Dude don't even worry about it. Quality > Quantity any day. You're right, the Gold Smuggling video was a crazy insight, 6 weeks is honestly not even that long for the amount of research, resource compilation and editing you had to do.

those 6 weeks made my favorite vid of yours. id agree that its your best 🫡

Quality over quantity :)

Your videos are really fun to watch, I'm excited for a new upload each time.

I’m always trying to improve my Japanese, so a million thank you’s for adding those excerpts in Japanese from the articles and comments you’re referencing

that won’t deter me from gardening, thank you very much tho

Underdiagnosed? At like every hospital I’ve been to when ever there is community acquired pneumonia physicians always seem to cover for atypical pneumonia

in New York people get infected constantly, it comes from the water sprayed from cooling towers. The towers are poorly maintained and breed pathogens.

The Legionnaires Disease came into the limelight on July 21 of 1976, when members of the American Legion gathered at a hotel (still existente) in Philadelphia got sick by a mysterious disease. It was believed that the bacteria grew in the AC ducts. The case of Legionella disease associated with onsen in Japan is not new. Ity happened also in public bathhouses. True: Legionella bacteria grows in an environment called biofilm (the gooey stuff), where, as you pointed out, mold and amoebas are present. Therefore, it is more important in onsens to remove the biofilm growing in the pipes, rather than only killing the bacteria. And there is a ongoing debate in Japan. Beneficial properties of onsen waters are linked to its reducing characteristics. Chlorine, and other sanitizers are strong oxidants. By killing the bacteria, you also destroy the water characteristics. Yes. It is possible to keep the water running freely and prescind the use of chlorine. But the running cost becomes extremely expensive. I believe that there is one, and maybe a few more other places, where that practice this system.

Amoeba!? 😱 wtf

Doesn't that go contradictory to his inability to accept opinions other than his own?

​@@28_futaba Not really. Even if someone can only accept their opinions overwhelming pressure and evidence can cause them to change it. If anything, if he was aware of his tendencies to not accept other's opinions then it could have just made the guilt heavier on him as he realized it was his fault.

@@theresnothinghere1745 In my experience these kind of people hold even stronger to their wrong opinions, even if evidence shows otherwise. But maybe this is more of a cultural factor, in Japan it might function differently.

@@aedes947 Pride and reputation matter a lot in Japan. If nothing else, he probably wanted to save his 300 year old family business at the cost of his own.

@@DeathNikkii I think he cut a lot of corners to achieve that. 6 months is a crazy long time to change water, but it is also a lot of money you are saving.

YES! the one with the shoddy real estate company where the building collapsed

Idk if you've done a video on the Minamata mercury poisoning scandal and the dancing cats but it's maybe one of the worst chemical disasters in Japanese history Cats got neurological disease from mercury before humans bcos they eat the fish that themselves were full of mercury, so they started having fits and seizure like movement that people called them the 'dancing cats of Minamata' 😢

Yes yes that would be interesting content

そうだ！そうだ！そうだ！

@@IkePaz thats South korea not jpaan

The 2000 figure was also only for the first inspection, right? Not the second inspection that found the 3700x

there is no excuse for a 100 year old law. japan may look modern from the outside but the inside is nightmare

@@Japanalysis During the 1st violation, the Ryokan lied to the prefectural health department (not the police) that we change and disinfect our hot water regularly. They can issue a business suspension or a recommendation for business improvement, but they cannot seek a fine. And when they investigated one more time, things got worse and the county filed a complaint with the police for lying on the report. 2000JPY is the figure for that (note that as of 3/27/2023, the investigation is still ongoing and penalties have not been finalized).

@@woooshbait9696 I am also Japanese, and I sometimes shake my head at the strange conservatism. However, one particular law stipulates that these too-cheap fines in any law will be increased to keep up with inflation, so it is actually working out. The fact that this additional law was not reported in the news has also added to people's anger.

@@user-cr5ms9tw4t it's an insignificant price to pay for living in such a safe and trustworthy society. You guys have it way better than any other western country that i can think of. You pretty much figured out the ideal social model for our modern times.

