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StillI dislike the paparazzi culture of people filming other human being obsessively.
There's an episode of Sting trying to have a normal day at the beach in Italy but having to leave because everyone was filming him which is absolutely cringe
I mean, if you see an alien, a legal alien, I might add, it's kind of your duty as an earthling to report on that
Leave that Blm back in america. Japan doesn't need a bunch of self entitled blacks who think the world revolves around them and the white saviors who re-enforce black entitlement mentality.
I saw this in Nara, a woman in Geisha attire and makeup (or what looked like it I'm not too knowledgeable on the subject) was at Tōdai-ji temple and there was deer everywhere because it's Nara. An australian woman took it upon herself to take pictures of her and the deer like she was a tourist attraction, the Geisha was visibly perturbed.
Some people just don't grasp people are practicing their own culture and not standing around as tourist props.
the social media has created so many narcissists. they're addicted to the dopamine rush from likes.
Please upload a video how to become a male pron star as a foreigner in japan 😊
They "only speak english"
As if the japanese tourists in Switzerland would bother learning a local language.
The irony is - worst, most disrespectful tourists in Japan only speak Chinese
sounds like someone only knows english
@@jOoomOooo ? As you could guess from my post I am Swiss. English is not my native language.
Right? Also Japanese is known for being one of the most difficult languages in the world. I can speak it relatively well, but only after 10+ years of studying it.
@@AnnaHans88
Indeed.
One time on quora a japanese person just said to me, "if foreigners want to come to japan as tourists they should learn japanese!", and when i answered to her that it is a bit impossible and inconsiderate to expect a tourist to learn one of the most dificult languages on the planet that has 3 alphabets and a complete different sentence structure just for short term vacation.
Then she blocked me because i was "rude".
The streamers and so-called "influencers" are developing a bad reputation everywhere. Not just Japan. It's something anyone can do yet hard to do well with positive skills.
Anguish in Gethsemane
He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, ‘My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.’
-Matthew 26:39
As Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, He was in anguish. So much so that Luke’s Gospel says He “was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood” (22:44)
In addition, Mark’s Gospel gives us a very important detail that we could easily miss: Jesus cried out, “Abba, Father” (14:36)
We might not catch the significance of this. But today, it isn’t unusual to hear Israeli children calling out to their fathers, “Abba!” It’s the equivalent of our English word “Daddy.”
There is a difference between the terms “Father” and “Daddy.” Both describe the same person, but they indicate a difference in relationship. That is not to suggest that Jesus was manipulating God the Father. Rather, it indicated intimacy. Jesus was saying, in effect, “I trust You, Father. I know You are in control.”
Then Jesus went on to say, “Everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine” (verse 36)
That is a hard thing for many of us to say. We might say the words, “Not my will, but Yours, be done.” But do we really mean it? What if His will is different from ours? And how can we know the will of God?
We discover God’s will through careful study of the Scriptures. And frankly, there will be times when we read things in the Bible and think, “Wow, that is hard. I don’t know if I want to forgive this person who has wronged me, but Lord, You have told me in Scripture to do so.”
Or, “I don’t know that I want to break that relationship off with this nonbeliever that I was thinking of marrying. But Lord, You have told me in Your Word to do so. Not my will, but Yours, be done.”
It is okay to think about the future and make plans for our lives. In fact, we should. But we also need to say, “Lord, here are my plans. But if You have a different plan in mind, I am willing for You to overrule what I have decided, because I’ve come to discover that Your plan is better than my own. So not my will, but Yours, be done.”
This is very important to say to God, especially if you’re young. Dwight L. Moody said, “Spread out your petition before God, and then say, ‘not my will but yours be done.’ ” He concludes, “The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.”
We are going to have our Gethsemanes in life. We will face times of ultimate stress, moments of pressure that seem to be too much. What will we do then? Will we say, like Jesus, “Abba, Father”? Will we say, “Your will be done”?
Would you let the Lord choose for you? Would you be willing to take your future and place it in God’s hands?
it's not just "influencers" tho. Many foreigners and westerners are just disrespectful and don't care to even inform themselves a tiny bit about the country they're visiting.
I've been seeing videos on influencers like "Johnny Somali" wreaking havoc in Japan for clout and views. This puts that a little more into context. Under normal circumstances they may be annoying enough, but they are playing into the current anti-tourist/foreigner narrative. And the narrative is not necessarily wrong, because there are over 10x the number of tourists now compared to when covid was happening. Japanese culture is under something of a shock right now.
@@helbent4it's a bit ironic that they're the ones complaining since japanese people have an extreme tendency to worship western culture.
Maybe they should limit tourism then@@helbent4 ? It's weird that as a country they shouldn't feel bad about keeping the scoop of their values in line with their expectations of foreigners too.
In the U.S., most "television news" stations are now only regularly watched by older people these days. I wonder if younger generations in Japan really pay attention to what the Japanese media says at face value or not.
Even prisons have TVs in each cell. Small apartments in Tokyo mean the TV is often in the dining room, and it's usually on while eating. The result is, young adults still watch for profit, sensationalized, Ad supported TV broadcasts, far more than American ones.
They pick up the xenophobia in the environment and culture. Now it's OK to be xenophobic, but then don't advertise to tourists. Stop hosting olympics and football world cups. If Japanese don't want foreigners, their stupid government can stop issuing visas and entry permits. Ban all flights to Japan for non Japanese. Problem solved. That's what gets me. These pathetic TV stations and reporters wanting their cake and to eat it too. If you want tourist money, you need tourists and it's not WW2 where you can threaten people with violence so they shut up.
@@ch4.hayabusa Well they rich and the TVs are smarTVs...so there's hope they'll switch to independent media once their start noticing the BS from the mainstream one.
Yes, a lot of young Japanese people still watch traditional television.
tv's in each cell in the us? dang what prisons you got? (Not in the US at least)@@ch4.hayabusa
If I can ever visit Japan, I'd make it a point to be respectful and responsible.
Seeing littering and other misbehavior in my own country is disappointing enough, seeing it in the place I want to go is even more frustrating.
if only more people were like you, too much people here find excuses for bad behavior ; "too much rules/norms in japan" they say, these people aren't even able to follow simple thing like "no littering" which, i assume exists in every country in this world.
I hate it when I am traveling and run into another American. They are so entitled and annoying. Everything Nobita said was true, and then some. Americans are messy, insensitive, and rude. Thy will TRASH your country and laugh about it. These days it is shameful to be an American.
I’ve been to Japan once in April 2018 and I will be going there again in May and will be respectful to the Japanese people. I also want to learn the Japanese language and culture. Not be the crazy foreigner lumped with others.
@@thehobbyist1162 Respect. That's a great attitude. The world needs more people like yourself!
Sweden is pretty much the same a garbage dump. But i agree i even try to educate myself in how to behave in Japan. Sure not everything will stick, but most of them are memorized.
When I was on exchange in Japan, the university I was at held a week-long series of "introduction to Japan" lectures every day that were considered mandatory to attend, wherein the teachers would cover a different aspect of Japanese culture and manners each day, to ensure that there was as little friction as possible between the high volume of exchange students they were importing (since it was a language-focused university) and the local community they were living in. And MOST of the students were pretty good about following the rules once they'd been explained.
But despite that, some people STILL could not follow the rules. Not a week later, a handful of us went on a short day trip to the city to do some shopping. However, while we were out, one member of the group just could NOT stop doing things that went against the social etiquette rules we'd been strenuously taught less than a week ago. A few weeks later, I heard her loudly complaining in the dormitory that nobody wanted to go out with her anywhere. Even though other exchange students had told her multiple times to fix her behavior, she always just responded with "I'm not Japanese, that doesn't apply to me." And yet she couldn't work out why none of the other exchange students wanted to be associated with her.
It's a shame, but people like her are everywhere, and it only takes one of them to ruin things for everybody. It's not surprising that most sane people don't want to be associated with that behaviour. I wouldn't want to be either.
As a former exchange student myself who lived in Hokkaido, sounds like that attitude of entitlement is the very reason no one wants to be around her. Thankfully this wasn't really an issue among my fellow exhange students.
Just curious, which rules was she unable to follow?
@@acrane3496nah men are more narcissistic
@@acrane3496 So you're just gonna assume all women with bad behaviour are narcissists?
Yep 100% agree on that
I love how these only show non-Asian tourists. Cause every time I go to Japan, most of the tourists are from neighboring countries.
Because non-Asians are easier to pick out. Most Chinese and Korean tourists pass as a local Japanese so they cannot just assume
@@hayabusa1329 I can see Chinese passing as Japanese but Koreans look quite different
@@hayabusa1329 Sometimes, but I’ve seen dark Koreans. Usually Koreans are taller, wear different styles, and their faces are shaped differently. Generally they are built more broadly than Japanese.
So trueeee
@@PigeonPlays-zf3mq korean physically not really different from Japanese and they being most closest ethnic group to them.
Black guy has a lot of hard hitting points that I agree as a frequent visitor in Japan as I have my in-laws there, Japanese are pretty much uninformed with the differences of foreigners in the country. Add also the expectations of Asian foreigners like me to automatically know all the Japanese things especially the unspoken social cues. I'm lucky that my husband and in laws actually tell and explain to me why such social cues exist and with my limited Japanese, I can still get by daily whenever I stay there. I'm quite hopeful that in the years to come, such misconceptions from the Japanese about us foreigners will change and realize too that there are bad apples everywhere.
Just avoid touristy areas, be respectful and treat the whole visit as if visiting a friend's house.
im sorry.. im sure your well meaning.. but as someone in the west who has seen their culture degrade to absolute trash, i hope the japanese become more anti foreigners and protect their beautiful culture.. it is truly unique on planet earth, and it deserves to be protected.. oh well people will say, "a few foreigners wont change japan".. but then it inevitably does.. time after time after time.. we from all over the world, keep sacrificing our cultural individuality to make others feel better and then we collapse as strong cultures.. as an irishmen, i hope the japanese never fall for this lie..learn what you need to, protect yourself
His name is Rune, obviously assimilated, devoted, respects, & supports Japan. He deserves some distinction from those imposing & causing the issues. Unsure if mentioned, but likely pursuing citizenship.
Anguish in Gethsemane
He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, ‘My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.’
-Matthew 26:39
As Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, He was in anguish. So much so that Luke’s Gospel says He “was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood” (22:44)
In addition, Mark’s Gospel gives us a very important detail that we could easily miss: Jesus cried out, “Abba, Father” (14:36)
We might not catch the significance of this. But today, it isn’t unusual to hear Israeli children calling out to their fathers, “Abba!” It’s the equivalent of our English word “Daddy.”
