and then she'd clearly thought we we
bonded really well over this
conversation because then about three
hours later she had the confidence to
come over once again and just ask me Oh
Chris sensor what do you think about
Osama bin Laden's girlfriend and I was
like what what he talking about when I
was still jet-lagged uh how do you
respond to that as I some of in Lars
girlfriend she said oh he did very well
I didn't even know he had a girlfriend
in the sex lives of the summerlin Laden
who was dead in the top as well I find a
list of strange experiences first a
conversations last week I took part in a
live video chat answering questions from
viewers about life in Japan alongside my
good friend Regan who also lives in
Japan as well and we covered a variety
of topics from learning Japanese and
traveling around Japan as well as
personal experiences and stories of
things we've seen and done along the way
and as many of the questions and answers
are relevant to a lot of people the
original video has been edited and cut
down from 90 minutes into this video now
I guess there are two ways to watch this
video you can watch it the whole way
through or listen to it while you're
jogging through a forest tidying your
house or painting your horses or you can
go to the description box below the
video and look for the specific topic or
question that you're after and find
which point is in the video either way I
hope this video is useful to you it was
really fun to do and there'll be a live
video chat hosted on this channel on
abroad in Japan in February have a great
day
enjoy
product placement for a product that I'm
not even selling the unit cost it was
just too high
such a shame yeah now we're on yeah I
just went to McDonald's and before any
major event in my life I go to
McDonald's I buy a mega muffin and
coffee iced coffee
can't wait for the questions to roll in
on how your white monsters killing him
yes sir
the first question I saw was from Dale
Clayton and I said gate are there any
gay foreign teachers in Japan what your
thoughts on that
and I know quite a few up in the area
where there's a lot of great people who
are gay and teachers so it is possible
and they're really awesome nope there's
nothing wrong it's not like it's not a
bad thing in Japan so it's not true it's
like not view too badly so did they
mention up to their employers I don't
know not sure no IIT yeah I wouldn't
think about that problem yeah not for me
to say yeah if you're gay if you're gay
Dale don't let that hold you back just
go to Japan come to Japan everyone's
favorite question what's the strangest
thing you've seen in Japan and the
strangest thing you've experienced for
me it's not really a thing I'm like an
actual event that I saw
it's more of an all-around experience
and that is Japanese work parties I
don't know if you've ever experienced
how many of you experienced reading but
it's quite a schizophrenic experience
because the teachers at school or I work
a very reserved quiet quite serious and
then at the work PI's it's just the
opposite of that and I remember like I
often saw a teacher in the corridor the
first few weeks I started and he would
like avoid me because he was scared of
what having to use English you're
worried and then at the work PI I was
sitting down eating I just felt this
hand like calm down on my shoulder and
he's like Oh Japanese people are very
shy on land I was like oh yeah and they
would stop ply me with alcohol and just
was really drunk and like everyone even
if they weren't drunk
everyone just changed miraculous lives
such a bizarre thing there's suddenly
really confident really loud bit wacky
or fluent English magic
they could just speak English like that
and that really surprised me and then
the the really serious teachers were the
ones who were the most craziest like
some of the most Stern scary
intimidating team with really yeah we
went to karaoke and they were just like
dancing up and down on the sofa singing
my hair and I was just sat there like
literally what the [ __ ] is going on but
it was really cool and like that
experience it never surprises me it wait
always it always surprises me and I had
that just two days ago I went to a web
party and that happened so yeah work
Japanese work lies dancing the change in
people that's my situation just thing
like that level of change between person
a spree epic yep
but as soon as the party happens it's
sort of like it's this new set of rules
that you can just even in front of the
boss yeah yeah and how they address and
talk with the boss is quite different as
well yeah like that relationship that
dynamic completely changes it's yeah
it's really wit they can like insult or
say things to the boss and he'll just
refer get flight forget it disregard it
yep long way in the UK free pass owes
the boss and someone's like me all
people when they were drunk I'd be like
fired like to someone
dispose of him and then Japan that
doesn't happen yeah that's quite blue
boot hey Bray says where's your favorite
most beautiful place in Japan that is
Akita in North Japan every time I Drive
for it I shed tears of joy and that
doesn't ever happen apart from when the
petrol prices go down and yeah
Akita if you get the time or money or
freedom get up - after the scenery is
amazing it's very hilly like in Japan
usually it's quite flat that as a
