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Ninja News Japan Quiz

He touched you Wagyu beef has a problem.

You’ve probably heard of Wagyu
beef, it’s very expensive beef.

I actually had an
experience over the golden

week vacation of eating very, very expensive
food and it does not agree with me.

I am just too low class for that.

So the thing is about Japanese
expensive food always has a lot of fat.

And that was problematic because I
don’t eat a lot of food with a lot of fat.

So the fat kind of did a number on me.

So I actually realized I don’t
enjoy a lot of expensive food.

He touched you Wagyu beef has a problem.

It’s not the problem that I
don’t like fatty, fatty food.

But Wagyu beef does tend to have a lot
of like marbled, has a lot of fat in it.

Not my thing.

But that’s not the problem.

The problem isn’t my
preference, the problem isn’t

my preference, the problem isn’t my
preference, the problem is a different problem.

The problem with touchy
Wagyu beef and the

kanji, the Chinese characters they
use for that, young people can’t read it.

It’s an expensive item.

It’s based on its brand.

It’s based on its name.

But if young people can’t read
the name, what happens then?

So kanji, the Chinese characters,
people in their 20s, 57% cannot read.

He touchy Wagyu, 43% of
people in their 30s could not read.

He touchy Wagyu.

And he got older, he got better.

So 33% in their 40s couldn’t read it,
35% in their 50s, and 22% in their 60s.

So the kanji maybe
was more common in the

past, or maybe people
were better at reading kanji.

A lot of people are saying just like smart
phones are making it harder for people to

write like, I was of
the age where I learned

cursive in school, I don’t
think kids learn that anymore.

And in fact, I think
typing might be a more

valuable skill, but you still should
learn how to write with a pen and stuff.

But kids just can’t do stuff.

And it’s not, I don’t
think this is, again, this

is not a judgment, this
is not a negative thing.

This is like the world changes.

But people typing
everything out on their phone

means they’re never
actually writing the kanji.

They just pick the appropriate
kanji for the word the writing.

So they don’t learn how to write it.

And then in some cases,
they don’t learn how

to read it properly,
because they just assume

that the computer or the phone
or whatever is telling them right.

I actually had a student
who couldn’t type,

because they only used their phone,
they typed everything out on their phone.

So when they had to type something out
on a keyboard, it was really hard for them.

So they gave me the keyboard
and I typed down what they said.

And they were shocked at how fast I
could type it was like an amazing thing.

Just like I was shocked at how fast they
could type with two thumbs on their phone.

But again, it’s just what you grow up with.

You grow up with touch pads.

You learn to use touch
pads really effectively.

The Hitachi kanji is used different ways.

Iberaki Iberaki is a prefecture
within it used to be called Hitachi.

It’s very confusing.

So as I was reading this, I
got more and more confused

and I realized why I
gave up on studying kanji.

So I speak Japanese at
a, I would say intermediate

level would be generous, but an intermediate
level I can do conversations and stuff.

But I am essentially illiterate.

And I’m illiterate because
when I started studying

kanji, I was like, I’m
too old to be studying.

I don’t want to study anymore.

And I give up.

And I kind of just gave up on
it, which is not the right attitude.

But you do get tired of studying
when you’re old and I am old.

So Iberaki is the prefecture.

It used to be called Hitachi.

The kanji has been used different ways.

It is therefore very confusing for people.

And that’s why the
younger people now, they

haven’t grown up with
history or the understanding.

So they understand it less than
those people in their 60s, 22%.

It was actually to be 88%
could read it 22% still couldn’t.

So it’s still confusing
to that group that we

would assume actually grew
up with this more logically.

It’s used different
ways, which means some

places like Hitachi
Nakasidi, they’ve decided

to just do away with
the kanji altogether.

And when they write the name of
their city, they just use Hitagana.

Hitagana is the base
phonetic version of Japanese.

And it shows that the
use of kanji, even in

modern Japan, is a
confusing and difficult thing.

Again, sort of just justifying
the fact that I quit studying.

It’ll be interesting to
see how language now

evolves in Japan, like where this
is going to take us in the future.

Are they going to use less kanji or are
they going to adopt other things or they can

do start using English alphabet, even
for Japanese words, that kind of stuff.

It’ll be interesting to
see where this goes

because as young people
grow up finding it harder

and harder to read
kanji, is kanji the way

you want to go forward
or do they want to sort

of double down and force
more people to learn kanji?

I actually think doubling
down is very much a

Japanese way of dealing
with this sort of issue.

Sister cities are great.

I mean, it’s a cultural
exchange between

your places and you do class trips,
your high school is going to go somewhere.

They’re going to go to this place
and then you can go back down.

It’s wonderful class.

I think sister cities are great.

Cultural exchange is great.

It also will involve politicians
and older politicians.

And if you’ve ventured
to an engineer’s

Japan before, you kind of
know where this is going.

When I say the words
old politician, there

was a government meeting
and it was the mayor

and the government people
from Dubo City in Australia.

Dubo?

I’m not sure how to say D-U-B-B-O-Dubo.

I’m going to say double.

