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- Hey fever is a consistent issue in Japan.
It affects 40% of the population in total.
It affects 50% of the people in Tokyo,
Tokyo being one of the most popular cities in the world.
I suffer from hay fever.
So this is a story that they become particularly personal, important to me.
I suffer primarily right now.
So I’m on a ton of drugs.
Actually, I only took two, not too bad,
but I have like spray that goes up my nose
and drips and things.
It sucks.
I actually came to Japan.
I didn’t have allergies for five years.
And then I developed allergies to every sort of plant in Japan.
It sucks so much.
There is a tea called Jammu tea black.
And it’s claimed it was effective for hay feverers.
And I was like, wow, I suffer from hay fever
drinking tea would be a great way to fight it off.
If it’s actually true.
We only sold on the Internet.
It was only sold on the Internet, which is why I was like,
wow, that’s probably why I didn’t find it.
I go around, I buy all the strange drinks that come out in Japan.
Pepsi for years and years and years
every year would release a strange flavor.
Quite recently, Jack Daniels and Coca-Cola had a collaboration.
They made Jack Coke in a can.
I had that.
It was pretty good.
As soon as I finished it, I knew there
was a problem because I already felt dry.
And one can of Coke, essentially one drink.
They must put something in it.
There is a whiskey soda in a can that I tried.
Halfway through that drink I had a headache.
The next day after the Jack and Coke, I felt really dry.
Took some aspirin, drank a ton of water.
I was okay.
But if I’d had like four, normally in a drinking session,
I’m gonna have four or five drinks.
I’m not getting wasted anymore.
I’m not going crazy.
But at the same time, I’m a big dude.
I got to drink a lot to have an impact and effect.
If I drank four or five of those,
I would have had one of the worst hangovers in my life.
That’s not what we’re talking about.
We’re talking about Jammu T Black.
Jammu T Black is effective for a lot of things because it contains steroids.
So Jammu T Black would get my chest press up another 20 kilos.
It would probably make me feel real good all the time.
But one of the side effects of steroids
continued usage is it will worsen infections.
So basically if you drank this tea, let’s
say every day because you have hay fever,
then you get an infection of some sort.
You get an infection, something like that.
Your body would be less capable of fighting
off the infection, which is ridiculous.
That is putting people’s lives at risk and they did not disclose it,
which is probably why it was only available on the Internet.
That is not just borderline illegal.
There’s a lot of problems with having your product,
any product, not just tea, have steroids in it
and not declaring that properly to users.
And the side effect is potential life-threatening death.
So that’s a big deal.
They’re being looked into.
They’re probably not gonna be able to sell
their product online any, which is good.
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Kishita, the Prime Minister of Japan.
He came out and he said in a meeting that hay fever
is a national problem that troubles many people.
But he didn’t just say that.
He said we need proposals on how to fix it
because they’re saying 40% of the whole
population in Japan suffers from hay fever
and that has a huge economic impact.
Maybe he spoke slightly out of turn.
And the thing is he was talking to a cabinet,
so in the government, and he said we need proposals to solve this problem.
But basically what he did was accidentally elevate it
in status from something we’re talking about
to something we actually need like an action task plan on.
So I think Kishita is actually elevated the severity
of the issue so that the government actually
is now going to focus resources on it,
which I actually think is a good thing.
When it affects 50% of your population, and it really does.
I mean, we’re talking about drug money,
we’re talking about productivity at work.
This is something it should be dealt with seriously.
The thing is it’s hay fever, so people don’t take hay fever very seriously.
Some of the proposals that came out of this just initial conversation were,
they’re going to thin out the cedar trees.
Now the reason cedar trees are in Japan
at all, so at the end of World War II,
there was the bombing of Japan.
There was also every piece of wood was cut down to use in the war effort.
Once World War II was finished, they said we need trees,
we need wood as fast as possible,
we need something that grows fast and
grows very easily, so they got cedar trees,
imported them from other countries and planted them in Japan.