mountain those flanking it's quite hilly
there's a lot of character and in the
yeah it's just I can't explain it but
it's supposed to be one the most
beautiful prefectures in Japan and it
lives up to its name
big time I guess following on from that
Kenya Sanchez says where would you like
to visit
yeah okay now we're in Hokkaido okay
right yeah I'd like to visit Hokkaido
that's like probably number one on my
list and then off that's [ __ ] open
I'm a rule them I don't know I think I
it'd be quite cool to drive to Hokkaido
it's not near
I'm a lot newer than you are but still
not in there I can't drive under the
Pacific Ocean together was that yeah no
more thinking away
have you been to Fukuoka now I'm not yet
I'm yeah I haven't done a lot of
traveling I'm terrible yeah it's got
like a really good there's a lot of
young people so it's very sort of active
fun city and it's near Busan and career
so it could be a really cool place to be
so that's like probably second and write
list it would be quite cool to even try
living there I've thought about it but
anything I regret anything I regret
since being in Japan says Devin Sidwell
yeah oh yeah not having the balls to go
out my own often mmm my live yep d of
course the first year or two when I was
here I Germany as was awful rather any
Japanese I learned I didn't have any
confidence to use so I didn't often go
out on my own why I have to went out I
didn't go out my own and my good either
very good friend he's a Canadian chat
and he goes out like four days a week
well himself yep I sure hope he's not
watching it no but I'm on the executive
breads what interested me now like I
used to go out and it might be a bit of
a Billy no-mates character big help and
now all that the whole city knows who he
is he can walk down the street oh this
is the the filler I'm it right yeah you
live there Stephen it's not like Steve
oh yes Stephen goes down and he walks
down the block downtown areas like oh
yeah and that's because he just he's
been to every bar in town got drunk with
everyone some karaoke and his friends
are on and he gets invited closer to
cool stuff and also big plus his
Japanese is really good as well or his
confidence and ability to speak Japanese
is like pretty good so I guess I should
try and do that but yeah I don't think
the Japanese has to be good I mean the
people that I've met out so Japanese
people coming to hang out with us and
not the people that can speak the
English the best they're like the most
fun that we want to hang out with are
just the ones that talk lots and have a
good time yeah exactly and ya know I
mean like that I guess so I guess that's
my regret not going out more
and doing what he does because it's like
it clearly pays off yep
Shane Omar says ayo being an LT was the
best thing and the worst thing and I say
the best thing is you're treated really
well as Mayo LT generally across the
board most LT to treat really well you
have a problem it's dealt with quite
swiftly and it's quite a comfortable
lifestyle everything's taken care of
this apartment is government subsidized
so get a lot of comments saying wow
how's your rent so cheap government
subsidy and yeah so it's quite a
comfortable life and the salary isn't
bad the only downside is your salaries
in yen and if you're from the UK or
America or anywhere that's not Japan
your salary will have gone down a ton in
the last two years to put in perspective
my salary in pound terms has gone from
thirty thousand pounds to about twenty
thousand pounds in two years which is a
ridiculous amount of money when I think
about in pounds and when I think about
it I feel like crying a lot [ __ ] yeah in
there in terms of like Japanese money in
terms of yen it's actually quite good
you can live a comfortable lifestyle but
the bad thing I guess it's the time
frame that sense of you're just some
sort of disposable tool that's there for
three to five years and then after that
it's kind of like now go you're done
with it and everyone's like we're gonna
do off to Japan we're gonna do like two
people that won a stage Japan it can
feel a bit like can feel a bit huh can I
can I stay no I stay no you're done your
purpose now but of course I guess great
there's still a great deal of people
that I know who alts do stay in Japan
and go on to do other things a lot of
people I know ended up in Tokyo as
recruitment consultants I don't really
know how happened they went on gaijin
pod calm and what just go down the list
and as loads recruited consoling jobs
but a lot of people carried on teaching
and different roles different schools
but yeah I guess that's the bad thing as
a timeframe and there's no sense of
progression or you can't like go up and
like most jobs you you know you don't
really there's no long term plan it's
kind of like this is it you have fun now
go so it's kind of a short
thing but other than that I'd say is
really good I would say this job's been
great and I'll give it 9 out of 10 9 out
of 10 one off being 10 out of 10 so
that's quite good
okay someone said the weight loss is
what I'm really wondering about the
weight loss no there is a video coming
out probably next week on the Hat nah I
did finish about a month ago nothing and
oh I won't spoil it but it did it did
actually go quite well and most of the
stuff I learned over that 10 week period