There is a difference between the terms “Father” and “Daddy.” Both describe the same person, but they indicate a difference in relationship. That is not to suggest that Jesus was manipulating God the Father. Rather, it indicated intimacy. Jesus was saying, in effect, “I trust You, Father. I know You are in control.”
Then Jesus went on to say, “Everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine” (verse 36)
That is a hard thing for many of us to say. We might say the words, “Not my will, but Yours, be done.” But do we really mean it? What if His will is different from ours? And how can we know the will of God?
We discover God’s will through careful study of the Scriptures. And frankly, there will be times when we read things in the Bible and think, “Wow, that is hard. I don’t know if I want to forgive this person who has wronged me, but Lord, You have told me in Scripture to do so.”
Or, “I don’t know that I want to break that relationship off with this nonbeliever that I was thinking of marrying. But Lord, You have told me in Your Word to do so. Not my will, but Yours, be done.”
It is okay to think about the future and make plans for our lives. In fact, we should. But we also need to say, “Lord, here are my plans. But if You have a different plan in mind, I am willing for You to overrule what I have decided, because I’ve come to discover that Your plan is better than my own. So not my will, but Yours, be done.”
This is very important to say to God, especially if you’re young. Dwight L. Moody said, “Spread out your petition before God, and then say, ‘not my will but yours be done.’ ” He concludes, “The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.”
We are going to have our Gethsemanes in life. We will face times of ultimate stress, moments of pressure that seem to be too much. What will we do then? Will we say, like Jesus, “Abba, Father”? Will we say, “Your will be done”?
Would you let the Lord choose for you? Would you be willing to take your future and place it in God’s hands?
while it must obviously be more annoying as a Asian foreigner in Japan than lets say being white or black, informing yourself of that stuff isn't hard nowadays with internet access. Do's and don'ts for example are easy to find, even the "unspoken social cues" like "tea-time" which means it's time to leave. I spent 2 weeks in Japan and I informed myself enough so it's definitely not hard to do.
@@killininstinct343 It really isn't. I live in Japan and 90% of the time I act as I did when I lived in America. AKA Show some dern respect. Simple as that. It is not hard to understand.
I used to work in a Japanese news media company (as an intern) and was shocked by how foreigners were often portrayed. One disrespectful foreign tourist gets in national TV as a representative of all the entire non-Japanese. We really should specify what type it is exactly.
It's always important to make statistics about which TYPE of foreigner misbehaves. From my experience it seems that some from certain continents commit more crime on average than others. If anyone else reads this comment and disagrees let me know please.
Too be fair the behaviour of many westerners even within their own country isn't great, in a country with higher trust and standards like Japan a lot will be guilty. As for non-westerners, let's just say the the exponential increase in every kind and severity of problem within the West as been fuelled by something other than the zoomer generation receiving a useless education.
Honestly I'm not sure it's wise to be influenced but any foreigners, but you should avoid letting some in at all costs.
That's because probably japanese people assume that foreigners have a rigid moral code representing their nations to respect when they visit a country. Please make a video about Masutatsu Oyama, tells a lot about how long japanese people needs to accept a foreign as a japanese.
Generalities exist. Look at what's happening to the West. I know your channel pretty much depends on us foreign folks views, but all the same, don't make the mistake we did of chasing valueless dollars (or yen) at the expense of reality and your country's integrity.
The West is heading to collapse and a dark age, keep Japan safe so that when we're gone, the light of civilization still burns somewhere.
@@entropybear5847 Sadly the West has infected us with the money making business and work mentality. I hope we can shake it off and fix the birth rates.
They probably need to post something like “10 Basic Rules” posters at Narita, Haneda, Osaka for welcoming the tourists.
Give them a little pamphlet when they are at the immigration line.
Hey, that's a pretty good idea!
Too bad Americans wouldn't be able to read it anyways.
The problem is that even if this was provided some people just don't care, and will do whatever they want.
The chinese tourists will still ignore it
@@darkangel8068
Main offenders are Westerners.
Chinese follow similar customs and courtesy so no issues when they visit.
The people that misbehave don't do so because they don't know how to behave. This behaviour is intentional.
It's basically up to the Japanese government to limit the number of tourists entering the country. If Japan doesn't have the infrastructure to handle that many people, just don't hand out that many tourist visas. Save working visas for foreign workers who have a grasp of Japanese and a basic understanding of Japanese culture and expectations.
100%. But the fact is that Japan's position is weakening. They can't appear racist. They can't for example stop more and more affluent Indians, Chinese and Africans from entering despite perceived racism, as they will need these places in the 21st century to survive. We in the EU are becoming weaker economically and the US is also fading as the global hegemon. Japan will rely on India, China, South America and even Africa for a source of raw materials and exports and even imports, including food. They can't block tourism because it would be bad for their soft power and it's also a good source of revenue, directly and indirectly. Every foolish tourist who visits Japan may later decide to be more likely to buy Japanese goods or culture.
Most tourists that go to Japan don't need a visa to go, Most western countries don't need visa to go there.
@@jonasw3945Two things. First they don't need visa because Japanese government wants such tourists there, they could impose visa requirements. For example there is a ban on North Koreans entering Japan. Secondly, even if you don't need a visa, the immigration officer could refuse you entry. That happens. There is no right to enter another country. America is especially nasty for people to enter, as tourists. But other countries can also block people. If Japan thinks there is too much tourism, they can introduce visas, and yet they haven't because likely it's 1. Good business. The Yen is weak and people bring in foreign exchange. 2. It's good for soft power reasons. They export goodwill and these people either return or recommend Japan to others or buy Japanese products.
Lmao if you think they actually have "tourist problems", much less to a degree warranting batshit measures like visa refusals.
@@peterc4082also there are bilateral agreements for visa free with countries and unions like the EU. They can't just introduce visas suddenly. Travel authorizations yes but visas no
I completely agree with the sentiments in this video. What has struck me as odd though is that both Japanese people and Japanese TV tend to enphasise and exagerate the differences.
And all the issues mentioned in the video (overcrowding, garbage) are just as much Japanese issues, but are made into foreigner issues.
Yea, when I look at segments on over tourism, I've seen and heard that most tourists to places like Kyoto are actually Japanese. Anecdotally, I don't see a mad rush of black or white people down streets, but rather people who look and speak Japanese.
Because overcrowding if it's their own people, is OK. It's racism, they don't want to breathe the same air as the foreigners.
This is happening too in America of how they over objectifying certain community that they aren't part of to be notice as something else. Accusation is really a problem for every one. That is reputation and honor really matters.
Their economy is on the decline, tourism promotes economy, with population declining who are going to spend money if not from tourist? they didn't complain about all the money they have generated. They should complain about it. "Oh look at the money we make, it's so bad, I don't want it." A few bad tourist is normal, after all even japan have yakuzas and scammers.
@@jeusmarcomascarina4102 Welp, its not that far from reality.. foreigner, come from different background & culture. Some are just, horrible.
Why I'm I not surprised, Littering is being mentioned. It's why NYC looks the way it is.
Edit: Some responses are really outing themselves as to why some streets are a mess.
Maybe if Japan had actual public trash barrels? Do they expect tourists to carry their trash back home like Japanese?
@@jeffreyandrews6700 If there isn't any (correct me if I'm wrong) it might be cause in Japan, eating/drinking while walking is frowned upon. So taking it home, might be the only decent mannered option then. I personally do that after I finish eating a snack or a drink off a plastic bottle.
@@Venom3254that's not true, at least partially. It's rude to eat around, but it's totally okay to drink.
Not having trash bins around is plain stupid in general.
Just because eating/drinking is frowned upon for them, doesn't mean that mentality applies to anyone else(foreigners). It's an unnecessary deluded expectation for the Japanese to expect foreigners to be like them when they know they are not. @@Venom3254
@@jeffreyandrews6700 Way to prove their media right lmao. Carry your empty can until you find one you slob.
I’ve been living in Japan for over 15 years, I have PR and I’m really annoyed to see how tourist behave these days in Japan…
We used to live in Kyoto, but recently moved to Kobe. Most tourists bypass Kobe and stay in Osaka or Kyoto, or head south to Hiroshima. Kyoto has always had difficulty maintaining etiquette at its religious sites, but has definitely got worse. The trouble is, the city depends largely on tourist income, so it's a double-edged sword.
@@breeze_japanese I went to Nara and Kyoto in 2020 when all the tourists were quarantining. It was amazing. All the temples were open. It's like I had the whole city to myself. I didn't see any liter at all, though Kiyomizu-dera was crowded with locals. Maybe "no liter" signs would help...?🤔
That's a great post. I'm not sure who'd want to take up the job of ordering tourists about. I could imagine things getting out of hand quite quickly once someone walks around saying you can't do this or that. In some countries, they have branches of the police force that deal with this. That's the case in Italy for example. Venice has similar tourist issues as Kyoto.@@Chuck8541
Nice! I remember that period too! @@MiguelDLewis
@@breeze_japanese I used to live 4 years in Kyoto, moved back to Tokyo just before it’s stars getting crowded. Such a pity how it turned out. Used to be such a nice quite city.
I remember during pandemic restrictions, people in Kyoto in the news complaining that all of the tourists were gone and the economy was suffering, businesses were closing, Kyoto was sad and was dying. Now the tourists are back and-----OH NOOOOOO
dude.not every people in kyoto think the same.people who did not like the economy dying vs people not wanting disrespectful tourist are not the same.and not one side should just shut up if the issues exist
I must admit I remember the opposite. No doubt economy suffered, but from what I read, some people rediscovered what it was like to have a city with almost no tourists and grew to like it. In truth, there probably were people who held one or the other opinion, and some that had a conflictive relationship with both.
I never get this take dudes will have when their like "These people complained about blank when it was happening and now that its not their still complaining" Like do you not realise that it isnt a black and white scenario of one thing being bad and the opposite being good and also that not every single person in Japan was complaining about the tourist situation.
stf.u lmao, if local residents do not want tourists then be it
The tourists unfortunately bring also bad people who are there to use Japan as a playground. It is understandable.
I remember how poorly the Japanese tourists behaved in the 80’s when the yen was strong. They were smug and arrogant.
Where did you observe that phenomena? Were they arrogant? If so, how?
Yeah, they used to go into all the department stores and take pictures of everything, and crowd every tourist site for group pics to the point where they were seeming to take over .
In the 1990s, hordes of Japanese tourists could be seen all over the country. Always in tour groups, never interacting with locals, never speaking English. They acted like we were zoo animals. Believe it.
