIDS and have sent these medicines to Africa. They created one of the most beautiful genres of music called Bossa Nova. Their soldiers are the best in jungle scenarios in the world. I’m proud of their elite police squad which literally terminate criminals without any hesitation. They don’t have baseball players to be compared to Otani, but they have legends like Ayrton Senna which Japan has adored for years because Senna was not only a good driver, he helped Honda engineers to develop their engines and in one of the races, he ran with just 2 gears until the end and made it. He gave everything in that race. The fought like a warrior and Japanese people identify to such kind of person. And also they had Pele. One of the greatest football players in the world. The only one who could stop a civil war in Africa. In that occasion both sides decided to stop the war just watch Pele’s match because he was not only a football player, he was a hero to the black people at that time. Beside everything said, they have the largest Japanese community outside Japan. You can’t compare both countries. My family likes to live there. I like to live here. After talking about Senna and Pele, I’m sure you know which country I came from.
@@missplainjane3905 I did answer your question. You can’t compare both. Both have developed things in deferent areas accordingly to their necessities. Now, if you wanna a straight answer certain area, you have to point it.
A lot of japanese people and japanophiles in the comments seem to have a really hard time taking criticism. I found the interview fantastic, the person you interviewed spoke well, with nuance and understanding, about complex topics. Thanks for the interview.
Because Japan is Rich, Proud, and Free, much like places like America, the UK, France, and Italy. They are powerful when it comes to exporting their culture abroad. I have noticed that as the US has become more like Germany and less proud their media is becoming less popular. If you look at the richest countries, in terms of largest economy, it is surprising how weak China and Germany are in terms of cultural influence compared to Japan or the UK, or even France. The worst thing Japan could do for soft power is be introspective and without pride like the Germans.
A youtuber I followed who used to live in Japan (currently lives in the Netherlands) said that the R35 GTR was put up for sale to sell, with a value of 75000 euros at the time, and then the Japanese buyer (he did not know that he was a yakuza when he sold it) gave him a fake check (containing a fake company name and bank account) and He sold it by showing a fake ID card (it looked like the real one), then when he went to cash the check he found out it was fake. The fraudster then sold the car to a dealer on the same day for maybe half its value. The police said that this was a situation between you and this dealer, and the fraudster could not be found. 75000 euros of the person I mentioned was gone. In my opinion, the police got their share
Weird story. Nobody sells a car before transferring the documentation of the car and of course getting paid first. While he was doing the papers、it would have 100% time to get the fraudster with his fake documents. Without transferring, the buyer cannot sell the car. And to transfer a white number plate takes days because the police will check if you have a parking lot to your car. So, HOW he just gave the car without transferring and HOW the ‘Yakuza’ sold the car? Sorry but I don’t believe this story
I don't agree with this perspective that much. As a Japanese and Canadian mix I would never recommend a Japanese person to come to Canada. Japan isn't a perfect country but good lord Canada is so much worse. I went to high school and did Uni in Canada, recently was back but I don't even want to go there for vacation. It's a lost country, no one in their right mind would ever pick Canada over Japan.
I'm living in Japan since 12 years now and I can only confirm what this young man said. This country is leaded by angry and corrupted old men who will never give some power back to the women and to the youngsters. Considering that 1/ only elder people vote, and 2/ they are more and more numerous, Japan as a country is going right to the cliff. I've got a young boy, he has no future here : I'm already preparing him to open to the world and live abroad.
He seems like an intelligent guy who has a fairly good grasp of the challenges of the weak points of the Japanese system. You cannot fully integrate into the society if you're not Japanese but do you really need to? It's a tough system on Japanese people. The issue I see with him and other foreigners is a non-Japanese growth path. It's very easy to stagnate in that society as a foreigner. You need to find your niche which is likely your own business like a store, bar or restaurant. He looks to me like a guy who's getting burnt out as his life is not going anywhere. So either find that niche or go somewhere else.
So much of what he complains about is very similar in the USA. As for the custody issues, the US is also not a great example of a country that prioritizes the safety of children. The situation with his friend's wife is very unfortunate, but the mortality rate of children under age 5 in the US is over twice that of Japan. It does seem like his issues are exacerbated by the challenges that come with hafu status. There isn't a comparable scenario in the USA so I can imagine it is much more comfortable for him there. Not sure if he has seen the state of things since the pandemic, but things are actually pretty doomed in the USA.
The US is essentially a corporate oligarchy. It is really not a democracy because the corporations have too much influence on our politics. Legislation is designed to assist corporations in their business endeavors. The pandemic was extremely profitable for many industries. They saw it not as a public health crisis but as a business opportunity. The housing crisis continues to get worse, since stock is low and pretty much no one can afford to buy a home unless they are inheriting wealth. Homelessness is worse than ever from New York to California, and the drug crisis too (Kensington Philadelphia is an example). Infrastructure is crumbling. If you don’t have a car you can’t live in most places outside of major cities, where housing is unaffordable. There are lots of other issues I can’t elaborate on right now, but essentially living in the US is like being in the matrix. If you have enough money your life will be ok because things seem to work for you and you don’t realize how badly many people are struggling. This is why many wealthier immigrants love it here, they just don’t have to deal with the hardships of poverty and don’t understand how critical it is because they don’t see it. The average person seems to be satisfied with how many shopping options there are and this is enough of a distraction to accept the situation as it is.
The extreme examples he's talking about here, the examples of his friends, etc., are his ideas, and I'm not going to tell him what to do with them. You can live as you wish in the country of your choice. But passports. I feel this issue is very problematic for the purpose of medical care, visas, etc., and he is trying to maintain a dual passport, which is not allowed in Japan, while recognizing that it is forbidden. He knows where that money is coming from, right? He talks so much about wages and the government, and then he says he benefits from it? How selfish can he be? After all, he is the kind of person who does what he wants to do no matter what the laws of the country are, and I suspect that he would feel the same problems in any other country. A country with low wages but low price inflation and a country with high wages and rising prices. No one knows yet which is better in the long run. And when it comes to the declining birthrate, it's not just a Japanese problem, and some countries are doing what he's talking about, but none of them are achieving the results he's talking about. This is my opinion. After all, you can live as you please in the country of your choice. You'd better solve the passport problem as soon as possible.
I think a lot of his points are valid but they have a negative perspective... For example, what he didnt mention about the low wages is that the cost of living is also lower and government benefits are greater so the japanese quality of life is roughly on par with the US depending on your personal priorities (it's actually better on paper but dragged down by the overwork culture).
At the age 28, I advise him to keep quiet about his Japanese nationality. Officially, he is supposed to be either American or Japanese to Japanese government. If he hates it so much, he should renounce it. It's not fair to the people who really want to be Japanese and work hard at it. I can see why the Japanese don't see him as a Japanese person. He can, according to his words, speak Japanese but he doesn't think and behave like one.
