Lost my Beer Money

(upbeat music) Yoshi Zawaj Yo.

It was a famous Japanese guy.

I’ll be really honest.

I don’t know who he is.

I had to look him up.

Just because I don’t keep
track of famous people generally.

So he was in common ride
or Gintama, bleach, kingdom.

A lot of movies, dramas,
but the real money in

Japanese media, if you
are famous, is in advertising.

So you can get on TV.

You won’t make that much more.

You can get movies, you
won’t make that much money.

They don’t put as much money into
TV and movies as they do in advertising.

You can watch shows and the ads just have
a higher quality editing video quality.

It’s just everything about it’s just better
than the actual show you’re watching.

And it’s not an unusual experience.

You get used to it pretty quick.

One of the things people notice when
they come is there’s a lot of panel shows

where it’s people sit down and there’s
a topic and they talk about the topic

and then they have a
conversation and there’s a comedian

and they say funny stuff and
there’s these famous people

and they say maybe just serious
stuff or maybe they’re funny who knows.

Why are there so many of those shows?

Well, they’re very cheap to produce.

You can sit down with that group of people,

film for two hours, change
their clothes, film for

two hours, change their
clothes, film for two hours.

That’s like six episodes in one day.

You could do the same thing
over the course of a week

and film an entire season of
people just doing chat shows.

That is why those shows are popular.

The other very popular show that foreigners

when they come to Japan are very
shocked by is the amount of eating on TV.

The irony for any sensible
media consumer is the

knowledge very quickly that
they can’t say the foods bad.

So if you are on a Japanese
TV show, you’re gonna go into

a ramen restaurant with
someone else, probably comedian.

I sit down and you’re gonna order
the ramen, especially and you’re like,

“Oh, this is the most
amazing ramen I’ve ever seen.

” “Oh, it smells so
good than you idiot.

” “Ah, this is the best.

” And they freak
out every single time.

It’s not a problem, it’s just
as a foreigner, as a Westerner.

It gets very boring and
very repetitive, very quickly.

So I stopped watching a lot of Japanese TV

because I don’t need to see
someone eat ramen and say it’s good.

I would like to see someone
eat some ramen and go,

“This is fine, this is
mediocre, this is not very good.

” That’s not what
the show is doing.

It’s really just a filmed chat
show in a different environment.

So that’s kind of Japanese media.

So if you wanna make money
in Japanese media, pop culture,

whatever, you have to
do ads, beer, ads, car ads,

insurance ads, whatever,
ads are where the money is.

So this guy, Yoshizawa Ryo, he got drunk.

Yeah, it happens, people get drunk.

I get drunk on occasion.

I’m very much a day drinker now.

Like, I don’t drink at night.

And I realize I enjoy drinking
in early day, not morning.

It’s a bit risky, I think.

I tend to be a lunch
drinker and then in the

afternoon, if I can feel
like a headache coming out,

I was like, “Oh, I’ll
just drink some water.

” And then I don’t wake
up with hangovers anymore.

And I realized this is a
much more sensible decision,

which is the kind of thing
you do when you’re old.

Make sensible decisions
even for your drinking periods.

But you should try it.

Like, next thing you’re
like, “I’m gonna get ripped.

” Get ripped in the
mid early afternoon.

Eat lunch and get ripped while
eating lunch and then do your thing.

And then as you start to come down, you
be like, “I’m just gonna drink some water.

” And you’re not pounding water
to try to get rid of the headache.

And then you get to a nice sleep.

I guess I shouldn’t be
recommending day drink.

You shouldn’t be
recommending drinking in

general, but at the same
time, you’re gonna drink.

It was this guy, obviously, did
not have the same self-control I do,

or that I have just recommended
from an interview with Japan.

On December 30th, he went into the
wrong apartment and the dorm was unlocked.

It’s funny that a lot of people
started to come to his defense.

Like, well, the door was unlocked.

How is he to know that
it was not his apartment?

He just like was he drunk?

He went into an apartment.

He laid down and go, “Slee,
we shouldn’t punish him for that.

” I’m like, “Mm.

” The fact that the
door was unlocked

is not made that this was
now an accessible apartment.

Does not mean it was okay to just
go in and like make yourself at home.

If I leave my door unlocked and you come
into my house, there’s a beaten happening.

I don’t know if it’s gonna be you or me,

but I’m gonna do my best
to make sure it’s on you.

I have been told that perhaps I
leave the door open on purpose

and the hopes that someone
will intrude into my house

so I get to fight them so that I can test
my skills and that may or may not be true.

I actually think I just
don’t think about it

because I don’t mind if we have to
go there at some point in the future.

I don’t know what this
conversation just happened.

Riosi Zawa gets drunk, goes into
the wrong apartment, gets in trouble.

Fair.

He loses his advertising deal with Asahi.

The makers of Asahi, he’s super dry.

I think he had a special drink he was doing
with them, like a certain drink campaign.

Who cares?

It’s just all shit beer.

Beer companies make beer
and then they make light

beer and then they
make beer adjacent drinks.

That’s the big push right now
for beer companies is things

that are not beer that could take
the beer space that used to be.

They’re not gonna be successful.

Beer has an image that goes with it.

I’m not a big beer fan, but
that’s, again, I’m not judging

people who do drink beer,
although I absolutely do judge them.

They are looking for the thing.

So this was supposed
to be one of the methods

is they get this guy,
he’s a fairly popular actor.

I don’t know what their base, they were
demographic they were trying to appeal to.

I also don’t care.

You can’t have your
beer ironically associated

with someone who gets in
trouble while they’re drunk.

I think that’s the
whole irony of this story,

is that this alcoholic beverage
is being represented by

clearly a fan of alcohol, by
clearly a user of their product.

Now, I actually generally, if I know
someone who advertises something

as an actual user of that product,
their opinion would go a little further.

If they came up and they
were advertising a phone

or a car or something and
I knew they had that phone,

I knew they had that car be like,
well, they believe in that product.

And introduced a pen,
doesn’t really do any

advertising, ’cause I don’t
have that moral dilemma,

but I’m pretty sure I would
sell out almost instantly.

My morals are very shaky when
it comes to the need for money.

And I think that’s actually
true of most people.

So if, but I actually,
this is not an opportunity

that’s gonna come
my way anytime soon.

But if I actually was
gonna advertise something,

I’d wanna use it
and if I didn’t like it,

I think the tone of the
ad might get that through.

So that would be something.

I consider the people listening
to News, Japan to be like,

they have a more subtle
understanding of media consumption.

And they would get the message that
I really use this product versus I don’t.

Like I think someone
goes, I really use this.

That’s actually like, do you?

Or are you just saying that?

Because you really don’t use it,
but you need people to believe you do.

Anyways, irrelevant.

So he’s lost his beer money.

I don’t know if this has gone so
far he’s gonna lose his other money.

We have another guy, one of the
guys from SMAP, just gotten trouble.

It turns out he paid 90 million
yen to a woman to solve troubles.

No one’s gone so far as to
say what the troubles are.

I’m sure that’s gonna
come out in the next week.

So that’ll probably be
in next week’s episode.

But it’s one of those
things where people are like,

okay, this guy’s losing
all his shows is that okay.

And it’s like, well, the fact that he,

perhaps, again, we don’t
know what actually happened,

but it’s bad enough that
he felt it was acceptable

to pay 90 million yen
to keep this woman quiet.

Is it okay for someone
who’s famous just to do

bad things and then pay
money and then stay on TV?

And this is a real moral quandary
because the companies he’s famous,

a lot of people around
him are getting paid.

Do those people deserve to lose their job?

No, they can get other jobs for whatever.

This guy has enough money.

If he’s been sensible with his money,
he has way more than 90 million yen.

That’s nothing to him.

There is a question
coming as to how much

this guy loses and
therefore deserves to lose.

It’ll be one of the
conversations sort of Japanese

entertainment news over
the next couple of weeks.

I know he’s going to be removed from shows.

The question is, is he going
to be removed from shows

for a couple of weeks, a
month, years or forever?

That’s actually the way it goes.

There was this story.

Are you getting a lot of
reminiscing of old Japanese stories?

Becky was very famous.

She was on every TV show for a little while

and then she just disappeared
and I didn’t know why.

And it turns out that she
had been having an affair

with a very famous
guitarist who was married.

So she was the mistress.

The guy, so this is two
people, did the exact same thing.

He cheated on his wife.

You could even say that Becky was
more innocent because she wasn’t married

and you could maybe pretend
she knew, she knew he was married.

But she was the other woman.

She lost everything.

She lost all of her shows.

She lost all of her contracts.

She couldn’t do anything anymore.

She was just gone that week.

The guitarist, gone for
about two, three weeks

and then came back
as if nothing happened.

And that was one of those things that sort
of tells you a lot about Japanese culture

and society and the patriarchy and all that
stuff is still alive and well and going.

I think it is changing, but
it’s a very slow process.

I think if she was punished that much,
she should have been punished that much.

I just think the punishment should have
been equally distributed and it wasn’t.

And that was, even again, with
my own personal biases, I was unfair.

I never liked her so I don’t miss her.

Asi had to put out a
statement and they said,

“The Yoshizawa Ryo
incident isn’t a fact

as an alcohol company
of which we can approve.

” If this guy who’s representing
our alcoholic product

is going to get drunk and then
walking to other people’s houses

and then something sooner
or later something worse

is gonna happen, we can’t
have that reflecting back on us

so we’re gonna cut ties with him,
which is a very understandable position.

I do still part of my brain goes,
but I know he was an avid user.

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There’s a new lot.

We’ve spent this year, 2024.

The last part of 2024
talking about host clubs a lot.

There were rules changes,
other laws that were

crackdowns, there were
things, a lot of people,

a lot of stories about people
getting involved with hosts.

Dee Dee Cha, the whole deal.

She made millions of the
yen off ripping off people

and scamming and stuff
and she gave it all to a host

so she didn’t even make
any money off that in the end.

Okay, so this is a huge
problem in Japan and there’s

been under, in the CD
underbelly of Japan as a culture.

Well, now it’s starting
to catch up with them

because what happens is
the host gets you into debt.

And they say, if you wanna get out of debt,

you have to do this like
essentially adult services.

If you wanna get out of
debt, we’re gonna make

a movie, we’re gonna
sell you to other people.

They’re basically doing
their best to get these

women into debt so they
can then abuse them more.

So now there’s a new
law targeting specifically

host and host as
clubs, host clubs mainly.

Businesses suspected of engaging in romance
trade could be shut down completely.

Romance trade is now the term
that they’re going to be using

for I get into, I’m a host and
we start to form a relationship

or professional one as
the host and the customer.

And then I trick you
into falling in love with me

and I try to exploit you with dangling
the idea that you could be my girlfriend

or we could have a relationship
or something like that.

That is now going to be
classified as a scam or a crime.

It hasn’t actually been classified yet,

but it could get the entire
establishment shut down.

So it means all the
other host lose their jobs.

All the management, they lose their jobs.

They get shut down for that.

A criminal penalty will be attached to
this for coercing customers into sex.

This doesn’t mean sex with the host.

It will be into like any sort of sex work.

So this could be pornography.

This could be selling them to people.

Anything like that, any
sort of sex work will be at

least six months in prison
and one million yen fine.

Now that actually doesn’t sound like much,

but again, this is supposed
to be the first step

in a deterrent and it should
stop it from happening.

But then they’re also
talking about shutting down

the establishment a whole
bunch of people will lose their jobs.

This might make them more cautious,

or at least give the police more
ammunition to go after them.

A 55 year old civil servant was fired.

That’s not an unusual story.

What did he do?

Well, let me tell you.

He left his shift to go to
the gym and like that’s bad.

You shouldn’t leave your working
hours, you shift your job to go to the gym.

I think we can all agree with that.

I mean, you go on your lunch break.

It’s your breaks.

You’re not really at work anymore.

So obviously he was
leaving during work hours.

An anonymous call was made
that this was happening regularly.

So they had found out
he kind of did it once.

There was a phone call.

The anonymous call is
coming up fairly regularly.

Let’s not often, but it happens at
regular intervals where we get these like,

this person was reported
by an anonymous phone

call and then the
company or in this case,

the government did an investigation
and found out some awful thing.

Like it’s always been like, the last
one I remember was this teacher

was working at a soap club or
this employee in the government

has a second job that
is a little bit suspect.

So they get an anonymous phone call,
which made me realize a long time ago.

Like if you’re going to work
one job and they do something

else that would inhibit that
first job, so any sort of sex work

or any sort of ripping
people off or anything,

you have to keep the people
around you really happy.

You can’t piss them off because
they’re going to rat you out

because they have this anonymous
system where they can call in

and just get you in
trouble, get you reported.

You have to keep everyone around you happy
somehow to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Because to me, the anonymous
phone call actually means

one of his coworkers who
either has to pick up his slack

and then it gets pissed
off and gets the guy fired.

Or one of his coworkers like
need something or need some help

in this guy just like disappears
for a couple hours a day.

Then he doesn’t, then
he has to do more work.

He’s burdened by that.

You have to make sure that
guy stays happy somehow.

Or he notices you’re screwing off and then
he doesn’t really care for a long time.

So he doesn’t report you,
but then you piss him off,

you say something rude or
you’re condescending or something.

Then he reports you that is
always going to screw you over.

So if you’re going to, this is maybe my,
I need advice to criminal jingle, I think.

This is not really crime, but my,

the Ninja New Japan advice segment,
maybe I need to create something for that.

If you’re going to do
anything, even a little suspect,

you have to be very polite, very kind
and very helpful to the people around you.

And that might be
counterintuitive to the whole fact

that you’re scamming or committing
a crime or doing something untoward.

But it’s important because that anonymous
phone call could be your downfall.

As it was in this case
for this 55 year old men

and a 55 year old dude getting
fired from the government,

it’d be very hard for
him to get another job

because he’s got another
decade before retirement

age and he’s like
pension and stuff kicks in.

So he’s got to find other work,
which is going to be very difficult.

The investigation went back to 2021 to 2024

and they found he went 633
times to the gym in 800 days.

So my first image is like,
this guy must be huge.

Like he must be like, he
gets up, goes to the gym,

goes to work, goes to the gym, goes to work,
goes home, goes to the gym, goes to bed.

Like his whole life is the gym.

He must be super jack, 55 year old dude,

must be in great shape or
maybe he’s like a marathon

runner, he’s on the treadmill,
going, no, he spent a majority

of that time soaking in
the bath or stretching.

So they have on the
sands, they have bath tubs.

He went, he would stretch,
he would get in the bath

and that’s how he would
spend his hour at the gym.

So he wasn’t even working out in
my concept of version or working out.

I know stretching can
be considered a workout.

Yoga is very good for
you, that kind of thing.

He wasn’t even doing that.

He was maybe doing a
little of that 10, 15 minutes

then getting in the bath for the rest
of the time, then going back to work.

I’m sure at work he was a very relaxed man
or because he wasn’t in the bath relaxing,

he was actually really pissy at work, which
is how the anonymous phone call happened.

They calculated this
was 633 times in 800 days.

So that’s giving you a sense
he was going almost every day

to the gym and not to work
out to just sit in the bath.

So he wanted to sit in the
bath in the gym every day.

He said because he had numbness in
his arm and it really helped with his arm.

I bet you could get a
doctor’s note of some

sort to get some sort of
accommodation for that.

If it was true, I don’t know if it’s true.

I don’t want to make
aspiration cast aspersions

towards this man because
I don’t know enough.

I only got the information
from the article.

But they calculated to
658 hours and 36 minutes.

So he was going about an
hour every time he was going.

He’s gotten fired, it’s not like a crime.

So he’s not going to
get charged with anything

but the company could
sue him for the lost wages.

So he has to pay back 1.8
million yen for the hours he was

being paid while at the
gym soaking in a bath.

His statement at the end was, I overdid it.

I regret it talking again
about doing too much.

A 21 year old woman was arrested for
making 670 calls to the fire department.

Now the last few times we’ve
had this, it was the person was

lonely or wanted to talk or
didn’t feel anything or was bored.

They tended to be older people.

So older people, they got this
time, they don’t know what to do.

So they start calling emergency services
to get attention or something like that.

This woman, she had a different reason.

She would call up and say, you’re noisy.

If you come again, I’ll kill you.

I’ll crush the ambulance.

I don’t know how big or strong
this 21 year old Japanese woman was

I’m going to go ahead and bet
she couldn’t crush an ambulance.

Sometimes she would make silent calls.

She would just call up and
just stay silent on the phone.

But this inhibits the
ability for other people

to actually make phone
calls to the fire station

or emergency services to get
the help they might actually meet.

So she’s obstructing business.

She sometimes made up to 50 calls a day.

It’s not hard.

They can trace phone calls.

So I mean, it’s not a hard thing to do.

I actually thought like when
the calls became an a nuisance,

like when she started calling, I
was like, how the fire department

guy should have gone, OK,
tell us where your house is

and we’ll make sure to turn
off the siren when we go by.

And then if she goes, oh, that’s good.

She’ll tell you her address.

And then you actually know where she is.

So you can just call the police.

It is awful that they had to
wait till it got to like 670 calls

before they actually could
get something actually done.

I’m wondering if that’s
because her calls were

too short or they
weren’t able to trace it.

I don’t know enough
about actually tracing calls.

So that’s actually maybe the first issue.

But it sounds like it’s actually
slightly harder than it is on the TV.

Final story for today.

I’m actually doing this a little early
because today’s a national holiday.

And I have to work tomorrow to
make and I’ll make that day up later.

But that later won’t be Tuesday.

So I won’t get an episode
in Engineers Japan out.

And I know you are desperate
for your Japanese news.

And just to hear my voice
for the few people who I know

listen to this when they
go to sleep, you know, I’m

trying to keep an even
tone and not get too excited.

But just so you get that sound in your
ears when you go to bed, my appreciate you.

This is an update.

We had this story.

I actually may have done
this on a Seamick B though.

So I actually have to check which episode.

If you want to go back and
get the all the details, I’m pretty

sure it was a Seamick B.
This was a very serious story.

There was a group of girls who beat
up and abused and bullied another girl.

And then they got to the point
where they got her on a bridge

and they pushed her off
the bridge and killed her.

This case was being investigated.

Now it’s a murder.

It’s a homicide.

But it wasn’t being
investigated by the homicide

department, which
is already suspicious.

And it turns out the cop
investigating the murder was

involved with one of
the girls involved in this

group who was doing the
bullying and the murder.

The girl, she’s already on trial.

This police officer has lost his job.

This is just a really short update
as to what happened to him.

He was having a relationship
with the suspect in a murder

investigation and the case was
investigated by not the homicide

department, which is
already to me like he’s pulling

strings to try to get her
out of the investigation.

So she doesn’t give, he’s
essentially trying to cover up a murder.

The cops that parted
with her, so basically she

worked at a bar and all
these cops went to this bar.

They’re saying she was
actually a confidential informant.

She was like a CI.

She was giving them information.

And this cop who was working
with her got too close to her.

And I was like, that sounds like a bunch
of cops trying to cover for another cop.

But he was found out
because one of the cops

in this group actually
reported his behavior.

So there were some
good cops out there being

like, dude, I think this
guy’s going too far.

And then when the murder investigation
comes up, it’s like holy crap.

Now you’ve gone way too far.

I need to report this.

The police officer was
married with children.

So that just adds another
layer of Iq to this whole story.

They’re saying she was a CI.

They got too close.

They were working together.

And then he sort of, but
the fact that a lot of these

police were involved in making
sure this didn’t get to the

right department to the
homicide department that this

wasn’t investigated properly
shows that there is sort of a

level of corruption that was
going on in the department, which

I actually think that would be
the next step of investigation

because all those other cops are
going to be like, take a step back

and be like, well, now that he’s been
caught, we had nothing to do with it.

And they’re all just saying,
oh, she was a CI and stuff.

I don’t believe any of that.

I believe they were covering
for that guy they work with.

The thing is he hasn’t been
prosecuted for anything.

So there’s no, it has he committed a crime.

That’s actually the
question that I’m left with.

So he’s been fired.

He’s no longer a police officer.

But he was part of a cover up.

Maybe he interfered with an investigation.

Absolutely.

But is that provable?

So that becomes a whole
other set of questions.

Again, we don’t have
the information for this.

But it does seem like
this cop interfered with an

investigation has a crime
occurred or has he just

made some bad choices
ended up losing his job?

We don’t know.

It would have been better if you went to
the gym and just spent his time in the back.

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Best Dating Advice

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All right, new to New Japan,
back from the holiday, back in 2025.

My throat’s really rough
because they’ve introduced

a chime milk tea, which
has become my favorite drink,

which means I’m drinking it every morning,
but it gives me a really rough throat

and I didn’t think about
it being podcast day.

I shouldn’t have had it
until after I did the podcast.

I apologize, we’re gonna do
a lot of editing this episode

as I like her own my
way through this episode.

We’ve talked about all through the
latter part of 2024 dark part time jobs.

These are jobs you go
on the internet to find

and they say like, oh, here’s
a quick way to make money

and then you find out
you’re committing a crime.

You find out you’re
committing fraud, you’re robbing

a store or something,
you’re the getaway driver.

Something illegal is involved in this job.

That’s why it’s getting
called the dark part time jobs.

Well, police are having a lot of
trouble tracking this stuff because, well,

how do you catch someone
and is completely random?

It’s not like this is a
crew that works together.

These are random people that are thrown
together who do a job, who then separate.

They don’t know each other.

They have no connection.

So the cops need to do something.

So the cops are going to be getting
fake IDs to combat dark part time jobs,

which makes me think,
didn’t they have this already?

Like, I would assume cops have
fake IDs to prove that they’re not cops,

to prove they’re not the people
they are that they’re pretending

to be other people so that
they can get in with the criminals.

They can go out of their cover.

Do Japanese cops not go under cover?

Like, I’m sure I’ve seen TV
shows where they do that.

That’s not immoral or illogical.

It seemed like something I just assumed

had already happening, but I
think what they’re really saying

is they’re going to be
creating fake personas

that they can use
online because the first

applications of these
jobs has to be done online.

So you’re going to need online credentials,
which maybe they didn’t have those before.

Is my assumption, I don’t
actually know if that’s correct.

They are also asking Twitter to
take down posts that are offering.

They’re going to ask Twitter to take
down posts, offering dark part time jobs.

And in some cases, they are actually
just phishing because they’re scamming,

so they’re basically
trying to get your

information so they can
then fish or blackmail you.

Cops will be applying
for jobs going forward.

So basically, this means cops in 2025

are going to be applying
for these dark part time jobs.

My question is, how long
before we get to the point

where the cop takes the
dark part time job, sees it as a

viable opportunity and then
actually commits the crime.

(upbeat music)

The man was detained for
abandonment leading to death.

So he left someone who is sick or
injured and that person eventually died.

That I guess not rendering
aid or calling for help is a crime.

I don’t know much about this is
one where I would need a lawyer

to give me some information
as to what the actual crime is.

Because maybe just
walking away from something

isn’t a crime because you’re not involved
and you don’t want to get involved.

Is there an obligation?

That’s a whole other thing.

And they have the Good Samaritans acting

in some countries where you kind of have
to help out if you see someone in trouble.

Lawyer tells him not
to answer any questions.

Very reasonable piece of lawyering advice.

It’s advice you should take.

I’m not a lawyer but any lawyer will
tell you when the cops ask you questions.

Don’t answer any questions.

Just don’t say anything because
they’re not there to help you.

The lawyer then gives
this guy a t-shirt that says,

“I refuse questioning
in Japanese.

” So he has a t-shirt he’s wearing
that says, “I refuse questioning.

” I’m wearing a t-shirt that right now
that says, “golden harvest presentation.

” Because I like Kung Fu movies.

So this is representative of I
guess what you’re feeling or thinking.

So I feel like Kung Fu movies are
good and they need to be promoted.

This man was feeling, his
lawyer certainly was feeling,

“I don’t think I should be
talking to the cops about anything.

” So he’s wearing this t-shirt
that says, “I refuse questioning.

” Making it blatantly clear
that when the cops come in

and ask him questions,
he’s not going to

answer and the answer
is written on his chest.

It is very visible.

This is problematic for the police.

The police want to
say he never denied

questioning or something,
they want to twist it.

I mean, the day after he
receives this brand new t-shirt

from his lawyer that
says, “I refuse questioning.

” The police
confiscate the shirt.

When they asked, “Why did you
take the t-shirt away from this man?

” They said, “Because
it was a dangerous item.

” Now, of the t-shirts, what
aspect of it is dangerous?

Because he’s wearing a
shirt if he’s even in his prison.

Like, even if he’s been
arrested without a shirt,

they would probably give him a
shirt to wear while he’s in prison.

I would say comparing I refuse questioning

and the golden harvest
t-shirt I’m wearing right now,

I would say the Kung Fu
t-shirt is more dangerous

just by its very nature of being
connected to Kung Fu, the Kung Fu spirit.

The lawyer criticized the police, saying,

“labeling inconvenient words as
dangerous reflects a dangerous system

“on the part of the police and
raises constitutional concerns.

” Which I think is
absolutely correct.

I am not pro crime, I’m not
pro criminal, but I am pro rights.

And your rights in most
countries is don’t talk to the cops.

The cops aren’t there to help you.

They’re not trying to solve a crime.

They’re trying to pin it on someone

so they can finish the paperwork
and move on to the next one.

Now, that’s not to say cops are bad.

I’ve met a lot of very good cops
in my life, but they are doing a job.

And the job is to close cases,
not necessarily solve them.

Yes, just advice for anybody.

Don’t talk to the cops.

Having done Ninja Ninja Ninja
Japan for as long as I have no.

I don’t even know how many years.

It’s been four or five, six years.

I actually don’t remember.

We’re in the 300s as far
as episode goes, so it’s 50.

Let’s not do math, let’s
not worry about any of that.

It’s been doing Ninja
Ninja Japan for a long time.

They talk about the very
famous 99 point whatever

percent conviction
rate in Japanese courts.

And that makes it sound
like if you get arrested,

you’re going to go to court and
you’re going to be found guilty.

You’re almost guilty until proven innocent,

not the other way around,
innocent until proven guilty.

This incredibly high conviction
rate comes from the fact

that the prosecutors only
take cases where they can lay.

It’s like a slam dunk where
they know they’re going to win.

So if there’s any doubt on the prosecutor’s
side, they’re going to dismiss the case.

They’re going to say, we’re
not going to bother with it.

We’re not going to prosecute
it so that never gets it.

So the ones where
there’s any sort of question,

never get prosecuted
in the first place.

So if you ever get arrested in
Japan, your best bet is to just say

nothing because if you
say nothing, that’s always

going to leave them with
that sort of modicum of doubt.

That modicum of doubt is
going to be enough for the

prosecutors to go, we don’t
know if we can think this guy.

If we can’t convict this guy,
we’re just going to let him go.

I actually think that, even for the
criminals out there who I do think

should be arrested, if I
was your lawyer, this is

the advice I would give,
I’d get you that t-shirt.

The one that says I refuse
questioning, I’m not talking to the cops.

I’m not talking to anybody because there’s
a very, very high chance that if they say,

like, oh, we can’t crack this guy,
they’re just going to let you go.

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Can mean the stores
are everywhere in Japan.

So you go in and can mean the
stores are open 24 hours a day.

Not uncommon for
people to go to can mean

the stores 2, 3, 4, 5
o’clock in the morning.

So you walk into a convenience store,
there’s a certain set of expectations.

And it’s going to be pretty quiet.

There’s going to be a lot of
people who may be standing around.

If it’s a busy one, if it’s really,
really late at night, it’s probably empty.

Just you and the clerk.

This one, quite late
at night, had a bunch of

customers just milling
around being normal people.

Then a guy walks into the
convenience store and causes a panic.

Why does he cause a panic?

Because he’s completely nude.

The weirdly interesting part
is he was a little taller than me.

I’m 183 centimeters, so I’m about six foot.

This guy’s 185, so
he’s just a little bit

taller than me, so he’s
a big Japanese dude.

He walks into the
convenience store, buck naked.

That is already a bit of a shock.

So the customers are
like, “Ugh, what’s going on?

” One customer said, “I
looked around, I saw the man

standing looking
at me completely

silent, naked,” which
was very off-putting.

And I was like, the silent part is
off-putting, silent and nude is way worse.

I don’t know why that’s the case.

Nude is bad, but nude and noisy
is not as scary as nude and silent.

Just naked, standing,
silent, staring at you.

That’s scarier than naked guy freaking out.

I don’t know why that is.

Maybe this is just some
part of the psychology

in there that makes
it more disturbing.

Then they notice he has a knife on him.

He’s holding on him.

He’s not wearing it close,
so he has a knife in his hand.

Then they notice he
has a knife in his hand, so

he wanders, get not
actually bothering anybody.

He wanders to the back
of the store, goes into the

bathroom, a bunch of
the customers run outside.

The clerk’s go outside,
they bar the door

from the outside so that he cannot
get out of the convenience store.

So he’s now in the convenience store alone.

They call the cops.

A couple minutes later, the cops show up.

He starts stabbing the products.

I’m thinking like the chip
bags for some reason.

I guess it’s the most
stabable item to me in

the, “Oh, have you
really fun to stab the milk?

” There’s a quiz
we could put out.

What would be the most fun thing
to stab in the convenience store?

Because the chip bags
would make a nice pop.

That’d be pretty good.

The milk, or a lot of
the liquid items, would

have that nice burst
of gushing of liquid

that would come out of it, so they
would be quite fun to stab as well.

But that’s not actually
what we’re talking about.

We’re talking about what he started
doing, so the cops show up there outside.

They’ve had no real interaction.

He sort of notices he’s
stuck in the convene.

I mean, notice is the
cops are outside, so I guess

part of his brain goes,
“I’m about to get arrested.

” Might as well
make it worthwhile.

Start stabbing items on the
shelves of the convenience store.

Twenty cops show up.

They surround the convenience store.

Now this is a single
naked man with a knife.

They actually later said two knives, which
would mean a random to a problem, because

that would be a knife in each hand, because
unless he’s holding a knife somewhere else.

He’s not holding in his mouth,
although he’s not making any noise.

Because they would have said that.

So it seems like maybe he was holding
both knives in one hand or something.

I don’t know.

Something happened there,
because it started out the story.

I read a couple versions of the story.

It was said once that he had a knife, once
that he had two knives, and once that he

was suspected of having
more than one knife.

But when you’re naked, you’re
carrying capacity is very limited.

That’s the issue I ran into, not
how many knives he actually had.

If he had more than
one knife, it would be

very obvious, because he’s
not got it hidden somewhere else.

He’s a naked man.

That’s not an actually relevant.

Twenty cops show up.

They come in.

They kind of storm the building.

They push him to the ground.

Nobody gets hurt.

He gets arrested.

It was interesting to
me that it was a 20 cops

showed up, because
again, once the showing

how safe Japan is, because
in America, this again,

I only take all my
information from the news.

There isn’t a cross the whole
country, but the news stories you

get would be naked man with
knife gets shot by two or three cops.

It would be pretty quick,
whereas in Japan, no one got hurt.

He got taken down.

Again, a story said
how they did it, but I

didn’t want to count
that, because if I don’t

have confirmation from two
or three sources, kind of deal.

All we do know he’s been
arrested, we do that nobody’s hurt.

Clearly something else is going on there.

You don’t take off all your clothes and
say, “I want to go to the convenience store.

I’m going to bring a knife.

