(upbeat music)
But weird bunch of stories this week.
I don’t know why.
It is the beginning of summer vacation,
so I may or may not
have an episode next week.
It depends how busy it is around the house,
but I can tell you honestly
it is so frickin’ hot in Japan.
No one wants to go outside,
no one wants to do anything.
I think it’s going to
be very much a holiday
of everyone just staying inside
watching TV, doing nothing the entire time.
What, that’s just some information, just
to just, you know, the world as it goes.
Japan, it’s here, where is
where we’re here to talk about?
We’re here to talk about Japan.
Japan’s rice inventory has
dropped to 1.56 million tons in June.
Japan has a rice inventory,
it has a bunch of rice
that they keep, like in
warehouses they keep stock.
Weirdly the very first thing
I thought like rice is staple,
it’s important to have a lot of rice if
you’re going to live in a country like Japan.
Canada has the maple syrup, and
there was a big heist where they stole like
three or four tank or
trucks full of maple syrup,
and there’s a lot of
questions and thoughts
going when you hear
about that, like, why?
I think it was the main one.
20% less rice compared to last year.
So last year in June, they
had 20% more than the 1.
56 million tons that
they have right now.
If it declines any further,
there may be price hikes,
annual demand within
Japan for rice has dropped as
people’s diets have changed
and a shrinking population.
So you have less people, you’re going
to need less food to feed those people.
In a way, not a terrible thing.
There’s been an increase in
the price of bread and noodles,
so a lot of people are now
taking bread and noodles
out of their diets, which they may have
had more in before and eating more rice.
But that, in addition to tourists,
so it’s been a big tourism boom,
probably the last three months,
we’ve talked about tourism
tourism tourism, people coming,
the problems they caused,
the problems of local people,
all that kind of stuff has been happening
over and over and again in Japan.
They want to eat Japanese food.
You want to come to Japan?
Japan is famous for food.
I mean, it’s famous for a lot of
stuff, but food’s pretty high on that list.
If you’re going to make your top 10 list,
I’m going to guarantee
foods can be the top five.
That food’s going to include rice.
So this tourism boom is feeding
the amount of rice that gets eaten.
So right now, the
forecast is actually saying
that demand will increase, but
production’s going to go down.
So it’s this interesting problem,
because the population
isn’t going to be buying rice
because they’re changing
their diet, but they might start
buying rice again, but
there’s a shrinking population.
So it’s really confusing as to whether or
not Japan, the country, or Japanese people,
are going to be eating or
buying more rice, but they’re
going to need more rice if this
tourism boom keeps happening,
and all the problems that
come with the tourism boom.
So it’s like everything
has a double-edged sword.
Everything is just problematic, and that
seems to be what it’s like to just live.
There are drain grates.
So Japan, I live in a small town.
Small towns in Japan do not have
sidewalks, and it’s very off-putting.
You’re all told to do tangent right away.
Problem is, I walk to the train station.
It takes about 15 minutes.
I don’t complain about the
walk, the walk’s quite nice.
Good way to wake you up
in the morning, to be honest.
The roads are very small.
It’s a small town.
There are no sidewalks.
So I am walking on the side of
the road, almost in the gutter.
Gudders aren’t the same here.
They tend to be just
like, yeah, well, gutters,
but they’re covered
over with cement blocks,
and then every now
and then they’ll have a
great where the rain
can drain down into it.
Almost lost my words there.
I walk on those, and
because if I walk on the
road, the old people
who live in the area,
again, Japan, Grand
population, most people are old,
they’ve been driving those
roads for 50 years, let’s say.
They know those roads, and that’s true.
They’ll say like, I know this
road like the back of my hand.
They don’t know if someone’s
on the road that they’re driving.
So they drive like they know the road,
but they’re not actually
paying as close attention
to whether or not
someone is on the road.
So I almost get hit by a car regularly.
Like I would say once a month, I almost
get hit by a car if I’m not being careful.
