Tag: harassment

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Japan has decided to get
stricter on their cycling rules.

I mean, Japan as a country
is already pretty strict.

We’ve talked about the
incredibly strict gun laws in Japan.

We’ve talked about how there
were some crossbow shootings

to try to get around the gun laws so
then they made crossbow control laws.

Like, something happens in society
in Japan reacts by creating laws.

I’m waiting for IRL public streamer laws.

With Johnny Somali in
the advent of a bunch

of other streamers
doing something similar,

I’m waiting for those
laws to become a thing.

They have decided to get
really strict on bicycle laws.

This came as a bit of a surprise.

There’s a big bicycle culture in Japan.

Not a bad thing, I think bicycles are good.

But they wanna make it safer.

So a couple months ago,
maybe the end of last year

we talked about how drunk
bicycling is illegal in Japan.

You are responsible
for any accident you

cause while being drunk
on a bicycle in Japan.

There are severe fines of Japan.

Well, they’ve now decided
to add like 100 more things

that are going to be illegal and
findable if you do it on a bicycle.

So just some of the
highlights, just so you know,

holding an umbrella is going to
be illegal while cycling in Japan.

Having the clip on the
front of your bicycle

to hold the umbrella is also going to be
illegal because it can inhibit your view.

From April 2026, there
will be a 5,000 yen fine

for holding an umbrella
while riding your bicycle.

There will be a 12,000 yen fine for using
your mobile phone while riding a bicycle.

Well, this one I actually agree with.

The cycling one with
umbrella, I’m a little torn.

I get, they want you to wear like this full
body piece of plastic rain suit, I guess.

I don’t know how feasible that is.

I got caught in the rain yesterday.

So maybe I have a little sympathy.

But I guess overall, they
don’t want you to have like one

hand on the bicycle and
one hand on the umbrella

and a gust of wind and it blows you
into the road or something like that.

There is a, the goal
here is safety for people.

So I’m always kind of on board with that.

The cycling while looking at your smartphone
is an incredibly normal thing I see now.

Primarily teenagers on their way to school,

they’re on their phone,
they’re on their bike,

they’re zipping down the
road, they’re not even looking.

I’m actually worried about those kids.

Now, I don’t think a 12,000 yen
fine is actually going to stop them,

but hopefully it helps
somebody, I think it’s worth doing.

A 6,000 yen fine for
ignoring traffic signals,

but that’s going to be
like you’re on your bicycle,

on your smartphone and
you blow through a red light,

you now get a 12,000 yen
fine for your, using the mobile

phone and a 6,000 yen
fine for blowing the red light.

There is also a 3,000
yen fine for double riding.

Double riding is seen as this terrible
thing, but it’s also very romantic.

So this is a problem
where culture has made a

girl riding on the back
of her boyfriend’s bicycle

or riding on the handlebars
and then double riding together.

There’s a very youthful romantic thing.

It happens in manga, it happens in anime.

It’s a love story thing.

So people want to do the love
story thing they’ve been raised with.

It’s also slightly dangerous.

So screw you 3,000 yen please,
although that is a nominal fee,

I don’t think it’s really
going to be a big deal.

(upbeat music)

If I said host of the NTV show,
the exclamation point, Tetsuhan,

Tetsuhan exclamation
point, dash double

exclamation point, his
name is Kokobun Taichi.

He’s a 50 year old dude.

He was also the keyboardist for the band
Tokyo, and he suddenly disappeared from TV.

If you had to guess, having
listened to an introduced pen

in the past, if you had to guess why or
what happened, what would you guess?

This would be a quiz, this
would be the easiest quiz ever,

’cause it’s like a 50 year old Japanese
man who has a certain amount of power.

Sexual harassment, just across the board.

You know it’s already sexual harassment.

I don’t even have to read it.

The funny thing is the TV channels like,

oh, we’re just going to say he violated
compliance rules, but it’s like, no,

it’s a 50 year old dude on
Japanese TV who’s famous.

He was sexually abusing people around him.