” I didn’t seem to intend
to hurt anybody with

the knife, but then took
it out on the products.

Maybe he was anti-capitalism.

That actually is why we
get 20 cops showing up.

There is a doctor at a
cosmetic clinic, so a plastic

surgeon, and she’s had
to make an apology online.

While she was in Guam,
she posted several

pictures of herself going to a
place where they train on cadavers.

Her first caption was, “I’m
off to dissect a fresh cadaver,

and it’s her and some of her
friends looking really happy.

It’s almost like
a holiday photo.

” Then there are pictures
of her in, surrounded

by other doctors,
and other dead bodies.

She’s blurred out some of
the faces, but some are visible

in the background, because
she didn’t get them all.

She’s thrown up the peace sign,
like every Japanese person does.

A lot of people very
quickly started saying,

“This is pretty
disrespectful because these

are people who’ve
donated their bodies to

science, and you’re being very flippant
about how you’re treating this event.

You’re being very
disrespectful to the people

who’ve taken their lives of sorts
and put them in your hands for a while.

” This actually resonated
with me because I have

very technically donated
my body to science as well.

When I was in university,
you can donate your

organs if you die in a
car accident or whatever.

I’m all for that.

There’s anything, if
I’m going to die, there’s

anything useful in my body
that someone else can use.

100% they should take it, take out
all the blood, take out all the organs.

I don’t need it anymore.

They might as well get something out of it.

I took it a step further
and signed up for that

if I die, shipped my body
back to my university,

my university has a
hospital on the ground, so

it’s one of a really,
really big university.

It has a medical school,
and then the students

can practice their
skills on my cadaver,

and then, hopefully, they
become better surgeons.

That was kind of my
thinking is, like, if in

my death, someone can
benefit, be it physically

by taking some of my
organs, or, educationally,

by becoming hopefully a better doctor, I
think that is a great benefit to the world,

and again, I’m not
using my body anymore.

Have at it.

If you said a plastic surgeon
was going to practice, I’d be

a little bit like, I’m not a big
plastic surgeon kind of guy.

I’m not really pro
plastic surgery, so that’s

already like iffy,
but then you do have

reconstructive surgery,
you do have people who

learn they fix actual
issues with their bodies.

That is a whole other issue,
so there is a place for that.

I would expect a
certain amount of respect

to be paid towards myself,
and the treatment of my body.

One of the interesting,
I read a book about

what they do with
cadavers, and then sometimes

when they say we’re
going to use it for

science, it’s like we’re
going to stick it in

a car and crash the
car and see what actual

damage, not like a crash
test dummy, like an actual

dead body is in there,
they bury them so

they can do like in
this environment, in this

controlled environment,
so for CSI guys to

practice, and I was like
actually those are still

valuable to society, so I
wouldn’t be as opposed

to those, just as long as it gets
treated with a certain amount of respect.

The backlash of this
lady basically being

incredibly flippant,
like this is a fun holiday

thing that she’s doing, which pretty quick,
so of course she had to go on Twitter, and

she had to make a lot of apologies, but her
apology is always tainted by the fact that

she also justifies and
explains what she’s

doing, so I thought
reading some of those posts

would be interesting, so she starts out
with I’m very sorry for causing discomfort

to everyone with my
post about my dissection

training in Guam, they don’t do dissection
training in Japan, so that’s actually

something to know, she
actually went on a trip

to Guam to do this
thing that is very unique

that she is not able
to do in Japan, she

continued I thought I
had blurred out all the

corpses that were in
the photos, but there

were some that I hadn’t,
I sincerely apologize

for posting something
that lacked ethics,

as a doctor, I’m truly sorry, and I think
she’s actually missed the point that people

were pissed off about, not
blurring all the faces, that is bad.

You could call that a
human accident, she probably

shouldn’t be taking pictures, like selfies
in the first place, so that’s the actual

problem, not that she
blurred out some of the

faces and not all the faces, the fact that
she’s in a place, doing this very serious

thing, and taking
flippant, entertainment,

holiday style photos,
that’s what she should

be apologizing for, I
shouldn’t have done

this thing in the first
place, not that I did

this thing in a correct
way, I have received

comments such as don’t
post about your anatomy

training, which I think is true in a way, I
would say don’t post about your anatomy

training in this way,
and then posting,

that’s insensitive, which I do agree with,
she says, but I would like to explain the

circumstances that led
to my posting on social

media below, as a
doctor, the opportunity to

dissect a fresh corpse in order to
improve my and an anatomical goddamn.

As a doctor, the
opportunity to dissect a

fresh corpse in order
to improve my anatomical

knowledge and skills
is extremely rare, and

is basically not available
in Japan, I decided

to participate in this
training in order to improve

myself as a doctor and to
increase patient satisfaction.

Many doctors don’t know
that such opportunities

exist, so when I talk
about this training,

let me say they want
to go, that is fine, again,

I think the problem isn’t what you’re
doing, it’s the way you’re doing it.

So if you took a picture
and said, I’m about

to go dissect a corpse,
this is a very serious

skill thing, it’s very
important, and I want

to really show some respect and thanks to
the people who’ve donated their bodies to

know I able to do this,
I think you wouldn’t

have had any complaints at all, I want to
make sure other doctors know that this kind

of training is available, I don’t think
you would have had any complaints at all.

I was throwing up
peace signs and looking

like you’re having a
really fun time, and I’m

actually not even
against that part, like you

enjoying your work,
working in this situation,

trying to make
yourself a better doctor,

enjoying that is not a
bad thing, throwing it up

on the internet is, and this is the problem
that again, I don’t think she’s actually

glued into the actual issue
that’s pissed off all the people.

I actually learned a
lot from participating

in the training, and I am already
using it in my daily practice.

I am convinced that I’m
providing safer and better

treatment, again, no problems
there, that’s not the issue.

The number of cosmetic
surgeons is increasing

in Japan these days,
and more people are

receiving cosmetic
treatment, at the same time

the number of problems
is also increasing.

In this situation, being able to learn from
these corpses is very valuable opportunity.

True, I wanted more doctors to know that
such an opportunity exists, and by letting

more doctors know we
can make things safer and

increase the satisfaction of
more patients, I posted this.

Again, I think if you
had posted it that way

with that tone, there wouldn’t
have been an issue at all.

I would like to express
my sincere gratitude to

those who donated their
bodies and their families,

as well as those involved
in organizing this training.

Once again, I apologize
for making a post

that lacked human
ethics, I’m very sorry, and

I think she still hasn’t
actually figured out

what the issue is, so that big 3-4 paragraph
explanation of why she was doing this.

If you did it that
way, like here we are,

we’re doing this
training, it’s very serious.

I want to say thank you to the
people who donated their bodies.

I don’t think you would have had an issue.

I still don’t think
you should be putting

the pictures of them in the
picture, but this is serious training.

We’re taking it seriously.

We’re trying to make ourselves better
doctors, no complaints across the board.

I want to make sure
other doctors know that

this training is available,
no complaints across

the board, posting it up
like you’re having a party with

the dead bodies weekend at
Bernie’s style, that’s a problem.

Her clinic steps in and
decides to defend this doctor.

We are very sorry.

I apologize as one of
the organizers, however,

and there you go,
there’s your first problem.

Don’t have a however in your apology.

You should have an, say, we
apologize for this happening.

We got to take some responsibility for it.

Maybe we got to
educate our doctors better

to make them realize like this
can be a very sensitive thing.

Families of the people who’ve taken the,
you know, this moral stance to donate their

body to science, we
have to show a certain

amount of respect to them will
educate doctors better in the future.

Stop.

As soon as you hit, however,
you’ve already ruined the apology.

Any apology or any thanks where you
attach something to it is problematic.

I’ve realized that
very recently, however,

performing dissections is
very important for a surgeon.

True.

Unlike the dissections, they perform to
students, performing dissections by clinical

doctors is a big part of being able
to give back directly to patients.

I think it is an essential part
of producing skilled surgeons.

I believe that is all for
the benefit of the patients.

This photo shows a
dissection in America where

the rules are different
to those in Japan.

The post has already been deleted.

I hope that this does
not extinguish the flame

of clinical doctors being
able to perform dissections.

So again, I think it’s, he’s
misunderstood what the actual problem is.

The problem isn’t taking
a picture of doctor’s

training or trying
to promote doctor’s

training or trying to get
doctors out doing this thing.

The problem is them
looking like they’re

having a party while
doing it for them looking

like they don’t care
about the people they’re

doing the dissections on for
them acting this way is the problem.

When they say the rules are different
in America, I don’t think that’s true.

I think there’s a great
deal of respect to

show them by most doctors who
do the undergo this kind of training.

I’ve read a book about it about again sort
of what happens to corpses and whatnot.

And part of it was talking about
how the corpses are treated.

The doctors, the
teachers, teaching, the

medical students are
very, very serious about

like these are still
human beings in a way.

Like they’re basically
saying these are still people.

These are people who’ve
given a big part of who

they are to you to
make you a better doctor.

You should appreciate that.

I think that tone is the issue.

I think that’s what’s missing and I
think that’s why this was a problem.

So you wake up this
morning, you’re 15 year old.

This is so many weird
little bits about this,

15 year old kid wakes
up and he’s talking

to his 29 year old
friend that already like I

don’t have a big thing
about age differences.

Like if this 15 year old and
this 29 year old get along

and they want to hang
out and stuff, that’s great.

Clearly one of them is a
bad influence on the other.

I would put the responsibility
on the 29 year old.

If you’re 15 hanging out
with a 29 year old might seem

cool, actually when I was
15 it wouldn’t have been.

So I guess maybe this is a
different way of thinking with me.

Anyways, they’re like, hey,
let’s do something fun tonight.

Let’s get on some scooters and ride around
the very famous Shibuya Scramble Crossing.

You’re supposed to,
of course, if you’re

driving a vehicle, stop at the stoplight
and drive through when it’s green.

And then this is one of those ones.

This is very famous.

You’ve seen it on the internet before.

It’s got a whole bunch of different
crosswalks and they all intersect.

And then so you basically when it hits
red, a whole bunch of people rush out.

This was night time.

So there weren’t that many people.

There weren’t that many cars.

They decided, hey, wouldn’t it be
cool if we drove around in circles in that.

So they drive around
in circles a couple times.

Two cops roll up.

They start shouting, hey, stop it.

They’re not trying to
arrest them or anything

yet, but they’re like,
hey, hey, don’t do this.

And you think at that point they’d
be like, oh, we could just ride away.

We’re not going to get in any
trouble if we dress right away.

But of course, that’s not what happened.

It’s otherwise it wouldn’t
be much of a story.

They then return with the cops.

They have a fire extinguisher.

I don’t know if they
brought the fire extinguisher

with them or if they went
off and got it and came back.

It’s a very interesting question.

Was the fire extinguisher part
of the plan from the beginning?

Because if it was, that
would actually change

the outcome of the punishment
of me if I was the judge in this case.

But because again,
there’s intent and planning

involved as opposed
to just like, hey, we’re

just being really random today, they decide
we’re going to go back, taunt the police.

And what we’re going to do is
ride our motorcycles as scooters.

Motorcycles is very generous.

And we’re going to fire
off the fire extinguisher.

They decide they’re
going to taunt the police.

So they ride past the police.

They fire off the fire extinguisher, so a
big plume of smoke flowing behind them.

They ride around in
a circle three times,

making sure that the entirety of the
scramble crossing is covered in smoke.

This is making it a little more dangerous.

Still, not many people, not many cars.

Both men get arrested,
neither of them has

a license to ride a
motorcycle or a scooter.

And that was apparently how
they decided to spend their day.

Okay, so there’s a YouTuber
called Kaga Yokota from Osaka.

And this guy said, I have a plan and
I’m going to give people dating advice.

But people aren’t
going to look at me and

take dating advice because this
actually would be a real problem for me.

Let’s say I have a deep desire to get
into the dating advice influencer sphere.

I don’t think people are going to look at a
52 year old man who has no fashion sense

and does not have like that
kind of influence or lifestyle.

People aren’t going to
take dating advice from me.

Despite the fact that in my youth,
I was very successful at dating.

I dated many people successfully.

I think I would give
pretty good dating advice

because I dated
several people for a long

period of time and found
satisfying relationships.

Maybe that’s the best way to put it.

I didn’t interview way way back
like we’re talking like 15 years ago.

These guys put out a
guide to dating in Japan

and I read the book and
I like this book is trash.

And it was just a whole bunch of stories.

It wasn’t how to date.

It was actually just
like a diary of all

these, I met this
incredibly beautiful woman.

I talked to her.

I charmed her.

We dated for a bit.

We laughed and I moved on.

So I ended up doing
an interview with these

guys for this old
website I ran and my first

thought was if you are meeting
these incredible amazing women.

How is it none of these
relationships have lasted?

So like, why is it because they want to
claim it’s not about numbers like, but the

dating advice guys, it’s
always just about numbers.

It’s like it’s volume and has
nothing to do with sort of and

then they tell like volume
and quality or that kind of thing.

But if you actually
meet a really high

quality person who
matches you really well and

is really wonderful to
be around, why wouldn’t

you stay with that person
unless it’s just about numbers?

He really struggled with that.

I don’t remember what he said
because again it was so long ago.

I should have tried to
dig up that interview,

but it was just really
funny because it was

clearly a big hole in the whole thing like
if dating is to find companionship, which

he, you know, said, oh
yeah, that’s why you do

it, which he obviously
didn’t really believe.

And it’s not about volume
and it’s not about numbers.

How have none of your relationships lasted?

So are these successful relationships?

So if he was like, this
is about numbers, we

could have continued with
what he’s saying is being true.

That demonstrate sort of this like moral
ambiguity that isn’t accepted in society.

So he couldn’t say that.

So when he actually
said the thing that I knew

he would say, which
was this is about quality

relationships, if none
of them last, that’s,

and you’re saying
that these are amazing

women, then you’re obviously a piece
of shit guy and that really stock them.

But I’m in the same
situation like no one’s

going to listen to me and
take dating advice for me.

So what do I do?

We’re in a modern age
2025 now, I get an AI avatar.

I change my appearance to a
young, very attractive woman.

And I give dating advice as this avatar,
then men are going to listen to me.

It does lend more credence to my advice
because I am a woman pretending to be, I’m

pretending to be a woman
and I’m telling you what I like.

Therefore the men would be
like, hey, maybe if I actually do

the things she says, then I could
actually get a woman like her.

Now, I think he was hoping to
be mistaken for a real woman.

I think that was given
and that he was making

himself a very attractive
woman so that people

watching the videos
would then try to, you

know, give him money
for dating advice, give

him, try to talk to
him with the distinct

hope and desire that
they would end up dating

this AI avatar because
they think it’s a real woman.

In June 2024, Nidu
Nanase had 90,000 followers

on YouTube and used a line account
to make appointments in conversation.

So you could sort of an official line
account, a line is like a chat account.

And you could send
messages and pay money

for sort of like to access to this
to be able to talk to them more.

It would be like, what hustlers university
where you paid money to get into a discord

where they talked about
how successfully are,

but if you wanted to
hear that conversation,

you had to pay more money
to get into a slightly different

discord and it just goes
on and on and on forever.

Number fifth, he was
arrested for fraud April to May.

He took in 1.25 million yen, which sounds a
lot, but it’s not actually that much money.

You’re not living on
1.25 million yen a year.

April and May is only two months.

So you could over the
course of the year if

you sustain this, actually
make a solid salary.

One man sued him specifically
because he took dating

advice and forex trading
advice from him as the avatar.

So Kota claims that
there was no fraud because

while he did take the money, he actually
produced the thing he said, so said, you

want dating advice, I
gave you dating advice.

You wanted forex trading advice,
I gave you forex trading advice.

It came from me, I’m
still the person behind

the avatar of the
person you were talking

to the person you
believed in is this fraud.

So it’s a very interesting question.

This is one of those ones.

I really want to find
a lawyer who I can

spend some time talking
to about these issues.

Is it fraud if you pay for
advice and I give you advice,

but I don’t look like
what you think I look like?

Is it fraud if you think
I’m one person, but I

still deliver the product
I promise to deliver?

Because it’s in a way not fraud because
he’s like, I wasn’t selling you this image.

I was using this image to sell,
which is what advertising is.

And then you said you wanted
dating advice, I gave you dating advice.

You said you wanted forex trading
advice, I gave you forex trading advice.

This is not fraud.

So it’s a very interesting
question because

people were believing one thing,
it was coming from one person.

If it comes from a
different person behind the

avatar, is that fraud is a
very interesting question?

We’re going to find out.

I’ll try to follow up on this
story and see where it ends up.

A 31 year old YouTuber,
Tinch him, had 1.

69 million followers on YouTube and
got a brand deal with a bra company.

The product was very successful.

Company the bra company is
very happy, Tinch him is very happy.

Tinch him claimed that the
bra makes your breasts grow.

That was problematic because she
made those claims after she got a boob job.

So she started wearing these bras, went and
got a boob job, came back on the internet

and said, look, my boobs are bigger,
it’s because I’m wearing this bra.

She failed to mention she got augmentation
surgery in the middle part of that story.

People, when they find
out that she’s actually

had a boob job and
it’s not the bra making

their boobs bigger,
they start making returns

and making saying that
she’s made false claims.

This is not something
that this product doesn’t

work the way it was promised, it
doesn’t work as intended, it doesn’t work.

She sued the bra company.

So the spokesperson sued the bra company to
try to get more information about how they

were spending money
because she’s like saying,

I need more information to be
able to make some sort of decisions.

This is a bit confusing.

The company then countersuse her for breach
of contract to the tune of 384 million yen.

So she’s gotten paid
some number similar to that.

But they’re saying our losses are
now 384 million yen, it’s like $23 million.

Because instead of being honest in your
spokesperson of this bra, you went ahead and

made up a whole bunch of lies and made
people buy bras under false pretenses, losing

us a ton of money and image
and respect and that other stuff.

She then goes on X and starts complaining.

This is another series of
mistakes that she’s made.

She goes on X and she says, she talked
about maybe I have to go into bankruptcy.

If I lose this court case, I’m
going to have to go into bankruptcy.

She loses the court case, changes her
Twitter handle to I lost the court case.

So that’s, you know, again, smart.

And then later on she
goes, yes, I admit that

some of the things that’s happened is I had
an application for real estate rejected.

But of course that’s going to happen.

She actually admits this.

If you go around talking
about bankruptcy on

your net, when you
go to apply for a house

or an apartment or something,
I’m assuming she lives in Tokyo.

So it’s very expensive.

They’re going to look at that and
go, Oh, she’s about to go bankrupt.

Let’s not sell her an apartment.

She finished off this whole thing with I’m
an idiot and the engineer’s Japan agrees.

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Lend Me Money

we have an update on the man from last week
who there was a drunk driving call and they

were hanging out in
the convenience store

parking lot and some cop
showed up sort of walked

towards the car so
this man in his infinite

wisdom decided to
drive directly at the police

officer who then jumped
onto the hood of the

car they drove for 220
meters the police officer

took his gun and said
stop the car or I will

shoot you in the face
they stopped the car

and they ran away cop
did not shoot them this

is a very distinct point between Japanese
policing methodology police thing Japanese

policing methodology
Japanese policing methodology

and other comparative countries where I’m
sure that person by getting up and running

way would be dead now
person in the passenger

seat they turned
themselves in the guy who

was driving did not
turn himself in he was

caught this week they
didn’t say if was a man

hunter anything or if
you turn himself in so

I’m assuming they just
tracked him down he

has now been arrested
for attempted murder

an obstruction of duties
we used to have the

obstruction of business
ding because it was a

massive trend of that
I got on a little late

when I was doing
the stories but now it

seems to have gone
away I’m wondering if it’s

been reclassified
because we’re getting a lot

of obstruction of duties
so does that deserve

its own bell of recognition
or do we combine

the two because it
is still obstruction but

I feel like obstruction
of official police

duties and obstruction
of a business are two

different things so I
think we’re just going

to leave it exactly
the way it is a pretty

reasonable this is the
week before my winter

vacation and I am basically saying there
there will be no podcasts during the winter

vacation so two weeks
to get me back on track

there is a famous street in Osaka it’s
famous for its ladies of the night standing

around soliciting
waiting for the man who

pretty woman them
into a different life I don’t

know what’s going on there it’s problematic
for the city because it gives a bad image

for the city so they’re
like we have to solve

this problem so in
all their civic wisdom

the city decided let’s
do the one thing that

will discourage
prostitution we will paint

the street yellow with pictures of fish on
it that stops prostitution yellow streets

with fish ew I don’t
want to have sex with

that unless you have
a spongebob fetish then

very much this is the
street you want to go

to the claim by the
city was the yellow plus

aquarium inspired illustrations will
create a psychological barrier again except

those spongebob
fetishists who are like the

barriers down now finally
I am very I can’t I don’t

actually know what
spongebob sounds like I’ve

never watched the show authority said that
solicitation has nearly disappeared since

the change now my
immediate thought that was

oh almost a week ago I read this story when
I came out when they painted the streets

yellow I was like it’s not gone you’ve just
moved it you’ve displaced it you’ve just

changed where it’s
actually happening yesterday

as I was doing my notes for this story
today women were seen gathering on nearby

streets so they didn’t
even move it that far away

it’s like we’re going to paint this street
yellow the women working on that street are

going to move one to
two streets away and that’s

it problem solved a
quote by city officials

if they have moved to
adjacent streets we’ll

work with communities
to address the issue

so what they’re saying is can we afford to
paint all the streets yellow and then what

you’ve actually done
is now they’re like well

we’re just going to
stand on the original

street now they’re all yellow so there’s no
more psychological barrier this is a very

common issue with
how they deal with this

kind of thing in Japan
is they actually like

they don’t stop it they don’t deal with the
actual issues they just push it away and

then they push it away and they’re like hey
I’m surprised it popped up somewhere else

who would have funk
it this week we had the

first arrest for the
drunk driving on a bicycle

law came into effect at the end of November
December 4th a man rode into a taxi stand

so tacky stand is is where taxis wait for
customers so you might have three or four

taxis actually lined up you find the most
stations kind of like busy places to have a

place for taxis to sit
and wait for customers

to just get in roll
off next taxi rolls

up into there so guy drunk on a bicycle he
rolls into I assume the actual taxi sitting

at the taxi stand and
then he attempts to flee

unsuccessfully because
the taxi driver restrained

him caught him and
called the police when he

did a breathalyzer he
was seven times over

the legal limit he said
I drank four or five

cans of Chuhai
Chuhai I think is a little

stronger than beer and he had four or five
but he was seven times over the legal limit

he either drank them
all in once like he put

them on a bucket and
just chug that whole

thing or I’m gonna go
ahead and say this he

might be lying how much
would you lend to someone

that’s a very viable question it’s a good
question how much would you lend to someone

else I have lent
people I think the max is

five thousand yet I’ve
paid for some lunches

and stuff and they paid me back or maybe
they didn’t whatever I’ve never lent people

enough money that
I’m not sort of willing to

lose which I think is a
pretty winning strategy

they say that about stocks and investments
and certainly crypto stuff like that like

don’t invest money that you’re not willing
to lose because there’s a very good chance

you will but lending
money is pretty

straightforward you lend
people money you get it

back or you don’t and you can’t really hold
a grudge you lend someone some money and

they don’t pay it back you don’t lend them
more money okay so let’s take that as our

base philosophy on
lending from now on and it

is civic employee
borrowed fifty eight million

yen from people around
him mostly subordinates

and acquaintances so
people who worked for

him he borrowed money from them people he
sort of knew he borrowed money from them he

racked up fifty eight
million yen so four to

five million yen is the
average annual salary

of a person in Japan
fifty eight million

eleven twelve years
worth of the average salary

for a person he just
had borrowed from other

people didn’t pay
any of it back and died

so I’m wondering if that was this plan it
sounds like he was just like one of these

people who’s a serial
borrower who never

pays it back he didn’t
like plan to die says

like part of his scheme as in I’ll borrow
all this money die and then not have to pay

it back but the sum
of money is so large

there’s actually people
making complaints of

the government especially the subordinates
who worked for him who are like I let this

guy a lot of money he
worked for the government

it felt really uncomfortable but I felt it
was really hard on me because how am I

supposed to say no to
my boss who I lent money

to and then it’s really
uncomfortable for me

to go and ask him to
pay it back you might

be like well let’s dumb
you should stand up

for yourself these we’re
talking about Japanese

people in Japan you
have to use Japanese

sensibilities it’s a
very difficult situation

to be and I actually
would not wish this on any

Japanese person to
have to be in a situation

where they would have to ask their boss for
money back that they borrowed from them one

employee said I lent him over one million
yen now I can’t believe he lent him one

million yen and one go like I really
struggled to believe that like over the course

of however many years how many yen did they
lend him and like what sums I would like

to know the sums so
again I don’t think I’ve

ever lent any one
anything over a 10,000

yeah which would be
like a hundred dollars and

it’s current exchange
rate probably seventy

bucks I don’t think
I’ve ever lent anyone

more than that because
the most is like we’ve

gone out for dinner
in my friend I don’t

have enough money
I’ll get it this time don’t

worry you can get it next time whatever it
would take forever to rack up a million yen

that way so how much
was he borrowing what

kind of things was
he saying this is all the

stuff that I really wanted to know I looked
for a couple more articles it was really

hard to find another
employee said I feel

stupid lending it to it
which I’m sad to say

you should I feel a lot
for the victims in this

case because you
basically just got scammed

by someone who you
are officially in a weird

way in a relationship
with who you are almost

forced to trust it’s a very weird scheme if
he was scheming I do have part of my brain

goes he didn’t scheme he didn’t plan it
this way he just was one of those people who

just borrows borrows
borrows and never thinks

about paying it back
as being very generous

though this may have
actually just been a

scheme of how he pays
for everything his final

bonus and salary are
going to be used to pay

back some of the debt so
employees acquaintances

and stuff who all
have this complaint like

this guy borrowed money
from us tons of money

and then he went off
and we’re gonna get some

of that money back it’s
even worse ten thousand

yen is sixty five dollars
in competence answers

many questions oh my camera just went out
of focus because I’m so poor it’s got auto

focus I wish I could
kind of dial in a little

bit and tell it where
my face is or maybe

my I’m so white is
blown out yeah no I think

I think I don’t want to
spend we need to lend

you money to buy a
new camera dude I would

love you let not let
okay yes lend lend me

money for a new camera
and then I will honestly

die as quickly as possible so not have to
pay back I’m one of those weird people not

weird I’m one of
those people who like

obsessively pays back
money I would lend people

money small amounts money and not expect to
get it back so I don’t stress about it but

guaranteed you have a
cheap oh Logitech camera

and you can manually
adjust J that hurt man

what is it called it is a Logitech it is
the it’s the one they kind of recommended

when it came out the CR something turn off
my heater it’s only a real hot in here see

five zero two I did not go fuck off I think
that’s it I think it’s the C502 it’s the

see something oh man just got like torn up
on my own show should I this camera’s fine

it’s a good camera I
wanted to I never intended

to go on camera and so that’s the thing
so I was thinking I think everyone has one

I think if you did
streaming see you started

streaming two years ago this was the camera
to get I think that’s actually probably

true I probably looked
it up looked for a

bunch of reviews no
I’m just gonna get a new

camera you fucking
tore me up just now my

Christmas present to
myself is gonna be like

a thousand dollar Sony camera that I never
learn how to use properly and then it still

will be out of focus
because I don’t know

how to focus this shit
they’ll be like no you

got to twist the front they do have
fucking some of the nice 4k cameras and

people stream with those and it looks
amazing but I don’t I don’t think for this

setting in this face we need anything
more than eight pickles I think that’s

more than enough eight pixels we don’t
need to go any further than that okay I

didn’t get to that let’s get so I don’t
know how much that’s gonna make it in

the episode that’s gonna be a lot of
cutting we had a slight diversion when we

talked to the the Logitech camera
conversation his final bonus in salary were

used to pay back some of the debt so
remember he borrowed 58 million yen his

final salary in bonus 2.3 million yen
his final bonus in salary were used

to pay was 2.3 million yen of the 58
million yen which is barely anything a

couple of subordinates said it’s
difficult to refuse because he was my boss

which I think is awful I think it’s a
terrible situation he’s clearly a bad

person I don’t know man we don’t have
enough context for what kind of person he

was when he was alive to know if we
should be able to make fun of him when he’s

dead he may have just been mmm
kind of doofy which almost is like in a

appealing quality but the degree
seems malicious the Tokyo Metropolitan

government proposes a four-day work
week to combat the population decline in

Japan for government employees starting
April 2025 this is not a bad idea I

am already predicting issues four-day
work week it’s federally mandated I’m

already predicting issues because of
the just the Japanese work life culture

that’s been created puts them in a weird
spot because if you do a four-day work

week but you have to make up that
last time which is a way a lot of sort of

Japanese business people think and
they may be in the government they’re

still kind of business people are
still trying to run it a lot of our like

bullying and professional harassment
and all those kind of things that all

comes from the government if they have that
extra pressure if they have those as the

show just said 18 hour workdays
that extra day off suddenly is nullified it

doesn’t mean anything anymore they
want people to take time spend time with

their family they’re trying to relax it
I actually agree with this but I think

I proposed a long time ago five-day
work week is fine but end your day after

X amount of hours so if you work from
nine you end up four or five o’clock so

you do an eight hour work day and then
you’re finished and you have to leave I

used to do two doubles and a single
yeah if you okay that’s your choice four

days off that’s your choice I 100%
agree with it but I don’t this is I think

maybe part of the issue is they’re
not giving people a choice they’re just

trying to make things and mandate them
and make them happen and this is where

every one of these plans fails is you
can’t mandate people to spend time and

enjoy time with their family and
feel loving and actually then produce

babies but so because they’re gonna
make it happen and they’re struggling with

the Japanese World Cupwork culture that’s
going to be one of the issues they run

into regularly it is a solid start yeah
so my first point was longer hours to

make up for the time and then the
there is the pressure I know what they’ve

they’ve they’ve done studies and
shown that people only work for about four

five hours a day anyways like six is sort
of the upper maximum of what a human

being can actually do and actually be
productive now is the four-day work week

mandatory has been set yet so they
do have a say shine which is lifetime

employees at companies in Japan
and they have the same thing for the

government so you become like a lifetime
employee of the government and they

get very very generous holiday
packages you get like 40 50 60 days off a

year you can take them whenever
you want but don’t take any of them they

actually will say and this is illegal
but companies do this all the time we’re

gonna give you 20 to 30 days off this
year but we don’t want you to take any

of them and they don’t necessarily
pay them out so that’s just it’s to say

you give this benefit but then they
don’t actually give the benefit and if you

actually start using that benefit then
you sort of it gets looked down upon

you sort of people start a people in
the company like you won’t be able to

progress up the company it will be shunned
for actually taking advantage of the

package you’ve been given the benefits
that are included in it and I’m worried

that this government program will
suffer from something similar like hey yeah

you have four-day work weeks every
week but we do expect you to be here every

Friday and there’s no question you actually
should be here every Friday and will

it negatively impact the benefits and
advancements of the people who are there

so if I take my four-day week work week
every week and then someone else who

works with me doesn’t they move up
the ladder and I don’t is that going to

negatively impact me is that going to
negatively negatively impact my evaluations

that kind of thing it could impact my
career path of actually do the thing I’m

supposed to do if someone else isn’t
doing the thing they’re supposed to do but

they’re using that to get ahead so
that’s kind of the issues and again I’m

thinking in the Japanese work mentality
where this is a really important thing

to have to be able to do a very
important thing to do to be able to do to

fulfill I’ve lost some words there a 77
year old man was arrested for attempted

murder this is neat it’s neat in that
he was arrested for attempted murder

but not of a specific person what
happened is he was in his apartment on the

eighth floor and he opens his window
and he just takes a TV throws it out the

window it takes an air humidifier throws
it out the window and he takes another

TV he throws it out the window and
then he takes another air humidifier and he

throws it out the window he throws
two TVs and two air humidifiers air

purifiers air purifiers out the window
on to essentially an unsuspecting

crowd underneath no one was heard in
this so it was indiscriminate it was just

like taking gun and kind of shooting
it in the air kind of thing like if

someone gets hit it’s kind of men’s
slaughter maybe first degree murder that kind

of thing there’s a level of responsibility
there for but there is no actual

target he was just angry and frustrated it
may have been because he had too many

TVs and too many air purifiers I was
like dude don’t throw the TV out the

window pass me a TV I’ll take an
extra TV air purifier I got one in the back

I’ll take another one the Panasonic
air purifier by the way is a very good

product I recommend it highly for
people like me who have lots of air dust

allergies so he was throwing it out
his eight-story window at the people

below he actually lives very close to a
station so stations Japan they open up

there’s like sort of a rush hour there’s
gonna be a crowd down there so it’s

actually very very lucky that no one
got hurt when he was arrested said I’m

frustrated there’s no joy in life I
don’t care if I hit a pass or buy and

killed them my first thought was
play video games like yeah you’re 77 it’s

could be a hard start but I you can get
some joy out of video games you could

just sit around all day like you’re 77
you know entertain yourself get into

Skyrim something like that like it’s
just one of those things where you have

so much time and you’re doing nothing
in this getting into this depth of anger

and frustration to the point where
you actually throw stuff out the window

hoping to hurt someone else you don’t
even know play video games or I mean

if you if you got that far just start
drinking to sit around be drunk all the

time and lots of Japanese diet do it
lots of Japanese dudes do it start vaping I

mean there’s a culture there you can
get really into I bet they would love a

77 year old dude who just starts
vaping if it does damage to your lungs it’s

all right you’re 77 the dawn one of
key shoe this is the story there’s an

ongoing he died a few years ago from
a parent murder and the trial has been

ongoing of his lover wife sugar baby
because he was 77 and she was 22 a lot of

people think this might not have
been a true love relationship that she

may have been in this for his cash a
little bit background so there’s a very

interesting story because he was born
in 1941 he grew up he got his first job

sort of after the post-war period so
it would have been like the 50s 60s he

went door-to-door selling condoms
that is a very unusual thing at the time in

Japan condoms weren’t something you
could buy easily so someone coming to your

house and selling to them was like this
amazing boon he made tons and tons and

tons of money going door to door selling
condoms he expanded that business he

made it bigger and bigger bigger he
started I don’t know he grew into several

businesses after that that’s kind of
what guys do he claimed he gave over

three billion yen to over four thousand
different women but that would imply

sexual relationships and almost all of
them so that’s why he gets the title of

Don Juan he after an evening with a
model it appears she stole 60 million yen

from him he said I had a good time
in spite of the robbery so he wasn’t

concerned about money that’s how much
money he had someone stole 60 million yen

for him a life-changing amount of money
for me and he was like oh we had a good

times maybe it was kind of worth it in
2018 he got married to pseudo-saki who

worked as a cabaret lady and delivery
health delivery health is something that our