So it’s actually a non-native species in Japan,
and they think that is one of the main reasons why
it’s had such a great impact on allergies in Japan.
‘Cause it’s not native to the country, people grow up with it, it affects.
Again, I developed an allergy through it later in life,
so maybe it’s one of those things that just develops allergies,
but cedar trees produce tons of pollen, so
they think that might be part of the issue.
So one of the first things they’re going to do
is let’s thin out the current number of cedar trees
in Japan and plant some other trees that don’t have as much pollen.
And then the other thing is like coming up with better drugs and stuff.
My allergy medicine, I don’t know if anyone would care
about this, recently was upgraded to a new,
you can swallow it without water, which was weird
’cause I was like one of the least problems I have
during allergy season is drinking water
’cause they drink tons of water anyways.
But yeah, hopefully they do start coming
up with some solutions, it’s not just me.
It is millions and millions of people in
Japan suffer from these allergy issues,
and it’s millions and millions of people who would love a solution.
I would love to not be on drugs all the time.
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Since we’re talking about Kishida, just a few days ago,
someone took a pipe bomb and chucked it at the Prime Minister.
It is a weirdly terrifying story.
Last year, not too long ago, Prime Minister, former Prime Minister Abe
was assassinated with a homemade shotgun.
Guns are not a significant issue in Japan.
You can’t buy them.
This former military dude made a gun, made a shotgun,
took it out and shot the former Prime Minister.
So this is on people’s minds.
This is an issue.
You have Kishida standing, doing a speech.
He turns around, he looks at the background,
and then you can see a pipe bomb, a silver
bomb, come over and land in front of him.
One of the security guard kicks the bomb away,
opens this like briefcase looking thing,
and it’s actually a ballistic shield.
He holds that in front of the Prime Minister, and then pushes him away.
The first one doesn’t go off properly.
It makes a big noise in lots of smoke.
The guy who has the bomb, it’s tackled by a fisherman,
he’s doing this around the speech was happening around dogs.
That fisherman is now a national hero, ’cause he took out this guy.
The suspect had a second one.
He also was carrying a knife.
He was pushed to the ground by the fisherman and then arrested.
The suspect so far has refused to talk, so we don’t know why he did.
It is a weird way to get attention,
because we don’t know why he’s done it yet.
The fisherman was one of the funnier bits to me, only because he said,
“I did judo in elementary school, but the dude was like 50.”
So he’s the same age to me.
I’ve done judo for 40 years, so yes, I could say that judo
was an applicable skill that I have.
I think he was just a really tough fisherman.
I don’t think the judo he practiced when he was like seven,
had any sort of impact on his abilities now.
But truth be told, he saw some action.
He didn’t run away.
He jumped in and like took down a dude.
I mean, yeah, it deserves to be a national hero.
I was trying to find that video.
I actually saw the video, but I lost it.
It’s the problem with getting so many videos up at the same time.
This is safe.
The concern is that the secret service, the security details, the bodyguards
for the prime minister and such.
In Japan, have primarily been trained to defend against knives.
And they think they need to sort of upgrade their skills.
So they have the security guys who were
dealing with Abe during that assassination.
They didn’t really know what to do.
They had that briefcase thing.
They had one of those, but it was way too late
and obviously the former prime minister died.
You see the same deal.
This guy was on it though.
The security guy, the security guard, had the briefcase open.
And the idea is that if something explodes or someone shoots,
it’s ballistic so it’ll hit that.
And it covers most, it’s about, I don’t
know, four feet when it’s fully open.
So it’s covering essentially the major parts your body, hopefully.
And I got to say the security dude was on it.
The fisherman though, he took out the guy, which is pretty cool.
It is a question though, is this where political protest is gonna go
in Japan in the future?