He was harassing people around him.

It’s something like that.

He touched someone inappropriately.

They, he disappeared from the band.

He disappeared from his TV show.

And I actually am more deeply offended

by the fact that they had
double exclamation points.

They had an exclamation point, ’cause
it’s like, you can’t be the Tetsuwan dash.

It’s the Tetsuwan.

And I don’t know how you
double exclamation point, how

you make that sound
stronger, but the name bugs me.

Japanese TV names are already bad.

This one, I don’t know,
was particularly offensive.

And the fact that this guy is now
this guy, I never knew who he was,

but then as soon as I saw the title,
it was like 50 year old Japanese man

removed from his TV show
and kicked out of his band.

I knew what was going on.

Apparently it’s not just sexual harassment.

It’s also like a power
harassment abuse kind of thing.

He was pulling an Ellen
DeGeneres on his staff.

So basically if he saw you as equal,
so you’re a Tokyo band member,

you’re a boy band member,
you’re of a certain social status,

you have a certain amount of fame,
then he treated you really nicely.

He was really kind of, but if
you were anywhere beneath him,

he would like lose his
shit on you regularly.

So shouting was a daily occurrence.

He asked female staff members for nudes.

He asked them to go on dinner dates.

He did non-consensual
touching on a regular basis.

This was reported multiple
times for being overly familiar.

And of course the station didn’t
do anything about it for years.

So now it’s come to the forefront.

Now he’s being pulled.

I mean, I don’t even know what to say.

There’s nothing I can say.

This is just such a standard thing now.

Famous guy.

The bit that boggles me, I
think, is, I’m a 50 year old dude.

If I really needed to, I could get a date.

If I was famous and rich, I
think it’d actually be quite easy.

I don’t need to be shitty to people.

I don’t need to be mean or cruel
to people to get that attention.

I’m already getting the
attention of being famous.

And then, oh, I could
be nice to some girls.

And I bet they would
give me attention back.

I can’t fathom how these
guys are finding it difficult.

Demanding nudes from ladies.

That’s not gonna get you anything.

I mean, that’s, I think
that’s the short version.

I think that’s not gonna get you anything.

Why do they think this is gonna work?

You can leverage your fame
and your wealth and get that stuff.

Why, why, why do you gotta
be a dick about it as well?

(upbeat music)

This was a very interesting
piece of dental fraud,

which is a very, very
specific kind of fraud, I guess.

I had a very hard time
finding good dentists in Japan.

So, doctors, I’ve been very lucky.

I’ve had people, my
friends, co-workers and

stuff tell me some
horror stories about them,

not finding good doctors over the language
barrier, being too much or whatnot.

I have had very good luck with doctors.

I had to try a couple dentists.

I found a good one who
went to my university,

which gave me a lot of
confidence for some reason.

I think because there was an understanding

that he was going to be
using more modern techniques.

I went to another dentist
in an emergency situation,

and he started like
banging away at my mouth,

and I’m like, you should
not be banging teeth ever.

Like, that’s just a given.

Just dentists should not hit teeth.

Because I had been told
there was a crack in my tooth,

and I guess he wanted to, if there wasn’t
one, he was gonna make one and then fix it.

Anyways, got out of there real quick.

This guy told patients that
they would get a treatment

fee of 2 million yen
refunded if they provided

their medical records and then a
cooperation fee would also be refunded.

It’s very complicated.

Okay, the story is very complicated.

Let me start again.

This guy was running a scam.

His dental clinic was in a rears.

He was gonna go bankrupt.

So he started telling
patients that they paid

2 million yen upfront, and then
they provided their medical records.

They could get that 2 million yen back
and essentially making the dental work free

because they’re allowed
to use the dental records

or share them with
other sources and stuff.

There was also a 2
million yen cooperation fee,

which once all the treatments
were completed, they would get back.

So he’s basically saying,
you give me 4 million yen,

and you will get money
back later, all of the money

back, and essentially,
this is just free treatment.

He’s received more than a dozen complaints.

