Congrats Colin! you shook hands with a King and an Emperor. Keep on making high quality videos with heart, you deserve the recognition!

The measure of "No Koreans allowed!" taken by Watazumi Shrine, the most historic shrine in Tsushima that dates back 1165 years, is not discriminatory against Koreans at all! This shrine has been warning Korean tourists for over 10 years. It was not just the smoking, littering of cigarette butts, and snapping back at the shrine when they were warned, but also assaults by Korean tourists that infuriated the shrine in Tsushima. It was also the urination and defecation on the shrine grounds. I want people to understand the limits of this shrine's patience.

The hotel we stayed at in Osaka had a little note saying if any bags were left over they'd bill us $50 a bag, I guess leaving luggage behind is a problem for them!

The suitcase story reminded me when I bought a new suitcase in Japan when the one I brought with me broke. The sales person told me that I am not allowed to dispose the old suitcase in Japan, I found out that depending where you are in Japan, you need to pay for bulky items/trash to be collected.

Feels like theyre slowly banning tourists from anywhere touristy..... feels counterintuitive, but i also know there are shit tourists

When Im in a try not to ban tourist from anything competition and my opponent is Japan😰 (I get their point sometimes, but I believe there are better solutions)

I think, you mistake Tsushima with Takeshima (or Dokdo or Liancour Rocks). There never has been any Korean settlement on Tsushima and it's been under Japanese sovereignity for over 1,400 years... with short and brutal occupations by the Mongols and a failed invasion by Joseon forces. And while the government of Rhee demanded the island to be handed over, after WWII, this claim was dropped and the status of Tsushima as Japanese Territory confirmed.

Alright, quit holding out, Chris. _I want to know how you got invited to the Palace for a State dinner with the Emperor and the King!_

A few years ago, Tsushima banned Mongols from their shrines, though they were fairly difficult to get to anyway

Generally, if you need a trash bin, go to a department store. Also, most train stations have bins on the inside (past the gate). And most combinis have bins as well. As for such large pieces of garbage, ask your hotel.

To the Scottish guy travelling from Australia. If you are a coffee guy, go to MacDonalds McCafe in Japan to get a flat white or the closest thing to an Australian coffee.

I always wanted to visit Sapporo since I was a kid back in the 60's when the Winter Olympics were held there , seemed impossibly exotic back then in Black and White on TV and crackly commentry from David Vine , never managed it . I remember the BBC intro music well even today

I was one of those people that had planned a trip to Japan and Korea for May 2020 and of course we had to cancel. Watching videos kept me entertained and gave us ideas on where to travel. We are thinking about 2025 now.

Honestly, if they feel the need to do this, it means that there’s a problem that is bad enough that this became in necessity. I think Japan’s next step is to institute a visa system that requires tourists to state whether or not they plan on participating in any streaming activities and if so, that means they have to get a business visa. If you have a social media channel that is monetized, they would require you to declare that and in order to be allowed to stream you would need to get a visa that allows you to do so. I honestly believe the visa process would be the best bet they could add an education module to it that teaches people what is expected when they come to Japan and what is not acceptable. It’s sad that it has to go that route, but I don’t know what else they’re gonna do. They need tourism. Their economy is in the dumps.

18:42 Now we just wait for the inevitable duel of England's Top-Japan-enthusiast Radio-DJ Pete vs American's Theater-kid Cult-voice-actor Pete

I love how quickly Chris switches from "Oh God not again with the Coolish" to "What in the world?" the moment the word alcohol is uttered 😆

Host of Tsushima: a lone japanese politician must defend the island's cultural artifacts from invading foreign tourists

OMG he talk's finaly about Tsushima. Respect mate i text you all the time !! best game

I'm fairly certain that Nintendo tried to shut down the go cart thing because it was called "Mari Car" and tourists thought it was officially put on by them.

Love the episode as usual! Just to point out something, the majority sentiment in Korea is that the island of Tsushima is a territory of Japan (as its current geographical sovereignty lies with Japan). On a separate note though, while there were definitely rude and frankly idiotic Korean tourists (as majority of tourists to Tsushima are Korean as Pete mentioned) this type of blantant hatred towards a targeted group of people should never be acceptable. This issue also made the news in Korea as well.

Im with you on the shorts part. ngl sometimes i get stuck a while but i try to lean more towards just starting Anki instead and learning some Japanese. Even tho i might not have any use for it, it just feels better.

