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Sexy AI ladies cause problems

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Okay, so last week I talked
about the Ghibli Art Style AI trend.

So OpenAI allows you
to say like I want to take

this picture and turn
it into Ghibli Style Art.

And then people are
using as profile pictures.

It kind of spread across Instagram.

All these people are like, oh
look, I made Ghibli Cartoon.

I’m so cute.

Now my point was, is
an art style copyrightable.

Because I don’t think it is.

The problem is to train
an AI on a style of art.

You would have to take the copyright in art

and feed that into the AI in order to
get the ability to reproduce the art style.

Okay, but that was a hard sentence.

So my feeling is, while they
can’t maybe sue for the art style,

they can say you clearly
have had to take copyright

and material, feed it into
your AI, and now you’re

producing this content
without our permission.

There might be something there.

People aren’t necessarily
taking my opinion too seriously

because I’m just a very tiny
podcaster in the world of the internet.

But there are other people,
artists who have some renowned

who are now taking to the
internet and saying like this is awful.

The director of one piece said that
they are in despair over this trend.

The fact that these clearly
copyright and materials

been fed into AI and that
AI is then taking that material

now is changing pictures
and that art style is going out.

And it’s being copied around the internet
and it’s really unfair because again,

you’re stealing art from
the artists who make them.

You’re stealing a style of art
that maybe someone took years

and years to develop and
learn and create themselves.

And you’re just throwing
it away in minutes.

So this led to this
actually being discussed

in the house of
brevity, but god damn it.

This led this to actually being
discussed in the house of representatives

because they were again having
the same qualms and queries

about that I do, like is
it copyright infringement

to steal a style of art when you’re
not actually stealing the art itself?

So if I make a copy of a character,
that’s copyright infringement.

If I do something that if I
draw a new original character

in the same style, is that
copyright infringement?

So this was part of their discussion.

If it is only a matter of the
style or ideas being similar,

then it would not be
considered copyright infringement.

He explained the law.

So that’s copyright law.

So if you’re not stealing
the actual thing, then it’s not

copyright infringement, even
if you do it in the same style.

However, if AI generated
content is determined

to be similar or reliant on
pre-existing copyrighted works,

then there is a possibility that it
could constitute copyright infringement.

So the use of styles and ideas is legal,
but an AI generated image were recognized

as being jibbly itself, then
it would be a violation of law.

So saying me as an artist,
I make a jibbly style image,

but I draw it myself,
as long as I’m not using

their actual characters
or properties, that’s fine.

But because AI doesn’t
have that process or thought,

they have to have taken
copyright and material

to learn from, then
there could be a violation

because they haven’t paid for that copyright
stuff to be used in the first place.

Dewey Sukarno is this lady on TV in Japan.

She’s like 70, something
years old, I hate her.

I hated her from the first time I saw her.

She just reeks of rich entitlement.

So she’s old, she’s rich.

She’s probably been rich her whole life.

She used to be really hot.

I guess she was on TV, she was famous.

She’s now famous for being old and rich.

And so of course she’s classy,
and I do that with air quotes.

She does all these like
really annoying things

that rich people do that are
really pretentious and awful.

And so everything about
her is the antithesis to me.

I hate everything that she embodies.

So I’ve always hated having her on TV.

My family used to watch
this show on Sunday nights.

She was a regular feature.

If she was on it, I would whip
out my phone or leave the room.

I found her that disgusting
to have in front of my face.

My family didn’t get it.

They’re like, guys, she’s just an old lady

and she’s kind of funny
because she’s out of touch.

And I’m like, no, she’s out of touch

because she thinks she’s
better than everyone else.

And I find that really gross.

Dewey Suckarno was in
a restaurant in Shibuya.

And she’s been accused.

Now accused is an interesting
thing because that’s the legal term for.

She did it, but we haven’t
actually prosecuted her yet.

She’s been accused of
throwing a champagne glass.

The boosiest crime you could commit is
throwing a champagne glass at someone,

injuring someone or
attempting to injure someone

or something they
probably couldn’t even afford.

They were at an employee of her agency.

So she’s sitting at a dinner.

There are six employees of
her agency working together.

They’re talking to her.

One of her employees obviously
says something that pisses her off.

Not her employee directly, but works
for the same agency that promotes her.