Are they going to try to assassinate these guys
to the point where essentially what’s gonna happen
is these guys aren’t going to feel comfortable going out in public,
which is too bad because up until the Abe assassination,
Japanese politicians walked out in crowds among people,
they had security details with them, but there was no fear.
And now the fact simply is that there is going to be fear
which sucks because it’s going to change the political nature of Japan.
Two men were arrested.
So we had the Sushi terrorism.
So the people who were like unconverible Sushi,
they were licking their fingers and touching the Sushi.
We had a guy take the soy sauce and drink directly from it.
People being gross, filming it, putting it on the Internet for cloud.
All those people got in trouble, all those people got arrested.
It is shocking to me that anyone is going to do something similar.
We can’t change it.
It has to be changed from Sushi terrorism.
Last week I talked about a guy at a Gudon place,
Yoshinoya, and what he did was Gudon is a bowl of rice
with beef on the top, shredded beef.
He was taking the ginger that is shared,
a condiment, and then sticking his chopsticks
in and pretending to eat a ton of it.
But his chopsticks have been in his mouth.
So he was arrested.
Everyone is getting arrested for this.
It’s ridiculous.
So the fact that people are still doing it,
filming it and putting it on the Internet is terrifying.
Two men were arrested for using toothpicks,
putting them back in the toothpick holder,
complaining to the staff, making them replace the toothpick holder,
and then doing it again.
So they’re basically just like trying to say to the staff
that, oh, I use this toothpick, has used toothpicks in it, it’s disgusting.
Go get me a new one, they bring a new one,
they would do the same thing again and again.
They filmed it.
It blew up online.
I mean, why at that point, you know you’re gonna get caught.
The problem is, you wanna make this video.
You want it to blow up.
It blows up.
The police see it.
They have your face and everything, I assume you’re account.
The police come get you, you’re arrested.
The only way you can get away with this is if your video for Cloud fails.
So the fact is you’re committing a low key crime.
If it gets popular on the Internet, you’re gonna get arrested.
You commit a low key crime.
It doesn’t get popular.
You don’t achieve your purpose, your
primary purpose being to get popular online.
That’s sort of this weird catch 22.
If you’re successful, you get arrested.
If you’re not successful, nothing happens.
But you don’t get the love that you’re looking for on the Internet.
And it isn’t love, it’s all hate.
Everyone in Japan finds this disgusting.
They were found pretty quickly.
The restaurant filed a report.
The restaurant actually didn’t want to press charges
until the video went viral last week.
So this actually happened like a couple months ago.
When the video went viral, you’re going
to damage the reputation of our restaurant.
So we want you to be arrested.
They were brought up on fraudulent obstruction of business charges.
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We put a ding in there for the… I don’t know, man.
I don’t know what you think you’re gonna achieve by this.
I understand youthful practical jokes and being dumb when you’re a teenager.
Both these guys were in their 30s.
As far as I’m concerned, fines aren’t enough.
Send them to prison.
That would actually send a message.
I don’t know what that message would be.
Don’t be a dumb ass.
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- Japanese, in Japan, everything’s taken
away seriously, like sports and stuff.
And that’s the ridiculous part, maybe first of all.
The level of seriousness in high school sports is off the charts.
It is why people quit sports after high school.
My daughter, I think I’ve told the story before.
She was doing gymnastics as a kid.
She really enjoyed it.
And then we got to a point where she was
getting sort of like junior high school.
And the place she went said, she either
has to come every single day to gymnastics
and do it like she’s gonna go to the Olympics or something.
She was never gonna go to the Olympics.
We were just putting her in it, so she would have something fun to do.
She has to come every day or she has to quit.
And we’re like, well, we can’t bring her every day.
Both I and my wife work.
We cannot do the thing you’re asking us to do.
So like, okay, she has to quit.
So my daughter, who was enjoying gymnastics,
had to quit gymnastics because she wasn’t ready
or capable of dating her whole life to gymnastics.
She’s fucking ridiculous.