Note on the Question at 15:10, TheSpiffingBrit just did a vid on this. TL;DR is that 5-12 hours vids make BANK compared to shorter vids and tossing up a stream is the absolute cheapest and easiest way to create said 5-12 hour vid. As always, blame the YT Algo. It is what feeds the creator at the end of the day and most will tie themselves into whatever knot that it demands of them.

Can't wait for (I assume) next episode. Chris just went to Buckingham Palace for a party with Charlie and the Japanese Prime Minister

If the Japan travel groups I’m in on FB, everyone say that the gocarts is a MUST. It’s crazy to me. Hated them when I lived in Tokyo too 😅

I think it’s pretty cool that you can freely visit shrines. I have no problem with them being quick on the trigger with banning people. Not the exact equivalent but I can’t imagine people using marae as a tourist attraction for people just to walk around freely here in NZ.

My last trip to Japan I hiked the Nakasendo so I purchased Bear Spray and I wanted to make some tea on the way so I had a small camp stove. Long story short I didn't meet any bears and didn't use all the fuel. So I over thought it should I just leave these items in my room? Would the staff think something shady was going on if I just left in the room? I just ended up going to reception with my limited Japanese and they gladly took the bear spray and butane cannister.

For Pete, the only place I've seen the import Suntory Chu Hi for sale in the UK so far is branches of Yo Sushi, about £6 per can though.

I've seen that Go-Kart crash video Chris, its nuts that they're still allowed to go on the roads in amongst the traffic.

There are some “long shorts” which are actually quite good and where you can learn smth, for example a quick recipe or crafting, a hairdo etc. But these shorts are obviously not the majority.

😅❤your videos. Keep them coming 🎉

The fear of a staff member thinking I had forgotten it and proceeding to hunt me down over several days and handing me back my "binned" suitcase would prevent me from doing that. xD

Suntory is selling '-196 (minus one-nine-six)' in Germany now. I don't know if that is the same as Strong Zero. 10% alc. It tastes like nail polish

I imagine the Strong Zero is the same but it tastes worse due to the act of drinking it under the glorious grey skies of a damp and depressing UK rather than Japan where there is sun.

10:00 When I heard of the dancing and music, I was thinking could it be someone filming shorts for social media. But all of the japan reactions towards tourist recently reminded me of when an old person have to react to a youthful trend.. and thinking "Back.. in my day.."

The list of banned things in Japan is getting way too long now.. Will there be anything left when I go next year? 😂😂

there's an amazing all-you-can-eat sukiyaki restaurant above an arcade next to the godzilla theater. It was the best restaurant we ate at in Shinjuku.

Rule of thumb for me regarding historical sensitive areas, hotspots and topics - the fact that it happened cannot be used as an excuse for someone to act like a dickhead. Then again, for this particular case, banning people based on nationality is just racism, pure and simple. It's not justifiable, and should not be allowed. If they wanna ban all tourists, that'd be more understandable. But you know, these spats and problems.... I already predicted it'd happen ages ago, and it'll continue happening for the foreseeable future. There are simply too many places in Japan that are completely unprepared for the tourism influx that is happening right now. To me it feels that it's not only that government and people are overly optimistic about it - sometimes it gets down to plain ignorance. People just don't know how bad things can go when you have a massive influx of people from other cultures coming around. Like Chris said many times already, it's not that tourists are evil. It's that at those volumes, even if a fraction of a percent do some sh*t there, it's gonna look bad as a whole. Japanese people are just too used to... Japanese people and tourists. People who shares their values, their unwritten rules, their understanding of cultural norms. This situation is a train in a collision course to a wall. Anyways, next topic... short form videos are poised to become bigger, for two major factors - first, they are relatively new. In comparison to others I mean. Second, it's a psychological thing, in the same line as clickbait. It's attention grabbing, and a lot of it is entertainment without content, so it's extremely easy to consume. Much like social media did in the past, the key factor is being very accessible. It will get more people because you just have to click the app icon and it conveniently start throwing things at your face without any extra effort. Thing is - just because people like it, doesn't mean it's a good thing. Now, personally, I don't really have a problem with it being entertainment for entertainment's sake. Even though I don't like short form stuff like TikTok, KZfaq Shorts, and didn't like Vine when it first came about (remember that?), I'm also not against people consuming moderately entertainment for entertainment's sake. I also do plenty of that. But I do have a personal preference to stuff that is not this limited. For instance, I also don't like microblogging. And I'm specifically saying microblogging because I hate Twitter/X these days for entirely other reasons. I just don't like when these things take over the place of others. For instance, I'm fine with social media as long as it's not used as source of news. Once it became a source of news for lots of people, I just abandoned it all. It was fine to me until it became that. I used it when it was a place to share photos and status with family and friends. Once all the other crap came crashing in, with algorithms only reinforcing the bad usage of it, and then all the data collection schemes... that's when it ceased to be "social media" for me. It's now just a collective garbage dump. I dunno enough to talk about TikTok and KZfaq Shorts, but for instance, if it's about silly entertainment like car pool, people dancing to music, pet videos, and stuff like that, it's fine. Problem is when stuff like the stupid dangerous challenges, propaganda, misinformation and all the other crap comes around and take over. Even bigger problem is when you get people who gets all the information in their lives from those. No one will ever convince me that social media and short form is the place to get serious information from. I really fear for future generations and kids who are growing up consuming content only from those platforms. It's dangerously addictive, it gives a very narrowminded view on life, and it's too often not a good influence on anyone. It's also completely unregulated and the perfect place to breed scammers, opportunists and criminals. I'm particularly averse to algorithmic recommendation on anything. Doesn't matter if it's TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, or KZfaq itself. They all don't have any measure of reasonability in what they are throwing at people, and this is a major problematic component of social networks in general today. They are designed for engagement and advertisement revenue, and have absolutely zero consideration on the mental health and benefits to those consuming it. It's an algorithm that exploits the worst tendencies in people to show them the worst possible content so people get addicted to it. So I personally stay far far faaar away from "Trending" pages, and systems that throw whatever they think is engaging at you non-stop.

