Thank you! I was fun for me too!! I hope you guys will have a good Life in Japan as you do now!

Hi Rutter family, nice interview. I'm hoping you'll discuss some challenges of your missionary work in Japan in your channel. Thank you 😊

Guys, it was so surprising to know that you used to live in Brazil! I don't know why, I always feel kind of strange when people choose here to raise kids, so it was interesting to know. Hope you guys do well in Japan!

Amei a história de vocês, e fico feliz que tenha escolhido o Brazil e viveram 7 anos aqui, o mais engraçado é que agora estão morando no Japão, e eu falo japonês, então a gente fala os mesmos idiomas ww

I loved your Family! Thank you for this interview. Greetings from Germany 👨‍👩‍👦👍😁😀🙏

Not really they are living going to be discriminated against/ are being discriminated against a lot

@@phantom8699 That is not always the case.

@@phantom8699 well aren't you the positive thinker. what makes your brain work like that i wonder?

Don't forget the religious indoctrination though. They're probably expected to believe a bunch of stuff without questioning it.

@@phantom8699 be positive

I fully agree that would be so interesting ! Especially as Japan has hundreds and hundreds of different faiths...

Yes I agree with this, I would love to see about Christianity in Japan as well as others.

Yeah I want to hear about Shintoism as well

And Taoism!

Do Catholicism!

I'm way more amazed that they're still comfortable in English. I'm Chinese-American myself, as is my husband, and I grew up in an area with a high (50%) immigrant population. Most of my fellow 1.5 generation kids become way more fluent in English than in their first language within a couple of years of their arrival.

Takashii I found your videos one day and I have enjoyed watching your interviews. I then found life in Japan and I have so enjoyed their videos as well. I only wanted to learn Spanish for so long but now I want to learn Japanese as well. Also I really enjoyed watching the original sasuke ( ninja warrior ) and I thought it would be fun to be able to understand it.

Takashi my wife and I really enjoy watching your videos! We are an international couple living in Tokyo. And we also watched Life in Japan, they have some great videos too! Thank you to you and Life in Japan for making great videos for us!

absolutely fascinating

I especially love this one and but all your videos are great. I am going to message you on Instagram with a question 🙂

めっちゃくちゃ怪しいt外国の家族です。協会のため日本にいるのはものすごくレッドフラッゴです。伝道や、シンキョウ、カルトです！日常生活の家族とは完全にないです

U r absolutely right.

They will be even more thankful they had this opportunity once they are mature adults, not everyone gets to live that life.

Oh interesting. You lived in Jeddah, Arabia. That weird because most Europeans live in eastern region. Not west coast or capital.

it’s nostalgic because it reminds us of a time when it was safe for kids to play at a park without their parents hovering around. even watching our children at the park we have to worry about creepy homeless junkies and being in the background of a gangland shooting. the number of foreigners in japan is tiny. it is NOT a multicultural society, so it enjoys the cohesion and civility that comes from a sense of collective family identity. also their genetic profile is excellent and codes for foresight, discipline and self-control

Ha ha! We do often have to make them to do their extra English and Japanese practice. That's probably normal for all kids, I would think.

except America..where school shooting happens on a daily basis.

The Opposites Attract

Brazil has the largest population of Japanese people than any other country except Japan.

Brazil has I believe the second most (correct me if I am wrong) population for people of Japanese descent. Though, alot of them have been there for generations and not uncommonly mixed as well. I have met a third gen Brazilian of Japanese descent, and he was pretty much culturally Brazilian lol.

@@timsohn7057 yeah, the largest Japanese community outside Japan is in Brazil but mostly in Sao Paulo, it is a continental massive country and the behave(of Brazilians) and experience you might have in Brazil and Brazilians will really depends on where you live, and whom you hang out with. A few Japanese descendants have some Japanese based roots

@@vitanuevo Thanks for the info. Learned alot

Yep, the kind you will see on the news one day...

@@brian728 If you keep your mouth shut, you won't put your foot in it

100% Mormon vibes lmao cringe

@@brian728 💀💀💀💀

@@brian728 you right though 💀

Yeah. Wish my mother was this nice lol

サラちゃんとジョシュアくんはほとんど訛りがなかったはず。 生まれてほとんど日本で過ごしてるからね。

I was raised trilingually and learned English in school. I personally feel like I receive and process small clues and information faster than the average. I often notice myself noticing stuff that others seem to overlook.

@@DreamOfFlying Interesting isn't it!!

@@BelloBudo007 definitely is!

I, too, before the war started in my country, wanted to live abroad for some time, and now I have such an opportunity, but rather my move was forced, however, I am in better economic conditions than many of my compatriots, so I could lead an interesting and full life, if not for a few big "BUT". Having moved to another country without knowing the local language, and with poor English, I lost all my friends, I sit at home for many days in a row, and in fact I am in complete social isolation. The only thing that has changed for the better in my life is perhaps the fact that I began to travel more, for example, I went to the Czech Republic on weekends, but with my modesty, and as a result, poor communication skills, as well as poor knowledge of English, any trips cost me a huge amount of nerves! For me personally, living abroad is scary, even though people are kind to me. I would really like to go back home, but it looks like I'm stuck abroad for a long time.

@@user-xy2gf5kb3h I don't get it. Where are you from? I live abroad in a country that's in war. Not only that, my home country is going through countless economic crisis that I cannot afford a lot of stuff here anymore, so yeah, living abroad is scary.

@@nullbeyondo I'm from Ukraine. I wrote this comment more than 7 months ago, and during this time I began to look at things more positively, I also significantly improved my knowledge of the local language and no longer experience big problems. It also happened that tomorrow I will go home for a week, to be honest, I did not think that I would ever be able to come to my house. In the spring, the fighting took place less than 40 kilometers from it, and this is the radius of reach of rocket artillery fire. It was an absolutely insane massacre! The city was attacked by a group from several directions with two thousand units of equipment and a group of many thousands. Aviation, tanks, artillery, missiles were massively used, there were many close battles with the use of small arms. Everything was like in the Second World War, now the north suburbs near my city are in ruins, but it was thanks to their sacrifice that the capital was saved.

oh wow that's awesome. I want to learn japanese and I want to go back to japan and have better time.

I'm curious too!

My advice is to learn how to read and write, not simply identify words to slot into blanks. You can't expect to find work in Japan outside of the English teaching field if you're functionally illiterate. You need to learn how to write and not simply at an elementary school level but at a native speaker adult level. Imagine applying for a job in North America if you couldn't read and write English.

@@gordonbgraham There are so many Hispanics that don't read, speak or write English and they live in America.

@@Mwoods2272 and because they can’t read, write or speak English they are in low paying labor jobs or they work exclusively for a company in which Spanish is the discourse of communication. Japanese is the discourse of communication in Japan.