There was no sort of like, let’s have fun class
in kids gymnastics after a certain point.
You either had to do this like dead seriously
like you were gonna do nothing else, but you had to quit.
So we quit.
And now my daughter doesn’t do anything.
I’m trying to get it into something else like hip hop classes or something,
where it’s like designed to be fun,
but even then, I’ve gone by these open competitions
in like malls and stuff where it’s like
little girls doing hip hop, dead seriously.
You know they’re going every day.
I’m wondering if there is even such a
thing as doing sports for fun in Japan.
A former pro baseball player was a coach of a high school baseball team.
Okay, so that’s really good for the baseball team.
They got this guy.
He was a pro.
He knows baseball.
He’s gonna train you and coach you.
It’s gonna be awesome.
He kicked a player in the butt.
That doesn’t sound too bad.
The next sentence though, he hit the same
player in the head with a baseball bat.
There was no way he could have hit him that hard,
but he is hitting a kid in the head with a baseball bat.
Maybe the kid had a helmet on.
I don’t know.
All I do know is if you hit my kid with a baseball bat,
I would be showing up at the school
and I’d be like, let’s get two bats and work this out.
Like there’s one simple way.
I’m not calling the cops.
You and me, baseball bats, you wanna throw down, let’s throw down.
You’re not hitting kids with baseball bats and getting away.
He was fired.
His statement was, his playing wasn’t satisfactory.
Just to show you how serious it is,
that this is not like an isolated incident.
A different school, there was a running coach.
In February, he slapped a student in the face and gave him a bloody nose.
It just, when that came to light, ’cause
the kid came home with a bloody nose,
there was discovered to be three more cases.
And the coach said, I’m sorry.
Of course, as I’ve said many times before,
the retroactive, I’m sorry, doesn’t mean anything,
because you’re only sorry you got caught.
If you hadn’t been caught, if you hadn’t been told he was doing a bad thing,
he wouldn’t have had like a self-revelation of,
perhaps I’m treating these people too
harshly, because they may be in high school,
but they are still people.
So he resigned.
This is again, how fucking serious it is.
But the parents said, we don’t want you to quit.
You can stay if you promise to not hit the kids anymore.
And the reason was that school had entered
the nationals 43 times, which actually means
they got to a certain level with this school’s expectations
or they were going to the nationals almost
every year, and they’ve won it five times.
So because they were winning, these parents were willing to forgive
that this man abused their kids.
And as long as he didn’t hit them further,
they were saying, it’s okay, you can stay
and be coach of this school, which I’m sorry again,
hit my kid once, you and me are gonna go for it.
I mean, that’s simple.
If my son or my daughter came home today and said, my whatever coach hit me,
I would go to the school and be like, let’s have a conversation,
a private conversation that Jim Nazium just you and me.
You can choose the weapons, but we’re gonna do this.
There’s no way that I would let that pass.
And if that guy got fired, no, I’m not.
I don’t want him back.
He hit my kid.
It’s fucking disgusting.
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82 year old man.
So I love it.
I love old men.
I’m an old man myself.
I’m approaching super old age, but right now I’m just old.
I haven’t hit like grumpy old man yet, but I’m pretty close.
Maybe my last story though, I’m like,
I’m ready to throw down with anyone who touches my kids.
That’s ’cause there’s still kids and they can’t really defend themselves.
Once they get to, you know, oh my son, he’s like five, 10, five, 11 now.
He’s like 15 years old.
He’s pretty much gonna be 6162 probably when he fishes growing.
He’s gonna be huge.
I guess he never has to worry about it.
He’s gonna be a big dude.
You gotta remember we’re in Japan
where the average height is shorter than other countries.
Anyways, no, we’re relevant.
82 year old man.
He’s driving along, not wearing a seatbelt.
As old men are want to do, the police pull him over.
And as you pull someone over, he goes, let me see you drive his license.