I certainly have to be
more careful than the drivers
who are actually driving
around the roads with me.
They’re so small, it’s
very easy to get hit.
So that’s just give you
a sense of the setup
of the roads in a lot
of places in Japan.
Once you get into
the cities, it’s different,
but you get these towns, which is a
lot of Japan that suburbs and stuff.
No sidewalks has these like gutter
systems, and they have greats on top.
Now, I didn’t think about this,
but greats are made of metal and
people steal the greats to sell them.
There’s a city called Tuchiki,
and what they’ve done is the
local governments had enough.
They need to take
action, they need to do
something to stop
people stealing and great.
So they decided that the
best way to stop people stealing
these greats would be to
paint them white and red
so they were in sort
of a strawberry pattern.
It’s actually neat.
If you look at it on an angle, you can
see the strawberry really, really well.
They chose the strawberry
because Tuchiki in
this area is famous
for growing strawberries.
This is one of the things
about also living in Japan.
Every town has to be famous for something,
even though the fact that
no one’s ever heard of it
means it’s not actually
famous, but if you say,
oh, this is my town,
this is this town I visited,
it’s famous for is going to
be probably the next sense
of the Japanese person’s mouth
who’s talking to you about it.
What they actually mean is
that stuff is produced there.
It doesn’t actually
mean it’s famous for it.
So I’ve had that conversation I gave up.
There’s a lot of things that I realized
that I will not be changing
Japanese culture anytime soon.
So this town is famous for this thing.
As a statement, it defiles what fame means.
Defile is way too strong or weird.
But it’s like you’re actually demonstrating
that you’re not using
the word famous correctly.
And just saying it’s hot
when it’s hot out constantly.
I’ve given up on that.
And I really, you know,
some deep down inside
me, my body goes, no,
man, you can stop them.
They say, that’s it, that’s
me, that’s me, that’s me.
That’s me, it’s fucking constant.
And I know it’s hot because I’m in the
fucking same weather as you are, okay.
You can see how annoyed, how quickly I get.
I think it’s ’cause I come from Canada.
And if you walked out of the snow, out
of the minus 20 degrees snow in Canada,
and then you’re like,
hey, it’s cold outside.
Everyone would think, you’re a moron.
Because yeah, we know it’s cold.
It’s freaking minus 20 degrees outside.
Anyways, the painted
strawberries on these
grates that are along
the side of the road.
So I was like, how bad is this problem?
Well, in 2022, there were 25
great stolen in six different cases.
So just six different cases of theft
where in those six thefts,
25 greats were stolen.
In 2023, there were 25
cases where 40 greats were
stolen and so far into
like up to June in 2024,
there have been 11 cases
already with 23 greats stolen.
So this is actually a problem.
This is a really regular problem.
So the problem is if
these grates go missing,
that means when I
personally am walking along
the side of this road,
and I step in one of those,
I’m gonna fall into that
little area underneath,
the drain underneath,
and I could hurt my foot,
I could hurt my shin, I could
fall over, I could break a leg.
Cars also have to, when two cars go along
together, one has to get out of the way.
They probably both
have to get out of the way
because the roads are
that small sometimes.
This means that one of
the cars driving to the side,
the wheel could then go
down there, damage the car.
So this is actually a significant
and very real safety issue.
They decided that painting
the grates would make
them unfit to be sold,
which, in his new Japan,
has adopted a bit of a
philosophy of giving advice
to criminals or helping
criminals out in that.
I shouldn’t, but it’s
because I go into the
criminal mind when I
start doing these stories.
And my first thought is, would it?
So it’s a metal grade, and
you’re selling the metal,
which I assume is going to be
melted down to make something else.
So the metal itself has value.
So they’ve painted the metal, how
hard is it to strip the paint off metal?
And I was like, you
could use like a sand
blaster and have it done
in a couple of seconds.
Like I’m sure you could sand
blast that paint off really quick.
You could just melt it down.
