Name: How Does Living in Japan Change You?
Uploaded: 2021-11-15T18:10:05.000Z
Duration: 17 min 49 s
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Coming up next on one, The last tv is another generic, poorly researched series about japan, So grab your kimonos and chopsticks and let's go to the land of the Rising Sun.

Tokyo, japan, blah, blah, blah, 36 million people, blah, blah, blah, like a different planet, blah, blah, blah shiny.

So every morning when I sit down to eat my burnt toast, I can look at this bear and think, yes, why am I going to do today?

It's no secret that I love eccentric japanese english marketing, whether it's an enthusiastic bear or intriguing branding choices on cans of beer like this one I bought today, it's goodbye Asahi.

Super drying curing and hello to gentle gent off the drink of real men gent off.

It sounds like a dance off held by aristocrats.

But while I was often my standard weekly shopping for place mats and gent off, I struck a gold mine in the world of japanese english marketing.

I found myself in the stores music section when I stumbled across an intriguing local punk rock bands.

Now, historically, of course, punk rock bands have pretty provocative names.

I'm thinking the sex pistols, the clash, the damned, but it seems in Japan, punk rock bands go for a completely different angle as I came face to face with a punk rock band known only as the barbecue chickens, the barbecue chickens.

I was pretty delighted at first, after all, it's not every day you hear of a band named after your favorite dish, but then I discovered that the barbecue chickens run the japanese punk rock label known as Pizza of Death Records, Pizza of death.

It sounds like the last thing you order a domino's pizza.

Japanese, punk rock bands of side, it is time for another Q and A where I answer your questions you guys have sent in about Japan travel, food, culture as well as talking about my own awkward personal experiences and deepest darkest secrets.

We'll also have comment of the week and hate mail of the week because not everybody is nice.

Now all good Q and A's live and die on the opening questions I believe got something good, something profound and meaningful to kick us off.

What's your opinion on the japanese spider crab?

If you could introduce one element of western culture to Japan, what would you choose?

Many people are familiar with the word karoshi, which means death row over work and any culture that has to invent a word that means that, well, that's never really a good sign is it, essentially when you get a job in Japan, the line between work and life, It's not so much blood has just rubbed out altogether.

There was a study done in 2018 that showed that workers in Japan take only half of their annual leave 10 days out of 20.

Typose if you do take holiday leave, you'll be seen as letting down your employees, you'll be passed over for that much needed promotion you wanted.

But honestly, it's one of the most stupid practices I've ever seen because people are perpetually stressed and burnt out.

Labor productivity in Japan is the worst of any countries in the G seven being present in the workplace and looking like you're working hard is actually way more important than really being productive.

And certainly if you're coming here to live and work and you want to make a good impression at your company and you want to impress your colleagues, just sit around and pretend to look busy long after your work is finished and you're right at the top in no time at all, you'll be the ceo, trust me, what's the worst name?

You can give a child a spider crab wow, you're thick boy.

I don't even like strawberry cheesecake creme brulee and that's where the afternoon or be the one thing you didn't enjoy in the UK but did in Japan, I love knowing that every time I walk into a pub or a bar in Japan and strike up a conversation with a stranger, I don't have to pretend to know what football is in the U.

If you don't like football like me, you are a social outcast, your life is effectively worthless because you can't have a conversation with 50% Of the British population so you can probably imagine my horror when I moved 6000 miles away to a field in North Japan teach english to a school where nearly half the students supported Manchester United football club chris sends their, who is your favorite majesty United football player.

Honestly you can run from football but you can't hide from it.

What is it about retro that gives off a menacing aura, his face.

What's something you really wish more people would know about Japan?

I tend to find when most people think of Japan they all have the same kind of image crowded trains lots of people crossing this road and everything being weird and alien and you'd be completely forgiven for thinking that because that's how it's portrayed in tv and film right nine out of 10 times Lazy TV shows featuring Japan always start with the presenter walking over shibuya crossing saying the exact same things blah blah blah different planet.