I'm like integrate into my daily life
now and I feel a lot healthier and
unfortunately I went to the UK for three
weeks and everyday just a disgusting
amounts of cheese and I just drank loads
of alcohol and I don't know I I thought
I might put a lot away and the day I
came back I met with my friends one of
my Japanese friends and she saw me and
she saw had this look of abject horror
on her face when she saw me and she
hugged me really awkwardly when Chris
you became a big face and I was like
what the [ __ ]
or do I say to that oh great I'm a big
I'm a big face now [ __ ] and I was like
oh [ __ ] sorry and yet 12 hours later I
was in school like doing a class and I
walked in and like all the students with
aircrews you yes it done all like you've
lost weight and I was like oh yeah yeah
so I don't know if I've lost weight put
it on whatever but depends here I'm
around some people a present people
putting it to the on but I think I'm
doing I feel whatever way it is they're
comfortable being brutally honest when
it comes to anyone gaining weight have
you noticed that you what where the
Japanese are just they're brutally
honest about whether you've lost or
gained weight [ __ ] yeah another teacher
who who's a little bit old and I she's
look she's quite elderly teachers an
English teacher hopefully she's not what
she won't watch but anyway she I saw her
for the first time in about a year and I
went oh how you doing and she was like
oh what happened and it was like I was
the first thing she said you know oh
so she really long time no see oh it's
great decision [ __ ] what the [ __ ]
happened to you and I was like uh oh ha
ha ha ha I spawn somewhat and it's like
bloody hell like this is insane if this
was another if this wasn't Japan like
people would be pretty offended yeah
right I just I just find hilarious but
if I was easily offended then Wow Lee
this first time I met her I went to
school when I will teach his comb-over
said hello and I met her and we had the
getting-to-know-you chat and she was
like away from rubbish and had a nice
chat about 20 minutes and she walked off
and then she clearly thought we we
bonded really well over this
conversation because then oh three hours
later she had the confidence to come
over once again and just ask me was just
she said Oh Christian sir what do you
think about Osama bin Laden's girlfriend
and I was like what what he talking
about when I was still jet-lagged very
confused wondering what was going on and
I was uh how do you respond to that some
of England's girlfriends was he said oh
he did very well I didn't even know he
had a girlfriend in the sex life of the
summerlin Laden who was dead in the top
as well yeah and the list of strange
experiences first-day conversations mmm
who's the funniest person you've met in
Japan easy one for me to answer
hmm obviously Nats key I forgot he just
brings a laughter and joy to me every
time I see but and that's nice he's
definitely the person who makes me laugh
the most and lots of cool Japanese
friends that I want to introduce in
videos because they're just so cool are
such interesting like people and you
know I took Nats key to the UK for three
weeks and he did not disappoint
and he was even spotted by a really cool
guy in Topshop nasty went off on his own
for a bit to do some shopping and I went
off with some friends and he went off
with his wife he also came with us and
he went to a Topshop clothing shop and
one of the workers went wait a minute he
he not ski and that's the only thing
they recognized in the video yeah really
yeah guy called Andy he's a viewer and
cool guy and heat Natsuki and that's
because like yeah and that is up at the
[ __ ] you doing here in rural England and
yeah
I was really impressed by that it was
quite cool you have you been recognized
in England when you went back uh no I
was I was kind of I was that wasn't
really anywhere populated for a lot of
time mm-hmm
that's that's why skeet but I in I often
in them Tokyo no socket time remember we
were in Osaka we together a few times
people came up to us to settle a mad
horse don't engage her in the hospital
hostel hostel yeah yeah hasta la still I
never know how to react when I see
someone just watch the video so I was in
a bar in Tokyo someone said kay but I
was having a drink and friend and said I
really like the videos so no oh that's
great yeah awesome
all right you want to be really humble
about it yeah probably the big
disappointment that is real life us yeah
I'm just I'm going the corner of the pub
drinking beer yeah I don't know how to
respond to that uh what was it like
being back in the UK after two years of
being in Japan yeah uh well the first
thing I noticed was the diversity I
stepped off the plane he throw and
everyone was very different Indian
African purpose Chinese age whether it
was a great degree of diversity and
obviously in Japan where I spend my time
even William in Tokyo 98.5 percent of
people are Japanese and that was the
first thing I was like wow everyone was
very different and I like that it was
quite kilter that diversity hmm
food and the drink was really good the
first time walked into a supermarket I
was like in shock I went to the alcohol
section and there was like 30 varieties
of cider and I think I just cried yeah
how is the cider
