Anyone who is not a complete idiot already knows that interviewing half a dozen people is not statistically relevant in determining the general mindset of a group consisting of tens of millions of people. But frankly who cares what idiots think anyway. That being said however even you cannot know what the average Japanese person thinks or what constitutes a “real” Japanese person. You are just giving your personal opinion just as those other people are giving theirs. So just as people should not assume that these people’s opinions in the interviews represent the average Japanese person, we should also not assume that what you think represents what average Japanese person thinks. The truth is all any of us can know about our fellow countryman is based on our own personal experiences with the people we interact with on a regular basis in our own circles and often what we believe about our people and culture is based on what we wish to believe. The point is, just because the people being interviewed have a different reality from your own does not make them wrong. Their reality is their reality and yours is yours. Still, I know exactly how you feel. For example, when I lived in Tokyo in the 80’s and 90’s I was kind of embarrassed by the disgusting and ignorant behavior of some of the American military personnel and I was worried that this would reflect badly on all Americans. I no longer worry about that stuff though. People are going to think what they are going to think and there is no point worrying about it. Of course, what I was worried about was actual bad behavior and you are simply worried about Japanese people publicly expressing opinions that differ from your own. Anyway, just consider yourself lucky that they are not doing those videos in which they try to make everyone look stupid. I’m talking about those videos in which they ask Americans general knowledge questions and then make us all look stupid by only showing the stupidest answers. And naturally its very irksome knowing that some viewers are going to be so lacking in intelligence that they will think this handful of stupid people is somehow representative of the entire population. Anyway, anyone can forget the information they memorized in school, but it takes a truly monumental idiot to think that half a dozen random people are representative of several hundred million people. So be angry with the audience for making their wild assumptions and not with the interviewer or the interviewees.

Until that day comes, you’ll be a BS youtuber. No offence.

Is Japan a western vassal state of USA? are they Christianising Japanese cultures, traditions and civilization out of existence?

How many body count you & your hasband then you marriage

How many body count you & your hasband then you marriage

Haha it's wild.

French are victim of the same stereotype about cheating than japan. It's really sad people dont try to learn

Don't forget the BBC gene. 😼

True dat preach brother

🥺🤗🤗🤗

Its honestly these interviewers selling out the country for clicks by cherry picking opinions and flat out lying too. Beyond beating the dead horse already

I mean, that part is not necessarily wrong, though. It just goes to show that Japanese are PEOPLE as well, and some of them would date a foreigner and have preferences for them.

よくご存知で。 再生数稼げるからね😊

@@alexanderatanasov5837 Especially since majority will date outside race but marry their own in their own countries.

Doesn't make them a weeb to know that there are dating preferences outside of their born country stupid. What an incredibly dumb comment.

i started feeling that it was very weird too. Its important to notice that any editing can distort someone's answer

​@@yellowcat-fk5tm Definitely. Viewers need to understand that the interviewees are just a small portion of Japanese people. It doesn't help that many interviewers are asking young people on the streets clubbing at night; these people will tend to have 'wilder' answers. It's just feeding into the 'weird Japan' image that a lot of people already have.

I know right? Same, it's so stupid because my boyfriend literally is the most loyal and caring person who never even thought about being with someone else. I literally met tons of men in my own country who cheat and are okay with cheating while literally none of my Japanese friends would ever even consider that option. It's so annoying having to listen to the same comments from people who know nothing about it and just do nothing but watch street interviews all day.

While I agree about the interviews obscuring people's opinions, I notice that there are just too many people in the comments that WANT to see the worst in Japan. They actually dismiss any positive thing someone says as, "Well, that's just this person in particular"; "This foreigner is just a weeb"; or "No, they must be lying". Not to mention the bias and ignorance towards either their own or any other country, as if the sins committed by Japanese are somehow worse than other countries. Is it irresponsible for the interviews to only put the "negative" reactions? Yes, but unfortunately, people are going to make Japan out to be whatever devil they want it to be.

people on social media be like: "I know everything about Japan! Because a few Japanese people on KZfaq said so! So all Japanese must be like this and it is normal in Japan! I've never been to Japan, and I've never talked to a Japanese person, tho." Frankly, I find the people who seem to pretend to be experts on Japan based on social media alone to be more annoying than weebs. Many weebs know they're joking around, and overly fantasizing about Japan won't have that much of an impact. However, those who pretend to be Japan experts on social media think they are right and spread fake news and stereotypes about Japan, which is quite malicious.

