i returned home to japan for the FIRST TIME in 20 years
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2024
- Hi friend, thanks for watching this video about my recent travel back to japan. :) I hope you enjoy it!!
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I listened to this while doing the dishes and thought it had millions of views, that says something about the quality, good job :)
thanks so much!
I definitely felt this when you talked about your mom's cooking. I'm Japanese/HK Chinese living in Canada so I can really empathize with what you went through. My family and I did a bunch of trips together when we were kids and teenagers, the last time being in 2009, and it wasn't until 2017 that I was able to see my grandparents again. From not knowing how to speak a lick of Japanese to being very conversational was probably one of the most rewarding things I experienced. Being able to speak to my grandparents in their native tongue was one of the biggest reasons why I studied Japanese in the first place. Great content and I hope you post more!
im so proud of you for having had the patience and strength to learn the language to the point you were able to have conversations with your grandparents. really awesome to hear your story - thanks for sharing!!
As a Pakistani immigrant, half of your story describe my life. I born in Kuwait 2008, my father is Pakistani and can speak Urdu, English and Arabic; although, not fluently in English, while my mother is Philippini and can speak English and Tagalog fluently. I have siblings: a younger brother and a middle sister (I’m the eldest). I considered myself as an immigrant, since I born in Kuwait, I pretty much did what all our childhood has done. I go to school, go to trip-to-trip, sleep, eat, making new friends and all of this I’ve done. Now, I’m in Pakistan, living with my grandparents. Everything I mentioned before the last couple of lines is just the opposite of my current reality. My father remains in Kuwait, business in here while mother is in Philippine. There is a lot conversational and drama floating to my parent’s history that led to separation. Better off if I don’t explain you, since it’s very personal. I felt emotionally disconnected, isolated, feeling left over and culturally disconnected. I feel emotionally disconnected, isolated, and culturally estranged. I often question whether my nationality is truly 'Pakistani'. This thought has plagued me since elementary school. Coming in my homeland without any knowledge of my language is very awful. My grandparents pretty much blamed my father for not teaching me and my sibling my national language. Okay, hear me out: my father worked from morning to night and didn’t have time to teach me. My mother often went out with other men, and I didn’t understand who they were. I’m mentioning this just to give a small hint of context behind my history. Three years I stayed, still felt the same. Emotionally disconnected, isolated, feeling left over and culturally disconnected.
You’re a captivating story teller! Great cinematography and editing too :)
Thank you so much!
I am a Japanese American that was born in Hawaii. Hawaii and Japan share a lot of cultural similarities but also so distinctively different. People from Hawaii are different from other Americans where they share take pride in their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Now I live here in Japan, been here for 4 years. I feel the same as you, I feel like I am Japanese, but culturally I am not. I take pride in my differences and yes, the social stigma here is suffocating. I used to hide my phone on the train or in the waiting room to try to assimilate. Now, I don't care. If someone sees me reading in English, then oh well. I have also learned that a lot of Japanese, privately, they don't like the idea of "Read the room" they want to know what is going on or if they did something wrong. They feel the guessing game is a bit too much lol. Anyways, this was an amazing video. You earned a subscriber.
Wish you the best.
Trust me. I’m born and raised in Japan and being outside of Japan for about 15 years. I live in Hawaii now. I officially feel outsider everywhere lol but I like it. I don’t know if I can ever fit in to Japanese culture again though I want to go back.
Home is where you make it.
As I grow older, I realize more and more that the physical manifestations of memories are less important than the memories themselves or the people I made those memories with.
If you feel that Japan is home, then it's your home. If you feel the US is your home, then it's your home.
Feelings of being unwelcome in your own home might be discouraging, but keep in mind that (at least in Japan) they are just trying to be helpful and nice.
In the end, their opinions don't matter. Friends and family matter. You matter.
Great video, and I'm super happy that you were able to take this trip that had so much sentimental value to you, your family, and your memories.
Why away from home why do you hate home why it's such a bad place but nobody else sees it although Americans always flopping to Japan
Thanks for those words, definitely made me reflect on my experiences further than I was able to convey in my video.
Ashamed I didn’t find you sooner, glad I found you now. The editing is impeccable. I feel like I’m watching a documentary. ❤
thank you so much for watching it!! really appreciate your praises :)
I hope this video gets the attention it deserves. The quality is amazing and the message was strong. Thank you for sharing your journey with us, many of us can relate to such a complex emotion.
