Love seeing John and PVG together! Thank you for sharing your experiences! Congratulations on the addition of Beastro to your family, PVG!! Having a dog is so amazing! I know your son will love growing up with him ❤ he is adorable, and Beastro is a fantastic name! My long opinion about why Japan is suddenly so popular as a tourist destination that nobody asked for: I think Japanese pop culture got more and more mainstream over the last 15-20 years. Japanese cars and technology and general emphasis on quality products have been widely embraced for a long time and created a rapport and curiosity with people. Also the peak of the Travel Channel (when it was actually travel, and not just dumb ghost hunting shows) was in the mid 2000’s when I was a kid. So I saw so many of my favorite travel channel personalities raving over their time in Japan, and the pop culture was familiar to me because it was starting to be adopted by other kids my age. I grew up watching Pokémon, sailor moon, Naruto, etc like it was any other cartoon on TV. It wasn’t something you had to seek out online or at a DVD shop. Naruto was on Cartoon Network every weekday at 4:00pm, exactly when I got home from school. I loved that show not because I was an “otaku”. It was just on my TV, and I liked it better than the other shows aimed at my age group. So I became curious about where it came from. Anthony Bourdain was my hero as a kid, and I always dreamed about visiting Japan after I saw his visits and how he enjoyed his time there. I had a really bad life/childhood, so watching the Travel Channel was an escape and gave me hope that I could see amazing things one day 🥰 I think that period of the travel channel influenced a lot of present day travel vloggers. When I was in high school KZfaq really blew up and there were travel vloggers showing Japan (especially Tokyo), and language channels making “basic survival Japanese phrases” accessible. By the time I was an adult, Japan wasn’t something totally mysterious or an unknown place entirely off my radar. I’d heard about it a lot by then! And people were talking about much more than anime. The Travel Channel and KZfaqrs talked about food, history, culture, activities, etc. So I think a lot of people around my age (right between Gen Z and millennial) grew up with a “connection” of sorts to Japan. The idea of visiting Tokyo didn’t feel any different than considering to visit Paris or London or Rome. And people a little older than me (firmly in the millennial generation) had expendable income, the desire to travel, and lots of tech jobs that would pay for their travel to Japan (and South Korea, and China, and Germany, etc). These millennials would go to Japan and tell people about it, document it on KZfaq for other people, or even bring people with them (that’s how I visited the first time). The internet really made Japan seem very accessible, and I think Japan has really leaned into promoting itself to tourists via the internet and it’s been working extremely well. I think when you moved to Japan it was not an accessible or well known place to visit. Many people who wanted to go to Japan at that point were either very curious, adventurous people like you. Or people like PVG who had a personal connection. Or some sketchy, weirdos who had a weird idea about women in Japan or idolized Otaku culture. People really only talked about niche subcultures like Otaku and Kawaii culture for a long time rather than talking about Japan as a whole, because people just didn’t know much else about Japan. Now Tokyo is on the same level of interest and accessibility as all of the other major tourist cities of the world. Obviously Japan has so many appealing and unique aspects that would get almost anyone interested in visiting! And people have discovered that it’s actually really an extremely safe place to visit, unlike many other places, which is a very big deal. With a little research on google and KZfaq anyone can feel totally confident and prepared to visit for the first time, now. It seems like there was a major, sudden shift in global interest in Japan as a tourist destination somewhere in the last 10 years (I don’t know the numbers, so I’m just going on what I’ve noticed), but I think it came from an accumulation of circumstances that happened over the last two decades 🥰

Great chat, I loved hearing other’s experience. Best part, was his live mic, and you fretting over his Starbuks’s order👍🏻. p.s. but you got to let your guests talk….

Always great to see you and Peter out & about, reminiscing, and exploring Tokyo.