He was doing this to
more than a dozen people.

And what would happen is
he would delay the treatment.

So he would actually
never finish the treatment.

So he would never actually
get to the point where he actually

had to pay someone back the
money that had been promised to them.

One patient paid over 7 million yen.

Oh, sorry, that’s totally different.

Since 2013, his clinic was 7
million yen in a rears for rent.

He had not paid employees since January,

and since April he had been
running the clinic by himself.

So that’s already something
you should take note.

If you go to a dental
clinic and it has staff,

and then you go back
for your second treatment

and all the staff are gone,
and there’s just the dentist,

that’s suspicious, there’s a problem
there, there’s a money problem there,

he’s not paid a staff,
all his staff have left.

So I’m really glad the staff got out,

maybe they lost a paycheck or two, that’s
unfortunate, but at least they’re not like,

constantly one of these people
who have been like, bamboozled

by the dental guy, and they’re
actually still working there

with the promise of
getting paid down the line.

He is suspected of taking 100 million yen.

He promised a patient that
he would replace the silver

fillings they had with ceramic,
which I actually had done.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and I had
some silver fillings, and then when I got,

and I went for some dental work, he said
we can actually replace those with ceramic.

It’ll look whiter, like it
just won’t have those,

like silver things in your
teeth, it looks better.

I find I did it, I don’t
remember it costing particularly,

a lot of money, but maybe I
didn’t have as many as this lady.

He said it would cost five million yen.

Then he convinced her that if
she paid another five million yen,

the whole 10 million yen would be returned,
refunded at the end of the process.

So basically he’s saying
like I’m gonna take this,

I’m gonna put it in here, I’m
gonna invest it, I’m gonna do

something with it, and then
I’ll give it all back to you.

You just gotta give me the tell me again.

Since they had already started the work,

she had already been convinced that
this was a treatment that was a real thing.

So that’s how they kind of got her.

So he would start the work,
convince them to spend more money,

they would spend more money,
and then he would just drag it out,

or he would stop like
returning phone calls.

He never got to the end part
where he had to pay them back.

She got real suspicious when he said,
I need to remove four of your teeth,

and then after the operation
said he had removed five teeth.

She’s now like, I’m losing teeth
that I wasn’t supposed to lose.

I don’t know if this guy’s actually
taking any of this seriously.

So basically he’s just like, well, I
gotta take something out of her mouth.

So this is again, there
is a very good chance

that none of this dental
work had to be done.

He was just convincing
people that it had to be done.

He was talking like implants,

like I’m gonna go into your
jaw and put an implant in there

that maybe was completely
unnecessary just to generate

more work for himself so
he could get more money.

But the scam was that he
never finished treatments.

He was in so much trouble financially.

So we don’t actually know what he was
actually like spending all his money on.

That his father who had
a farm was selling farm

equipment to give him
to keep the clinic afloat.

This is just now all come to light.

He’s been busted for fraud.

And I hope he’s treated like shh,

because just digging
around in people’s mouth

for no reason just to
get money is pretty often.

Japan has a single adult doll
museum, which I didn’t know about.

I only learned about this
when I heard this story.

Now, the problem has arisen
that it’s in a private residence.

Which means you can’t just like go there

and like it’s not an open
museum to the public.

You have to like make an appointment.

You have to call the guy and say like, I
would like to tour your adult doll museum.

I would like to see
all the adult sex dolls.

And then you make an appointment and you
come visit and maybe he guides you through.

I’m not sure how it works.

I haven’t looked into it too closely.

I don’t know if I would
be really comfortable going

to someone else’s house
that has been arranged

as an adult doll museum
from being really honest.

If it was like an official sex
museum like they have in

Europe sometimes, that’s
a different feeling, I think.

But if you think about the
internet, this is prime content.

This is the salacious
content that gets clicks.

This is stuff people want to see.

It’s really weird that it’s
in this guy’s house, you can

go ahead and assume this
guy might be a little odd himself.