@@linkskywalker5417 just look at Chinese tourists, the Japanese were just slightly worse and more organized
@@linkskywalker5417 I saw it in cities across the USA. Particularly in Hawaii. They were rude, condescending, and acted like they owned the place.
There’s also the racial issue. Certain racial or ethnic types of “gaijin” don’t even get shown on media, unless they are blamed for some crime, then their ethnicity is named and focused on. Japan has a really huge Vietnamese and Chinese population, but you’d never see them being interviewed or invited on TV.
Japanese Tv is for Japanese, you are anti-Asian.
Because Vietnam is a "partner" according to the right-wing ruling party (LDP-Kometo) ... being used as tools against the Chinese .
Chinese too...gets bash by Japanese MSM .
There's a certain exotic element that's in play I think. If you're an Asian you're not gonna stand out that much in Japan. But if you're say a European Caucasian then that's different. It's exotic, it's strange, something you don't see everyday. Especially in a society as homogenous as Japan
@@KhiemNguyen-ly1wz Well, even so, I red/watched thousands of manga/anime in my life and it's always interesting for me to learn more about the country behind this huge hobby of mine yet like @jksanrio said I just can't remember seeing anyone beside Europeans or Japanese people in media related to Japan. On rare occasion you will see a black guy/woman and that's it. No Arabs, Indians, non-japanese asians etc.
I would imagine they aren't that many of them but I learned recently that, for example, Koreans are quite numerous in Japan yet you just don't hear anything about them, the only foreigners they ever show you are the europeans (white) tourists with a touch of african(-american or not).
They just don't care about the rest. lol and it's the same in most Manga/anime, non japanese are mostly white and/or occasionaly black.
(Well, you'll find a lot of chinese people in japanese fiction, they do love to bring some chinese kung fu experts in the fighting genre, but Bruce Lee is to "blame" on this trope, I guess)
@@KhiemNguyen-ly1wz Both positively and negatively
As a forgein person living in Japan, I must say that I can get really angry with other forgeniers here, but with a minority of them!! Most of them are polite and respectful, but there are issues, mostly with taking pictures or videos of people without asking first and following them as show in this video for example, which I hate the most. And train can be very shocking experience for tourists and sometimes their behaviour can really put off japanese people (not respecting only women carriges in train for example), but again that is minority of visitors that unfortunetly paint a bad picture, even for us who are forgeiners living in Japan and respecting the culture.
I think many people get over-excited while coming here to Japan and they want to visit all places they can and sometimes they make non-intentional mistakes. Many of them maybe cannot speak japanese and don't know all everday cultural parts of everyday japanese life and customs, except the well-known ones. And plasting their faces all over news and SNS is not really a good thing (at least censor them).
But this turist behaviour problem is not only in Japan, it is happening everywhere around the world where tourists sometimes do even worse things than here in Japan. Just look up the news in Italy, Spain, Croatia, Greece and other tourist oriented places in Europe during summer and it is also so horrible. I understand that when you go somewhere to travel or vacation to relax and loose yourself a bit, but still some common manners and respectable behaviour should be prioritaized. Many tourists forget that the country they visit is someone's home and place of everyday living and working, and those people might not care that you are a tourist and may get irritated by you, because they have errands, job, things to do that are important for them on everyday basis.
So, the rule I go by when visiting Japan or any other country is that you act like people there. You can take pictures, enjoy yourself but don't take the country you visit as your playground and be disrespectful and everything will be fine :)
I agree. I guess it's a numbers game. The more tourists come to Japan, the more that annoying minority increases. For balance, though, I also get angry with a minority of Japanese people who seem to think it's okay to lay spread-eagled snoring blind drunk on commuter trains at 11pm at night, or the guys (it's usually guys) who flick cigarette ends out their car windows, or the bike revving bosozoku idiots who like to make their presence known on Saturday nights etc. etc.
The Japanese did the same to the rest of the world, when their economy was booming.
Granted, it was their older/boomer/rude generation, but at least it shows that nobody's perfect, and we all have to work on controlling ourselves when abroad.
i get annoyed, not really angry. i have yet to see a tourist do something 'bad' that i haven't also seen a japanese person (usually teen) do; it's just that foreigners stand out more or perhaps do it more often.
um, but it's basically the same everywhere. Tourists are tourists and if you judge them all by the worst....
This makes me so sad. I spent 2 months in Osaka earlier this year. I did my best to be respectful and spoke in my broken Japanese. I also met foreign residents who all had lived there for 10+ years and spoke perfect Japanese and respected the culture and rules. I guess all we can do is continue to show that not all foreigners are the same.
I don't know why, but in my 11 years of living in Japan, I was rarely treated or viewed as a foreign tourist. Occasionally, I'd be asked if I wanted an English menu, or someone tried to ask if I needed help translating something, but I never needed that. I went about my life as a long-term resident, and people left me alone. Maybe I had the mannerisms of Japanese people, so I blended in. Me, a brown-haired, blue-eyed white guy blend in? Well, I was wearing a suit to and from work. I lived in a non-tourist area (though one station away from Kita-Kamakura station), and people spoke to me in Japanese, I responded in Japanese, and I've even been asked for directions by Japanese people. Did I look like I lived there? Maybe? But I spent most of my time in areas that rarely had foreigners. Maybe people got used to seeing me, and they knew I lived there, and treated me like I lived there. In 3 months, I'm going to Japan for the first time in 5 years (thank you pandemic) with my Japanese wife of 13 years and our two children. We're staying at my in-laws' house in a very non-touristy area in Saitama. My Japanese is very rusty, but I'll try my best.
I think a lot of people think they are actting in respectful ways and being "Japanese" enough but they are far from the mark. Also living in rural areas help I think because in big cities people assume non Japanese are there for tourism and are rude and don't know the culture, but if you're living in a city that isn't super touristy, people will assume you really wanna live in Japan and likes/respects the country for real
@@raven-aits true. they are complaining and not self reflecting, bunch of arrogant babies who want to impose their meaningless ideas that is sure to collapse society. they are used to it and built defense mechanism over decades, i feel not anger but pity.
Bro! I want to attend Saitama U for my Master's. XD Saitama looks amazing.
If I got a job in Saitama (this year, hopefully), can you recommend some place to study both English and Japanese for foreigners? One that can tolerate stupid student like me.
My English and Japanese are mess especially in speaking, I can understand what they're saying but I still need to think when speaking and even still got wrong. Lol
Yeh, I've only had positive experiences with Japanese people. Despite the language barrier, we had a lot in common as we are both from politeness cultures
I honestly don’t mind being called a Gaijin in Japan because that’s what I am. Ignoring the stigma behind it was easy enough, I just try to be as nice and respectful as I can be to the people around me. Heck, I try to do that even at home. Still, I want to go back to Japan one of these days.
Instead of Gaijin Mexicans call Americans Gringo.
more people need to understand that they ARE gaijin.
Just existing in Japanese society is such a crushing milieu of obligations and rules that I don't think anyone could actually learn to behave in a way that would make them non-gaijin.
Even people who've lived there 10+ years will know what I mean: we ALWAYS have an independent streak that (generally) they lack- they sense it in the same way you sense their rigidity, even in the most-relaxed of situations.
I think the main distinction between gaijin and gaikokujin is that the latter simply describes what you are "someone from another country"
While the former carries the connotation of being "simply an outsider" therefore someone whose opinion is easily dismissed.
Of course if you're only there for a short term visit you shouldn't mind that your opinion doesn't have much value, but if you've been there long term then you would believe that your voice counts too. Not as much as a Japanese apparently but it shouldn't be a complete dismissal.
"I want to go back to Japan one of these days." yeah checks out.
Lol suck up. I’ve been to Japan multiple times and will go again but I don’t feel the need to constantly give apologies either for japan’s bad behavior or other tourists bad behavior.
At this point I don't think I would visit Japan without learning a good amount of Japanese first. I don't want to be lumped in with an ignorant tourist and removing the language barrier would hopefully help
That’s probably the best way to go about it. Almost half of American tourists don’t even bother to learn the languages of the destinations they plan to visit, making awkward encounters and bad experiences more likely. Learning the language at least on a basic level and some general manners would not only show that you’re respectful, but will improve your trip tremendously (obviously along with not acting like a nuisance lol). While a high level of fluency is not needed as a tourist it is crucial to know the basics first, and even more so for Japan as the majority of the people there don’t speak English.
@@throwawaykiddoI agree, but many Americans have yet made the effort to master the English language, often confusing basic words like “their, there, they’re” or “loose and lose”.
I suppose there is a reason why Americans have a reputation as poor language learners, knowing only English while many Europeans and Asians can speak two or more.
It’s because of this that I doubt the willingness of some future American tourists to learn basic Japanese.
Sorry for any mistakes in English. It is a second language that I am proud to be proficient in.
@@SpikoDreams Japanese is one of the hardest languages to learn for English-speakers, and American monolinguism doesn't come from ignorance or American stupidity but because America borders only one(1) country that does not have a majority English-speaking population. England is also European yet overwhelmingly monolingual, Japan is also sweepingly monolingual, among many of these other countries I suspect you have an inherent bias to label as intellectually "superior" to the US. Maybe, I don't know, learning languages is hard and most people who only grew up around one language will only speak one language.
Japanese tourists travel everywhere with their broken english and their translator apps.
I’m from a country who also suffers from the problem of overtourism (Spain) and I understand (and share) their struggles with noisy people/littering/etc, but they should be a little bit more understanding concerning the language thing because the japanese themselves don’t learn any spanish to come to my country…😂
@@throwawaykiddo Even less Japanese people bother to learn anything in the language of the country they are visiting.
Ok I have to say this. I’ve been a driver in Japan over 10 years but moved to a new area about1 year ago. I don’t drive where I am now as there is no need, I take the train.
I swear drivers speed up when they see me cross the road as a pedestrian 😂 the man is green, showing I’m allowed to walk across the road, but as they turn the corner it’s their right of way, but it’s ALSO the right of way of the pedestrian. And they should let the pedestrian go first ! But in this area they don’t seem to know that. One woman had to slam on her breaks in anger and I just pointed to the green walking man that indicates I’m allowed to cross, and she started bowing profusely . I have no idea what the thought process is , other than “stupid foreigner must be wrong” 😅but anyway, I’m moving away from this area, thankfully I know it’s not representative of all places in Japan but it IS definitely a pattern here, and it must be a racist thing because I can’t imagine them speeding up and ignoring the rules of the road when they see a child or an elderly person or even anyone , really
I had visited Tokyo last year with a friend. We also had encountered that as we were crossing the street. I made eye contact with the drivers (who would sometimes look away), and point to the walking man.
This really depends on where you are.
There are 2-3 Japans: the countryside, the big city, and Osaka.