Most basically, the question is: does he really consider himself Japanese? Based on this interview, I don't think so, so he should stop crying about how Japanese people doesn't consider him as a Japanese person.
@@Mefistosteles484 I'm not so sure he considers himself to be Japanese or not. He seems very bitter about not being accepted as a Japanese person by the Japanese for sure.
I'm seeing A LOT of Americans moving here already. I like the US, their culture and I'm also getting paid from them, so I hope they can fix things there. But I also want to welcome new friends.
The guy is very negative. Guy is white in the US and still treated as favored guest in Japan. Meanwhile any other ethnic minority including other Asians will have it bad in both countries
For law enforcement, I do understand where his frustration comes from. This is the core reason why Japan is not on top of the world anymore. Human capital should be the number one subject to any country. But to anyone watching this, please take the personal stories with a pinch of salt. These are not representing all Japanese people.
Awesome interview. Smart dude. Good insight on how things really are here. Once you take off the weeb lenses and see things how they truly are, Japans lowkey kinda fucked lol Also regarding the custody of half Japanese half foreign kids, the courts will give full custody to the Japanese parent regardless of the gender. This country really is all in favor of its 100% pure Japanese citizens and no one else. Besides the negatives, I still hella love living here hahaha
>This country really is all in favor of its 100% pure Japanese citizens and no one else. That's a good thing. You know what happened to Europe, which favours foreigners and immigrants? Now they realise their mistake and far-right parties are gaining support in many parts of Europe.
The tragedy of Japan is that it adopted European corruption at the same time as it modernized by adopting European culture. To give a simple example, Shigeru Yoshida, the grandfather of the current Minister of Finance, Taro Aso, who is the descendant of Toshimichi Okubo, a Satsuma Clan samurai, who was the first Prime Minister of Japan before the cabinet system was established and the core of the Meiji government that successfully overthrew the shogunate with Morgan-Rothschild money, was originally the Yokohama branch manager of Jardine Matheson, a subsidiary of East India Company, and the founder of the Japanese government. His grandmother, Yukiko Makino, was "educated" by Alice Perry Grew in international affairs, politics, and economics in the Morgan-Rothschild style. This Alice's mother's maiden name was Cabot. The Cabot family made its fortune in the black slave trade and drug trafficking. This Alice's origins, the way she was educated and settled in Japan, and the "strangeness of her political moves" are clearly the moves of a gifted intelligence/spy from her early childhood. Not only the economic reality that the parent company of Finance Minister Aso's hemp manufacturing group is Rothschild's shipping company, Lafarge, but also the "imperialistic lineage" of slave domination of colored people (black, Asian, and Japanese) has been "inherited" from Cabot-Alice to Emperor and Mrs. Yoshida Shigeru to Finance Minister Aso. The Cabot family's "directly operated" institute is the Brookings Institution in the U.S., which once produced Hjalmar Schacht, the finance minister in charge of "financing" Nazi Germany's war of aggression. It has been said that the Brookings Institution makes U.S. monetary policy and the Federal Reserve Board implements it, and Greenspan has served as the Fed chairman for many years. Townsend Greenspan, a consulting firm run by Greenspan himself and chaired by him, is "engaged" in research and study as a subordinate institution of the Brookings Institution. It is the Cabot family, not the former Japan Highway Public Corporation, that has been formulating the "Japan Highway Plan" for many years as a measure to expand Japan's domestic demand (a monetary policy that Japan's wealth should not be brought to the U.S. for acquisition). This is the backbone of the "Road Tribe," the main culprit of wasteful public works projects that increase Japan's budget deficit. André Meyer (1898-1979) was the legal advisor to Al Gore, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for environmental issues, and at the same time, as the "administrator" of the assassinated President Kennedy's estate, he effectively "controlled" the Kennedy family fortune. Meyer, who is also a legal advisor to the "Murder Inc." Israeli mafia that undertakes murder for money, along with his mentor, trained Alan Greenspan, the longtime chairman of the U.S. central bank, the Fed. Meyer's subordinate and right-hand man, the Washington law firm of Rowe & Koch and the Libby law firm, has long served as Meyer's drug trafficking representation firm. Lewis Libby, the owner of this Libby law firm, was the principal assistant to U.S. Vice President Cheney. At the same time, this Libby law firm was the law firm of counsel for the UF United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Banana), which for many years operated black banana slave plantations in Latin America. UF's managing family is President Bush's family, and its co-owners are the prominent "Cabot family"; UF's black surveillance organization later evolved into the CIA. Just as the Cabot family enslaved the blacks, Finance Minister Aso and his family have been working as Japanese slaves "owned" by the Cabot family. In 1492, Columbus reached the Caribbean Sea. This is said to be "Columbus' discovery of the Americas. In 1497, John Cabot and Sebastian Cabot arrived in the mainland U.S. and began full-scale settlement of the American continent. （John Cabot (English: John Cabot; Italian: Giovanni Caboto; c. 1450 - 1498) was a medieval navigator. Jewish. He is known as the discoverer of North America. The Italian reading is Giovanni Caboto, and the English reading is John Cabot. (Born in Genoa, like Columbus, he spent the first half of his life in Venice and emigrated to England in 1484, where he received a patent from King Henry VII in 1496...) The Cabot family originated with Giovanni Caboto, a Genoa-born banker who was part of the Venetian financial circle, the source of the Swiss financial circle, which today in the 21st century is funding Rothschild and Putin of Russia. This family is related to the Rosenberg family of Kiev, Russia, and forms the Russian-Swiss underground financial waterway. This "first true invader of the Americas," the Cabot family, amassed great wealth as slave traders who "forced" African blacks into the United States as slaves. The Cabot family used the money from the black slave trade to finance the founding of the Russell Company, a narcotics monopoly, in 1823. The Russell Company, of which President Bush's family served as auditors, brought Turkish opium to the United States for sale. The syndicate Perkins family, which had formed a monopolistic drug distribution network in the U.S., was in charge of its distribution. The Cabot-Perkins family "grew" to become the wealthiest family in the United States in the first half of the 19th century. The Cabot family embodies the fact that the wealth of the United States was formed through the black slave trade and the drug trade. Forbes magazine, founded by William Forbes [Bertie Charles Forbes], was "financed" by the Cabot family. The Forbes Asia bureau was established and operated as an intelligence and espionage organization to "ensure the security" of the Cabot family's "business of drug trafficking and Asian slave trafficking in Asia," i.e., trafficking kidnapped Japanese women as prostitutes. The Forbes Asia Bureau is the "advance guard" of the Cabot invasion of Asia. Meanwhile, the Cabot family's wealth from slave and drug trafficking was accumulated in Switzerland, where the Cabot's agent, Count Shelburne of Switzerland, has continued to reign as the "Don" of the Swiss financial world . In the 19th century, J. Pierpont Morgan of the Morgan Zaibatsu, which financed the purchase of guns and ammunition for Satsuma and Choshu, who launched an armed struggle to overthrow the shogunate in Japan at the end of the Edo period, used his agent Thomas Lamont as the "creator" of the Meiji Restoration government, and "devoted himself to the cultivation" of the Mitsubishi and Mitsui zaibatsu in Japan. The Morgan zaibatsu were agents of the Rothschild family As an agent of the Rothschilds, the Morgans served as the "conduit" in the U.S. to funnel funds to the Rockefellers. (*Quoting Note: And let us not forget the Schiff family.) The Rothschild-Rockefeller-Bush family financed Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s. The U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Grew, who was the "negotiating window" for that funding, was also a member of the Morgan-Rothschild conglomerate. Joseph's cousin, Jane Norton Grew, was the wife of Jack Morgan, the successor to the first J.P. Morgan.