I was with Netsky I was like nasty
[ __ ] looking and I was like showing
what we saw I love it
because I haven't drunk any cider in
like two years
it's one your label and an obviously
understanding everything around you
actually that's really interesting I
noticed my eyesight was really bad was
in the UK I was like wait I can't see a
[ __ ] thing and I guess it's because
while I'm in Japan and I walk down the
street and there's loads of Japanese
everywhere though I can read quite a lot
there's still a lot I can't read and I
just kind of ignore it like when you
ignore an advert in the newspaper are
you reading for a magazine or newspaper
when you ignore the advert it's kind of
like that just your mind starts to block
things out so I hadn't become aware that
my own shop is really bad and when I was
in the UK was like I can't see a damn
thing and it was really intimidating and
scary wait so it ends up getting glasses
while I was there but yeah and that's
that that was a weird thing I noticed
but it was really cool and actually
before I went back to the UK I was
worried that the UK was going to be like
crap he's in my head I'm like y'all UK
they sure know whenever I read the news
is always bad negative things about the
UK but I was though I was like wow which
is actually really good and then I was
driving through the countryside in my
Vauxhall Vectra which is really crappy
like your grass command listening to
1980s music in the Sun was there and I
was like yeah the UK is quite good so
yeah I was really also Novak and I
really fought to get back again soon
okay Tom's question uh what do you think
the reason for our existence is you what
I know why you asking the questions and
then let me ask them because I read it
first and while you're talking
I'll get this pen and I'll write out I
think you google it don't answer that I
can't talk now okay
well actually assume yeah what do you
think the reason for our existence is
and enjoy well I was actually I was
reading a blog post yesterday actually
it was on your website the abroad in
Japan calm
what was it New Year's resolutions enjoy
every day yeah I'll write my new year's
resolution
yep I'll copy that answer value every
day buddy every day what was it last
line well I couldn't raise it it was
like you know I couldn't think a way to
phrase it because I didn't want to use
the line
live every day as though as your last
cuz every day I'd be like
am I gonna die okay I like that okay cuz
I think there's a big difference between
live every day as if it's your last and
live every day as if you had to live it
again and you couldn't change it
ice awful no no no no well I think it's
a better appreciation because if you
lived every day
as if your last you would it like if
you're Chris broad you just you'd splash
all your money right you just go out
have a big party but then the next day
you'd be wrecked but if you lived your
if you live the day like you or actually
the day wouldn't work out but if you
lived your life as if you had to live it
again and again or so there's a name for
it but yeah if we imagine if you died
and when you died you had to live your
life again but you couldn't make any
changes so you basically had to go
through it but if now eternal recurrence
but if if this was your first turn how
would you live it so it just stops you
from putting things off yeah but also
not sacrificing time that's a good a
good framework my advice just have a
[ __ ] good day mmm okay that's the
simple answer lake up and whenever
something bad happens like you spill the
milk on the floor oh I see well that's
good if you like smash something don't
go oh no smash this in the world and
then for the next ten minutes go yeah
just go Oh smash do well and move on I
don't waste time on pitiful shitty
little things and don't have arguments
with people just work out what's
important don't waste time Anders yeah
just be grateful for every day mmm which
sounds awfully religious or not whenever
you hear the phrase be grateful for like
it's this ruined isn't it we got to
think of a new way to say yeah yeah yeah
just uh okay have a good day
okay cool okay Chris if you could
summarize your experience with robot
restaurant and actually I'm gonna go
there in a couple of weeks if you guys
but you know you don't have to book do
you yeah oh okay I'm not going in a
couple weeks but I'll go although I know
a lot in the early phase and now it's
like the most popular venue in the whole
of Tokyo in Japan so okay well I look
forward to going in 2020 if you could if
you could summarize your experience at
robot restaurant and its concept in one
word what
it'd be [ __ ] that's the sort of wooow
that's cooool not [ __ ] like that's
that's good [ __ ] it is [ __ ] meant I
should go back there actually is this
changed a lot since I've been people
always sending me videos about rebel
restaurant because again they think I'm
like some kind of expert on it for
posting one of the first videos about
anything but it's really different now
so yeah I'd love to go back I hear they
expanded it so definitely if you go to
Tokyo definitely go it's an area called
kabukicho and what one of the other
comments earlier someone mentioned the
red-light district Lilly Lilly Yin
person they said well where's the
red-light district well I haven't been
so I can't talk from experience but it