Just be thankful you're not a pedestrian in Osaka
@@asdfbeau yea I pointed out regional variations. I mean , I’ve been a pedestrian in Russia and also in Bangkok, both are not for the faint hearted, (also in Osaka too, as I’ve been a pedestrian there) but we’re not talking about bad or chaotic driving here, are we… we’re talking about something else entirely
Anguish in Gethsemane
He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying, ‘My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.’
-Matthew 26:39
As Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, He was in anguish. So much so that Luke’s Gospel says He “was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood” (22:44)
In addition, Mark’s Gospel gives us a very important detail that we could easily miss: Jesus cried out, “Abba, Father” (14:36)
We might not catch the significance of this. But today, it isn’t unusual to hear Israeli children calling out to their fathers, “Abba!” It’s the equivalent of our English word “Daddy.”
There is a difference between the terms “Father” and “Daddy.” Both describe the same person, but they indicate a difference in relationship. That is not to suggest that Jesus was manipulating God the Father. Rather, it indicated intimacy. Jesus was saying, in effect, “I trust You, Father. I know You are in control.”
Then Jesus went on to say, “Everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine” (verse 36)
That is a hard thing for many of us to say. We might say the words, “Not my will, but Yours, be done.” But do we really mean it? What if His will is different from ours? And how can we know the will of God?
We discover God’s will through careful study of the Scriptures. And frankly, there will be times when we read things in the Bible and think, “Wow, that is hard. I don’t know if I want to forgive this person who has wronged me, but Lord, You have told me in Scripture to do so.”
Or, “I don’t know that I want to break that relationship off with this nonbeliever that I was thinking of marrying. But Lord, You have told me in Your Word to do so. Not my will, but Yours, be done.”
It is okay to think about the future and make plans for our lives. In fact, we should. But we also need to say, “Lord, here are my plans. But if You have a different plan in mind, I am willing for You to overrule what I have decided, because I’ve come to discover that Your plan is better than my own. So not my will, but Yours, be done.”
This is very important to say to God, especially if you’re young. Dwight L. Moody said, “Spread out your petition before God, and then say, ‘not my will but yours be done.’ ” He concludes, “The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.”
We are going to have our Gethsemanes in life. We will face times of ultimate stress, moments of pressure that seem to be too much. What will we do then? Will we say, like Jesus, “Abba, Father”? Will we say, “Your will be done”?
Would you let the Lord choose for you? Would you be willing to take your future and place it in God’s hands?
holy shit I've not once had that happen to me when I was in Japan. It doesn't have to be a racist thing, that's just something imprinted into your mind. Not everyone is racist. Not everyone cares about the color of your skin or where you're from. Your skin complexion or melanin levels do not make you the topic of the day when Japanese people discuss who to annoy this time.
When I was visiting family in Tokyo last year, I have to say that I was a lot happier to be in the non-touristy neighborhoods. The pace, the peace, the quiet was phenomenal.
"When in Rome acts like the Romans do" seems only to apply to people visiting your country, but not when you're the one visiting other countries.
One of my long-time dreams was to visit Japan one day but just seeing how much it has changed over the years I feel less and less inclined...
I was there for two weeks in October. Had a wonderful time an the Japanese I met were never anything but helpful and polite. Don’t let a few negative stories put you off: just do your best to learn and follow Japanese customs. Remember: you can’t control if a Japanese person believes negative stereotypes about foreigners, but you can control if you’ve given them a reason to believe those stereotypes.
@@barrygormley3986 May i ask you, how was the weather in October, it was overcrowded, etc... I'm planing maybe to visit Japan in October maybe November to avoid crowd...
@@tsdfghjkland, why _would_ you visit japan?
@@tsdfghjkl tosser
@@barrygormley3986 Agreed! Japan is also improving, the infamous xenophobia of foreigners, yes, it did exist in the past, but gradually faded away now, and I can feel it. they tried to head the right way.
I work in Yokosuka and my wife and I go to downtown tokyo pretty often to sightsee, and the amount of tourists is just insane. Despite the volume of tourists being higher, I also think proportionally a lot more of them are acting inappropriately and not respecting local customs and order. Lately it's making me feel embarrassed as I can feel the public's perception on non-Japanese slowly souring.
I can feel the "souring" too. Things are still normal up here in the Tohoku region where I live, but man when I go into Tokyo on daytrips I can feel the difference. The city is absolutely stuffed full of foreigners nowadays --- last time I went I kept getting on trains/going in businesses with more foreigners than actual Japanese people. Of course, bringing their very "non-Japanese" behaviors with them to these places. I'm starting to get the sense that locals are getting sick and tired of them overruning the city. This last trip down I was actually embarassed to be one of them.
Visiting Japan someday is literally dream goals. It’s very sad to see some individuals not showing proper respect.
Not appreciating such a beautiful and unique country is really tragic.
Social media’s worst aspects are ruining the reputation of foreigners in Japan even more quickly than the usual foreign visitor behavior. My first suggestion to the Japanese is to not fool around with these social media fools and arrest them for poor public conduct. Then drive them to the nearest airport and deport them.
Second, you’re never going to be Japanese. If you’re living in Japan accept that as a limitation and get on with living. The rest of life in Japan is fine. Enjoy it.
Third, I appreciate the black guy’s perspective. Staying positive wins.
Finally, many countries in the West are experiencing a severe decline in basic manners and consideration for others, so it is not surprising that the Japanese’s media notices this. If you are a foreigner visiting Japan, just be polite, be kind, and don’t be loud. You’ll do fine.
P.S. The very last thing I would recommend is changing Japanese culture. It’s worth preserving and can only leave you worse off if you start trying to make wholesale changes.
You noticed most people in this video are Caucasian? The Japanese are complaining about Western tourists and residents mainly making a mess and ruining their culture. So perhaps Westerners need to clean up their attitude as you're making Japanese locals worry about their identity and culture erasing.
@@AlexAlex-zt3hitrue, even in my country, I live in a region that was mostly colonized by Italians and Germans, but recently, specially in my state, lots o people are coming from Haiti, Venezuela, and specially from other poorer regions of my country and the state is becoming trash, violence raising, and you can literally see they are nasty, leave trash everywhere, piss around the street, talk loudly, etc, the worst part is that they come from other states financed by their local government, other states literally send buses full of these people to our state...
1. The influencers pushing 25M tourists a year to drop many thousands of dollars into the Japanese economy is in large part, what's propping the economy up despite massive brain drain from youth leaving to Australia/America, natural disaster risk and an hanging population.
2. If you do your laundry in Japan, you are Japanese. At least, partially. I think that's a much more humane view than yours. It's a spectrum... But that's the starting point. Your view implies we should segregate and treat each other differently based on race. I'm jealous of Koreans and Chinese, which after a name change, tend to get included. Even without citizenship.
3. Citation needed... Countries in the west are declining in manners? I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Crime rates have gone down drastically since the 90's... Compare that to the US drug wars of the 80's and the social collapse of eastern Europe during the berlin wall period. The middle east is far more civilized now than it was then... We can count the wars in one hand now. East Africa is a bit spicy, but it always has been. I looked up the definition of manners, and it's about as broad as Love... clarification needed.
you haven't met a Chinese tourist if you think only westerners lack manners
@@ch4.hayabusa I fully agree with your 1st and 2nd point, but not your 3rd.
OP is referrring to intangible (but noticable) changes in western conformism and sociology. Increases in social media, LGBT+ movements (and many other minorities), and protest accessibility have pretty clearly caused a shift in modernised western culture. Individualism being the main change. The West largely ignores popular Eastern Confucianism and prioritises all individuals finding a welcome space and feeling accepted by society (or at least their own bubble of it). Interacting with the LGBT+ discussions makes it very apparent VERY clearly the extent to which individualism is adored.
Crime rates do NOT equal manners, and it certainly DOESN'T tie to war. Manners and law are often loosely tied, but manners refers to sociology and interpersonal language, while crime rates are directly tied to strictly government-monitored actions. For example, the recent protests in France, while the French people are more united than likely ever (manners, only measurable by petty crime, social media and symptoms of herd mentality, are rife), while illegal activity has skyrocketed. Farmers protest by blocking main roads with tractors, dumping piles of animal feces and harvester on public buildings, burning litter piles, illegal lengths of protest from work, etc. Put 2 french farmers next to each other and they'll likely shake hands like they're brothers, but that doesn't mean they havent, and wont, gladly commit over 10 crimes on their way to protesting raising taxes.
To cover war, war is strictly acts of government and/or large (by nature strictly non-interpersonal) representational bodies. It's a complete juxtaposition to say less wars means more manners. If anything, previous World Wars showed more evidence AGAINST your point than for it. You can't show manners to someone on the other side of a gun barrel, or in a building your about to drone strike, theres no communication between 2 or more people. You CAN measure the manners/communication within the peoples/sides of war. War naturally raises nationalistic and anti-enemy emotions. Nationalistism by nature encourages good manners and herd mentality among your fellow people. National petty crime rates PLUMMETED during WW1 and WW2 in allied countries, mainly due to the "War Effort". It's to a much lesser extent now, but TV news reporting on these wars, and promoting the military of their nation does increase nationalism.
I'll be honest, I'm french, I love Japanese culture, I visited Tokyo once. I was ashamed of other french people I crossed path there so much, I acted as if I did not understand them. In Paris, the past years, it became a nightmare too, tourists themselves give a bad reputation to the city, they say the city is dirty and smell, people are not welcoming... yeah.... mostly in the touristic areas. Tourists are the ones not respecting the environment. The truth is, tourism is much more affordable than 40years ago, especially plane tickets, low educated people travel easily, they don't understand the differences of culture, they don't even understand the respect of their own environment.
Worst, stupid tourist attract scammers and thieves that target them, aggraving the situation.
Personally I think Japan, and countries like mine should request some kind of training or test about local custom and respect before you can get a visa or even as mandatory information campaign. A lot of neighbourhood in big international cities became generic commercial center, they lost their identities too.
The problem is if you look at the economic results for Japan during COVID, they had a massive negative effect due to how much they rely on tourist dollars. So the point is either call out the fact that there are bad tourists and everyone else's behaving properly, or shut down tourism entirely and lose the income but then stop complaining. They just need to do one or the other.