He’s dedicated a big portion of his life
and his money to creating a sex doll museum.

There is a VTuber agency called Nijisanji

and they started bugging
the owner for an interview.

So they started calling
him and sending him emails

and saying like, hey,
we want to interview you.

And apparently they
were getting aggressive.

He actually called the emails disgusting.

And you said like, I don’t want
to do an interview with you.

I don’t like the way you’re
sending the messages.

I don’t like the way
you’re dealing with me.

I don’t like the way this is being handled.

This is disgusting.

I don’t want to work with you.

But someone from the agency
showed up anyways with no appointment

because, of course, they
could find out where his house is.

It was the chairman of the
VTuber company and another person.

They showed up and they
started trying to harass

him, trying to get
him to do an interview.

Apparently previously,
a VTuber had showed up

and gone through some
obviously made an appointment

and gone through and filmed,
which you probably weren’t

allowed to do without permission,
and filmed so that he had content.

And again, this is a private residence.

See, they basically
wanted to someone’s house

without permission to
film and started filming.

I know that’s very illegal in Japan.

So this guy has just
banned the entire agency.

The Nichi Sanji agency has been
banned from the adult doll museum.

I did have one question.

VTubers being virtual YouTubers.

If they’re going to go in and do this,
how do they get the VTuber into the video?

So I’m guessing that must be an
overlay they do later or something?

It seemed very weird to me.

I guess there’s
going to just be some

post-processing editing
that goes happens afterwards.

But these guys, again,
the internet has now

gotten into this vague
harassment territory

where it’s like, we’ve
got to push the limits.

We have to find more stuff we can
do and more people we can annoy.

And hey, here’s a guy who
has a very odd life he’s chosen.

Let’s disrespect him to get more clicks.

And now they’ve just got a blanket ban,

but I’m actually betting
that if they keep pushing it,

which if they’re modern YouTubers,
they’re probably going to do.

I bet this ends up with
some sort of legal issue.

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There’s a man standing at a station.

That doesn’t sound
like a very exciting story.

And the police were like,
huh, it’s really hot right now.

This was June 17th.

We’re getting into sort of the beginning
of the really hot period in Japan.

We’re just hit rainy season now.

But June 17th was a hot day.

Now this guy has his long
sleeve shirt and a vest on.

So that’s really hot.

They do have these
like air-conditioned fan

vests, but he wasn’t
wearing one of those.

So a policeman’s like,
this is very unusual for him.

He doesn’t even like roll up
his sleeves to alleviate some

of the temperature problem
that he must be experienced.

So this guy looks– he just looks
hot and not in a sexy, cool way.

He looks hot like my guy that guy saw it.

So the cop goes over and talks to him.

A lot of people coming
from other countries–

again, I’m talking primarily to Americans–

have this false belief that
the way things are handled

in other countries are the way they’re going
to be handled when you travel overseas.

Like, I’ve seen people–
Americans in the UK,

and because the
police speak English and

stuff, they think that
the rules are the same.

So they start talking about
like first amendment rules

or like read me my
rights and stuff where

none of that actually
exists in that country.

In Japan, I think
there’s actually the belief

that you are guilty
until proven innocent.

I don’t think they follow the
innocent until proven guilty rule set.

So they see you, and they
see something suspicious

that guy– that guy suspicious
looking he’s guilty of a crime.

Let’s go check it out.

That is a perfectly normal, reasonable
way for police to behave in Japan.

It is very annoying, and it’s scary,

because that means they
can stop and talk to you.

Foreign people,
often, if they’re walking

down the street, get
stopped and questioned.

That is not an issue in Japan.

And you can say it’s profiling.

And police have gotten
in trouble for it in the past.

But police manuals that
has come out, have said like,

oh, you see foreigners, they’re
more likely to commit crimes.

So they should be checked out.

Statistically, that doesn’t hold up,

but that doesn’t matter, because the
stereotype is there, and the police believe it.

So they’re going to
treat you like a criminal.

And again, in Japan, that’s OK.