is in an area called
kabukicho you know Shinjuku it's the
entertainment district and it's right in
the middle of Tokyo and rebel
restaurants down there and to get to a
restaurant can feel a little bit
intimidating the first time you go down
there because you go down and there's
just loads of people like yeah yeah
coming our bar lies it's very unhappy
knees everyone not harasses you you have
no life so yeah I mean in Nagoya they
try and pull you into all the bars and
stuff it's weird it doesn't feel right
it's an under lift um but ya know it's
in it's in it's in coming to the
red-light district and robot restaurants
so you have a really good night out okay
what were your inspirations or motives
to move to and work in Japan main reason
actually I was on a plane going to
Switzerland in 2009 and visiting my
then-girlfriend is a ski instructor I
didn't know what I wanted to do this was
the year this was a few months before I
was gonna start University of Stirling
business in English language and I
didn't know what was going to do after
that although I knew I wanted to travel
and on the plane I spoke to this I was
sat next to this middle-aged couple and
they were like are we gonna do after
university like no plan no I did and
they were like wow well our doors in
Japan at the moment on something called
the jet program she's teaching
living in Japan and she loves it and for
the next two hours on this plane to
Switzerland we just talked about jet
program and Japan and it just I know it
just everything I wanted to do and see
it kind of just
represent an opportunity that I hadn't
heard about before and I go off the
plane I was like gain in Japan that's
awesome so up until that point I hadn't
really been obsessed with Japanese anime
or culture but I'd always wanted to go
and if you're in the UK but going to
Japan is seen as something that's really
difficult to do because it's the other
side that well it's really expensive to
get there you kind of just go well
someday I'll go and then you'll never go
and I knew if I went if I want if I knew
if I was going to go I wanted to
actually live there and so the jet
program gave love charity and I knew
that when I came Japan I was gonna try
and study Japanese and become as fluent
as I could ma'am
so yeah yeah weird it was just a case of
good timing in life Regan it was fate we
hear destiny what's your favorite thing
about Japanese language and least
favorite thing the Japanese language
ashley dramatically it's quite simple in
many ways the earlier stages is quite
simple to understand and it's quite a
fun language to have a conversation with
obviously the bad thing is reading or
writing yeah kanji I think if almost
everybody's answer is is the reading and
writing system [ __ ] nightmare
2,200 characters to learn yeah each one
usually with two readings hmm what like
yeah takes about 3 to 5 years to become
good at the reading I'm writing well
that's a whole lotta ball game but
understand I really like the talking but
like I just started learning Spanish a
couple of weeks ago and it just feels
like a breeze compared to Japanese
reading and writing because you can you
know with romaji like with English
letter oh sorry yeah well there's
letters the alphabet aren't so much
easier
yeah kanji is is the difficult one
definitely but it's also quite rewarding
like where I am now after about two and
a half years it's very fun because I can
read things and I can write a lot of
characters and yeah it's really deeply
rewarding if you are able to sustain and
continue their awards are great how long
will you stay in Japan what's your plan
this year my plan
is to go full-time making videos on a
born Japan you become a filmmaker
it's always been my life's ambition to
make movies let's kind of on those one
of those dreams that you have teenage
years I wanna be a film director oh yeah
sure you do and then you kind of go I'm
not gonna do that give up I want to stay
in Japan a bit longer and have a really
good YouTube channel about Japan the
number one channel about Japan whatever
that means
it's just a broad aim and yeah become a
filmmaker and I don't have any desire to
return to the UK not because I don't
like the UK because it's awesome but
because I lived there for 20 years
pretty much saw it did everything and
now I want to go and see other things
and living in Japan for three or two and
a half years every day you learn so much
more than you would if you live back
home yeah to go go and live abroad
that's my advice if you never lived
abroad because you'll learn so much in
one year one year you'll learn more than
you've learnt in the last five years in
your home country problem yeah yeah I
want to continue traveling learning
seeing doing and most importantly making
videos about it and being able to teach
people things I've learned along the way
that's really rewarding did you or when
did you have the Eureka moment that you
could speak Japanese well enough to hold
extended dialogue and how long did it
take you to get that far from beginner
level about 12 12 months maybe I I got
in to Japan August 2012 I'm actually
make a video on this thing because I
want to retell how I learned Japanese
what I did other people was still kind
of fresh in my mind but I go in Japan
August 2012 literally knew nothing and
studied really hard and then after about
