that guy's walking around in a skin-tight pig costume on christmas i just can't help but look
japan is a fun place tokyo is a fun place this is like daily life here man hello it's your american
friend anming here in tokyo japan i first came to asia in 2012 and would you believe
i used to be a very shy person i was very introverted and a little afraid to socialize
in english let alone speaking in another language like japanese or chinese that would have horrified
me i would have thought that people would be annoyed by me or think i sound stupid or i would
make some mistakes and embarrass myself and i just wasn't into it but something changed when i came
over here and i started getting comfortable in these new experiences that i was having and just
walking around and saying hi to people was one of them so welcome to my strange life today we'll be
walking around tokyo just seeing what it's like to live here and saying hi to some of the locals
making a pit stop
so here we go on a christmas adventure in my very strange life here in tokyo strange but
fun interesting quirky just like the local people that i interact with on a daily basis and they are
incredibly kind sometimes surprising sometimes a little shocking so fasten your seatbelts ladies
and gentlemen oh they invited a youtuber into their shop again what are they thinking
well
merry christmas
and that's how a hair styling trip goes in japan they'll walk you right to the elevator and bow
to you make sure you get out make sure you find your way you don't get lost it's a tradition
that those guys are really hard-working it's the toughest job in japan next to being a manga artist
merry christmas
coming to japan i was so surprised by how kind
people are here i was an introvert i used to think that talking to strangers was the most
awkward thing ever especially in another language like speaking japanese
but i found that that couldn't be further from the truth it's okay to make mistakes
it's okay to go up there as long as you're all smiles and you're being polite your chances of
being rejected are extremely low in fact your chances of making someone smile are a lot higher
now i want to preface what i just said by adding that if you don't speak japanese you
might have a very awkward conversation here you might be rejected in a conversation just
on the grounds that the person you're talking to doesn't really understand what you're saying
so let's all consider learning some japanese you don't even have to learn a lot some
basic conversation and survival phrases will help you get around here and have some really
cool fun interactions you can go up to that street performer that you saw and ask for another song
you can go up and say hi to that cute girl and have a little chat you can do a lot with just a
little bit of japanese here so check out the video description for some japanese lessons and hey next
time you see someone that's doing something cool and you want in you can go up and say hi like this
you know japanese people are actually very nice if you just ask just ask and they'll be very kind
you just have to ask if you see something cool go up and say excuse me i'm
sorry to bother you but i think you're cool i think what you're doing is cool can i join
and they might say yes
they usually say yes