Interesting interview! Being half, he knows a lot about the surface of these social problems but doesn't know the reason the problems exist. To say there's no crime in Japan and that police and courts don't enforce things is very naive. Japan is a whole other country, so, it's unfair to compare to western standards. But as the foreign population increases and the need for foreign labor increases, it will get interesting.
There is no perfect country, these issues aren't new either. Btw sir, is this hafu guy fluent in the Japanese language while living in Japan ? He seems to be all over the place with his answers.
@@Vininjapan I see, pardon sir but there were some cuss words he used which makes it abit uncomfortable to hear. Anyway thanks for putting another new video.
@@Haunt888 @Mahinang_Nilalang, is that how you were raised, by cussing and not learning to how to be respectful instead ? Well others don't grow up like you at all.
do they get any 'child tax credit' or other financial benefit for having a child, to cover the increased cost of raising the child? cause u get a monthly amount in Canada if ur income is below diff threshholds.
So true what he says but the headline was a real clickbait you know. I really hated that so many criticized Takahashi Kazuki (Kazuo) for criticizing the Japanese government. He already belonged to the wealthy and older Japanese ppl and was actually criticized for caring about whats going to happen to Japan and the younger generations if it stays the way it is
@@Vininjapan yes because he was only criticizing it, he also said many good things. So it's actually not correct. Would be better if the headline was sth like - what this half Japanese dislikes about Japan - less clickbaity and more on point. By the way, this guy, I don't know how well you know him, said he doesn't care that he is not considered / doesn't look Japanese but when you told him that "he has nothing Japanese" it kinda made me feel bad. It might be OK to him for he also grew up in the US but for many hafus this feels kinda offensive. It's like you as a foreigner telling a person who actually also belongs to that country (Japan) that he doesn't belong there. Please be a little more considerate if you intend to Interview hafus in the future otherwise you are very likely to hurt the feelings of your interview partners.
@@akita_inu-il6em I know him and when I said that I meant his appearance, when it comes to click bait the title of the video is almost identical to what you suggested, he indeed mentioned here and there good parts about japan but my question to him was about the bad side of Japan so..
@@Vininjapan it's obvious that you are talking about his appearance in the first place but that doesn't change the fact that you can hurt the feelings of your interview partner easily by saying things like that. I am half Asian half White myself and look Asian to Caucasian ppl while one of my sisters looks way more Caucasian. Once she was asked why her sisters are Chinese while she isn't. It really hurt her because to her it was like people telling her that she doesn't belong to us. For many halfies it feels like another person telling you that you don't belong to your identity/family/country. Maybe it's hard for you to understand and from time to time ppl will not mind or not mind anymore, at least on the outside because they are already used to it. However, that doesn't change the fact that remarks like this are really insensitive. Even if you do not intend to hurt the other person in the first place. If ppl look more Asian or White in the eyes or the soceity they are currently staying it's very likely that they already know what the soceity as a whole considers them. Just keep it to yourself unless you are asked. Usually you hopefully also do not walk up to another person telling them that he or she is ugly etc. It's because you usually know that doing so will only hurt the feelings of another or that it's simply rude. That's why I advised you not to do so for pure Caucasians, Asians and so on it's not common knowledge to know what it feels like to be of mixed race. In terms of the headline, well no it's not almost the same because the title clearly states that he doesn't like Japan when that's obviously not the case as a whole. If sb for example writes "why this guy hates dogs" the title implies that the guy doesn't like them in general not that he thinks they are great in many ways except for a few things. Hope you are getting what I am saying
A lot of eye-opening points I agree with. Don't mean to get political but the way he described the Soka Gakkai as a 'cult' though is utterly wrong. It is not a cult. It's a Buddhist organisation that promotes respect for human life and world peace, which he would have known had he taken the time to look into it without prejudice.
@@VininjapanMostly because of the post war years and tabloids blowing things out of proportion, they still have that fear. They have reformed a lot since then. Look up Dr Bryan R. Wilson writings on it, he explains it much better than I ever could.
Not every "Buddhist" organization are the same. Soka Gakkai was expelled from the original Nichiren Soshu, and so these guys don't consider Soka Gakkai as legit. They don't have monks, they don't have temples. Some Gakkai-in refuses to go to Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines. They are certainly different from other traditional Buddhist organizations.
@@kakaiyu no, I get that. But in each person's life, any bad circumstance depends on the actual root of the problem and it's not necessarily their religion. Daisaku Ikeda, the most recent leader of the organisation, always stressed that 'the family is the foundation of society' and gratitude towards our parents is the 'mark of true maturity and growth of a human being'.
The mother having full custody is not necessarily true. There is another Japanese content creator who has a crazy sister who had full custody of her daughter taken away. The Japanese father has full custody of their daughter. The ex husband is now living in Singapore with his daughter and new wife.
It's only true if you're a foreigner in a relationship with a Japanese person. That might be my deal breaker with Japanese women. Because I don't want my future wife to just be able to take my kid just because her country allows her. I don't agree with that.
This guy is like a mix of Christopher Hitchens and a Yakuza-Boss. Eloquent but real. He needs more air-time. (I wonder if he still feels proud of his japanese side.. If he still belives in honor & the old samurai-values.. despite beeing red-pilled by living there)
Really interesting video to watch! I think to add to that lack of fair wage point, don't many Japanese people overwork themselves way too much? How can you even consider family life when you don't have free time for yourself and you lack the desire to live and enjoy life since there is only ever working and a bit of sleeping?
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With his attitude and mouth I can see why he's having a tough time. He's totally unsuitable to live in a country that has a disciplined lifestyle.
This guy is a good talker I was engaged this entire video. No bs just straight up
This interview has been the most realist about Japan on RUclips so far. Some of the same reasons this guy has stated are some of the many reasons why I would never permanently live in Japan as it is now unless it changes drastically in my lifetime plus I prefer all the tourist benefits anyway
A nice little microphone lol
This man is smart and nailed it. He is still young and should go back to the U.S. or try Okinawa but when he gets older like in 40-50s, he would much appreciate what Japan could offer! Japan got strict feudal system in place, which is good for Ojisan or Obasan but not so great for younger generations.