I'm glad PvG kept the mic on at the Starbucks. Actually loved the dual dialogue. One serious. One not so much. 😆

I really enjoy these videos with you two talking about normal, everyday stuff. I’d like if you’d talk about the whole school uniform thing again and other regular everyday things

Great to see the chat and friendly banter between you and Peter. Have been thinking about why Japan has become so popular in recent years, as I moved to live in Japan in 1988, where I lived for many years with my Japanese husband and raised our three kids. Back then I rarely saw another gaijin. From my viewpoint it has definitely been due to social media and influencers as people can easily be armchair viewers of people’s travel vlogs. They have made travel around Japan seem easy, and accessible. Back in the day…all we really had was a well-thumbed copy of Lonely Planet! Take care and thank you again for your vlog.

Always good to see John and PVG back together. Hope to see more collaboration between u and PVG.

Even though i saw this only briefly i still liked yours collaboration😎And it’s always great to see you guys together on the stream🙂Thank you for sharing this informative ,funny and relaxing stream John & Peter🙂👍!!!

Always great to see you both together. Fun factor goes up😊

Always good to see you guys together.

I love the banter between you guys, it’s so ridiculously hilarious! 😂 The two of you have such amazing chemistry that works just so right. 👍 🇬🇧

Caught a love stream in its entirety after a few weeks John! Its always fun to enjoy PvG and your company :) so it was SUPER FUN to have the duo back at it 💯

The cafe mic section of the video was the best part!

Love your charisma and your truthful delivery , keep up the good work

Man I just got back less than a month ago and miss it so much. Really like your walking around Tokyo videos. Always fun watching you and PVG together.

Epic banter walk. Really enjoyed listening to Peter try to tell a complete story a couple times 😂

Good to see John and congrats on your 25 year stay in Japan. Good to hear it. Thanks for sharing it. ✌️

John & Peter - great combo and you are both natural communicators!!🌻

Nice friendship. Always it's nice to see and enjoy watching it too! Wish I had this kind of friendship

It was so nice to see you two together again.

Greetings John Daub, it’s nice to see PVG on your channel, his motorcycle show coverage are out of this universe. Thanks for sharing….

Love it when there's much banter between John & PvG! Please do a collabs merch between you two, John! Happi coat v.2.0 maybe?😀

I love your videos with Peter. ❤

Great to see Peter

You and Peter are Two of the Best U/Tubers in Japan.

Jinbōchō is one of my favorite place to be in Tokyo! Nice to watch you both back again! 👋🏻

Love it! The PvG & Daub show. With John playing the straight guy. 😂

So fun seeing you and Peter sharing time together and allowing us to be there vicariously. Speaking of vicarious experiences we just got back to Alaska from several weeks in Japan. When in Hiroshima we rode the Dragonfly Street Car. Just as we were about to get off Peter's voice was heard as he made reference to "The Dragonfly" ride. (If it wasn't Peter, it was a very good imposter.) In Tokyo we were "enjoying" an Imperial Palace Ground tour under the rainy skies. Later we caught your livestream at Shibuya that was filmed concurrently under the same rainy sky. That made for a "You Found Me" vicarious share as well. :)

Good to have PvG back on stream. Its been a while. Hope you doing well!

Olga and I both felt you Manjiro video was one of your best!

As we live and breathe, it is PVG and John Daub! OMG! 25 years in Japan! Wow. With you two together, shenanigans are going to ensue. Congratulations on 25 years in Japan, guys. I am totally in the Japan mindset right now, cos I am watching Tokyo Vice and Shogun. Japan TV is on 🔥 PS: You guys are looking great! Thank you for the live catchup! PS2: Hearing PVG order while John is talking...classic Peter - John interaction. 😂 Too funny! CHEESECAKE!!! Scoundrel is such a good word. 😂

I was there from the 60s until the mid 80s, and returned during the Tohoku quake/tsunami, but up north in Iwate. I wonder how different I'd find it. Would love to come home and spend some time there again. I miss being in Japan. We were in Hiroshima primarily, and school was in Tokyo (Higashi Kurume), and we cabin in Nojiri in Nagano. I still feel the same, that Japan is everything to me, but know it would be different than when I was there. Thanks for this.

Happy silver anniversary ❤

Being able to watch videos and seeing Japanese things on the internet make it easier for tourists because it takes some of the culture shock away. It’s been over 20 years since I visited for work, but I’m comfortable in surroundings like Japan.