I take my hat off to James may you did a really good series on amazon and the opening shot of that isn't shibuya crossing?

It's him standing on a beach in the snow in Hokkaido, nothing even really interesting happening but it was something original, it was something refreshing and it was a really well researched series and I take my hat off to the producers on that show.

They deserve some well earned strawberry cheesecake.

Tokyo isn't Japan in the same way that London isn't the UK or new york isn't the U.

It's in the countryside outside of the cities where you get a real sense of Japan's identity and ultimately where you find the quality of life is undeniably better than Tokyo.

Not everybody in Japan spends their day walking over shibuya crossing.

If a zombie apocalypse hit Japan where in Japan would be the safest and why?

That would have to be Ohkunoshima, also known as Rabbit Island.

The island is fairly isolated in Japan's inland sea.

So secluded in fact that during World War Two they turned it into a chemical weapons facility.

But even if the zombies did get there somehow, the thousands of rabbits that make up the island's population would certainly take care of them.

I mean they certainly gave me a run for my money the last time I was down there.

My most prized possession is actually a more recent purchase and it is this the original 1989 Nintendo game boy when I was growing up.

This is my first console and I took it around with me everywhere.

And then about 15 years ago I think I sold it for money and I've regretted that decision ever since.

But fortunately Japan's secondhand goods are phenomenally good condition and I brought this for about 8000 yen.

The retro game store in Akihabara, depending on the condition, you can actually get a cheaper one for example, for 2000 yen less for about $60 you could get another game boy that was stained yellow and looked like it had been dragged through a packet of cheetos.

Nostalgia aside was because of this, the original super Mario land game that was accompanied With the game boy upon release in the 15 years that I played this game I was never ever able to beat.

It's the sort of game where if you die or if you switch off the console, we have to go all the way back to the start and do it from scratch.

And I remember at the age of 10 I spent two hours playing through it once And I was 80% of the way through when I stepped on a fuckingo MBA I died and I went all the way back to the start and the subsequent anger, distress and psychological damage that did to me is a 10 year old child.

The anger, the resentment, Everything I am, Everything I became was because of this game and now finally, 20 years later in my hands, I'm gonna beat super Mario land once and for all do it right now, give me that's it.

Oh God Well you can ask me, please do a harry potter impression.

Yeah, I'm step mm or get Mr Holley put Oh yeah.

What kind of hotel or accommodation would you recommend the most when visiting Japan, I can't think of many other countries that have as crazy, as wonderful as diverse.

A range of accommodation options as Japan in the UK.

You've got hotel rooms and tents in the rain in Japan, you've got capsule hotel where you get to sleep at a glorified coffin.

Love hotels where you can arrive on your bed in style.

You've got robot hotels where bilingual robot dinosaur will check you into your room and best of all.

Perhaps you've got traditional ends, you can dress up, have the best meal of your life and then boil yourself alive in a hot spring land of the rising sun, more like land of the rising fun.

My almost three year old has been having trouble adjusting to his new sibling.

Any advice bribe them, bribe them with money, bribe them with incredible gifts or for example, why not buy them up for fox sake t shirt from the abroad in Japan merchandise range.

It's the perfect gift for any discerning two year old, he feels left behind and forgotten at the birth of a new sibling.

They get them into retro video games early and they'll grow up to be the perfect son bought one for my son in my imagination, right this time.

I watched several videos from his early days on Youtube and found out he's already a chubby guy when he first landed in Japan, but he's so young at that time and look quite cute with the boyish roundness of his face.

Now he's slowly turned into around middle aged man of which type you can bump into 100 times on the streets of London.

Look at that handsome, rugged, youthful face, It definitely doesn't look like I've eaten a bucket of ice cream and smeared butter all over my face.

If any of you watching this are planning to go into the exciting world of logging, I'll give you some useful advice.

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