They can get away with that.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

You do have rights, but a lot
of the police don’t necessarily

know those rights or don’t
treat you as if you have those

rights, and they can get away with it
which is how we’ve gotten to this place.

Anyways, this guy has a
long sleeve shirt and a vest on.

He looks hot.

Please ask some questions.

I’m like, I’m not answering your questions.

So that’s more suspicious,
because if you had nothing

to hide, this is again
sort of the antithesis

to the– if you have nothing
to hide surveillance state

that we might be living
in, what’s the problem?

He’s like, I don’t answer questions.

He refused to answer the
questions he walks away.

He gets in a taxi.

He goes to a train station.

He gets on the train.

He goes to the shinkansen
station, the bullet train.

He gets on a train going to Nagoya.

The police now at this point have
followed him through all these places.

They have called a
helicopter to follow him.

Because of the way, he just refused
to answer questions and walked away.

They’re like, something
suspicious about this guy.

While they’re following
him– so again, a helicopter

is following this guy– who technically,
as far as we know, has done nothing wrong.

Cops back at headquarters
have been radioed.

And they’re like, you know,
check security footage.

Let’s find out what this
guy was doing this morning.

So they start looking to this
guy back tracing where he’s been.

They find out he’s taken out 500,000
yen from an ATM using someone else’s card.

So he has actually committed a crime.

So here you get to the problem.

Like, I don’t actually
care about the crime.

The crime itself is not that
story, not that interesting.

He got someone else’s card.

He took money out.

OK, yeah, that’s a crime, sure.

But the police’s behavior
of following this guy

has now retroactively
been justified by the

fact that they’re like,
we were suspicious.

This guy is committed a crime.

We went to speak to him.

He behaved more suspiciously.

We went and checked.

Now we’ve found out he has
actually committed a crime.

You can see there’s like a
minority report justification

for the way the police behave because
the way they behaved is uncovered a crime.

When the guy gets off the bullet
train, he’s immediately arrested.

And we’re like, we know you’ve
taken 500 yen out of an ATM.

We know you, someone
else’s card, you’re under arrest.

The questions remain.

Should cops put so much effort
into someone wearing warm clothes?

So he was wearing suspicious clothes?

Should they have put that
much effort into following him

because he had technically done
nothing wrong in view of the police?

But as far as they were concerned,
he was behaving suspiciously.

That’s something to remember.

When you go to a new country,
when you go to a different country,

the rules from your
country do not follow you.

The rules may be different.

If this was all justified as far
as the police were concerned,

they are not going to
get any trouble for profiling

or whatever you might
want to call it, of this guy,

because they’re like, he
was behaving suspiciously.

You can actually say like
the cop has experienced

there was more to it
when they spoke to him.

He became more suspicious and
that’s why they followed up on it.

But in Japan, you should
be aware that I think

you are treated as guilty
until proven innocent.

You can interact with the police.

Most of my interactions with
the police have been very minor.

I’ve never been stopped on the
street by the police in question.

Like a lot of the people I know have.

I have gone to the police multiple
times and had very positive experiences.

So again, maybe I just exhibited different.

I’m maybe I’m not suspicious.

Maybe that’s it.

I just don’t exude that suspiciousness

that the police would take in
because of my friendliness and guy.

Although every time
I’ve traveled to another

country, I have been
treated like I’m a drug mule.

So that’s maybe everywhere else.

I just seem like the suspicious guy who
is carrying a kilo of drugs up his butt.

A man was arrested for selling a
colorized, pirated version of Godzilla.

So you were talking about the original
Godzilla, which was filmed in black and white.

And now with AI technology,
you can throw the video up online.

And AI will colorize it for you.

He sold it on a flea market website.

On the website, he claimed the colorized
films had their copyright expired.

So this was perfectly legal.

Like there was no copyright on the film.

Godzilla’s copyright
doesn’t end until 2031.

So actually, he’s pretty
close, like six years off.

But in six years there,
I’m sure there’s some

loophole where they can
like renew the copyright

or re-release the film
or something like that.