So she gets pissed off.

So she does what any
reasonable human being would do.

And she throws a glass, the only glass in
front of her, which is a champagne glass.

Of course, ’cause she’s a fucking
old bitch and I hate her guts.

The reason she got angry is
because they were talking about

a political party she
has recently formed now.

I was really surprised
to hear that this lady

had formed a political
party because I didn’t think

she had sort of any political
aspirations of any value.

And then I found out what the
stated goals of her political party were.

The one young peace party.

Now, if you don’t speak
Japanese, one young’s

already a big clue as to
what kind of party this is.

One is dog.

And Jan is sort of the sounds
that dogs and cats make.

So they go one, one, and Jan and stuff.

So it’s the one, Jan, peace party.

Focused on dogs and cats
protection policies exclusively.

So this woman who feels it’s
perfectly appropriate to pick

up a champagne glass and
throw it at another human being

is so devout to the protection
of animals, dogs and cats

that she’s actually forming
a political party to do it.

The level of fucking hypocrisy
in that moment is astronomical.

She has no regard for
the safety or wellbeing

of other people because
they’re not as rich as she is.

But you know this boozy bitch has a bunch

of fucking dogs and cats,
little poodles and shit.

And like I’m saying that while I have a
poodle in my own fucking lap right now,

because I would actually
never equate the value

of the animal to another
person in a negative way

like saying, well, my boozy little poodle
is worth more than your actual human life.

I might even find them
equivalent because I hate you and

love the dog, but that’s a
different thing altogether.

The dog has proved its value to me in a
different, I think I’ve gotten off track now.

I see my own irony in this statement as
I may say this thing because I right now

have a boozy poodle sitting
in my lap, the same which if

you watch the YouTube video
has a portrait of on my wall.

But I consider human life
just as valuable as the dog.

So I have nothing
against forming a political

party that will protect
the rights of animals.

I do think I have a problem
with forming a political

party that will protect
the rights of animals

who’s leader seems
to think it’s perfectly

acceptable to hook glass
at another human being.

It’s just such a rich lady thing to do.

I’m going to protect all
the animals in the world.

I don’t really give a shit
about the human sitting

in front of me, in fact,
they can go fuck themselves

if they don’t agree
with everything I say.

I think it’s perfectly
acceptable for me to throw

shit at their faces and
maybe scar them for life.

(upbeat music)

So we had a story about an American guy

who had a gun in his
backpack and turned himself in.

We have another story of the next week,

just last week of another guy who packed
weapons saying he intended to go to expo.

Now we have a sort of third story,
it’s expo related and weapons related.

So it just seemed to fit this theme.

Expo seems to be bringing out the crazies.

I think the first guy was
just coming to Japan.

I don’t think it was necessarily for expo.

The second guy though, specifically said,
I’m going to expo and I brought my gun.

Not making clear if
there’s a relation there.

I’m still actually
following up on that

story, seeing if there
is an actual connection

between bringing the
gun if he intended to

experiment with the gun
with the crowds at expo.

But this is why expo has extra security
because this kind of stuff is happening.

There was an 80 year
old man who was arrested

for claiming they had
a bomb in his backpack.

He basically was going into expo.

And they said, they want
to do a backpack check.

So they take your
backpack, they open it up.

When they go to open his backpack,

he says to them, “Ha ha,
there’s a bomb in my backpack.

” Staff, of course, can’t
tell if he’s joking or not.

So they do the only thing that’s
perfectly reasonable for them to do.

They call security, they call the police,

they shut down everything,
they get all the people out there,

like 200 people had to be
evacuated from that area.

And then they actually had to go
through his bomb and the man was arrested.

When he was arrested, he said, “I got
excited because I’m a fan of the expo.

“I said it half-in-just, I didn’t
mean to disrupt the event.

” Now, half-in-just is already
the wrong phrase to use.

You should not be joking at
all that you’re having a bomb.

But if you’re saying your joke is that
you have a bomb, it should not be half.

There shouldn’t be
like half a bomb in there.

You’re either going to make the whole joke

or no joke at all, the problem is
no one can tell that you’re joking.

And I actually hope this guy
gets quite severely punished.

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A Japanese music label has released songs
by Aki Ashido, previous hits and others.