Ghost of Tsushima's been on my radar, but Chris's ringing endorsement has me sold

One huge reason I have wanted to travel to Japan was to visit Kyoto an see Geisha. One Thing that had held me back from travel was fear of not knowing all the etiquette within the country. Banning tourists from certain areas as well as only Japanese speakers in some restaurants starts adding up to uncomfortable environment for traveling. Not a good look. Sad to hear all this

Chris I understand your dislike of shorts. I mostly watch comedy ones However I do know several creators use them like advertisements for the main content. Maybe you could try sticking the podcast cold opens or similar and something like 'To hear more hear more from Chris and Pete check out the abroad in Japan podcast' See if they help drive more viewership.

As an Australian I love that Chris turned Aussie just to offer alcohol lmao

Can you imagine going on a trip there with your children only to have to explain to them that you cant go in because someone that looks like them once littered there?

Not sure how theyre going to ban Koreans. How are the going to determine someone is korean and hot Chinese or whatever?

GoNorth Japan sums it up quite nice on his channel.

Coment about shorts is so true.

for what it counts I like the podcast it's chill here.

Chris either needs to drink more water (sounds like dry mouth ) or take allergy meds(If the cats are bothering his allergies)

Ghost of Tsushima is not just a game but also piece of art. One of the best games I've played

Končno!!!!👌

Awesome job Chris with the podcast drop a like .

I had to unsubscribe from Joey's second channel bc of the shorts that I was being bombarded with. Feel like it didn't opposite effect of getting more views

Pent up post-pandemic energy making tourists act like idiots, which REALLY doesn't work with Japan's strict rule based society. You never really heard about Japan turning hostile on tourists like this before 2020. Then again, the one thing the Japanese have always liked more than tourist money is when the tourist leaves and goes home.

So frustrating that the criminally stupid ruin everything for everyone else

-They do not come to pray. -They bring beer, snacks and food, drink and eat here and there, and throw trash everywhere. -They smoke and throw away cigarette butts even if the sign says no smoking. -They make loud and strange noises and even dance. -They urinate and even defecate on shrine grounds. -They get violent when shrine officials warn Korean tourists of their bad manners. -They scribble in Korean on other people's wish boards hanging in there. "D in an earthquake," "Sunk in a tsunami," "May another tsunami come," "Tsushima is our territory," and "Conquer Japan" Tourists from other countries do not do this.

When my suitcase broke i said trash gomi. Receptionist said give it to them and they throw it away,

"I do like a bit of booze here and there." - any englishman ever

Given the current situation, Japan should avoid any possible way to improve relations with South Korea without further damaging them.

Love hearing the British talk about other people raising a fuss in public

I get some tourists can be idiots, but you cant ban them just because they're from a country you don't like.

But they need to visit all shrines to unlock the final outfit!

Ran into the broken suitcase disposal scenario on my last trip to Japan. We opted for the 'abandon in a coin locker' solution 😅

What do you mean by you don't know where to stand on this? Are you not sure if banning a specific nationality of people from going to a place is a bad thing?

Today I found out that british Pete and I are the same age. '81 babies unite!

