Ta gueule and that means shut the [ __ ] up in French
people steal underwear off the clothing line - WHAT!?
in Japan everyone thinks that I'm 25. - What !??!
Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's your flashy fashion reporter CathyCat we hit the streets of Tokyo
and asked the foreigners here what secret they learned in Japan
and we learned some exciting stuff so let's go and ask foreigners in Japan
Where are you guys from? - uh France - Paris
like coming here to Japan what is like a secret you found here?
oh yeah there are many uh French restaurants but they're not good as in France
and sometimes there are some restaurants who are Japanese but they have a name who's French but that means nothing in French
so that's fun
What is like the weirdest thing or the weirdest French you've ever seen on a t-shirt or in a store or something?
One time it was written Ta gueule and that means shut the [ __ ] up in French
That was weird
That was the name of a store? - yeah of the restaurant yeah I think
You liked the little moth thing.
That's a secret for you
So we found um the hummingbird moths have you seen those? - What?!
Moths !? - Moths yeah
The things that look like butterflies?
Yeah but they flutter like a hummingbird and they're very cool and we found them um a bunch of them yeah
and I thought they were so beautiful they were very interesting insects actually
Were they free roaming or were they like in a...?
they were just a lot by these bushes near uh one of the stations
Do they eat clothes or food or ???
so they have a little um antenna similar to how a butterfly would and they take from flowers little nectar
yeah they're very pretty you don't think so but I think they're very pretty
they're just a bit scary
All right let's go where you guys from?
Seattle - California
First of all tell me more about your shirt
okay so I actually normally wear like super plain outfits but she has the coolest fits ever and so I came to Harajuku
to try to spice things up a little bit and it was the first cool one I saw
yeah you stand out so much we decided to just like straight go for you guys
Thank you thank you
What is like a secret that you have discovered here in Japan?
Okay so I'll have to think about the secret place but the culture and the people I was always told
that Japanese people are super friendly but you have to take time to get past that first
layer of friendliness that's super not true in my experience they're just super friendly it's like
very easy to get along very easy to speak to them and very easy to get close just don't be if you're
from America or you're from a place that's like you drink and you get touchy: don't!!!
yeah it like crosses a lot of boundaries
don't say "huh?", the first day I was here I was on the phone I was trying to find my spot and I was like !excuse me I can't find my spot"
and then they said something I couldn't hear and I was like "huh?"
and then all of a sudden they did 360 and it's just like "oh my God I'm so sorry I didn't mean it" and I was like "no no it's okay"
I did not mean to say huh so don't say huh it's rude apparently
I did it in class, I did it like the first day.
I didn't understand what she was saying in English or at least in America if you say huh it's like repeat yourself please
here it's more like... can I swear? it's well it's like uh screw off basically it's like way more aggressive
It's really rude here - yeah yeah yeah
oh yeah it's more HUUUUUH?!?!?!
Yeah exactly! - HUH!?!
oh God I'm worried
yeah it's kind of aggressive it's kind of aggressive
You think of a secret!
okay yeah oh my God people steal underwear off the clothing line - WHAT!?
yeah if you're hanging your clothes out and you're on like the first floor I lived above a laundromat I've seen things in the laundromat
but people will literally they'll hang up their underwear right and it's always girls underwear
and you'll see people (mimics action) run out with girls underwear and it's freaking crazy I only saw it once
I'm acting like it happens a lot but
um it was in the laundry mat literally the someone had their laundry basket and then they left and
there's one guy just literally runs in grabs it and leaves as if I'm gonna like shoot him down or something
I guess they don't do that here but (laughs) it's like I'm not gonna personally become Batman to hunt down the like underwear Hunter
but I don't know strange things okay
so also not a secret if you live in Kyoto and you go out but we have a main street down by Koara Machi and what I didn't know
so normally when you come here like on the Shinkansen and stuff your first time you'll see signs telling you to not squat on the toilets
so in Kyoto the first sign I saw when I went into my first bar when I went to the restroom is no throwing up on the table
no throwing up in the restaurant no throwing up in the trash can but you can throw up in the toilet and you can throw up in the river outside
and so if you stay late enough until one or two or five a.m you'll go out and people will just be lining the river throwing up into it
oh my God my like uh elegant image of Kyoto has just broken
it's amazing during the daytime everywhere like the temples like the shrines everything is super clean
if you walk down the street you'll see like three little shrines in each neighborhood you can walk five minutes in any direction
and see a cool Temple but if you go downtown after midnight it's a whole different thing
what is the secret you found out when you came to Japan?
As for me it's also about schools because I watched anime you know and there is so not as in real life in Japan
because in Anime it is so very colorful and also about school uniform there are short skirts not in as in real life
and also as I've seen there they use phones at school and like that and their lives is funnier
but here's like more straight all - stricter so it's not all the fun things we see in anime don't all exist in real life
yeah in Japan it's one part of Japan it's funny like some museums with anime and like this street it's so funny but when you go and work and
school is not as funny it's.... yeah as it is in anime shows
and also a stereotype about the Japanese girls.. they wear only short skirts yeah and like it's like strange
but not really for all - also in Japan everyone think that I'm 25.
- What?
Japanese sometimes like old mans come to me and ask for my Instagram because they think that I'm 25.
Okay how old are you really is that okay to ask? - I'm 13.
I did not think you're 25. I guess I have the European eyes here I'm like yeah you're definitely not 25.
All right where are you guys from - I'm from Germany - also Germany yes y
I really like the parks here around Tokyo. Tokyo sometimes are like really overwhelming so I like to see the nature so I
like to go to yogi park for example just enjoy the nature there there's also a Temple which is really nice
Before I came from Germany I thought there's going to be barely any parks and there's actually a lot
Yeah there is I'm really surprised about that because usually in in movies and also in anime you'll only see like the high buildings
like the skyscrapers and the crowds. Coming here I was like actually surprised how many green parks there are here
Have you seen anything surprising in the park here? - Maybe a capybara because we don't have that in Germany
yeah which is nice
I actually found out two Secrets today on this train I just looked up and there were two posters
one on the right hand side was Weiss - Schwarz which means "white black" and that's a card game here in
Japan and on the left hand side was a thing which was a wedding service which was called "Zwei" which
is also German for "two" there's a couple of like little funny things you can figure out when
Discovering here in Japan but there's actually a lot of cool stuff we have compiled in our
"things about Japan" video so if you wanted to find out some secrets and some Curious facts about Japan
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