😂 Yes I'm not a... French Arabic 😂

Literally me in Okinawa, but it’s much more effective if you’re not American lol

"leave her alone, you bothersome foreigner"-foreigner

That's so scary and racist I'm gonna stay not go to Japan

@@cupidok2768 Jokes on them, I can't even afford to

And this is to go even further beyond!

Oh yeah? Well I'm not like the other foreigners who say they're not like the other foreigners who say they're not like the other foreigners!

I'm more like the foreigners, who know when they're foreigners. And act respectfully in foreign lands. While representing their foreign culture. Without playing too much Foreigner. Everybody FOREIGNER

Gimmeabreakman and Unrested (Scott)

This is a perfect Light Novel title

This is probably the funniest aspect of the video 🤣

Hypocrisy in a nutshell

it reads very "like a dragon"

That’s it. I’m staying far, far away from Kyoto and Osaka. Okinawa here I come.

@myhome772 I heard the comtrary about Osaka.

just make sure to be respectful and don't caused trouble and your good

@@myhome772whats wrong with osaka

@@vladimirgluten781 Just to be on the safe side. You know people in Kyoto goes back, and forth from Osaka. Because it’s affordable there. And a lot of stalking going on. Ask the KZfaqr Atsushi. He was caught stalking someone.

Drug addict?. You mean american?. 💀

Whaaat 😢

Even in Kyoto, really, is it that hard to just check where photography is forbidden, which part is private property and leaving geisha alone as normal human who is just trying to get to her work? 🙄

@@RadenWA As a foreigner who was in Kyoto earlier this month, I found no geishas and some streets in Gion district where photos and videos were prohibited but no one bothers you provided you don't act like a rude douche. They let you in and see everything, people were nice and there were a lot of tourists. Just have common sense and do as locals do, I'd say. No one batted an eye to me and treated me as just another guy. I am not asian-looking at all so you can go with ease of mind.

@@JoaoLucas-oh9fh When I was in Gion district last month, there was just police there telling people not to be in the middle of the road, which is understandable. It's a small road, yet it's not a pedestrian one, cars still pass by there. Like you said, you just gotta have common sense as a person and people won't mind you, I don't see what's difficult in it lmao

😂

Sussy gaijin 😂

They're trying to make the leap from a cash based society to a corporate reward funny-money (PayPay, etc) based society while skipping the Credit/Debit era. It's causing some confusion

Mastercard works perfectly fine. AmEx also works. Only Visa has issues.

i couldnt pay for my maid cafe and had the japanese police called because of this. i was afraid i was going to get deported.

@@Dangic23 Nah, a lot of places either don't accept visa/mastercard or don't accept visa/mastercard cards from other countries

@@Asatora I’m not talking about who accepts or not. I’m saying which cards work in Japan and which one doesn’t. An establishment accepting or not a card is not the point.

Vietnamese and Chinese groups often buy up cards in Japanese card shops and resell them so some card shops are sensitive to foreigners.

@@ARKSAAXX-ys9gz You're not supposed to reveal the secret that it's mostly other Asians causing the most trouble in Japan. It hurts some people's narratives.

I have no issue buying it this January, maybe your face like frieza? 😂😂😂😂

I don't see the issue with the Chinese/Vietnamese buying to resell tho? A sale's a sale.

"Cardshop"? What cards do they sell? Postcards? Prepaid payment cards? Or what? 🤔

Americans: I'm just a Super Saiyan. Golden hair see?

Sorry, hot anime Android babes only.

"Sorry, Namek customers only"

Seijin?

That's like 80c

​@@Herr.Mitternacht63 c to be more precise

And then Rick came and payed 2 dolah. 😀

*suffocates in exclusiveness*

@@danieljoybaguio7975takes out a bag with American air out of a pocket and inhales rapidly

Fairly sure that that was the Chinese being Chinese. They unironically have school children celebrate the deaths of Japanese people.

In the world of every social media overexaggerating everything (good or bad) about japan sora's videos have been the most accurate to my experience living here.