By the way great vlog today.

Finaly PVG is back :) I don't like his solo videos much but I think your videos do profit a lot from him being there with you ! I vote for more cooperative videos with both of you :)

My wife has been in the U.S. 25 years after leaving Japan at age 30. She taught English in Japan but her goal was to come to the U.S. after spending time here as an exchange student. Today she works as a translator/interpreter. I've been trying to convince her that we leave California and move to Japan but she has no interest. We visit annually but hopefully beginning next year we can live in Japan three to six months a year avoiding the hot and humid summer months.

I think Japan has become more accessible to Americans. It's reasonably easy to get around major cities and sights.

You❤ guys Awesome Yes top Handsome Actors in jon Japan Jon 🇯🇵 Also Javisan ❤😅 We are in Tokyo SHINAGAWA we really love Cherry blossoms 🌸 always Hope you share more. Here from Okinawa and Texas🇺🇸

PVG is excited to show everyone his commercial. John interrupts him immediately and gives him sh** Come on John, give the man 30 seconds of silence and maybe try and sound supportive. This guy is your friend, right?. It would make the streams with you and him so much better.

PVG is one of John's Friends we want to see more often 🤗😎 Greetings from 🇨🇭

So natural cool.

Great time to visit Japan as the exchange rate from USD to Yen is over ¥152 to $1 and probably will continue to go higher since it has been increasing ever since January.

I always give thumbs up and a lot of time I subscribe to the channel plus I forward videos to friends if I think is interesting or put in my FB feed. I have put many videos from John in my FB feed. Forward it to people that are interested in Japan. My niece will be going for the second time to visit Japan again. She would like to teach there but it is hard to find info how to go about it. Would be nice if you would do videos with info for people that wants to move to Japan.

Where are any recent compilations with Ericsurf6? Love to see you guys together again after years. Peter as ALWAYS is FANTASTIC.

The long Japan stagflation definitely played a role in attracting more foreign tourists. Though as far as I've known ever since the early 2000s, Australians have always picked either Thailand, Hong Kong or Japan as places to visit whenever they travel to Asia. Note: I'm not old enough to judge the before-times :p. And for the winter season tourists: sometime around 2015 it became cheaper to travel to Japan and snowboard/skii there compared to staying at our local resorts (so long as you're staying for at least a week or longer). It was around that time where there were enough expats running around in popular resorts like Niseko and Hakuba all season long, so you could always find someone there to snowboard/skii with.

My interest in Japan started when I was an exchange student in highschool there ;40 years ago.Japan was all the craze back in the early eighties thanks to Shogun.Japan was doing well then too;I enjoyed some quality cultural ripeness then.❤

Are teaching positions available for seniors? Ian a country type person and would love to relocate to rural Japan?

"Are those from JC Penny?" hahah so random

Actually about the thing that Japan isn't for everyone... I love Japan and I went here like every year 2012-2019 including working holiday... Now I decided to come with a Student Visa for 2 years and I am only on my 4th day of language school but I am already frustrated a lot :/ Even though I choose a school that was supposed to focus on non asian students there are almost only Chinese (their Japanese sounds so horrible) and the school is only in Japanese (which I knew before) and I don't understand most of the stuff. even though we had an assignment test I (going to take N5) am in the same class as people taking and some even completed the N3 test already ... they speak rather good Japanese and I sit there and understand nothing. I need to learn much more and much faster then I expected which is bad as I never actively learned anything in my life it all just came to me but that doesn't seem to work with Japanese especially with the speed we are going in school ;( At the second day I was already thinking like "what am I doing here" and the only thing stopping me from giving up is that I love Japan and that I already paid school for 2 years 😂

Would love to see a photo shoot with Otahni sporting boxing gloves, and Naoya Inoue outfitted in a Dodger jersey.