Really appreciate it! Thank you for watching through my video. :)
Mad respect for not letting anyone define who you are bro! Its your journey and you get to decide what it means to you🚀
God this editing is fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥 and the story telling? Bruh its super awesome!!! Love to see your videos looking forward to you in the future!
Appreciate it!! will try my best to make more videos soon :)
what a piece of art, man.
cheers from france
i appreciate it! 🙌🙌
Beautiful ! And thank you very much for the links about the situation in Gaza God bless you !!!!
thank you! and of course, it’s the least i can do.
i lived in Tokyo for my first 7 years, and 46 years later, still feel like an outsider in America, but also an outsider when I have visited Japan. People like us who share the experience of not belonging to our original country or to the one we moved to during our youth have much in common, and there is a name for this experience. We are called 3rd culture kids, and we may feel most at home, most understood, with other 3rd culture kids, even when their story and their nations are very different from ours.
My hope of reconnecting with Tokyo when I returned was only partly successful, because Tokyo has changed since 1978, too. I realized that what I was hoping to smell again, see again, hear again, etc. was not so much Tokyo the place, as it was 1970s Tokyo, the moment.
As far as why Japanese sensed you were not one of them, I expect it was many little things, from your clothes, body language, how your gaze may have wandered like a tourist’s rather than the way a person’s eyes look at the familiar and mundane, how freely your noise and gestures flow into a shared space, etc. Americans lack the inhibition that is so deeply ingrained into Japanese at every level of being. This need to inhibit one’s self for the good of the group also means their radar is very powerful, scanning for signs of what the group is doing, and how to be. As much as it might feel uncomfortable to know that you were not accepted there, know that there is a trade off, and be grateful that you have learned another way to be, an American comfort letting your own feelings be expressed in public in a way they will never know or be allowed.
An excellent video, and some very moving words, scenes and ideas. Lots here for many of us to connect with. Keep it up!
I also went back to my home country for the first time in 20 years. It's weird how I felt so relieved and relaxed as soon as I landed at the country. I wouldn't say I "grew up" there, but I felt like I was home.
Happy for you that you got to go back! :)
Growing up as a Hispanic American, I never connected with the traditional Mexican culture, which often meant loud music, beer, and a certain lifestyle. From ages 5 to 15, I felt incredibly isolated, even coining a term for myself: Ostrogoth, meaning "loner for a decade." At 16, I still had no friends and had never experienced love, as I wasn't into the MTV culture.
In the fall of 2011, everything changed when I discovered Hatsune Miku and AKB48. This was a revelation for me-music that I actually enjoyed! I found myself drawn to Mayu Watanabe. In 2014, I traveled to Japan for the first time and felt an immediate sense of belonging. Unlike in America, where I often felt disregarded, in Japan, I was treated with respect. I loved the food, admired the beauty of the women, and found the trains refreshing.
I was so taken with Japan that I returned in 2018, then again in 2023, and I plan to go back in 2025. Despite my Mexican appearance, I don't follow or act according to the typical culture. Instead, I'm a proud enthusiast of AKB48, idol culture, animation, and excellent transportation.
This is one of the best-made videos I've seen in a long time. You are very well-spoken, and your family and culture are beautiful. Thank you for sharing. #Subscribed
Thank you so much for watching through the video and even commenting!
@@by_shoi you're very welcome.🙂
Insane production value dude. Smashed it.
thank you! 🙏🙏
Great video editing, amazing narration, perfectly structed, love everything about this masterpiece. and I can relate with you on every aspect as I grow in a different country than my home.
Also thank you so much this was very eye opening about the feeling of not belonging...
Thanks for the kind words, and I’m so happy to hear it connected with you!
Thank you ! Enjoyed watching this moving video with such a positive and life affirming vibe ! Look forward to catching more of your uploads.
this was beautiful!! the animations, the videography, and also your story 🥹
thanks a ton ange!! 🙌🙌
this somewhat touches on my experience as a filipino immigrant in Australia
Born in the Philippines but grew up here in Australia
I’ve experienced my fair share of identity crisis and in both cultures i somewhat feel foreign and out of place
amazing editing btw
keep up the great work ❤
im glad to hear we can bond over our experiences as immigrants. it definitely helps to know there are others around us with similar experiences :)
Thanks for sharing this story with us-- it must have been really tough to tell this story 20 years in the making, but I'm glad you were able reunite with some of the people and places that you missed. If you're able to travel again, I hope you will be able to find more spaces and places in Japan where you do feel some sense of belongingness, even while some parts feel less welcoming.