So basically, this is one of
those like greatest hits of Aki,

all the songs that were
popular 10, 15, 20 years ago.

And they’ve decided that
we need something special.

So basically, everyone who’s
a fan already has these songs.

They don’t need another
CD with these songs.

So you have to do something to make
the people who really want to buy this CD.

So they included in the CD two nude
photos from when she was in her 20s.

The problem is she died in 2023.

So we have no idea if she
actually approved of this

or would approve of this or
has approved of this in writing.

So basically, these guys
have the rights to the CD.

They seem to have
the rights for the photos,

but they haven’t necessarily
gotten her permission

to publish them, but they’re
going to go ahead with it anyways.

Governors in the area are actually
saying that this should be canceled.

You should not be allowed to
release this without her permission,

without her statement without,
I don’t know if they do estates

like they do in North America,
without her estate’s permission.

But basically, everyone is
kind of grossed out about it.

But at the same time, you know a bunch
of people are actually going to buy it.

We’ve got a very weird AI porn-ven
diagram happening in today’s episode.

So we’ve already done one AI story.

We’re going to do, we
just did a new photo story.

Now we hit the combination.

Shui-e-shoes, Playboy magazine.

So not the Playboy magazine
you would be familiar with

from North America, where it’s just
like center folds and stuff like that.

This is more of a men’s magazine in Japan.

They do have bikini
spreads and stuff like that.

And that I actually never bought it.

So I don’t know if that’s 100% accurate.

But I know sexy girl
on the cover, sexy girls

inside, I don’t know
what they actually do.

I’ve never actually picked
one up and opened it.

On April 14th, so a couple of weeks ago,

they released an issue with Satsuki
I on the cover, I being an AI model.

This is not the first time she’s actually
been promoted or featured in the magazine.

She was first released,
’cause I can’t say like

she came to the scene or
debuted in summer of 2023.

They call her Playboy describes
her as a little sister type,

to a little sister type,
beautiful girl with a

raccoon face that
embodies every man’s ideal.

And this shows the very different
cultural way of explaining things.

So I don’t know what a raccoon face is.

I looked at the picture, I
mean, if I’m gonna be honest,

very attractive woman,
I get that she’s not

real, so it doesn’t really
do that much for me.

But she is a very ideal, pretty person,
but I didn’t see the raccoon aspects.

I assume they mean big eyes.

And small nose maybe,
maybe eats a lot of garbage.

I’m not really 100% sure what they
mean by raccoon face, raccoon faces,

clearly a type in Japanese
that I haven’t come across

’cause I haven’t spent
a lot of time talking

about women in Japanese
terms in Japanese.

Little sister type, again,
the fetishization of youth

is very set in Japan,
it’s a very common thing.

There’s not much you can say there,

we’re not getting away from
it even if you think it’s gross.

The only benefit here is they haven’t
tried to hide the fact that she was AI.

So viewer reaction is mixed.

Some people are like,
put real women in there

if you’re gonna put
real women in there.

And some people are like, oh yes, the
AI beauty ideal is the ideal of every man

because of course it can
actually achieve real ideals

and like doesn’t have
any sort of human flaws.

And we don’t actually
have to deal with people

and let’s face it, if you’re into this,
you’re not dealing with people anyways.

I don’t know how I feel about it.

I mean, my actual feeling is,
people are still buying magazines.

(upbeat music)

And then we get to
our final set of stories.

So I’ve stuck these two
together because they sort of,

again, the then diagram of overlap
is almost a circle with these two.

We’ve had the first AI
porn arrests in Japan.

And so four people were
arrested, three men and a woman.

They were arrested for the distribution
of a scene material in obscene images.

So they’ve been accused of training AI

from free internet tools
using data of women’s bodies.

That in itself is not a crime.

They said, we’re gonna take
these AI images of women we’ve

created and make posters
and you can buy those posters.

That in itself is not a crime.

They said, like the legal thing in
Japan is that if you have genitals visible,

you have to blur them out
or do a mosaic or something.

They said these posters, when you get them,

they will be censored, they will
be mosaic, they will be blurred out.

But when the posters
actually arrived, they weren’t.

So you were getting full genitalia
visualization of the AI image on the poster.

So you were getting, that’s
where the obscene part comes in.