I am surprised that with your video quality your channel haven't got the viewership that it deserves.
ikr? youtube's algorithm needs to wake up
ohohohohoh what a comment! much appreciated! comments like that definitely keep me going! much love!!
Interesting video. Your interview style is great... you let the guy speak, but asked some good prompts & questions to get deeper into the subject. Cheers!
Bless! I am glad that you enjoyed it thanks a lot!
No country is perfect and I understand his view of Japan. Not sure what he does for a living but if I were him I would stay in Japan. It's getting tough surviving here in U.S.A. Everything is getting expensive: food, rent, insurance, utility bills, gas, tuition and etc. Crime is increasing depending where you live. I hear a lot of my friends that cannot find a girlfriend because they are expecting a ridiculous status. For example, if you are not making 6 figures, they don't even want to talk to you. Anyway, goodluck to him.
He seems to like America more than Japan so he should go back there, why stay in a place you hate?
@@Mwoods2272 I understand. I hope he knows what it is like living here in America right now compared to Japan. He might hate living here too but that's his decision of course.
@@anthonyxavier6300He has a Japanese passport. If he can't handle things back in America he can just hop on a plane and move back to Japan. Its not like us gaijin that have to jump through a million hoops just to get a long stay visa in Japan.
@@jw841 Didn't he mentioned that Japan won't accept dual citizenship? So either he has to choose Japan or America. Maybe he can stay there for a working visa I guess.
@@anthonyxavier6300 They are looking to do that but he still has both citizenships.
I cant believe how i underestimated him because of his chill and calm demeanour for the few first minutes and seconds of the interview... but as i watched and listened to him the longer the interview went ... the more intelligence and extremely observant he is about the problems regarding Japanese society. i could easily watch a 1 hour podcast of him just rambling about japanese problems.
maybe i should open a podcast with him haha
@@Vininjapan We Spanish Speakers have the pleasure to have had Kira Sensei and Dharma/Phase2. A smart duo analyzing Japanese Culture. Both are Spaniards and Kira Sensei is a Psychologist focused on Education and Learning. Their dynamic and analysis are similar to this young man's observations.
Kira analyzes a theme and Dharma/Phase2 fleshes it out. Both are hilarious AND educational.
This young man's ideas are very clear indeed!!!.
I found Japan willingly accepted me because I acted like them.
I think Japan is an accepting country but when it comes to be considered Japanese it’s a different story
I noticed over time living there that people went from looking at me like a foreigner to thinking I was half-Jap. I have brown-hair, brown eyes and even wavy hair.@@Vininjapan
But this dude goes out of his way to act like a douche bag, just listen to him
That doesn’t mean you’re Japanese. It’s like the word Umami. It’s hard to translate directly to English but it’s there. Being Japanese according to the Japanese is being born and raised. If you’re born and raised elsewhere, you’re probably not Japanese. Re: Japanese-Brazilian and Japanese-Argentinian. Even Ryukyuans or Okinawans are a bit different.
They don’t report crime so there’s no crime
His west coast accent and attitude make this interview pretty funny to watch and super unusual compared to most Japanese "man on the street" stuff on RUclips.
To my ears I don't hear any accent just plain American way of talking
hes so californian lol
liberal hive mind
This guy really understands Japan. Pleasant interview!
how does he have dual citizenship?
@@TOOTOO-f6v Probably cause he was originally a U.S. citizen then got Japanese citizenship after a while of living in Japan. I had a friend who was from Chendu, China. He only had Chinese citizenship with a visa or green card or something. But he didnt get his U.S. Citizenship until his service in the U.S. Army, and I remember my commander helping him get it too and expediting his paperwork for it. Then I remember he had dual citizenship for a long time, but then he mentioned something like he stopped having dual citizenship after 6 years, then he just decided to keep his U.S. Citizenship and got rid of his Chinese Citizenship.
@@TheMixedPlateFrequency i didnt know you are allowed dual citizenship in Japan.
This dude is extremely negative and has a pretty bleak outlook on things. I find that as someone who has lived in both america and japan, he's right that Japan isn't a perfect place like a lot of youtube channels make it out to be. However, he's on the other end of the spectrum here where it seems like he's let his bad attitude dominate his view of the world. I hope he finds happiness, it's not in Japan or America. It's within.
This is the truth. But it's very easy to get overshadowed by negative views and many people, including myself, have to remember that it's all about perspective.
Everything he’s talking about happens in the usa if not worse.. a lot of companies will just pay fines too.
I’m also from SoCal.
I can’t really sympathize with what he’s saying much.
Child custody as well?
I agree, ask the SEC, companies pay huge fines but the corporate people never go to jail or even fired from the positions.
@@Mwoods2272 exactly LOL. They get away with even worst shit
This was very insightful.. great video for folks thinking about moving and wanting to find out the potential downsides to setting up a life in Japan. Thank Vin and PlayStation 🖤
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I liked this dude, he directly tells the truth. As a foreigner living in the Netherlands, if you are a foreigner, there is always discrimination and I have encountered such situations, it is not only related to Japan.
Do you enjoy netherlands sir
Interesting fellow. His SoCal bro English is kinda annoying but he isn’t wrong about a lot. I worked in Japanese Co in the US and have Japanese wife and a lot of Japanese friends both expat and in Japan. Everything. He said I have heard before. Child custody stuff in Japan international marriages is the stuff of nightmares. The US govt has even got on Japan to sign new agreements to try to address the issue. Funny how Vin doesn’t seem to have any opinions. Just a good listener I guess.
Well I thought to myself cause it’s an interview I gonna listen for the most part
You got what you wanted
Interesting interview. Theres not much foreign people living in japan that are this knowledgable about Japanese policy and tell you sth about the dark side of the culture. Japan has become really good at exporting its culture, which causes many foreigners to fetisjize their culture, but this is not an accurate view. It is a very traditional conservative culture, which can look nice from the outside and has some beneftis but also comes with some really ugly inequalities and taboos.
Even for the US and any country.
文化の輸出、中国人がよく言う言葉
Answering some points from my point of view.
-Low BR. I think it’s not a problem only in Japan but it’s happening in many other countries as well. Allowing immigrants to become Japanese won’t change the real Japanese BR, it will only change an Asian race to a western country, especially if the immigrants started to breed only their own race, and to prove the low BR in Japan is not exactly only a Japanese(nationals) problem but a world economic problem, even foreigners living in Japan struggle to have a child here. Allowing all kind of immigrants to become Japanese will not only change Japan’s identity but it will create the low economic class in Japan based on those (families) who will come from abroad. Imo, that’s why Japan opened the doors to immigrants firstly to only work. If you marry a Japanese or in rare cases, prove you deserve being a Japanese (read below), you will become.