Bacteria growth is usually exponential

@Shatterscape I meant more so on the company's fault. They were issued a complaint and warning, just the fact that they did nothing and the bacteria grew to such proportions shouldn't have happened in the first place.

@@WhiskersTC I suppose complacency but this is clearly evident, probably overconfidence? Then again it is still tied to complacency

It sounds to me like the first measurement was faulty.

​@Shatterscape If it was exponential it seems highly unlikely that the timeline goes 1)guy gets sick, 2)test shows 2x, 3) retest shows 37,000x. Because the guy getting sick would have a lag time from exposure at relatively safe levels, the test 1 at somewhat elevated levels, then retest is bonkers. I'm sure test 1 was faulty.

yeah, had the same energy of "yeah maybe don't do that?"

yeah it's exuding "pls don't" energy

i hear franku

​@@zoroasper9759why not tho? These kinds of things should be widespread to teach the culprits and perpetrator lessons. Don't play with people's health. Health is VERY EXPENSIVE.

@zoroasper9759 because foreigners might want to avoid Onsens in general

Tbf I do think it's running water, or at least it has been in every onsen I've been in. The once a week rule is probably for cleaning the entire thing out.

It is running water, especially in natural onsens.

​@@destituteanddecadent9106 It's not, you can't put chlorine in running water, plus he clearly was talking about CHANGING the water...

​@@allpissedup229 Who said those are natural ? If you check the pictures, you'll see bathtubs and pools that imitate the natural hot springs but that's it, all is artificial, so no running water.

@@shizukagozen777​​⁠ when they say“natural hot springs” it refers to the water source itself, not the tub. Generally onsens will have a constant stream of natural hot spring water, like at 2:39, to keep the bath warm. The excess water will just spill over the edge, but the water doesn’t change out fast enough to negate bacteria growth.

It can happen in first world countries from bad AC units or water storage too.

Often underdiagnosed bcos docs never think of rarer microbes except maybe Pseudomonas People probably tend to get Legionella from gardening and potting mix now more than old water supplies But it's still fairly common cause of death in elderly as far as my time in a pathology lab taught me Surprising number of Legionella foresnic lung biopsies

Also I'm certain Japan would have a tonne of buildings with shitty old pipes and air-conditioning outside of Tokyo proper 😅

are you dumb? water from hotsprings are not treated.

it happens in NYC often from cooling towers. Also cruise ships.

I guess we’ll never know for sure, but I think he did accept he was wrong. He just didn’t want to accept the consequences.

​@@dingus_maximushe's a coward then 😂😂😂🤢🤮

He deeply regretted it enough that he took his own life, that in itself is tragic, all life is precious and I hope hes in a better place

@@curiouscat428 what he did was wrong but the fact that he took his life is tragic. genuinely awful that you're laughing at someone passing away. you're an awful person.

Not adding chlorine is entirely different from not changing the water. The reason he did it is very likely to save expenditure. Think how much money he saved by running a bath without maintaining it regularly. Just how much money did he saved by not having to buy chlorine or hot spring water regularly. That's likely how he was able to come back from the debt in a relatively short time.

@@niello5944 true but like, not changing for 6 months 💀😭 at least once a month 😔

@@niello5944 chlorine is super cheap lol

@@euko7469 Not if you have to buy it regularly every week or so for multiple baths. And it's not just the price of the chlorine.

@@niello5944 lol sure it adds up but it's like a nonfactor when you consider they were millions in debt. you think what brought them back was saving on chlorine? you can buy a huge bag of chlorine tablets for like 50 bucks, and you need 1 tablet per 5,000 gallons of water.

He should just be a good boy and change the water then 😂😂😂🤢🤮. And I thought Japanese are well known for their CLEANLINESS and EXCELLENT WAYS OF DOING BUSINESS. But, playing with other people's health where people trusted him and weren't suspecting... Health is VERY EXPENSIVE you know.

@@curiouscat428 I see your other comments so personally idgaf what you have to say on the situation. Seems like you got a few screws loose

@@The_Stoned_Sage sorry to disappoint you. Nope, I don't. You're just a typical Japan WEEABOO defending. Now cope and grow up.

