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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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