four months I knew fuchal and I was
really angry I remember I went to this
dinner party this Christmas work party
and was a really beautiful girl but was
sat with I really want to talk to her
and I just couldn't she was talking to
me and I was like don't know what you're
saying and it was the most annoying
thing because she could really speak
English yeah and we just had these
awkward moments and like we couldn't
really talk to and I was really went
home I was like right [ __ ] that's it
I'm gonna study so hard and I take about
another four to five months but yeah you
can have that Eureka moment in about a
year you know you study hard and things
got really interesting after about two
years things got really interesting but
yeah my problem was I didn't have the
confidence to go and talk and use word
learn and that was my biggest flaw and
if I learn another language I know not
to do that again but if you learn some
stuff try and use as much as you can
I've really got stopped in his hand
movements it looks like some sort of
looks fine consort shitty dictate white
the trouble is my dream is to be the
villain in the movie Tomorrow Never Dies
Le Arva right I want to be that villain
and so when I write do anything I come
across as there's a bill they don't
really use sarcasm in Japan is that true
mmm I think so I use irony in language
play don't you know don't really use it
like we do like ones teacher was like
well someone said to me something like
oh you should go and climb this mountain
tomorrow and I was on a good mood and I
said something like I'd rather slam my
fingers in the door yeah this was in
July why would you do that and it was
like a um oh [ __ ] you didn't understand
well actually gonna slam my fingers in
the door that would be stupid I'm just
don't want to go and clog them out so
yeah they didn't really get that no just
ever since then I've just kind of held
off the sarcasm good question okay
what's your favorite part about the
Japanese culture lifestyle so I'll
change this a little bit if you could
take something back to the UK so for
example you know like trains are on time
here and things like that or convenience
stores everywhere what sort of Japanese
culture would you take back to UK what
you said there about everything working
it's quite an interesting point that's
one thing everything working for example
when I went back to the UK with Lasky
and his wife we went and bought a ticket
for the lumbers underground it was a de
Rail Pass and the first day his wife
Asami put it through the machine I just
kept not working it was rejected and
it's like go and see a ticket attendant
for the whole day she can use a ticket
[ __ ] to go see an attendant to get
through every gate of every single
underground station in London that we
use yeah and then the next day Lasky's
[ __ ] ticket happened to him as well
and we spent the whole day again going
through
I in Japan that doesn't happen and when
I asked the ticket attendant in the
London Underground why is his ticket
[ __ ] he was like it's just London in it
that's what he said yeah alright yeah
it's fair enough actually you have in
Japan that don't really happen another
thing I went to use a vending machine in
the UK one of the few vending machines
that I saw and liked the crisps had one
these liked well ones we go through and
it's like most slowly comes forward the
resin Japan it uses like a robotic arm
and laser tracking system right each bag
has its own GPS this is the Chris about
to come out I got stuck yeah oh you
didn't get it Oh forgot the happens in
the UK so I can get my crisps well I do
I match the Machine up together but so
things not working and I don't know why
I don't understand why everything in
Japan does work whereas in the UK only
half of things work I can't work that
out well everybody's everyone is really
you know particular and like on time
with everything here and you can feed in
the Society of people as well yes to do
with the collectivism or Japanese
society I think I think it's to do with
the fact that everyone in Japan their
job is kind of their identity as well
like it's not just a job I'm working
part-time at the stores Karma I am that
job like that is my Who I am and if
something goes wrong I am wholly
accountable for that that is me and so I
don't know I think that's something to
do with it
but you think the one thing I would take
back to the UK is service quality again
mmm that was quite in Japan I went and
bought my phone and the woman was on
their knees that sounds really bad
actually [ __ ] shakes on it needs it's ok
we're not live if you're fair like it
was like giving the sword to an emperor
and I was like yes the Samsung Galaxy s3
and which is a [ __ ] phone don't get that
yeah and the service quality yeah it's
amazing the service court is fantastic
and then I ran up a competish airline
company to like sort of what flying out
and in Japan if you bring someone up
they're like oh yeah well you're the
you're the best you're the customer what
you say goes near the UK what do you
want how can I change my flight
no why do I do that and I just it was
really yeah
I just forgot how
it I'm mixed on that one like yeah I
agree the service quality is great like
it's it's incredible like you go
somewhere you treated famously but the I