The bit that was supposed to be censored

was not censored when you
actually received your poster.

They seemed to have
made 10 million yen last

year using selling these
AI uncensored posters.

Everything they did
before the uncensored bit

was technically legal when they actually
sent out the image that wasn’t censored.

That’s when it became illegal

and that’s when they all got
arrested and got in trouble.

Which leads me again to the
same statement as previously.

People are still buying
posters for their walls.

Like, I know it would be a
lot of work to train it yourself.

But also, you could just go on the internet

and do some printing at home
if that’s what you really wanted.

A new issue as a risen in Japan
and as the combination of AI

being used with graduation photos
and then deep faking them onto porn.

There is no national law
about deep fakes yet in Japan.

There is one into a totally prefecture.

So this seems to be where it happens.

So someone got to hold it
the data for graduation photos.

So these are very young people.

They’d be graduates of high school.

And they are taking those faces

and putting those faces in
deep faking them onto porn.

And so you have this
essentially still under age vision

of pornography being used
even though no one’s actually in it.

And then what they’re
doing is actually trying

to extort the people
saying, like, here’s a video

that I made a view,
give me extra amount of

yen and I won’t release
it on the internet.

Totori, a single prefecture
has made this a crime.

So it’s threatening, it’s extortion
and it’s using sort of revenge porn laws.

The revenge porn laws
are already in place in Japan.

So you’re not allowed to
take an image of someone

and post it on the internet to get
them in trouble or make them feel bad.

That’s already illegal.

Pretty much everywhere
in Japan, I’m pretty sure.

But this is a new version
because you’re not getting

a picture of them having
sex or images of them nude

and posting those on the internet
and threatening them that way.

You’re just taking their
face, which is almost publicly

available because of the
graduation photos and using that.

So now all these people
are basically sitting around,

A, should we continue with the
graduation book photo tradition in Japan?

B, is there any way we can protect them?

And C, if someone does this, do we have
laws in place to actually protect them?

And they are now– Totori
has now set a precedent.

So I’m betting other prefectures
will take that precedent

to be able to apply it to any instances
that happen in their actual prefectures.

Later on, so it seems
like, again, a lot of

rules are going to be
changing very quickly.

As AI becomes more common and more usable,

more laws need to be put in place to
actually protect people from the abuse of AI.

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Because of the way the golden
week holiday falls this year.

So it’s going to be the next two Tuesdays,
which is when I actually record this.

Ninja News Japan is going to be
on hiatus for golden week, at least.

I’m actually thinking of
revamping all the things I do,

because I have so many
things I actually want to do.

I need to rework my schedule
so I can kind of do everything.

I do see– I want– I do Ninja News Japan.

I want to bring C, McBee back.

So I’m actually trying
to make plans to do that.

I have another side
project called Sounds Great

English, where I teach
English on the internet.

I want to do that.

I want to work on Montana, El Diablo.

I want to learn new things.

I want to stream.

I have all these things I want to do.

And I’ve just simply sort of burned
down and trying to do them all.

So I’m going to take
at least golden week off

and try to revamp my life so that I
can do everything in a manageable way.

This might be Ninja News Japan
goes down to twice a month,

or every week, but it’s
shorter, or I do a bit every week.

I have no idea what I’m going to do yet.

But I want to do all these other things
in concert with doing Ninja News Japan.

I want to work on the new– on the next–

I want to work on the next
book from Montana, El Diablo.

I want to work on video projects.

I want to work on editing game
videos so they can go up on YouTube.

I want to work on C, McBee
IMDB, so you get more videos

of me making like Mystery Science
Theater-style jokes about movies.

So I’ve overwhelmed
myself with the things I

want to do, but I do
want to do everything.

And so this is just a case
of managing my time in a way

that I get to do a little bit of
everything, maybe every week.

So I’m not saying Ninja
News Japan is going away.

In fact, what I want to do is
bring more content to the internet,

but I want to do it in a way
that doesn’t actually burn me out.

So that’s kind of where I am right now.

I’m going to see you two,
maybe three, four weeks from now,

back with the Ninja News Japan, and I
actually put money on if I’m at home all day.

I actually bet I do an Ninja News
Japan just throw it out there.

But I don’t want to promise
that and then not do it.