On the topic of watching a channel without subscribe, I do that a lot. I'm very restrictive about who I subscribe to and still I have almost 130 channels in my subscription list. Many of those doesn't publish videos too often and some may even have stopped since many years. But I keep them in case they return someday. Still I get more videos in my subscription feed then I have time to watch and I spend way too much time on YT as it is. I'm pretty sure a long time ago that you could categorize subscriptions in folders or something like that. If I could do that today and then filter my feed based on what topic I feel like watching at the moment, I would subscribe to many more channels. Interesting videos in my feed may get pushed down too quickly and I never watch them or in best case find them much later. I know that the algorithm will suggest videos to me from channels I watch from time to time anyway, even if I don't subscribe to them.

So question: when I was there, they didn't want foreign nurses, which I am. Do they allow them at this time, or is it still the same way. I have forgotten a lot of my Japanese and would need to relearn a lot. But it would be a dream to return as a nurse. During the tsunami, up north, I was able the join the nurses in two places to help out in the shelter, but a only several times. I could have stayed in one town but my team was moving further south.

best part of the video was PVG inside Starbucks! gold!

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It’s been a long time I haven’t seen you twogether. Miss Peter 😊 and both of you twogether.

John, while I have been watching this channel, PM Kushida is addressing the US Congress. His speech seems strong (in English, no less). Great to see PvG! Get you two out on cycles again!

I miss that ambulance sound. So different from here

The area looks so much wider than I remember...

Aloha 🤙 from Honolulu!!! Now, where's Jennifer??!!!

Just me, I found it inconvenient to subscribe or add comments when watching KZfaq on preset tv like Roku, Hisense, Google etc. it’s so easy to do those things on my IPad. Unfortunately I watch most KZfaq clips only on tv.

I have never been to Japan, but I have been to the USA. Watching the videos and NHK, etc, Japan reminds me of the USA. Japan does seem to be more tourist "friendly." Probably more for economic reasons. Japan seems to be sort of stuck in the " buble burst time."

Hi John where is this in Tokyo? 😊

What area was this?

Kiki: rice is nice!

Hi John. Always enjoy a JD/PvG livestream any time any where. I'm meeting up with Brandi tomorrow before she leaves for Japan. I have something for you and Kanae. 😊

Is that Jason Vong in 4:55?

Disappointed that neither of you had cameo on Tokyo Vice.

You've probably spoken of this in the past ... but, how did you guys meet 🤔

1:09:00 😂😂😂

Welcome to the French bulldog family Peter

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau waltzes through your shot at 39:38! 🤣

Sounds like you were an ET for Aeon in Central Japan. So was I. Originally in Nagoya in 96-99 then ET from 99-2001.

Pvg keep uploading new video 📸

coffe and curry, my god.

Here's hoping we're all here to see how Japan has changed you after 50 years!

There used to be a Caucasian guy in the mid 2000s who lived in Japan. He looked a bit like his late 30s or early 40s. I can’t recall his name, but he did a review on a Canon vixia camcorder. I think his name was Hinosa?? Or something like that. Anyone remember?

I'm a blue collar worker in America without a degree and would love to work abroad in Japan. What are my choices 😆 if any

Guy looks like he got old but has the voice of a 15 year old american voice actor

Ironically I have worked in the Anim and manga industry remotely. To be able to do this, one has to understand so much cultural sub context and context and implied context. Otherwise you won't be trusted and won't even get ypur foot on the door past the simplest subsidized tasks. It dissapoints me and frankly some times angers me to see people diss anime and manga in Japan like that as if being inspired by that country's specific art form is bad. I get the type of ppl you refer to. The surface level pococron slice of life lolly obsessed or ftishising dudes and even girls. BUT that is a very small percentage that give this indistry a bad look. Esp those of us who seriously work in it and those who seriously love it for what it is beyond a superficial fantasy. There is nothing wrong with wanting to go to Japan form truly being inspired by manga and Anime. Nothing.

Hi, how a Canadian with Japan tourist visa open a bank account?⚘🙏

My first time to Shinjuku was in 82 when I was a teen. Now the place is just cheap and nasty.

I wonder if Frenchie loves sleeping with Peter's kids, wife, or him. I'd bet on the wife. P.S. John needs to adopt a cat; no rodents allowed.

and it's bad for humans, including children.

John needs to stop interrupting Peter while he's trying to tell his story. It's not very nice.