Japan is amazing whether you're visiting or staying. And I say that as a 12 year Tokyo resident who applied for the citizenship. You need to learn Japanese and become fluent though, otherwise you might as well go home.

Great way to put it!

Every place has their problems

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I mean, for well established content creators and freelance people the working conditions are prbly a million times better and that clould resolve some of the struggles of Japan, although I agree on the points you made

I would come to Japan with the mentality of someone seeking employment, not as someone who’s trying to live out the anime life. First, speak almost fluent Japanese and second, have some marketable skills that can get you employed. Even Japanese people can’t get a job these days. It’s a hard life in Japan now. And especially with coronavirus, the xenophobia is becoming more common amongst older generations.

Chicken Caesar wraps

Co-op meal deals on the other hand are the most disgusting things to ever grace the earth

@@obiwan4321 horrendous overpriced shop

strait fact best by far

For £3 pound there one of the cheapest lunch deals. There is a butchers near me which does a bqcon/sausage baguette for 1.50 can add crisps drink for a pound that is a lot nicer, but apart from that tesco meal deal wins

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Big sad

Of course the one with a kazuma pfp is the one saying this 😂

Lol

Bro your everywhere

omg I loved horrid Henry

@@ink1018 oh my god same, it was always lik edgy rebellious kid who bully's his brother in cartoons, I'm in

@@ink1018 I used to binge a show

@@ink1018 loved that show

@@karansensei272 same I wanted to be like Henry but I was more like Peter

quando vi eles falando sobre burocracia e papelada, fiquei curioso pra saber se é pior que no Brasil. Minha mãe, vó e outros parentes moraram no Japão (isso porque eles vem de uma família de imigrantes) mas eles nunca comentaram sobre isso

Brazil...nana nana nana nanaaaa

O Brasil tem capacidade de ser um país de primeiro mundo, mas eu já tô cansado de esperar por isso. Eu iria preferir mil vezes ir pro Japão e lidar com o choque cultural e com a xenofobia do que continuar sendo abusado diariamente pelo governo brasileiro.

A filha de uma amiga minha foi pro Japão pra ficar seis meses e voltou com dois meses, a xenofobia/racismo lá é sinistra se tu é negro ou tem a pele morena.

@@damalailhama Engraçado que a cultura Gyaru exagerava pra krl na maquiagem e era de boa. Oh well, Japão e sua cultura...

It went by so quickly for me. Might as well call it the Ghost Year.

That would be cool to see them compile them into special episodes like they did with the car special it'd be like top gear specials cos those three have the same energy man they are so good together

It's not so surprising that people that are into popular forms of escapism like anime and manga have unrealistic ideas about daily life in foreign country like Japan... Like what kind of lifestyle are they expecting to live as foreigner in Japan? Some kind of anime&manga expert gaijin celebrity like Marty Friedman with metal music?

same here brother. My family hardly had the time and money to travel (we only traveled for family related occasions, but the cities wed go to arent necessarily that great), and im always looking forward to travel one day. *sighs*

As someone who was born in UK and grew up in different countries in my eyes you are lucky, i cannot fathom how big and diverse america must be, i say this to people who look at other countries with rose tinted glasses, the novelty wears off quickly, even quicker for somebody like me who has never had a stable country, basically i tried my best to instate my self in the local culture of the countries i grew up in best i could and i managed to a success in one of the most xenophobic countries (Qatar) but fact is even if you manage to be accepted by the locals there is still redtape and government to remind you how you will always be a foreigner. Meanwhile in the US you have a country so massive , it has all types of geography, weather, seasons, cultures and backgrounds. Even if you were born in Europe unless you were lucky to be born in a city with beautiful architecture and nature it wont be special i live in countryside in the UK, and its boring and crap . Visiting a bustling city like London once in a while feels like going to wonderland, anywhere else outside london just feels bland. And you guys have way more population and diversity in a mediocre city than most of UK’s major cities.

@@BurriedTruth I think it's important to acknowledge that all of us who live in a first world country are lucky and there's good things about all our homes. I would love to go to London and see Big Ben and Buckingham Palace and so many other places the UK.

Trust me you aren't missing anything by not traveling to LA

Aight I'll do that

We'll see

I wouldn’t want to move there but I’d love to go live there for like a few months or maybe even a year to just experience life there.

Not me

Not me.

@@DontuseMyRealNameYTplz1425 Same.

Nah. i feel like everyone should visit tho To get it out of your system (i haven't personally been there yet)

Mexican food is always good

That's the main reason of you going back to the states?

@@ffls775 nah there's more, work contract is up next year. I can choose to stay longer but haven't been enjoying my time out here as much as I thought I would. I don't know if I could go another 4 years here with the job I have. Losing my dang mind

Like idk I plan to first come as tourist to see if I can study Masters in Japan(maybe Koshigaya maybe other city will see) if I can then I'll then I'll be there for 2-3yrs due to program being that long and decide if I should stay to live and work in Japan or go back to country I live in. And I was watching one guy and another girl(different videos) who are both religious and both guy and girl got job in Japan and they landed pretty well paying job for start and when I saw both videos of them guy was like 4 and girl was 5 yrs in Japan already and they come from less economically stable country and they said both that they really like Japan and are living much better then in their homelands. Of course when they get older like Pension they might return to their country but that is far fetched since we don't know what future gets us. But overall they really had any complaints being Gaijin(foreigner) immigrant whatever you want to call it. On vacations yea they return to their city to visit parents and such but they said they dint plan to return to their homelanda any time soon. It is just you have to wager out positives and negatives. If you can balance that they you should be good to stay there.

I genuinely don’t understand why anybody would want to live long-term in a conservative and neurotic hellhole like Japan unless they came from a poor country.

I've lived in Tokyo for 12 years and applied for the citizenship. Never once went through disillusionment. Being at least 90% fluent in the language is the number 1 factor that will make the difference between loving the country and being a weird bitter loner. Learn the language of the country you live in. That's good advice anywhere on earth, yet so many people think they will enjoy life in Japan being literally illiterate.

WHAAAAAAA!?!?!?

Lies

I didnt believe it either but you have to pay cable which releases shows a week late or you have to pay for major company subscriptions that some times can reach 20 dollars with out cable

@@ZeGoat69 WHACK, lol I remember they were talking about how there's an annual fee for owning a TV but I didn't know it was that bad

Japan is not that expensive but my god the subscriptions can kill a person

Its a great value for money.

Not going to lie thAt sounds mundane asf

@@lonnieleach9761 well seeing how I have over 85k in statues and collectibles you'd understand lmao

@@thatdude8710 well I now understand thank you. Live your best life sir lol

Don’t come back

The society is very strict and mannered, the economy is stagnant but somehow stable, and actually there are a lot of jobs but the work culture is very harsh

Work culture in Japan is pretty bad though

@@datboi2479 was working as an apprentice engineer for a year. Long hours hard work I’m used to that and quite frankly I crave that.

@@blessed-tony not when your old and grey but hell do you my man

@@blessed-tony How is the current generation of Japanese people coming home on time?

@Rays Through Trees, Summer Breeze Yeah. If you wanna live abroad have good paid profession or if possible join some YT circle or something in that realm otherwise if you thinking of working like English Teacher and living like a King as far as I saw you gonna be dissapointed.

? It's not lol