Name: 3 Myths About JAPAN 日本に関する3つの誤解
Uploaded: 2020-03-20T09:40:15.000Z
Duration: 5 min 9 s
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Hey guy! Today I'm here with Chris Broad from the channel Abroad in Japan,

and Sharla from the channel Sharla in Japan

We'll have a lot of awesome videos about that.

But today we're going to discuss the greatest myths about Japan!

I know so much about Japan [lived in Japan so long] so I'm not really sure what the outside-

But probably something like, I've seen lots of comments saying

"It's so cool how you can wear whatever you want in Japan!"

So I think people have this image that maybe everywhere you go in Tokyo

you'll see people dressed up like lolita, or visual kei style or gyaru style.

But I feel like it's more confined to smaller areas than people have in mind.

For Harajuku you can see lolita fashion, but definitely not everyone.

It's rare, so maybe like 3 out of every 100 people will be wearing a lolita dress.

If you go to Shibuya you'll see lots of gyaru fashion, gyaruo fashion.

Not too much visual kei fashion at all recently.

Yeah, most people just wear regular shirts and skirts and shorts.

But of course they do have lots of fashion styles,

stuff that you wouldn't see at all in other countries.

So it is interesting. You can see those kind of people.

I think it's kind of like gothic fashions in America.

Yeah, it's about the same. The same percentage of people.

Some people wear it so it's not like super unusual if you see it,

What do you think is one of the greatest myths about Japan?

Before I came everyone was like, "Ah yeah, you'll lose so much weight there!"

Everyone was like "Yeah you can lose weight, it's brilliant!"

And I came, and then I discovered convenience store food.

Yeah, I find the food to be not remotely healthy.

There are really healthy choices, like if you're a housewife and you have time to cook.

There's lots of great traditional Japanese foods that are like vegetables

and fish and miso soup, and stuff that's all super healthy for you.

But for people who are working all the time, you don't have time to cook that.

I often run into the convenience store to get some stuff

and everything I find it just really unhealthy.

And all the things you wanna buy are like fried chicken

There's little bags of salad, but everything else is really unhealthy.

Bread covered in cheese covered in bacon...

I think it's like anywhere else. You have to put effort into it

So it's not the super healthy country where everything's healthy.

I didn't lose weight. If anything, I put on more weight.

Betrayed by Japanese people and their unhealthy food.

I would say what I think one of the greatest myths about Japan is that

First of all, "weird" is just so subjective,

so it really depends on what you're used to,

but a lot of people think about like Japanese commercials are weird,

or these shirts with strange English are weird,

or they have all these weird anime or tv shows

But most of the stuff that's weird here is going to be weird to Japanese people, too.

So it's not like Japanese people watch this stuff and say,

"Oh, well it's just another day in Japan."

There's lots of comedy stuff here. That's considered comedy.

And all the weird stuff gets out on the internet, so that's all that people see.

You know, obviously I make videos about stuff that's weird

because it might be interesting, it might be unique.

But even Japanese people I tell I'm going to cat island,

You could find weird stuff in any country.