What's funny is they think we're on the other side from the West. We're wild East. You literally colonized both Japan and South Korea!

Most of the people who make these interview videos are not Westerners. And what’s interesting is that in those interview videos where the topic involves opinions about foreigners, if Japanese express positive views on the West, the comment section of the video will think that these Japanese are ignorant and try to lead and belittle Westerners. When it comes to videos on topics such as infidelity, the hypocrites in the comment area will stand on the moral high ground and belittle the Japanese. And here I see another person trying to lead the opposite, such as you lmao.​@@user-jd4qz3ky5f

​@@user-jd4qz3ky5fMost of the people who make these interview videos are not Westerners. And what’s interesting is that in those interview videos where the topic involves opinions about foreigners, when Japanese express positive opinions about Westerners, the comment section of the video accuse the Japanese of being ignorant and trying to belittle Westerners. When it comes to videos on topics such as cheating, the hypocrites in the comment use these pre-selected examples to generalize and belittle the Japanese. And here I see another person trying to create confrontation, such as you.

⁠​⁠@@user-HtceaboStreet interviews here in USA is worst. The uploader goes to where the clubs are. Always interview drunk very ‘classy’ college students.

KZfaq street interviews (or just regular interviews) from anywhere are all like this, if anything Japan ones are very tame and somewhat positive compared to Western ones. I can understand being frustrated but don't be a snowflake and cry unfairness. If people have poor media literacy and believe what they see and read on the internet without questioning then it's their problem. The attention economy demands cherrypicked and heavily curated "fake" content, that's what sells. Do something about the system, don't blame the players, and grow yourself thick skin since this isn't going away any time soon.

what do you think of cheating foreigners who are also into anime?

@@IRGhost0 that are black*

@elitealice And get it on with everyone.

Ironic you would say this when this trick sells dating advice 😂

@@ExpertContrarian respect her?

Alright, enough stating the obvious positives of Japan ad nauseum. time to elaborate on the dark side of Japan. There's no one better to ask than you.

​@@BxBxProductionsI think the best way is to find out yourself. Because people tend to over visualize things and tend to be innacurate due to their limited knowledge. It's like a frog who is always in a well imagining how sea is like. It will only give you "Well yes but actually no" kind of thing. In the worst case, it will only build bad prejudice towards Japan.

Yes, finally some one only with a based take, based on reality. I'm half Japanese, lived there for 5 years. I'm sick to death of seeing Japan related videos and people either seeing Japan with rose tinted glasses or the complete 180. It is a country like every other

Wait are you saying Japanese are just humans?!?! This is unacceptable!

well just go to any red light district in any city in any country you can find the dark stuff and bad stuff....its the same in every culture and country the only different is maybe the degree of the badness.@@BxBxProductions

But would they date a foreginer?

@@tintin4362 *explodes 💥

Exactly its so dumb🤦🏾‍♂️

@@Sweat404 lol

The same sort of thing happens everywhere, and not just with "KZfaqrs." Even "real" news outlets will cherry-pick responses for the ones that will excite their audience, whether by making them nod in agreement or by outraging them. If they don't at least present the overall results of their "casual poll," what they're doing is not sharing reliable/useful information, but pandering.

"Social" studies are already hard to take seriously over the basics of samples, let alone these cringey "interviews"

@@denkerbosu3551 couldn’t agree more. But hey whatever gets them their view count up.

Research what even? Lmao that cheating actually is big in Japan?

Also bear in mind there are certain kinds of people happy to be interviewed and certain kinds of people who never ever would consent to an interview in their life. They don't even have to do any dodgy things. It's hard enough to find people who actually consent and these people are the only one that are and can be represented. So you can wander around for hours and get a hand full of of interviews with the wildest answers and that's all you have because everyone else just doesn't want to be filmed and interviewed.