It’s so Australian to
make it a word like double.

There’s a city called double.

It’s the sister city.

They’re over the visiting.

They’re like, let’s have an after party.

There’s a 71 year old deputy
speaker and he’s doing some karaoke.

Now, I’m trying to work on a
new segment, a new thing to do.

I’m not just going to
just tell you the story.

I was like, ah, you know what we should do?

Just make a quiz.

You’ve listened to an
engineer’s Japan in the past.

You know the kind of
things that we end up

coming up, the kind
of things we talk about.

Three options before I give you the answer.

I haven’t figured out a way to do this.

I would like to get maybe
a listener or someone

to talk while we do this at the same time,
but we’ll work that out in the future.

This is still the sort of testing phase.

Three options.

What did the deputy speaker do to the mayor
of Dubo’s daughter while singing karaoke?

Option number one, he
did a lap dance while singing.

Option number two, he
started to strip off his clothes.

Number three, he held the
mic up to her private parts.

So now I would need
like some thinking music.

Please have submitted your answers by now.

So again, this is where I don’t, I
kind of maybe need a little interaction.

I need someone have
someone on like the line

and do the quiz with
them so they can guess.

But if you guessed number three,
ding, ding, ding, ding, you are correct.

Now they didn’t explain it very
carefully, like very thoroughly.

So I don’t know if he was serenading her
vagina, or if he was holding the microphone

up in the hopes that
he would start singing.

All we know is that he
while singing got very

close to her private
parts, which is gross.

I mean, that’s I think that’s a
fair statement we can make.

That is gross.

He therefore, again, apologized.

He said, I’m ashamed
that I could not respond

appropriately on the spot
or apologize the same day.

He like, I think they were partying.

He didn’t figure out what
he did, I guess, because

they were drinking and
stuff until the next day.

And he’s like, Oh, I’m sorry.

I waited so long.

I was trying my best
to make it into a party.

It’s an interesting
statement because when I

want to make something into a party, I
want to get, you know, everyone involved.

I want to get people doing stuff.

I don’t immediately
gravitate to someone’s

groin and start singing to it
or trying to get it to sing to me.

That’s not my first instinct.

I have not thrown any
blockbusters of parties,

though, if we’re being honest, like my
parties are very sedate and maybe that’s it.

Maybe I don’t do enough crotch
singing to really get the party started.

So I’m waiting for some rapper to come out
with a song about getting the party started

by crotch singing either from the crotch
or to the crotch either way works for me.

He’s sorry for the discomfort he caused.

Nobody from the, nobody
from double has responded.

So this guy is apologized, he’s put that
statement out there and no one apologized.

Apparently there is a
picture of the mayor’s

daughter looking
incredibly uncomfortable,

which is very appropriate when a 71
year old man starts singing at your crotch.

There’s a restaurant
called Tamate Baco and

this is not the only
one, an open last month

in Shibuya and it’s an all-you-can-eat
seafood buffet kind of thing.

So it’s a tabihodai.

So basically tabihodai,
hodai is all-you-can

and then tabay is eat and then there’s
no mihodai, which is all-you-can-drink.

And you go, you pay
a set amount of money,

you can eat for an hour and you
just order as much as you want.

You have to eat it all within the hour.

That kind of thing.

It’s pretty normal.

The way the article
presented it is that they

have decided that foreign tourists should
be charged more than Japanese people.

So if you want to go for lunch just on a
regular day, if you’re Japanese, it’s 5,478

yen and if you are a
foreigner, it is 6,578 yen.

So basically 1,100 yen more.

Friday being a more
popular day, so like Friday

dinner, that’s going to be
the most expensive time.

If you are a Japanese
person, it’s 7,678 yen.

If you’re a foreigner, it’s 8,778 yen.

So again, 1,100 yen more
for not being Japanese.

The interesting way
they worked around this

was they said the
higher price is the actual

official price and then if you’re
Japanese, you get a discount of 1,100 yen.

So it’s not that they’re
charging foreigners

more, it’s that they’re
actually charging

Japanese people less,
which was an interesting

way to try to get
around the racism or

the discrimination that they’re
actually putting out there.

The discount counts for
Japanese people and residents.

So very technically,
if I went into this

restaurant and I ordered
this meal and I could

show them my residence card,
I should get the lower price.

So is it biased then?

That’s the interesting thing.

The justification for
this is the yen is very

weak, so Japanese
people, their money isn’t

going as far, where
foreigners are coming

in, they’re getting more yen for their
money, so they should be charged more because

they’re not paying
taxes and things like that.

It’s a very thin argument.

The governor said
foreign travelers are

Japan’s guests, which
I think is a pretty fair

statement to make and therefore they shouldn’t
be taken advantage of, they shouldn’t

be charged more, they
shouldn’t be treated in this way.

I was interested though, because if I went,
would I get asked if I was a resident or

not where they just
assumed that I’m a foreigner

because, you know,
very foreign looking

in Japan and would they just
then charge me the higher price?

I don’t know.

It’s an interesting question.

I don’t tend to find out because I actually
don’t think this is a nice practice.

