...but I have seen a couple scary situations and stuff like that with like the yakuza
like messing with other people
they never happened also when I met the police they never asked anything for now
then they usually put a little thing next to it correcting it and then your name saying that you were the one
who did it wrong yeah yeah yeah
Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's CathyCat your flashy fashion reporter from Tokyo
and today we're gonna go and ask the foreigners who live in Japan what kind of
scary moment they have experienced and at the end of the video i'll let you know very scary
moment that I experienced and how I got out of it so let's go and ask foreigners in Japan
Have you had a scary moment in Japan and it doesn't have to be physically scary it
can also just be a other scary moment like oh damn I got this wrong kind of like oh
some drunk homeless guy approached me once - oh okay. - I don't know what he was saying because
it was like he was really drunk but I think he was probably asking for money or something so
what happened there what did you do? - I just pretended like I couldn't understand anything
and just kept walking so yeah - Apart from that have you ever feel a little bit scared or intimidated?
Not really no I think Japan's pretty safe but obviously there's been like you know the train
attack and things like that so that's always kind of like something you kind of think about like
just be careful about that stuff but compared to Australia it's like way safer so yeah
oh yeah compared to Australia and Japan safety-wise what would you say - yeah world of
difference yeah - For example? - In Melbourne at night you don't really want to be going out in the city
unless you're like with a group of people but yeah
- is it like... after 17 years in Japan do you actually have any scary stories anything scary that ever happened to you?
oh i'm fortunate that most scary things don't really happen to me because i'm like 188 centimeters tall
and kind of imposing to most people
standing right next to you you see how tall he is
i'm actually pretty tall so fortunately most people tend to not threaten me or bother me um
but I have seen a couple scary situations and stuff like that with like the yakuza like messing with other people so
they haven't really bothered me thank god and I don't want to get into it and stuff but uh
I have seen a couple incidents with that here and there so yeah
Where do you see those incidents where are you hanging out?
Uh you would have to probably go to Kabukicho to see the worst aspects of that stuff which which by the way
don't go to Kabukicho it's a trap just stay away so
just stay out of trouble kinda - pretty much as long as like for the most part like I said people don't really go out of the way to try to do
mean things to me or anything like that um and the few times I had it's just kind of like I just kind of like "lol okay"
People tried to pick a fight with you once?
um it's like not so much pick a fight it's just like they tried to say something to me and I just kind of give them a look like "get out of here dude"
like so and that's pretty much the end of it like i'm not gonna go out of my way and get into a fist fight with anybody
over that kind of stuff because I said i'm 188 centimeters tall I used to take martial arts for a little bit and stuff
so like I know how to defend myself but i've never felt that I was in a situation where I needed to defend myself so to speak
people might verbally say something and you just let it pretty much
just like it doesn't even faze me it's just kind of like whatever like
like from the outside like wearing all black and stuff you got like the image that you might be like ready for a fight
But you actually like "oh no"
yeah I look like the type that would hurt somebody but the truth is i'm basically just a giant teddy bear honestly
What is like a scary moment you've had in Japan? A place or at the airport?
I'm always scared like to lose my resident visa, the residence card - That is so real oh god
also because the school is keep telling us "you have to have it all the time" even
if you go to the convini for a drink "bring it to you" it was like oh my god
You have like a foreign residence card and you have to have it on you at all times in case the
police stops you - Yeah they never happen so when I met the police they never ask anything for now
but when I see them I like "oh my god I have written all, I have the papers!"
But then yeah that the fear is also to accidentally lose it because you have to carry it with you at all times
Yeah yeah yeah
Tell me have you ever had a scary experience in Japan?
When we were actually trying to come into Japan like because we flew in from papua new guinea via hong kong then
There was like a bit of a delay on one of our flights and then because I was supposed to be collecting
my Zairyu spouse visa card at the airport we were late for that so then they sort of gave us a bit of grief at the airport saying that oh you were supposed to come in on this earlier flight and now the person that has your card is not here
saying that oh you were supposed to come in on this earlier flight and now the person that has your card is not here
OH NO
Before omicron and like we hadn't been back to Japan and over two years so
just like "oh my gosh what is happening right now" please please can someone call that person and see
if they can come in and and then they were able to
You're at the airport you want to get your visa and the dude is not there! -Exactly
Oh no like first of all why does he take it with him why is there no collective anyways that's not my thing but anyways
so how long did that whole process take you then?
Uh on arrival into Narita we... an hour so not too bad but I think a lot of the airport staff live fairly close to that um area
so I think they've gone away for lunch or something or another part of the airport so they had to rush back so yeah
There we go where are you from? - I'm from Spain
How long have you been here for in Japan - I'm here only for two months now and I think
in between September October I have to come back to Spain but I hope to stay here more I don't know
so have you ever had a scary moment in Japan? - In Japan not really not really
it's my second time here because I was five years ago only for one month like a tourist and
what's amazing... I think Japan is very it's not a dangerous place and people is polite and I have
no these strange moments or creepy moments I don't.
Even at night, going home at night?
Yeah no I think Spain is more dangerous yeah
Or in a restaurant you didn't have a credit card any kind of other scary situation like huh "I don't have money I gotta get cash!"
yeah I have of that I had for example my my credit card is from Spain because i'm here only for six months in the in the beginning
and sometimes I want to pay and they say okay credit card in the supermarket I can use so suddenly they say
hey you can't it doesn't work here and they say oh sorry [ __ ]
but I used to have ... by this moment I used to have a cash because sometimes you can
you you can have this problem and with the visa for example here is very difficult to
speak in english my english is not very good because i'm from Spain and here in Japan it's more
difficult to find people for all these documents or these things it's very difficult speaking english too
and sometimes it's a little scary because you need to do a lot of documents I think Japan is is there is a country of bureaucracy
I think so and if you don't have Japanese it's very difficult for you
- yeah all the documents and the paperwork that is scary yeah
you need everything I have to say that later when you have everything it all works very good and very fast
but this moment yeah it's complicated
Yeah it's complicated and quite scary you just write something wrong and it's like oh god
you have to to sign, if you have a wrong in a in a letter or something you have to touch and sign your your name
because it's your fault yeah yeah so if
If you like you write a kanji wrong on an important document then they usually put a little thing next
to it correcting it and then your name saying that you were the one who did it wrong - Yeah yeah yeah
The huge crows are scary and the roaches are scary because there's a lot of roaches especially in
Tokyo but also humans can be a little bit scary... I remember I once went for a job interview and I was
wearing a pink suit I think on the way back and it was starting to get dark it was only
around five but it was starting to get dark and there was already a boss of a company with two of his
people that were working for him and trying to please him and he was very
very drunk so he saw me and he started shouting after me that I should go to drinks
for drinks with them like in a very rough way and I just pretended to ignore them and ran
past them but they caught up with me at the station so he came up to me and shouted at me
against like "hey you i'm speaking with you and now you can speak Japanese" and the way
I got out of it I had to play the gaijin card a little bit and I just spoke english and said "i'm
really sorry I don't understand you thanks so much i'm gonna go now" because uh yeah even his
workers that were with him seem to be quite troubled by his very drunk behavior at the time
but yeah girl it girls in any country you need to be a little bit careful in the evening though
Japan is a wonderful very very safe country I am very very happy to live in a country that is this
safe and i'm very grateful that I can go home at night without being absolutely terrified so thank
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