@@The_Stoned_Sage and it is not "sad" or "tragic" like your sad little mind with not just a few but a lot of screw loose likes to think. Entering bathhouses or onsen requires people to be fully naked, not wearing bathing suits. Imagine what disease and infections people could get from their bottom parts just by sitting on dirty, disgusting water. Yikes. And, no. No need to check my other comments that's MEANT for OTHER PEOPLE. They're none of your business. Just concentrate on your own. Dunno that you're such a pathetic BUSY BODY wanting to know everybody's business. So, it's me who IDGAF.

@@The_Stoned_Sage lastly, the DEAD man who suicide knows very well that it's the payment he should made when he got caught doing naughty in business. He shouldn't have tried CHEATING from the start. He knows a cheating pric* will ALWAYS get caught in the end. And he knows he had to deal with shame. Any sane minded will agree with me, so obviously not for a sad WEEABOO like yourself. Go back to your hole and watch anime 🥱. Unlike you, I went to school in Tokyo and we really don't appreciate dirty establishment. Now, going back to try reading my other comments? Honestly, IDGAF.

I second this!

@@rottenink website is still up and there is a notification siting "We are writing to inform you that we have violated the established legal compliance and are therefore in violation of the National Travel Assistance The "New Fukuoka Avoidance Travel" tourism campaign has had its participation status cancelled. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. A New Fukuoka Escapade" Sightseeing Campaign Cancellation of registration: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 *From the above date of cancellation, all subsidies for lodging and travel, including existing reservations, and local coupons will be cancelled. including existing reservations, and local coupons are not available from the date of cancellation. We will contact existing customers with reservations regarding this matter in due course. We sincerely apologize for the repeated inconvenience." From what I know, you can still book there.

No wonder he turned the business around in the 2000s because he barely spends money to change the water 😂

​@@riougenkaku6069🤣🤣🤣🤢🤮

Why don't they use salt & filtration? Salt is supposedly cheaper.

I think it was more the public shame, rather than the legionella deaths, that caused him to do it. Japan is a shame-based culture rather than a guilt-based culture, after all.

it's probably public shame, how could someone live a normal life when the whole country knows it was their business that caused someone to die.

@@gradualdecayhonestly, this is more of a problem than most people expect. It’s a major barrier to repentance…

@@gradualdecay Maybe we should be shame based, this seems like a more appropriate response to what he did than what most people in America would do. I can respect his actions after this came to light, protecting his employees, being honest and taking accountability, and ending his own life even seems appropriate considering he is directly responsible for killing 2 people. It's sad but it is a direct result of his own actions, some things I don't think are possible to forgive without adequate sacrifice and what sacrifice is enough to show remorse for killing multiple people? Even Christianity which is heavily focused on redemption has the concept of penance (I think that might be mostly a Catholic thing though, not sure about other types). I guess it doesn't really fit western values though, we do place a lot of value on redemption, probably due to how our morals developed alongside Christianity rather than whatever most of these shame based Asian cultures based their morality on. People have ended their lives in the US as well now that I think about it after being exposed for similar things. I remember a hedge fund manager who was found in his car after he lost a bunch of people's life savings making insanely risky decisions. It just is less common.

Yeah Jeff Skilling the main guy behind the Enron scandal got out of prison and went right back into the oil & gas business.

In Korea they just release you from jail "for the good of the economy". Hi Samsung

It's called natural selection, those with morals take responsibility and leave the industry, over time, businesses self-selects for amoral people.

That's the American Dream, baby!

In japan, you can eat French people, get off scott free, and make a career off of it 😂

So sowwwyy 😮‍💨 sumiii massuuuuushta

Wrong grammar bro

@@Rae-vp4te me so solly

Gomenasorry~~ 😞🙏

I loved gintama’s skit on it lol

and things like this should ALWAYS be called out. no matter what.

​@@TheShiningEnergyyes TRUE. I hate people who play with other people's health just because they think we can't see or unaware. Health is VERY EXPENSIVE. I'm glad the ex CEO paid it with his life.

@@curiouscat428 I don't know if the ex CEO was necessarily playing with people's health. I think he was ignorant & truthfully didn't see anything wrong for awhile. If he felt guilty enough to commit suicide, I think he finally understood what he did wrong. I don't think he deserved death. That's quite the extreme punishment to wish for anyone. Besides, if I really hated someone, I'd want them to suffer in prison.