Godzilla’s copyright will never go out.

They’re never going to let it lapse.

The original Mickey Mouse
has, which I actually was

thought through by Disney
being as big a company as is

would have done something
to make sure that didn’t happen.

But yeah, there you go.

The old Mickey Mouse is now copyright free.

We need the poo, they did
those horror movies and stuff.

That came to mind because we have a, we
need the poo story coming up in a minute.

He was selling these for
3,000 to 30,000 yen each.

So I’m assuming it wasn’t, like the
price difference wasn’t for the same film.

Like he was doing different films,
colorizing them and then selling them online.

He was selling you a DVD.

I’m assuming, yeah, like a Godzilla
movie was expensive 30,000 yen.

And then some other
movie that wasn’t as

popular was 3,000 yen
in somewhere in between.

He had made 1.7 million yen in five months.

Police can’t, it became aware of this.

They have police who
basically apparently just troll

websites and stuff, cybersecurity police.

Yeah, they’re finding a
lot of cyber crime this way.

There’s working very hard
on copyright crime lately.

This has been a big set of
stories, this copyright copyright.

Japan’s doing everything it
can to protect its own IPs.

As promised, a 59 year old man, I
was kind of like gonna stop there.

59 year old man.

This is where we do another quiz.

Like what do you think the
59 year old Japanese man did

considering our theme of 50 year
old Japanese men and what they do?

Well, he was winning the pooling it.

So we knew the pool is famous
for wearing a jacket and no pants.

This man was walking along with a shirt,

sort of the upper body
covered the way it’s supposed

to be and his lower
body completely exposed.

It was two o’clock in the morning.

He was just walking around
apparently just airing himself out.

The police found, now I would normally
would have assumed he was drunk.

This is just sort of standard.

They found no alcohol or drugs detected.

So maybe he had something
in his system, we don’t know.

But he was just walking
around in the night air,

kind of like just getting
that all out in the open.

Just be careful, you walk around at night.

That is something you might run into.

(upbeat music)

Again, I could do a quiz.

The 16 year old went to a sushi restaurant.

And again, film the blank.

So you know it was for social media.

We could do a little bingo thing.

Like you know what you know
without me telling you the story.

You know he did something stupid.

You know it was on social
media and he posted it

to make his friends
laugh or to try to get viral.

And you know the police
saw it or the company

saw it and they just
went and picked him up.

Like, ’cause he did it on his own account.

Like, that’s already set.

I shouldn’t even have to like
say those things anymore, I guess.

The question, I guess
the devil’s in details.

Kuna sushi is one of those kite tennis
sushi places so it goes around on the loop.

And then after you have your plate,
you put your plate in this little slot.

That’s already, so you can put stuff in it.

It’s gonna slide down a little
thing, go in and get washed.

And that’s, I don’t know
what the mechanism is.

There’s some Rub Goldberg machine
that actually washes it just behind there.

I don’t know.

He’s like, I’m 16 years old, I’m dumbish.

And I’m not actually excluding myself.

I think every teenager is dumbish it.

I think I was dumbish it at 16.

I did some really dangerous stupid stuff.

Social media wasn’t really a
thing when I was a teenager

which I think is a good thing ’cause I
think I would have been one of the victims

of I wanna be famous
for doing dumb stuff online.

If I think of some of the stuff I had
done when I was 16 and I’d filmed it,

it probably would have gone viral and
it probably would have ruined my life.

So the popularity would
have filled my head.

I think it’s really good that
I didn’t grow up in this era.

I think I would have
been absolutely a victim.

I would be one of the people I
talk about now on this podcast.

He’s like, I’m gonna do something funny.

I’ll put something in the slot.

What can I put in the slot?

Well, he opened a condom
and put the open condom.

It wasn’t used.

That’s a generous, thankful for all of us
’cause then I would have had to go through

the whole thought process of how did he
get the condom to the place but whatever.

We don’t have to deal with that.