And he is unable to produce one because he had his driver’s license revoked
when he was 20, which is over 60 years ago.
And he’s been driving ever since.
So he was arrested on the spot, of course, for driving without a license.
They can’t compound it, driving without a license for 60 years.
It’s funny that driving without a license is one charge,
not a charge, sort of for every year you’ve driven without a license.
The interesting part was he drove well enough
over the last 60 years that no one noticed.
So if he’d just, like every other crime, kept it on the down low.
If he’d worn a seatbelt and followed all
the rules, he wouldn’t have got pulled over.
He wouldn’t have had the police ask for his
license and he wouldn’t have had to admit
that he doesn’t have one for the last 60
years and he wouldn’t have been arrested.
So if you’re gonna commit a low-key crime
that people won’t notice unless you show off, don’t show off.
It’s actually very similar to our first story
where the only reason those guys are being arrested
is because they got viral on the Internet.
They got the clout they were looking for.
That brought the police’s attention.
If you’re going to commit crimes, ingenues
Japan criminal advice for this week,
don’t draw attention to yourself,
don’t do the things that will draw police’s attention.
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This is really interesting because I’m wondering what’s gonna happen.
In Japan, you turn 20, you are an adult
and they’ve actually recently lowered that to 18
but there’s still some issues going back and forth
because not everything is caught up with it.
That’s actually relevant in this story.
There’s a person who was arrested for stealing a wallet in a bar.
They were arrested and produced a mind number card
which is your social insurance number, essentially, in Japan.
The social insurance number said they were 20 years old.
They were being prosecuted and the prosecutors started to get weirded out
because whenever they were interviewing, oh no, it was the defendants.
So her lawyers started to get confused
because when they were interviewing her acquaintances,
they started getting like confused answers
that didn’t match up with her story.
They took a second look at her, turns out she’s a 17 year old,
a Thai national who spoke basically perfect Japanese.
So they didn’t even know she wasn’t Japanese.
But she was being charged as an adult
because she had been impersonating an adult.
Didn’t admit to not being an adult or the impersonation
and revealing that she was 17 years old.
The confusion here, okay, she was being arrested as an adult
which means she’s going to be tried as an adult.
In Japan, if you’re not an adult, the charge is way lower.
So if she had had copped to the fact
that she was impersonating someone else,
if she had copped to the fact that she was impersonating
someone else, she actually would have got a lower charge but more charges.
So there’s the confusion.
So if the charge was theft, theft as a minor,
is a very small thing, probably slap in the wrist, you get released.
Thiefed as an adult, you could actually go to prison.
So the question is, what would have
been the better course of action for her?
Should she have gone through and taken the
charge as an adult but kept up her persona?
Or should she have copped to, I’ve been impersonating adult and theft,
but I’m a minor and gotten maybe lower charges on both.
I actually think the better course of action,
again, we’re now getting to Ninja, New Japan, advice for criminals time,
is always take the charge as a minor because
it gets expunged when you turn an adult.
She was 17, it was actually going to be not a problem for her next year.
The fact that it came out, I don’t know if that causes
more issues, is they had to discover it on their own.
I think if you admitted it, you get a lower charge as well.
I have no idea how this is gonna play out.
Do not ever, if you have the opportunity,
take a charge as an adult because you are always
going to get off in a better situation as a minor.
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Two guys return a rental car, no problem.
They called the rental agency and
said, we forgot something in the car, okay?
That happens all the time, no problem.
We’re gonna come back and get it.
Also, very common, you’ve forgotten something in the car,
you’re gonna come back and get it.
We’ll not rent out that car again, absolutely, sir.
Don’t you dare look fucking inside.
Okay, now that’s a little weird.
That’s not what people normally say
when they’ve forgotten something in a car.
So of course, the staff immediately
went and looked in the car, found the item.
It was 15 bags of weed.
They called the cops.
Cops show up before the guys who’ve rented
the car because they don’t have a car.