I’m sure the impurities of the paint
would be minuscule compared
to the actual quality of the iron
or whatever they’re using
the steel of these grates.
So the value doesn’t seem
to have actually changed.
So like the fact that it’s been painted
might make it just more appealing,
you would be able to
tell where it came from.
Like, oh, this is one
of these tochi grates.
I don’t know if that’s good or bad.
Like I don’t know if it’s a
higher quality or lower quality.
You might be more likely to get caught
because like we can tell
this great has been stolen.
Is something that
police could lay on you if
you had one of those
greats in your possession.
But when they said
it makes it unfit to be
sold, I was like, I
don’t think that’s true.
And then I did try to transfer my thought
process over to the buyer of the great.
And he’s like buying stolen grates,
but he didn’t know they were stolen.
I mean, that seems almost impossible.
And then he’s like, hey, wait a minute.
This great has a strawberry painted on it.
You’ve been stealing
these, not making them
yourself at home and
then selling them to us.
And there’s a logical fault in the
statement from the local government.
But I hope it works.
I don’t want these like small
municipalities to have to pay for grates.
I’m sure they’re stupidly expensive.
When you look at anything that’s along the
streets, they’re always crazy expensive.
Like street lights, intersection
lights, they are all crazy expensive.
You go look up the prices in your city
or in cities around the
world, millions of dollars
for just a very small
area of just lighting.
And then these automatic
lights and the systems
and stuff are all
crazy, crazy, expensive.
Just thinking that, you know, maybe
if I’m going to be talking to your thing,
I don’t want to know,
start slurring and whatnot.
I should actually have done
podcasts while intoxicated in the past.
And it had entertaining results.
And I don’t think you’d want
to listen to that every time.
But it has been funny when it’s happened.
I want theme music.
I want– I want like
a– the Ninja Ninja Pips.
Like a quiz show.
Oh, I’ll see like my theme music.
Well, no, no, I can’t have
an individual guest music.
Because then I would
have– I guess I could.
I couldn’t make it.
That’s– the problem with music
in me is I don’t have the talent.
That’s why I have to pay
people to make music that I like.
I mean, no offense.
No offense.
No, no, I haven’t taken any yet.
I know.
But if you were to
just, like, just snatch a
son down from the
interwebs to put it on here,
I don’t think anyone is coming
to check you’re copyright.
Oh, it’s not– that’s
actually not the problem.
It’s the automated systems.
They catch it.
So like, I actually do stay
away from copyrighted music
and stuff, because I’m
doing that movie channel.
And it gets doomed regularly.
And I have to then send it
a letter to, I guess, YouTube.
I think it actually goes to
them, the copyright holder,
to say, like, this is– because
I’m doing reaction videos,
because I’ve transformed it, and
I have to do like fair use and stuff.
I do that like every second or third video.
Like, the automatic system is amazing.
Really, it catching stuff.
Are you talking computers?
Yeah, so, like, it’s not like
any person’s coming for me.
The algorithm is just waiting for you.
OK, anyway, so the quiz.
Dada, dada, dada, dada,
dada, that’s McDonald’s.
McDonald’s is going to come for me.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
Oh, that’s quite good.
I’ll take that.
So this is summertime in Japan.
It’s very hot.
That’s where it’s there.
Maybe the important– so
Japanese schools often have pools
and they’ll have swimming
classes, so all the kids can swim.
It’s part of gym class.
Oh, god.
You know that.
Oh, god, no.
What do you mean, you’re art?
What do you mean, oh, god, no.
We haven’t even started yet.
But school and swimming pools and a quiz.
Yeah, no, because the quiz
is always some horrible stuff.
So the premise now is, how
can I make the premise sound
innocent, knowing that
it’s going to be awful?
Two girls were four minutes
late for swimming class.
Now, you’ve had students
who are late for class.
You’ve been late for class yourself?
That’s probably, what kind of punishments
I basically teachers
like don’t do it again?
Yeah, that’s four minutes.
People are late sometimes.