I'm a bit worried about the upcoming Olympics then, if that's the case... I can just imagine all of those tourists flooding Paris
No. Because capitalism.
it has nothing to do with education. I went to study in Korea with 4 fellow students from my country (thus we were all "masters degree" educated) and those 4 still behaved like crap😅
@@jase276 o yeah, most French people right now expect the Olympics to probably be a disaster in any capacity. Maybe we are pessimistic, but the daily insecurities (thieves that will target specifically visitors) and terrible public transportation management of the city, plus still a high risk of terrorist attack during those kind of event, is not something that rassure us. I live in the second outer rim of Paris, Personally I plan to stay mostly inside and not set a foot inside the inner city during the 2 weeks. ^^
To be fair, in Japan if I have a 15 second conversation with someone, they suddenly feel like they need to take a picture with me. If I have an outside kind of day, I probably have my photo taken at least twice a day with strangers, just because of small talk. Imagine saying hi how’s the weather, and the response “great” is “let’s take a picture together.”
Well, I think we don't see the full picture...
No but seriously, at least they want to take a pic with you. I would take that as a compliment. Imagine, if they found you ugly they would never even think about it.
I wish Hoshino-san the best with his manga. More positive representation is not only necessary to educate people, but there are so many interesting stories to be heard from minority groups who experience the same country differently.
I was so lucky to spend a year in japan and worked very hard to be polite, considerate, and able to communicate. There was always more to learn and mistakes to stumble through but people took good care of me and appreciated my effort. It can be hard and sometimes embarrassing or lonely to navigate language and culture differences, but trying is how we can show our thanks and respect for each other. Everyone, please do your best.
Cringe manga
Some Japanese tourists were also annoying back in the 1980s when they began traveling, they would come inside our shops and take pictures without even asking. Our elders spoke some Japanese because of the war so we can tell them to go out and stop bothering our business. Some are even rude in the nightclubs, touching women too much, some even slapping the women. Things have changed of course.
Which country?
Some - all of them, and they still are. All tourists are annoying. But if you want foreign exchange and soft power, you bring in tourists. The people who complain are basically the people who don't travel. They have no idea how expensive and how straining it is to travel far and then to have several days to get in as much as possible before flying home and returning to work.
@@peterc4082 "All tourists are annoying." That's right! And Japan was very closed during covid, and held onto those restrictions for a long time after other countries opened their borders. So I feel like many people are finally able to go to Japan, and it's shocking after a few years of essentially lockdown.
@@cloudsn Japan is quite narcissistic. Self absorbed. Entitled. All because the Americans built them up the way they built up Germany. And we let them close down our own factories in the West. Japan is not a good tourist destination. But if people want to go and be considered like animals, they can go.
That's exaggerated. We had Japanese tourists in the 80's and they didn't even act like that. This is nothing but a propaganda. You're just jealous of Japan's economy back in the 80's that you were badmouthing Japan
There is a middle ground and I've found Japanese people to be quite friendly and tolerant as long as you understand that you're inconveniencing them.
e.g. I've always tried to ask for permission when I wanted to take pictures in some places where it's frowned upon, or where I'd bother people. Took one quick photo and put the phone down.
As for Gheisa, those who want to take a picture can just reserve a ticket at the theatre, Gion Corner. There you can take a picture with a Maiko after the show.
Play it smart, be polite and subtle and you can get away with being a minor nuisance.
China is almost the same on most of these dimensions. 外国人 or 老外 aren't distinguished as residents or tourists, largely because most people have never met a foreigner. And just like you said, even if they're in another country, they'll still refer to the locals as 外国人 or 老外！
4:07 The one difference is here. The Chinese have a series of words for the varying levels of Chinese - from China-born, Chinese citizens, to children of emmigrants: 中国人，华人，华裔...
Lao Wai refers to localized Foreigners .
Hua Ren refers to Chinese of "Greater China" > PRC, HK, Macao and Taiwan
@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 interesting. At least where I live in China, that's not the way I hear it commonly used.
My roommates, all of whom are Chinese, use 华人 as inclusive of Malaysian Chinese, Singaporean Chinese, American Chinese, etc. Anyone who emigrated from China and became a citizen of another country. Whereas 华裔 tends to refer to their children.
When I return home for vacation (outside China), I also hear a lot of 老外 used to refer to the locals by Chinese people. My experience with it has always seen it used as much more an out-group indicator more than anything specifically for specific sorts of foreigners. But that may just be a blindspot on my part - I'll ask my roommates tonight and report back.
@@krishnathiagarajan8290
华侨
Huáqiáo is specifically for Oversea Chinese .
老外 is informal way to referring to 外国人. 华人 simply refers to anyone of Chinese descent, no matter their nationality.
He's absolutely right about using entertainment instead of protests. Protests just make people view you as even more of a troublesome outsider than they did before. It's counterproductive.
Japanese, themselves, are the first to take photos everywhere. Even in the trains.
this one! ☝️
Two things. The ones who travel are not the ones who complain. Secondly some people are hypocrites. But I agree.
There's a place where no one can take photos, is strictly prohibited
Thanks to foreigners and japanese torists themselves, they simply prohibited tourism completely
Saying "they do that too" doesn't save them if they break the rules
And you're missing the point entirely
@@codesymbi Thanks to foreigners. Japanese tourists are not the problem. Unless they are being emboldened by Western tourists who do what's allowed everywhere else in the world.
I can tell you’re one of those unwelcome tourists
All tourists aren’t the same yet it’s still sad how so many are lumped into the same categories as one. Great video TJR.
Now you know how asians feel with asian hate in America
Oh no! What a tragedy! The people of a foreign country won't be nice to you because they don't have to be! How tragic! 😢 we must change Japanese society because our feelings are hurt!
@@michaelatlas2341 hilariously wrong assumption of my comment. Read it again. I don’t condone terrible behaviors especially when it’s people who act like idiots when they’re a guest in a foreign country.
@@ComposedSage75 Hilariously wrong assumption of Eastern culture in general. All tourists all the same. There is only Japanese and non-Japanese, doesn’t matter if it’s a black guy from Kenya, Indian from India, Chinese from China, or some White people from Europe or America or Brazilians from Brazil. There’s only Japanese and Gaijin. Their culture, their people, their rules.
@@gambitacio All tourists aren’t the same just like all people don’t behave the same way. I don’t care what race or color you are cuz that doesn’t matter like you said. Have respect for the country you’re a guest in. It’s that simple.
Was in Osaka last week. While standing in line at the buffet breakfast at the hotel, an American was complaining to his partner that there weren't any trash cans and then just dropped the tissue he was holding right there on the floor. In the middle of the dining room. His partner saw the disgusted look I gave the guy and picked up after her companion. Sir, just take it back to your table and leave it under your plate. They'll clean it up afterwards.
I gotta be totally honest, from living here i really dont think tourists break the rules as much as is made out, at least in a serious way, fine making small "cultural" mistakes, chopstick in rice or walking through the middle of temple gates, in terms of the bad stuff. Littering, yelling/confrontation and other such things, is done proportionally equally by drunk/bratty Japanese people. I mean go to any of the cities, and its got trash/rats, and drunk people/brawls just like anywhere else, and this pinning it on foreigners and tourists is getting tiring. Most people Ik that come to japan make a point to behave well, and yes its tiring to be lumped in.
Japan is the only country that can get away with this shit aswell, if other countries did this, the racism card would (Fairly) be pulled and correctly critizied, but when japan pulls this shit its "got to protect its cultural norms." Its all B.S and im fairly sure how bad this is, at least is exaggerated, if not totally made up as thats a favourite of japanese goverment positions when they make a mistake to just escape horse on foreigners.
getting tiring realllll fast.
Then move out of Japan and go to Korea or china
@@brandonnguyen9680 possibly the most brain-dead reply I can physically imagine. How about get this, don't scapegoat other people. AND treat people normally🫨
Agreed. There are many things to love about Japan, and there is truth in the argument of preserving its culture. But there is no denying that it is a racist and xenophobic country.
@@viperxgamez311 anthony lee should just quit jknews
@@brandonnguyen9680Are you a weeb?
ステレオタイプ活用の思考プロセスが一番簡単なものですから仕方ない。庶民に外国人をカテゴリーに分類を要求すると頭が痛くなるそうです
そうかもしれないが、世界は実に広いし、さまざまなタイプの外国人がいるんじゃないですか
Agreed, it’s just that most people don’t care to educate themselves and only go of of stereotypes that can have potentially harmful consequences. It’s not easy though, for example because if everyone around you says the same thing it’s so much easier just to go with what they think. Simple as. I however have a lot of hope for younger folks who grew up with the internet and possibly foreign friends and colleagues which dispels the harmful stereotypes and see the other person for what they are, a unique individual.
はい、それは事実ですが、日本人は自分たちを賢い国民だと考えていますので、少なくとも最低限の努力をして、これほど無知な差別を行わない「より賢くない人々」と同じように行動できるはずです。
@@ginojap そう! The ubiquitous "Loose Culture" outside Japan....definitely is a big culture shock! At least I have had that experience many times in Japan, we need time to learn the Japanese way of doing things, since most of the world did not have that strict rules and sense of respect, in my opinion, which is not bad (in freedom and personal perspective) but also not very good (sociological management perspective).
Stereotypes start from reality
It’s a very complicated matter, indeed. Even if we distinguish tourists from residents, we still can’t claim that all tourists are ill-mannered, and that all residents are well-behaved.
Johnny Samali and others like him set impressions of foreigners back by decades.
Its sad that the foreigner tourists that misbehave in Japan get all the highlights in the NHK but I've never seen news about tourist foreigners that helped Japanese girls being chased by weirdos or perverts or Tourist foreigners that have helped Japanese people in trouble in their own country.
Even Abroad in Japan seemed to be mocked by the media at the beginning but after many years of hard work they probably eased on him.
BTW its not a Japan thing, here in Canada Streamers are still annoying and odd looking when they do their stuff on the public areas when there's lots of people around.
Yep, they don't report on that because it doesn't fit their "foreigner = bad" agenda.
it's because the Japanese government deliberately demonise foreigners. They won't show the good things they do because that's not the image they're trying to portray. It's an intentional "us vs them" narrative which they feed the public to reduce their opinion of us. The government here is very nationalistic and does not want Japan to become diverse. The problem is, they can only keep this stupidity up for so long, their economy is falling fast and birth rate is declining. Unless they want to die on their sword (they might) they have no option but to start "playing with others"
When I was in Japan 20 years ago there was a distinction between foreigners who visited there and the ones who were living there more long term and teaching English. The visitors were called gaijin and the resident teachers were called sukebe.
The stigma around english teachers in Japan being lazy/only there for the visa is still there, very much so. But I dont think what you're remembering is correct. Sukebe（すけべ）means pervert, usually used by women as an insult to men who appear too horny/invasive. Japanese aren't always the nicest behind closed doors, or when others aren't around to listen, but I'd bet my house that my Japanese friends, or their relatives, were not walking around calling their english teachers perverts or lechers.