North American listeners may not
have heard of this is when you get sexual

services delivered to you usually at a
love hotel so you go to a love hotel you

meet there you’ve negotiated what
goes on some things happen you pay some

money you disappear it’s not always
sex it’s often hands and things and stuff

like that I don’t want to get to it
but delivery health is its own thing in

Japan that if maybe we could do
another holiday episode explaining all the

different sex things in Japan because
there’s a lot of them and they’re all

really weird so she was a cabaret
girl now cabaret is like a hostess club it

sort of takes it down a notch when
you say cabaret a little bit there is some

implied dating compensated dating so if
you go to this club enough you become

a regular you give the money they’ll go
on dates with you and maybe you form

a relationship maybe you form a
sexual relationship maybe not the whole

point of the hostess system and the
host system is to string you along and

extract as much money from you as
possible we’ve talked about that thousand

times in Indonesia Japan I don’t
need to go into it just go back in the

listen ten episodes ago you’ll hear
about it in some form or another pseudo

saki marries this guy the dawn
one of Kishu she gets one million

yen a month for her sexless marriage
so she’s not banging the dude she’s not

having relations with him he’s paying
her a million yen every month again

previous story four to five million yen a
year is a really average salary in Japan

so she’s making twelve million yen a
year doing nothing just being married to

this guy not even touching him or
satisfying in any way that is made aware of

May 24th 2018 the dawn one of Kishu has
found it the police suspect pseudo as you

would again I’m on board with really
old people and really young people falling

love I think that is very possible I
don’t doubt it can happen but when one of

them is very rich I don’t think age
actually matters anymore one one of them

super rich I think others always gonna
be some suspicion there so I think the

police were kind of taking the same
kind of thinking they’re like he’s really

old he’s super rich she’s had a rough
life she’s married this guy mmm we

think she might be involved stimulants
were found his system but they

couldn’t figure out where they came
from or how they got to him so that he

didn’t have any like me needle marks
he wasn’t doing any drugs they think it

was maybe an fedamines it was a little
difficult to tell they don’t know how it

got into his body but it seems like
that killed him that’s what gave him a

heart attack or whether it’s custom
some kind of problems with these

and fedamines or stimulants he was
on they then arrested her they arrested

pseudo and they arrested pseudo but
the problem is they didn’t really have any

evidence so this is kind of the one of
the issues that comes up like you need

to have evidence to rest in but there
was so much pressure for the police to do

something and make an arrest like well
she’s the most obvious culprit she’s our

number one suspect lesser let’s
arrest her and then hope we figure it out

Japan famously has like a ninety
nine percent conviction rate if it goes to

court it has that because prosecutors
only go to court if they know they’re

gonna win the case so quite often all
the ones you don’t hear about is the guy

kept his mouth shut so the police just
let him go because the prosecutors are

like well he’s not gonna say anything
we can’t nail him if we can’t nail him we

don’t want to take it to court because
we want to keep our ninety nine percent

conviction rate so it’s not a ninety
nine percent conviction rate it’s like

if you they don’t have enough evidence
they just drop the case so if we took

all the dropped cases and put that
together with all the conviction rate I

bet you would get a more normalized
version of what an actual rate of

conviction is but it does put you in
the sort of mindset if you know this don’t

talk to the police don’t give the
police any information do not help the

police because they are gonna do if you
go to if you start going to court you’ve

already lost but there’s a lot of pressure
so they arrest her the most damning

thing they found was her search
history because her search history had and

fed a mean death perfect crime which is
good on the nose from being honest and

inheritance so she was searching how
much how many and fed a means how much

and fed a means do I give someone to
kill them what is a perfect crime or how

do I do the perfect crime how do I get
away with a crime and can I commit a

crime and get all the money which
does create sort of like a picture perfect

version of what a criminal want to do
but there’s no evidence that she took that

information from the computer that she
learned and actually employed it in real

life it seemed like the Don one of Kyushu
was going to divorce you know because

he had discovered she had been in a
couple of AV videos porn videos it also

came out that the Don one of Kyushu
had asked her to get him drugs but she went

out to try to get drugs but she got
scam and she got just like icing like

icing sugar something like that so
she basically got scam she got sugar

crystals instead of actual drugs so
when she brought it back and the guy

tried to actually do it he got really
angry because she couldn’t even buy

them drugs but it does show that he was
trying to get the drugs anyway so maybe

he just got drugs himself and then
actually killed himself so he was doing

infatamines did the end fatamines and
then died and maybe she had nothing to

do with it because she wasn’t even
capable of getting the drugs when he

asked her to get the drugs on May 6th
knows that the Don one’s dog died and so

the what they’re saying this is a
couple days before he died so he this is a

six he died on the 24 so on the 6th his
dog died and everyone was saying that

after his dog died he grew strange so he
kind of lost it a little bit he’s 77 years

old he probably loved his dog a lot
much like I love my dog Dave a little

asshole sleeping in the corner
they’re saying that this may be really

important elephant element of his life
was taken away this dog that he loved

died and his mind snapped he stands
they’re not saying he was crazy they’re not

saying he would he turned mean or evil
or he got like vindictive or anything but

he was different from before the
problem is prosecutors hadn’t produced any

actual evidence other than the theories
so they like we got the the search we

got the search history we have that
she was really young and he was really old

we have that he was rich and she
wasn’t rich I mean of course she must have

murdered him but that isn’t actually
proof those are only theories that you

have to prove in court the judge literally
said I think she killed him too but I

have to be a judge and the judge has
to go on actual things you’ve proven you

haven’t actually
proven anything that’s

reasonable doubt
reasonable doubt remains she

has been acquitted so that ninety
nine percent stays at ninety nine it does

not go to a hundred because of the
very few cases like this where there’s so

much pressure they move too quickly
they don’t gather the evidence they go

don’t go through the steps and you
end up with someone getting off so what

happens in the money because that is
going to be the thing it’s gonna be like

one point five billion yen this guy
still has who’s gonna get that money the

city he lives in is claiming the money
based on the fact of a handwritten will

that was found so they’re saying the
one point five billion yen is not going

to go to anyone in his family not
going to go to pseudo it’s going to go to

him it’s gonna go to the city because
someone wrote a note we assume it was

supposed to be him I was like man is
that all it takes is a handwritten note I

had no handwritten note right now
like hey I’m don one didn’t use a pen my

favorite podcast I want them to have
at least one billion yen you guys can

keep the point five the don ones brothers
are contesting it saying that it’s a

fake note that this note is not going
it’s not wasn’t written by the don one

it shouldn’t go to the city the so the
question is does pseudo getting my she

was his wife so she’s making claims
there is a whole other problem though she’s

still going to jail she’s going to still
for scamming a different man out of

twenty nine point eight million yen
and she’s gonna get three years and six

months so while all this contesting
that will is going on she cannot be

involved because she’s actually
going to be in prison for scamming a

different guy which actually lit lens a
little more credence to the idea that

she may have killed him for the money
what do we learn from this real life is

messy and I do actually want to give
credit to the judge because the judge was

literally like saying look I don’t
believe this girl is innocent but you guys

haven’t done your job you guys have
improved anything so she gets to go on

her way which on our way being the
court next door where she has to get

sentenced for another three years to go
to prison for scamming some other dude

this is the week before the winter
vacation for my company so I will be taking

two weeks off I will not be podcasting
if I do end up with time or stories or

the the wherewithal or I wake up
get out of bed actually I might make an

episode but I just don’t want to
promise this for the next two weeks or

probably no episodes if I do drop
something it’s gonna be like a little bonus

thing something else I don’t know I don’t
want to say it like that either one more

time this is this is the week before
the winter vacation in Japan so I’ll be

taking the two weeks off I will not be
releasing any podcast over the next two

weeks I haven’t forgotten about you I
miss you just as much as you miss me our

love is still strong and going forward
I’m just taking a break because it’s

a holiday and I think I actually
should take breaks it avoids burnout

Seemic B has not gone dead but it is
certainly gone into hibernation for the

moment because I have hit a level of
writers block because I’m working on too

many projects so Seemic B is in dormant
nuclear Japan it being based on news

feeds itself which is great but I do
need time to organize things get my life

together I’m thinking about 2025 do I
want to make any changes to the show I

certainly have aspirations things I
would like to improve so hopefully we

can get some things like that
happening I’d like more quizzes more

question more little bit I’d like more
quizzes I would like more guests I

would like more conversations to
happen but the problem living in this time

zone and most of the listeners being
in other time zones is very hard to line

people up I don’t want to yeah all
that’s all promises I don’t want to make or

keep my room just got really hot this
is the week before the winter vacation in

Japan so I will not be releasing any
episodes for at least the next two weeks I

haven’t forgotten about you just
like you haven’t forgotten about me I

would love is still strong that’s all
I really want you to know I’m just

taking a break we’re thinking forward
into 2025 what’s gonna happen to the

podcast or any places I can make
improvements oh things are dinging I think

I mean mute discord for Foxings how do
they do it when I start podcasting I’ve had

no alerts all morning maybe that’s
it maybe my first resolution for

the word my first resolution for 2025
is remember to turn off the discord

notifications I can’t blame them
they’re being nice and friendly and sending

messages but I’m like I’m recording
now I should actually God I got to do my

own I fucked everything up because
my own discord is going to alert when I go

live so let’s stop that too all right
where am I this is a mess one more time

what six minutes and I’ve only done
like a fraction of an update this is the

week before the fuck you this is a
week before the winter vacation in

Japan I would be taking a two-way
break I have not forgotten you I still love

you I would love is still strong I will
be back I can’t promise that either I

could die I got damn I don’t want to
do that something’s wrong with me I

got to cut this all together into like
something see how many times I got it

right anyways two weeks see you
unless you’re a spongebob fanatic weirdo

say unless you have a spongebob failing

Why I Podcast

(upbeat music)

There is a cop that is
four million yen in debt

from buying luxury
items and entertainment.

And that tells me that this is a cop living
beyond his means outside his lifestyle.

He therefore is a cop that can be bought.

That was actually my first thought
when I was initially reading this story,

is that this is a cop you
could bribe and get away with it.

He wanted to resign.

So he wanted to stop
being a police officer,

which actually in this
case seems like a good idea.

If you have a cop who has large
debts who can’t get out of those debts,

you don’t working his job, you
don’t want that guy to be a cop.

The other police officers
were like, “Uh, you should stay.

” You should keep working as a police
officer or pay off your debt before you quit.

You should stay.

His solution on the other hand
was to just stop showing up to work

and then to go to
Disneyland with his girlfriend.

So he wanted to quit and
the other guys in the office

were like, “Don’t
quit, keep being a cop.

” And he’s like, “Uh, how do I convince
them “that I don’t want to be a cop?

” That they should stop letting me be a
cop that I should not be a cop anymore.

He wanted to uncop himself.

He’s like, “Well, if I
just stop showing up,”

I mean, honestly, as far as
planning goes, this is a solid plan.

On the engineers, Japan, we
make fun of bad plans all the time.

This is a good plan.

If you want to get fired,
just stop showing up.

They’re gonna fire you eventually.

The problem came on October 1st when
his father filed a missing persons report

and the cops, therefore,
his colleagues, his

co-workers were out
looking for him specifically.

So you missed a couple days of work,
you don’t show up anymore to work.

Eh, let me just forget
that guy, not a big deal.

Someone filed a missing persons report

and you’re a cop, then the
cops have to go look for you.

So he’s kind of like stuck himself
but we’re not telling his dad,

“Dad, I’m going to Disneyland or Dad,
“I’m doing something with my girlfriend.

” He just disappeared.

So his father, I don’t know if
you’d behave like this in the past,

but his father rightfully said, “My
son is missing, I don’t know where he is,

“I will call his co-workers
the other police

“and they will look for him and they
have to look for him “at that point.

“

Even if they’re like, “Yeah, at
this point we’re glad he’s gone.

” He was found leaving a hotel on October
2nd with his girlfriend or his partner.

I don’t know if he gets arrested for this.

He has to get stopped.

When this is an interesting thing, when
someone files a missing persons report

and you’re not actually missing and
the cops find you, what do they do?

They just like tag,
you’re it, we found you.

You have to find me now.

You have to find the next guy.

Because you haven’t committed
a crime, like going to Disneyland

with your girlfriend without
telling anybody isn’t a crime.

Of course, it does leave
your family back home who

think you’ve disappeared
forever in a weird situation.

I have something I want to look
into, but how do you find out like,

I can’t go to the police
and ask these questions.

This is something I
realized a long time ago.

I have lots of questions I
would like to ask the police

and I can’t just like go show up
at the local police station and say,

hey, if this situation
hypothetically happens,

what would be the result or the
punishment or like is it a crime?

That makes draws suspicion onto you.

So I realize I can’t do that.

I need a cop friend or a lawyer
who can explain stuff to me.

That might be the next
step for an introduced pen.

I’m being the next
evolution as to find a cop

or lawyer that I can
regularly ask questions to.

So as I hit these questions,
I can write them down.

Might actually start looking into that.

I want to do more quizzes.

It’s organizing time.

Organizing times very
hard for me because I work.

This isn’t my job.

I do this because I love you.

On October 31st, at the
end of the same month,

he’s issued a reprimand and that
reprimand is, hey, you’re a bad cop.

You can’t just not show up
to work for a bunch of days.

And then he immediately quit afterwards.

So again, if we’re going for his initial
plan and success, he has achieved his goal.

He didn’t want to be a cop anymore.

He wanted to quit.

It’s not like he wouldn’t let him
quit, but they convinced him to stay.

Maybe they were given him
a hard time about quitting.

He’s like, I formulated a plan.

I’ll stop showing up to work.

I’ll stop showing up to work long enough.

They will reprimand me.

He probably thought they
would just like cut him loose.

But in, I guess, police, it
has to be a little more formal.

They reprimand him and then he quit.

I guess, and this is
going to ensure he can’t

be a cop again, which
is not a bad idea.

I mean, this is the kind of guy
that should not be a cop again.

He did say after he was reprimanded
and quit being a police officer.

I didn’t like having my personal life intruded
on and being given advice about money.

I thought if I stopped showing up
to work, I would be allowed to resign.

And again, he was correct.

So a man was arrested and
he was arrested for riding.

And it looked like an electric bike.

They said, a moped with pedals.

So I’m assuming moped with
pedals means kind of gas powered.

So you pedal it and
then the engine kicks in.

And it’s got like a little
essentially lawn mower engine

and that, that keeps you going, it
looked like an electric bike to me,

but the electric bike will give you a
better image of what the bike looks like.

It looked like a modified bicycle
with an engine on it, that whatever.

That’s a moped.

I guess they were right.

Who am I arguing with right now?

He’s been arrested for
riding past people and

snatching glasses off the
face as a glasses wearer.

I understand the immediately difficulty

and frustration is
what put you in because

I am functionally blind
without my glasses.

And I see the world, but
it’s like the world underwater.

I know what Atlantis
looks like because that’s

what I would see whenever
I take my glasses off.

I couldn’t really drive a car or
anything if I didn’t have my glasses on.

So with glasses, I see adequately.

I wouldn’t say well, if I was walking
somewhere and you took my glasses,

I could still find my
way to the train station.

I still do stuff.

I would not be a functional
human being to the same capacity.

Be here feeling like a buffoon.

I, Jay, I feel the exact same way.

I would not be because
I would lose so much

capability because I
couldn’t read things.

I’d have to like walk up
really closely to read them.

I’d have to maybe ask
people for directions and stuff.

So it would just, it would
make my day so much harder.

And let’s say you were
going on your way to work.

If I was coming home, I probably have a
pair of old glasses, which aren’t as strong.

Maybe that I could still get by with
to get to like a new pair of glasses.

If I was on my way to work, I would,
there’s no way I’d be able to do a

day’s work without
my glasses on because I

couldn’t read the computer
in front of me probably.

I’d have to get my face really closely.

It would be very
entertaining for my coworkers.

They would all have a good time.

I know I would realistically
just take that day off and go

get another pair of glasses,
but they’re not ready that day.

I’d still have to wait a couple days or
a week, so I’d have to take a day off,

go home, get an old pair of
glasses, go get a new pair of glasses.

Nightmare.

When he was arrested, they found
50 pairs of glasses in his home.

50 pairs of glasses.

This eye is just getting
worse and worse and worse.

At this point, it’s essentially just a
non-functional foreface in my head.

It’s not the best way to put it.

A non-functional orifice.

When they went to his place,
they discovered 50 pairs of glasses.

He had stolen off people’s faces.

Now, I thought I’d read
this far in the article and

I went, okay, this is a
kid and he’s found a prank.

He can grab glasses off people’s faces.

They can’t really chase
them down very well.

He’s on a like a moped
and electric scooter.

So, he’d be able to jet off pretty quick.

It’s a prank.

This guy’s 49 years old.

And I don’t know why.

Like a lot of these, it’s old
dudes and I’m like, of course,

because old dudes just
go insane in their old age.

Or it’s young people doing stupid stuff.

He’s still young enough.

He’s under that sort of mental barrier
for me where you should be like no better.

What had actually happened, so I
thought initially he was riding up,

grabbing the glasses off
someone’s face and riding away.

I actually saw something like that.

I saw a purse snatching
happen that way once.

Like live in a person and the woman
realized at the same amount of time I did,

they were gone by the time we both
realized what had actually happened.

So, there was nothing I
could actually do to help.

What he actually did is
he would stop and say,

can you give me
directions, let’s say to the

station and then grab
their glasses and ride away.

So, the shock is there, but
he has that moment where

everyone’s calm and peaceful
and I’m helping you out.

And this is another
thing, the kindness of

strangers, praying upon
that to steal glasses.

You’ve just gone down the wrong path.

When the cops do an
arrest and they love to do

a little lay-out of
everything they’ve taken.

So, the one, again,
this is audio podcast,

you’re not going to be
able to see the picture.

The picture is really funny to me.

Someone’s printed out a banner.

I love that for every crime someone’s
taking the time to print out a banner.

They’ve hung a single t-shirt on the wall
under the banner that says jump man flight.

Jump man, I believe, is a anime
character or a manga character.

I’m not sure.

They have the moped bicycle
thing, which actually looks very cool.

I kind of want one of those.

They also have a pair
of boots or like high-top

shoes he has that are
so the shirt and the boots

are the bits that I’m
confused about because

they’re completely
unrelated to the crime.

You have the layout of the
glasses, all 50 pairs of glasses.

I guess you could
reclaim your glasses, but

I think they’re just trying to
show like the hall they took.

The guy who lays things out for this
did not do as much of a job as I’m usually.

I have higher expectations.

I’ve done a lot of
these stories where they

lay out like all the stuff
they’ve taken from the arrest.

And I’m not as satisfied with this.

He doesn’t seem to
have any structure or plan.

I have sort of a flow
because I’ve actually,

the ones where they
have like the underwear or

something and it’s
like they’ll actually do it

from different kinds
of underwear and it’ll go

like down by color and
they’ve had like someone

who stole and shoes
and it’ll do it by size

or something like
there’s usually a theme.

This seems like the guy
maybe didn’t have a lot of

time or this might be his
first time laying stuff out.

He’s got a bunch of glasses and the glasses
don’t seem to be any particular order.

74 year old city hall member in suit.

They were talking,
because it’s the two mayoral,

prefectural government
was sitting around.

I’m sure that’s not what it’s called.

They’re having a meeting.

They’re just sitting around.

I have a meeting and
they’re talking about, you

know, human rights and they have
like a charter for rights for children.

So they start having a conversation of
what they should and should not include.

I’m sure it’s based
off some national thing.

But they have to have
some definitions like what are

the rights, the inherent
rights of children in Japan?

A 74 year old and as
soon as I said that, I’m like

74 year old Japanese politician is
saying some off the cuff, unhinged stuff.

I knew, I knew the way this story
was going before I even got into it.

They were drawing up policies in
regards to children and someone said,

respecting the personality,
individuality, and the rights of children.

It seems pretty fair like
kids are their own people.

They have their own
personalities, their individuals.

They should be treated like individuals and
they have inherent rights just being born

in a sort of a country with
that respects basic human rights.

He responded, do
children have personalities?

But they have better ones than you.

I like it just like all this
stuff that goes on my head.

Then he said, what rights to children have?

Which shows where this
74 year old man’s head is at.

If he thinks it like, because you
exist doesn’t mean you have rights.

Because you are born doesn’t
mean you have rights in Japan.

Because you’re a Japanese citizen and
young, you do not necessarily have rights.

Someone tried to argue, people
are born with human rights.

Pretty fair argument if you ask me.

He argues back, kids have
neither rights nor obligations.

So you expect the general pattern
of this is unhinged statement,

outcry, and the next day
they do public press apology.

This guy is one of my favorite
ones because he doubles down.

He’s absolutely not backing down for this.

He thinks kids do not
deserve or have rights.

So the next day during some
press when people are like,

dude, do you really think kids
don’t have like human rights?

He says, I don’t think anything of it.

Rights and personality
both need to be developed.

You could say personality
does develop over time.

I think I’m a very different person from
when I was 10 years ago, 20 years ago.

Like every decade,
you could say I’m a fairly

different person from
the decade previous.

I think that’s fair.

Personality’s changed.

But I had a personality
when I was like 10 years old.

I had a personality
when I was five year old.

You actually say the changes
might actually even happen.

The inherent person that
I am is in there right away.

Human rights on the other
hand are inherent from birth.

This is how you treat
people who exist, which

is where I actually
found this is the guy.

Maybe went too far.

I would be okay if you said like, oh,
you know, kids have a mutable personality,

personality is developed,
all that kind of stuff.

I’d be like, I disagree
with it, but I see your point.

Like people change and kids change a lot.

So maybe they don’t
have like a set personality.

It’s harder to call them out on that.

When talking about human rights,
there is no start point other than

human exists, therefore they get human
rights, the fundamental basic human rights.

So this to me shows
again, what I’ve said

is the problem with
74 year old politicians.

I tend to talk about
Japanese politicians,

but I think we’re seeing
in other countries,

perhaps the 80 year olds, there’s no way
these guys should be in charge anymore.

Like these 60, 70, 80
year old men should not

be in politics, they
should not be in charge.

I don’t understand what
is going on with them at all.

Why is this still okay?

Politicians essentially
set the retirement age.

If they said it at 60,
65 or 70, they should

be retired from
public life at that time.

You should not be allowed to become prime
minister of Japan, president of America,

or any of these other positions, if
you are above the retirement age.

That is my stance and
therefore an engineer’s

Japan’s firm stance that since government,
policies decide the retirement age, they

should respect the
retirement age themselves.

So every one of these politicians
in Japan, who’s over 65 years old,

should be forced to retire, they can
go do some other stuff, ignorant stuff.

I think our guy on our next story is about
to prove how they could spend their time.

If 58 year old men,
so we had a trend, it

was like a six month trend where every story
that began with a plus 50 year old men.

It was always in the 50 to 60
zone. It was always 54, 55, 56.

And I was like, this is my zone.

I’m a little concerned that I might,
you know, lose my mind one day.

And it was always
really weird sex stuff.

Like it was always the
weirdest sex dudes in their 50s.

They’re just like, at this point is like,
you know what, this is the only chance.

I’m still sort of physically
capable, but I’m at

that point in my life
where I don’t care anymore.

And that sort of like
convergence, whoa, that

converges those two
things. That sets old men off.

And so I’m actually
like partially worried

that my brain’s just
going to click one day.

I’m just going to do some really
weird stuff. And then I won’t be doing

into New Japan. Someone in the news will
be doing a story about me, the irony there.

This isn’t a sex thing.
I hope. But a 50 year

old man, he’s probably got,
you know, a lot of free time.

Maybe he doesn’t work
as much as he used to.

I think in 58, you should still probably
be working, but he’s got some free time.

See, does what any man
in their 50s just wants to do,

he gets up on his roof.
And again, that’s already

showing like he’s a
low. He’s on his roof.

It’s already a little weird
to hang out on your roof.

Roofs are really cool
places to hang out.

I’ll be honest. So
I have a house.

I haven’t quite painted off.
We’re getting, I can see the,

the, the faint glow at the end
of the tunnel of my mortgage.

Watch the foreigner upload more

and more disturbing content
before he finally snapped.

That would be great.
If you could watch my

decline and then
pinpoint the day the switch

flipped, like he was
okay up until this episode.

And after that, the way
he started talking and

the stuff he started
talking about got way off.

Of course, talking about
roofs. This is middle

age man stuff, old man
stuff. The point where you

aged out at the human
rights. That’s pretty good.

I mean, you guys should be
in the podcast at this point.

You guys, you don’t know this.

Jade, I think just watches
on Twitch, which was cool.

When I do the YouTube
video or the audio version,

a lot of these
conversations actually stay in,

what I do is I get nay,
I voice, I type in what

you say and I put it in
so you can actually get

the conversation. Just so
you know, you’re actually

in the podcast when
you’re making comments,

we have these talks. It’s
not the whole thing because

I do stuff like this where I
get off topic and it’s no point.

But I even choose
different voices for

different commenters. I
got about six voices I can

choose from because
often these side discussions

to me are the more
entertaining bits because

they’re natural and
I think that’s nice.

We’re talking like old man
stuff, which is my zone.

Narruse, roofs are a
great place to hang out.

No, I have a house. Again,
I was saying that we’re

seeing the the the end
of the mortgage is in view.

It’s going to be hopefully I
don’t die before we pay it off.

I would like to actually own the

house before I die. That’s
really one of those goals.

But it’s pre 60. So
hopefully that’ll get done.

The house next door. So we bought our house
and then they built the house next door.

I’m not jealous, but I was
like, oh, the house next

door has got a flat
roof with a small wall

and he has a garden
up there. And I was like,

aww, we could have
had a flat roof where I

could have put like a second
sort of like sun shade on it.

And I could be sitting up there.

I could be podcasting
outside on my roof right now,

which I think would be awesome
or playing video game and stuff.

I could make a space up on the roof
if I had a flat roof. So should I ever get

dumb people money, like
a huge amount of money,

I probably would rebuild
a house with a flat roof

that I can sit outside on.
Which would be pretty awesome.

Anyways, this guy, I’m assuming his is
not too angled that he isn’t sliding off,

but he’s spending time on his roof. So
what do you think he’s doing on his roof?

If I had time to set
up the quiz this week, I

would have set this
would have been the quiz.

What do you think he’s doing on his roof?
430 p.m. as a kid coming home from school.

And he stops at a red light
because he’s on his bicycle.

He stops at a red
light because he’s a

good Japanese kid and
he’s following the rules.

And then suddenly he gets
dung in the side of the head.

He gets pinged and he
looks up and he sees a

man, this has got to
be a terrifying thing for a

little kid to see. He sees a
man on the roof with a rifle.

And so what this
dude is doing is he goes

up on his roof and he’s
got an air gun and he like

a BB gun pelican kind
of thing. They actually,

they said air gun, which I don’t know
the difference between the different guns.

I actually think air gun is
more dangerous. I’m not sure.

I actually saw some
internet conversation about it,

but I’d have to
actually go looking up.

But it wasn’t. So kids, when
they go to elementary school,

they’re given generally
yellow helmets that they’re

wear, they’re on their
bicycle. So it’s very,

it’s to help, you know,
make them visible.

So the fact that he hit
the helmet, I think this is,

he was going for a
headshot, actually made the

headshot and hit
the kid in the helmet.

Very lucky, because I think
sometimes their ears are exposed,

their faces exposed
and that kind of stuff.

So this guy is spending his time
sitting on his roof, standing on his roof,

when kids go by, he’s
taking shots at them with his

BB gun, his air gun. The
problem is, he hit one.

So the kid goes home.
What does he do?

He tells his parents, hey,
I was riding by this house,

I stopped by this house
because there was a red

light because I’m a good kid
and I’m not breaking the rules.

And this guy shot
me. So they called

the police, the police
show up at this guy’s house,

like, hey, were you shooting kids?
He was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I would never do such a thing.

I was on my roof shooting birds.
I’m pretty sure that’s also illegal.