I'm someone from the U.S., and I'll be travelling to Japan again later this year with some friends, where we hope to do some hiking and meet some of my friends in Japan. It's been a while since I was there last, but I hope to reconnect with some of the people I enjoyed spending time with while there. With my friends in the U.S., one of our goals is to explore some places in Japan that none of us have ever been to before, so we're heading to explore a few places in Kanagawa Prefecture. : )
thanks for the kind words, and woah, that trip sounds super exciting!! i hope you and your friends are able to make the most out of your trip and enjoy what japan can offer!!
This was recommended by RUclips algo and this hits really close to home. I’m Japanese-Filipino and my parents moved and settled in the Philippines. When I traveled to Japan as an adult, I actually kind of blend in, so locals would talk to me in Nihongo. But my parents never really forced us to speak the language at home - we communicated mainly in English. So it was a struggle and it heightened my identity crisis because I couldn’t communicate well. I only know the basics and I’m not as comfortable.
So it’s like I’m Japanese but not really because I couldn’t express myself in Nihongo. It wouldve been easier if I was fluent
Can relate to this!! My family couldn’t afford to send us to Japanese classes, so I had to learn it either through family or anime.
Beautiful video. Congratulations! As a Japanese American I have always identified with Japan but visiting Japan made me realize I’m not Japanese. Yet I can take the best of both worlds and be happy.
Really enjoyed this, Shoi! Great story-telling - both aurally and visually. I hope your channel thrives! Cheers from Australia! 😃
The shot at 2:10 looks amazing! First time I've seen anything like it
thanks!!
Alucinante. Watching your video reminded me back when I first visited overseas. Being Asian, having lived in Peru part of my childhood and now about 20 yrs in Texas, visiting my grandparents overseas gave me a sense of belonging and at the same time not completely belonging anywhere at first, but over time growing content with my own values and having multiple cultures as part of my identity.
Good production value!
Haha your story sounds almost exactly like mine expect with different countries/states. Funny how we can relate even though we didn’t live the same lives. Thanks for sharing!
holy shit this video is so incredibly well-done for such a small channel. i nearly fucking cried when you got the same poke-pan and said the pokemon were different but the bread tasted the same. what a testament to time that is. i truly feel where you're coming from with being so removed from your heritage, as i am a dual citizen of switzerland but have never lived there; and its been my life dream to do so but its one of the most expensive countries in the world and the job market is competitive. i was also born in new york city and moved away before i could really make any memories there because my parents divorced, but that's another story.
love this shoichi!! made me feel a sense of happy nostalgia ☺️
thanks kristine!! i was going for that vibe, so im glad it got through :)
This was beautifully produced. I loved all of the elements you included. I LOVED every second of it.
as a Cuban immigrant this made me tear up. i identify with so much of this and had a very similar childhood. this was beautiful ❤
I was born and raised in the U.S as a japanease american it has been 18 years since ive visted I was 8 during the time and I will be visiting for the 3rd time this September to see family. Even though I wasint born in Japan I still related to most of the things in the video. Thank you for sharing!
Immense joy ushered into me when you finally got to revive your memories and when you met your grandparents ,how happy they must have been.
It felt as if I was watching an independent film. I really love this video.
Hope you get to spend more time with your grandparents.
Even for japanese to visit japan as tourist is the best.
Wish you and your family luck and prosperity. Thank you for video.
this video deserves many more likes. Thanks for sharing your story.
Woah the editing is crazy!❤
thanks! spent way too much time on that 😭
I'm half Japanese and half Australian, I've been to japan a couple times but I don't feel like I belong there or feel a connection, same as you we learn't to share our opinions, even if it doesn't make everyone happy.
Unless you've received a Japanese cultural upbringing or formal Japanese education, you're basically a complete foreigner in Japan. We always value and appreciate foreigners with no Japanese ancestry who've mastered Japanese language, culture, and norms...over half-Japanese who doesn't know anything about Japan and adds no value to Japanese society. Basically, you're just a tourist.
I’m glad an aspect of my video resonated with you. :))
Stumbled upon this in my recommended section. Love it! And happy for you that you got to reconnect with you're roots. I will one day do the same with Thailand (where my dad is originally from).
that’s awesome, i would love to hear about your experience going to thailand when you do!!
Enjoyed the content.
