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  • What is it?

  • You know what that’s made out of?

  • No

  • Boyfriend material.

  • How to Date Japanese Girls?

  • For 3 years now nearly every other question I’ve received seems to involve the keywords Japanese, girls and how.

  • Firstly, YouTube is already littered with a never-ending list of videos covering this topic

  • and I’ve chosen to ignore such questions out of principle; to me, it seems absurd to try to generalise the views of 65 million women in a 10 minute video.

  • But

  • It is christmas, and in the spirit of christmas, what better time to dispose of my principles,

  • massively overgeneralise and give the people what they want.

  • So with that in mind I recently caught up my good friend Chiaki,

  • an actual real life Japanese girl, to interrogate her on the secrets of dating Japanese girls,

  • discuss our own dating experiences and review some groundbreaking chat up lines.

  • So thanks of meeting with me today Chiaki.

  • Thank you very much for having me here.

  • I’m hoping we can unravel the secret to dating Japanese girls.

  • We will, yeah.

  • Youve got the nice, evil, scary chair.

  • It’s very comfy actually.

  • I’ve got the rocking chair. Brilliant.

  • It makes you look better.

  • Yeah definitely. I wish I had a rocking chair with me at all times.

  • Let’s dive straight in. The first question;

  • do you find Japanese girls like a certain nationality more than others?

  • Is there a certain nationality that comes out the most popular in your opinion?

  • Yeah I think so. Americans are quite popular, as we learn American-English at school.

  • It’s kind of rigged isn’t it - for American guys. After that though?

  • Yeah after that I think Australians are seen as quite fun and cooland sporty.

  • Sporty, right. And after those guys, is there another one perhaps?

  • Irish guys - theyre quite funny and fun.

  • Right. Funny and funbut above all that, is there like another nationality that comes up.

  • Yeah there is - French guys tend to be popular as well because

  • Let’s just move on. Next question.

  • It’s funny, youre supposed to be the expert here - but it feels like youre getting some of the answers wrong.

  • But that’s fine

  • But what characteristics do you think a Japanese girl would go for in a foreign guy?

  • What three personality traits would they look for.

  • Personalitydefinitely a gentleman.

  • A gentleman. What do you have to do to be a gentleman?

  • Well, always ladies first.

  • Always ladies first. After that?

  • Funnyhumour.

  • Great. And the third one?

  • Kindness.

  • Kindness. Good. Well it’s looking goodfor most guys.

  • And what about appearance? What three things would you look for there?

  • I think girls quite like if you have a big back.

  • A big back?

  • Yeah so when girls look at you from the back and we want to hug you, you know.

  • Righthow the hell do you get a big back?

  • I don't know.

  • What does that entail? And the second?

  • Veins.

  • Veinwhat?

  • Yeah.

  • You mean like veins

  • Yeah, you got one! The more you have clearly, that’s better.

  • Youre not making this up are you?

  • No!

  • We haven’t got a script here, she’s actually said veins. Having a good vein.

  • If you ask girls, I think 70% of girls will say yes.

  • Out of 40 girls.

  • You heard it here first. Have a good veinand the third one?

  • The third one…I think a sharp chin.

  • A sharp chin. How the hell do I do that?

  • Train your chin. Maybe, take something out.

  • Well let’s move on.

  • So they need to have a big back, a good vein and a sharp chin.

  • Yeah, that’s me out of the picture for that.

  • So when you were a student, how many girls in your class do you think would have wanted to date a foreigner?

  • Out of 40 girls.

  • Well, not many I think. May be five.

  • Maybe five.

  • I remember when I was a teacher, I asked some students, some girls what their views on foreigners were

  • and a lot of them would say foreigners are cool.

  • But not that many wanted to actually date a foreigner,

  • they say it would medoukusai, it was difficult, it was stressful, the language barriers and cultural barriers.

  • Yeah, that's true.

  • I think loads of girls want to date or want to chat with foreigners but

  • it’s a bit difficult to explain how we feel sometimes.

  • Because of the cultural barrier and the language barrier

  • Yeah...

  • and we are shy and we need the confidence to talk to foreigners.

  • I think the language barrier is a bigger issue for Japanese girls dating foreigners,

  • than foreigners realise perhaps.

  • Definitely.

  • And if you can speak some Japanese that makes us feel kind of comfortable

  • and make us want to speak more.

  • I think if you know just a little bit of Japanese it really gives you the edge.

  • Oh yeah definitely.

  • When I met a girl at a house party who later became my girlfriend,

  • I had to go to her and talk in bad Japanese

  • and that lulled her into a sense of security that I can use some Japanese and can talk.

  • That's lovely.

  • That makes a huge difference. Even if you know even rubbish Japanese it works.

  • So you don’t even need to be that good at Japanese?

  • Not at all - some phrases, some vocabulary is enough, so we can start the conversation.

  • from this.

  • I’ve got a friend in Tokyo and a friend in Sendai who use Tinder.

  • That Tinder app.

  • Yeah that’s that dating site isn’t it?