So we’re looking at a two week
break minimum, maybe in a little bit–

maybe even a little bit longer.

But that doesn’t mean Ninja
News Japan is going away.

It just means I’m trying to make my life
better so that I can make your life better.

With more content that you can enjoy, and
hopefully just a broader variety of topics.

Aggressive Self Defense

(Electronic music)

We have some education updates.

Yay.

The government has asked boards of
education to make revisions to their rules.

Now they have a thing in Japan
called black rules and black companies.

Black companies, basically a black company,
this is where it sort of originated,

the terminology it came from, is a
company that you know abuses its staff

and tries to cheat you out of money.

And it does all the bad things.

It’s a bad company.

So they’ve employed that
terminology for other things

and so they have the black rules.

Now we’ve done several stories.

There was the rule that
some high schools had

that part of the
uniforms that you had to

wear, white underwear,
which brought up the,

basically human rights issue or
privacy issue of, how do you check?

There was a school a little while ago who
basically got sued because when this girl

was in high school, the school said, you’re
not allowed to date, she started dating,

and instead of sort of dealing with
that, the court said like you have a right

as a board of education
to say kids can’t date,

but instead of sort of dealing with it, you
forced the kid to stop coming to school,

that sort of beyond
your educational purview.

Then there was the girl
with naturally brown hair

and the school rule is that
you have to have black hair

so it made her dye her hair black

and it actually did damage
to her hair and her scalp.

She sued the school board.

The government has said, please review your
school rules so you’re not being dicks.

Now they phrased it slightly differently,
but that is basically what they’re saying.

Please review your school rules.

84% of education boards are
reviewing the rules on white underwear.

The government asks boards
to make revisions themselves,

but that means the government
isn’t making them make revisions

and they’re not putting up national
standards of what appropriate rules are,

which leaves a percentage
of schools that are not.

So that’s actually, so
84% are specifically looking

at the white underwear
rule, how it’s been enforced,

hasn’t been enforced, maybe
we should just get rid of that rule.

I actually suggested when
I first talked about this,

very simple change to the
rule would be, don’t check.

So basically you make
the rule if I as a teacher

can see your underwear somehow
through your uniform, it’s inappropriate.

So therefore if I can’t
see it, it’s not a problem,

which is actually how underwear works.

And that solves the problem because
basically I can say as a teacher,

look, I could see the students underwear,
maybe I could see it through the uniform

or I could see like bits were sticking
up or something, I could see it, it’s bad.

But if I can’t see it, I
don’t know what color it is,

I assume therefore it’s
a hearing to all the rules.

That still leaves a percentage
of schools that are not,

because the government has
not made this anyway enforceable,

it’s just a recommendation.

This has meant there are
certain percentage of schools

that are not going to
check or revise the rules,

which means in a weird way,
good for an English-nus Japan,

’cause year from now we’re
gonna get another story

about some kids sitting at school for
something that is honestly quite stupid.

But that’s just what keeps me going.

That’s terrible, I don’t wanna, I
actually, in a weird way, like news.

So this is all, it’s not news parody show,
but it’s like I do light news for fun.

It would be really nice if I
could struggle to find the news,

and then I would have to shut down the show

because the world is
so perfect, but of course,

as never gonna happen, people
are always gonna be weird.

(Upbeat music)

Speaking of weird, you
might remember the guy,

he was a teacher, this is
sort of education related

which why stuck these two together.

It’s also an update.

You might remember the
guy who was a teacher,

he went into a convenience
store, he had a bought a condom.

I don’t know why it’s weird
buying them individuals weird.

He said to the staff, I
would certainly enjoy

a touch of masturbation
right now, sort of in the mood.

Can I use your toilet?

Staff said no, apparently this
wasn’t the first time he did it.

But what is the fallout from that?

So he was basically
booted out of the

store, they called the
police and were like,

you can’t come in here
and ask to masturbate,

there’s something
wrong about that.

He was fired.

So there was nothing
really to arrest him for

because all he did was make a
request and that request was refused.

So he therefore had to leave.

But this attitude, this pervasive attitude,
this sort of way of living your life,

didn’t mesh with the
education board in Japan

and the school board found
out because it was national news.

Guy lost his job.

I mean, yes, I think it’s okay.

I don’t think this is the kind of person
who should be working with kids anyways.