Nasty

​@@DABUNGINATOR He was not that ignorant, his employees kept warning him.

Better be safe than sorry. Unless if you are Japanese/lives in Japan where you can get more information about it.

Tbf it may well be under different management at this point and hopefully doing things better than the last guy

Depends. You could also argue that after the first inspection they found it hard to put the recommendations into place and simply underestimated the seriousness of the issue and feared public outcry for too obvious measures. But now they likely have much free capacity to change the water.

Yea ur right, the japanese friends basically said that the image of Japanese hot springs will worsen, so I kind of dont want you to upload the video

No they r just don't want japan reputation

I mean that’s literally what the friend’s response is: "I wish they wouldn't bring it up because it would give a bad image of Japanese hot springs." 日本の温泉のイメージが悪くなるか ら取り上げないでほしいけど

I’d guess they’re more sensitive to embarrassment and afraid well assume all of Japan is like that, which is understandable to be upset about But they over estimate how things like this color American perception Like, New York is the most esteemed city in US, but it still has pizza rat

Maybe I’m being the devil’s advocate here, but isn’t that understandable? Imagine you love your country’s food and want to show everyone, but one famous rich branch that makes your country’s food was caught out for health violations. Now everyone’s impression of your country’s food is “it’s dirty and will give you food poisoning.”

Even if japan was a near perfect society, businesses would still try to find ways to cut costs without letting the public know. It’s just a rule of corporate greed.

@@muffinconsumer4431 trhe

Trust me, Japan may have a big reputation for being clean which it is but look enough then you can see the dirty parts. This is why you would see people on the streets cleaning trash at times and recently, a group of Ryo Saeba cosplayers from the anime City Hunter even did a whole cleaning event.

@@ithecastic I mean it was a health resort that several japanese Prime Ministers used, it probably has powerful backers. If you take them down better make sure you don’t miss. Also that is why you would be very careful for this resort.

Yeah but corporate greed can only get this bad when government is complicit and encourages it​@@muffinconsumer4431

Like when a Twitch chat says "STOP??????"

Yup. Like abuse are workplace and bullying at school.

He probably knew he would be getting a heavy sentence (somebody died, after all), and he was already 70. No way he'd prefer living the rest of his days in prison.

You should feel sorry for his victims. He put many people's lives in danger and even got a person killed to make money. I doubt he grasped how fucked up what he did was even in his final moments. He was too much of a coward to acknowledge or confront anything he had done. Shame on you, for trying to paint a man whose greed destroyed others the lives of others as a victim.

What about the poor victim? they legit died- I agree he shouldn't have killed himself and should face punishment but you shouldn't feel bad for the guy who killed himself but for the victim who died.

@@YouJustAmazeMe Bro literally just said he felt bad that the dude killed himself, that's not victimising someone. Trying to shame someone for that is embarassing moral grandstanding.

Reminds me of an ex-minister in my country whom I think said that Japanese executives would commit hara-kiri at press conferences last time

Old Japanese people are usually old fashioned. 😅

Not every, but it makes me question how much of a widespread issue this actually is. It's well known the right way of addressing issues in Japan is to look the other way.

@@JanMyler this happens in every country no matter what the issue may be

Yeah, wtf? Why would they want to keep it hush?

​@@azv343 to not damage the image of japan

I believe the first one didn’t want this story to tarnish the reputation of Japanese ryokans

And the second just said "don't?"

It's just another attempt to shut foreigners that they don't "understand the japanese ways", because what happened was quite shameful, actually. Good on the video maker to not listen to his "friends" and proceed to report what the world needs to know. If this is one instance, how many more baths secretly operates in dirty models like this, unknowingly we can all get infections and we're just tourists. It's disgusting. So this is very good to be reported and spread around, to protect baghgoers and tourists. The Japanese friends can go eat dust if they don't want ryokans repotations to get tarnished. Dont want a bad reputation? Do a good service. Simple as that 😂😂😂

Haha same!

Kimura Hanako! That was so tragic 😢 Everyone deleted their tweets and no one's being held accountable.