They probably have to take public transit to get back there.
Pops get there first and they’re arrested when they arrive at the place.
If you had done, if you just played the game normally,
said, we forgot something in the car,
we’re on our way back, we’ll pick it up and said nothing.
They may have looked at the car, but they may not have.
They may have just held the car for you.
Because you drew attention to the thing and made vague threats to the staff,
they immediately went and checked the car and found your weed.
And weed in Japan is still, every drug charge is treated equally.
So cocaine, heroin, Molly, marijuana in Japan,
it’s a drug charge, it’s all exactly the same.
So these guys are gonna be up for whatever the 15 bags are.
They just have to try to figure out
where they trying to sell it was for use on their own
because those are different charges.
Buying it and then using it’s bad,
buying it and selling it is worse, criminally in Japan.
But again, this is gonna be like a full on criminal
advice episode of Ninja News Japan.
If you are trying to hide your stash and
you misplace it, don’t draw attention to it.
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This has a rule I didn’t know.
So it’d be good for people to learn
about if you’re ever gonna come to Japan.
Man found a wallet with 430,000 yen in it.
That is like $4,000.
And he turned it into the police.
Very honest, very kind of him.
And it was returned to the owner the same day.
Now, there is a lost property law that I didn’t know about.
Where the owner must pay a reward
between five and 20% of the value of the thing returned.
So he should have paid him between five and 20%
of 430,000 yen.
So honestly, if you’re gonna go on the low end, five percent of 430,000 yen,
it’s like, you know, 20,000 yen, 30,000 yen,
I know I can do the math, but it’s not that much.
If you have that much money, if you’re
carrying that much money around in your wallet,
you have a lot of money.
The guy calls him.
So the guy who found the wallet calls the owner of the wallet
and says, you know, I returned your wallet.
The guy says, I’m busy and hangs up and then refuses to take his calls.
So the man who found the wallet sued him and the settlement was 70,000 yen,
which is probably the high end of the
percentage that he would have had to pay
if he had just been nice and paid it anyways.
The man who found the wallet said, I didn’t want the money.
If he had expressed gratitude, I would have let it go.
Well, I actually believe, because if that guy was greedy,
he would have just taken money out of the wallet
in the first place before trying to get into the plea.
I actually do believe that the guy, if he
had just expressed some form of gratitude,
wouldn’t have had to pay anything at all.
My sister was in Japan.
She found a wallet, turned it into the police,
and then the next day, a cake showed up at her house.
Now that cake was at worth 5% to 10% of whatever we found.
I have no idea.
I didn’t check.
I was like, oh, we got a cake.
Let’s eat the cake and I was happy.
I’m, the cake probably was way cheaper than the amount of money inside,
probably less than the 5%.
But we didn’t care.
We got a free cake and we were having a good time.
That’s all that mattered.
The show of gratitude will overwhelm your brain
so that you don’t actually think about the value of the thing.
I had a boss who clearly did not understand this as a concept.
I had done some overtime as a volunteer thing.
I was gonna get paid for it.
I didn’t expect to get anything.
My boss came and put 500 yen on my desk.
I was in there.
My coworker comes over and goes, what are you doing?
And he says, oh, well, he was very nice.
I’m gonna give him this 500 yen coin.
And then my coworker says, you should buy him a Coke or something.
Something that he likes to drink.
And he’ll be happy about that.
You should not leave 500 yen as a coin on his desk.
And she goes, but the drink, probably
120 yen is worth less than the 500 yen.
So she doesn’t understand.
And then he’s like, but it’s the presentation, the thought that counts.
And she was really confused.
And then she went and bought the Coke and left it on my desk
with a note that said, thank you.
And I was really happy about it.
But yes, if you’d left 500 yen on my
desk, I would have been weirdly insulted.
The human mind is an interesting thing ’cause
it doesn’t work logically all the time.