Having a Japanese mother and American father and growing up in the states, I can relate. I definitely noticed it when I moved back to Japan as an adult.
holy shit. surely its not THAT hard if i were break it down, but the edit on 2:12 where we are the perspective of the phone is soooo good. and the sprite art is crazy!! suuuper sick video. glad u had the trip you been wantin to take. & i really fw the edits in this!
Great video dude, glad you are able to reconnect with your culture and family that you grew up with so far away. I hope everything in your future goes with the best of luck! and you got a subscriber from me!
much appreciated 🙌🙌
bro ur editting, and video structure is so good. ur going places bro
thank you!! i appreciate it :)
Absolutely felt this. I mostly grew up in Germany, but I was able to visit Hungary even if it was for a relatively short time. It's been 2 years since I've been there, but it still feels like eternity. Luckily I'll be able to visit this summer for an entire month! The rest about how you don't know where your home is, is so relatable too. I've had life crises about what home means to me and where it is and how it influences me as a person. Sometimes I forget how there are other people out there who experience something similar. Great video!
572 subs?!?!?! This is so well made!! Good job, really enjoyed this.
Very nice editing you deserve more subscribers !!
thank you so much!!!
I'm 3rd gen. Japanese-American raised with little knowledge of Japanese culture or my own family history. That always bothered me. Finally went to Japan several years ago. Just before I went I found out where my ancestors came from by finding a ship register on an ancestry website that listed my grandparents. It was weird to visit their hometown. It's totally different from when they knew it (one of those places that was heavily bombed in the war) and I had no contacts with any relatives who might still be there. But visiting Japan helped me feel a little more like a "whole" person. Like you, I don't feel like I totally fit in in either country. It's complicated. Wonderful video, btw!
Brilliant video...well done. I can kind of relate as a Canadian who has lived in Japan for more than 30 years, other than...I'm not interested in returning "home". I've found a home here in Japan. Thanks for sharing...that was well worth the watch.
such a beautiful video Shoichi
thanks, simanga! much appreciated 🙏
Dude are you into cinematography ? This is really cool and inspiring!!
I wanted to go visit Japan since I was 12. I can’t wait!
commenting for engagement - you rocked this
thank you!!! means a lot :))
That's interesting I would actually say we are kinda similar. My mom's japanese and my dad's croatian, lived my whole life in Croatia. But I don't look full Croatian not full japanese. When I was younger I hated that and I viewed it as "I don't belong to neither countries" but as I grow older it's more like "I belong in both countries?" mindset. Honestly when I was super small I would visit Japan every 2 years as I had family there and would stay for a month and i always loved it, now I hope someone would tell me to cherish it a bit more cause I couldn't go there in 6 years cause of COVID. And I actually didn't even miss Japan, or so I thought cause this year 3 months ago I visited Japan for 2 weeks and, damn. All the memories came back (meeting one of my cousins after 10 years, the smell and the atmosphere) it felt pretty surreal and magical. When I first landed I was still unsure whether this is real or not, cause I had like a distant memory of how travelling to Japan felt like but yeah. Best 2 weeks of my life, I didn't even do anything too special, just walking around and seeing people I haven't seen in a long time, hell one of my cousins got 2 kids in the meantime. I definitely want to return asap. I feel like it's hard conveying my feelings in a RUclips comment so I'll leave it at that (if your read all of this I am sorry)
Hey, thanks for sharing your story! I can’t say I fully understand your feelings, but I definitely empathize with your emotions since I had a similar experience, too! I’m really glad you got to go back recently, and I hope you get to go back again. Maybe you’ll have your own surprises to show your cousins! :)
You're so incredibly underrated, the quality of this video is immaculate and the message behind it is so moving too. I truly hope you get the exposure you deserve and at some point become apart of mainstream media if that's something you desire. May the algorithm bless you!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much!! I think the algorithm has blessed me a ton, getting awesome people like you to watch my video!
so much love in one video
gotta spread the love! 💕
Please keep making video's! You are very much talented!
bro i did not know you have not been there in 20 years!
so happy to see all of the visuals from insta come together in one vid! enjoyed the vid my man
thanks eyosias! looking forward to your next vid too 👀👀
Exactly! being Japanese is not necessarily based on how you look but more on how you act..
^^^
This is an amazing story and glad you got to visit Japan. I live in the US and used to visit Tokyo every summer aa a kid. Until 2022, I hadn't been back there for 20 years too. I still try to keep up with the cultural stuff but its a different feeling when you're there. Hopefully you'll get to go again soon.