  • Yeah but they always talk about how brilliant it is and how well it works.

  • I had a friend in Tokyo who used it and he had a date everyday for two weeks through Tinder.

  • Oh really. So that means many Japanese girls do it.

  • Perhaps. I don’t actually like Tinder.

  • Though I’m making it sound really good - this isn’t a sponsorship video for Tinder, I don’t like it at all.

  • Do you have one though?

  • Maybe. But I swear I don’t use it, I hate Tinder so much.

  • Show me the picture later.

  • Nobecause you just judge someone by their appearance. It’s like there’s a good face, there’s a bad face.

  • Yeah, by one picture, isn't it?

  • Can you upload a couple of pictures?

  • Yeah you can upload four pictures.

  • Oh do you? Ok.

  • Show me later.

  • Ok. Maybe

  • that’d be quite interesting. A video about trying Tinder in Tokyo.

  • Yeah right, you should actually try it.

  • Alright. I’ll give it a shot. Thatll be the next video; Tinder in Tokyo.

  • Let us know how it goes.

  • So I’ve collected a list of about 20 pick up lines or chat up lines.

  • Half of them are in English, half of them in Japanese.

  • I figured if you can rate them on a scale of 1 - 10,

  • Ok.

  • we can try and build a picture of what Japanese girls might like or what might work.

  • I’ll be pretty surprised if any of them are good to be honest.

  • Well that is to doubt the poetic beauty nature of a chat up line.

  • Yeah, I probably shouldn’t be too quick to judge.

  • Noare you a microwave, because you just melted my heart.

  • 2

  • Wow! You look a lot like, my next girlfriend.

  • 1

  • Is your name Google? Because youve got everything I’m searching for?

  • Wow, 7.

  • Kiss me if I’m wrong, but dinosaurs still exist right?

  • 8.

  • Did it hurt?

  • Did what hurt?

  • When you, fell from heaven.

  • 3.

  • Here, check out my shirt.

  • What is it?

  • You know what it’s made out of?

  • No.

  • Boyfriend material.

  • 2.

  • Are you a parking ticket? Because youve got fine written all over you.

  • 3.

  • Is it ok if I took your picture? I want to prove to my friends that, angels really do exist.

  • Alright. 5.

  • Ok, so you actually liked some of them. Which surprises me.

  • For the record, I haven’t used any of those.

  • Are you sure?

  • I might use the dinosaur one.

  • I like that one.

  • Kiss me if I’m wrong, but dinosaurs still exist right?

  • Alright, now let’s try some Japanese ones.

  • Yeah, let's do that.

  • Next year, well be laughing together.

  • 7.

  • Next year, well be laughing together.

  • I like that, it’s quite nice.

  • I’ve got no-one to eat my ice cream with.

  • That’s so sad.

  • 2

  • I’ve got to no-one to eat my ice cream with. Why ice cream specifically?

  • You relax me more effectively than a dolphin.

  • 7.

  • You relax me more effectively than a dolphin.

  • That’s cute.

  • Yeah sure.

  • I want to say the English equivalent of that as a chat up line.

  • I’ll substitute you into my love equation.

  • 2

  • I’ll substitute you into my love formula.

  • Complicated.

  • That’s beyond complicated.

  • I’ll be your pajamas tonight.

  • 2.

  • I’ll be your pajamas tonight.

  • 2? That’s the best one of everything!

  • Do you think?

  • Yeah!

  • Won’t you be my Japanese teacher?

  • 9.

  • Will you be my Japanese teacher?

  • That’s really common.

  • I think so yeah.

  • I find when I meet a girl, theyre like, won’t you teach me English.

  • And it’s kind of like an easy way of getting to meet someone.

  • And actually, my Japanese girlfriend last year, that’s how we had our first date.

  • I pretended to teach her English and her teach me Japanese.

  • Okay. It’s more causal.

  • It is casual isn’t it. It kind of gets rid of some of the awkward situations, that would arise from these chat up lines.

  • I won’t lie, I might use some of these Japanese pick up lines

  • in a bar in Tokyo and see what happens. In the same way, I might use some of the English ones.

  • I think they could work, if you don’t take them too seriously.

  • Yeah, maybe.

  • Ok so to wrap it up, if you want a Japanese girlfriend you need to go to your friend’s house party,

  • be nice, use some Japanese and have a good vein. Apparently.

  • Yeah

  • There you go.

  • Or if you don’t have any friends, just go to Tokyo, to a bar, in Roppongi perhaps

  • - and use some of those pick up lines.

  • Definitely, yeah it works.

  • You relax me more than a dolphin. Brilliant.

  • It never fails.

  • We want to be like a dolphin, so if you say that girls will fall in love like that.

  • Like that, brilliant!

  • Well thanks again for today Chiaki, thanks for coming in and giving us this invaluable advice.

  • I hope it will work for you.

  • So if youre learning Japanese, check out Chiaki’s videos as you can actually listen and try to learn it.

  • And don’t forget to hit the like button, if you want more videos. I’ll see you again next time, thanks for watching.

  • Thank you.

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