Because she was working on pure logic whereas he understood the gesture,
even if it’s a cheaper gesture, the
more thoughtful, the better the gesture is.
If you ever lose something or find something in Japan, keep that in mind.
There is actually a law in place that you have to pay a reward.
Let’s say I lose 100 yen, I have to give you five yen.
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So this guy shows up at a track meet
and he starts videoing the participants.
He is then arrested because there is actually rules in place
that you are not allowed to film people at these sort of track events.
What he’s trying to do, he’s a voyeur
and he’s filming girls in their tight track leggings
or short shorts or whatever they’re wearing at the time.
Sorry, the meet prohibits photography.
And this becomes, this is a common problem now in Japan
where you have athletic events where women wear bathing suits,
let’s say it’s swimming or track events are wearing really tight clothes
and then these creepy old dudes, it’s
guys 40 years old, show up at the event
and just start videoing them.
And they get their favorites
and they start following them around and it’s super creepy.
And I’m glad he got arrested.
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Okay, this is gonna be a post one just for the video.
Travis Scott was recently in Japan and
what he did is he thought he was famous
as famous people often do.
And he shows up at one of these really busy crosswalks in Tokyo.
And at the crosswalk, he stood in the middle
assuming that people would recognize him.
He has his crew take a video of it.
And people like freaking out like, oh my God, Travis Scott, Travis Scott.
Like that’s really awesome.
The problem being that Travis Scott is not particularly
recognizable to Japanese people.
So this is what happened.
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So like he walks up to a couple of people.
He actually walks up to the only foreign people
in the crosswalk, stares them in the face.
They ignore him and walk away probably because as far as
they’re concerned, some like weird dude
just like walked up and stuck his face in there.
Then he realizes no one here is going to recognize him.
Make sort of like an embarrassed walk away.
He does a smile and then he takes off.
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So here’s the problem.
You may be super famous in America.
And you are not famous in Japan.
You may be famous in Japan, but then you
absolutely may not be famous in America.
One of the more interesting things I do is we hire
a lot of people from overseas, come to Japan.
And then we’ll talk about famous people and they will be absolutely shocked
that I don’t know who someone is.
And the thing is that person is probably not famous in Japan.
The comments in this hit that sort of weird racism area
that makes me a little uncomfortable to read them out loud.
But I’d have to know who he is before recognizing him.
I doubt anyone would recognize him unless he or as big as Michael Jackson.
So Michael Jackson is famous enough in Japan
that people would recognize him on this.
I only know that he’s collaborated with Nike.
So he’s a musician.
So people asking literally who he is
other than the fact that he’s done some fashion stuff.
He’s only popular in America.
He’s probably minor on a global scale.
That one hurts.
Foreigners aren’t noticed unless they have more of an aura and stature.
I love Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga.
But I doubt they’d be recognized with
their short stature if they were something
like Uniqlo clothing.
So what they’re saying is if like, Ariana
Grande showed up and she’s a tiny person
and she just wore normal clothes.
People in Japan wouldn’t recognize her.
I don’t know any rappers.
That’s fair.
This is the one.
All blacks have the same face, but I’m sure we all look the same to them.
I was like, at first I read that first sentence.
I was like, ooh, but then the second one, does it make it better?
I actually don’t know.
‘Cause like, I have face blindness for black
people is actually what they’re saying.
But then they don’t back it up.
They say that I assume they have face blindness for me.
I don’t know.
I was really uncomfortable reading that
one ’cause I’m like, I’m sure it’s bad,
but also because they don’t assume, they assume the same for themselves.
Is it not bad anymore?
There’s a couple of other ones.
He’s that Fortnite guy.
So that’s actually a bit of an insult.
And then the last one, the last comment.
I only know that this guy’s night shoes get flipped for ridiculous.
If you want to show up in Japan and
you want to, and you think you’re famous,
please be careful because you may not be as famous as you think you.
Now the actual end of this episode.
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