If it’s not a regular occurrence, you just
tell them, please be careful
about the about your time
management in future,
and you keep it pushing.
Yep, good.
No, that’s very reasonable response.
OK, so you know that’s not how this went.
So the students were four
minutes late for swimming class.
This teacher said, like, what happened?
And the student says, it took
a long time to walk to the pool.
So the pool is about 50
meters away from the school.
But I’m assuming they have to, like,
change and go through things and so on.
So I don’t really know this,
the layout of the school.
What do you think the
punishment of the students was?
What do you think?
How do you think the
teacher punished the students?
So here are your four choices.
A, they had to swim laps
until failure, until exhaustion.
B, they had to stand on the
side of the pool on the sun.
C, the teacher insulted the
student’s appearance in a bathing suit.
Or D, the teacher made all the
students walk back to the school
and back again in the hot
sun to, like, check the time.
So again, now as you change
it, please ask questions.
I don’t want to get– I don’t
want to make a assumption.
So I’m going to ask, is the
teacher a man or a woman?
It was not disclosed, but it
seems like it was a woman.
OK.
Because I read it in
Japanese, and the Japanese
is technically gender
neutral when they use sun.
So it’s hard to– Is
this a new teacher?
I don’t think so.
I think this was a fairly
experienced teacher.
I actually think the teachers
who do the shitty stuff
are the experienced teachers, because
they feel like they can get away with it.
I think a new teacher
would be more careful.
Like, they might punish the student,
but they might be like, I
don’t want to get fired today.
Yeah, they would do the thing to extreme,
because the old school
teachers are the whole watch.
Yeah, all the stories, the
punishment stories and stuff,
has always been like
these old school teachers
have been doing it
forever, which I assume
means they’ve been
abusing children forever.
Or yeah, they’ve been getting
more and more bold with their abuse.
Yeah, my Japanese is so bad.
My camera just went out focused.
That’s all right, that’s all right.
No, I can’t use the video if
the camera is not in focus.
Come on, come back.
Come back.
It sounds like a backwater’s
place, so they’re old-fashioned.
It’s a small town.
It is not a big city, yeah.
Thanks, Sue.
So I’m going to– old-fashioned people
are kind of hardcore compared to– Yep.
So I’m going to, I’m
going to recheck to be.
You’re going to reject standing the sun.
That’s super hardcore.
No, it’s not.
OK.
I mean, you’re from Canada, right?
I’m from Canada.
Yeah, you think the sun is hardcore.
That’s not hardcore.
No, no, no, that’s just a sun.
So in Canada, we don’t worry
about the sun as much as the cold.
So all the– yeah, I remember in middle
school, I went to Emily Carr Middle School.
You don’t know who Emily Carr is.
She’s a very famous Canadian artist.
And we had to recess where
we would have to go outside
for like 40 minutes or
something on an hour.
And it would be like minus 20 regularly.
That’s child abuse.
Yeah, but they were
like, no, you’re Canadian.
Go outside and play.
And we did.
It was– like, now that I think about it,
I’m like, you can’t send kids out in that.
But yeah, every day.
February, February, where I lived almost
every single day was minus 10 would be warm.
Minus 2015, 20 would be normal.
So a cold day, minus 25.
Then then– OK, well then, I think
we can’t understand each other because
like, maybe– yeah, you’re extreme cold.
You know, it’s bare.
It’s livable to you.
I am from the heatwork
experience right now.
This is my home heat.
Jesus Christ, man.
I can send aside this
heat all day long, literally.
I might be unhappy,
but I’d be like, you know,
I didn’t play games with
you outside in a seat.
I’m unhappy, but yeah.
So standing, standing
beside a pool, our country.
No, they’ll be fine.
They’ll be fine.
I’ll be fine, OK.
That’s not enough.
All right.
Oh, women are hateful.
OK.
That’s a statement.
Old women are hateful.
I get a book quotes in that.
That’ll make a t-shirt.
