As an autist… this pains me.

Well, that's one of Japan's biggest problems IMO, the way this country treats handicapped people (and outcasts in general, if you don't fit in the mold in this country, you're nothing).

The united states wont be far behind as a certain religious group doesnt believe in mental health. We will be like japan in a decade.

Happens more often than you’d think. I know other countries, where it’s impossible to ask for help. Even if you’re “”only”” depressed or s_icidal. Even if you want to reach out.

Exactly, well said. Its depressing to see that those with mental illness are not given any kind of support and allowed to fall through the cracks of society, in most places around the world.

So glad youre shedding light on this

@@chicken3451I concur

Oh ok

Yes Mental health especially in Japan it seems is a very underappreciated or discussed topic so thank you for shedding a bit of light on it. With any luck there will be improvement there soon thanks to your & others' exposure. Side note. The audio on the recording & your VO is very very soft. I had to crank my sound to where I got white noise feed back to barely make out your voice & words. Several of your last few videos have been hit or miss in the same way.

What an interesting story, it is sad and I hope the man does stop hurting himself. Maybe having to talk to someone was a bit of a relief to him in a way.

Can you explain what you mean by hard to get help? I've thought about the possibility of moving to either Japan or Taiwan some day, so itd be nice to know what stuff to consider.

​@@tigerfalcowell its very hard to get free therapy or even paid therapy and the stigma is even bigger than in other country and its hard to get medication and surten medication isent even aviable there. But thats all I know, you schould do your own reserch before seriously consodering moving anywhere.

​​@@tigerfalco Generally, Mental Health is not talked about or addressed there. People there still sort of live in the culture of just "toughing it out" rather than getting help. And because of that, there's not a lot of sources to reach out to there in regards to mental health.

@@annablue2799 I definitely planned on it, that just wasn't something that came to mind

@@tigerfalco This is not a good place to ask about mental health in Japan. They haven`t been to any doctors in Japan. They just heard it from random people in the internet. There are plenty doctors in Japan and can get medicine quite easily.

Jesus loves you ❤️ please turn to him and repent before it's too late. The end times described in the Bible are already happening in the world.

​@@L17_8Don't spread the gospel on some random comment section💀

​@jvtw4138 sorry to ask this, but will Jesus approve my marriage with my robot girlfriend.

Just pray but most likely no. Because it’s not real it’s just an AI love it’s not technology

@@pingpong5877Jesus, he forgives all your sins..so maybe a yes?

I agree! The last thing this guy needs is to be sensationalized and treated like a spectacle. Here's hoping the poor dude has contact with people so that he doesn't hurt himself. 0_0

That's probably why his house is blurred on Google maps.

Yup! And it's not inherently suspicious in any way, privacy is just cool.

wait i didn't know that. lowkey want that done to my house now lol

Im suprised that he even has acces to the internet it self. The internet is horrible and I don't think someone in a mental state like this should really be on it then... (with that I don't mean that he could harm someone but rather that if he sees one wrong thing his mental state might even get worse) Why ofc he could've also asked a few lokals around the village with acces to the internet to do it for him but Im also pretty sure that by some of the things that are written on the house PLUS the ''bloody'' shirt google might have just done it by themselves.

she and her friends are literally exploiting this man’s illness. if she respected him, she wouldn’t have uploaded this. she recorded his literal home. Idk why everyone in this comment section has a hard time grasping this isn’t okay

@@sonie4208 That man is literally okay with that. I feel like you haven't seen the entire video.

@@Alexandra_Westheart I watched it twice actually all the way through to make sure I wasn’t bugging out. you cannot get the consent of someone who’s not in the right mindset. that is not how consent works. that man has some kind of mental illness and needs help not this. now his home and ‘how creepy’ he is has been uploaded to her 2 million followers. The poor guy probably has no idea about this video and he already deal with stuff, that’s obvious. Don’t excuse her behavior.

​@sonie4208 seems like he's able and capable of providing consent. Even setting boundary and limitation for what he was happy for them to or not to record I.e. his face.

​@@sonie4208so you're saying Japan should keep ignoring these mental health problems? let it plague and affect people young and old? not caring the already devastating effect it has on the masses? i'm not a psychologist and you're not too, but i can tell the man already gave his consent and permission. he even tells his story and let it be shared so everyone would know what he experienced and what he felt

It's easier to ignore something until it goes away or it dies on it's own, thats actually one of the darker sides of a society focused that works like Japan. If you aren't compliant, at best, you'll be "tolerated" but you'll just be ignored as well.