In Thailand people refer to foreigners as "FARANG" and once I had the same exchange with someone who told me they would like to travel abroad to live with the "farang" and I had to point out that if they were traveling abroad then they'd the 'farang' but they just couldn't wrap their heads around this concept. It's the same with the japanese's gaijin
That's nice. In Europe when we see a Thai or a Japanese or Chinese, we assume he is Chinese. We don't even say foreigner, we say Chinese or Asian. And that's that.
I think you misunderstand was "Farang" means. It's "white" people.
Thanks for reporting on this topic!
The news only showed western people. As one of the news videos I watched (based in Japan) about closing off some of the Kyoto district, a lot of Kyoto residents said it was some western people but mostly Chinese and Indian tourist who were very disruptive.
I'm married to a Thai,so when we visit Thailand,i am referred to as a Farang,which means Westerner.It's not an insult,just a way of describing folk who don't look South East Asian.We have been to Japan and have never encountered any issues.Indeed,we were made to feel welcome in the places we visited.
LOL, made to feel welcome. In every country, outside of a war zone or maybe North Korea, you'll be made to feel welcome. I've never been to a country I've never been welcomed in. People in hotels, restaurants, museums, shops etc smile and are polite. Hosts are polite. People are friendly etc. Would you be impolite to a tourist if you ran a B&B? or worked in the hospitality industry? And most people are happy when foreigners come to SPEND THEIR MONEY. It means jobs. And Japan is becoming more and more poor as compared to the 80s and 90s.
@@peterc4082 Every country is becoming economically weaker. Japan, at least, doesn't have hordes of unwashed foreigners literally sleeping on the streets and harassing locals. For now.
I'm thai and I think the japanese guy is gaslighted by CRT to think that way, to feel guilty for some minor stuffs it would never be a problem unless immigration politics have a play in it.
Imagine the word "Farang" is out as the same as "gaijin" here in the video because some CRT theorists pushing it.
I have been to japan and despite learning a lot about their culture, I thought with how i look and my japanese skills I'd be doing fine without being discriminated as gaijin, and I still made mistakes when I went to shrine for the first time and I thought even if I'm not a tourist and had been living in Japan for years I'm happy to be called gaijin by them because of my mistake the only thing that saved me from being called gaijin is my look, my asian gene, they probably just thought I'm some weirdo and moved on but here we are seeing japanese trying to make things more complicated for themselves because they think it's unfair for minorities, that soon will be huge part of their population.
@@chariothe9013This is not about immigration, it's about TOURISTS.
Have you been to the Notre Dame in Paris? It's an actual church, it's sanctified. Yet you have 1000s of tourists walking through it during Mass and they take pictures and talk and so on. There are signs asking them to be respectful, but we don't see people especially Catholics moan about how terrible this is. We don't do this.
Some of these Japanese people need to get over their superiority complex. Japanese tourists themselves behave poorly abroad. Not necessarily by littering but by crowding up and being intrusive and disruptive. But they get a pass. They should do the same here or they should simply stop all tourism.
they are probably scared of you thats why they dont offend you. I'm really young looking and Japan was different for me when I wasn't in my town in yamanashi or with my japanese girlfriend. I had people trying to come into my shower and some would push my bicycle and me with their car.
Western tourists outnumber western residents over 10 to 1... So it's hard to see the forest for the trees
Great topic since it's a big tourist season in Japan right now. The few bad Gaijin ruin it for everyone. Number one rule is to know the culture your visiting and be respectful. At the same time, news media always reports on sensationalism topics such as these to get people upset about something.
Having lived in Japan for 9 years...if you hust look about...Japanese people often, very often have the exact same bad behaviour they complain about on the TV.
And that's the same in any country, though. I think this way about the immigrant workers that have infested my country. Their very presence is a symbol of the governments piss-poor solutions to a problem they themselves created. One wrong move by the immigrant workers and I feel only contempt. It's not necessarily their fault, but it is an expected response.
I feel bad for the Japanese people who are suffering in the same manner as I have laid out. Their generosity has been exploited.
おそらくそれは中国人
@@sssiii15 メキシコ人、でも中国人も悪い。
That's very interesting. I have always wanted to go to Japan to visit but... I didn't really know that I would be perceived in this way if I did. Even if it wasn't totally openly vocal or apparent, the mindset is pretty bad and paints almost a poor picture of the media's portrayal of tourism.
Pretty sure the outsider kind of mentality occurs everywhere though. Would be interesting to compare other countries portrayals.
Do you think this more visible reporting on this type of thing is becoming more popular in the local Japanese media because of the recent 'streamer' incidents? Like, is it just getting worse and worse over time or did it just suddenly spike up in the last decade since social media blew up?
I wouldn't let the topic of this video purturb you from visiting Japan. I recently returned from living for 9 months in Japan and I would say that I agree that this topic is important to talk about, it's not something you should worry about if you're interested in touring Japan.
Japanese people are first and foremost very polite when they interact with you, therefore no matter what prejudices they hold about you - you will never know and won't have your day ruined because of it. Unlike in the West where if someone has a problem they will likely throw shade or say something to make you feel uncomfortable.
I can't say I didn't have any weird experiences, but the vast majority of interactions I had were awesome. I do however think videos like this are important, because by talking about topics like this societies are able create discussions and opportunities for improving the situation.
@@ryanscottmurphy86 Couldn't agree more
Yeah, i've been thinkin that as well.
There seems to be enough tourists there as it is, doubt they'd need me in the mix running around snapping photos of everythng.
Besides, the videos are in 4k or 8k these days so i can just watch videos of Japan from the comfort of my home. ☺
Japanese tend to be racist. Why? Because you can see their media has a feel of the zeitgeist there and knows what buttons to push. They pander to the hate of the other, the distrust of the other. The Japanese government wants tourists but many people seem to hate on them. Surely a logical person would then vote in such a government which would reduce tourism. But that doesn't happen.
Japanese get a major shock when they visit Paris and see how rude French can be. I do not find French to be particularly rude but anyway. Still it's even a diagnostic entity in the science of psychology.
If you like Japan maybe you should not visit then. It may disturb you when you see it's not all roses and unicorns over there, either.
@@ryanscottmurphy86It should. Japanese are polite, but who isn't. I've been to many countries and lived in several and to be fair, it's very rare to find a rude person.
When I went to Japan I was so excited and minded my manners and of course in another country respect their culture and sites. Only thing that got on my nerves was the westerners that lived there for years correcting my little japenese. Sorry you’ve live here 10 years and I’ve been here two days. Americans and Europeans that live there can be more arrogant than the actual Japenese.
Sorry bro
But feels like you're making the same kind of generalisation than Japanese people are about foreigners 😂
Tourists who mind their manners like you probably did are I think not the majority (my opinion is that people watching this channel and other youtube channels, are, aware. But others just don't know most of the manners so ofc can't respect them. Are they to blame ? I don't have the answer).
If the westerner is correcting your Japanese, 2 possible reasons : He is just trying to help or, he is a dick
You can live here for 10 years and still understand the struggle of a beginner lol (especially that this person also very probably went through the same situation haha)
But yeah, you just didn't meet the good person I guess 😂
Ps: ofc Americans and Europeans are more arrogant than Japanese, is it even a question ? Japanese aren't arrogant lol
Ig those peeps defines the real meaning of "weaboos".
Some dood who watched 3 anime: you know, i'm something of an expert myself
When Japanese people don't correct you but entitled foreigners do 😂🎉 (that said, Japanese are so polite they rarely will if you don't ask for feedback, but if you really don't want it then I get being mad at those people)
As someone who has been going to Japan annually more than 2 times a year for work and family; I am very worried of the threat of content creators especially after Johnny Somali. On top of that now, what's happening in Kyoto is really messed up. I feel enactment and enforcement of new laws that minimize such behaviour is critical for Japan's future. I agree with the problem in Media too 😔 I hate seeing my cousins who are Hafu experience discrimination and being bundled with the bad apples 😣
Even though japanese views on foreigners is harsh, they have every right to do so. And even more, this is the exact kind of mindset Europe needs right now.
I agree with what I THINK youre trying to say, but not what you did say. If you mean being harsh/strict on tourist behaviour (the bad bits), then yeah, I agree, culture and social dynamics shouldn't be uprooted to please a family on a 1 week trip. But if you mean ALL foreigners I don't agree, and I only would agree if that harsh view included natives too. The video was conveying not that the strictness on bad tourist behaviour was bad, but that the media never distinguishes between those tourists and settled foreigners. It sets a precedent that all foreigners are here to fuck w japanese social dynamics and have no respect. That's not fair on those who work hard (like me) to uproot what stereotypes are already there in Japanese minds. As someone in a respectable job who volunteers in the community and does his part (so to speak) I deserve to not be lumped in w the disrespectful tourists who dont do their research. If I behave I deserve to be treated as a respected and kind Japanese migrant, not "another 外人(Gaijin)" who they're waiting to catch out of line
@@juniorpauleit4667I think they just meant the rude ones
amen brother
European views on foreigners are harsher than Japanese? Especially in places where tourism has hit hard such as Amsterdam,Ibiza,Venice and Paris etc The problem is foreigners view Japan and Japanese people as a sort of Disneyland where they can do whatever they want without consequences, I highly doubt someone like Logan Paul would have lasted an hour in any country as he did in Japan doing the disrespectful acts that he did like hitting people with raw fish and throwing it on cars.
@@sophiehart2418This guy is an absolute moron, the fact that he has any audience at all just makes me feel bad about the world 😂🎉
..yes a tourist may help country's economy but it doesn't mean you have a freedom to do what you want, yeah you have your culture but it's like visiting someone's house, adapt their culture, follow, respect for them to see them that you really enjoy and appreciate your visitation..
The japanese economy reached to the point where no other sector is really making profit than tourism and hospitality. They should treat tourists much better. I work here for almost a decade.
@@understone86 The tourists shouldn’t be entitled brats then, they’re just visitors not residents. Be grateful they let you in in the first place instead of expecting them to. Another entitlement mentality.
@@understone86 Treat better? For what? F*cking Bullshit. The tourist should act better and not like a spoiled 5 year old brat.
@@gambitacio in every country there are entitled brat tourists. There are places where tourists are more concentrated and need more resources to clean and control. That's is the governments responsibility, and if you don't communicate with the tourists just complaining about them in the local media that doesn't help.
@@understone86 Tourists are guests. Guests and not residents. Get it into your goddamn stubborn brains that guests can be and will be kicked out at any time if you break their rules. They don’t have to accommodate you, it’s out of politeness that they do. Get that into your entitled brains that no, not everything you bring is oh so progressive and smart with your entitled superiority complex. Still trying to colonize after all this time?