He opened a condom,
put the condom in the

slot, took a picture
of it, and then ha ha ha.

I’ll post that on X and
I’ll get really popular

and it didn’t include a sushi the company
which of course recognizes their own slots.

Reported it to the police,
he was immediately picked up

and he was arrested for
obstruction of business by fraud.

I do wanna know what part of that is fraud.

I’m still trying to find
a lawyer I can speak

to just to have these
questions worked out.

I’ve realized the problem is if I just,

as chunk of a beef
chest, send a message to a

lawyer, they’re just gonna
ignore it and then like,

hey, I can’t pay you,
they’re gonna ignore it.

I mean, these are lawyers.

So I get why it’s so problematic.

What is the fraud aspect?

‘Cause I can obstruction
of business, he’s doing

something gross that is
making the business disrupted.

100% on board with that.

But where’s the fraud in that?

He didn’t put a plate in the plate slot.

Is that fraud?

That’s the question I have.

Like, where’s the fraud aspect of this?

I’m not thinking he
should not get in trouble.

He should actually get in trouble.

I think they should like really make
sure that this stuff stops happening

because these sort of
shared spaces and restaurants

being abused like this makes it gross for
everyone else to go to these restaurants.

But I do want an explanation
as to what aspect of this

is legal and illegal, what he
did specifically, that was illegal.

Making a dirty thing dirty.

I don’t see that as being fraud.

That must be something else.

Again, the obstruction of business.

(upbeat music)

Company president of a staffing
agency is walking down the road.

He’s got 7.8 million yen in his bag.

He’s gonna pay his staff.

It’s a staffing agency.

He’s gonna pay somebody.

It’s pay day for people
wearing masks and plastic

gloves run up behind him
and smash his face with spices,

which is already to me a very interesting
way of trying to assault someone.

Then they grab the bag
and they try to run away.

Company president doesn’t let go
of the bag and he starts screaming.

The four guys, they take off.

Well, it turns out it was for Indian
and Nepalese people who were arrested.

The fact that they stole the
money and tried to use spices

just leads us into this like weird
racist joke territory but they did it.

I don’t know what to do.

I was like trying to make
jokes and I’m like the

joke sound bad but this
is based on a real thing.

So what do I do with this information?

They didn’t get the money.

They didn’t get away.

So again, there’s CCTV everywhere.

They’re surveillance video.

The police just checked.

They backtracked it.

Just like that guy who is
suspicious on the trains platform.

They can find you anywhere now.

So I’m now thinking like any crime
in public is just already automatic fail.

You gotta figure something else out.

One of the Indian guys actually
worked for that staffing agency.

So they’re pretty sure
that he knew it was pay day.

He knew that the company president would
be carrying the money to go pay staff.

So these paying staff and cash, I guess.

Like I work for a company that gets
transferred automatically to my bank account.

I don’t actually ever
really carry cash anymore

and I pay with everything with pay pay
which is again, also an automatic transfer.

So they must be dealing with,

again, if the guy’s
Indian, he’s dealing with

immigrants and stuff, maybe
they’re paying them cash

’cause they don’t have
bank accounts or something.

But him knowing that and
then abusing that information

but then also like how
can we like disable this guy?

And on those, again, in a non-violent
way, we’ll just stuff spices in his eyes.

He had to take a week
to actually heal fully.

I’m just sure it was
inflammation and stuff.

But that’s pretty unpleasant.

He wanted to do pepper spray,
but didn’t have pepper spray.

So we were like, we’ll do some homemade
smack it in his face and see what happens.

It does not work out.

That was a really bad plan.

Don’t do that.

There’s a company called Neocorporation.

They do electricity.

So wiring and stuff like that.

They have a promise of an average
salary of 14 million yen, which is huge.

The average salary in Japan
right now, 4.5 million yen a year.

So they are talking like
more than double triple

the average salary if
you work for this company.

So that sounds really good.

That’s going to appeal a lot of people.

If you offered me three times more money,

I would be very interested
in working for your company.