'Nun' of that talk, Pete....

Why do one type of tourists ruin it for all the people who are respectful and just want to see something beautiful?

"He's just having a tab and he is in the carpark..." If this area is of importance (cultural, religious etc) to the Japanese then it should be respected as such, and sure, it's one guy having a cigarette in the carpark but 100 - 200 people later having a smoke in the carpark who gets to clean up all those cigarette butts? not those that left it there. But banning tourists on the basis of ethnicity is not the way to go either.

How will they each other apart. Lol!

I would like to hear Pete say "nya" or "UwU" that is my question.

I'm a litter picker at a nature reserve, there are always cigarette stubs and I loathe them. I disagree Pete, you want to smoke? Don't f up the world for everyone else

Awesome to hear you played ghost of tsushima. amazing game. get the dlc if you havent!

Lord Colin of Maidstone ❤❤❤

Really? Back in 06-2011 chew hi (unless I’m thinking of a different drink was like 4-6%

I've been a fan for many, many years, but as a person who faces discrimination in their own country, its a bit of a shame to see Chris work so hard to avoid flat out saying "banning a race/ethnicity of people from any place is wrong". Thank you Pete for saying it explicitly. Chris "I don't know where to stand on this" Broad worries me a bit.

Disposing of a suitcase in Japan is easy,... do what Japanese do,... go out to a vacant lot in the suburbs ... everyone does this if they think no one is looking ...

Ambassador Chris Broad!

Korean-Japanese & Korean-Americans can and should make certain their Nationality is known and of course ignore said sign.

wait, they banned a race of people from visiting? ....isn't that horrible?

Pretty grim that the relationship between Korea and Japan still has the old animosity. Lots of baggage there. Nonetheless, it’s just wrong to inflict disrespect while demanding the same for yourself-especially at a culturally sensitive site. Imagine the same behavior happening in Dubai. Right? How would you imagine that playing out? I’ve seen less receive a far worse response there.

Another week another ban.

Hi Chris, I have a question. Or more of a short essay perhaps hehe. What did you mean with the "East Asia. There's all sorts of things going on, all sorts of discrimination from all countries and some mortifying conversations I've had" comment? Then Pete replying "fear of the other" and Chris again: "I don't really know where to stand on this really other than it's unfortunate innit." I think it's very important to be clear what all of this is about than just "countries/people hating on each other". A lot of East Asian countries were colonized/brutally treated/t*rtured/k*lled (up to 30 million people were k*lled) by the Japanese during WW 2 and earlier, and there are still people living now that experienced those times. Japan never apologized nor did some kind of reparation to their victims and Japanese kids don't even learn about it in school (we don't either in the West barely when talking about WW2 btw). Japanese politicians/government don't recognize what they did either, they even give praise to war criminals and even today there's a lot of racisim against Korean/Chinese, and not to speak about S-E Asian people. Of course what a repressive government and society like China is doing sometimes against Japan for weird reasons (like for example not buying fish after the Hiroshima water got released into the ocean) is just stupid. But China does similar things to Korea as well (for example boycotting Korean products after they were to install THAAD). You should be able to talk about things in a more nuanced fashion without saying that "its unfortunate" and that you don't know where to stand on this and that "everyone just hates each other", because in that way you miss a lot of things that maybe you should condemn or care about. It's easy, you can both criticize the Chinese dictatorship and their policies, as well as condemn Japan for its behavior in regards to the war crimes etc. that it has committed before, as well as racism in Japan. I'm not saying it's okay to wreck havoc on a temple because of this (but maybe it could be if war criminals were buried and still celebrated there) but please do more research on East Asian and S-E history, or be more clear about what you mean.

"one rule for the Welsh" 😄

I don't mind the go karts at all. I think it's neat when they drive by.

Shorts are only good for clips

i absolutely agree with chris about live streaming & shorts - they're both sh!t

I also don't like shorts. You don't actually get any real content. 10-30 minute videos are the best, van be longer depending on what the video is.

Hola

So the UK gets the Utah version of Japanese booze then 😂

Podcast 13 of asking Christ to speedrun nearly every main temple in Tokyo !!

Japan seriously needs to invest in some bins.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.

Bloody Welsh 😂

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that absolutley isnt about tourists😂 its about the japanese using any excuse they can to discriminate against koreans.

Please, dont cause shit for us who are about to visit Japan

It really bothers me that Chris supports Donald trump. I thought he was a decent human being

strong zero is an excellence breakfast beverage

Is the Wedding already planned and for where and for when? 🤍🥂