そういった甘い考え方の所為で東京がパリの二の舞にならなければいいのですが…

Goodluck finding frieza for that atleast its better than asking goku to buy you a dr pepper because he will end drinking it himself

don't leave it in the frieza for too long, it'll explode if it gets too cold

Hmmm, frozen Dr Peppeeeerr *drools

A foreigner play the UNO reverse card for buy at that shop

千葉県にはたしか鉄道会社関係者お断りの飲食店があったはず……。

それほど外人が住み着いてんのかよ？ やべえなあ。日本ももうとっくに終わってるかもな。

Are you treated like a celebrity (such as getting taken photos of, big groups talking to you, etc.) or am I thinking of the wrong country?

@@AssassinIronMan fuck no lol, they just get surprised and greet like everyone else, with the usual politeness and always saying "very good Japanese" regardless if you said something good or not

@@breezeless_7665 that’s kinda funny 👌

Yeah I went to a fair amount of out of the way places when I visited Japan, never had any issue even when many venues spoke 0 English. The only place I got turned down for being a foreigner was at an American Express location in Kyoto ironically enough. Although if I knew the language I may have perhaps been able to enter.

Legit, exchange rates have been nutty since covid

Johnny Somali

Japanese people just have a whisper network, they don't even realize they get a good apartment because a friend of a friend knows your mom. And additionally a lot of people get funnelled into poor regions the same way as into classrooms, they're just so good that you don't realize they're The Projects. Which bring us to the supposed "racism" in USA. Everything you don't get you're jealous of, and everything you do get, you take for granted. That's why people resent the pretty decent and lax acquisition of HOMES in USA. Neighborhoods are bad because neighbors are bad. Somehow people turn the tougher chances of finding a Japanese home, into THEM being selectively helpful to each other. When Japanese do to each other the same thing that "only" happens to blacks. Except firearms death.

why housing? (genuinely asking for a simple answer instead of googling)

​@@oomphlagwumpla650Because foreigners are more likely to leave the country without notice

​@@oomphlagwumpla650 i also think its because some Japanese people don't want to cause misunderstandings with foreigners and avoid it instead

Sora promoting sodas be like

If you are concerned about manners, you're already the type of person that will be welcomed. Don't overthink it. Be polite, friendly, and courteous, and all will be well. I've been going to Japan for years and have never had an issue. I've recently come back, as a matter of fact, and while I saw many more fellow tourists than usual, it felt the same as it had for the past decade. I hope you find comfort in that.

@@TheDamianvain17 Thanks! I do try and be a very respectful person and am very quiet. I have always thought I would fit in with the Japanese culture, so we will see how it goes :).

Still 6 months to go. Use the time for language training. 😅

zero sugar pepsi with lemon flavour, the big stands for big size.

It's big , it's pepsi, and it has no lemon.

Years of practice and the magic of editing.

Nani!?

Oh shit asking the real questions LOL

Why pen out of all things?

i need a lagiacrus inkan

Japan is another world. Your experience elsewhere is mostly irrelevant. A lot of things in your behavior that you think are normal, are not over there.

It's friendly in Kyoto too, don't worry!

Get Sora to buy it for you if you want it

That's reasonable actually. Can't sell something that's a weapon to someone without documentation of citizenship

Wait, you didn’t see me eat my ice cream while walking up and down a busy street?

@@myhome772 damn. Now I have to go change my opinion.

Sir or madam, Kyoto is love. Okinawa is love as well, but don't tell either that they're in a love triangle.

@@mgancarzjr I want to dance with the hermit crabs at BANTA Cafe, I want to swim with the sea turtles at Aka beach, and I want to catch the fish at NISHIBAMA beach. On my GoPro, but not too eat. Although they seems so delicious. Maybe just a few bites. There will be more fish, so I guess that it’s alright. My heart belongs to Okinawa. Sorry Kyoto and Osaka.

@@myhome772 bruh... my kingdom for a pallet of Ryukyu Cola. Got scuba certified a few years ago. Been itching to dive Okinawan waters. Yui Rail too...

Hanae bro, whose rightful manners do we follow? The customer, or the seller? The guest, or the host? Do we bow, shakes, or bump fist? Maybe we should all just stay home, behind our screens to not offend anyone. There seems to be a lot of that in Japan. That must be the best custom to have.