@@xYonowaaru agreed it's selection bias, but even with randomized sampling, my professor said almost all surveys arent taken seriously in academia

Thank you. I really wish more people understood this. I do feel Japan and Korea get it a lot worse simply because those countries are seen as a sort of escapism to people for what ever strange reason.

​@@charaoki "for whatever strange reason"- it's because of japanese and Korean media, specifically anime and kpop, let's be real here. Japan and Korea are idolized as happy, organized, polite, and technologically advanced countries by a lot of people, especially weebs and western kpop stans who talk about wishing to move there one day, but they don't seem to understand that Japan and Korea, like many other countries, also have flaws like how they have high rates of school bullying, high rates of suicides, people are overworked there, people are lonely there, people can be racist there, people still commit heinous crimes there, and they also have a big problem with perverts and stalkers in their countries, which ironically idols are subjected to the most.

I'm not Columbian but had to do some research about Bogota (I forgotten how to do the tilde in keyboard) and it fuels my anger that the first videos that pop up if you just type Bogota, is a bunch of clickbaity "HOW TO FIND GIRLS IN BOGOTA'S RED LIGHT DISTRICT" "A LOOK INSIDE BOGOTA'S RED LIGHT DISTRICT" like come tf on.....

I'm from Hong Kong and I am FRUSTRATED by your countrymen (and women) disregarding our social norms. They support the wrong things in our society and consider respectable behaviour as stupid and uneducated. I am not saying all of your countrymen are like this, but Reddit is like this and I have met people like this. I'm pro educated behaviours, not the freedom to be an asshat.

You are free to not watch to video. You are welcome.

@@lbaxel9122 Don’t worry yourself. I now remove these videos as soon as they pop up in my recommendations!😏

@@lbaxel9122 but other people watch the video. thats the problem

@@lbaxel9122 They are free to state their opinion on something, you are welcome.

You wrote my exact comment for me! Thanks 😊

Also my first time discovering this KZfaqr, was refreshing to see a video going against the trend of "japanese people are cheater and promiscuous"

Most of them were probably grossed out and walked off without saying anything but that doesn't make an interesting video

What is JAV?

​@@dohu2047porn vid from japan

@@dohu2047Idk

Right...not all women sexualize your kind dude, especially not Asians or Japanese. At least half of that is insecure white men that watch porn which is why there's a dedicated category for that.

@@dohu2047 japanese adult video

I understand your and her side but you are also being prejudiced ASSUMING those kind of girls in Harajuko, JAV actresses, and even Idols are "wrong" o even "disgraceful", as you've said. They are not, they are cool. You wanting to show that not everybody in Japan is like that is okay but you judging those girls that are more progressists and liberals and open minded as basically scum (that's what you are implying) is also wrong. They are cool, they are normal young people in my view. Nothing wrong with you and nothing wrong with them as well.

@@JohnnyLynnLeeYou don’t understand culture here nor you ever understand mine or where this video is coming from. Me being Filipino, I feel offended when passport bros generalise Filipino women as easy lay, submissive, and very traditionally feminine (ironic), and yet most of them congregate to Angeles city where it is the red light district which gives outsiders a very skewed view of us and my culture in general.

@@ophanimangel3143 Oh I understand! I speak Japanese and Vietnamese. And I just started Mandarin. Filipino is a language I'd like to learn in the future if I have the opportunity and I have lots of Filipino online friends, including girls. And since I'm Brazilian and you are basically the 'latinos of ASEAN" I feel very clos to your culture. And yeah, the "sexpats" are the worst. I know them. I've fought them (including physically, for offending female friends). All the problems you described are very true and I've said I understand that fact that she wants to show that not everybody in Japan is like that and they are in fact a minority, which is true. But, for instance, I have a girl friend who is a "gyaru" in Japan. She does some work as "gravure idol" from time to time. She's a good girl, a good human being. But the way she speaks is like she despises girls like my friend. I don't think it's necessary. And regarding what you've said is much like farangs in Thailand judging "Thai women" by the girls they know- 100% bar girls in Pattaya. Whose job IS to delude them and take their money. And they talk as if it was "the Thai women". I know what you are talking about.