think the downside to that is I've got a
friend who's Japanese he worked in a
cafe in Australia for a year doing a
working holiday and he's come back he's
working in Starbucks and he said like
it's so good it's so focused on service
that I think sometimes it can lose the
friendly quirky edge that the Westerners
bring to it of you know it's fun to meet
someone with a personality in the
service industry right like if they're
if you have a chat with someone at a
coffee store or you know you just talk
about something it's I miss that about
Australia I think as well like being
people just being more open to talk
about stuff you know with a stranger
definitely mmm I see yeah that yeah
that's a good point really important but
getting getting coffees on time and you
know have him having everything the city
air the service is great but you know
you can't have one without the other I
suppose you know yeah that's a really
good point actually
like in Japan again I can't really talk
to the people who I speak to on call
that sort of friendly banter with Dean
waste lots of stuff and when I went back
to the UK I wouldn't leave people alone
I went to this like sweet shop and it's
my first time going a shop in the UK and
I was like just in awe but I could talk
to the person that worked in the show
right and I can say to them how was your
day
yeah just quit without them giving you a
weird look
well I went the poor woman I wouldn't
leave her alone and so that about 20
minutes she was like slowly backing off
across the store like oh I really
[ __ ] off and like I was like yeah yeah
let's talk more and she was just
terrified but this just kept happening
whenever I went to a store at the UK I
would try and engage in conversation
with people's because I hadn't been able
to do that to two hits in Japan yeah and
I definitely prefer the Japanese Way in
like in restaurants in Japan when you
want customer service you shout or
scream I'll send you call the person
over and they come at fulfill your every
demand I was in the UK they'll just come
over and you're eating your lunch or
dinner and they'll come over like Asian
how's your meal is it good and your
is good or good and just piss off and I
don't want people cut me open up my mail
go away although have you heard a couple
of the guys I've been to here have you
noticed like if it's quiet there they're
so ready to serve you that if you're the
only one in the restaurant have you seen
the waiter they'll be about 10 feet away
standing against a wall just staring at
you like you know waiting for your drink
to get to the bottom have you ever had
someone just watching you it no really
I've had a couple of Issachar okay so
I've been a couple of little guys where
you like the body of some sort of God
he's really know they both are looking
forward over there
we got a Starbucks Starbucks opened in
the town a week ago and it was like the
miracle of North Japan people came from
far and wide to see the Starbucks opened
and it's quite a nice building I've been
in there looks like made out of like
unicorn face it's like this beautiful
building and but yeah I'm gonna make it
but this this Starbucks was hailed as
almost like a mythical shop how did you
meet your friends in Japan sure I met
Netsky in downtown in the downtown area
where I live I was coming back from a
little work party and he was there with
his friend and he went far enough and I
was like what he said that is a high so
far just like there's no foreigners for
about four thousand [ __ ] miles where
I live and it was yeah oh well right
someone who seems quite cool and he was
like yeah yeah let's drink let's
drinking and I was like okay and so we
went off and we did karaoke for like
three hours and they're all the reason I
like Nats keys because he he knows like
really good music he knows more about
music than I do like the UK and America
what I'm looking forward to a video
about that yeah it should make man
actually but yes it was the best karaoke
I've ever done and it was really cool
and then after that we just agreed to
meet up every Thursday and practice
English Japanese get drunk and do
karaoke and from that you know our
relationship took off and and then other
friends I've just met at parties like if
you want to make friends the best places
parties because you're in the social
group and so
if you see some at the party you don't
know at least you'll have mutual friends
and yeah is that sort of sense of
security that they're not a complete
weirdo if you are Japanese you do need
to speak even just a little bit of
Japanese but it will go a long way
oh yeah absolutely does like speaking
some Japanese goes a really long way the
questions come a few times about
earthquakes and there's that there's
hundreds of earthquakes a day that might
have a teacher at my school has a
computer screen it flashes whenever
there's an earthquake and it shows you
all the dots and there's by the end of
the day there's hundreds but they're so
small you never really feel them in fact
for the time that I've been here I
probably felt about 301 I was sitting at
my desk eating fried chicken as he would
expect something different what they
give it up for this - like romanticize
the plot of this short story but I was
actually in Fried Chicken I remember it
vividly and my phone the Samsung s3 that
I mentioned earlier when Bruce went