Although at the same time, I don’t want,

god, should I be, should I
be like defending this guy?

No, absolutely not.

He wasn’t abusive.

He just asked a question and
then was told no and that was it.

You could argue that that’s not so bad.

Asking and then having someone refuse and
then you actually accepting the refusal,

in a weird way is how
it’s supposed to work.

But I feel dirty saying that.

Like I actually feel dirty saying that,

’cause it’s not, in this case,
I guess it’s not okay to ask.

That’s the problem.

The asking is the problem.

‘Cause I think maybe the
asking has an implication within it

and then you also as the staff member
know what’s going on in the bathroom.

So maybe that’s it.

It took me a moment to get there, sorry.

Yes, okay, I think the problem isn’t

that he asked and was refused
and then it sort of behaved

appropriately by leaving and not doing it.

The problem is the asking in itself
has an inherent implication, which is not.

It’s don’t do that.

Okay, yeah, I think we’re
on the same page now.

I don’t know why it took
me that long to get there.

I think it was hard for me to.

To lose a date to express
coherently why this was wrong.

But it’s because it’s not just asking.

It’s asking and putting an imposition on
another person and that’s why it was fired.

(Phone ringing)

So Japan has come up with its
new sort of self-defense thing.

It talks about that last time.

Sorry, everything on my desk has changed.

I’m moving everything around.

So I’m trying to find a
place to put my notes

so they’re still in front of me
without hitting the microphone

’cause that’s been a problem lately.

We had the conversation a little while ago,

Japan is talking about
increasing self-defense

and this is basically
we wanna have missiles

that can shoot other
stuff out of the sky

if it comes into Japanese airspace.

But then if someone shoots a missile,
someone shoots a missile towards Japan,

we should be able to not
only shoot up down that missile

but also the place it came from,
that still counts as self-defense.

And a lot of people are like, whoa,
that is very aggressive self-defense

you have going on there.

And we all know exactly
who we’re talking about.

The way they wanna pay
for this is through corporation,

taxation and taxes on cigarettes.

It’s going to double military spending.

Apple Japan was just hit
with 14 billion yen in back taxes

which is essentially
now 100% military funding.

I wouldn’t do it if anyone
was ’cause I edit all this, okay?

So all this like dumb shit i’m
doing right now, I get to edit it out.

And I’m wondering if people
like who watch the YouTube

which is still only like four people.

People watch the YouTube if they’re like,

the editing must be insane
’cause it’s me sitting talking

and then just big cuts and
then me sitting with a dog

on my lap, oh he’s very warm though.

It’s quite nice.

You’re gonna try to
keep him here for a bit.

It means I have to look down at my
desk so I can’t hold my notes anymore.

No dude, just stay still.

Okay, where are we?

That 14 billion yen in back taxes,
I gotta set this up somewhere.

This is the next step is
to put my notes somewhere

like where they’re standing
up so I can just look at them.

Newsreaders put it like
it’s sitting under the camera

so when they read does that,
mm-hmm, mm-hmm, like that.

That’s actually what I need to do.

I was looking at teleprompter
programs like just go to the studio note

but then I just think put it in a
point form and just do it that way.

I still might try that.

But I read all my notes.

That’s all just written out by hands.

(Sighs)

I kinda wanna start again but
we’ve already done 12 minutes

and the editing is gonna be a nightmare.

Actually maybe that’s
why I should just start again.

Nah, let me keep going.

I like the power through.

The 14 billion yen in back taxes is
based on the improper duty free sales

of iPhones to foreign tourists.

So basically tourists were coming to Japan.

They were buying an iPhone
but they were not paying taxes

on it because foreign
people don’t have to pay taxes

but this is not, maybe
the way they were selling it

wasn’t appropriate so it wasn’t
supposed to be sold that way.

So they have to pay that back
taxes, they have to pay the back taxes.

The back taxes then
now will go to self-defense.

The self-defense being
the ability to attack facilities

in other countries which is really scary.

But then of course everyone
knows, including north Korea,

knows who we’re talking
about as north Korea.

North Korea of course could not let
this stand and had to make statements.

Now one of my favorite things is the
way north Korea phrases statements.

I don’t know how good, the
translations must be good.

I don’t know how good they
are but they’re always awesome.