Morality is subjective , don't presume hedonistic sexual behavior is by default inferior

@tx6723 "morality is subjective"? so it's okay to be a serial killer? it's okay to burn down orphanages? kick puppies? if you believe morality is subjective, then you believe all these things.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Japanese society is a bit sexist. That's a Japanese thing. I don't know what foreigners have to do with that. There are some countries more paternalistic than Japan but on average Western countries are less so. And Japanese women do themselves no favours by partaking in this sort of cutesy pop culture. Of course it earns them money and it creates what we call SOFT POWER for Japan. That's the other thing, if Japanese people don't want that, they must become poorer, they must stop the manga/kawai/anime BS exports and promotions of that garbage. And life will get worse for you. Chinese and Indians will eat your lunch in terms of the global economy.

The true culture? What would that be? Did you know Okinawa hates Japanese people? Is that the culture you speak of?

It’s impossible to get a true reflection so it doesn’t really matter

But how the ntr is like the most famous genre in any adult media either video or comic? Ive seen alot of crazy plot in either manga, animated, or live action about cheating/ntr. Like why did they make alot of things about ntr?

@@AgeraRS7 I mean you could literally say the same about the west and por* in general, cuckolding genre has been around for a long time (just like the cuc* chair meme lol), henta* artists all around twitter and other platforms posts a bunch of ntr content cause weirdly enough a lot of people around the world consumes it. Also, it’s probably due to engagement farming again, ntr haters also comments on these kinds of posts, so at the end they get more views, it’s a win for them i guess xd

@@kozuta8858 he hates his own country and his fellow Japanese men. He's a grifter and I'm surprised no one is talking about him.

@@avI4439 yeah, i saw an interview done on him as well, and bro keeps focusing on the bad aspects of his country to farm views 💀💀. I like how SoraTheTroll messes with him by always asking him what’s it like living in Japan lmao

@@kozuta8858 who's SoraTheTroll? Would like to see her response to Taskashii the grifter.

Of course only Japan can be victims of Japanese stereotypes. There are similar narratives about lots of countries like the United States

They should not though. I would like to see how daily life is in Japan. It should be irrelevant if some answers are not considered exciting. What this sounds like with these interviews online is that the interviewers are more interested in sensationalism than anything else. If some people cheat that's fine but if some others do not that should also be included. I am trying to get a overall picture of the country not just some particular corner in some random city of Japan. Furthermore, this idea that some foreigners acted crazy or foolish and somehow that speaks for all foreigner people is completely wrong. People should have the sense to judge individuals based on their individual self. The fact that if I ever went to Japan and certain areas might be cut off to me that would not allow myself to more fully explore Japanese culture and life tarnishing my personal experience is such a turn off to me I probably will never end up going.

@@user-ok6ht5bk3e Why do you feel that if you went to Japan things would be cut off to you? Go. It's a great place, and nowhere near as expensive as people seem to believe. Much cheaper to stay in Japan than the USA, for example.

@@RevStickleback Because I have heard this is the case in some of these street interview videos especially one Japanese guy who seems to have made a living doing it. I have heard that non Japanese have been rejected from renting places simply because they are not Japanese. This even seems to apply to mixed people (people of partial Japanese descent). I have been told their are places that Japanese do not even allow foreigners to enter into Japan when they should be open to the whole general paying public.

@@user-ok6ht5bk3e It can be difficult to rent in Japan for foreigners without a big deposit or good references, but there are three million non-Japanese living there, so it's hardly impossible. And that doesn't remotely apply for tourists. Finding somewhere to stay as a tourist is easy. There are places foreigners can't enter, but the most famous of those is probably brothels, which won't be on every traveller's 'to do' list anyway. There are certain bars that aren't welcoming to locals (a very small number) but that's because they are very small bars which rely on regulars, and they don't want tourists coming in and buying one drink and staying for ages. You would have to work fairly hard to find anywhere unwelcoming.

