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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

  • and we've been traveling Tohoku!

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

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

  • What do you think is a large myth?

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

  • *COUGHBRAGCOUGH*

  • -what the outside view about it is.

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

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

  • "People wear so many crazy fashions."

  • 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.

  • It's not really super exciting.

  • 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.

  • But it's not the norm.

  • 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,

  • but it is out of the norm.

  • Chris, what about you?

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

  • That everything's healthy.

  • Everything's healthy.

  • 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.

  • And... oh dear.

  • It's so dangerous.

  • It all went downhill big time.

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

  • It's got so much stuff in it.

  • Salt and fat.

  • 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.

  • Right.

  • I often run into the convenience store to get some stuff

  • and everything I find it just really unhealthy.

  • Apart from like a carrot stick.

  • Yeah, and the lack of salads.

  • No one buys carrots.

  • Who's ever bought a carrot?

  • No one.

  • And all the things you wanna buy are like fried chicken

  • and

  • fried chicken.

  • What else is there?

  • Japan has very good fried chicken.

  • That's it, really.

  • 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

  • if you want to be healthy.

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

  • I think lots of people have that image.

  • But there are healthy options.

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

  • I feel betrayed.

  • Betrayed by Japanese people and their unhealthy food.

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

  • it's a weird country.

  • 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

  • or like those prank shows and stuff.

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

  • Yeah.

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

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

  • They're like, "What is going on here??"

  • And that's why it's entertainment.

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

  • It's not like the average.

  • Right.

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

  • Yeah.

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

  • because it might be interesting, it might be unique.

  • like robot restaurant

  • or like a crazy bar

  • or maybe even like cat island itself.

  • It's kind of odd.

  • Right.

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

  • they're like, "What is cat island??"

  • Yeah, so it's not weird at all.

  • You could find weird stuff in any country.

  • it's just like small, isolated things,

  • and that's why it's interesting, because it stands out.

  • Yeah. That is probably the biggest myth, though.

  • Crazy, weird Japan.

  • Okay, well thank you guys for our question video here!

  • And I'll link to their channels here and in the description below

  • so please check them out if you haven't!

  • They have amazing channels! You should be watching them.

  • Thanks for watching, guys! I'll see you later!

  • Bye everyone!

Hey guy! Today I'm here with Chris Broad from the channel Abroad in Japan,

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3 Myths About JAPAN 日本に関する3つの誤解

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    林宜悉 posted on 2020/03/20
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stuff

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  • noun
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  • verb
  • To push material inside something, with force
weird

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  • adjective
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  • Eerily strange or disturbing.
awesome

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  • adjective
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  • Extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear.
effort

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description

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average

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consider

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brilliant

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  • noun
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unique

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  • adjective
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