[ __ ] mental I was like what's going
on I turned over and I couldn't read it
because at the time I know the warning
that warning system oh yeah it's like a
red flashing thing I thought my phone
was just like about it like there's a
bomb in it or something I was terrified
really scary and then all of a sudden
like the whole room went I'm like I'm in
a big apartment block it's about four
storeys and it's big concrete building
they just started going like this I'm
some sort of rider theme park like a
rocking ship and it was just I'll just
sitting there like this what do I do now
I like him
she's going back was a forest about 30
to 40 seconds I thought should I stand
in the doorway because I thought that's
what he's supposed to do but it did I
didn't think anything would come of it
and it didn't but it was a bit weird
another time my school it happened and
the whole building had this really scary
creaking noise it was right and it was
terrifying I was like wow but obviously
the buildings are built
incredibly well - all move and they able
to move to the earthquake which is why
they don't fall down but yeah you ain't
actually feel that many if you're one
you're here yeah do either of you watch
any anime are going to anime off -
coming to Japan actually my favorite
anime is GTA great
Onizuka it's about this this guy who's a
gang member who just becomes he wants to
become a teacher
it probably forgettable motives that
include attractive girls which is a bit
worrying because he's 20 and his
students are like what not 20 but the
reason it's funny is just because he's
just this ridiculous man he's not a
teacher at always just this gangster and
his methods of dealing with things are
just brilliant mounted punching teachers
in the face to get things done this is
really funny so GTO great teacher
onizuka you can find a lot of it on
youtube so go there and also in Death
Note is quite good death knight did
directly yo one get made into a drama I
don't watch a live-action shell GA when
a foreigner wanting to teach in Japan
have a hard time if they have tattoos
Ural depends if they covered up yeah if
you have tattoos keep you covered up no
problem I have a few friends who have
tattoos under their shirt they consume
only problem is if you have a tattoo you
can't really go in and onsen an onsen is
the best thing about japan as far as I'm
concerned onsen is a hot spring a hot
bath and a bath thing house they're
amazing they're just so nice and if you
have a tattoo they're kind of like now
get out now yes sir yeah I gave it to to
hide it people watching someone in terms
of videos I have got some videos coming
and the reason I don't make videos that
often is not because I don't like making
videos I love making videos it's just a
question of time time five days a week 8
to 5 working at the biggest school in
North Japan takes his toe and I do come
home and I'm like yeah well I would like
a video now but but but I'm I get home I
just lay on the floor just like that is
the face is the face I pulled it but so
usually the other thing is this rock
like I know you've got what regular
meetups with Natsuki and all that sort
of stuff yeah well I'm looking at trying
to make videos more frequently I did
want to do videos weekly and now we're
back in January I want to try and do
that again but it's just really
difficult on some state unsustainable
but when I do I will finish teaching in
August I will finish teaching on jet in
August my plan is to
stay in Japan hopefully on a work
holiday visa kind of like what Regan's
got and I'll give me the freedom to live
in Japan maybe get a little part-time
job but to spend most of my time
traveling around making videos getting
good stuff done so that is my goal for
this year and if you're wondering what
videos are coming up next the first one
is a video in ASCII before our trip to
the UK it's called Japanese thoughts on
British culture I'm actually quite
interesting then one on how to memorize
a speech because I did a Japanese speech
contest and I was able to memorize the
speech and I found that really
interesting and weird and cool and I
want to make a video about that so one
of the people one of those speech
they'll be prepared and then there's the
losing weight video in all its glory and
some fluency
speaking Japanese fluency tips so
there's a lot on its way that's the next
that's the next week or two and there's
a whole list of stuff but yeah hopefully
yeah this will be a lot more frequent
yeah but I say this again like next
month
sounds good thanks very much for coming
Chris first of all thank you everybody
for watching - yeah my advice although I
don't really want to tell you this but
the writ that the comments thought the
questions that I've been able to read
are usually the people that just spammed
the same question you can take it yeah
yeah you know that's my tip for success
on getting your question answered if you
like I try to get to as many as comments
as I can but if you really want to do it
make an interesting fun comment here's
one that I'll love it we make the
question interesting you know some
people are just straight-out say it or
you know if it's fun to read then I get
you know it's sort of fun to make a pun
response so you know it's fun to make it
fun response always oh the horse's mouth
thanks guys
you