Some tourists jaywalk? Apparently they do.
But if you study Japanese pedestrian habits, some Japanese do the same.
Moreover, stop at any busy intersection in Japan and observe at least 20% of Japanese drivers running red lights. The first second of RED means accelerate.
Observe how many Japanese drivers stare at their phones while driving. Many drivers also watch TV.
Beware of sidewalks where cyclists often cycle recklessly, typically high school kids checking out Instagram.
Japan is certainly not mad Egypt or India, but the Yamato Minzoku aren’t as pure as the twisted TV reporting leads many to believe.
you got it. All japan videos always depict tourists as bad and make Japanese citizens look like angels, but the reality is Japanese do all the things these videos claim that foreigners do. Generally they don't but I see it occasionally: leaving trash out, jaywalking, running and pushing their way onto train, cutting line, not being polite to customers etc
I definitely feel this is a problem and I am actually also annoyed at tourists who give "non-Japanese" people a bad name. When I was coming to the end a year that I spent living in Japan and I was preparing to fly back to the UK, I stayed at Haneda Airport Onsen hotel (because I love onsen and knew I would miss it so much in the UK haha).
The first night I stayed there was fine, no issues, I went to the onsen (I have been to many onsen, I speak Japanese and know the rules), everything was normal.
The second night I went to the onsen, the man at the desk was trying to speak English to me and talking about the rules and stuff, and I assured him I understood and will respect the rules, but I thought it was strange because that hadn't happened to me last time.
When I went into the onsen though I suddenly understood why he was treating me like that, when I saw many loud people splashing in the onsen, they were wearing apple watches and one girl was taking photos of the view from the window, from INSIDE OF THE BATHING AREA, STANDING IN THE WATER. They had long hair and just let it fall into the water and were so loud and even though I am also a "foreigner", I was totally appalled at their behaviour. I thought it was very rude.
But what made me even more uncomfortable is the idea that I am the same as them, I went to one of the baths as far away as possible because I didn't want people to think I was together with them and it was so embarrassing, because I know that the man at the desk saw my foreigner face and just thought "oh no, not another foreign tourist who can't speak Japanese and won't respect the rules".
It's things like this that lead to tourists getting banned from places, but that is actually very problematic for foreign people who live and work in Japan, or are hafu, or have grown up in Japan! I find this generalisation very uncomfortable. :(
I wish the media would distinguish between disrespectful tourists and the rest of us.
And also I do wish the people being disrespectful as tourists would stop too of course, they make it uncomfortable for everyone :(
Once again, absolute unit of a video, amazing dude
Foreigners that are residenta in Japan really need to speak up if theh don't like this treatment but they can't take it personally they're an extreme minority by barely being a single percentage of the population.
According to the Japan Times their numbers have actually gone up. There are over 3.2 million foreign residents in Japan.
The problem is: How do you tell these groups apart at first glance? The ones who are streaming are easy, but what of regular tourists vs residents?
Is the person that litters a bad tourist or a bad resident?
Is the person that is respectful a good tourist or a good resident?
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There are residents though that have no regard for the law and straight up steal, not paying properly for train transportation and doing other shady, sneaky things. So differenciating between tourists and residents isn't all that really (the only difference being residents have less incentive to do those things because if they get caught and punished for it, the consequences are harsher, and they are more likely to get in trouble for being shitheads if they stay there more, but you get my point, not every resident is a little Japanese culture respecting angel, it's just another generalization that doesn't help much)
Im a American and I never liked tourist spots i like small places that have less people and that have a fishing culture or farming culture,the things that every country has but is different in other ways.
... have fewer people and ...
(for SoOLs)
Yeah, I wanna see some of those places too, I just worry because my Japanese is like less than basic, most people in these places must know like 0 English, and English isn't even my native language (though I would say I'm pretty decent at it), so I worry I'll do something stupid or maybe not even be able to order food at those places (or maybe be the annoying tourist that just points at things and say "konooo" 😂🎉)
@raven-a Stay at ryokan, many of which will be online. Be sure to remove your footwear at the entrance. Keeping your clean socks on, put on a pair of slippers provided at the door. It'll be obvious you want a room, so just raise your right forefinger to indicate 1 person. To use the communal bathroom, shower first, often seated, using the scoop provided to pour water over you to lather up & rinse off your own toiletries, available in small sizes from convenience stores; bring your own. Only then enter the bath, Not before first "showering". Failure to observe this required etiquette would be a faux pas of vast proportion!
To eat street food, just stand in the queue, pay & you'll be given the serving. Or there might be a number system. Don't even think of Japanese urban restaurant meals in Japan unless you have a corporate expense a/c.
In winter, sake bought at convenience stores will be warmed up if you indicate assent when asked; just nod. They're not asking if you want a bag.
@raven-a
Pointing at things you're trying to BUY does not make you an annoying tourist. Indeed, your custom is appreciated by vendors catering to the tourist market. The tourist industry worldwide has been adversely affected in recent years. Use it or lose it is the English language idiom that applies here.
I got interviewed by FujiTV and was asked to answer in English, despite being able to talk in Japanese
This is one of my biggest gripes when I lived in Japan. No matter how well mannered I was, fluent in language, knowledge of my area, or cultural investment/knowledge, I was always given the jozu treatment but if I had a bad day at school it was Typical Gaijin Behavior etc. Ultimately I like visiting, but I can't think to live there anymore. There's also a solid divide between long term residents, naturalized or renewed visas, that tend to either stop hanging around Japanese folk and just stick to other expats, or are VERY proud of themslves for being Very Japanese and being accepted among Japanese friends etc. It's a weird world over there.
Yoiur work is great dude
what a great video keep the real journalism coming
This really is not unique to Japan. Switzerland has one of the highest rates of foreigners in the world (25%), and we use the same word for residents and non-residents, which is just "foreigners". Truth be told, I don’t even think a term for "resident" exists outside legalese and I don’t actually know the translation into German.
In Switzerland, you can't really tell a white foreigner from a white local, ok by dress maybe or car license or if he opens his mouth but it's not as obvious. In Japan, every non (short) East Asian looking fellow is a gaijin. It could be the former CEO of SONY Corp but it's still a gaijin.
This is a good topic and it merits broader consideration. And it goes further than you might think. I have seen videos where people who are half Japanese living in Japan still say they are not "Japanese enough" for the locals and are treated as "foreigners."
You are onto something. Language is a flexible, ever-changing thing, so if influencers in Japan (both Japanese and foreign ofc) could come up with a word for non-tourist foreigners and could make it trending, it would have a chance to spread, affecting social consciousness.
Even if there's a word, it's not like people are going to be walking around with tags to identify themselves as residents though.
I bet these things with tourists happen in every country, but they don't generalize foreigners. The healthy thing to say is "everyone is different. Some have bad manners"
I honestly hate going to touristy areas now that there is an influx of tourists here. I was happy to visit when it was during the pandemic and I knew most tourists were domestic. I came here in 1995 and have changed a lot since then. I would have seen myself as one of those people who just did things the way I would have done them back in Canada. Now, I have capitulated to do more things in the Japanese way, and it has created more harmony in my life. So, seeing tourists not following how things are done in Japan (like eating and walking, throwing trash on the street, and yelling in crowded areas) makes me really dislike the idea of foreign tourism.
Should be selective in who they allow by number
Better yet, ban gaijins all together. Especially with the wise of disingenun woke asf westerns.
They have no respect what so ever and want to force Japan to become like the now awful usa
I unfortunately don't speak japanese at all so can't lropose any alternatives, but maybe natives could figure out some shortened catchy versions of names for those distinctive groups and go to the local influencers to help them make it viral? :)
Thank you for your very insightful and informative videos! As a heads up, I wanted to look up Hoshino-sensei's work from your video since I was unfamiliar with his work, but was unable to find him as "Rune manga artist" (though I did get reminded that "Sugar Sugar Rune" exists, haha); eventually after googling (and realizing I could see his family name as "Hoshino" on the art he's working on at at 6:34), I noticed his name in English is spelled René instead of Rune. So for anyone who is looking for Hoshino René-sensei's work, it's "Africa Shounen ga Nihon de Sodatta Kekka" and "Africa to America, Futatsu no Shiten Omoimoyoranai Nion no Mikata"!
this is important reporting. thank you for making this.
I’m going to Japan in august with a friend, I hope there won’t be too many tourists 😂😅
But we’re 100% respectful! We’ve already been there with university so we know the rules
But let me add something: during our first stay we had to do volunteering at the Gion Matsuri, our university gave us a yukata and we had to stay at a stand wearing that yukata. People came to our stand because I was wearing a yukata, they didn’t buy anything but they came closer to look at me and take pics. Yes they were Japanese. They didn’t even ask. Now, I wasn’t bothered, it was actually funny, but it’s annoying that Japanese people point out that we like taking pics of maiko when they themselves took pics of me without asking
Yeah, that was kinda rude, maybe they feel entitled because you're in their country, wearinf their clothes, but still it's you they are taking pictures of, they could at least ask, that's the decent thing to do
@@raven-a yeah exactly
I once tried to tell a Japanese man to stop feeding the fish and stepping on the reef in Hanauma Bay on Oahu, and there is an educational film and translation material before you enter telling you to not do so. We weren't able to communicate and he continued. It definitely goes both ways and we did our best to learn before visiting Japan, carrying our trash and everyone was very patient with our tries at pronounciation and phrases. Still such a beautiful place to visit.
I remember reading a report on how Mt fuji was suffering due to tourism. It is not wrong for them to say tourists are ruining the landscape.
I find taking photos and recording random people on the streets to be incredibly rude, no matter where or when... a parade may be okay if you're filming it, but there the crowd is the background
Imagine following around someone with a camera who’s following around another person with a camera and then acting like they’re the ones doing something weird
We have similar dynamics in the west with regard to people who are often associated with "migrants". This is further emphasized by the fact that the term "migrant" is incorrectly used by the media to refer to asylum seekers and refugees from non-European countries (e.g., you don't hear Ukranians referred to as migrants in the media or by politicians and exceptions are made for them when it comes to restrictive asylum laws).
I've lived in both the US and Canada and I did notice that while Canada is more accepting of immigrants it has more widespread discrimination against Indigenous people (they're a very politicized group and there's a lot of popular disinfo pushed against them in the media). During Covid, we did see Chinese people being politicized in a similar way in the US, where US citizens and residents of Chinese descent were ostracized due to reporting about outbreaks caused by multinationals traveling from China (ignoring that many of those multinationals were wealthy people who were not of Chinese descent).