I don’t think getting
up on your roof and just

shooting birds randomly
is actually okay in Japan.

I’m pretty sure there’s
rules about that as well.

Yes, Ricky, it is wild.
It’s wild because why

is this how you choose
to spend your time?

Like I spend my free time doing this.
I thought the grade schooler was a bird.

Yes, I thought the grade
schooler was a bird does

seem like the right
excuse, but it still falls into

the category if is
shooting birds, okay, which I

don’t think it is. I think you’re
in the same sort of problem.

Shooting birds is not okay, just like
shooting little kids is not okay, just like

shooting anyone’s not
okay. So they took away two

air guns from his house
and then one of the cops

whose lip works in that
area was like, we’ve actually

found like a mass of BBs
pellets around the road.

We think this might be related,
so we’re going to be looking into it.

And so I don’t know what to say,
man. It’s just insane. Don’t shoot kids.

But the disregard
for the kid’s safety

specifically is a straight
to jail thing for me.

Oh, yeah. No, okay. So if we’re going to
get into that, that’s a whole other deal.

I would, yeah, I would
throw the book at him

because I’m assuming
if he’s on his roof and he

hits the kid who’s across the road, that’s
quite a distance. That’s a pretty powerful

air gun he’s using.
Like he’s hitting the kid.

It didn’t break the helmet
or go through the helmet.

But if he wasn’t
wearing a helmet, I’m

assuming it would have
like gone through the skin,

at least maybe even like cracked his skull.
Like that is just not okay stuff.

Yeah, yeah, play video
games. This is like people

complain about video
games. The alternative

just play video games.
Chunk McBeaf chest podcaster

because it’s not socially
acceptable to shoot kids.

You’ve actually found me out.

Okay, this last story, I’ve
kind of made like a little shift

in Ninja News, Japan. I was
trying to do all light news.

So I wasn’t doing any death.

Now I’m doing actual death.
So I got to come up with

warnings beforehand. This
is a story about a murder.

So there will be fewer
jokes and more facts,

but it is sort of a true
crime thing, which is

what a lot of people
are into. So last year,

there was a suspected
suicide and because a man

walked in front of a
train, which is a very

normal way in Japan
that people commit suicide.

And there’s sort of a
little ceremony that goes

with it, which is a little
weird and creepy to

people who don’t know
about it. You take off your

shoes and you line up your
shoes like when you come

into a house in Japan,
you take off your shoes

and you’re supposed to,
you know, neatly put them

next to each other. You’ll
see it in anime and stuff.

It’s sort of a ritual of
how you return home.

When people commit suicide,
they often do the same thing.

They take off their
shoes and that is

actually a way of saying to the
world that this was intentional.

And for suicides in front of trains, they
often put a note in there. Now, the police

were a little like suspect
of this case because

the man had walked
in front of the train.

He did not leave a note. He
did not do any of the things

that Japanese
people traditionally do.

So they’re like, this is now
suspect. It’s now suspicious.

They’re also on video
camera caught a car driving

away when most people,
if they had been around

this kind of thing or
seen this kind of thing,

they would have at
least called the police.

So someone leaving this scene
made it also these two points.

It didn’t follow sort
of the regular way.

I really don’t understand
the train suicide.

You grew up trying not
to inconvenience others

and then you inconvenience
them by messing with the train.

I don’t know. I could get into some some
suppositions there. It’s all psychology.

I think they commit suicide
because it’s now been

popularized in media. And
so now they think that’s

how you commit suicide.
I actually think media

is not responsible, but
they’ve people have done this.

We put it in the
stories. Now people have

read the stories and then
they up and up and up.

And so it just becomes
the way it’s done.

So because of the lack of
the Japanese style and the car

leaving the scene, the
police were like, we’re not

going to actually
like stop investigating.

We think this might be a
murder, even though the man

walked into in front of
the train on his own volition.

So that’s actually
the sticking point at

the end of the point at the
end of the story when we

get to the case. A year
later, so this is this year

to actually last week
for a rest of been made.

And these were all
the victims co-workers.

And the police say he
was coerced into crossing

the railway where he
was then hit and killed.

So what happened? You
go back, you hear, you go

back, you have to go
back a couple of years.

He’s working at a
construction company.

They seem to do a lot of
painting and stuff like that.

And it seems like workplace
bullying was constant.

But when they say workplace bullying, I
think they’re getting any new word because

workplace bullying is not
strong enough for the stuff

they were talking about
doing. They found videos

on the perpetrators form.
So four people were arrested.

They found videos on their
phones of them performing physical

abuse. So they would take
him and do wrestling moves.

But like he was all it wasn’t
like playing back and forth.

Let’s do some
fake pro wrestling.

They were like grabbing him
and do a suplex onto concrete.

They were throwing him around. They
were pushing him over that kind of stuff.

They threw hot water
on him. So they would boil

water, probably for tea.
And then they would take

some take a cup of it
and they would throw it on

him, burning him, scalding
him with the hot water.

They would tie him up,
tie his legs, tie his hands.

And they would hit him in
the lower body with hammers.

So this was, again,
when they say bullying,

I actually think bullying is too soft
a word for what’s actually going on.

Bullying in Japan is now
taken on this all-encompassing,

every kind of like physical
violence kind of stuff.

It is insane. This has
gone on for a year or two.

And it sometimes they would
deny him salary and only feed him.

So that was how
they kept him coming

back to the work site. So
because the only way he

could get food because he
had no money was to come

back to work, he would come
back to work, get more food.

But then they would abuse
him while he was at work.

So they got to a point where they’re
like, I don’t know what’s going on.

This is now we get a very,
very sort of supposition stuff.

Like what’s going
on in their heads,

because they decide they
want him to die or they

want to kill him for some
reason. Like torturing him

just isn’t enough anymore.
They want to kill him.

They go to his house at
two o’clock in the morning and

they get him now. This
is kidnapping because he

did not want to go with
him. But we’re the same

thing with that this
psychological state of the

victim in this case is he’s
not fighting them anymore

because it’s four of them
and they’ve abused him

so much that he doesn’t
feel like he can’t fight.

That’s actually one of
the weirdest parts of this.

At no point does he actually
fight back against these guys.

They take him to
a bridge and they

try to tell him to jump
off the bridge and he says

he doesn’t want to
jump off the bridge.

They get a text message from
one guy to another guy that says

he says he doesn’t want
to jump off the bridge.

He wants to walk
in front of the train.

So it’s almost like
they’re like, we want you

to jump off this
bridge and he’s like, no,

I don’t want to do it
this way. And they’re like,

well, you can jump
in front of a train.

He’s like, yeah,
let’s do that instead.

Maybe he was sort of delaying
for time. Maybe he was like,

if I’m going to die, this
is the better way to do it.

We don’t know what was
going on in the victim’s head.

All we know is that he was in his mental
state where he did not feel like he could

resist in any way
against these other guys.

They take him to the train
crossing and they get him out

and they tell him to just
go walk across the train.

He actually does what they
say and he gets hit by the train.

Here’s where the prosecutors are in an
interesting position because they’ve now

arrested these four people.
They have the evidence.

They have the phones.
They have all the physical

evidence of abuse. They
have all the things that have

happened in the past. They
have the CCTV footage.

So they know all these men were involved
in this man killing himself. Is it murder?

And if it is murder, what kind
of degrees I actually think is

pretty clear this is a
form of murder, but they’ve

put him in this
psychological state where he’ll

do what they say. So
them telling him to do it,

I think makes them
responsible for the murder

that has occurred. But
very technically, again,

this is where the law
works that you have to

get technical on it. If
they didn’t actually do

anything to him and he
walked in front of a train,

is that still murder? Or
is it coercion to suicide

and what kind of crime is
that? The current defense

of all of three of the
four perpetrators is we

didn’t do anything to him.
Therefore, we did not commit murder.

So they’re not saying
they didn’t bully him.

They’re not saying they didn’t
commit all this psychological torture.

But they are saying we didn’t
actually push him in front of a train.

We didn’t actually do anything.

His death is his responsibility.
We should not be held

responsible for that.
I will follow this case.

It’s going to take probably
months and months and

months before it’s concluded.
So probably next year

sometime, I will come up
with the actual sentencing

of these four people
and we’ll revisit it then.

I’d say it’s some level
of manslaughter at least.

I think it’s got to be
worse than manslaughter.

I actually wouldn’t be
surprised if they came up

with something else, like
murder related for sure,

but a higher level than
that because this is planned.

So if you think about the degree, Japanese
legal system, American legal system are

not exactly the same.
But I think everyone has

some exposures to the
American legal system.

So we have a better
understanding of it, like first

second and third degree
murder. So first degree

murder is just like
an active passion.

Second degree murder has
intent and third degree murder is

like with planning. So
that’s it. So it’s intent.

So because they
intended for him to die, I

think that puts you
into third degree murder.

So the fact that I
did it or not become

secondary, it was the
planning and the intent,

these guys woke up.
They kidnapped the guy.

They brought him to this
place. He decided they

didn’t want to do it that way.
They brought him to another place.

That to me is all
the planning that

led to the death of the person, that
to me makes a third degree murder.

So I’m grown a big beard.
This is an audio format primarily.

So I’ve grown a
big beard and I look,

but I recorded on Twitch
and I posted on YouTube

and I’m looking at myself and I’m looking
a lot like a trucker. The beard and the

baseball hat making me
look like like a trucker.

Do I know if that’s a look I should
lean into or try to like more more refined?

I have been trying to
think, what should I do?

What should I do with the beard?

I’m thinking length. This is
not going to go in the podcast.

Now that now that balloon cats jumped
in, I got someone to maybe chat with.

I’m thinking length down, keep it
fairly tight here. This is the part.

So I’ve realized naturally, I’m
clearly a bad guy, like genetically,

not maybe my personality
or morality, but genetically

because my mustache
twirls like up like this,

naturally, like I don’t
even have to like I

just did that now
and it’ll stay like that.

So I actually, when I get
up in the morning, I call

it down to reduce the mustache
twirling aspects I have in my genetics.

Another Ass Story

(upbeat music) It’s December.

Getting to the end of the year.

Should I reflect on things?

No.

I wanna start with something that
sounds good and I don’t have anything.

Let’s just start.

The labor ministry in Japan wants companies

to stop forcing employees
to buy their own products,

the products they sell
to sit at sales quotas.

This is a very weird thing.

I guess it’s not weird, it makes sense.

If you’re given a sales
quota and you have to meet it

and that’s what your evaluation, your bonus,
or whatever, it’s gonna be reliant on.

You’re gonna wanna hit it.

So companies then turn and go like,

well, you’re an employee,
you have X amount of money

because we pay you so we know you have
that much money and you love our product.

So you have to buy so much of our product.

This is a problem
because often it’s too much

product or it’s a product
you don’t need or want.

Like, if I worked for a
car company, I would only

be able to buy so many
cars a year that I could use.

So they’re taking it to the next level.

I, this could be anything,
any product at all, drugs.

They do mention insurance
companies and stuff like,

how much insurance do I
need to secure my future?

So companies force
employees to buy the product

they’re selling so that they
can hit these sales quotas.

They can say they hit these sales
quotas so they can look good to investors

who probably aren’t buying the
product if we’re being very honest.

This is going to be defined
as a form of power harassment

because you have someone
in a position of authority

forcing you to buy a product
you may not necessarily want.

Like, maybe I do like our product.

Maybe I believe in our
product, but I’ve already bought

one today or I already
have one enough for my life.

There is no reason for me by more.

Forcing me by more is a
form of power harassment.

That’s how it’s going to be
defined going forward in Japan.

I think it’ll be interesting because
it’s going to get its own name.

All the forms of harassment really 90% of
them could just be called power harassment

or just let’s just get rid of the
first word and just call it harassment.

But I think putting labels on it

makes people understand
what’s going on a lot faster.

So it helps a lot.

So this is going to need its
own form of power harassment.

So I haven’t been able to
come up with a name myself.

I think that would be an interest.

We should run a contest.

I would like to do more interactive things.

I did the quizzes.

I would like to keep doing those, but lately
it’s been very hard for me to organize

because I’ve just been very
busy on my day off my extra day.

So organizing, someone to join
the podcast has been very difficult.

Yeah, contest would be interesting as well.

What would you call the form of harassment

of your company making
you buy your own product?

Not because you want the
product, but in order for you

to hit a sales goal, your
company not necessarily you.

If I got the bonus of
hitting my own sales goal,

maybe it would be worth it
for me to buy my own product.

But that’s probably not how it works.

It’s probably like the lower
level employees who don’t

get big bonuses, don’t get
any sort of profit from this.

And they’re like, you have
to buy X amount of stuff.

Out of your own salary, we’re
not gonna like compensate you

for that so that the
company hits its quota,

brings up the interesting topic of
quotas and whether they’re good or bad

because it’s, the company’s view
is a way to measure something

but not take into
account reality of the

circumstances of why
you might not hit that quota.

It’s certainly a problem
with like police and whatnot

when they have a quota of how many
like traffic tickets they have to give.

And so at the beginning of month,
they give out more traffic tickets.

And then at the later of the month, so
they’ve done, they’ve fulfilled their quota

and then they don’t have to
worry about it, they can be more

sort of egalitarian or more
pleasant to everyone going forward

and actually make decisions
on whether this merits a ticket

or not instead of trying
to fulfill their quotas.

Some of the examples given
in the articles were contracts

for car insurance, so
that’s a car insurance.

So I have a car, I need insurance.

I don’t need more than one
or two, three plans of insurance

on my car, I just need
the one to cover my car.

Maybe there’s a couple of
different kinds of insurance

that I could get, but I don’t necessarily
need one or be able to afford that.

So that’s where the
problem starts to arise.

Unsold Christmas cakes.

So you have a company that
produces Christmas cakes.

They made too many,
they maybe they got too

many orders and a bunch
of orders were canceled.

So they don’t want those to go to waste.

They wanna make sure they
sell 100% of their Christmas cakes.

You work at the bakery, I assume
it’s actually more of a factory.

You work the factory and they’re like,

we’re not gonna give you
these Christmas cakes.

You have to buy these Christmas cakes.

I’m assuming there is a somewhat of a
discount, but I actually can’t say that’s true.

The article doesn’t say that.

Now I’m assuming they’re
gonna take some of the profit.

See then, as soon as that
sentence comes on our mouth,

they’re gonna take some
of the profits off the top.

No, they’re not.

They’re going to profit
off you as an employee

just as much as they
would off any consumer.

So yeah, you’re screwed.

You have to buy your crappy Christmas cake

that you didn’t wanna
buy in the first place.

And let’s say you did
even like Christmas cake.

You are a fan of the product
you make as Christmas cakes.

How many are you gonna buy?

Like that’s insane.

Like I don’t want five or six Christmas
cakes sitting around my house.

This was the one I found interesting.

Cover wrongly taken orders of restaurants.

So you’re a server of some sort.

You take an order and
then you bring the order to

the table and they say
this is wrong in some way.

So that has to be taken back.

They have to remake the order or something

and they have to replace the
order and bring it back into it.

They’re saying that you have to pay
for the order that was taken incorrectly.

Now you may bear some responsibility,

but there is actually the
case of a lot of internet stories

of someone ordering
something and then just

sending it back because
that’s what they do.

So should the employee
be on the hook for that?

I actually disagree with that as well.

I don’t think the customers should have
that much power over someone’s paycheck.

And that’s always the problem is because
they don’t have tipping culture in Japan.

So that’s actually not the problem.

But if the restaurant
starts trying to like squeeze

the employee for a mistake that was made
that may or may not have been a mistake.

So whenever they talk about
wrong orders, I always have this mug.

It’s just tincture of doubt where I’m like,
yeah, but did they give the wrong order?

Or did they order something
and then change their mind?

And then when it came, they
decided they wanted something else.

And that in itself is problematic
because there’s no actual proof.

And the company, the restaurant, whatever,

should observe it,
we’ve had a dozen stories

of restaurants closing
down after the pandemic

because people just aren’t
going out to restaurants as much.

But then there’s also the inflation.

So people aren’t making as much money.

So putting this extra burden
on an employee who’s probably

making minimum wage, I
think is absolute bullshit.

And it’s never going to
be the high level employees

with lots of money who are actually
gonna be forced to do any of this stuff.

There’s a man who
has arrested for breaking

into 1,000 plus properties
for the thrill of it.

So this is something,
okay, I have a related story

from what my youth, when I
was a youth and you know, as soon

as I say youth, you know,
we’re talking about bad stuff.

He admitted when he was
arrested that the reason

he was breaking into these properties was
the adrenaline rush of would he be spotted?

This was his main motivator
for breaking into these properties.

Now there’s a bit of a conflict here.

‘Cause the story said
he broke into someone’s

home, the 48 year old
husband, when he ran away,

when the man got caught
and started to run away,

grabbed him and restrained him
while the wife called the police.

She called the police
able like my husband’s

just caught this guy, he
was breaking into our place.

He’s holding him, please come get him.

He was arrested at that point.

When he was arrested, he said I only entered
the property never the actual houses.

This was like he was
playing this like solo game

of hide and seek, like he
was creating a situation

where if he got caught, it
was like losing the game,

but no one else knew
they were actually playing,

which is, I guess that’s
where the problem comes in.

You can’t play hide and
seek in someone’s house

without them knowing and then like just
being like, oh, that was fun, we got you.

My related story is when I was young
in Canada, 17 years old, I don’t know.

This was like 16, 17, 18, when
you’re sort of physical peak,

but also your dumbest, which is a very
interesting combination of things to have.

My friends and I used to
climb over people’s houses.

This was a game we
created amongst ourselves.

There was hedge jumping,
and so there was a lot of hedges

in Canada where I lived,
and it was, could you jump all

the way through the hedge
doing a ton of damage, I’m sure.

Now that I think about all
this as an adult who owns

property, I’m like a
deeply, deeply disturbed

and offended by this
stuff we were doing.

But the initial part was hedge jumping.

Could you jump over the hedge?

Could you jump through the hedge?

Could you basically throw
your body into a hedge?

Then because we never got
caught doing it, or we never got in

trouble for doing it, we decided
to escalate, which is of course,

what a young testosterone
driven man is going to do.

So we decided to escalate
into climb over people’s garage.

This garage has tend to be about one story,
they’re almost an extension to the house.

So it was get yourself up
onto the roof of the garage,

climb over the garage,
get into the backyard,

get out of the backyard
without getting caught.

And so there was almost
a speed element to this,

it was kind of parkour
before parkour was a thing.

But like on a lower level,
we were just climbing,

this is maybe more
like house bouldering,

we were doing that, but
then of course we escalated.

And then we would
climb up to the second

floor, which is usually
the roof of the house.

So it was, could you climb
up onto the roof of the house,

climb over the house, climb
down the back of the house,

get into the backyard and
run outside the backyard,

or run out through the front again
or something without getting caught.

And that is as far as I went.

I did that a few times.

Now it was very dangerous,
’cause you’re on a roof,

and they actually tend
to be quite slippery,

especially if you’re getting
to the fall winter season,

which is a lot of times when
we were bored and outside,

and it was very dark
for a long period of time.

So that’s kind of where I maxed out.

I got a little scared after that,

I didn’t want to like fall
off the roof of the house.

So I did that once or twice and I’m like,

you know, I actually have
had my thrill, I’m done.

I was a fairly conservative young man

when it came to my
exploitations, if I’m being

really honest, but
that was a good thing.

That saved me from some danger.

I had a friend who
could not stop escalating.

And now when I’m later
in life, comparatively

speaking, I do wonder
what’s happened to him,

’cause I know if he lived the
life on the trajectory he was

going, he’s dead by now, through
some very, very exciting event.

I don’t know if that’s good, I don’t
know if I’m proud of that or not,

but if he lived his life the
way he was at that time.

Now, I calmed down, I changed my
life, and my attitude changed for sure.

So I’m assuming his did as well, but he
was always the more extreme of our group.

He took two, I never did
this, I never could do this.

He took two, breaking into people’s
houses, taking a shower and then leaving.

So he would never steal
anything or disturb anything,

but the thrill of them coming
home and knowing that someone

else had taken a shower in their
house for him was more exciting

than actually like stealing
something for profit.

So he never actually took
anything, he never disturbed anything,

he would use one towel,
he would take a shower,

use some of their product
and I mean, it’s such a violation.

I mean, now I think about
it and I’m like, my God,

someone broke into my, if I
came home and I knew someone

who was a stranger broke
into my house in my shower,

that would disturb me
for a very, very long time.

But I think that’s what he was going for.

I mean, I lost track of
him, he was a very nice guy.

It’s hard to say anything good or
bad ’cause this was a horrible thing.

Now that I can say as an
adult, if it happened to me how

I would feel, I know how
it would feel, it’d be awful.

But I love this, dude.

I do hope he’s got his shit together
and he’s a happy, healthy person.

Because he has a lot to offer society

and that sort of attitude
directed just forward something

positive could have
been a really great thing.

It reminded me of another
story we did on Ninja News Japan

of the guy who took picture of an idol
and then took the reflection from her eye

and figured out what station she
was at and then kind of triangulated

where she lived in a doctor and I was like,
if he used that to track down criminals,

like that skill set, that level of
detail and that level of ability,

if he took that and used that to track
down people who’d done bad things,

he’d be like a hero in all our eyes
but he had to use it for stalking

some idol who he had a paralyze
relationship with but it wasn’t real.

(upbeat music)

So a police officer
goes to investigate a

possible DUI so driving
out of the influence.

Sargent goes to question
two men who were sitting

in a car in a parking
lot of a convenient store.

And then they are like, oh, what do we do?

This is where I would have done the quiz
this week is like, what is the solution?

You probably are drunk.

You’re in a car, you
have X amount of options

to stop yourself from
getting arrested for this DUI

that the cop is clearly
walking towards your car.

You know he’s coming to
get you, what do you do?

Well, they did the most
sensible thing humans

could do while under
the influence of alcohol.

They drove straight at the cop.

They accelerate towards the police
officer who is walking towards them.

The cop ends up on the hood of the car.

So he probably did a little jump

ended up on the hood because
the injuries they talked about

at the end of the story are
actually just some scrape knee.

So he probably his
knees hit the hood of the

car as he slammed
into the hood of the car.

And then they kept driving.

They drove for 220 meters with
the cop clinging to the hood of the car.

Now, you know someone is
clinging to the hood of your car.

You have options, you can
stop and give up or you can

shake them off or you can
just keep going until they fall.

None of those are good options.

You’re screwed because if you stop,
you’re getting arrested for the DUI.

And I’m assuming a minimum
assault for the police officer.

If you keep driving, the
fact that he may fall off

and get severely injured
or die is attempted murder.

And so this is actually
story we’ve done before.

We actually had a guy
steal a hundred yen of

coffee at the convenience
store and then get on.

And then the clerk, the store
worker jumped on the hood

of the car thinking the person wouldn’t
drive away then they did drive away.

They got arrested for attempted murder.

So driving with someone on
the hood of your car in Japan

is attempted murder,
and it’s if they survive.

Like if they actually fall off and get
died, then you’re actually down for murder.

So 220 meters, the cop clinging to
the hood, the cop goes stop or all shoot.

So he’s clinging to the hood.

I’m assuming he has like one
or two hands clinging to the car.

I don’t know what kind
of car it was or whatever.

But he’s saying if you
don’t stop, I’m gonna pull my

gun out and start shooting
through the windshield.

This is action movie stuff.

I don’t know, they don’t
say how fast they were going.

I’m very interested in
how fast they were going.

Realistically, I know they
weren’t going that fast.

‘Cause I bet they didn’t wanna kill the cop

but at the same time
they’re like, we can’t stop.

So they’re in this sort of
dilemma of, we’ve gone this far.

How do we stop?

We can’t stop.

But at the same time, I
really don’t wanna kill a cop.

We’re just drunk.

We’re not murderers.

So they stop the car.

There’s no further explanation of injury

or anything like that is
just some scrape knees.

So I’m assuming they stop the car.

Then the next part of the story that
we know is factual is they ran away.

So the cops in Japan
don’t try to shoot you.

They don’t want to shoot you.

So him saying stop or all shoot
is a very, very serious threat.

Like this is like you’ve
gone way, way past the line.

I’m actually gonna pull
out my gun and shoot you.

When they stop the car and get out,

he probably got off the
hood of the car and he’s like,

okay, you guys and then they start running
away and he still didn’t shoot them.

Which again, realistically
is actually the right answer.

As much as they just tried to kill
him but also didn’t try to kill him,

it’s not worth them dying
to a gunshot in the back.

Whereas in other
countries, I think the cop

might be so pissed,
they might actually do it.

Actually again, credit
to the police in Japan

for showing restraint, they do
not shoot people unnecessarily.

The passenger turned
himself in two days later.

So we don’t know what
he’s gonna be arrested with.

‘Cause he’s sitting in the passenger seat.

He may have been saying stop, stop, stop.

He may have been saying
like kill him, kill him, kill him.

We don’t know.

So we don’t know
what kind of state has

actually been taken from
this for the passenger.

But he’s like, look, if
I turn myself in now,

maybe I get some clemency,
maybe something goes right.

I’m not gonna get as much trouble.

But they’re going to try to
get him to turn in, of course,

on the driver who is an
associate, a friend, I assume.

He’s being arrested for obstruction of
public duties and possible attempted murder.

The driver still hasn’t been brought in.

So the driver we assume is
going to get attempted murder

and maybe more, who I want
to see how that one ends up.

This is a heavy story.

So, Ninja Ninja’s Japan, and see me, I
did a couple of experimental episodes

where I was talking about some
murders that happened in Japan.

They are Ninja Ninja’s Japan stories,

but I wanted to see how
I felt talking about them.

And I tend to be quite flippant, and so I
was like, I wanted to get the feeling right

before I actually brought
them into Ninja’s Japan.

We’re going to be doing heavier stories.

I just figure I have to give a warning of
some sort before the story actually begins.

So if you’re sensitive to that,
there’s sort of a trigger warning.

I don’t know what you would call it
modern days, but I am talking about death.

I am talking about
murder and stuff at times,

but I will give a warning
beforehand, or at least

until I get into the habit
that happens so regularly

that you can just expect that
there’s going to be this kind of story.

But for the moment, I’m
going to give you a warning.

This one involves suicide and death.

So be very, very aware of
that before the story begins.

They are prosecuting a dead girl for
gross negligence, resulting in death.

So this is a very interesting story

because of the legal
implications of suicide

in Japan when it ends
up hurting someone else.

She climbed to the 12th
story of a building and jumped

and then fell and hit a pedestrian,
killing both herself and the pedestrian.

And the prosecutors want
the indictment recorded.

So the big question is, why
are you going through the effort

of prosecuting a dead girl for a crime
when she can’t actually be punished for it?

Because it’s the news.

They don’t actually give you
reasons why they would do this.

They just sort of give you the
information of what happens.

So then I have to extrapolate
the reasons for myself.

And so I came up with several scenarios

because this is setting a precedent
should something happen again.

So let’s say someone
throws themselves off a

building and hits someone
else and they survive.

They want the precedent on the records
of what should happen to that person.

They want, let’s say, both of them survive.

The injured party and the
person who attempted suicide.

Suicide is illegal in Japan.

Like this isn’t a lot of countries.

What should the punishment,
the recompense, the ability

of the other person to sue,
all that has to be available.

And that is part of the crime to tell you

what they can and cannot
do in the courts after the fact.

So there is the scenario, both die.

The family still survives.

Maybe they want to sue the building.

Maybe they want to sue the family.

Maybe they want to sue the
government or something else.

You need something on record
that has actually happened.

So you can’t just let it go.

The building in this
case has been protected

because they put up a large glass
barrier that the girl climbed over.

So they want that on record.

Like the building has to
protect itself in so much.

But if they make it easily available,

maybe they are culpable
for some of the damages.

So the family of the victim,
the person who got killed

by essentially accidents,
they might be able to sue

the building company
for having an unsafe

building that someone
could commit suicide off of.

They need to know what
they can and cannot do.

This would have a lot to
do with insurance, I think.

The family could sue the building.

So that would be a part of the insurance.

The family of the victim wants to sue
either the building or the other family.

The degree of the crime will be important.

So that’s going to determine
how much, you know,

recompense you actually get
as a result of the court case.

But in Japan, probably most importantly,

is to dissuade others from
doing the exact same thing.

It’s unlikely that it will
actually dissuade someone

because someone in
that sort of state of mind,

they are not thinking about the legal
ramifications of what they’re doing.

But maybe they do still
care about their family.

Should someone in Japan commit suicide
by throwing himself in front of a train,

which for a very long time was
the most common way to do it,

the family of the victim gets placed
with the burden of paying for the delays.

And that is millions and
millions and millions of yen,

especially if you’re
in a big city like Tokyo,

where it affects thousands and thousands
of hundreds of thousands of people.

I guess the smaller
city, the less the fine,

but that actually doesn’t
sort of assuage it a little bit.

It doesn’t make it any
easier for the family to handle.

And this wasn’t done to punish the family.

This was to try to dissuade other people

from putting that burden on
their family in the first place.

Hoping that you care
about your family enough

that you’ll at least not do it this way,
which is a very awful way to think about it,

but these companies have to
think about it in a practical way,

because they have to deal with the aftermath,
as well as just as much as anyone else.

But because they have to
deal with it in a practical way,

they have to start thinking
about it in a practical way.

Unfortunately, Instant where a girl was
suicidal and threw herself off a building

has actually been prosecuted
for the death that resulted in

her landing on someone and
actually killing a pedestrian.

This is sort of an update to a story,

but I stuck it at the end ’cause
there was another ass story coming up.

So we did a story a few
weeks ago about a politician

who was campaigning and he got girls
wearing a really, really small mini skirts,

like you could see the
bottom part of their ass

cheek sticking out when they
were just standing around normally.

Good Lord, if they ever bent over,
there would be nothing covering anything.

They were wearing hot
pants with like fishnet

stockings and they
were handing out flyers.

And everyone was like, “This is
distracting from the actual politics.

“This is just like a garbage drink.

“It people to sort of take his
flyer, “so we’ll remember his name.

” I mean, whether you say it’s
effective or not, he did not win the seat.

So you could actually
say that this did not help

his campaign as much
as he thought it would.

He’s in trouble for something else,

so these girls that he had
campaigning on his behalf,

first of all, they said, “Oh,
well, this is how I dress.

“I chose to dress this way.

“I was not told
to dress this way.

” Which I think any
reader or listener had

their doubts about if
we’re being really honest.

When you have really hot girls
campaigning for a very boring politician,

I think there was a conversation of what
they should wear and how they should look.

I think that’s actually fair.

Oh, we all agreed on the bright green
jacket that represents our candidate,

but the incredibly small miniskirt
that’s going to distract everyone

and bring everyone’s attention
towards me, that was my own choice.

Well, it turns out there
was more going on than that.

He offered 1,500 yen an
hour to the campaigners,

to these girls who were
wearing these miniskirts.

In Japan, if you campaign
on the behalf of a politician,

they cannot give you
money, that’s actually a crime.

So this politician,
again, this sort of puts

more information into
the whole pool here.

If he was willing to commit a crime to
pay these women to campaign on his behalf,

hand out flyers and
stuff, and he was willing to

pay them, I bet he was
willing to cross the line

where he was willing to talk
about what they should be

dressing and wear sexy clothes
that he could get more attention

from I’m assuming the
male audience he was trying

to, no, my brain just
went completely dead.