-Accepting foreigners to become Japanese. It’s not about handling a red passport, it’s not about being fluent in Japanese, it’s not about knowing the culture. It’s all about you are able to live and DIE literally for Japan. To get the benefits, it’s easy to say I wanna become a Japanese, but are you ready to fight in a war for Japan? Are you ready to kill someone from your ex home country? If yes, so you can be a Japanese.
If you think it’s exaggerated, this was literally what the US did to the Japanese living in the US during the WW2. They were forced to kill Japanese in the front line to prove they were Americans.
I live for more than 30 years in Japan but I’m ok with my permanent visa. But of course if one day I have a child and he/she decided to become a Japanese, he/she will be free to choose.
-Discrimination towards women about work/wages. I know this is a problem from a long date and Japan is still a patriarchal country. But imo they keep this system to precisely ‘force’ women to be a house holder, to become a wife, in other words, to increase the BR. If you notice, you will still find some girls who ‘dream’ to become a house holder (to be financially free), so in the end, it’s something bad for a good cause.
-Agree with the increasing of wages but it’s not that simple, increasing wages will also increase everything’s prices. In the end, it will end up the same. The gov is already helping the couples and single mothers/fathers to raise their children. I think the main problem is to change the (global) youngsters mentality about the importance and how it can be ‘fun’ to have a child. I can see even rich people not having children just to enjoy more their lives. It’s selfish and individualist. The number of entertainments we have today, takes the focus of building a family. Earning around ¥350.000~500.000 is not a low wage but in Tokyo, where everything is more expensive and there are so many things to be entertained, you feel like you don’t earn enough to build a family. If people move to the country side, stop going out to drink, restaurants, etc, and start to enjoy a family life, I really believe people can make it with these wages. The real problem is the (global) individualist life style mentality.
Birth Rate
I’m fluent and have been in many places. Are you trying to say these issues are only particular to certain areas in Japan?
@@missplainjane3905 I had gfs from different places. Big cities and country side. Country side people, imo, are more focused to build a family than the people from the big cities. I have learned more about the Japanese culture in the country side than in the big cities, where people are more focused to work and build a career.
One example. I have dated 2 single mothers from both places. From the big city, she had only one kid and didn’t want another. From the country side, she had 3 kids and still said it was ok to have another one (with me). The mentality is different. It’s way easier to live in the country side. The cost of life is lower and there is less pressure in their work places.
Right now I’m with a girl from Tokyo, she is 38 but still doesn’t think in having a baby, she is very rich. That’s why I’m saying it’s not only about wages. It’s about the mentality. She likes to travel, hang out with her friends, go to the gym, playing tennis, golf and of course, work.
Having a baby means they have to stop working for while, wake up in the middle of night, feed the baby all the day, change diapers, etc. They (people from the big cities) don’t see it as something fun (Globally saying).
For last, if money was the main problem, poor countries should have the lowest BR in the world ranking but we don’t see that. It’s all about their mentality.
@@missplainjane3905 The country where I came from has a great potencial of development and has a rich culture. They created the technology to search and extract oil from the deep sea. They also have good scientists in the medical area and they have developed cheaper treatments to certain diseases like AIDS and have sent these medicines to Africa. They created one of the most beautiful genres of music called Bossa Nova. Their soldiers are the best in jungle scenarios in the world. I’m proud of their elite police squad which literally terminate criminals without any hesitation.
They don’t have baseball players to be compared to Otani, but they have legends like Ayrton Senna which Japan has adored for years because Senna was not only a good driver, he helped Honda engineers to develop their engines and in one of the races, he ran with just 2 gears until the end and made it. He gave everything in that race. The fought like a warrior and Japanese people identify to such kind of person.
And also they had Pele. One of the greatest football players in the world. The only one who could stop a civil war in Africa. In that occasion both sides decided to stop the war just watch Pele’s match because he was not only a football player, he was a hero to the black people at that time.
Beside everything said, they have the largest Japanese community outside Japan.
You can’t compare both countries. My family likes to live there. I like to live here.
After talking about Senna and Pele, I’m sure you know which country I came from.
@@missplainjane3905 I did answer your question. You can’t compare both. Both have developed things in deferent areas accordingly to their necessities. Now, if you wanna a straight answer certain area, you have to point it.
A lot of japanese people and japanophiles in the comments seem to have a really hard time taking criticism. I found the interview fantastic, the person you interviewed spoke well, with nuance and understanding, about complex topics. Thanks for the interview.
thank you!!
Because Japan is Rich, Proud, and Free, much like places like America, the UK, France, and Italy. They are powerful when it comes to exporting their culture abroad. I have noticed that as the US has become more like Germany and less proud their media is becoming less popular. If you look at the richest countries, in terms of largest economy, it is surprising how weak China and Germany are in terms of cultural influence compared to Japan or the UK, or even France.
The worst thing Japan could do for soft power is be introspective and without pride like the Germans.
A youtuber I followed who used to live in Japan (currently lives in the Netherlands) said that the R35 GTR was put up for sale to sell, with a value of 75000 euros at the time, and then the Japanese buyer (he did not know that he was a yakuza when he sold it) gave him a fake check (containing a fake company name and bank account) and He sold it by showing a fake ID card (it looked like the real one), then when he went to cash the check he found out it was fake. The fraudster then sold the car to a dealer on the same day for maybe half its value. The police said that this was a situation between you and this dealer, and the fraudster could not be found. 75000 euros of the person I mentioned was gone. In my opinion, the police got their share
Weird story. Nobody sells a car before transferring the documentation of the car and of course getting paid first. While he was doing the papers、it would have 100% time to get the fraudster with his fake documents.
Without transferring, the buyer cannot sell the car.
And to transfer a white number plate takes days because the police will check if you have a parking lot to your car. So, HOW he just gave the car without transferring and HOW the ‘Yakuza’ sold the car?
Sorry but I don’t believe this story
The Police didn't obtain benefits, he mishandled the sale.
Good interview. I came here 28 years ago and I would never recommend a fellow Canadian to live in Japan. I agree with everything he says.
Do you enjoy living in Japan though?
@@Vininjapan I tolerate it for the most part but winters here are nice
It was 30 years economic depression.
I don't agree with this perspective that much. As a Japanese and Canadian mix I would never recommend a Japanese person to come to Canada.
Japan isn't a perfect country but good lord Canada is so much worse. I went to high school and did Uni in Canada, recently was back but I don't even want to go there for vacation. It's a lost country, no one in their right mind would ever pick Canada over Japan.
@@MrWestern56 if you feel that way, I doubt I can even bother offering a counter point. Canada wins in nearly every metric.
Great interview, that PlayStation hat dude should start his own RUclips channel.
I'm living in Japan since 12 years now and I can only confirm what this young man said. This country is leaded by angry and corrupted old men who will never give some power back to the women and to the youngsters. Considering that 1/ only elder people vote, and 2/ they are more and more numerous, Japan as a country is going right to the cliff. I've got a young boy, he has no future here : I'm already preparing him to open to the world and live abroad.
