Name: Scary Earthquake on New Year's in my Japanese In-Laws House
Uploaded: 2025-08-03T18:28:46.000Z
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Happy New Year everyone! I'm back with another New Year's video.

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I'm standing just outside my Japanese wife's parents house.

Past simple

So a lot has happened in the year since we were last here.

So I'm excited to share with you all the new things that's going on.

For one, Junior from last year is now officially my brother-in-law.

So without further ado, can't wait for this one to get started.

Well, that's what I thought until this massive earthquake.

Let me start at the beginning of New Year's Eve day.

So we're back in Maiko's hometown, Toyota Aichi.

And we were just picked up at the station by her sister and her sister's husband.

Every year we try to visit my wife's parents house on New Year's Eve so we can spend New Year's dinner together.

It's kind of become a family tradition for us here in Japan.

This is Junior, Maiko's sister's husband, aka my brother-in-law.

He works as a mechanic, which is common given that he lives in the Toyota area.

So we're just gonna get what we need really quickly.

Before going to my in-law's home, we stopped by the supermarket.

Last year, we went to a mega-sized supermarket.

And it was extremely crowded and it took us forever just to pay.

So we decided to go to a smaller supermarket this year.

The last time we saw Maiko's parents was this last summer, when we went camping in Chiba together.

We actually filmed our camping experience for the Tokyo Zebra channel, but we're a bit behind on that channel.

Anyway, Wolfie loved spending that time with his grandparents and was so excited to see them again today.

But it seems like he's a bit quiet right now.

I'm sure he'll warm up to them again in a bit.

Thank you so much for getting toys for Wolfie!

As in Japan, it's customary to bring something when visiting someone's house, called temiyage.

I don't know how this new year's going to turn out.

Maybe it's going to be a little bit the same from last year.

We had the marriage, and you guys saw that.

If you haven't, you can just see the video right here.

Okay, so I think I'm going to be drinking with Oto-san right now.

So what would you guys do if your father-in-law has made some kimchi and you're not really sure if you should eat it or not?

What would you do? Would you eat it? Would you try it?

So apparently Michael's dad loves to experiment with food.

Let's just say he has an unorthodox approach.

So much so that Michael vows to never eat it in fear of getting sick.

We have people coming here so we wanted to have a proper setting before we did it.

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