We’ll make a t– we’ll have a– we
need to use Japan merch coming out.
Old women are hateful.
Old women are hateful.
They are though.
So they wouldn’t sell–
they wouldn’t sell younger,
pressure, you know, percure,
you know, women’s appearance.
So I’m going to keep staying there.
Body shaming is so normalized in Japan.
So much so.
Did I tell you about– did I
tell you about my elevator ride?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We’re the old man.
She’s like, I got it.
Old man literally touched
my belly and called me fat.
And I was so close to
punching me in the face.
Hey.
Like, I mean, your own medication now.
Yeah, man.
That’s rough.
Rolling by, rolling by, it’s home.
One brick wrapped in a towel.
It’s embarrassing on fire.
Wow.
I mean, if you didn’t
see it, I didn’t see it.
You planned it out.
I mean, I have years of paying to me.
Call me hateful.
How about that?
I’ll take it.
There’s another t-shirt.
That’s the back.
The front is old women are hateful.
And the back is Tommy’s hateful.
I don’t buy that today.
That’s a good shirt, actually.
So yeah, the old ladies would insult you.
Welcome back and forth in
the hot heat to understand time.
But also, that’s the same thing.
It’s standing in the heat.
D is out.
So you’re between A and C now?
Yes.
Swimming laps into the exhaustion.
And then teachers solstice appears.
A is so reasonable.
Like, like, if you’re a hardcore teacher,
he’s like, you know, you’re always late.
So I’m going to make
you fucking learn today.
You swim laps until you’re fucking
tired and you fucking understand.
That is that while extreme is reasonable.
And you had a swimming pool.
So like, you know, it all pans out.
I think that is the most sensible one.
Our red laps is being
swimming laps or running laps.
It’s the same thing.
So that’s too reasonable.
It’s the– OK, C, insult
to the students’ parents.
She went hard.
Incorrect.
It was D, the teacher made all 40 students
walk to the school and back barefoot
and 21 students ended up
having burns on their feet.
Oh, I’m sorry.
I don’t think you mentioned that all
the other kids were impacted by this.
I don’t know.
I said all the kids had to walk.
I did say that.
I didn’t say the burn part.
That’s a bit of a giveaway.
It’s too many people.
Yeah, all the– so the
teachers– these two
kids show up late, four
minutes late for class.
And the teachers like, all you guys suck.
Get out of the pool.
I don’t know if they’re in the pool yet.
But let’s say get out of the pool.
Walk back to the school and walk
back here and see if it takes four minutes.
And so they made all
them– but they’re all barefoot.
And it’s probably tarmac.
It’s probably black, like
parking lot or something.
Half the students, at
least half the students,
had burns on their feet
by the end of this process.
And had to go like the school nurse.
The next day, a parent called to school
saying, like, why is my child’s foot burned?
And I’m not even one of
the kids who was late, right?
So the kid who didn’t do
anything has burned feet.
The school pulled the wheel, make
sure there’s not a reoccurrence.
But I actually hate that one
because if you get in trouble
for making kids walk back and
forth, you’re not going to do it again.
So it’s already not going to reoccur.
You’re going to find some
new and creative weight
to punish them next time
because you’re an asshole.
The teacher apologized, but
has not– I don’t know, man.
I would have made the
teacher walk the same path.
On a hot day, take your
shoes off, walk with them.
I would post live the
fucking teacher accidentally.
Yeah, this is it.
Like, I don’t get what’s going
on in your brain at that point.
I guess it’s just like,
what are you thinking?
It’s like they don’t understand.
It’s 34, 35 degrees outside.
And the parking lot is black.
So it is like literally the hottest thing.
So I have– I walked Dave.
I got to think about
like, oh, he’s essentially
barefoot on the road if
we’re walking on the road.
No, it’s– if some of
the kids are in the pool,
there would be, you
know, soft and tender.
And yeah, no, like, moisturized
and ready to give you a burn.
Extra ready for the birds.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
So I was never punished that badly.