I'm glad you enjoyed my POV 😄

and what about those japanese men in av-s from japan, whos give to girls an enema in public streets, front of hundreds of people?

hollywood's head is rich people and that rich people is satanist

hollywood's head is rich people and that rich people is satanist

hollywood's head is rich people and that rich people is satanist

Asagi is such a moron for even making this vid when I bet she does the same thing interviewing men asking the same damn thing nice hypocrisy there Asagi

Yeah, if ppl wanted actual likely true information they'd watch a documentary. I watch both documentaries and not-documentaries.

Of course, but foreign people thinks that those answers are real and that degradates and harms Japan as a country and Japanese people very badly.

​@@Mefistosteles484 free speech brother. If you want to counter interviews with bad apples make engaging interviews with good apples and compete.

that is why im am no fan of unlimited free speech. Look how divided the US are with unlimited free speech...you are either left or right and each side will lies throug the teeth without any regards to anything to make their agenda more popular. Free speech must have a limit and control. @@realkirillkokorev

Aw thanks for the lovely comment 😊

Yes. There is really something to be said about Japanese people who are quiet, polite, and law-abiding. I really respect that.

I've followed different youtubers with this issue, mostly women but some men as well. It's weird! Did these people really think they had a chance in this one sided relationship when the youtuber didn't even know who they were? Idk it's strange

Agree

Number of people, not "amount" of people, unless you are summing their masses.

True

Much appreciated😄

I'm glad my POV helps to understand our culture 😀

It is like that. Notice how all she did was complain but didn’t bring up any actual facts

@@ExpertContrarian you notice the interviews are usually in the major cities. It’s only a certain group of women and men that are like this.

@@DBlizt2k6they’re more like this then she’s pretending because she has money to be lost if too many men become disillusioned with getting a Japanese gf. It’s her whole shtick to sell dating advice classes.

@@ExpertContrarian do you live in Japan? Again inside major cities like Tokyo it’s understandable that these things happen. Japan isn’t isolated from people cheating, but in other parts of Japan I am sure this isn’t the case or as huge of a problem people are making it to be.

I find "Ask Japanese" channel the only honest "street interview KZfaq channel" in Japan. The answers and conversations seen on that channel seems natural and honest.

@@Mefistosteles484 I haven't watched Yuta lately but he would often debunk some of these stereotypes and discuss how anime would be so different from actual Japanese culture and how if you acted like the characters people would see it as comedic behaviour or even offensive. That Japanese Man Yuta is his channel name. I checked and it seems he focuses on language learning right now but some of the older videos have street interviews and discussions on topics that were in the news.

I love Cathycat! ❤

@@annealcantara6952same!

I'm glad you enjoy my no BS format 🤗

Hahaha. Thank you 🙏🏻

Check out the anime Yubisaki To Renren if you're looking for tons of good immersion opportunities. it's about a deaf girl who has a harem of hot boys. very wholesome. she communicates over text so there's tons of opportunities to practice your Japanese while watching the best Romance Anime of Winter 24.

It's always good to have a balance!

It's best not to visit. Short tourism is ok but on average it's not a foreigner friendly country. They want to be left alone, let them be left alone. The world is big. Don't become infatuated with the kawai BS.

@@peterc4082 Totally agree. And I've been living here since 1997! If I had my time again, I would NOT live in Japan.

Meshida does it for comedy… you Gotta take that into account Hes not a bad guy

Ok, what about Nobita? @@jshsvsjejed6960

It's not that it happens more often. It's just so normalized. Like people talk about it in the open like it's not something to be embarassed about.

The Japanese don't see going to bordello's as cheating, in the last five years the number of young women working that side of life has exploded.

If you actually look at the data, it happens a bit less often in Japan.

@@sunen7129 I stayed in Japan and my experience is that Japanese people do not talk about it freely. In the West (I'm from New Zealand) I would say its more common. Of course it happens but Japanese people are pretty quiet about it.

@suren What made you think it's normalized in Japan? Cause people on the street interviews say that in front of the camera? Lol

“Women I don’t like aren’t real women” that’s not how that works. You won’t find your trad waifu

Welcome back 🤗

I think going to Ryokan hotel with a private onsen bathtub would be so nice 🙂

@@AsagisLifeNoBSJapan you are welcome and thank you so much for replying. We are going to start doing some Japanese language lessons, so that we can try and communicate a bit. Although we are excited to see Tokyo we love getting away from the hustle and bustle as much as possible. Do you suggest any non touristy towns that get overlooked and would be worth the experience?