I just did 29 minutes, fairly
smoothly once I got started

and then just shut down
completely on one word where I

want to say that he was
trying to attract a male audience.

There you go.

I’ll have to edit a big chunk of that out

and I’ll just get a
tracked a male audience.

So there’s a lot of suspicions
about his morality now.

He’s clearly using sex to sell,

which we all know works,
but in this case, didn’t

work, and he’s willing
to break campaign laws

and pay the people who
are campaigning on his behalf,

which means did these hot girls in mini
skirts even support him in the first place?

Probably not.

I think they were just in it for the money.

So I connected this to the end

because this is the last
story of an engineer in Japan.

A man was going, and
it’s another ass story.

So the mini mini mini skirts is
really, we’re talking about girl butts.

This is about a man butt.

So we have girl to finish off.

We have a set of butts.

We have a bookmark of butts to
end off the episode, which is very nice.

A man was going up an escalator
and there was a woman, maybe

19 years old standing behind him
and he thought, you know what?

I really want this woman to see my butt.

So he pulled down his pants
and exposed his butt to her face.

Now I’m six foot and
I’ve realized if I stand two

steps behind someone, I am
almost exactly at ass level.

So I’m wondering if he had
done that calculation as well

’cause I always try to
stand one up or three

down so I’m not staring
directly at their ass.

I’m here for the man butts.

You’re here for the man butts.

I’m glad people are here for butts.

That’s great.

I should stick to my niche.

Name to New Japan.

That’s because I was listening to rotten
mangoes which is a true crime podcast.

I’d actually been watching
this chick on TikTok

and didn’t realize
she had a full podcast.

I’m not sure when moving someone
moves from insult to assault.

You’re not sure when
moving someone is assault.

I think if you stick something
in someone’s face, it’s assault.

I think that’s just what it is.

  • I don’t like man butts.
  • What story?
  • I don’t like man but.

The man but is firm but.

Actually again, I don’t
know, how did it say the age?

I think it said the age and
I wrote, I think he was 48.

40 year old man but can go very,
very diverse as far as butt goes.

I don’t know how much
butt talk I wanna have.

I did, interesting fact.

And here’s the survey we could
have done the quiz but the Olympics.

I actually saw a thing
and they were talking

about which Olympians
have the best butts.

And it was a very interesting conversation.

It’s of course, you’re not really
supposed to talk about that

but of course these are
the pinnacle of fitness.

So therefore the best butts must be.

  • Now we learn about, you know my butt.

Now my butt is a struggle.

Because I hurt my knees, I work on my knees

but that actually means I’m
doing a lot of squats and stuff.

So I’m assuming my butt is getting slightly
better but it was not great before.

  • I should have can’t show it as butt.
  • Okay, I’m gonna do con show story first

and then do Olympic story
and then get back to my story.

This is, I don’t know how this
is gonna cut into an episode

but I’m very happy to actually talk to
people as opposed to just doing stories.

So I’ve only been con
showed properly once in Japan.

Now this is something as an English teacher
that happens to every English teacher

because it’s not something
they prepare you for.

And it’s for anyone who
doesn’t know a con show is

when you steeple your
hands and get your fingers

and you get behind someone and
you jam your two fingers up their butt.

And then you probably shout
con show or something like that.

That is an enema, con show means enema.

I have an enema story
but I’ve told that elsewhere.

That, again my very first
year of teaching English

in Japan I’m in a room
with a bunch of little kids

and then some kid decides
ha-ha, a little bully kid too.

He says, he’s ironed a
con show that he should be

con shows me he shows
con show ha-ha, I turn around.

I have the biggest, heaviest
watch ever on my wrist at that point.

I’ve never had anything
go up my butt before.

So for me, this is a shock.

I’m not prepared for this.

I didn’t want this.

I was not in the mood.

I turn around real fast because
again, something just went up my butt.

My watch that is like five pounds.

It was the very first citizen
eco drive solar power watch.

So the battery in there is huge.

I turn around and smack
that kid in the face.

Not on purpose.

I whap that kid with my watch
as hard as humanly possible

because I turn around so fast because I was
not ready for something to go up my butt.

That kid got, he got laid out.

He hit the ground and he didn’t cry,

but he was like in shock, like
holy shit what just happened to me.

I did something I thought would be funny.

I thought would be funny.

The other kids would laugh.

No one’s laughing.

Everyone’s looking shocked at me.

I’m kind of embarrassed
and I got hit in the head.

That kid went around and told everyone,

if you hit chunking beef
test Sensei and you con

show him, he’s gonna
hit you as hard as he can.

And I never got con show it again.

So inadvertently violent solves problems.

I think if you do violence on
purpose, it doesn’t solve the problem.

But if I can turn on and go, that
was an accident, I didn’t mean to do it.

But the kid always is
going to have that doubt.

That doubt, that seed remains
and it grows into the tree

of never being con show
it again, which is great.

But you gotta be sure it’s clearly
unintentional for violence to be successful.

Back to the Olympics, which
athletes has the best butts?

Because I thought, you know, Judo’s good,
’cause they do an all round physical thing,

but then I was like,
it’s gotta be gymnasts.

Like gymnasts just, they work
every single muscle so thoroughly.

So I was like, but they were
looking specifically at butts.

So you have to think, what is the
most but intensive sport in the Olympics?

And I’m gonna give you a few seconds
to think about it and answer in the check.

And what do you think?

It’s probably power lifter.

Power lifters would be good,
but you gotta think power lifters,

they’re working the upper
body, they’re working hurdles.

Ah, shot put.

hurdles is good, hurdles is closer.

So again, this is not a definitive answer,

but the answer they gave
was one I wouldn’t have

thought of, which I thought
was very good answer.

So we’re gonna do that.

hurdles I think is better because
again, it’s a lot of leg power.

And then shot put, I think shot put
is as much upper body as lower body.

So you’re gonna get too much of a balance.

You gotta think just buttocks, just butt.

All right, so the answer, I think
all these were good answers,

but the answer they gave,
which I wouldn’t have thought of,

which I agree with is
fensors, because fensors

spend almost all the
time exclusively lunging.

And lunging works primarily
your gluteus maximus.

And that is a butt muscle.

So they’re going to have hard firm,
taught, large, strong, powerful buds.

And I was like, yep.

I mean, there’s lots of sports.

Again, I always thought
gymnastics because gymnastics

just says everything, but
then turn around and go there.

Where do you just lunge?

You just lunge over and over
again for hours and hours and hours?

I was like, yeah, I can’t
actually argue with that.

No, but there’s no definitive answer
’cause what butt you like is up to you.

  • Hot pants, new uniform for fensors, 2028.
  • We’ve had like half dozen
    stories on an engineer’s pen in

the last little while of they’re
making athletes uniform.

So there’s cameras that do like heat stuff.

I think it’s for taking pictures at night.

And they want– A
soft butt, good butt.

  • Oh, I don’t want to
    grab it around or see.

Here’s the thing.

I don’t know.

Yeah, personal preference
does come into it.

I think we’re talking visual aesthetic.

‘Cause if we’re talking about touching,

that’s a personal preference
that goes into a whole other area.

But I think if we’re just
talking about physical aesthetic,

yes, I can agree with the
sentiment of what they’re saying

is these are the people who
work the most on their buds.

Unintentionally even that
I think that’s even better.

Touching it totally different thing.

Although I have always, not like a fantasy.

I don’t know why I should
be talking about this now.

I’ve always actually wanted
to get on with a gymnast.

And just like, is it different?

Does it feel different?

‘Cause I made out with a
girl with a tongue piercing.

And it wasn’t particularly different.

I was very disappointed.

And I get the feeling it
might be the same thing.

I have a friend who dated a ballerina.

He said like she could literally lift her
leg up over her own head and do stuff.

And I was like, hmm, that
opens a lot of possibilities.

But I’m gonna do the last
story of an engineer’s Japan.

Then I’m gonna move on to the other stuff

where you are more than
welcome to interrupt and chat.

But I do have to get the butt story out.

Although we had now an
extra like 10 minutes of butt.

So this is if we’re gonna be a very
butt heavy episode, which is good.

‘Cause who doesn’t like talking about butt?

I’m gonna recap the story just for
anyone who maybe have missed that.

The going up the escalator,
a man in his late 40s,

standing up there and he decides
there’s a woman who’s 19 behind me.

And I think she really
needs to see my butt today.

So he drops his pants, he
sticks her butt in her face.

I say that as a bit of color.

I don’t know if he actually did anything
other than just pull his pants down.

But this woman is standing behind him.

One or two steps behind, I assume,
looking essentially directly at his butt.

He was very quickly arrested.

There’s only so much you can do.

There are going to be
cameras all over a mall.

He’s in a subway or a mall at this point.

There’s going to be cameras everywhere.

The security guard saw him.

Security guard is like called the police.

And he’s like, “That’s
the guy with the butt.

” Arrest the butt.

When he was arrested, he
said, he tried to defend himself.

‘Cause they’re like,
this is public indecency.

You tried to show your bare bottom
to a woman who did not want to see it.

Now, if she wanted to
see it, told her she wouldn’t

have to talk about that,
but he states to the police.

It was not my intention
to show her my butt.

I wanted a younger woman to see
the T-back underwear I was wearing.

So he’s saying a T-back underwear
is Japanese for a G-string or a thong.

He’s saying that I wasn’t
showing her my butt.

I was showing her my sexy
underwear that I was wearing,

that she wouldn’t have known I was wearing
because there were no visible panty lines.

So I needed to undress,
reduce the amount of cloth

in front of her so she
could glory in the buttocks

and the framing of the T-back
underwear that I was wearing that day.

He wanted to show
her his G-string bullshit.

So I think weirdly and
that’s somehow better.

Yeah, so I jade just hit my point.

I think it’s actually worse
taking off your pants

and showing a G-string
versus a just naked butt.

I don’t know why.

I think because you’ve taken the
time to dress it up, that makes it worse.

You’ve taken the time to
decorate it and then display it.

That shows intense
where if I just was going

commando and I was
like, oh, hot girl behind me,

she clearly wants to see my
butt and I dropped my pants.

That would be like, oh, in the moment.

But this is premeditated.

This is like, I’m going
to get up this morning.

I’m going to choose my best G-string.

I’m going to put that on.

It’s got maybe some colors
to it up at the top part.

And then I’m going to
wait and I’m going to on the

elevator and I’ll be like,
here’s my, not victim.

The person who’s lucky
enough, the lottery winner

who gets to see my
butt today as dressed up

as it has ever been drops pants
and then they get to see that.

It’s the planning.

It’s the premeditation.

So this is, takes it from like level
one murder to third degree murder.

So like first degree murder
is like a moment of passion.

Third degree murder is like you made a plan

and you executed the plan
and that’s why it’s worse.

So he was arrested for
breaking the nuisance prevention

ordinance of the city,
which is basically you’re

an annoying human
being and we’re going to

arrest you for it, which
is a great rule to have.

Japan, I hate and love
the vagueness of the laws

they employ in Japan because
the vagueness of the laws means,

it’s sometimes very hard
to tell if something’s okay,

but it also in a situation
like this where a man is not

technically naked, he is
still responsible for the fact

that he does this thing
that grossed everyone out.

Oh, I have to use a French accent.

I don’t know if I can do that.

We have finished the episode for today.

Let me finish the Ninja
News Japan theme song.

Let me put that on for you right now.

OK, so that is the episode
of Ninja News Japan.

I would like to thank everybody who came
here today for the addition I was about.

Alternatively, his pants came
out to his nipples or something.

I think he was, so again, there
is a fault on the police officer.

They don’t, they don’t
give you enough description

enough intent enough detail for
me to be happy to be satisfied,

because what I want to
know is what was he wearing?

Was he wearing track pants
like I would on my day off?

Was he wearing business clothes?

Did he have to undo his belt?

How much of a process was
it for him to take the belt off

and put it down so the woman could see
his thong thong thong thong thong thong.

That is the information I wanted.

It is never the information
that is in the article.

I want the newspaper man.

I want the police officer to
give me a more detailed story.

I hope they reenacted the crime
like they do on the news sometimes.

I would love, see, this is it.

This is the problem with
a tiny, tiny, independent

show like mine is
what NTB’s just said.

I would love to do that.

If I could get enough money to
pay a computer animator person

to do like a cartoon of my version of
the story, it would be fucking hilarious.

It would be awesome,
but I can’t get to do it.

I do have to stop the French accent.

I would the French
accent and all that other

stuff was really just
for video game time.

I don’t know if I can
throw it into podcast time

because I am usually trying
to get through something.

Touchless Podcast

(upbeat music)

November 1st, Dog Bay.

International Dog Day?

I don’t know.

It’s Dog Day in Japan.

I didn’t do my research.

I didn’t do my research on this because
Dog Day would be one of those days

that I do not consider
a significant in any way.

This is coming from
someone who has forgotten

their own birthday more
than was in their life.

So days don’t mean much to me.

I like special days.

They’re not special,
just every day is special.

Every day with you.

Anyways, November 1st is
Dog Day to celebrate this.

A small town decided we’re
going to make a dog, Mayor.

So a golden retriever
was made mayor for a day.

A five-year-old public relations dog.

A five-year-old public to really, mmm, mmm.

This is why I could never do actual news.

I couldn’t actually get
through it without stumbling.

A five-year-old public, a
five-year-old public relations dog.

A five-year-old public relations dog.

For a conside guide dogs
was made mayor of Kenayoka.

There was an awards ceremony.

They took the dog
around sort of the city hall.

They took some pictures.

But what they did not take
into account was the air-bud rule

because if it’s not in the
rule books, then it can be done.

We’ve learned this from
the entire air-budiverse

where we have the air-bud
series itself, where he plays

basketball, football, several
other sports that I don’t recall.

There is an extended universe of
movies where it’s like air-bud puppies.

So we know that it can be done because
we have seen it done by dogs many times.

This dog then declared
himself mayor in perpetuity

so that no one could ever
take the position after him.

This dog then seceded that city from Japan

and it is now an independent
nation ruled by dogs.

The new prime minister in Japan is Shiba.

He is getting some flak.

He hasn’t really done anything yet.

He hasn’t had a chance to
really mess up anything politically,

but he now is being
scrutinized and watched.

And that in itself is kind of a problem

because what’s happening now is people
are noticing he has really bad manners.

He’s a very rude man and he’s very crass.

Not in any sort of the way he speaks or
anything vocalized, but just his general.

Okay, the first one, every
Japanese politician’s an old dude.

Fine, they’re old.

It means they fall asleep though.

And they fell asleep
while they were discussing

whether or not he would
become prime minister.

He seems to have fallen asleep.

He said in that instance, he was
because of cold medicine he’d taken.

It made him very sleepy.

Then he went to the Apex
summit and instead of standing

to greet other world leaders,
he just sat in his chair.

The world leaders came over to him.

He, we shook their hand, but he didn’t stand
up which would be considered be polite.

These are other world leaders.

These are other very important people.

He was sitting there with like,

he’s the important guy
everyone has to come over to him.

He was doing this something very
similar who was watching a dance.

Now these are performances.

It might not be your thing.

Like I get that.

He was sitting with his arm
cross looking very displeased

looking very bored at this like dance
performance for, you know, world leaders.

Where you do have to fake interest.

You have to feign pretend that you actually
care about the thing you’re watching.

These cultural events.

Like I would be exhausted by that part.

The actual politics part
maybe I could handle,

but they’re like, hey, go smile
and shake hands and put on a show.

That would be the bit that
would be exhausting for me.

So I think I understand
where this guy’s coming from.

The problem is, as prime
minister it is part of your job,

you have to pretend to be
interested in the cultural event,

the dance, whatever you’re seeing,
whatever’s being presented to you,

just to show sort of
your thankful for the effort

that’s gone into it
more than anything else.

The last one though is probably
the most unforgivable one.

He took an onigiri for the listeners
who don’t know, is a rice ball.

They’re usually triangular
shaped, but it’s called a rice ball.

I am a six foot man
with a fairly large mouth.

And for me, a rice ball is three bites.

Now those are pretty big bites, but it’s
not with like difficulty that I’m eating.

Now bite it to swallow, bite to
swallow, bite to swallow, bite to swallow.

That would be a whole onigiri.

Mr. Ishiba, he undid
the plastic from an onigiri

and then shove the
whole thing in his mouth.

And then so his lips
protruded as he tried to hold

the whole onigiri in his
mouth, as he was chewing,

making enough space in
the inner part of his mouth

to then sort of pull in
the rice from the front part

of his face, making him look like he was
a camel chewing or something like that.

And a lot of people found it really gross.

Probably because it is.

So I think the interesting part going forward
is, is our new Prime Minister in Japan

going to make good political decisions
that overshadow his craft nature

or is his craft nature going to
overshadow his political decisions?

Yes, Kuni Shrine was graffitied.

I think we actually
reported this last time.

They were looking for
a young man who did it.

They’ve put out an arrest warrant.

So this is pretty serious
’cause they’re now

actively looking for the
guy, but it’s pretty clear

that he’s actually
already left the country.

So I think the reasoning
for this is that they put out

the arrest warrant so that
he can’t come back to Japan

because if you enter
Japan on your passport,

you’ll get flagged as
having an active arrest

warrant and then they’ll
arrest you right there.

So really, I don’t think they’re looking
for him the way the article sort of implies.

I think what’s actually
happening is like he’s gone,

we’ll just make sure he doesn’t come back,
then we don’t have that problem anymore.

It was kind of similar with
the Johnny Somali thing

where they arrested him, they held
him, they got him out of the country.

It’s now a travel ban, he’s
not allowed back in the country.

So they don’t actually
have to deal with him

and his problems that
come with him ever again.

The reason that I found this
interesting is I learned two things.

One, they referred to the
youth as in his tens, not teens.

So that would imply he’s
either 10, 11, or 12 years old.

He’d come to Japan
on a trip with his mother.

His mother would take
him out of the country.

So there’s a big question of
whether the mother actually knows

that her child went and
did this graffiti on this.

Again, very politically
controversial, internationally

site, but it is still
a religious site.

So is it acceptable to vandalize that?

Is it an acceptable way to
express your political views?

I actually think this
might just be a copycat.

I think he saw the internet stuff that
the guy who came before, Iron Dong,

and he wrote toilet on it
and he wrote some stuff on it.

And then he escaped.

I think this kid probably
saw the same things like,

I’m gonna do that ’cause
that guy’s on the internet,

he’s cool and therefore
again, being in his tens,

he thinks I should do
the cool thing as well.

So I actually think this is more of a
copycat crime than a crime in itself.

I don’t know if that lowers
or increases the damage done.

There’s an interesting thing.

Like, if I’m doing a copycat, is it like
a lower level of responsibility or more?

Like, I’ve seen it, I’ve seen the
results so I know exactly what I’m doing,

or is it I’m being influenced by someone
negative and that has changed how I behave.

Do I take more or less
responsibility for the action?

You would be an
interesting topic to examine.

What he wrote was toilet, which is
again, why I think this is a copycat.

Writing the same word as
the person previous to you

shows that you knew what
the previous person wrote

which shows that you were
sort of invested in this story.

But also wrote SB.

This is the other bit I found that
was interesting, so something I learned.

In Chinese internet slang, SB means stupid.

So he wrote toilet and stupid, very much
like a 10, 11, 12 year old thing to write.

This is damaging property,
disrespecting a place of worship.

He posted pictures of himself with
the already graffitied wall behind him,

thus making him more
clearly culpable for the

actions, making him
more apparently guilty.

But it is already known
he’s left your pants.

So I think really the
arrest warrant was put out

just so that this kid
and his family probably

wouldn’t be allowed back
in Japan in the future.

A 56 year old woman was arrested
for stealing 74 million yen in cash

from her 84 year old
boyfriend’s second house.

There are so many things going
on in that just initial sentence.

That’s the initial statement
as to what’s actually happening.

56 and 84, it’d be interesting to
see if that look a real relationship.

But I think if you’re
stealing from your boyfriend

and you’re not with your
boyfriend because you love him,

I think you’re with your
boyfriend because he has money.

If he has 74 million
yen in cash in his second

house, that’s a due
to has a lot of money.

I think it was last week I kind of
broke down a little bit because I’m poor.

Compared to some of
the numbers we talk about

and these people are
just wasting money.

It was like an investment
scheme thing and I’m like,

if she had just given
me some of that money,

my life would be changed
forever versus she’s

just throwing that
money away on a scam.

I do have another thing,
it’s the classic of why

are Japanese people still
keeping cash in the house.

Like you don’t get
any interest in the bank,

but at least it’s the money’s
there and it’s insured.

You’re not gonna really lose the money.

There’s something going on there
that I would like to understand better.

Why are they so averse
to keeping cash in the bank?

Why do they keep so
much cash in their houses?

‘Cause your house burns down,
you don’t get that money back.

That money’s, I don’t
think it’s insured properly.

I don’t know if you’d be able
to prove that you had that much

cash in your house if there
was an incident in your house.

She broke into the house at least twice,

but it sounds like it was
1231 day and 1pm the next day.

So breaking in in the afternoon, I makes it
sound like she had a key, but she didn’t.

She actually had to break a window.

So she was actually full on
breaking into his second house.

A security camera outside
of the house got her on,

breaking into the house
so they know it was her.

When she was arrested, she
said, I stole some money, but

I didn’t steal that much,
which would be very interesting.

‘Cause what if this gentleman knows
his girlfriend is stealing from him?

So he sets it up so that he can catch her.

And then when he catches her and he says,

she stole way, way more money than she
actually stole to kind of screw her back.

‘Cause she might actually have to
pay back that money in the future.

It would certainly increase
the punishment she would get

if it was 74 million yen
versus 1 million yen.

The man found a broken window and told
police, she knew where the money was kept.

After the robbery, she
bought a house with cash.

So I think that shows just how
much money she actually stole.

So she says, I stole money,
but I didn’t steal 74 million yen,

but she stole enough
money that she was perfectly

comfortable going and
buying a house in cash.

I don’t know how much a
house goes for in Japan.

I actually have a house, but
I’ve had a mortgage for so long.

I forget what our initial payment was
and I forget how much we’re paying overall.

To be honest, I pay my
monthly mortgage payment.

I got about six more years on that.

And then I actually own a
house, again, 74 million yen,

a total change in my
whole lifestyle right there.

But it’s enough money to
go and purchase a house

and I assume have extra
money left over in cash.

4,472 people nationwide were arrested

for what is called dark
or black part-time jobs.

These are internet forums where you
go on and you basically apply for a job,

but the job is gonna be
doing something illegal.

It’s gonna be some sort of fraud,

it’s gonna be theft, it’s gonna be some
kind of crime, you’re gonna be involved in.

The idea is very interesting,

because Japan in the
past has been plagued by

organized crime, the acoustic
syndicates and whatnot.

But organized crime means it’s organized,

which means it’s easy to figure a lot of
stuff out, like you connect people together.

And then they have individual
crimes where I committed

a crime by myself and
therefore I’m getting punished

and there’s no one else we
really have to worry about.

These are disconnected
people coming together

to commit a crime and
then disconnecting again,

which means over three or four
crimes, I might have involvement in one,

someone else has
involvement with one or two,

but we’re not actually
connected in any real

way, so it’s very hard
to put us all together.

It actually makes investigating a
lot of these crimes more difficult.

Each person is assigned
a role for each crime,

there is no connection and
no solid MO for the crimes,

which again makes it more
difficult for police to trace.

We do have a breakdown of the
crimes that occurred last year.

1,515 were money fraud bank transfers.

That’s probably saggy, it’s
probably when they call you up

and say, oh my God, I’m in
trouble, please send me money

and then you try to get an
older person who like panics,

thinking like one of their
children or grandchildren

is in trouble and they send
money without thinking about it.

That’s a very common crime in Japan.

Or just trying to get people
to send you money again,

last week we were talking
about money fraud, scams

and crime investments,
fraud and things like that.

There’s a lot of money
transfer fraud going on there.

1,284 was just straight up fraud,

so that might be coming to
your house and lying to you,

but other ways of committing
fraud, not just directly

connected to transferring
money through the bank.

427 were arrested
for drugs, 398 for theft.

So there’s actually, kind
of look at these numbers

and as of course 1,400,
500, that’s a lot of people,

but then I look at other
countries and how many crimes

you can be like, that’s
actually not that many people.

Then we get into the
smaller, more interesting ones.

89 are arrests for immigration
law, so I don’t know if that

is like importing people or
helping people get around laws.

It’s very unclear.

I’m actually betting that’s
just over staying your visa.

Now that I think about it, that’s
probably the most common one in Japan.

76 were arrested for adult entertainment.

57 were arrested for extortion.

49 were arrested for gambling.

So gambling is very,
very legislated in Japan.

Casino is essentially illegal,
but they’re trying to find

ways around it or only do
it in certain places and stuff.

They see the possibility of having casinos,

but they’re very worried
about organized crime moving in,

but now if you have this
disorganized crime moving in,

that actually might end
being a bigger problem.

Because the police are
stuck in this situation

where what you do if
you have organized crime,

you arrest someone and you try to
work your way up the ladder making arrests.

In this, you can’t do that,
you can arrest someone.

He doesn’t know anyone up the ladder.

There is no ladder to work up.

So it’s causing police a lot of problems
and it seems like a growing issue in Japan.

They actually have
disorganized organized gangs

who move around and
then connect with each other

and then disconnect and
then go to another city and

then connect with other
people through these job sites.

That’s how they’re organizing
their criminal practices.

We actually talked about this,
but it didn’t have a name yet.

Or at least I didn’t know the name.

I’m sure it had a name already, but
it was called touchless harassment.

We talked about the guy.

It was an older man, 48-year-old man who
stood really close to a high school girl.

I think it was on a trainer
of bus and he sniffed her hair.

Now he’s invoking the, I didn’t
touch you as a, am I bugging you?

I didn’t touch you rule,
which is a universal, I think.

But clearly he’s causing
distress to another human.

That in itself is possibly a crime,
but therefore very difficult to define.

He didn’t touch anyone, he
didn’t actually do anything.

You could say I was
on a really crowded train.

I didn’t have a choice, I was just
breathing and I happened to smell her hair.

Maybe I took a deep sniff
because it smelled good.

Have I committed harassment?

Well, that’s again, we get into a difficult
issue of was it intentional or not.

There was an anonymous tip.

So someone else, not the high school girl,
actually called the police and said like,

this guy is on the train, he’s
on the bus, he sniffing girls hair.

It’s really gross, please tell him to stop.

The police stop him and give him a warning.

And I think for the same
sort of reasoning I’m using,

like we don’t actually
have anything we can prove.

He hasn’t touched anyone,
he hasn’t actually done

anything that we can
actually like call him out on.

But if we warn him and
he does it again, then it’s

intentional, then it’s
something we can arrest him for.

So they gave him a warning.

He was a repeat offender and he was
arrested and given a 400,000 yen fine.

When he was arrested, he said the smell
excites me more than physical contact.

He didn’t think it was a crime.

The problem there is that he
was issued a warning by the police.

So once the police come to you and say like,
hey, here’s something we’ve seen you do

or we know you are doing,
we want you to stop that

because it is a crime
if you continue to do it.

And then you do it again,
then you do know it’s a crime.

So that’s just a straight up
bullshit that he’s saying there.

But what are touchless harassment crimes?

So this is good to have some definitions.

This was the part that I
actually kind of was excited about.

Not in the same way he was.

It includes blowing on the
victim on their neck and ears.

I don’t like that they specified.

I think if you blow on a victim anywhere,

like if you had your hand out
and I just went on your hand,

I think that’s just as bad is
blowing on your neck or ears.

But I think maybe just neck
or ears are being specific

about what would be the most
common things that happen.

Sniffing the hair, as
we’ve seen, is now illegal.

Staring at someone too intently
could be considered harassment.

Sending inappropriate images via air drop.

So we’re on the train and I have a phone.

I’m sure Android has a similar system.

You do an air drop.

It’s a personal image of a phallic nature.

That is harassment.

I think that’s absolutely fair.

Whispering obscene
words into someone’s ear.

But that again, saying it’s obscene.

I think if I was just up close to
your ear and just whispering stuff,

even if it wasn’t necessarily obscene,
I would still call that harassment.

If I was like, hey, you
look really good today.

I think you look with, you know, you
have very lovely braid in your hair today.

Something like that, it’s
not necessarily obscene.

I think my voice is.

But the words themselves are not obscene.

So there’s no reason
to take that off the table.

It’s just as bad as blowing in the rear.

If blowing in your ear could
be considered a harassment,

then whispering in someone’s
ear, when they don’t want you to,

I think that should also be
harassment, regardless of what they say.

They did a survey of university students

and one in five women say they
have experienced touchless harassment.

But in most cases, because
there’s nothing they can really

prove because it’s touchless,
they don’t bother to report it.

So this is one of those crimes.

It’s probably very, very common,
but actually no one knows about it

because it doesn’t get
reported because they just

kind of suck it up and
move on, which is terrible.

The authorities recommend, if
something like this starts happening to you

that you start taking video, which is
very interesting ’cause a lot of places

are like, you can’t take
video, but this is probably

happening on the train,
which is a public place.

But there is a rule in Japan, you’re
not really allowed to video people

without their consent, but if he’s
committing a crime, you’re allowed to video.

So the authorities are
granting you the ability

to video someone who is in the process
of committing harassment towards you.

I think that’s a good thing
for women out there to know.

If you come to Japan and you
experience something like this,

the authorities have said
it is acceptable for you

to video that person so that you can
catch them later and get them in trouble.

In Hong Kong, police made 35 arrests
in an international prostitution ring,

which is very interesting
’cause you have Japan,

Singapore, and Macau all work
together to try to catch these prostitutes

who are going internationally
from country to country,

servicing fans, and I
say fans specifically,

because a lot of them were actual
AV stars, porn stars from Japan.

So these women, they get into the porn,
they stand, they gain a little popularity

and they can actually make
more money going overseas, going

to where fans are, and
prosecuting themselves to fans.

In 2018, a 19 year old,
Medu, began her porn

career in 2019, and she
won Best New AV Actress.

This prostitution ring
mainly focused on Japanese

AV stars and making
them available to fans.

It cost 150,000 Hong Kong dollars for
one session with one of these porn stars.

That is 3 million yen,
which with 3 million

yen, right now at the
exchange rate is $20,000.

That is $20,000 for one evening

with a former Japanese porn
star to satisfy your desires.

And then we get back into the money thing.

It’s not having like, I
don’t want to have sex with

a porn star, but man, I
would love to have $20,000.

I could just throw away.

It does bring up a very
interesting question

of how much would you pay
to have sex with that person?

So a famous one, let’s just not
worry about porn stars or whatever,

but to have sex with the
person of your dreams,

how much money would
you be willing to put forward

to do that would be a very interesting
question, ’cause I don’t have a lot of money.

And I don’t think I would
value a sexual event that much

that I’ll actually spend
that much money on it.

The group used telegram to communicate,
and last year they may have made,

so they haven’t confirmed
this, 400 million yen.

Ayaka Nishimura was also arrested.

She actually disappeared
from the AV scene back in 2022.

So she was a porn star, she
was a porn star until 2022.

She just stopped suddenly,
and then she seems to have

gotten involved in this
international prostitution ring.

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So since people are willing
to spend so much money,

now I wanna know, would
anyone spend any money there?

No, no one wants to spend any money to
have sex with somebody who posts a podcast.

And that’s just a given.