I think, again, this is sort
of the weird extremities
of Japan, come to light in these news
stories that people don’t know about that.
With all the polite culture and stuff,
there is this like
underlying strictness that is
just off the chain with
some of these teachers.
And it’s like, god damn.
56% of 17 to 19-year-olds have
no interest in the imperial family.
That’s kind of the headline.
And in my head, I was like, 56%.
Seems kind of low.
I can’t imagine 17 to 19-year-olds care
at all about the royal family in any bit.
So they did a survey.
And they did a survey and
there were 1,000 respondents.
And they did this survey because the
voting age in Japan has been lowered.
It’s gone from 20 to 18.
And this means the opinions
of 18, 19, 20-year-olds
is now sort of more
important because they
can vote and influence elections
and whatnot if they get out and vote.
So what they care about is
something we need to know.
I actually think it’d be important
to know what everyone cares
about, but that’s an
opinion for another day.
One of the questions was, do
you care about the imperial family?
And it was, yes, somewhat,
yes, somewhat, no and no.
So the actual numbers were 9.8% said
yes, which again, seems very high to me.
Oh, sorry.
34.5% said somewhat, yes,
which if they had a completely
neutral option, that’s
where mine would be like,
I don’t not care like
if they do something
interesting, I’d be
interested in hearing about it.
But on an average day, I do not think about
the imperial family or any royal family.
I do come from Canada where
they don’t have a royal family,
but we do have the queen
on our money or used to.
I don’t know.
I think changing to the
king, I can’t believe they are.
Southern momentary lapse of thought, as I
think about something completely different.
28.8% said somewhat no and 26.9% said no.
And that became, and that
came to 55.7% said they have little
to no interest in the
imperial family, which is,
again, I thought going to
be a much bigger number.
I was thinking 70, 80% would say no.
And then the somewhat
no’s would be like 10% and then
everyone left over was
going to be on the yes side.
They followed up with another
question to the people who said no.
And they said, how could we increase
your interest in the imperial family?
And then I, again, first
question for me was, why?
Like, why do I need to care
about the imperial family?
Why is the imperial family important?
Prove them as being
important to me in some way.
And I will then show interest.
It doesn’t go the other way.
Like what can we make them do
to make you interested in them?
No, they have to do something interesting.
And then I’ll be interested in them.
48.1% of those respondents.
So this is again, 50%
of the previous survey.
So now we’re down to like
500 people said, I don’t know.
Perfect answer.
How can you make the imperial
family more interesting to me?
I don’t know because that’s
not my problem and I don’t care.
27.1% said, have a member of the royal
family close to my age, post on social media.
I was like, OK, I mean, that’s, again,
they could do TikTok challenges
and have the royal family.
But again, they were
actually very specific.
Have someone close to my age.
So I don’t want to see the emperor
doing TikTok dance challenges.
I want to see a team, a late team
doing TikTok dance challenges,
who just happens to be a
member of the royal family,
which I’m actually betting
they’re not allowed to do.
26% said the royal couple
could post on social media.
So maybe they do want to see the
emperor doing TikTok dance as I don’t know.
That’s a lot of people already.
I found it very, very weird
because I personally, at this point,
I think I’ve said it before,
you just get rid of them.
They don’t do anything.
There’s no benefit.
I understand that it’s a
nice idea, but it’s antiquated.
And I have no desire to follow up on it.
When he ate your old was arrested,
and he was arrested for shooting a BB gun
at people waiting at
a nearby train station.
So he basically had an apartment building,
an apartment building
overlooked a train line,
and he could see the train station
so people standing on the platform.
The platform was about 40
meters away from his balcony.
So I’m assuming that’s
not an angle and stuff.
He was arrested.
There were, uh, he hit at
least two or three people.
Uh, there was someone
who got hit in the
shoulder and then
someone got hit in the leg.
They said there were no injuries.
I bet it’s stung, but again,
yes, at the end of the day.