If you hate it there why stay?
I do not. But even if I did, I made my life, I'm grown up, I secured my future. It's not about me, it's all about the youngsters.
@@robertlamantin5088
You must be fluent in the language and been all over the country right sir
This dude's vibe raised my testosterone 100 nanograms.
He seems like an intelligent guy who has a fairly good grasp of the challenges of the weak points of the Japanese system. You cannot fully integrate into the society if you're not Japanese but do you really need to? It's a tough system on Japanese people. The issue I see with him and other foreigners is a non-Japanese growth path. It's very easy to stagnate in that society as a foreigner. You need to find your niche which is likely your own business like a store, bar or restaurant. He looks to me like a guy who's getting burnt out as his life is not going anywhere. So either find that niche or go somewhere else.
So much of what he complains about is very similar in the USA. As for the custody issues, the US is also not a great example of a country that prioritizes the safety of children. The situation with his friend's wife is very unfortunate, but the mortality rate of children under age 5 in the US is over twice that of Japan. It does seem like his issues are exacerbated by the challenges that come with hafu status. There isn't a comparable scenario in the USA so I can imagine it is much more comfortable for him there. Not sure if he has seen the state of things since the pandemic, but things are actually pretty doomed in the USA.
Why do you say the US is doomed since the pandemic?
The US is essentially a corporate oligarchy. It is really not a democracy because the corporations have too much influence on our politics. Legislation is designed to assist corporations in their business endeavors. The pandemic was extremely profitable for many industries. They saw it not as a public health crisis but as a business opportunity. The housing crisis continues to get worse, since stock is low and pretty much no one can afford to buy a home unless they are inheriting wealth. Homelessness is worse than ever from New York to California, and the drug crisis too (Kensington Philadelphia is an example). Infrastructure is crumbling. If you don’t have a car you can’t live in most places outside of major cities, where housing is unaffordable. There are lots of other issues I can’t elaborate on right now, but essentially living in the US is like being in the matrix. If you have enough money your life will be ok because things seem to work for you and you don’t realize how badly many people are struggling. This is why many wealthier immigrants love it here, they just don’t have to deal with the hardships of poverty and don’t understand how critical it is because they don’t see it. The average person seems to be satisfied with how many shopping options there are and this is enough of a distraction to accept the situation as it is.
The extreme examples he's talking about here, the examples of his friends, etc., are his ideas, and I'm not going to tell him what to do with them.
You can live as you wish in the country of your choice.
But passports.
I feel this issue is very problematic for the purpose of medical care, visas, etc., and he is trying to maintain a dual passport, which is not allowed in Japan, while recognizing that it is forbidden.
He knows where that money is coming from, right?
He talks so much about wages and the government, and then he says he benefits from it? How selfish can he be?
After all, he is the kind of person who does what he wants to do no matter what the laws of the country are, and I suspect that he would feel the same problems in any other country.
A country with low wages but low price inflation and a country with high wages and rising prices.
No one knows yet which is better in the long run.
And when it comes to the declining birthrate, it's not just a Japanese problem, and some countries are doing what he's talking about, but none of them are achieving the results he's talking about.
This is my opinion. After all, you can live as you please in the country of your choice.
You'd better solve the passport problem as soon as possible.
I think a lot of his points are valid but they have a negative perspective... For example, what he didnt mention about the low wages is that the cost of living is also lower and government benefits are greater so the japanese quality of life is roughly on par with the US depending on your personal priorities (it's actually better on paper but dragged down by the overwork culture).
Japan is a very conservative country and he has a very Californian liberal mindset.
At the age 28, I advise him to keep quiet about his Japanese nationality. Officially, he is supposed to be either American or Japanese to Japanese government. If he hates it so much, he should renounce it. It's not fair to the people who really want to be Japanese and work hard at it.
I can see why the Japanese don't see him as a Japanese person. He can, according to his words, speak Japanese but he doesn't think and behave like one.
Most basically, the question is: does he really consider himself Japanese? Based on this interview, I don't think so, so he should stop crying about how Japanese people doesn't consider him as a Japanese person.
@@Mefistosteles484 I'm not so sure he considers himself to be Japanese or not. He seems very bitter about not being accepted as a Japanese person by the Japanese for sure.
11:51 mans threw miku under the bus 😭😭😭lol I get what he's saying though.
He doesn't really understand anything other than the surface level...
You need him
Back on the show or he needs to start his own.
I’ll talk to him about it!
@@Vininjapan I’m new to your channel and this video made me a lifetime subscriber. Keep up the good work mate.
@@pabloyagani ohhh super glad to hear!! Much appreciated!! Hope you’ll like the other content too
This guy is neurotic, he implies radical changes solve anything... They are disruptive.
Dude Usa is done, in the next 3 years a lot of americans will move to Japan for a better life
Yep! I’m one of them!
Lmao did you listen to what this guy said??
I'm seeing A LOT of Americans moving here already. I like the US, their culture and I'm also getting paid from them, so I hope they can fix things there. But I also want to welcome new friends.
There are many countries americans can go for a better life!
@@Woolong-ql1jh Thank you for welcoming us! 🤗
The guy is very negative. Guy is white in the US and still treated as favored guest in Japan. Meanwhile any other ethnic minority including other Asians will have it bad in both countries
For law enforcement, I do understand where his frustration comes from. This is the core reason why Japan is not on top of the world anymore. Human capital should be the number one subject to any country.
But to anyone watching this, please take the personal stories with a pinch of salt. These are not representing all Japanese people.
true i guess i need to put a disclaimer just in case haha
A very insightful and perceptive understanding of Japan. A most enjoyable interview.
Glad you enjoyed!
Awesome interview. Smart dude. Good insight on how things really are here. Once you take off the weeb lenses and see things how they truly are, Japans lowkey kinda fucked lol
Also regarding the custody of half Japanese half foreign kids, the courts will give full custody to the Japanese parent regardless of the gender. This country really is all in favor of its 100% pure Japanese citizens and no one else.
Besides the negatives, I still hella love living here hahaha
>This country really is all in favor of its 100% pure Japanese citizens and no one else.
That's a good thing. You know what happened to Europe, which favours foreigners and immigrants? Now they realise their mistake and far-right parties are gaining support in many parts of Europe.
my left ear enjoyed this
Ohhh my bad didn’t even notice I’ll improve that next time
@@Vininjapan Haha its ok, i changed over to speakers.
@@benjaminhill01 🙏🙏
Great interview! Most comprehensive assessment of Japan I have seen. Very cool guy. The US has its problems, but it is a pretty great country.
The tragedy of Japan is that it adopted European corruption at the same time as it modernized by adopting European culture.