It is sad this country has failed greatly in keeping people that clearly need to be in some form of an institution that is the US. I would hope Japan would have some form of a mental institution system.

Although they didn't go inside, the floors of that house are not safe to walk on! This has to be breaking so many building safety regulations that could cause that man accidents!

@@lucinae8510 Yeah, that house definitely isn't safe. But the authorities are probably just putting a blind eye on it.

All over USA. That’s mental all the homeless.

It's hard to reach out to help someone that doesn't want any help.

In a way it could be classified as one, if the man wishes it to be a documentation of his struggles. I too looked it as an art installation due to the magnitude, usage of yellow and white on black and audio. But since he is content it being as it is, we cannot put art label on it and just wish him to have better days ahead.

Was looking for a comment mentioning schizophrenia. My brother had this mental condition and would often do the "contorting hands" and arms thing Aki described. They're often really kind people usually, but have a lot of misunderstanding...and unfortunately many fall through the systems. :(

I have psychosis where I can see things that aren’t there when im stressed out which often scare the life out of me. I’ve been called crazy before and it broke my heart, I feel this mans pain and what he is going through

The hard part would be helping the guy on terms that are acceptable to him. Imposing too much to "help" can be seen as a form of harassment too, which may be the root of some of the threatening language painted on those walls. Some aspects of the story, I think he may have dirt on someone with local political ties. And their campaign of harassment to drive him out may be the cause of some of this. He may have started half-crazy with some issue or other, but if he's seen as gone off the deep end - then his word on some issues may lose any standing despite having truth to them.

My mum has paranoid schizophrenia and she spray painted around her house and on the outside similar to this before I was able to get her mental help. I believe it’s because what they’re seeing is so real that they feel the need to ward off the dangerous people that are going to attack them at any given moment. She would yell out around her property and shout at planes flying over. It’s a very serious mental disability which I hope this man can get help with from Japanese mental health services. I’m not sure how they work over there as I am in Australia but he deserves to be living under better circumstances 🥺

​@@lilbatwolfI remember staying at this motel and the room next to ours had a note that said don't stand by my room or something it was very weird.

i feel like a family member might have done that for him at some point. the house of a mentally ill person being blurred on google maps implies someone cares about his privacy. he might have done that himself tho

Alternatively, people will request their houses get blurred because privacy is pretty cool.

It's hard to get it done. There is a house a block or 2 up from me where a guy late teens was murdered & chopped up into pieces. His family couldn't get them to do it.

agreed

I have been to a state run institution and many are indeed violent and predatory. Functional people with anxiety on Prozac are generally not violent but that is not what this is. Paranoid schizophrenia is quite dangerous.

I love anime and manga but that has to do with my love for art in general and not Japan. A country should never be idolized for it's media or public attractions and anyone who does so is a shallow dumbass living in a self deluded fantasy. The reality is that Japan is a shithole country just like every other shithole country (america included) and I knew that it was severely fucked off as soon as I started learning about karoshi in the aforementioned industries listed, and it's not just the manga and anime industry, but the workforce of japan as a whole. Why is the practice of offing yourself through the activity of overwork seen as some kind of honorable thing to do? and those who don't submit to that and keep up this shitty facade of happiness like you said are the ones seen as trash? go figure. With a culture like that is it really a big surprise that there is a massive 'hikikomori" issue? and it's not an issue at all, the way I see it it's a bunch of people who's seeing through all this matrix bullshit and is finally going "enough" and is opting out of that sewage culture. I can say a lot about how Japan needs to get it's shit together and start treating it's citizens better but then like I just stated is there any country that doesn't have a darker shitty side that it tries to mask with light and glamour? for instance. Over here in America it's supposedly this "land of the free" "democracy" 1st amendment" yada yada yada, but actually try to voice that 1st amendment freedom bullshit to ask for help and vent to a social worker about your problems and your liable to find yourself getting ignored or locked up in a mental institution if you say the wrong thing. Involuntary commitment signed by a judge and staffed with "doctors" who can keep you for as long as they want and forcing you onto psychosis medication as some sort of deal for being discharged, and then your sent out to homelessness or back to the problem. I've especially started to noticed how a lot of autistic people over here (myself included) are treated like shit if they struggle or are not able to fit in with normal society, most come from a background of abusive parents who handicapped their growth, and the "help" is all a facade for professionals to either push the mentally disabled populace off onto medication or to be used as some source of governmental income for someone else. tbf I think the essence of human nature is a pile of shit anyway so I don't think it matters where some flag is flailing over a pole as long as we think about that reality.