It’s not like they have to
go to the hospital or anything.
It doesn’t seem like
anyone got hit in the head.
So I don’t know if he was going for
headshots or it was just really bad shot.
80 BBs were discovered on
the platform over two days.
So either a lot of people didn’t
report it or maybe didn’t even notice,
because maybe he got hit
and just thought it was like a
bug or something and then
just didn’t notice what happened.
These couldn’t have been that powerful.
I got, when I was a little
kid, I was like nine or 10.
I was walking, it was like evening.
I was walking with my
friend and then this guy was
just standing in a field
and we were over playing.
I don’t know, we’re doing our little
kids, probably just walking in a circle.
And then as we started to
leave, I heard something and then I
got hit in the back of the ear
and it was BB gun and it hurt.
Like my ear was swollen, I was crying,
my parents called the police and stuff.
There wasn’t much they could
do, we never heard about it again.
So I mean, that’s not a
great resolution of that story.
There was no CSI
investigation into the great BB
murder of this place in
Ontario when I was a kid.
But this means multiple people
have gotten hit and not reported at all.
So it couldn’t have been
the same level of sort
of power of my
experience when I was a kid.
Or maybe they’re wearing
like clothes and stuff and it
hit the clothes and just
didn’t have any real impact.
The police, of course, figured it out.
It’s not hard to figure out.
Okay. There’s someone, someone
shooting BB guns, let’s look
up in the other direction of
where the BBs were coming from.
What do we see? Oh, hey, there’s
a building with a bunch of balconies.
Let’s go start doing a little
canvassing there or maybe they
did a little stake out and they
actually saw the guy shoot some.
They actually would have been interested
in that part. How did they catch this guy?
Did they do a stake out for the BB?
Oh, man, I just, again, I kind
of come with a cool nickname.
BB King, that wasn’t bad.
That’s not good, but it’s not bad.
When they arrested him,
they went of course, search his
house and they found eight
airsoft guns and confiscated them.
So he was obviously some sort
of collector. He enjoyed airsoft.
He enjoyed these kind of guns.
He enjoyed, you know, BB guns.
Couldn’t, couldn’t control
himself. So this is one of those
things like if this continues,
if this is sort of sparks off,
these things sort of come in
trends. So if I now get like three,
four, five more stories of people
shooting other people with BB guns,
even if they’re like
non-lethal, I could see Japan
just like, okay, we’re going
to do a BB gun control.
Again, I don’t know what I’ve said. In the time
I’ve been doing the indigenous Japan, there’s
a couple of things that have become sort of
controlled that weren’t controlled before.
Crossbows was the one
that sticks out the most.
The crossbows were not a
controlled weapon system thing.
And then there were like two
or three murders over a couple
of months or attempted
murders and then they became a
controlled thing. Now you
have to be licensed and stuff.
Japan doesn’t mess around like
if you do attempted murders or
attempt to hurt other
people with stuff, they already
have like knives and stuff.
They’re already controlled.
If I’m carrying around a knife
and I don’t have a reason for
carrying right a knife, I can be
arrested for carrying that knife.
So this is one of the thing tourists
who come to Japan, I used to carry a
pocket knife. You just carry a Swiss
Army knife with me wherever I went.
Primarily for the screwdriver,
but if I now get caught and I
don’t actually have a reason
for carrying that Swiss Army knife,
you can technically be arrested
for that. There’s supposed to be a
size limit on the blade, but they
don’t actually take that seriously.
They’ll hold you for the
full like 20 days just to
cause your life a lot of
problems. When he was arrested,
he was asked why he did
this and he said to the police,
“I wanted to shoot people
and see their reaction.
” The reaction couldn’t
have been that big because no
one seems to have been
significantly injured enough to
like go to the
hospital or report this.
A lot of people don’t seem
to have reported it at all.
So the reaction couldn’t have
been that big, so was it worth
getting arrested for? And he
got all his guns confiscated and I
Gonna go ahead and bet
those were expensive guns.
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