There is a company in France that ranks

a romantic and sexual
happiness in different countries.

So Japan is on this list.

They did 31 countries were surveyed.

They did an online survey of
24,269, nice people from 31 countries.

It’s weird it’s not number, ’cause
it’s supposed to be about partners.

So it should be an even
number, I just noticed that now.

Maybe one is broken up since then.

Ah, maybe they were
dating, and they only

interviewed one of the
partners, not the other one.

But that seems like a fair,
you should get both sides.

Japan ranked lowest in all 31 countries
surveyed, and basically everything.

It measures, are you satisfied with your
love life, your romance, your sex life?

Do you feel loved and are
you satisfied with your partner?

So when it came to sex, this was the one,
of course, I was the most interested in.

Are you satisfied with your sex life?

India and Mexico had
the highest ranking in 76%.

That are two cultures
would enjoy spicy food.

So I think I see something there.

That maybe introduced a
little more spice into my food.

Maybe introduced a little
more spice into my life.

Japan ranked at 37%.

Are you satisfied with
your partner or spouse?

Japan has moved up one place and
is now second last over South Korea.

South Koreans are now the least satisfied
with their partners in their love lives.

And yet Japan is producing
the most sought after porn

starts, but the people are willing to
spend $20,000 to spend an evening with.

A man broke into a woman’s apartment
40 times, looking for her underwear.

I don’t like the way they phrase
that because he found her underwear.

It sounded, when I read the article’s title,
it sounded like he was breaking in again

and looking for her
underwear and couldn’t find it.

She was hiding it somewhere
where it was like some kind

of really difficult to open
chest of drawers or something.

But he just broke in 40 times
and he would look at her underwear.

He didn’t actually steal it.

So maybe that’s what it is.

Looked at her underwear is maybe
the phrase they actually wanted to use.

A 55 year old man broke into his
subordinates home, a woman in her 30s.

What had happened is at work
he took the key from her bag.

He made a copy back in July
and then since July has gone

into her apartment 40 times
to look at her underwear.

He took photos of her underwear and he
installed many cameras around her home.

He was caught taking
videos that a game center,

which would imply that he was
taking images of younger people.

And then when the
police searched his phone,

they found the underwear
videos and pictures on his phone.

He admitted I did go into
her apartment because I liked

looking at her underwear but I
never planned to steal anything.

I had feelings for her.

But my man, if you had feelings
for her, you shouldn’t have

been stepping out to take
voyeuristic videos of other people.

So the fact that you’re in a game center,

taking these videos of
other people in the world

is that you don’t really
have feelings for her.

You’re not a loyal man.

You’re not dedicated to one cause.

You’re just out there throwing it around.

So I don’t even believe this loyalty
aspect you’re throwing out there.

I don’t think you have feelings for her.

I think you just have feelings for yourself

and those are the ones
you’re trying to satisfy.

And so that should be added
as an extra crime to the police.

Not only is he a creep
taking pictures of underwear,

not only is he a creep
taking obscure photos

wherever he was doing
in the game center, he is

also not loyal and that
should be a crime in itself.

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Like a Frying Pan to the Face

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This is episode 333 half the devil’s
number episode of Ninja News Japan.

‘Cause we do about 50
episodes a year once a week.

I don’t do every single week
’cause there’s holidays and stuff.

I will take a week off here and there.

But anyone who’s been
around for the last couple weeks

or the last couple months or
the last couple of years, of course,

thank you for hanging out and
listening to Ninja News Japan

and news from Japan
and my musings on being

a resident of Japan
and living in the world.

And I hope it’s brought you some
entertainment more than anything else.

Let’s get to our news.

First story’s kind of depressing.

Japan has dropped to 90 seconds place
of 116 countries in English proficiency.

So the overall level of English ability
of the Japanese people has gone down.

It’s the lowest on record.

Last year, they were 87, so
they’ve gone from 87 to 92nd place.

The drop has been
between 18 to 25-year-olds.

Lower than the overall average
compared to people who are 26 and above.

So people who are 26 and above,

the average ability in their
English proficiency is higher.

People 18 to 25, they are below average.

The government’s trying
to make excuses, I guess.

I don’t know.

You’ve got to come up
with a reason for this.

Why are these students, particularly low?

They’re saying these
students kind of lived through

coronavirus and has
affected their motivation.

So they are less motivated to study.

So they don’t study as
hard as they didn’t really

achieve the proficiency
that they would want.

It’s interesting, because someone

a representative said that
Japan hasn’t actually dropped.

They’ve just stayed the same
while all the other countries went up.

So really they’ve
maintained their standards,

but other countries have
improved their English proficiency

forcing Japan down, which is
an interesting way of looking at it.

Because I actually wouldn’t
have thought of that.

We look at lists, we look at numbers,
we look at things that go up and down.

You think of them as just being
relative, who’s done more, who’s done less.

If you maintain the
same in everyone else

advances, you actually
drop in your rankings.

So that’s pretty interesting.

If you’re interested in who is number
one, the Netherlands, six years in a row,

the Netherlands has been
number one in English proficiency.

Beating out.

I was about to say beating out America,

but unfortunately that
I might actually be true.

I don’t know what kind of test.

The test they administer there
is not going to be the same test

they would administer in America,
but it would be interesting view.

Gave English-speaking
countries like Canada,

Australia, New Zealand,
England, and America.

The same test to see where
they ranked in English proficiency.

I would actually be very
interested in those results.

I would like to take this test.

I have taken multiple
English proficiency tests

that students of mine have
taken, just to see how I do.

And it’s not always perfect.

I mean, I do well.

Let’s give me some credit.

I do do well.

But I am like Japan.

I don’t think I’m
improving my English skills.

I think I’m maintaining.

So if someone else is
improving, they would surpass me.

So that’s very possible.

And I hope that for you.

The highest ranked Asian country,

which is what Japan
wouldn’t be more likely to be

measured against Singapore,
they got number three.

So Netherlands number
one, the highest ranked

Asian country is
Singapore at number three.

So since we’re talking about rankings,

I thought, oh, wouldn’t
it be nice to have

a counter-ranking where
Japan has improved?

Well, Japan rises to 31st place
in global digital competitiveness.

What does that mean?

I’m not 100% sure.

There are 67 countries that get ranked.

And you might be like, wow, that’s great.

31 out of 67.

It’s an improvement of one from last year.

So the ranking assesses
the adoption and utilization

of digital technologies
that drive transformations

and government
business models in society.

So Japan recently gave up floppy disks.

They recently have tried
to push things onto digital,

which should have
been digital 10 years ago.

So I see Japan’s technology push is
catching up more than anything else.

This is published by the
Swiss business school.

The ranking is based on statistical
data and surveys of executives.

So this is based a lot on, I would
say, an older generation of people.

Executives do tend to be older people.

Singapore claimed the top spot this year

with South Korea Hong Kong,
Taiwan, and Nordic countries

such as Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, all ranking within top 10.

Japan remained 31st.

Although Japan was recognized
for its robust technological

frameworks and high
standards of higher education,

it ranked poorly in areas
such as business agility

and international experience among senior
executives where it placed at the bottom.

So an interesting thing of
what they’re saying is like Japan,

they’re teaching people well, their
infrastructure is good, their education is good,

but the people who are
actually using it implementing it,

the executives, the current
executives in Japan now

are horrendous, raking
at the bottom is bad.

Business agility, Japan is not
an agile business environment.

That is something I have
not worked in a bunch of

Japanese companies, but
I’ve seen a lot of these stories.

I’ve looked at Japanese
companies and things like that.

Japan’s traditional way
of thinking is not agile.

In its ability to pivot,
in ability to change,

they do things the way
things have been done before

because that’s the way
it’s been done before.

So that’s the right way to do it.

That is kind of the base philosophy of
most Japanese companies and people.

It is this utmost respect
for tradition and history,

which is respectable in
some aspects of life, but

then you turn it on and
go, maybe not everything.

And the second point,
the international experience

among executives, yeah,
Japan is very insular.

They don’t travel outside their country.

They don’t interact with other cultures.

They don’t do a very good job
of existing on the world stage.

And that is actually something I think

the next generation of people going up in
Japan, that’s where they need to look at.

Don’t look at just Japan as your market.

Look at the world as your market.

And what can you do to achieve that?

And that would actually change
the nature of Japanese business.

It would get you up in this ranking.

I don’t give a shit about
rankings if I’m being really honest.

But rankings do give you insight
into sort of comparative data

and that comparative data
can tell you where you’re weak.

And then you can start to improve
yourself if anyone took this seriously.

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This is where I was going to do the quiz,

but I didn’t manage to
arrange some of this week.

And episode 333 is, I think, might be
the baseline for how we move forward.

This is since I’m just did
a story where I’m talking

about, like, look at where
you need to improve.

This is what I need
to do with this episode.

Is, where do the failures in this episode?

How do I need to improve?

I need to figure out a way to
get the guest on more efficiently.

It means I have to do
the guest segment earlier

than the actual
recording of the episode.

I can’t have people sitting in the wings.

I got to work on other people’s schedules.

But this is where I
was going to do the quiz.

So I thought, ah, here’s the quiz that
I wrote that I didn’t actually get to do.

So I’ll just put it out there.

And then I’ll answer the question.

Maybe I need to come up
with a little thinking song.

The 65-year-old man came
to Japan with his family.

The problem is, this very
small story got massive push

on the news sites or that
talk about Japan news.

This came up like eight, nine times.

It’s one of those classic stories.

It’s fairly inconsequential.

But it’s got that kind of like
flavor that everyone enjoys.

It’s got that little bit of like, mmm,
oh, the little, all-genu, the little,

je ne se qua that everyone
loves in their news stories.

‘Cause it doesn’t hurt anyone too bad,

but a guy gets kind of
taken down for who he is.

My first assumption was anyone in
Japan would have heard this story.

If you pay attention to the news at all.

What crime does he commit?

So a 65-year-old man
came to Japan with his family.

What crime does he commit basically
on his first day walking around the city?

I gave four options.

Number one, he sexually
assaults a woman at a bar.

Number two, he got
drunk and gone into a fight.

Number three, he commits
a form of vandalism.

Number four, riding a bike
drunk and on his phone.

As you learned in last week’s episode,

riding your bicycle drunk
is now illegal in Japan.

Riding your bike while using
your phone is illegal in Japan.

Doing the boasts, accumulates those, takes
those two crimes and put them together

and gives you an extra big
fine and possible prison time.

So then we would have the discussion now.

Ask me some questions, turns out.

I mean, all these four
choices are pretty standard.

Stories of foreign people coming
to Japan and getting in trouble.

The last one’s the most interesting one.

That was kind of my, what
I put in there to make it the

most interesting one
because it applies to a new rule

that was just implemented
in the last couple of weeks.

The actual answer is
number three, vandalism.

He used his fingernails to
carve his family members’ names

into a tory gate, which is, okay,
if you’re gonna vandalize stuff.

I’m gonna give us, stop for a second.

I need a second camera
so I can turn to the camera

and actually talk to the
criminals in the audience.

If you’re gonna commit vandalism, so
this would be, we’d turn to camera three.

I don’t have three cameras,
I have one, but we turn

to the second camera
and we say, “Hey, criminals.

” If you’re going to commit
vandalism, don’t write your

actual names in it because
then your names will be connected

to the actual crime, which
would be connected to you

giving the police a very easy job of
figuring out who committed the crime.

Here’s a little story, I,
once committed vandalism.

It was in university.

I didn’t get housing my
first year of university,

which was a very
weird problem to have.

The fraternities offered housing.

So you could stay in their fraternity
house and pay rent, it was very low,

but you didn’t actually
have to join the fraternity.

So for almost 10 months,
I lived in a fraternity

house without being a
member of the fraternity.

That was a very weird experience.

Anyone else who was in a similar situation
in mind ended up joining the fraternity.

I was the only one
who didn’t actually join.

They had a balcony and it was all wooden.

It was very old and I was
just playing with my thumb,

just like this man
carved in with his finger.

He carved his name in.

I didn’t carve in my name.

I carved in fuzzy Zellweger, which
was a very old golfing, famous person.

I don’t know anything
about golf, so I don’t know

why that name came into
mind, but I knew immediately.

If I carved in my name, then
the crime I have just committed

is immediately linked to
me, and it’s kind of ever

self-evident who committed
this crime and I’m caught.

So you don’t carve in your own names.

So this man, you’ve
committed the first crime here,

was actually how stupid you
were in committing the crime.

That should be an addition
to the crime you’ve committed.

So he used this fingernail.

He carved in family members’ names.

I don’t know if it was just initials,
but he was caught pretty quickly.

Touring gates are sacred.

So we had a story a few weeks
ago, maybe a couple months ago,

of fitness influencer
came and did chin-ups

on the toy gate and
got just blasted online.

This is worse than
that, because you’ve

actually done physical
damage to the toy gate.

They’re not taking that shit lightly.

The vandalism was founded
11.20 AM at 4.30 AM that night.

So over the course of a single
day, the police went, found this guy,

went to his wherever he was staying in his
hotel on a resume at 4.30 in the morning.

They did not hesitate to arrest this guy.

He had to do the perplock
from the hotel to the car at 4.

30 in the morning.

All the pictures of him of
him with like a fuzzy hair,

and he’s just got like Ben
head and the stuff, ’cause he just

woke him out and said, throw on
some clothes you’re under arrest.

We haven’t got any information
since then of what’s actually happened.

My guess is that he was
just asked to leave and left.

First offenses in Japan,
especially small ones, don’t tend

to come with jail time or any
sort of actual real punishment.

They defer a lot of stuff and say like,

look, if you do this again,
you’re gonna get in trouble,

but if you’re a tourist, they’re like,
look, just go and don’t come back.

But if they wanna make
sure he doesn’t come back,

they charge him with the crime,
they find him guilty, and then

they send him away, then he
can’t come back into the country.

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A record scam occurred.

Someone took eight
hundred and nine million yen.

That’s five million dollars in one scam.

What do you call it?

In one scam, it’s not one scam event,
one scam session, one scam, something.

I want another word in there,

but I don’t think there is, I
think it’s just in one scam.

My brain was going for another
word to make it like the event.

‘Cause it wasn’t a single instance.

This scam happened multiple times.

You got money multiple
times from the person.

So what would you call that?

It’s like it’s a sequence.

Ah, I need to, I have to look and see.

There’s gotta be some correct
verbiage for that, but anyways.

A Chinese national was arrested for fraud
because of investment scheme via line.

He impersonated a famous economic analyst.

So he basically put up ads saying,
I’m this famous economics guy in Japan.

It’s an ad saying like
if you want information

from me, you can pay
money, we can do some stuff.

I’ll make you super rich if you
give me your money, excellent.

So the appeal of this scam, I think, is
that they don’t go out hunting for you.

So they’re not looking for marks.

They let the marks come to them.

And then that gives the
person a lot more confidence

when they start actually
talking about the money and stuff.

This is one of the more
effective versions of

scams is when you get
the people to come to you

to give you money because
they’re already partially

convinced of your things legitimacy
if they show up at your door.

This is not showing up at anyone’s door.

This is all via the internet.

A 71 year old woman responded to
an online ad and added the line account.

So line is a chat kind of thing in Japan.

It’s one of the biggest ones in Japan.

So she sees an ad and it says,
add this line account and we can talk

about your investment
future, something like that.

She adds the line
account and starts chatting

with this person who she thinks
is a famous economic analyst.

Initially she gave 10
million yen in November

and the scammer’s
faked profits via an app.

So they made an app and
then they put her number in

and they made it look like that number
was going up so she would invest further.

She looked like she was making money.

Over the course of the time
she made 47 more transactions.

Many were cash career.

So she’s basically like,
meet me at this train station.

I will give you cash.

They dropped the cash off.

One cash drop was 83 million yen.

I don’t have any money.

I’m not a rich person.

I don’t have any money.

I have enough money to survive.

I’m not in any trouble or anything.

This woman had eight
hundred and nine million

yen to play with, to
use for investments.

She was capable of dropping
83 million yen at one time

and not really seeming to have
a significant impact on her life.

Whereas if you just
handed me 83 million yen

today, my life would
be completely altered.

It’s almost like these
rich people who I’m

gonna, I don’t know
anything about the lady.

They don’t release a lot of details

about the victim in this
case, which is probably correct.

But you can assume with the sheer volume
of money she was funneling into this thing.

She either is president of
a company or was president

of a company or this is
like generational wealth.

But she had a lot of money that she
could just play with in her personal life.

It’s almost like these super rich
people who clearly are comfortable

with super rich amounts of money,
super large amounts of money.

Don’t know how to use that money.

Because if she just took 83 million
yen or eight hundred and nine million yen

and redistributed amongst
poor people like me,

I don’t want to make it sound
like I’m poor, but I’m not rich.

It would have this huge positive impact
on my life and she’s just thrown it away.

This scammer just took her.

So after a certain amount of money,
eight hundred and nine million yen,

five million dollars later,
she started realizing maybe

something was up ’cause she
wasn’t getting her money back.

I don’t know, I feel weirdly
frustrated for myself

’cause I don’t have any
money to invest in anything.

But then I could get scam too.

I would do that because I would go
out hunting for something to look at

that would promise me a certain
amount of return on my investment.

And then I would invest it
and then you find out you’re

getting scam but they
always get you to roll in more.

But there’s an app that they say to look at

and the app’s telling
you’re making more money

and you believe it because you want
to believe you’re making more money.

I got a lot of sympathy.

Even though this is a rich person
who clearly had more money than since,

I do have sympathy ’cause they
don’t deserve to be scammed.

I just would like them to use
their money in a more sensible way.

As in bank rolling, the industry
depends next 333 episodes.

An 88 year old father, Chef,
and a 60 year old manager

who is the son of the same
restaurant got into a fight.

The father threatened the son with a knife

so the son hit the
father with a frying pan.

I don’t know why, but that was
enough for me to be into this story.

Like that was a cliche fight.

Like he whips out a
knife, he starts threatening.

The other guy picks up a pan.

Whoop, whoop, whoop,
have to make the sound.

Bong, they were both arrested.

The father said there is no mistake

that I threatened him by
holding a knife up to him.

The son said it’s true I
hit him with a frying pan.

So they’ve both admitted to their crimes.

Both were taken to the custody
and then both were related to release.

So I’m trying to figure out what
happened because I guess the

police were like, do you want
to press charges on each other?

‘Cause both have admitted
to the crime they committed.

Like you’re not supposed to
threaten people with knives.

You’re not supposed to
hit people with frying pans.

But maybe they didn’t
want to press charges

against each other
’cause it’s father and son.

And maybe they have
this kind of contentious

relationship and this is
how they just live their lives.

There’s a weird thing about chefs and the
chefs are all tough and violent and stuff.

And I’ve never seen chefs as
being that kind of personality.

I think it’s like a
persona they’ve put on

themselves, which is how
you get the Gordon Ramses

who like shouts and is
really mean to everybody.

I don’t think that’s a
good way to run anything.

But I’ve never run a successful kitchen.

So what do I know?

But then there’s an interesting thing
where police can send it to prosecutors

and the prosecutors can
choose to press charges

even though like the victim
doesn’t want to do that.

Like they can actually do it
on your behalf ’cause the crime

has been committed whether
or not you’re angry about it.

But Japan being Japan, since
they’re not going to get help

from the other person like
the son’s not going to like

turn on the father, the
father’s not going to turn

on the son, you’re in
this like weird situation

where they’re not
going to actually go after

each other when you
actually get to court.

And that’s actually what
the prosecution needs I think.

Japan has very famously a high probably,

like basically if you go to
prosecution, you’re guilty.

It’s 98%, 99% is massive number.

But it’s because if they’re not 100% sure

or they’re going to get
that, they cut you loose.

So I’m betting that’s
what’s actually happened

because they weren’t going to
get the two to turn on each other

like we’re not 100% sure this
is actually going to work out.

We’re going to kind of loose so
that our record doesn’t go down.

A small city that’s
proposed a tourist event.

It’s a very good thing to do.

You have to have lots
of events for tourists,

you have to have tourism,
tourism’s a big money maker in Japan.

So they have a meeting,
they’re like, hey guys,

we want to make an event
when I have a creative idea.

Then we have a lady over here
and she’s like, I have an idea.

Let’s make a competition where
people pretend to kill themselves.

And then acted out, the idea
came from someone who sold

and demonstrated toy
retractable plastic swords.

So it was a little sword
and you push it into your

body and it retracts
into the hilt of the sword.

Okay, so no one’s actually getting hurt.

You’ve seen those like stage
knives and kind of stuff in the past.

So what they’re like, we’re going
to, every city has a samurai tradition.

I mean, it’s one of those things where they
do like, ooh, samurai’s came from here.

Samurai’s came from everywhere.

This is not a big deal.

So like, but samurai’s
had to commit sepucca.

They had to kill themselves.

It’s a very dramatic thing.

They have to like, run
it across their stomach.

They have to die dramatically.

We’ve seen it and movies and that stuff.

Let’s have that competition.

And this went forward and
everyone thought it was a good idea.

So the posters go up.

And it said, seeking
participants, sepucca contest.

We are seeking participants for a
sepucca contest to be held at the

Don Don Terrace at Matsui City
Hall in December 14th, a Saturday.

After committing sepucca
with a plastic sword,

please demonstrate
your acting skills by

writhing around for 30
seconds to one minute.

So there’s like a timeframe of when you
have to die, which is pretty interesting.

The person with the most vivid
performance will be named champion.

The use of fake blood is prohibited.

Now that quite sensibly turned
out to be not the best idea.

So the city’s like, hey, no,
you’re not going to do that.

So then they had to do a retraction.

It was canceled.

I would like to apologize to the
involved party at City Hall for causing

such a disturbance from something
we intended to serve as entertainment.

On the other hand, we have also
received emails from people saying they

are proof of the idea and want to
participate, but we feel that holding it can

contribute to a loss of trust from City
Hall, so we are canceling the contest.

So basically, yeah, some people were
like, hey, I want to show my acting chops.

I want to fake kill myself on stage. I
want to get everyone to look at me.

While I die for 30 seconds to a
minute, it’s going to be a great show.

Other people are like, hey, take a second
and think what you’re actually doing.

You’re pretending to kill yourself on
stage in front of a whole bunch of people.

Maybe that’s not the best idea.

Maybe that doesn’t really
represent our city well.

Maybe that doesn’t
represent City Hall well.

Maybe that’s not something
we should be doing.

A drunk passenger sleeps on the
subway car for five hours overnight.

So what happened is this
is a pretty normal thing.

People get the last train.
They’ve been drinking.

They’re really drunk
when they get on the train.

If you’ve ever taken the last train
home from wherever you are in Japan to

enter your home station, you have
encountered the extremely drunk person.

They fall asleep on the benches.

They take up too much space.
Maybe they fall on the floor.

The interesting thing is when the
cell phone or wallet falls out of them,

like people will pick
them up and put them on

the bench next to them
so they don’t lose it.

It’s one of those nice
things about Japan

where it’s like a relatively
honest place where

they don’t tend to steal
from you when you’re drunk

out of your gourd, which
is what a lot of people are.

The interesting thing is what happens
when you get to the last station.

So the staff have to wake
you up and get you off the train.

You’re not allowed to stay there. Since
it’s the last train, you can’t get home.

There’s a whole other set of issues
that you have to deal with as the person

who just kicked off the train.
You missed your stop.

Can you walk home sometimes possible?
Sometimes not.

You probably get a hotel around
the station or something like that.

Karaoke box, something like that.
Who knows? That’s your problem.

What happened here is
the guys on the end car.

The staff come in. They wake them up.
They’re like, you got to get off here.

It’s the last station. So he’s drunk.
He gets up. He walks off.

The station staff person
goes to the next car

to see if there’s anyone
else on those cars

or starts moving up the train.
Then they turn off the lights.

What happened is the drunk I walked off
the train. The station staff walked away.

He’s like, I’m too tired to walk to
the ticket gate and go out the station.

I’m going to go back in and lie down where
I was very comfortable 10 seconds ago.

He gets back on the
train and falls asleep

five hours later because
the first train’s like

six o’clock in the morning, five 30
in the morning, something like that.

Five hours later, staff come
and find him asleep on the train.

The driver of the first
train of the day found

the men asleep inside
the train at 5.20 a.m.

He was said to be intoxicated.

So this is a guy who had 12,
12, 31 o’clock. Whenever that

last train was, was drunk out of his
mind four hours, five hours later of sleep.

And he was still drunk
out of his mind when

they tried to wake him
up in the next morning.

So should you come visit
Japan? Don’t commit vandalism.

Don’t if you, okay, if
you’re going to commit,

this is again when I have
to switch to the camera

where I speak to the
criminals in the audience.

If you’re going to commit
vandalism, don’t write your name.

That’s just going to be straight up advice
from an institution who’s Japan to you.

Don’t use your own
name in your crimes.

That’s what aliases are for. But if you
come to Japan, don’t commit vandalism.

And if you do get super,
super drunk, know that if you fall

asleep in the last train,
they will kick you off.

And if you fall asleep, I
don’t know if it’s a crime.

I guess it’s trespassing.
So he doesn’t

seem like he’s actually been
arrested or gone in trouble.

But it is a good
thing to know that

if you’re on the last
train, they will kick you off.

Weak Association Podcast

I did a joke at the
end of the last episode,

and it was a story
about a supporter for

a political politician who
wore very, very short skirts.

What I said was I
wasn’t doing that story

just as an exploitative
tactic so that I could

use the picture of a girl’s butt as the
thumbnail for the podcast on YouTube.

And YouTube is not
where this channel thrives.

This is a podcast
first, so almost all the

listeners are on the
podcast, but there is a

YouTube channel, Chuck
Muppy of Chest, YouTube

channel, where you
can see the video of this.

And generally, I know we get
less than 10 views on YouTube.

It’s weird to get 800
to 1000 downloads on

the internet for a podcast and then
put it on YouTube and get like four.

But also not a problem
because, again, that’s

not my focus since I’m
recording it live on Twitch.

I have the video, I might as
well throw the video on YouTube.

It doesn’t hurt me at all, it just
also doesn’t seem to benefit me at all.

With the butt as the thumbnail, the last
episode, I’ll do the last three episodes.

Previous Ninja News Japan got 17
views, the one following that got 17 views.

The last seeming be
got seven views, bottom

butt cheeks, podcast,
Ninja News Japan, 162.

So you can do the
math on the increase in

traffic by just putting
an ass in your thumbnail.

If you want to, now am
I going to do it again?

Probably not.

I don’t, I’m not against
being exploitative

and putting like a chick
with boobies or a butt

on each thumbnail, but also if it’s
not relevant, I’m not going to do it.

So like if it’s in one of the
stories, I would put it up there.

If it was a picture
that I already had or

something like that, but I’m not
going to go out of my way to do it.

So I, there’s a certain
honesty that comes with the

Ninja News Japan podcast
that seem to be podcast.

I’m not exploitative unless I’m
making fun of being exploitative.

So that is an interesting moral
conundrum I’ve set up for myself.

That’s not what we’re talking about
today, I just thought it was interesting.

I could multiply
my traffic by 10 by

sticking an ass in a
thumbnail, which I guess I knew.

I mean, I’m a victim of it.

I see butts and I click on things.

I’m a man and that’s, that’s who I am.

I’m a man.

I’m about to break into salt.

Godzilla.

Learn to cheat.

Learn to cheat.

I know how to cheat.

I’m just not going to do it.

That’s, that’s what it comes down to.

I’m not going to do it.

Uh, Ninja News Japan
actually has a fundamental

level of integrity
that a lot of other

news sources don’t, which I find
really weird because I don’t have to.

I’m not beholden to
anything or anybody

because this is just a
podcast I make a month.

I literally could make up the news
and nothing would actually happen to me.

Then do it.

Lose the integrity.

Uh, maybe we’ll see.

I just have, I could just have like instead
of pictures of news stories, have pictures

of just girls here constantly
throughout throughout the whole podcast.

No relation to whatever I’m talking
about, just like a stimuli in the corner.

All right.

But we’re going to talk about today.

It’s Godzilla first.

We have about five stories.

Godzilla, Toho applied
for a 3D IP trademark.

So they would have the
Godzilla shape is probably

already trademarked as a
symbol or something like that.

The name Godzilla is trademarked.

They have a 3D version that
they wanted to trademark that.

The patent office said, no,
you can’t trademark that.

And their statement was it is merely a form
resembling dinosaurs or imaginary creatures

and go fuck yourself patent
office in Japan because

Godzilla is not merely
resembling a dinosaur.

Godzilla is a unique entity.

I mean, if you put a shape up and it was
a dinosaur, I would go, that’s a dinosaur.

If you put a shape
up that was Godzilla, I

could tell you not
only that it was Godzilla

that which era, which,
you know, decade it

came from because each Godzilla is
a different shape throughout the years.

The original Godzilla,
something people don’t realize.

Godzilla grew over each decade and he grew
because as the skyline of a city grew up.

So you have like Tokyo
in 1950s, 1960s, tallest

buildings, let’s say 10 stories,
15 stories, something like that.

Godzilla had to tower over that.

So the tallest building kind of
hits his chest, maybe his shoulders.

Then in the 60s and 70s,
the tallest buildings got taller.

So Godzilla in that era also got taller
because Godzilla is not a designated height.

Godzilla is taller than the
tallest tower in the city.

So that’s probably something
no one really thought about.

But if you’re a big
Godzilla fan, you know that.

You know that Godzilla’s size
isn’t determined by his actual size.

It’s determined that he is bigger
than the city he is in at all times.

So he has to tower over everything.

That’s Godzilla.

But then there’s the
years he’s grown like sort

of big spines and he
shoots lasers and stuff.

I would recognize a
Godzilla silhouette, no

problem, a 3D Godzilla shape, 100% I
would nail Godzilla 100% of the time.

Fuck you dinosaurs.

Fuck you patent office.

The Japan IP Association,
they agree with me.

They didn’t turn
out to say fuck you, a

higher court didn’t turn out
to say fuck you patent office.

Although if they had hired me for that
moment, I would have absolutely done it.

I literally would have paid them.

I would give you 10,000 yen for me to put
on a suit, come to your office, come to the

meeting where they
have the people, the

lawyers or whatever
from the patent office and

the people from the higher court and then
just go, you know, we’ve examined the case,

we’ve looked at all sides of
this and Peter and then I just

go fuck you and then they just
go back to being serious again.

I would have paid for that.

I would pay to be that guy.

Japan IP, higher court
said that the shape is

widely recognized by consumers, this
guy, and was overwhelmingly recognizable.

So the Japan IP office
granted the IP and

now the 3D shape of
Godzilla is trademarked.

So actually now I’m thinking
I can’t use it anymore.

So if it wasn’t
trademarked, I could actually

make a 3D Godzilla
shape and then use it.

I think I just fuck myself.

Oh no.

Oh no.

Since we’re talking Godzilla,
I’m not going to switch stories.

It’s a new story, but
it’s still about Godzilla.

This was on Sora News 24 the
other day and it was very interesting.

The current PM,
Shida, Shiba, I just don’t

know his name, God damn it,
let me just get his name right.

I don’t want to say the wrong
name, he was accused of falling asleep.

The current Japan PM, so we
had the guy who stepped down and

Shiba took his place and then
he called for a snap election.

It actually looked like he
wasn’t going to get reelected.

So this was a mistake.

He got reelected, just squeaks through.

It during the conversation
where they’re like

trying to decide who the new
prime minister is going to be it.