To give a simple example, Shigeru Yoshida, the grandfather of the current Minister of Finance, Taro Aso, who is the descendant of Toshimichi Okubo, a Satsuma Clan samurai, who was the first Prime Minister of Japan before the cabinet system was established and the core of the Meiji government that successfully overthrew the shogunate with Morgan-Rothschild money, was originally the Yokohama branch manager of Jardine Matheson, a subsidiary of East India Company, and the founder of the Japanese government. His grandmother, Yukiko Makino, was "educated" by Alice Perry Grew in international affairs, politics, and economics in the Morgan-Rothschild style. This Alice's mother's maiden name was Cabot. The Cabot family made its fortune in the black slave trade and drug trafficking. This Alice's origins, the way she was educated and settled in Japan, and the "strangeness of her political moves" are clearly the moves of a gifted intelligence/spy from her early childhood.
Not only the economic reality that the parent company of Finance Minister Aso's hemp manufacturing group is Rothschild's shipping company, Lafarge, but also the "imperialistic lineage" of slave domination of colored people (black, Asian, and Japanese) has been "inherited" from Cabot-Alice to Emperor and Mrs. Yoshida Shigeru to Finance Minister Aso.
The Cabot family's "directly operated" institute is the Brookings Institution in the U.S., which once produced Hjalmar Schacht, the finance minister in charge of "financing" Nazi Germany's war of aggression.
It has been said that the Brookings Institution makes U.S. monetary policy and the Federal Reserve Board implements it, and Greenspan has served as the Fed chairman for many years. Townsend Greenspan, a consulting firm run by Greenspan himself and chaired by him, is "engaged" in research and study as a subordinate institution of the Brookings Institution.
It is the Cabot family, not the former Japan Highway Public Corporation, that has been formulating the "Japan Highway Plan" for many years as a measure to expand Japan's domestic demand (a monetary policy that Japan's wealth should not be brought to the U.S. for acquisition). This is the backbone of the "Road Tribe," the main culprit of wasteful public works projects that increase Japan's budget deficit.
André Meyer (1898-1979) was the legal advisor to Al Gore, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for environmental issues, and at the same time, as the "administrator" of the assassinated President Kennedy's estate, he effectively "controlled" the Kennedy family fortune.
Meyer, who is also a legal advisor to the "Murder Inc." Israeli mafia that undertakes murder for money, along with his mentor, trained Alan Greenspan, the longtime chairman of the U.S. central bank, the Fed.
Meyer's subordinate and right-hand man, the Washington law firm of Rowe & Koch and the Libby law firm, has long served as Meyer's drug trafficking representation firm. Lewis Libby, the owner of this Libby law firm, was the principal assistant to U.S. Vice President Cheney.
At the same time, this Libby law firm was the law firm of counsel for the UF United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Banana), which for many years operated black banana slave plantations in Latin America.
UF's managing family is President Bush's family, and its co-owners are the prominent "Cabot family"; UF's black surveillance organization later evolved into the CIA.
Just as the Cabot family enslaved the blacks, Finance Minister Aso and his family have been working as Japanese slaves "owned" by the Cabot family.
In 1492, Columbus reached the Caribbean Sea. This is said to be "Columbus' discovery of the Americas. In 1497, John Cabot and Sebastian Cabot arrived in the mainland U.S. and began full-scale settlement of the American continent. （John Cabot (English: John Cabot; Italian: Giovanni Caboto; c. 1450 - 1498) was a medieval navigator. Jewish. He is known as the discoverer of North America. The Italian reading is Giovanni Caboto, and the English reading is John Cabot. (Born in Genoa, like Columbus, he spent the first half of his life in Venice and emigrated to England in 1484, where he received a patent from King Henry VII in 1496...)
The Cabot family originated with Giovanni Caboto, a Genoa-born banker who was part of the Venetian financial circle, the source of the Swiss financial circle, which today in the 21st century is funding Rothschild and Putin of Russia. This family is related to the Rosenberg family of Kiev, Russia, and forms the Russian-Swiss underground financial waterway.
This "first true invader of the Americas," the Cabot family, amassed great wealth as slave traders who "forced" African blacks into the United States as slaves.
The Cabot family used the money from the black slave trade to finance the founding of the Russell Company, a narcotics monopoly, in 1823. The Russell Company, of which President Bush's family served as auditors, brought Turkish opium to the United States for sale. The syndicate Perkins family, which had formed a monopolistic drug distribution network in the U.S., was in charge of its distribution. The Cabot-Perkins family "grew" to become the wealthiest family in the United States in the first half of the 19th century.
The Cabot family embodies the fact that the wealth of the United States was formed through the black slave trade and the drug trade.
Forbes magazine, founded by William Forbes [Bertie Charles Forbes], was "financed" by the Cabot family. The Forbes Asia bureau was established and operated as an intelligence and espionage organization to "ensure the security" of the Cabot family's "business of drug trafficking and Asian slave trafficking in Asia," i.e., trafficking kidnapped Japanese women as prostitutes. The Forbes Asia Bureau is the "advance guard" of the Cabot invasion of Asia.
Meanwhile, the Cabot family's wealth from slave and drug trafficking was accumulated in Switzerland, where the Cabot's agent, Count Shelburne of Switzerland, has continued to reign as the "Don" of the Swiss financial world .
In the 19th century, J. Pierpont Morgan of the Morgan Zaibatsu, which financed the purchase of guns and ammunition for Satsuma and Choshu, who launched an armed struggle to overthrow the shogunate in Japan at the end of the Edo period, used his agent Thomas Lamont as the "creator" of the Meiji Restoration government, and "devoted himself to the cultivation" of the Mitsubishi and Mitsui zaibatsu in Japan.
The Morgan zaibatsu were agents of the Rothschild family
As an agent of the Rothschilds, the Morgans served as the "conduit" in the U.S. to funnel funds to the Rockefellers. (*Quoting Note: And let us not forget the Schiff family.)
The Rothschild-Rockefeller-Bush family financed Japan's invasion of China in the 1930s. The U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Grew, who was the "negotiating window" for that funding, was also a member of the Morgan-Rothschild conglomerate.
Joseph's cousin, Jane Norton Grew, was the wife of Jack Morgan, the successor to the first J.P. Morgan.
Honestly as a fair skinned white girl, the thought of standing out was always exciting to me. But i guess it could be a catch 22
14:50 this explains why they don't accept him. Outside of the US, people don't base identity based on ethnic bs and wacky proficiency.
He is average american . Many Dirty words .
Interesting interview! Being half, he knows a lot about the surface of these social problems but doesn't know the reason the problems exist. To say there's no crime in Japan and that police and courts don't enforce things is very naive. Japan is a whole other country, so, it's unfair to compare to western standards. But as the foreign population increases and the need for foreign labor increases, it will get interesting.
weebs are mad about his opinion
I live here too. He hits the nail on the head.
this guy needs a second interview
What would like me to ask him?
What's wrong with the 1st one?
@@Vininjapan Ask him about what's his opinion about the cheating culture in Japan as a half-Japanese.
if i will interview him again than definitely will ask!@@nekoventures8304
@@VininjapanAsk for his social media next time so we can follow him as well.