A Murican.

In Rome just fucking do what Romans do, it's that simple

@@miguelpadeiro762 to the colosseum with you. Lol

being a true American, buying a carton of Dr Peppers

First thing I did was search Japan, Foreigners. Foreign immigration is on the rise. Lots of houses for sale to foreigners too, really cheap.

If it's written in English, it can't be very informative and succinct. This language is actively formulated to lack a lot of concepts and be overtly idiomatic, like you often hear people mock the term "compassion for oneself" in buddhism. But the reason you have to say it like that, is because English conjugation would be "impassion" and basically means the total opposite, so there's absolutely no room to find any conjugation that won't get the American reaction "lol that makes no sense, so you CAN'T know what YOU are talking about". Recently somebody commented that literally "ikigai" can't be a concept, because it just means "reason of living". Not even "Raison d'etre", that USA has had to steal that cultural concept BEFORE to think "reason of living" is anything but food in your belly and blood in your veins. And Boy and Heron is literally about that conept, which clearly shows why such culture has to be created in Japan, and not in USA, where you don't have langauge. The last you saw of that was Taxi Driver ripping off Le Samourai. You do this CONSTANTLY even with basic concepts, like "pom" is literally a nonsense obscenity law disticntion, while jaapnese draw all the way from greek "eros" to describe it. "Romance" is just jingoist reduction of ALL Romance langauge content, into French kisses and erotica for women. Not Romance of the Three Kingdoms, THAt to you is a funny pun. "Anime" can't be mentioned in Japan, because it ALREADY is just a word that means every cartoon from Spongebob to Crayon-Shin-chan. You could say that is a concept "miising " form Japan, but there IS no such difference, you have ADDITIONAL concepts when you refuse to credit TMNT 1987 as "anime" when it's animated by TOEI. If a Japanese person asks why is THIS one "anime " and THAT one "cartoon", your only real answer is segregation, so that only directors would be credited but not underpaid TOEI animators. Akira Kurosawa came up with everything about Cowboys and high noon sword duels, which were lazily copypasted to some vagrant farmers from American settler history. It'sa direct conversion of The seven Saumrai into "how can we make NOBLE CLASS RONIN in Americans", and you picked up cowherds, with none of the connotation of lost status and redemption, which is a classic theme from chivalry. In USA you just wash all that subtext away and into the Smith & Wesson Man who owns a gun.

​@@sboinkthelegday3892 Is that why nearly every language needs to use English for some words and descriptors? Anyways, Anime is a Japanese abbreviation of animation. The actual modern definition is "animation originating from Japan" or "a style of Japanese film and television animation". The word Anime refers specifically to Japanese animation.

​@@sboinkthelegday3892 In post-WWII Japan, at a time when his homeland was being occupied by the United States, Kurosawa chose to look toward and embrace certain Western ideologies of filmmaking. He used Shakespeare and American pulp novels as source material and embraced Hollywood narrative styles and filmmaking techniques. In turn, his works inspired some of the great works of western film. Another major influence on Kurosawa was his elder brother, Heigo, who was addicted to the novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Maksim Gorky. Additionally, he introduced Akira to Western art and the auteur cinema of Fritz Lang, John Ford, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Sergei Eisenstein. From Dostoyevsky, Kurosawa inherited the concept of redemption. Gorky was also a significant influence. Kurosawa penned an adaptation of his The Lower Depths, bringing to the screen Gorky’s insights into lowly human behavior born out of evil, cruelty, and poverty. Kurosawa’s early training in Western painting and kendo, both under his father’s supervision, was also instrumental in his creative life. Van Gogh’s and Gauguin’s dense, layered brushstrokes and sensitivities find their glorious way into Kurosawa’s screen images, evident in their composition, outline, and emotional vibrancy.

@@sboinkthelegday3892 ​ In post-WWII Japan, at a time when his homeland was being occupied by the United States, Kurosawa chose to look toward and embrace certain Western ideologies of filmmaking. He used Shakespeare and American pulp novels as source material and embraced Hollywood narrative styles and filmmaking techniques. In turn, his works inspired some of the great works of western film.