Apparently he fell asleep
or it looked like he fell asleep

and then they’re trying
to say it was cold medicine.

I think it might be
because he’s an old man.

There are old man problems that need to
be taken care of when it comes to politics.

I have generally demonstrated my bias
against old men in politics at this point.

I don’t think we need old
men in politics anymore.

I think we need to go younger.

I think when you get
to your 60s, you’re done.

You’re out of politics, you’re finished.

You can ride the wave, give speeches,
whatever, collect your money that way.

I think you’re done with politics.

Back in 2016, Ishiba saw
Shin Godzilla, and Shin

Godzilla is a very
interesting movie because

it is about 90%
administrative activities.

There is very little
Godzilla in this movie

and about halfway through I’m
like am I just watching admin?

Am I watching different
administrative bodies do

their jobs because that’s
weird and interesting

but it’s also not much of a Godzilla film
and the idea is they have to deal with the

various real life problems of a
giant monster attacking the city.

There are legal issues and Ishiba said it
doesn’t make sense that the Prime Minister

in Shin Godzilla used
the SDF to attack Godzilla

based on a military thing because
of the constitution in Japan.

He’s saying what that Prime
Minister did was technically

illegal and it’s not how
it should have been done.

In 2016, Ishiba stated
I couldn’t understand

why the SDF were
deployed against Godzilla.

Godzilla is more like a natural disaster
than an attack by a foreign power.

So the SDF can be deployed
against a foreign power.

There are three
conditions that it must

fulfill for it to be constitutionally
legal to use the SDF.

Number one, it has to be a
military attack on the country.

So Godzilla is not
a military, he’s not

attacking the country
with the behest of taking

it over, a military
attack would try to

diminish the power or undercut
the society or whatever.

That’s not really Godzilla’s intent.

So the intent of Godzilla isn’t the
same as the intent of a foreign military.

His is more like the intent of a typhoon
or tidal wave or something like that.

It’s a natural disaster, so it actually
doesn’t fulfill that first criteria.

Number two, there are no other
means to eliminate the threat.

So of course you have to do
politics first, you have to do diplomacy.

You don’t just like roll
out the tanks and start

shooting stuff, you got
to have a conversation.

Now you can’t have a
conversation with Godzilla.

So technically, you
cannot do diplomacy, but

you can’t stop with Godzilla and say like
maybe we should have a conversation about

this, maybe there’s
something else we can do,

maybe we can offer you some
money, maybe we could, you know.

Godzilla often has
attracted to the big cities

because of the energy,
the old movies would have it.

He was actually attracted to
electricity and it sort of charged him up.

So he was coming in and smashing stuff and
basically absorbing all the electricity.

So maybe we could set
up like a hydroelectric

dam near the edge of
this, the country and

you can just like go charge off that
and we could do that for you, Mr. Godzilla.

He’s not going to have that conversation.

So number two actually means
you could roll out the SDF.

Number three, the use
of force must be minimal.

That’s interesting.

Everything out the tanks
and stuff and shooting.

So, so what is a minimal
resistance to Godzilla

is a very difficult thing
because everything

they throw out, every
movie has them throwing

like tanks shooting at
it constantly, missiles

hitting it, airplanes,
helicopters coming

shooting up, does all that stuff
and Godzilla just kind of walks away.

So they have to always come up
with some sort of other thing to do.

So it’s really number
one that holds the

SDF back from attacking
Godzilla that way or

defending against Godzilla
because it is defending against it.

They’re not really attacking it.

They don’t go after them.

There are other movies later on where
they do, but that’s a separate issue.

We’re not going into that.

Some of the American
ones, the Godzilla

versus King Kong, they
go down after them and

I think, you know, that actually
says something about America.

So the question Ishiba
was actually proposing

was how do you stop Godzilla legally and
maintain the integrity of the constitution?

It’s a very interesting question.

This is the kind of thing I really enjoy
getting into because you have this fanciful

situation, but the
reality of it, which is a

lot of what Shin
Godzilla dealt with, which

is why I was so
confused, like, why are we

going from administrative body to
administrative body and seeing what they do?

And I realized, like,
oh, they’re trying to

show what the reality
of dealing with a Godzilla

like in modern society
would actually be

like, it’s actually a
very interesting movie.

I don’t think they should
call it a monster movie.

I think they should have
called it something else.

So Shin Godzilla, Shin means new.

New Godzilla.

It should have been like the government
versus Godzilla or something like that.

I don’t, I should have come up with
something more pithy before I started this.

I wasn’t going to be
able to do it in a minute.

The police and the SDF can be used to
react to a threat with proportional power.

So constitutionally, it doesn’t actually
matter that it’s a military attack because

Godzilla is so large
and so powerful and they

are allowed to respond with a
proportionate amount of power.

They are therefore
allowed to respond to

Godzilla with the tanks and the airplanes
and the stuff and shoot missiles at it.

But it would have
to be approved by the

cabinet or the government
or something first.

The prime minister is in a unique situation
where he has to make that judgment call and

call out the SDF, call
out the military, call

out the police or call
out whatever he calls out.

He’s going to be responsible
for the results in the aftermath.

So let’s say once they
take care of Godzilla,

then they start
looking at the legality

of this situation and
realize it was illegal,

then the prime minister
has to step down.

That’s actually in Shin
Godzilla, one of the

issues is the prime
minister isn’t 100% sure

he should take responsibility
for what they’re about to do.

And he actually, I don’t
know, I saw a couple

of years ago, I think
he actually steps down

to someone else takes
over and they do it.

And they’re like, well, if I take control
for a day and get fired, it doesn’t really

make a big difference.

Someone wins and got
like a, they don’t have

freedom of information
act like they do in America,

but someone went and got the
actual documents pertaining to this.

And legal documents actually agree.

The use of tools to
stop it is acceptable,

tools being whatever
you need to stop it, which

means tanks, missiles,
airplanes, helicopters,

all that other stuff, then becomes
the tools so you have to redefine them.

That’s actually what’s happening.

You’re not using
weapons, you’re using those

weapons as tools to deter Godzilla to
push Godzilla back to try to stop Godzilla.

So if you ever wonder
about the legality of

what’s happening in a
Godzilla movie, you can

now know the constitutional
rights Godzilla has

as an entity entering
the country, not being

a member of another nation
means it is not a military attack.

There’s no passports involved.

There’s nothing like that.

This is a natural disaster and it is
being dealt with as a natural disaster.

And the reaction of
the military and whatnot

is should be proportional
to what the threat

Godzilla proposes, offers,
propose a fuck I don’t know.

It should be proportional to
the threat that Godzilla poses.

Got it in the end.

Japan has a group called
the Japan week men.

The name itself is already self deprecating
and I don’t know how serious it is.

I have heard about their
activities in the past.

They have a couple of joke
groups that do kind of serious things.

They have like anti
basically Valentine’s

Day saying like it’s
rude to singles and all

us lonely men who don’t have girlfriends
who shouldn’t have Valentine’s Day.

So they wanted to ban Valentine’s Day.

The week men association
is a little different.

They’re trying to bring
awareness to men’s

issues, but but I think
the thing is calling

yourself the week men
association already undercuts

your message because
it’s already feels like a joke.

It doesn’t feel very serious, even
though they might talk about serious stuff.

They wanted to raise awareness of the
men’s issue that men can be victims too.

So they have women only cars in Japan.

No one disagrees with
women only cars except

of very small group of assholes who want
to get into those cars and abuse women.

So they have a lot of sexual
assault, sexual abuse happens on train.

So you get very crowded
trains and then people

touch other people and then they run off
the train before you can catch them to give

a safe space for women, they
created women’s only cars.

Everyone basically
seems to be okay with it.

I’ve had a couple of people like trying to
make arguments but in my mind I’m like the

only reason you’re
making an argument against

a women’s only car is
because you’re gross

or awful or hate women
or something like that.

So you’re kind of
outing yourself by do this.

The week men’s association
isn’t against women’s cars.

In fact, they’re saying that women’s cars
should be available as often as needed.

So these are not like anti women men.

And again, the message becomes
confused because the name is a joke.

But what they wanted
to do is say, but men can

get touched or abused
or sexually assaulted

on the train just like
women and they’re not

saying we should have
men only cars because

that leads to another
weird problem because men

I have to assume are
99% of the perpetrators

of this kind of the Chicon behavior
where they touch you on the train.

So if you’re putting just men with other
men and those are the where the Chicon are

and they want to touch other men,
you actually have them solve the problem.

The problem is of course
trying to catch them

or educate them or do
something to actually stop them.

I was shocked when I learned that trains
in Japan didn’t have cameras in them.

I just thought every
train for years and years

and years would have had cameras
and tons of the most of them don’t.

Cameras are being introduced to trains now.

It seems very late in the game to me.

But raising awareness is fair, like men
can be victims of sexual assault as well.

So they wanted to
make a men’s only train

car event and then have it
go from one place to another.

The problem is the
name and the association.

So as soon as you say men’s only car with
the weak men’s association, all the train

companies like yeah I don’t
know if I want to do that.

And so they ended up
coming to a deal with a

train company in Osaka
and the train company

said look you can’t
say the train line name.

You can’t mention our names like
JR East or whatever it would be.

You can’t use us in
your advertising material

and you can’t tell them
where it’s going to be.

It would already make it very difficult.

They’re like we agreed
to all of that because

we’ll tell people where to
meet it will be in the train area.

Then we’ll all get on the train go.

And this was not a men’s only
event even though they’re calling

the men’s only train because
they’re trying to raise awareness.

Anyone who supported
the idea of awareness

of men’s issues was
welcome on the train car.

So the men’s only train
car wasn’t men’s only

women could get on
as well as long as they

supported the message
that they were talking about.

Something that actually again you wouldn’t
be able to check until it was too late.

You get some like women who maybe
don’t fully support this as an issue.

They get on and start
making a protest or something.

Now you’ve got a whole other set of issues.

Well it was planned
for November 19th for

International Men’s Day didn’t actually
know that was the thing if I’m being honest.

It was suddenly canceled on
November 5th no reason given.

The rail operator was already cautious and
they said we can’t have no men only signs

like just like a
sign on the train or

something that says
men only you can’t do that.

So the no reason given
is actually the issue.

So they had this idea.

They wanted to raise awareness.

They’ve canceled it and
they gave no reason for it.

And that actually
again the weak men’s

association of like of
course they didn’t give

a reason because they just
gave up because they’re weak men.

I was going to do a quiz Tom
friend of mine and a fan sent in.

I think he actually
wrote the quiz and then

I meet it was like I’m
throw that out because

I’m an asshole no but because I looked he
actually started writing about the thing he

was interested in which was
the bit that caught my attention.

So I’m going to drop a picture
and discord for you to see.

This is there was a
Vietnamese bar that was illegal.

So I don’t know if they were doing anything
sexual but when they say illegal foreigner

bar because it’s
usually Filipina bars and

stuff and it’s usually
like there’s a vaguely

sexual feeling going on but this
might have just been an unlicensed bar.

And so in the picture
you will see the police

grabbed some items
to show like is like when

you make your 500
kilo cocaine bust you like

show off and they do
this they do this in Japan

as well but to a
lesser degree and you’ll

notice some of the items
that they’ve collected.

Some bottles of wine
and champagne and stuff

but if you some some
darts which I guess

could technically be illegal it
looks like a menu and an iPad.

And then there is a connect for some playing
cards okay but I wanted to focus on the

connect for okay
because let’s say you and I

are policemen we are
now we have just completed

our bust of the Vietnamese
bar and we’re going

to be like we’re building our display and
we have a connect for do we play a game do

we set it up or do we
take it the way it was

left and just put it up like so you and I
are like okay we’re setting we’re actually

we might even not
even be the cops I don’t

know if it’s like a
separate job to set up the

diorama that is the
the like display of our

arrest yeah I’m standing
there with a connect for

do you think it was
completed in advance do you

think it was something
the cops put together

what would you do so
you have a connect for that

you’re going to stick
on your diorama to show

that you’ve just completed
a criminal investigation

what is your instinct
my instinct is to make

it look like a game was played okay so you
and I understand the rules of connect for

the person who put this
together you will notice

so could you explain
the win state of connect

for just make a line of
thought make a line of

thought horizontally
or vertically so what did

they do in the picture
this is going to be up

on the screen so people
can see it but they just

they threw tiles in like
alternating columns yeah so

they did same colors a
column a four yellow three red

then a weird one where
it’s like two yellow and one

and then it’s four and
four red and one and then

three and three and three
yeah there are two win

states that I can see
yeah I don’t I don’t know

what they were thinking
so so to me yeah so my

image is that what
they did is they took the

connect for it and they
threw it down and they

just put it in as really
quickly to show that it

was a connect for board
I don’t know what the

board is normally laid
out what could it be if

the tiles weren’t there
yeah well no no people

think it is I would like
I don’t think to me I

don’t know of younger
people than us played

connect for in a real
way like I really don’t

I don’t know how popular
connect for was but I

were I played connect
for I’ve played video game

versions of connect for
you and I played connect

for in it takes two yeah
oh no no the other one

a way out wait oh did
we yeah in the hospital we

played connect for and I
got really angry because

I lost and I thought I
was gonna win I am a

gracious loser though
at least I can say that

after the fact well I
can make you know I can

say some stuff but you
know I’m passionate about

connect for it has my
youngest has a connect for

in like a game collection
thing on the tablet

yeah okay so it makes
sense to me that that

most kids would most
people would know a connect

for so if you had an
empty slate thing with

the holes in it I think
I would still recognize

as that as connect for
but I think putting the

tiles in makes it more
visually appealing it’s

clearer what it is but
then I would immediately be

like why can’t just make
rows I have to make it look

like a game I don’t know
why it’s like an authenticity

thing I want people
to know that this was a

real game so I’d have
only one win state that the

fact that there’s two
win states and it’s really

really set me off after a
while the more I thought

about it the more wrong
it seemed and it’s not

even like oh you know
they just put the extra tile

into complete after
this is very obviously not

a game was one yeah but
he won with a straight line

you because if you go
from right to left from the

visual side it’s three
three three yeah so at any

point one of those could
have won yeah and then it’s

almost like I got a box
around the two little

on the left side and
then they just they’re just

throwing like four like
there’s no way to build

that box and not let the
other person win yeah it

it’s oh my god everything
about the game it’s

just baffling see the more
you look at it the more

annoying it gets and
that actually I have less

faith in the police now
because because they didn’t

I’m not saying they
should have stopped and

played a game of connect
four but they should have

made the connect four
that they’re going to put

on display look realistic
and that that lack of

attention to detail
makes me think you’re a

lesser cop than if you
had done that piece of work

or even if it just been
through the tiles in randomly

randomly I would have
been okay with that too

but there’s even tiles left
in the tray at the bottom

yeah so like it’s not
even a finished game even

though they’ve finished
it apparently twice yeah

the only other explanation
I could come up with

is that they played a
different game with the

connect four board thing
so like a drinking game or

something yeah like put
this tile in and ask this

could like almost like a
truth or dare or something

connect four is like
the whole heart of this

case it is because in
the picture they have the

the nice sort of
Vietnamese dresses and they

have the bottles I mean
everything else is fine

I had no problem with it
and then Tom sent this

picture to me and he
goes and then look at the

connect four and that was
it it was that was my week

I kind of have an issue
with the playing cards too

because it doesn’t look
like a full deck it does not

look like a full deck it
looks like they’re missing

cards and they’ve found
them out kind of around

so this is one of the
things I love the most

about these pictures
is someone put a lot of

thought into it but also
didn’t put enough thought

into it because the wine
bottles are fanned out in

an arc and then the
playing cards are fanned out

under that yeah and then
there’s the connect foreign

stuff in the middle
obviously like the center

pieces the connect for
and then the super expensive

bottle behind it clearly
because it has its own

box that’s in books but
what is the thing in front

of the playing cards
and the connect force it

just a flannel oh those
are oh she bought it

those are the wet towels
yeah why would that be

included so this is all
supposed to be evidence

of some sort of you
know guess technically

how serious the crime is like
like what a what a good job we did

I look at all this at
point shit we collected

yeah the wet towels
that are in every single

restaurant in every
single place in Japan don’t

need to be included
in this so I never really

followed through on my
feature of the guy who

sets things out but it
you because it used to be

underwear and they would
there was some you could

tell what kind of
attention they put because

there was one guy and
he put so much work into

it because it was color
coded it was the what

it started at the top left
corner where like white

panties and then it went
down and it got dark in

the bottom right and the
opposite corner wow he

did like he did like a
shade transition throughout

and I was like this
dude had a lot of time

because it was like 500
pairs of underwear that

were stolen or something
and I’ve seen like someone

was stealing shoes and
the guy put the shoes

in like order like this
corner was sort of sports

shoes and the other
corner was like sort of

more work shoes and
stuff oh my god I know the

guy who does it is just
OCD it’s it’s the extreme

but then we get this guy
with the connect 4 yeah

he was on holiday the
OCD guy was on holiday

and so this guy’s like
well I’ll just fan everything

out and I got a whole
bunch of garbage here

that they left in the room and oh there’s a
connect 4 and I’ll just throw the tiles in

maybe that’s what it was
they just had some wine

and shit and they’re like
it’s not really cutting it

what else is it like yeah what else is in
the room we need cops need to do better

police committing crimes
a cop forged power of

attorney and stole 7
million yen from a resident

he’s 70 year old man
so basically this guy had

been a police officer
for a year and realized

like crime pays more
than being a cop and so

at the beginning of this
show I started talking

about how I have
more integrity almost

unintentionally I just
when I talk about stuff being

factual I want it to be accurate so I don’t
do single news sources I always want to get

two or three news sources
before I actually do a

story which I think is
more research than other

places do even though
well because again it’s

the spread of internet
information a story gets

out and then other
people pick it up and just

repeat it and then
sometimes iterate on it I’ve

actually seen that I’ve
seen stories where something

went from story to
bigger to bigger to bigger

something like that
multiple times which actually

Ninja News Japan then
becomes a very interesting

source of news because
I’ll tell you all three

stories because I don’t
actually know which one’s

true I assume the first
one which is usually less

dramatic one and then
the more dramatic versions

get on because one
of the stories I did it

was a taxi driver hitting
a pigeon on purpose

and then by the third
iteration of that story it

was hit a dove and so
they changed the bird to

make it more sympathetic
towards the bird and make

the taxi driver look
even worse yeah integrity

some cops don’t have
integrity the ones who

have been there for a
year and realized I’m not

making that much money
and I can make a lot more

money committing
crimes and now I’ve learned

some interesting way to
commit crimes here’s a very

interesting way to commit
a crime he deals with a

resident who’s 70 years
old he gets his banking

information he brought
the victims bank book

and seal to the post office
they don’t do signatures

in Japan they do seals
so a stamp so that’s

actually one of the
questions of which is better

a seal or a stamp
because if I could maybe

forge your signature if
I could learn how to do

it but I also could
learn how to I could just

steal your stamp and
it’s much easier to use

so you can see sort
of one of the issues of

stamp versus signature
my signature has changed

over time which is one
of the problems so it’s

gotten messier or less
legible so if you compare

my signature now to my
signature 10 15 20 years

ago it’s probably very
different and so a bank

could actually say it’s
not the same signature

a stamp remains the
same but then I could go

into someone else’s
house steal their stamp and

then try to use their
stamp just like this cop

did he brought the victims
bank book and stamp to

this post office he was
wearing his uniform and

then immediately flashed
his badge so of course

everyone in the post
offices like oh he’s a police

officer he is therefore
trustworthy the staff

believed him because
he’s a cop and he then took

out seven million yen from
the man’s bank account

and tried to give himself
power of attorney he

was actually caught
very quickly when a family

member noticed seven
million yen missing from the

man’s bank account so
it’s actually good he had

family members checking on his bank account
so he’s been arrested of course the police

apologize they say we’re
gonna train people to make

sure this doesn’t happen
again the problem with

training police is your
training them and how crimes

are done and then they
might go huh that’s a neat idea

this is the six prefectual
police to be arrested

this year so in that
prefecture six cops have

been arrested so I
actually didn’t look up the

stats we’re getting close
to the end of the year so

we’re gonna get to stat
season which for me is a

very exciting season for
other people not so much

because they don’t some
people love the numbers

heavy episodes that I
do at the end of the year

some people don’t I love
the numbers how many

cops get arrested is
very interesting because in

relation to how many
cops there are more than

anything else because we
talk about bad apples but

how many bad apples are
there is a very interesting

question I think I should
make a segment called

politician saying dumb
stuff because we do

get a lot of politicians
and again the older

japanese men they’ve
gotten used to saying

whatever they want to
say and it causing problems

for them and them not
really knowing how to

handle it so this politician
he was on his youtube

stream so he has a
weekly show he does on

youtube he streams it I
don’t know how much is

how big his audience
is not very interested to

see if he has a bigger
audience than me so if I

can say my audience is
at the low end 600 to 800

people high end a
thousand people so let’s just

do the the middle let’s
say 750 people listen to

this podcast every week
do I get more listeners

than this japanese
politician is very because

this is a small amateur
thing so 700’s a massive

number I’m really happy
with that I would love it

for it to grow but I’m never
going to complain about

a fairly large group
of people listening to

the nonsense that I
spout every week to week

competing against
japanese politicians would be

pretty funny this is the
leader of the conservative

party now that makes
it sound big it’s not the

conservative party in
japan is an incredibly small

party because there are
thousands of parties and

a lot of them are very
small now this party got

2% of the most recent
vote so they basically

got like a seat or maybe
two seats in the house

so they don’t have any
real political power so

that’s an important thing
to keep in mind because

when we talk about
conservative party if you talk

about american politics
or British politics or

Canadian politics those
are basically one of the

two parties this is not
that this is an incredibly

small party the communist
party in japan is a much

bigger more powerful
party than this conservative

party the conservative
party of japan was streaming

on youtube talking about
the declining birth rate

this is a very big issue
in japan I have solved it

multiple times if they
would just start listening

in japan they would
have the answer they’re

looking for but they
don’t that’s all I can say

he’s talking he’s on
youtube he can say whatever

he wants so he does I
do like there’s a caveat

at the beginning before he starts speaking
what he says is there’s a hypothetical idea

which I do not support
now here’s an interesting

thing if you don’t support
it maybe don’t say it

don’t talk about the
things you don’t support

talk about the things
you actually do support

since you’re supposed
to be the leader of a

party want to talk about
what your party would do

to solve this very real
problem for the country

don’t talk about something
that’s hypothetical

and not real and it’s
going to piss people off

or you can do it this
guy does and start talking

so he’s tried to cover
himself by saying he doesn’t

support this he doesn’t
believe this this is

not something we would
actually do but here’s

a hypothetical this is
literally like me going

I’m not racist but and
then say a whole bunch of

racist stuff he’s going
I don’t support this but

here’s a really neat
idea I heard recently so

he said there’s a
hypothetical idea which I do

not support in removing
women’s uterus is when

they turn 30 now I
don’t support that either

because it’s a really
dumb fucking idea and it

doesn’t solve the declining
birth rate issue because

women over 30 are still
very capable of having

babies uh the technologies
improved health is

improved there’s a whole
bunch of things have been

improved so you don’t
need to have a baby when

you’re 20 years old anymore
you don’t have to risk

death by having a baby
when you’re 28 29 30 35

whatever um so that
whole thing that came out of

his mouth in that moment
should have been like

everyone be like oh
yes now there were other

people in the stream and
after you got to his third

or fourth point were
like maybe this is too

much still didn’t stop he
said woman women would

not go to university and
cannot marry after 25

so he’s saying that
women basically can’t go to

university so they have
no work prospects therefore

marriage would be the
more attractive prospect

therefore we could make
a law to make it so they

can’t marry after 25
years old so if you don’t

get married before 25
and start having babies

you don’t get to do
that forever but then also

you don’t have a
university education so you

can’t get a really good
job so your whole life

sucks if you don’t get
married and have babies

before you’re 25
and again that is a lot

because that has no
relationship to reality how’s

it works now we we need
dual incomes to survive

like this is normal people
now if you have kids

you need dual incomes
my kids are now getting to

high school and university
age we are sitting

down working out our
finances to make sure that

our kids will be able
to go to university it is a

huge burden on us as
parents but we want our kids

to have the education
so they can get the job so

they can do what they
want and education takes a

long time if they want
to do further education

they want to do that
they’re going to go into legs

let’s say a master’s or a
PhD that’s going to be 8

10 years of education I
assume I will be supporting

them at least partially
through all that my wife

not having a job we
wouldn’t be able to do that so

our now family our
future has a lower standard

overall because of this
guy’s weird weird idea

from some science fiction
thing you read so after

you said women’s uterus is should be removed
when they turn 30 women shouldn’t go to

university and they should
not be allowed to marry

after 25 all to incentivize
them having babies

at an early age so maybe
I assume then have more

babies even though
again a family wouldn’t be

able to survive on a
single income at that point

people got upset so
the other people who are

with them are like isn’t
that too much and he’s

like I don’t know I think
I sound pretty smart

he then the next day
said I will retract the

statements and apologize
as people found them

unpleasant and I think
the thing is he’s unpleasant

because he thought this
was a good idea in the first

place is not the statements
it’s him saying those

unpleasant things
thinking it was a good idea

that’s the problem I don’t
know how many times I’ve

done this on this show
we’re at like episode 333

or something like that
I actually should check

but we’re in the there are three thirties
at this point how many times have I said

retracting a statement
is not a thing you can’t

say something into the
world and then retract

the statement statements
can be taken out of

context but this is
another place where an

engine is Japan tries to
show a certain amount of

integrity by looking at
what is said before and

after so I have full
context of what was actually

said so I know yeah that
person was actually joking

all the people who say
Donald Trump is joking

when he makes like
incendiary statements

he’s not you can look at
what he says before and

when he says after and
realize that’s not a joke

because it’s not funny
this guy saying uh I want

to retract my statement
it doesn’t retract the

statement it doesn’t go
away you still set it you’re

still a gross human being
you shouldn’t say those

things retracting it
and apologizing because

people found it unpleasant
you should have known

that going in he then
went further to go to say

I was explaining the
time limitation on giving

birth in a plain way
which is not what he was

doing because it’s a
function of biology and has

nothing to do with his
very arbitrary time limit

of 25 to 30 if you don’t
support something don’t

support it by not talking about it

gotta stop and watch Dave settle in

three turns four turns
five turns and down okay

good five turns is good good
amount of turns before you settle it.

[SIGHS]

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Sleepily Dangerous Podcast

(upbeat music)

  • What was allergies last week, I believe,

has turned into a cold
and I’m just getting over it.

So, if this is your podcast
you listen to before,

you go to sleep, the voice
is gonna be a little lower,

a little less energy, a
little softer because I can’t

get too excited because
then my voice gives out on me.

But we’re almost close
to being healthy again,

which shouldn’t be
as hard as it is, I think.

But first story is an update.

The lady who is throwing
eggs at her neighbor’s house.

She was throwing eggs from
her window to her neighbor’s

window, smashing the eggs
on her neighbor’s house.

They were falling down
on all the gross stuff,

egg yolk and whatever
covering the house.

The eggs would sit out there and rot.

The thing that got me is
she was punishing herself

as much as her neighbor
because she has to smell it too.

She lives right next to the place
she’s creating all this mess and stink.

So, the original story, the neighbor,
who was the victim in this case said like,

I don’t know why this lady’s hook and
eggs in my house, she set up a camera.

She got video of her
sniping out her window, 360

Nova scope, out her
window and hitting the house.

She was doing like a carton
of eggs a day sometimes.

They said up to 80 over a couple of
months, but they know it was way more.

These are just the ones
they like have a record of.

The secondary thing, she’s paying for eggs,

eggs in Japan or not
the cheapest commodity.

If I was going to try to ruin
someone else’s property,

I wouldn’t do it with
something I have to pay for

consistently that I could
eat a high protein source.

I would find something
else that was way cheaper,

way messier and didn’t
negatively impact my life as well.

So, not someone who thinks through
the consequences of their actions.

I think that’s normal of a
lot of criminal enterprises,

but in this particular
case, it shows itself so well.

I really found it in an interesting case.

She has been sentenced to jail.

So, I thought it was going to be a fine,
maybe clean up fees, that kind of stuff.

They haven’t given us the exact
amount of prison time she’s been given.

It’s basically come to a conclusion.

They’re probably still trying
to figure out the details.

Does she have to pay money, clean up fees,

that kind of stuff, still
coming down the line.

But, conclusively, she is going to prison
for an indeterminate amount of time.

A very interesting
thing I would actually like

to know is what people,
so other than myself,

think would be an
appropriate amount of prison

time for how can eggs
eat your neighbor’s house.

Now, it’s not just like once
and then never do it again.

It’s like consistently over
months and months and months,

creating like an ecological
biohazard near her house.

One of the things that never came out was,

why she was doing this,
the victim again said,

I don’t know why she was
throwing eggs in my house.

We never really had
a picture of a close

relationship, but we never
had any sort of conflict.

The lady said that she threw the eggs
because of insults being hurled at her daily.

I’m pretty sure the victim
here, the lady who had

received the egg throwing,
wasn’t insulting her daily.

It actually seems like she was primarily
trying to not interact with her much at all.

Maybe that was the
insult that you didn’t come

and bend the knee to
me when you moved in,

or they’d lived together for
years and years and years.

And this was a very
sudden thing that started.

It seems like she just
had a bit of a mental break.

Probably saw something
that she thought was

insulting and just
interpreted it that way.

And then now considers it a daily
insult that it has not been rectified.

I don’t know, that’s all supposition,
but it pushed her over the edge

and she thought the only solution I have
is to throw eggs at my neighbor’s house

despite the fact that
it’s right next to my

house and I have to
suffer right along with her.

A French artist.

The self-proclaimed artist.

So this is an interesting thing.

The newspaper articles
have been very clear,

so I’ve read three or four
articles with the same story.

They all say self-proclaimed.

So he’s calling himself an artist.

When do you actually
adopt the title of artist?

It’s a very interesting question.

When do I call myself an artist?

And it’s just self-proclaimed when
does someone else call me an artist?

And then it’s sort of a title that sticks.

It’s like Esquire.

You’re not supposed to
give yourself the Esquire

title someone else is
supposed to give it to you.

I guess it would be very easy
for me to call myself a podcaster

because it doesn’t come with
any sort of sense of grandiosity.

It is just something people
do in their rooms alone

when they’re very lonely
and want to talk to people

and they don’t get a chance to
talk to people and they’re very sad.

Anyways, that’s not
actually the relevant part.

This guy, self-proclaimed French artist

was arrested for drawing
facial hair on campaign posters.

So this is an election season.

They have campaign posters up.

They do it in Japan.

It’s very organized.

They have like a big panel.

It’ll have numbers like 16
boxes and then you buy one of

those boxes and you put
your campaign poster up there.

We did have a controversy
in Tokyo a little while

ago where people were
putting up dirty posters.

People were buying it and saying like just
promoting their SNS and things like that.

That’s not really what this story is about

but it shows that like
these have become an

interesting target for
people to pay attention to.

This guy walked up.

It says facial hair.

So I’m assuming mustache,
goatee, maybe a beard, who knows.

I can honestly say I have
walked by and then had the

same urge where I’d be
like, oh, it would be funny.

I could draw some
funny things on that face.

But then I didn’t do it because I had
somewhere to go and I’d be better things to do.

This was destruction of property because
they pay for that poster to be up there.