There is no perfect country, these issues aren't new either. Btw sir, is this hafu guy fluent in the Japanese language while living in Japan ? He seems to be all over the place with his answers.
He is a friend of mine and as far as I know he is indeed fluent
@@Vininjapan
I see, pardon sir but there were some cuss words he used which makes it abit uncomfortable to hear. Anyway thanks for putting another new video.
@@missplainjane3905ur just sawft if u can't handle cussing, grow up
@@Haunt888
@Mahinang_Nilalang, is that how you were raised, by cussing and not learning to how to be respectful instead ? Well others don't grow up like you at all.
@@missplainjane3905 I'm not American so no, I'm just saying u soft af
The guy getting interviewed is an embarrassment to his fellow Americans.
Why is that?
Seems like he's a credit to them, really.
no he's not. Fuck your brand of Americanism too
do they get any 'child tax credit' or other financial benefit for having a child, to cover the increased cost of raising the child? cause u get a monthly amount in Canada if ur income is below diff threshholds.
That's true about the custody goes to the mother 💯 i went through divorce and this exactly happened to me.
So true what he says but the headline was a real clickbait you know. I really hated that so many criticized Takahashi Kazuki (Kazuo) for criticizing the Japanese government. He already belonged to the wealthy and older Japanese ppl and was actually criticized for caring about whats going to happen to Japan and the younger generations if it stays the way it is
Do you mean that the thumbnail was really click baity?
@@Vininjapan yes because he was only criticizing it, he also said many good things. So it's actually not correct. Would be better if the headline was sth like - what this half Japanese dislikes about Japan - less clickbaity and more on point.
By the way, this guy, I don't know how well you know him, said he doesn't care that he is not considered / doesn't look Japanese but when you told him that "he has nothing Japanese" it kinda made me feel bad. It might be OK to him for he also grew up in the US but for many hafus this feels kinda offensive. It's like you as a foreigner telling a person who actually also belongs to that country (Japan) that he doesn't belong there. Please be a little more considerate if you intend to Interview hafus in the future otherwise you are very likely to hurt the feelings of your interview partners.
@@akita_inu-il6em I know him and when I said that I meant his appearance, when it comes to click bait the title of the video is almost identical to what you suggested, he indeed mentioned here and there good parts about japan but my question to him was about the bad side of Japan so..
@@Vininjapan it's obvious that you are talking about his appearance in the first place but that doesn't change the fact that you can hurt the feelings of your interview partner easily by saying things like that. I am half Asian half White myself and look Asian to Caucasian ppl while one of my sisters looks way more Caucasian. Once she was asked why her sisters are Chinese while she isn't. It really hurt her because to her it was like people telling her that she doesn't belong to us. For many halfies it feels like another person telling you that you don't belong to your identity/family/country. Maybe it's hard for you to understand and from time to time ppl will not mind or not mind anymore, at least on the outside because they are already used to it. However, that doesn't change the fact that remarks like this are really insensitive. Even if you do not intend to hurt the other person in the first place. If ppl look more Asian or White in the eyes or the soceity they are currently staying it's very likely that they already know what the soceity as a whole considers them. Just keep it to yourself unless you are asked. Usually you hopefully also do not walk up to another person telling them that he or she is ugly etc. It's because you usually know that doing so will only hurt the feelings of another or that it's simply rude. That's why I advised you not to do so for pure Caucasians, Asians and so on it's not common knowledge to know what it feels like to be of mixed race.
In terms of the headline, well no it's not almost the same because the title clearly states that he doesn't like Japan when that's obviously not the case as a whole. If sb for example writes "why this guy hates dogs" the title implies that the guy doesn't like them in general not that he thinks they are great in many ways except for a few things. Hope you are getting what I am saying
I've seen way too many positive Japanese interviews, this is great to see the other side.
another coming today with a former ALT the dude got some interesting opinions as well
really insightful conversation
Pretty chill dude
You don’t know what you are saying.
why do you feel that way?
It is old fashion and does not change
In what way
It's all a big conspiracy maaannn 😧
😂😂
A lot of eye-opening points I agree with. Don't mean to get political but the way he described the Soka Gakkai as a 'cult' though is utterly wrong. It is not a cult. It's a Buddhist organisation that promotes respect for human life and world peace, which he would have known had he taken the time to look into it without prejudice.
Seems like a lot of Japanese people do see it as a cult
@@VininjapanMostly because of the post war years and tabloids blowing things out of proportion, they still have that fear. They have reformed a lot since then. Look up Dr Bryan R. Wilson writings on it, he explains it much better than I ever could.
If it's tearing families apart it certainly doesn't sound like a good thing
Not every "Buddhist" organization are the same. Soka Gakkai was expelled from the original Nichiren Soshu, and so these guys don't consider Soka Gakkai as legit. They don't have monks, they don't have temples. Some Gakkai-in refuses to go to Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines. They are certainly different from other traditional Buddhist organizations.
@@kakaiyu no, I get that. But in each person's life, any bad circumstance depends on the actual root of the problem and it's not necessarily their religion. Daisaku Ikeda, the most recent leader of the organisation, always stressed that 'the family is the foundation of society' and gratitude towards our parents is the 'mark of true maturity and growth of a human being'.
That's a really good interview. It's rare to see intelligent discussions like this one.
Ain’t the USA government has influence on Japanese government 😂😂😂
Seems like they do but I wonder how much of an influence is it
For being super nationalist, puritans, they sure do use a lot of our words 😂
The mother having full custody is not necessarily true. There is another Japanese content creator who has a crazy sister who had full custody of her daughter taken away. The Japanese father has full custody of their daughter. The ex husband is now living in Singapore with his daughter and new wife.
It's only true if you're a foreigner in a relationship with a Japanese person. That might be my deal breaker with Japanese women. Because I don't want my future wife to just be able to take my kid just because her country allows her. I don't agree with that.
I have to visit Japan. Sounds a bit controversial
Never relocate for love.
This guy is like a mix of Christopher Hitchens and a Yakuza-Boss. Eloquent but real. He needs more air-time. (I wonder if he still feels proud of his japanese side.. If he still belives in honor & the old samurai-values.. despite beeing red-pilled by living there)
Imagine they had no central Bank
I would instantly move their
Really interesting video to watch!
I think to add to that lack of fair wage point, don't many Japanese people overwork themselves way too much?
How can you even consider family life when you don't have free time for yourself and you lack the desire to live and enjoy life since there is only ever working and a bit of sleeping?
Yea I guess it does add to the issue
I literally feel like Japan is both super logical and pragmatic but at the same time completely illogical. It's a strange paradox
7:00 A lot of woman have seem to give up on the idea of marriage because of this.
Your saying the right thing bro
Great interview - should follow up with the dude
What would like me to ask him?
I dont agree with him,but i respect with.
All facts.
I see you live there