Yeah definitely an interesting experience going to Japan after some time. I hope you also get to go back, too!
Really great work, both emotionally and visually beautiful.
Great work uncovering your true identity!
Thank you! I hope you have had/get the chance to do so yourself.
This made me nostalgic for Okinawa, my home. Even brought me to tears. You are so right; going back is important. I have not been back since '95? '96"? I did get to see my obaa-chan one more time before she passed and after that, I didn't want to return. Now? I do want to go back, if to just visit. My mom goes back regularly and brings me my fave tea leaves. You are right; it is good to go back. Thank you for sharing your video journey.
Thank you for sharing your story. Awesome cinematic documentary on self-reflection. Will you continue living in Japan? Despite the social norms and being treated as a foreigner mostlly? Hope to see more docu-shorts.
Such good edit!
May I just say that this is a beautiful piece of art what you made here? ❤ Second, I can relate so much being a kid of immigrants parents. It took me 20 years to feel home wherever I am. I remember how embarrassed I was when my mom would write notes to the teacher because she had so many misspellings. One thing I wish though, is that she would keep talking to me in her language. Luckily, my dad kept speaking to me in English and only few Italian words his dad used to say.
Parents Korean and Vietnamese, born in Germany, not entirely the same story here, but non-appreciation of heritage in the childhood days and finally appreciating one‘s individual story/biography through travelling to Korea/vietnam, reconnecting with family and cuisine (similar to you maybe) and the feeling of belonging everywhere and nowhere - man, that hits me where I live. Awesome video, thanks for sharing your experiences and honesty. All the best to you from Germany.
Wow, that’s quite a background story. Sounds to me like you have even more unique cultural experiences than I could have. Thanks for watching!!
I love this ❤
thanks for watching (and being in the video) :)
Thanks for this video, I can finally feel that I am not alone in this world.
We are sometimes foreigners in our own countries. I was born in Seattle, USA, but my parents moved to a small rural town when I was just a toddler. I never did fit in, even though I was too young to know anything else. I left for college in Los Angeles when I was 18. I never went back. And yet, LA has never felt like home either, just a place where I lived and worked and went about the stuff one does as one gets older. It wasn’t until I was in my late 30s and I traveled to Greece - where my mother’s father was from - that I suddenly and very powerfully felt “home.” I’m not sure what it was exactly, but from the moment the plane made landfall there was just something about it that clicked. Greece is certainly not a perfect place. What place is? But from now on, it will always be the home I return to as often as I can, instead of the foreign country I visit now and then.
Oh, curiously, my most common dreams involve riding on trains and endlessly rolling from place to place, never stopping, speeding through oddly distorted dreamscapes and caricatures of cities and lands I’ve seen. I have to wonder if some people, like myself, are just born to be nomads, never settling down anywhere, just rolling along, rootless.
Absolutely amazing video! Thank you so much for sharing your story in such a beautiful way! 私はアメリカ人ですが、お母さんの家族はイタリアから来ました。ぜんぜんイタリア語が出来ませんが、4年間高校で日本語を勉強しました。実はこの夏初めまして日本に行ってきました！素晴らしかった、本当に日本に帰りたい！大学でも日本語を勉強する予定です！Identity has definitely been a struggle for me being that my dad is black and my skin color being white makes it so that people never believe me, ask me to show a picture of my dad, or ask me to say the N word to prove it to them. Also being that my mom’s family came from Italy and since I appear more Italian than black I usually say I’m Italian to bring less confusion. But even so I feel a bit out of touch with that part of me because my mom didn’t grow up speaking Italian, but she learned it on her own and lived in Italy for a period of time. We no longer have any living relatives that speak Italian. So I don’t really feel that need or desire to learn Italian so at first when I fell in love with Japanese culture and the language I kinda felt bad, that maybe I was abandoning my identity for another entirely different culture that I have no connection with. However I wasn’t abandoning my identity at all. I was just developing it more, I’ve met so many amazing people in Japan and I have exchange student friends from an exchange program I did in high school and lasting connections with people who have become like family to me! Regardless of who you are, what you like, or what tongue you may speak, you are worthy to pursue your own identity and become who you want to be! Thank you so much again for sharing this video as well as talking about the reality of your trip to Japan! I’m so happy you were able to go back! Much love!