So this is the North Korean government

government foreign
ministry made this statement.

Japan’s foolish attempt to
satiate its black-hearted greed,

the building up of its
military invasion capability

under the pretext of
north Korea’s legitimate

exercise of the
right to self-defense

cannot be justified and tolerated.

I love that because, okay,
Japan is getting all antsy

because north Korea keeps shooting
its missiles over and around Japan.

And so if they would stop, Japan actually
probably wouldn’t be doing this military

strike capability thing.

North Korea is using
the exact same argument.

We’re not attacking anyone.

We’re exercising our right to self-defense.

Whereas Japan’s saying
the exact same thing.

We’re exercising our right to self-defense.

But it’s one of these things,
these dictatorships and stuff.

They say literally the
opposite of what we’re doing.

Missiles shooting over
countries is not self-defense.

And I actually think that
missiles being able to hit places

that shoot missiles isn’t
really self-defense either.

It’s a pretty extreme
version of the definition.

North Korea continues.

Our country will continue
to take actions to show

how much we are concerned and displeased
with Japan’s unjust greedy attempt

to realize its wild ambitions.

Even just the way they say it,
it’s very poetic, I quite like that.

The other threat at the moment, I mean,
sorry, Dave’s making little happy noises.

China had to weigh in as well.

And the Chinese foreign
ministry spokesperson said,

“the hyping up of the
so-called China threat,

China has been flying
airplanes into Japanese airspace,

bringing boats in around the islands up
north, doing all the things you would do

if you’re going to
threaten another country.”

Hyping up the so-called China threat

to find an excuse for Japan’s
military buildup is doomed to fail.

So really, yes, I’m not
happy about any of this.

I’m not happy about this
because I don’t like to see

military buildup because military buildup

does mean that eventually
someone wants to pull a trigger

and that’s not cool, but
the saber rattling statements

from countries and the disingenuous nature

of all those statements
is always entertaining.

We talked about a politician.

He was a youtuber and he
left Japan to go to live in Dubai

where he could still YouTube.

And what he does is he
exposes celebrity scandals.

He says if he comes back to
Japan, he’s going to be arrested.

So he’s not coming back to Japan,

but he decided to run for
government from Dubai on the Internet.

And he won.

So officially, this guy named
gassi is a Japanese politician,

but he does not live in Japan.

Gassi has been asked to come
back for voluntary question,

sorry, gassi has been
asked to come back to Japan

for voluntary questioning for
inflammatory posts, which is also slander.

A slander is illegal in Japan.

So basically they’re saying you come back

for voluntary questioning
and deal with these sort of like

things you’ve been posting on the Internet.

Whereas he’s saying if I come back,
they’re absolutely going to arrest me.

So it’s not in my best
interest to come back.

Since he’s been elected
to the government,

some celebrities have
submitted complaints,

claiming slurs and extortion.

So there’s actually the
secondary complaint that maybe

he’s been like blackmailing people.

If you pay me money, I won’t
publish this YouTube video.

But it seems like gassi is on the edge
of not being in the government anymore,

because sooner or later he’s
either going to have to come back

and deal with this stuff, or
they’re just going to boot him out.

(Phone ringing)

All right, we got some
work related issues in Japan.

Get my notes, I’m holding a dog
and trying to get my notes together.

There was a man who was, he
said he was exhausted from work

and he didn’t want to
come into work anymore.

So at 1.20 A.M., he called the police.

He’s been stabbed and he’s like, oh
god, I’ve been stabbed in the back.

I can’t go to work anymore.

When the police checked video
cameras that were in the area,

what they saw was, there
was no one else around him.

He had just been magically stabbed.

He was really stabbed, magically
stabbed in the back by himself.

And what he did was he
put a knife up against a wall

and walked back into it really
hard to stab himself in the back.

And he did this because he
didn’t want to go to work anymore.

He said he was exhausted from work.

So he stabbed himself in the back.

Now honestly, the
extremity of what he’s doing,

I would say yes, he really
shouldn’t have to go back

to work anymore because
he’s clearly actually exhausted.

They didn’t say what he does.

I really want to know what job
has made this man so exhausted

that he actually thought
faking his own attempted murder

was the best solution to the problem.