They’re being sued by five ex-employees.

So that’s, huh, if they pay so well,
why would these people sue them?

Because of course, that amount
of money means they think

that you’re going to
put up with a lot of crap.

You’re going to put up with a lot of crap.

That’s going to mean power
harassment, sexual harassment.

It’s like all these stories now.

It’s now just become like, again, a given
as to where this story is going to go.

There was violence on a daily
basis is what they were saying.

They had severe punishment.

So if you got a traffic
violation, so you’re in electrician,

you’re going to have to drive two
places to do your electrical work.

If you do a traffic violation, you
lose your commissions for that month.

So that’s not just a
job, not the job you’re on.

You lose all your money for a
month because you like ran a red light

or got in trouble or in
some way, but you’re going to

be driving all day, that’s
going to have it by accident.

Like you roll a stop sign or something.

If there is a client cancellation,
you lose your commission.

You had to pay your commission back.

So you got your commission,
but you have to pay it back.

But they canceled, there’s
probably a cancellation fee and

stuff like that, which probably
includes your commission.

So I think you were paying back money
that you should have gotten regardless,

because maybe you were not the
reason or at fault for their cancellation.

They had recorded verbal abuse.

So apparently this was like a daily thing,

like every meeting just
included them shouting at you.

One employee said if they
were not meeting targets,

they were ordered to
send a full body nude.

And that full body nude was then
circulated around the company.

Now I think if someone,
if I was at my company

and they were like, you’re in trouble now,
you have to pay, you have to pay as back.

So you’re gonna send us a nude.

I think I would sub out my genitalia
part and send them someone else’s,

maybe a person from the internet,
so that it was particularly impressive

and be like, yeah, send that around the
office and see who feels bad about it later.

I think there’s a way around that one.

Like these guys are legitimately doing the
things that they were being told, I guess,

’cause they were being abused
physically and emotionally.

So they’re not in the
same mind space, I am.

Whereas I was like, oh,
here’s an opportunity

for everyone to think
that I am, you know.

With that, they think that I
am more of a man than I am.

One ex-benders said, it was very common,

if you couldn’t intimidate
your subordinates,

they didn’t think you
were management material.

One guy said that while
he was being berated,

that his manager would grab his
testicles and squeeze them really hard.

The manager says he didn’t grab
them that hard, it wasn’t that painful.

I don’t think that’s
his thing to interpret.

The company, when this
all started coming out,

said that we believe
these claims are based

on one-sided interpretations
and perceptions.

Now, it is very difficult to misinterpret

my manager grabbed my
balls and squeezed and hurt me.

And even if it is my-sided perception,

he hurt my balls is pretty
easy for me to prove.

It’s not a one-sided
perception that I had to take

a picture of my genitalia
and mail it to my boss,

who is then gonna
share it around the office.

I assume to try to humiliate me.

And again, I’m pretty on board with, let’s
just sub everything out or make me sell,

you know, I might set up some lights and
try to make it look as good as possible.

But, you know, that’s not
a one-sided perception.

This is something I had to take a picture.

I sent the picture to my manager, that
picture then made it around the office.

There’s no perception there, that happened.

So, now that this is going to court,
more of these things are gonna come out,

I bet we get a lot more crazy stuff
coming out from the new corporation.

Still, three times
more salary, if all I gotta

do is send pictures to
my junk around the office.

I mean, that’s something
I’m kind of doing anyways.

(upbeat music)

Oh, that’s in focus now.

So, I know I have a Dave Cam, Peter Cam,
Dave Cam, Peter Cam, this is kind of cool.

I don’t know how I’m gonna use this
yet, but just having a second camera

that I’m using for this
is gonna be kind of fun.

Dave Cam.

Yeah, he’s got a little
bald spot here where I

had to put medicine
’cause he has a little bump.

But the bump’s going away.

Look at this guy.

Oh, I was, he wants me to
scratch his belly, I’m sure.

And I think he puts his head here ’cause
it’s the metal in the glass of the desk.

It’s cool.

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