It is common place for them to cheat... majority is the men with prostitutes but lots of women with husbands that go overseas cheat too. I have friends that own a lot of prostitution businesses. It's wild when you see this nice old lady paying for that D. Prostitution is and has always been a thing for married couples. This isn't only in Japan of course. Trust me, half the people you know, most likely cheat.

But is it possible to find non cheating french? And french who want to marry nowadays ?

You're right, the French are just in open relationships except only one person from the couple knows lol

@gabiocampos people want serious long terme relationships, not necessarily a marriage, because it doesn't mean anything. But they're a lots of people who do a civic marriage. And like a say, french don't cheat more than any country, but when a french cheats people put this on the nationality 🙃

@@gabiocamposyes. Yes you can. However you'll probably have to search among more introverted french so it will make it a bit difficult.

@@MinieAnne Because of stereotypes, French=Parisian, that's what everyone thinks. Beaucoup des stereotypes influencé par les médias

Thanks! Meh, that channel is all about cute Japanese girls with sensational topics... I get that he does deeper discussion than the others though.

High-context culture? That's rife in Asian territories....

That sounds like stereotype layered upon stereotype: Applying a generalization to street interview responses based on a previous generalization about what it means for them to respond at all.

I agree with this comment. When I was in college. For half of my undergraduate years my roommates were Japanese nationals. They were good guys. However, there were many times when I thought they had an issue but refused to bring up whatever might be bothering them because somehow I suppose Japanese culture does not like to lose face? Like admitting they have an issue with something is somehow negative and should always be avoided?

But, those video were made by those who spent significant enough time to use those people for their own gain. How does aesthetics inform ethics or ethical behavior? This is a question for myself. You get the clarity or the refinement of perception only through knowledge. Does Truth interest you? The fact is, regular Japanese are not an expert on their own culture. The US seems rather an exception.

Smart move 👍🏻

Clearly he didn't know the meaning of tact.

@@BradLad56 it was a lady officer and, you´re right, she had none. She said that with a smile on her face while looking straight into my eyes. ^^

Western culture are not most racist as you think. It's also a racist bias what you say. In my country, it's no the western who are more racist

I agree. These interviewers don't care and are all about making a buck and making Asian men look bad.

That being said, like you acknowledged, the shorter style of videos that Takashi made (especially embracing the Instagram/TikTok vertical style) has definitely led to people using the flashier short style to mislead others. With Takashi there is always a clip of it as maybe a YT short or TikTok but he also releases the uncut full-length video on YT, stylistically very similar to what Yuta used to do (like to an almost problematic degree, lol, though I can't see them having beef over something like that) meanwhile this newest wave of interviewers always throws out these short out of context clips that showcase the most unnormal and therefore attention grabbing opinions out of all the people they interviewed on a given day. my rule of thumb nowadays is if more than one person appears in an interview video, run. that means they interviewed lord knows how many people and are cherry-picking replies. if there is a full length video, that's usually the opposite where it's a bit more trustworthy (although some people still very clearly stage and/or mispresent things in that format). Another thing that makes me trust people like Takashi or Yuta in particular though is the fact that there are plenty of Japanese people reacting to their content (like George from Japan etc. type reaction channels) who are Japanese and view the content critically but never seem to have and issue with the way these particular creators conduct the interviews while having voiced concern before with other people. SoraTheTroll for example is extremely vocal about mispresentation of Japan in the media and his whole livestream gimmick is that everything is completely unfiltered. Yet he, like many others, has collaborated with Takashi more than once and has stated that he likes his content.

Very true. Regardless of a country, I think one should get some sort of city/local/state/country approved license to interview and film - and must attend a class or seminar once in a while if they are youTubers. They are really disrespecting the process that many in TV industry do - getting approval from local governments and even to the stores that would be in the shot when filming.

Yeah it's so strange...

Thanks for sharing!