They own that poster.

They own that space.

You vandalizing it, putting graffiti on it.

That’s destruction of property.

Police check security cameras
after they saw the goatee

or the mustache or whatever was drawn
on the poster and found them very easily.

That’s just what it comes down to.

He’s believed to have
defaced several other posters.

So this isn’t the first charge.

This is probably the
first of several charges

he’s going to get because
now they’re going to

check the other posters,
was he in the area?

Maybe does it match his artistic style?

There would be an interesting
thing to try to nail someone on.

You conclude that their art style is unique

and therefore we can then pin all these
other ones on you even if it’s not true.

And then is he happy that his art is being
recognized or does he end up suffering?

Because I didn’t actually draw those.

He can’t ascribe those to me.

Those are the same level of
art that I am creating when I

do graffiti, facial hair, like
a 12 year old on a poster.

So cycling in Japan.

We’ve had a lot of stories about
like updated road rules in Japan.

There was rules about
those riding suitcases.

And if you want to take them out, I
would say that essentially the airport,

you’re probably not even
supposed to ride them in the airport.

But if you want to ride
them, they have to be licensed.

You have to have a driver’s license.

They have this for anything electric, so
an electric bicycle, an electric scooter.

You’re actually supposed
to be licensed for that.

You have to wear a helmet, it has
to be like, all this has to be legal.

Japan’s just getting tired
of people getting drunk

and smashing stuff and they’ve
decided to get really strict on the rules.

Cyclists on their
smartphones are now looking

at six months in prison
in 100,000 yen fight.

So that six months in
prison for riding your bicycle

while looking at your
smartphone is pretty serious.

But I can honestly say
I’ve seen it happen a lot.

It’s mostly young people that I’ve seen.

That’s not to say that that’s correct.

Again, I live out in the countryside.

It’s generally very, very old people and
very, very young people live around me.

So the very, very young people are giving
me the ones riding on their smartphone.

The older, older people
probably not so much.

But that’s only where I live.

If you’re in Tokyo where
a lot of people commute,

and this actually like
really increased in 2020,

to 2023 when people were
worried about coronavirus

and didn’t want to
take the train so much

anymore, bicycle usage
increased significantly.

People spend time riding their
bicycle, weaving in and out of traffic,

and/or people while looking at
their smartphone, that’s problematic.

They’ve decided to make it a
criminal offense, six months in prison.

If you get drunk and ride your bicycle,

Japan is getting stricter and
stricter about people being drunk

because there’s a lot of
drunk people, a lot of the time.

You can get five years in prison and up to
500,000 yen fine if you cause an accident.

Oh, if you cause an accident, well drunk.

So that’s just if I ride my bicycle drunk,

I can get five years in
prison and a 500 yen fine.

If I am drunk and I cause an accident,
I can get another year on top of that

and 300,000 yen more fine on top
of the five years and 500,000 yen.

This is all because in 2023,
there were 72,000 bicycle accidents

and it’s already risen
higher than that in 2024.

2024 is not finished, but they’ve
already got more than that.

They’re like, this is
something we have to deal with.

We have something we have to take care of.

Hours after this law was passed,
two men both drunk ran into each other.

So both had an accident.

So both of them could be facing five
years in prison and a 500,000 yen fine.

And both of them could actually be facing

the extra one year and the extra 300,000
yen fine because you could technically say,

maybe they both caused the
accident because they were both drunk.

A 38 year old man is at a store.

That’s not that unusual.

And then he gets really, really upset.

And the reason he’s
upset, he starts shouting,

why didn’t you ask if I
needed a plastic bag?

Now, I actually think it’s quite normal
not to ask if people need a plastic bag now

because a lot of stores are actually banning
plastic bags for environmental reasons.

They’re not actually
handing out plastic bags.

If you want a plastic bag,
you have to ask for one.

That’s become the norm in a lot of places.

I don’t expect places to
offer me a bag anymore.

Like when I go to the convenience
store, when I go shopping

for groceries, I don’t
expect them to offer me bags.

If I want one, I have to ask.

This guy clearly has
not changed that mindset.

And he got really upset at the cashier.

Another man, just tries to step
and he’s like, hey, let me intervene.

Let me try to calm the situation down.

First guy gets really upset, pushes the man

and then gets behind him
and puts on a choke hold.

The man will take 10
days to heal from the injury.

So the choke hold.

We don’t know if it was the push or the
choke hold that actually caused the injuries

because let’s say he pushed him down
and he hit his arm or his leg or something.

That could have been an
injury that needs to heal.

10 days, it’s probably
just a really bad bruise.

But a choke hold, you could
actually bruise your esophagus.

It could be quite serious.

The amazing part, and this
shows sort of like the mindset

you have to get into when
talking about these stories.

The guy who did the choking,
who created the kerfuffle

in the beginning, he’s
the one who called

the police, claiming
that the victim hit him.

So he gets upset.

So this is again, the
mindset you have to be in.

He gets upset because
he wasn’t offered a bag.

A guy comes in and says like,
hey, maybe you need to chill out.

He pushes that guy,
hits that guy, knocks that

guy down, gets around,
chokes him from behind,

then calls the police and
says that guy attacked me.

And that’s something
that I think getting into

the mindset of the person
actually reveals a lot.

He feels perfectly justified
in attacking other people

and then blaming them thinking
he’s gonna get away with it.

This is an interesting
thing because I’m interested

to see how much
trouble he actually gets in.

It’s probably gonna
depend whether or not the

victim in this case
presses charges or whatnot.

But it’s kind of that Karen
mindset that’s taken over

the internet where people
like they just go and go and go

and then they call the police, expecting
the police to come back them up.

That seems to have now started in Japan

and I don’t wanna see
hundreds of these videos.

After we’ve gotten past
sort of all the videos of people

like YouTubers and streamers and
stuff, causing trouble to get video clout,

I’m really hoping that the
next step isn’t just people

taking on that whole internet Karen
mode and going crazy in Japan as well.

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Another 38-year-old man, two 38-year-old
men in two stories, that’s crazy.

He was a salesperson but not a salesperson
for the incident that we’re talking about.

He was pretending to be a
salesperson going house to house.

He visited an older couple and they’re
in their 80s and he gets into their house

because he’s a door-to-door salesman of
some sort or at least he’s pretending to be.

He gets in their house and he
finds a way to give them sleeping pills.

So I’m assuming they had tea together
and he got sleeping pills into their tea.

When they were drowsy, he stole 26
million yen in cash and a Boston bag.

I’ve had this conversation before.

Why do you have 26 million
yen in cash in your house?

Older people in Japan,
they still seem to hoard cash.

Why is it not in a safe?

Like if you’re gonna have
that much money around,

have a safe, put it
in the safe, lock it up.

They haven’t obviously in a box or something,
26 million yen, like I know the yen

isn’t the same value as the American
dollar, but it’s still like $20,000.

That’s $200,000.

26, what is it?

5 million yen is about 50,000 bucks.

So 20 million yen, yeah, that’s $200,000.

Why do you have 2,000?

See, this is it, like the math
is sort of boggling to me.

Why would you just keep
that much cash around?

Like you don’t need that
much cash to buy anything.

You’re not gonna go buy a car with cash.

Regularly enough to keep it in your house,

put it in the bank, it’s
safe, it won’t go anywhere.

You’re not getting any interest on it.

Japanese bank’s interest rate is
really low, but you’re not gonna lose it.

You’re not gonna have a guy
coming to your house and just take it.

It’s not insured or anything, so that’s it.

The Boston Bank, I don’t
know enough about bags,

I’m assuming Boston
bags are very expensive.

The part where this
really goes over the top

is when he left, so the
older couple is drowsy,

they’re sleeping, he’s
taking the money, he’s taking

the Boston Bank, and then
he sets the house on fire.

A neighbor noticed the fire
and called the fire department

other neighbors went into the house and
woke up the older couple and got them out.

So then no one actually
died, no one actually got hurt.

There was some lung, some
smoke inhalation, the son of

the parents got, and he had
to go to a hospital check out,

but he’s okay as far as I can
tell from the articles I’ve read.

I guess when you take the money,
the older couple, when they wake up,

we’re gonna know who you are, and
that is it, you have to have no witnesses.

And then the money would have
technically burnt up in the fire,

but yeah, this is just, now
this is a double attempted

murder theft and some sort of
fraud and calling going on with it.

This guy is in a heap of trouble.

When you get in a taxi, and the driver,

so let’s say you just
had dinner, you call a taxi,

and you get in the taxi,
and then as the taxi goes,

the driver looks back and he
says, you know, you look sick.

Here are some pills, do you take them?

My answer is no, I am
not going to take any sort

of medicine from someone
who is driving in a taxi,

not because I have anything
against like sort of the

capacity of a taxi driver to
diagnose my illness, but I just

don’t know who you are, because
you’re a random taxi driver.

What has happened is a young
girl came out of a restaurant,

got in a taxi, and then the
taxi driver, while he was driving,

looked back and said, you
look sick, here’s some medicine,

take the medicine, she
took the medicine, she

took the pills, and
they were sleeping pills.

So this is the second case of sleeping pills
being used in one week that we know of.

Four and a half hours later,
she’s found a sleep in a parking lot.

The urine tests, she
was staying in the hospital,

they did a urine test, they
found the drugs in her system.

So they know that she was drugged,
they try to trace back her steps,

they know she was in a taxi,
they find the security cameras

from the area, find the
taxi, they find the taxi,

it has an SD card in it with
the cameras, that’s gone.

So they think the taxi driver,
of course, is trying to, you know,

hide any evidence of him doing
any sort of any wrong doing,

but it was quite easy to find
him once they had sort of the

basic evidence of where she
began, where she ended up,

but they know where she was,
they know where she got in the taxi,

and they know what
was going on in that area,

they could check security
footage, they found the taxi driver.

They have had several reports of
people who have lost their memories

after taking a taxi,
which is very concerning.

So there’s our good piece
of advice, final piece of advice.

I want to make a little short
one today just because again,

I’m not feeling great, I
don’t have the energy

to keep going for hours
and hours and hours.

I wanted to do some more
stories today to be honest,

but hopefully we’ll get a longer one
next week when I’m feeling better.

The Ninja Ninja is Japan,
final piece of advice,

from Chunkman Beef Chest,
your host, to you, the listener,

or the viewer, or
however you’re seeing this.

Hey, I love you.

Just put that out there,
make sure you remember that.

There is someone in the
world who does care about you.

And be, don’t take
drugs from a taxi driver.

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See, as soon as I start
streaming, if you, yep, okay.

He’s moving around.

Let’s see what Dave
does before we get started.

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Whoa, what was that?

Just trying to, trying to
storm down some space there.

My concern is once I start,
he’s going to start complaining.

Singing up, and then
I’ll take you out again.

Dave, it’s okay.

Yeah, relax.

It’s weirdly hot in my room.

Okay, there you go.

Let me get some nice Dave,
ooh, stretch his leg out, sexy.

All right, let’s get started.

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Bottom Buttcheek Podcast

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I have a bit of a rough throat today.

So this may be shorter.

I may not be getting
too into it, or I may just

start coughing, so it might
be some very weird edits.

I’m just giving you a
warning ahead of time.

Some people have actually found
that when I have a rougher voice,

when I’m in a tough spotter,
I’m sick and I do the podcast.

They actually like my voice better, which
makes me sad and happy at the same time,

’cause I’m happy you like my voice
when it’s rough and I guess more manly

and like I’ve been chewing glass
and smoking cigarettes my whole life.

But also, I’d rather be healthy.

I think that’s a pretty normal
state of affairs for most people.

I should have started
smoking earlier and then quit,

and then I would have that
great raspy voice that people like.

I’ve had a couple of people know,
tell me that they listen to this

before they go to sleep and
they fall asleep to my voice.

And that’s also a mixed
blessing because it’s like,

A, you find the voice you’re
hearing right now relaxing.

It’s gentle enough that it eases
you into a place of slumber,

which I actually was thinking that’s a
really nice thing to do for other people,

but also it means you’re not
listening to have the episode.

So all the effort I put into the latter
half, honestly, the problem I have though,

is if you listen to this
when you’re going to sleep

and you fall asleep,
let’s say at the midpoint,

I usually put the dirtier and more
violent stories at the end of the episode.

So if you’re doing that, it means
your subconscious mind is now getting

all that dirty, awful information put into
your brain while you’re sleeping directly.

I’m just hoping that doesn’t
make you a worse person.

Usually I’m hopefully balancing it out
with my very sensible opinion, who knows?

That’s it.

All we have to do is this is an experiment.

If you wake up one day and
you just feel more violent urges

or you feel like a worse person, listen to
the whole podcast before you go to sleep.

So you can get the logic
part of your brain kicked in,

so you know you’re not just sending
yourself some blemole messages.

I did actually discuss
with a friend the other day.

I should just do a podcast
where I talk about nothing,

which is pretty much all the podcasts
I do anyways, but like literally nothing.

Like nothing you would need
to actually bother to take in

or listen to a process because then you
could listen to that while you go to sleep.

And I know there are like sleep podcasts
out there that people like you turn it on

and you listen to this sort of
gentle voices that talks to you.

The story I had in mind
from my first episode

of my sleeping podcast, we’re
gonna get to the news soon.

Was the story of how I
bought three of the same jacket.

So you see I had this
jacket that I really liked.

It was an under armor jacket.

It’s actually hanging on the
back of my chair right now.

And it was very comfortable.

It’s sort of that light jacket level.

It’s two, you wanna have something
with you when it gets nippy in the evening.

So this would be like sweater
weather, but I gotta go to work and stuff.

I don’t want something
that I can put in my bag.

There’s this sports jacket,
it’s not heavy in warm,

but it will cut the wind and it’ll
keep you just just warm enough.

But it’s light enough and small enough that
you can fool it up and put it in your bag

and carry it with you during
the day when it is warm.

So yeah, I thought this is one of
the most perfect jackets I’ve ever had.

Men love a good jacket.

I don’t wanna speak for anyone else.

So I was really in love with this jacket

and especially because it was just
fulfilling so many needs I didn’t know I had.

And then I thought, oh, I couldn’t
find it one day and I thought I lost it.

So I gave it a couple of weeks.

I looked around the house.

I did some cleaning and stuff
and I was like, I’ve lost that jacket.

Very unusual for me to lose things.

So, but you know, it was worth it.

I’ll go online and I’ll buy another
one of the exact same jacket.

Almost, it just, it’s the
same jacket without a hood.

So I bought this other jacket
and I got it very happy with that.

I’m wearing it for a couple of weeks.

And then my son goes, oh yeah, I moved
this into my room or somewhere by accident.

Here’s your jacket pack.

Now I have two of the same jacket.

Then, have you fallen asleep yet?

This would be around the time when I expect
you to fall asleep in my sleep podcast.

I haven’t come up with a name yet.

It’s gonna be like Peter
murmurs or something.

They’re chunk with beef chest murmurs.

Seamick bee murmurs.

I’m hitting the titles now.

So then I’m online and I’m
looking at jackets because

men, as we’ve established,
they love their jackets.

I can’t stop looking
at jackets and watches.

I have, I think, got a final
cap on the watch problem.

I’m not really looking at
watches like I was before.

I think I found the one for me.

The last watch purchase I made.

But we’re not talking about that right now.

We’re talking about the jackets.

So I was online.

I saw this jacket.

I’m like, ooh, ever last.

That’s a brand I’ve always enjoyed.

It’s fun.

I actually rare to find a
good labeled ever last product

because most of them
that ever last is too big.

I don’t like the gigantic logos.

I wear that ironically.

I won’t wear a t-shirt
with a giant logo on it.

But I like my branding to be a little
more subtle if there’s branding at all.

Ever last is one of those
sort of classic brands

that I enjoy, but most
of them are too loud.

And so when I find a subtle one, I got it.

I have a hat that has an ever last on it.

And this is a jacket with an ever last.

I bought that jacket and I
was very happy with that jacket.

It was on sale.

That jacket arrived.

I realized it was literally the exact
same jacket as the previous two jackets.

Only I had ever last instead of
under armor on the chest piece.

That’s it.

So that is the story of how I ended
up with three of the same jacket.

And I hope you are
sleeping peacefully right now.

Let’s get back to the news.

Should I do the intro again?

I feel like I’ve just
done a sample podcast.

The irony is Ninja News Japan came out
as a segment from the old Velasa podcast.

So I did it as a segment
every couple of weeks.

And then it just got
grew and grew and grew.

And I’m like, it should be its own podcast.

That’s where Ninja News Japan came from.

This new sleep podcast may
start as a joke or just a segment.

But then it could grow
into its own podcast.

If that’s what people
want, I mean, I’m a whore.

I’ll just do whatever people want.

Or’s do it for money.

So in a way, I’m worse, because I
do it and I don’t make any money.

Anyways, let’s get to our first story.

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It’s kind of an update.

It’s not.

So Rititia, sugar baby Rititia.

I have been kind of
obsessed with her story.

Because it’s the pinnacle of scam stories
and then this great fall from Grace,

where she had millions
of dollars available to her

was spending it recklessly
and then got arrested.

So her story is just
this like rise and fall.

She has a scheme in its
working and then she goes too far.

She flies too close
to the sun as she falls.

She’s been arrested.

She’s gotten nine years in prison.

So why am I talking about her?

Again, there’s really
not going to be anything

to say about her until
she gets out of prison.

If Ninja News Japan is
still going in nine years, I

absolutely will cover her release
in what she does after that.

But there’s been an interesting development

in that they have decided to take the
DDchan story and make a movie out of it.

Now, I only saw the article in Japanese
and I read it very shallow read of it.

So I don’t actually know the details yet.

There was a slight implication
that there was a slight implication

that they’re going to make her a more
sympathetic character than I would make her.

So I think what they’re
going to do is say like,

here’s this person and
she’s in this situation

and the only thing she could
do to get out of this situation

was to scam men, whereas I
would make her the evil genius.

She came up with this plan.

She capitalized on it.

She thought, I’m going to
capitalize this even further

by writing a book and
posting that book on

the internet so that
other women can scam men

and they can make millions
of dollars the same way I have.

And so I would present her in a more evil
light because she knew what she was doing.

Her scheme was solid and she
was going forward and then she was

trying to expand it to hurt
more people almost in a network.

So I’m wondering, I don’t think
this is going to be a good movie

but I’m really interested
in how they’re going to be

presenting the main
character Sugar Baby DDchan

because are they going
to make her sympathetic

or are they going to
say like she’s a scammer

and she used her youth and attractiveness
to scam these older lonely men.

I’m really torn because
if they do try to paint her

as a sympathetic light
and she ends up in prison

and that’s a sad thing, I think maybe
they’ve missed the problem or the point.

I think maybe they’ve missed
the point of the problem

that she presents as
an actor with in society.

You can tell that was not scripted.

I do want to look into it more though.

J.R.
West has created a knife proof umbrella.

Now they say umbrella,
it’s not actually an umbrella.

It’s not like I would be walking
around with this umbrella

outside and protecting myself
from the rain and/or knives.

It’s a defensive shield that
they want to keep on trains

because last summer
there was a knife attack

on board of train and
three people were injured.

One staff member and
two passengers were

injured by a knife
attack and so they’re like,

we have to do something
to try to give the train staff

something to defend themselves
with when it comes to someone

gets on the train with a knife because
it’s a very difficult thing to stop.

This shows actually
the level of care they’re

putting in in Japan that
would not be elsewhere.

Three people were injured and then J.R.
West decided

we’re going to take some
action to make sure that

we can’t stop this from happening
but maybe we can give people

a position where they can defend
themselves and not get hurt in the future.

They developed an umbrella
shaped defensive shield.

It’s basically this big open thing.

It becomes this, well it’s an umbrella.

And it’s knife proof material.

So I don’t know, knife
proof doesn’t mean it’s

going to, I guess it’s
nothing’s impervious.

If you keep hitting it, I
assume it’s going to break

the shield sooner or later,
but it’s going to give the ideas

to give people behind
you a chance to escape.

The shaft that would normally be the umbrella
shaft is longer than a normal umbrella.

So again, this is not an umbrella.

It’s just when I say umbrella
you immediately know what shape

it takes and therefore
because it can be collapsed

like an umbrella, it’s
much easier to store.

Protective shields used up to
now were close range and heavy.

We’ve devised a shield
that’s easy for female

employees to use
because the problem is, yes.

Let’s say you do have a
large ballistic shield available,

but it’s this big heavy thing
and it’s only right in front of you

that maybe isn’t the best use
for all people who work for you.

I don’t think it’s
necessarily just females.

Weaker males might have the same problem.

I’ve never used a shield
before so even though I’m

let’s say a big healthy male,
I might not use it correctly.

The umbrella, the idea is to make it safe

and keep some distance
between you and the assailant.

I think that’s actually a pretty good idea.

They are going to put
1,200 umbrellas on 600 trains.

That’s going to be two on every train.

I assume it wanted to either
end where the staff tend to spend

most of their time, so it’s
easily accessible to them.

So they could get to the car and
try to defend against a knife attack.

A 22 year old unemployed man
met a woman via social media.

I don’t engage in social media.

So I actually find it always when they
say like met someone over social media.

Like how do you form a relationship
over Instagram or Twitter or something?

I have not ever been able to do that.

I’ve had short conversations,
but they always die out.

And again, it’s because of
me, I’m bad at social media.

So this is where I feel like my
I have fallen behind the times

of how sort of
relationships are formed now.

But anyways, this couple, they
start dating and then he moves in

to the house or the
apartment where this

woman he’s met is
staying with another woman.

So there’s now two women
and one man in the house.

He then made up a character and sent the
two women 2,000 emails threatening them.

He made them believe that they
were being targeted by hostile forces.

So there’s a lot of questions I have there.

Like why would I as just a regular
person be targeted by hostile forces?

Where do these hostile forces come from?

Why would they be targeting me?

If I’m just a normal
person because they don’t

say anything about this
sort of pair of women

that would make them honestly
particularly unique, that’s not an insult.

They’re just normal people, but normal
people don’t get targeted by hostile forces.

So that would be if I was in the same
situation, so I’m one of these ladies.

And then some guy moves into
my house and they start saying like,

I start getting all these
emails and he goes,

you’re being targeted
by hostile forces.

I’d be like, that doesn’t make sense.

What do I have that hostile forces
who even want in the first place?

He made demands as the hostile forces
and then he said he would protect them.

And then they bought him a car.

I read two versions
of this story, one where

they bought him a sports car and then
another one where they bought him two cars.

So these two women being
targeted by hostile forces

to protect themselves,
bought this guy, two cars.

They also started transferring
money to his account.

So he got them to a
point where he’d convince

them that they could
not leave the apartment.

That would be too dangerous for
them to leave where they were living.

They had to give him all the money.

He would take care of everything.

He needed the two cars
to be able to travel around.

I don’t know why he needed
two if it’s only one guy.

But he convinced them
to stay in the apartment

because it was
dangerous to go outside.

One woman, a gamer,
was playing games, talking

to one of her friends
online said like,

you know, I’m being held
here, essentially against my will.

I’m not able to call the police.

I don’t know why she
wasn’t able to call the police.

I’m not able to call the police.

So could you call the police for me?

Her friend calls the
police and the police come

and they’re like, hey,
none of this is true.

You’re under arrest.

He’s arrested.

And he says that he had
brainwashed them so that

he could live his life
as freely as possible.

So he was unemployed,
met a girl, brainwashed

her, and sort of her
friend into giving up

their lives so that he
could live his life freely.

There is the question that went around
as soon as I saw this comment and stuff.

And I have the admit question
immediately, right, why?

How are these two girls
making money from home?

I assume they work from home.

I assume their programmers are
something and they’re working from home.

But for them to not be
able to leave the apartment

and still make money is actually
still a very unusual thing in Japan.

Work from home jobs are rare in Japan.

They would have had
work from home all the time

to be able to make money to
continually give this guy money.

Just thank God that one of them was
a gamer and had internet gaming friends.

It’s almost like to
me, I was like, the

gaming mentality may
be primed them to believe

that the hostile forces
weren’t real thing.

But the fact that she
had friends online meant

she had someone she
could speak to and those

friends online put her
in a position where she

could ask for help, which that
is why video games are good.

A 27 year old woman called an ambulance.

The thing is, she called the ambulance
more than 200 times over the last year.

Last week, she called the
ambulance, but the police showed up.

So what has happened
is she would say I’m sick

and call the ambulance from April
2023 to now, she’s called 251 times.

When the police showed
up and said like, you’re

calling the ambulance too
much, she said, I don’t remember.

I just called because
I wasn’t feeling well,

which is perfectly
reasonable thing to do.

When you don’t feel well,
you call an ambulance, right?

There’s some other details that came out.

Sometimes she would
collapse in the street so

that other people would
call the ambulance on her

behalf, but then when
the ambulance showed up,

she would refuse to be taken to the hospital
because, hey, I’m just taking a break.

I read a third version
of this story where she

took up to three hours
of the paramedics time,

so that she was, I don’t know, talking
to them, say, having them check her out.

She was wasting massive
amounts of paramedics

time when she wasn’t actually
sick or actually feeling ill.

There is one story.

So I read three or four of the same story.

One version says she tried to
pressure the paramedic into dating her.

So I don’t know if that’s
true or if that was interpreted

some way because it didn’t
show up in all the other stories.

So I don’t like to claim
something’s true unless

I have like two or three
sources saying the same

thing, but this does
seem like if you’re willing

to collapse in the
street to get ambulances

to come to you, if you
call the ambulance 200

times, just because you’re not feeling
good, it seems like you’re starved for the

attention that the
paramedics will give you,

pressuring one of the
paramedics to date,

you doesn’t seem like
out of hand compared to

everything else that’s
going on in this story.

She’s been arrested on
obstruction of business for

taking up too much of
the ambulance cruise time.

This is a classic.

This is a Japanese movie.

I forget what it’s called now.

It’s really famous like a Kurosawa film.

And they show, they do
the same story like three

times from the different
perspectives of the

different people, like the
person who is accused

of the murder and then
the person who is judging

the murder and stuff, it’s a very
interesting way to tell a story.

This is sort of a similar
thing, only it went to court.

An Australian man says he
smells gas as walking past a building.

So he climbs up onto the balcony to the
window in an attempt to alert the resident.

He shouts, “Go to the
door and can you walk?”

An older man comes to the balcony window,
opens the door, and then a struggle ensues.

The man, the Australian man, picks up
a shovel like a basically a little spade.

That was on the balcony
and hits the old man

with it, jumps off the
balcony and runs away.

So in that version of the story, he’s a
hero trying to hero and being thwarted by

the communication issue or misunderstanding
because he’s speaking English.

The other version is a
guy climbed onto a balcony

and then tried to rob an
older man by saying, “Go to da.

” So here’s your
Japanese lesson for today.

“Go to da,” translated into
English means, “This is a robbery.

” And then his second
phrase was, “Kinwadoko da.

” So “Kinwadoko da”
is, “Where’s the money?

” So he’s saying, the
Australian man’s defense is

saying that, “Go to da” is
actually him saying, “Go to the door.

” “Kinwadoko da is can you walk?

” So, I have a
co-workers Australian.

I didn’t get a chance to
do it, I actually should do it.

I wanted him to record those two phrases
in the strongest Australian accent possible

and then get a Japanese
friend to record the

Japanese version and
see how similar they sound.

Because “Go to da,” and “Go to
the door” is actually not too bad.

“Kinwadoko da,” and
“Kinwadoko da,” and “Kin you walk.

” I know that the Australian can and
“Kin” actually would be pretty close,

but the rest of the phrase
doesn’t quite work out.

So that’s where it got
a little thinner for me.

Your first choice was good, your
second choice, I wasn’t a big fan of.

The judge sort of fell into my view of
thinking that this might not be the truth.

It was incredible, but it was unclear
as to what was actually happening.

So he said, “I can’t prosecute you.

I can’t punish you based on
the crime of attempted robbery.

” But I can punish you
for trespassing and assault.

So he’s saying, “Look,
maybe you were speaking

English, maybe you
were speaking Japanese,

so maybe you were trying to
rob the man, maybe you weren’t.

I can’t take a
definitive line from that.

” But definitively, I can say you
did climb onto the man’s balcony.

That’s trespassing.

I can definitively say that you picked up
a spade and you hit the old man with it.

That is assault.

So you are getting punished for both those
two crimes and not the crime of robbery,

or attempted robbery, and you
are getting two years in prison.

A lot of people said
this was way too lenient,

but there are lots and
lots of crimes in Japan,

and we’ve done an indigenous
Japan a dozen times.

Lots and lots of crimes in Japan, where you
get punished, but it’s a deferred sentence,

so if you don’t actually
commit another crime within the

two-three-year period, you
actually get off scot-free.

So him not getting a
deferred sentence is already,

especially as like a first-time criminal
in Japan, is already harsher than usual.

Him getting straight prison time.

Yeah, he’s being punished for it.

Female campaign staff
supporting lower house candidates.

This election just happened.

There’s other elections for lower
and upper houses going all the time.

You see a lot of campaigning in Japan.

How is this newsworthy?

This guy has women campaigning for him.

Because there are women
campaigning for politicians all the time.

There’s female politicians.

I mean, that’s not even
an unusual thing anymore.

Well, in this case, one wore a mini skirt.

No.

I can say one wore a mini skirt and
you’d be like, “Well, that’s not anything.

” I mean, women are allowed
to wear what they want.

I agree.

This was butt cheeks hanging
out flapping in the wind mini skirt.

Like, she could not lean forward without
her entire buttock area of being exposed.

So I saw a put picture of
her just standing up normally,

and you could see the
bottom of her butt cheeks.

So this was demonstrative.

I think is what they’re talking about.

In another set of pictures, the
female, the female campaigner is

wearing short shorts
with fishnet stockings.

And I think maybe the
complaints were coming

across as this is sending
a very distinct message

or this is trying to appeal to a
certain segment of the population,

especially in Japan
where this stuff is almost

honestly still perfectly
acceptable to a lot

of the older males, which would be
the people you’re trying to appeal to.

Some people complained online that the
candidate may have encouraged this attire.

So saying like, you’re
not campaigning on policy,

you’re campaigning on the fact that I get
the chance to see a girl in a mini skirt

and actually check out
like half her butt all the time.

The candidate said it was not my directive.

We agreed on lime green jackets.

They did wear like sort of
neon bright lime green jackets,

a very attention catching
that was the whole point.

Without regulations below the waist.

So he’s saying like, I didn’t tell them
what to or not to wear below the waist.

We only talked about jackets because
that was going to make sure that you

are connected to me, which actually ends
up being the problem because this woman who

now he’s saying has
made her own very

provocative choices is
directly connected to him.

He says, I regret my lack of oversight.

So I should have told them
to put on pants or shorts

or underwear or something
that was more covering.

The staff said when
spoken to, she said, it’s hot.

This is how I dress and
the candidate said it’s fine.

So what’s the problem?

And I was like, there is
clearly a salacious element here

that is being exploited that I
personally would never exploit.

I’m not going to put a picture up in
the corner of a girl with her butt hanging

out of her mini skirt
so that hopefully that

will be the thumbnail
of the YouTube channel.

So the guys come by
and see the YouTube

thumbnail with a girl’s
butt on it thinking, hey,

if I watch this one
episode of this podcast,

maybe I’ll get to see
a girl’s butt hanging

out of her mini skirt, that would
be dishonest and disingenuous.

And of course, I would never do it.