this is like a first person horror game
that i don't want to be in
oh
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uh
journey across japan was supposed to be
a family friendly series and
this is very far from family friendly
i'm not okay with this to be honest with
you
when robot historians look up the year
2020
they're going to see the word [ __ ] show
come up an awful lot you know it's crazy
when you think back a thousand years to
february or january
you think of all the hopes dreams
expectations you had for this year
i mean certainly here in japan the
country was going to be the center of
the world
35 million people were expected to
descend on the country
and instead we got no people coming and
the olympics was cancelled and yet of
course that all seems like a very minor
problem now in the grand scheme of
things
my purpose presenting people on japan
channel primarily is to entertain
and at times this year this kind of felt
very hard to do to find the positivity
to
do that to want to do that it's one of
the reasons i've tried to steer clear of
the virus as well in every video that
i've made and i've found that the uk and
japan have never seen so far apart as
they do
now and all the years that i've lived
here especially as for half this year
like all foreign residents living in
japan i couldn't actually leave the
country and then return to it it's quite
a bizarre
situation not to be able to return to
the place you've lived in for eight
years
close relative of mine actually did have
heart problems and for a time i had to
consider
should i go back to the uk and just
accept that i don't know if i'll be able
to return to japan or not
fortunately he recovered in time before
i had the chance to get the plane
tickets but
it was a really bizarre situation but
honestly i don't have a right to
complain because i do know
lots of you guys i know lots of friends
family who have been affected by this
health problems lost jobs lost
businesses it's all really crap it's
really
not a great year that's an
understatement and the only thing that i
can do the only thing i can offer
as a youtuber is some sort of temporary
form of escapism even if it's for a
brief moment in time
now right now the number of cases in
japan is actually pretty low
but going into winter that could all
change as it's expected to
so i wanted to use this window to do
something to go somewhere
uh to have an adventure while we still
can with that in mind i'm really
delighted to announce that we've been
able to go out
into central japan into the wilderness
and produce a whole new series of
journey across japan
six days and a thousand kilometers on
the road with one aim to see
mount fuji which is something we've
consistently failed to do in an abroad
japan video
given the many things we saw on journey
across japan escaped mount fiji
i think it had the opposite effect on
keeping me sane unlike the original 28
part journey across japan series there
were no bikes this time i've learned my
lesson
it was a road trip but that meant we
could pack a lot more in to those six
days on the road and the first episode
will air this week and then every week
going through november the locations
that we saw were anything but
conventional i don't think
you would ever see a tv series going to
some of these places but we did put a
lot of time and effort into the series
i'm proud of it
and if you do enjoy it please show that
support hit the like button
leave a comment because if it does do
well i'd love to do some more
journey across japan spin-offs next year
as well throughout japan and i do have
to say a big thank you to the above
japan
patreon community for making it all
possible but for now though guys many
thanks for watching i look forward to
kicking off this journey together
later this week and of course as it is
journey across japan there is one key
ingredient that we simply
couldn't miss out and is of course
[Applause]
you