I'm a tiny bit Asian. I've always gotten along well with Asian people in the US. I would like to live temporarily in Japan. But only if I could come back whenever I wanted. It's a bit of a scary place. If people don't think Japan is scary I don't think they understand Japanese culture.
I'm not a tourist. I hate sightseeing. So visiting places is not my thing. If I wanted to see a building I could Google it. I'd want to experience a culture.
Amazing video. This will blow up. :)
i hope so!! i appreciate the kind words :))
Wonderful video!
Beautiful!
I feel this same connection to the Philippines since I haven’t been in years
storyteller 🌊
thanks! ✍️
this video is really amazing
Amazing ❤
Very nice video ! ❤
Thank you!
Bro started on a high level vloging)
I almost feel the way you feel about your own nationality. I'm Filipino, but even though I used to go there quite often (and even lived there), sometimes I felt like I didn't belong because I couldn't speak the language, I didn't dress like everyone else, I didn't act like everyone else. What hurt me the most was that although people couldn't understand me well because I spoke english most of the time, I could still understand tagalog and all the hurtful words that made me feel ostracized. I still haven't gotten over this feeling and it's been about 16 years.
idk why this video made me so fkn emotional
Haha thanks for watching through it!! I hope you found something meaningful out of it
泣けちゃうぅぅぅ
as a Japanese American in a similar situation. I find it interesting how we are considered "gaijin" even though we look like everyone else and speak the same language as everyone else in Japan.
As a Mexican living in the US then moving to Mexico, I can say the same thing. I feel like a foreigner half the time, it took a while for me to be more accepted. And even then, I’ll never be entirely. But the interactions I’ve have with some of the nicest people, will never deter me from connecting with my family and culture.
Your parents not being able to go back to Japan for 20 years sounds incredibly sad. Glad you were all able to go back.
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There are a lot of similarities between your life story and mine. I've been in Japan for 12 years now and still get treated as non-Japanese. And you know what? I'm fine with it. It comes with time. I'm nearly twice your age so I had a bit more time to struggle with identity crises lol. Anyways, don't let anything get you down, love your family and stay awesome.
Moved here from Japan when I was 20 I’m 34 now but, I just love being united state. I couldn’t be a part of” read the room” society.
Not that I’m saying I don’t agree with being respectful of surroundings. But I just didn’t like that Japanese people like to shame others and gossip about for that reasons.
Thanks for sharing your experience Shoi.
They can tell if we’re foreign from how we dress. Different cultures have different styles and trending fads. The hairstyle and clothes can give it away. For example people from the U.S, and Canada usually dress more casual. Also body language.
Oh yeah definitely. What’s strange is I was geared in GU and 2nd Street clothes ahahaha.
Loved the story and I guess its true of all people who grow up away from their place of origin and how you feel a sense of belonging and not at the same time. I guess it takes a while. Even though u look the same, u smell different, u walk, talk n dress different; ppl take time to accept you and vice-versa. You got to accept reality, be patient and allow urself to season well in the juices, before you eventually become a true native and get accepted.
Good luck and I hope you n the rest of the family stay happy.
Good for you-i hadn’t been back to Japan for almost 40 years never connected to my roots since I live in the U.S. but now I try and visit at least every 2 years. I’m half Japanese and English. BTW-I don’t like fish of any kind people find that funny given my Japanese side. I’ve always been proud of being part Japanese because it made me different from everyone else around me but my father was military so I was usually around other Asians in school like Koreans. But I don’t look Japanese at all so never felt any prejudice.
I do wanna travel like most people do and I hope I can make it as part of my channel's content other than gaming. I'm currently studying and planning to work in Japan in the next few years. Watching this, I always have this feeling I don't belong to any part of this world as I don't feel attached to any culture oe customs but I do wanna permanently settle in Japan one day and I'm doing my best learning Japanese.
Best of luck in your endeavors!
Very good video
thanks!!
Stellar editing, which programs do you use?
the production quaility is out of the roof
Hablas español entonces?
Te deseo lo mejor amigo =D mucha suerte en tu nueva vida!
have u ever thought abt living there? the editing was amazing btw!
thanks so much! and YES, i think about it like every other day.
4:50 Crazy thing about Japanese food is that the food you used to hide back in the days, would be considered hip in nowadays 😅
So true!! I’m happy that it’s more accepted now a days.
I watch famous Japanese singer Hikaru Utada said samething not belong japan or usa have identity crisis now I think she make her peace.
so weird that america judged and define culture and race. this video is beautifully made, love it.
600 subscriber here❤❤