If the issue becomes more politicized in Japan then the divide will likely get worse and this distinction will become even more blurred (intentionally). It's just the nature of these things.
Japan having such a unique and harmonious culture, I'm not exactly against them curbing foreign influence. They should be mindful about who they let in their beautiful and clean country and enact harsh penalties for bad behavior like in Singapore.
Singapore is a pseudo dictatorship. Japan would lose its appeal if the government started behaving like a hello kitty dictator.
It’s wrong. It’s against the much more progressive and morally superior West. They must be civilized and their rules should bend down to the West, they should make their culture fit into those right ideals!!! /s
Interesting irony. I recall a study just vefore COVID, because many in Japan were worried about this during the Olympics, and they found out (as in many of the videos you showed) that the people who were causing the most issues were actually locals.
Great topic to cover, Nobita. Thanks.
I must admit I have conflicted feelings about this whole matter. It is right now my second time living in Japan for a little while (this time in Kyoto, and as an exchange student), so, well, this topic is somewhat personal. My rocky relationship with this country left aside (but not forgotten, for it may drive some of my views), I can see, to a certain extent, why some Japanese people think the way they do. I am not Japanese, so I cannot really put myself in the place of a native person, but, from my point of view, the differences between a native Japanese person and a foreigner, even if raised in the country, are almost inherent. The differences in gestures and demeanor, in language and in the way of speaking are present even in the people you have interviewed, who have lived there their whole lives. That's also only the surface, of course, the way these differences manifest, but they are obviously deeper. It's probably for a mixture of reasons, but in any case, I can't help but notice them, in the people who self-identify as Japanese too. I also have to admit I find it difficult to believe I could ever "become" Japanese, and won't deny sometimes I feel alienated by the culture, or tempted to break a few rules just because, even if I don't. I've accepted it as natural, to an extent. I suppose it would be possible to fully become Japanese, but at the cost of one's own identity, and I don't know if that is the right answer for either side.
So on the one side you have this portion of the media who tries to demonize foreigners with very lackluster generalizations, but I don't think the solution is to equate Japanese with foreigners either. We are not better or worse, we are simply different, and these differences aren't something to accentuate or ignore, just to accept. For me, the solution to the conflict is to accept there is one and work our way around it. But I also understand that is hardly a possibility.
Good reporting, mate! Froma 外人 that's lived here for 18 years - thank you!
I've not been to Japan yet but want to visit, before determining if I'd want to stay there longer term (there's multitudes of reason not to, but who knows). However my impression is that with Japan being well, a whole country, there's lots of places where you wouldn't necessarily expect a whole lot of tourists, and I wonder if perhaps that would result in better experiences for people who want to go there without being viewed so poorly as you would by going to Tokyo or Osaka.
I also think immigrants to Japan have a solid chance of improving the foreigner image. Japan is famous for its lonliness crisis, and I'd imagine that making or attending clubs for various hobbies and other recreational activities would go a long way to destigmatize, what with allowing immigrants to root themselves in a community and create positive experiences for ethnic Japanese.
Something I notice with terminology not just relating to Japan, but people uprooting their lives for another place in general, is that the term "immigrant" has fallen out of favor (probably due to migrant crises and border regulation debates), with nearly everyone using "permanent resident" instead, which to me seems to imply a person living there but not really trying to incorporate into the new place. I wonder if this terminology distinction colors how we even talk and think about people moving, and invalidating their attempt to fit in.
Couldn't agree more
1. Japan must and should limit foreign influencers in their country. Influencers are why foreign residents who respect local people and law get treated badly. Also not every foreigner act like this. These negative reports made Japanese people even more Xenophobe than they actually are. Chinese, British and American influencers are the worst.
2. Also, dear foreigners, LEAVE MAIKO-SAN tachi-wa alone. They are not accustomed to lot of people. Most Maiko-sans are introvert. They cry in their homes due to the anxiety they suffer after their picture get taken.
3. Halfu part makes my heart break. Just because a person is mixed, doesn't mean that person has same traits as other mixed person. Everyone has different lifestyle, different parenting, different hobbies, different childhood. Some of them were harshly bullied and others were popular. IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT THEY WERE BORN LIKE THEY ARE.
It really hurts my soul because treating mixed people like this in UK or USA will cause a massive backlash. There are a lot of halfu who are more traditional minded and even better at Kanji than local Japanese. Someone who was born and raised in Japan is not going to be same as someone who was raised in other country. The term halfu is xenophobia and hateful.
Eh, I agree for the most part, but theres double standards here apparently
I heard a solid amount of people say Japanese werent fairly respectful when in their country usually France (as in taking pictures of people, and so on)
One person even said that they were foreigners doing something with their university so they had to dress in Yukatas and Japanese just took picture of them without asking
Granted it could be argued that its fine because its their clothing
Thank you, Nobita-san!
This was very well written and brings good questions to mind.
My mother lived Japan for 5 years, and my grandparents for 15; my spouse is Yonsei-American, but.... I can still see my potential social awkwardness in a Japanese setting.
For years, I've been concerned about traveling to Japan, and this is an important perspective; thank you.
People like the one interviewed which writes manga to break up stereotypes are very important. Thanks for his work.
This happens in every country, not just Japan. I grew up in America but I still get othered here all the time because of my foreign name and accent.
That's true
Great video and I would pay that long term resident to be my guide, and meet you in person too 😅🙏🏽
I’ve been to Japan 4 times and I love Japan and the Japanese people. I endeavour to visit non tourist areas and avoid crowds which means I am among mostly Japanese people. I often ride bike. Hard fact, most Japanese people do not follow any rules with bikes. They ride down the wrong way on bike paths or roads. They ignore traffic lights and run them when it suits them. They follow no order when it comes to traffic rules and ride up and down the street against the flow of traffic if it suits them to save time. They will ride on the road and sidewalk indiscriminately if it suits them for time. Walking rules are the same for Japanese people depending on the area, time of day, and how much time they have to get to work. I had several Japanese people disobey traffic likes and rules, while I was trying to follow them and either walk in front of me or ride in front of me against the flow of traffic rules and order. So it’s a pretty hard pill for me to swallow when the media portrays all foreigners as rule breakers. If I were to have filmed this, and presented it, it would make all Japanese people look like hypocrites. It would also be highly disingenuous for me to do so. As for littering, I agree, many foreigners are horrible litterbugs. But I can give 2 sides to this story as well, but I will concede on this one because I hate disrespectful littering no matter what the case is. I love Japan, but the media needs to look more internally on the walking biking issue among it’s own people as well. The sad reality is though, Japan will never be the same now, for better and for worse.
I have visited Japan multiple times and always carried my rubbish with me. Sometimes all day. I don't understand people just dumping their rubbish anywhere they please.
Tourism..
Can't live with them, can live without them either 😞
Well this sucks. I am planning to visit Japan, the first time being outside the USA. I’m really concerned that I will be treated poorly because I am American/ foreigner. Sigh, I am sad people don’t have more respect for their country and culture to cause it to be an issue
Gaijin implies outside of Japan, not necessarily meaning foreign in the country you're staying in. I don't know why no one gets this. I've been hearing people say this for over a decade.
hmmm because there are people who aren't outside of Japan who are called Outside of Japan. I don't why you are messing it up either 😂
That’s pretty much his argument: gaijin is too broad and generalizes people that aren’t East Asians simply due to their looks, even if they were born/living in Japan for many years. Gaijin, like he said, is a term with massive stereotype innuendos that will only get more stained with foreigners that do the wrong things as tourists. We can only hope that the people migrating to Japan will respect the nation’s etiquette and provide a better image for all. 🤞
the cool thing is that nothing but having a bachelors degree in ANYTHING is required to become an english teacher in japan. so you get clueless fools like that lady
Gaijin means non-Japanese.
Ethnicities aren't costumes. Race is real.
@@but_iWantedTo_speakGerman It's a derogatory term. So ideally one shouldn't be using in the first place. But suppose a Japanese uses the term "gaikokujin" instead. The kanji "koku" means country/nation, which suggests "Japan".
In Japan, Japanese class isn't referred to as "Japanese", but as "language". The same concept of implication is suggested by the kanji "koku" in the word "gaikokujin" in which itself is a Japanese word, suggesting Japan as the nation which the word is referring to. This exact same phenomenon is present in languages such as Chinese and Korean.
As a 外国人 I agree that we're all the same, all 8 billion of us.
Funny how Japanese complain about tourist filming without asking for permission when japanese tourists does the exact same thing in Paris... don't get me wrong, I love Japan, but sometime the hyprocrisy level is impressive.
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The world is an increasingly interconnected place and things like how to handle tourism are something relevant, not only in Japan, but everywhere. Tourism is important and can create a lot of revenue for the local population, wihich is positive. Otherwise many of these places might even fall in decay or could be abandoned.
On the other hand, as a tourist, we have to be respectful to the laws and customs of the place we are visiting, giving this is not our country. Things like littering are something you should avoid everywhere, the same goes for respecting street lights and traffic regulations, better be responsible with these things regardless where you are.
I have been living in Japan for two years in a small town and my experience has been possitive. I am a Colombian citizen. Japan has many things i don't share and i think are wrong (xenophobic attitudes, obsession with race purity, dishonest handling of recent past and history and difficulty to socialize which makes it difficult for me to stay in the long run) but there are more positive things which i am thankful for and I interiorized for my self. These things have helped me a lot and i keep Japan close to my heart. I respect the traffic norms, the street lights, separate the trash as indicated and take it out on the indicated schedules. I am not noisy for my neighbors and i am aware to respect their personal space, specially during the night, when all of us need a rest. And i dont litter. Simply i dont, regardless of where i am i prefer to keep the trash either in my pockets or in a separate part of my bag. Given this, i have never experienced issues with my neighbors and people around me and for the vast majority of my time in this country people has been kind, well mannered and good in their interactions with me.
Sure is not a perfect place, but there are more positive things I take for me from this experience, i understand God is on the details and i try to be aware of the details, that keep Japan as it is, that keep it working as a precission watch, although sometimes is very overwhelming for me. Thank you Japan 💕 I can say Japan has helped me improve as an individual 🙏 コロンビア人から、本当にありがとうございます🇨🇴🇯🇵
Keep Japan as it is? You mean keep the child abuse comics... look they banned real child porn at least several years ago. And they still need to apologise for WW2.
Media follows the interests of its main constituent audience. It shows them what they want to see, generally speaking. And if Japan is like most countries, the primary audience for legacy media, like television news broadcasts, are the older generations. So this tracks. It tends to be the older generations concerned with foreigners and manners. In any country.
As someone that's been basically traveling for a living for 20+years, most tourists, from most countries, have little respect for the land they're visiting.