But the result is that he’s actually been
charged with interfering with police duties

because he’s basically filed a false
report and had taken up the police’s time

for a murder that never actually existed.

But he should take some
lessons from the next two guys

we’re gonna talk about
who found ways to

sort of alleviate the
stress of work at work.

And nagoya civil servant has been suspended

for surfing adult sites
while earning overtime.

So he claims he did it for relief.

Which if we’re being honest, is the number
one reason why you would surf adult sites?

You do it for relief.

He apparently spent, so computers and
government agencies are well monitored.

He spent 114 hours of
non-work related sites.

Now that’s not all porn.

58 of those hours were on adult sites
and eight hours of those were overtime.

So basically he was staying late at work

and looking at porn on the
work computer in his office.

And seemed to, so it’s bad to
look at non-work related sites.

But I think everyone does it.

I certainly do a lot of reading to keep
myself sort of aware of what’s going on.

I do a lot of news and stuff.

I probably could get away
with saying it was work related

but then I would have to stop.

These are going to be working for
the government, very different thing.

So non-work related sites would be pretty
obvious if you work for the government.

But then the porn sites
are going to be obvious.

The eight hours of overtime though,

like staying late in the office
when everyone else leaves

and then looking at porn
on your office computer,

that is being monitors
because they all are.

Like let’s just be really clear.

Government computers
are all monitored all the time.

It’s actually amazing.

I guess it’s not because they weren’t
really looking for him specifically.

So once he got past the hundred
hour Mark of just surfing the Internet,

yeah, then it would be problematic
and it maybe would show up.

‘Cause you could also claim, like I could
walk away from my computer and leave it on

and claim that someone
else was looking at stuff

from my computer, so
maybe they would need also

to collect enough evidence
to make sure it was me.

So something to be aware of.

But you know, he was getting relief at work

so he didn’t try to fake his own
attempted murder so he’d get out of work.

But then we have our final guy.

A Yokohama government
employee has been disciplined

for spending 275 hours playing
games at work on a work computer.

So this is a 50 year old section chief
and he said, when he got in trouble,

he said, “I started
playing games to freshen

up as I thought it
would be okay to do so

for a little bit as it
didn’t affect my work.”

Between December 2021 and
August 2022, he played for 150 days.

Now that’s not 150 actual days.

There were 150 days he played.

But he played for 30
minutes to three hours a day.

And what actually, so it was
like, how did you get caught?

So like was this a, was this monitored?

Again, like the other guy
was the computer monitored.

This is important to keep
your coworkers happy.

So you may think like, I hate my coworkers,

I hate them all, I don’t
wanna like make anyone happy.

It’s important to keep
them happy to a degree

because another employee
actually reported this section chief.

I had heard the clicking sound too
many times, which I thought was unnatural.

When I observed him, he was playing games.

I’m betting he was playing sort of
the standard like solitaire mind sweeper.

The games that are already installed on
pretty much every computer by default.

So this man, he was caught playing games.

What is the punishment?

So he’s not actually getting fired.

What he’s gonna get is a
10% pay cut for five months.

Now I would like to work
out how much was he paid

for the 30 minutes to three
hours a day for 150 days

that he was actually playing
games instead of working?

Does that work out to
an equivalency of the 10%

pay cut for five months?

I bet it’s pretty close.

So basically the government is just saying,
okay, you’re gonna work exactly the same.

I assume you’re not
gonna play games anymore.

Therefore we make our money back and
you’ve learned not to play games anymore.

Which I think is a pretty fair punishment.

I mean, I think Japan
for whatever fault it has

as a culture, most of the
punishments are pretty fair.

It tends to be a lot
softer than other countries.

But again, should you lose your
job for playing games at work?

Probably not.

Honestly, he was ticking
around ’cause he’s 50.

I’m 50.

He’s ticking around ’cause he
probably doesn’t want to work anymore.

Like that other guy, man,
he’s just exhausted from work.

He just needs a break.

But yeah, three hours a day is a lot.

So what we have learned though
is if you’re gonna get a job in Japan,

especially working for the government,

just remember, government
computers tend to be monitored

almost more than anything else.

So just be careful with your
non-work related porn viewing.

Certainly don’t do it as overtime.

Your non-work related web searches
and your non-work related game play.

(Upbeat music)

(Upbeat music).

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