I think you just choose
a price and you make

that the price and
you charge the price.

So there’s a guy who dresses up in a black
suit and he puts on sunglasses and he goes

out into the street,
so again, this could be

another opportunity for our
quiz, so let’s try out our quiz again.

There are three options.

What do you think he does?

He dresses up in a
black suit and sunglasses,

so he’s trying to look
pretty cool while he does it.

So number one, option number
one, is he a Batman-like vigilante.

He goes out and delivers vigilante justice.

Number two, he’s going out and obstructing
traffic on his bicycle or number three, he

rides his bicycle and he grabs
women as he rolls down the street.

So we need again a clip,
some music, some thinking time.

If you guessed number
two, which I would be

surprised if you did,
because I think if you’ve,

again, you’re watching
the engineer’s Japan,

you’re listening to
the engineer’s Japan,

you’re thinking, is it going to be
the butt grabbing on the bicycle?

No, he rides out and
what he does is he rides

in the middle of traffic and he
swerves into oncoming traffic.

Now, this is to freak out the drivers,
to play a little chicken, to risk it.

No one really knows why.

He swerves into oncoming traffic
and they’re saying to annoy drivers.

He was arrested and they
suspect he is responsible

for 42 similar incidences
they’re investigating now.

He has claimed that he is not this
person, he denies all the accusations.

There is film of him doing this weaving in
an out of traffic, which I will put up in

the corner if you watch the YouTube video.

The police have given
a nickname, and I think

criminals with nicknames is
always a very interesting thing.

Police have named him
the pop-up cyclist because

he comes out into
traffic and then weaves

into traffic, popping
in and out of traffic,

popping up out of nowhere, I
guess they didn’t call him disc-spring.

Very bad man ask.

That’s where I got the first
sort of option from the back men

vigilante because he just sort
of disappears into the night.

They searched his
apartment and that’s where

they found the same black suit
and sunglasses he wears in the video.

Which I think makes him a pretty
much guilty, it’s a really chan reversal.

So the last like three weeks I’ve talked
about in any chan and I’ve actually thought

like I think we’ve done enough
until she goes to or gets out of prison.

There’s not really much
more to say about any chan.

I just again I find her fascinating
because she has a work ethic.

She just applied it to
crime whereas if she’d

applying the same
work ethic to something

else I think she would
have been really successful.

She clearly was able to do stuff.

This is a guy who she was taking,
she was a sugar baby at TV chan.

So she was doing sort of compensated
dating and then frauding men of money.

This is a guy who is
defrauding sugar babies.

So I’m calling it the atiti chan reversal.

This guy swindles women who
are looking to become sugar baby.

So he meets people
online and he says hey, if

you meet me I’ll give you
200,000 yen for a date.

That’s actually pretty good.

Like that’s half a month to a
month salary for some people.

So he connects with them on a
matching app and then he says I’m a vet.

And it was an
interesting choice because

apparently being a vet is
very successful because

you work with animals and
no he works with animals

but also you’re a doctor
so it’s very appealing.

So you have the appeal
of being a doctor but also

someone who works with
animals all at the same time.

That seems to be a very attractive profession
and so he shows that very carefully.

He says let’s meet at the
zoo, the zoo where I work.

So they meet at the zoo and then he
walks around he says you know what?

He seems very proud
of the zoo while they’re

talking you know
what but a lot of people

know me around you so let’s just
get out of here and they go to a hotel.

After talking for
about two hours, I don’t

know if that’s at the hotel or
later because again the story jumps.

The story actually
said go to a hotel which

would imply they go and
have intimate relations

but then they immediately jumps
to after talking for two hours.

So I don’t know I would not go
to a hotel to talk for two hours.

I would go somewhere else if we were just
going to talk but he talks about his family

and his love of boxing
and then he looks

very serious and he says
I’ve left my wallet at home.

Could you give me 20,000 yen for tickets
so that I can buy tickets for boxing?

And the woman has been promised 200,000 yen
so 20,000 yen on top of that to get paid

back is not very much
so they go to the ATM

they get 20,000 yen
they give to the guy and

then he says like
great I’m going to go buy

tickets I’ll see you
again for a second date.

I’ll you know the Japanese version of Venmo
you the money so it’ll probably be like

a line or pay pay or
something like that and I’ll pay

you back and then they
never hear from them again.

So he’s not doing the
scale of Viti Chiang

but he’s working on low
numbers of money but

large numbers of
women so trying to get a

little bit of money out
of everybody as opposed

to just getting two or three whales
and getting money out of them.

The woman never heard
from them again and

then she tried to contact
the zoo and the zoo

says there is no such person here but we’ve
had similar calls which made the woman very

suspicious so she called up the police
and said I believe I’ve been defrauded.

Now if 20,000 yen he
was banking on 20,000 yen

not being very much money
and the embarrassment

of them saying I want
to be a sugar baby to

be enough to get them to
stop from contacting the police.

So this lady was like no I’m contacting the
zoo and the zoo I maybe she actually liked

them because she
actually came out in her

part of the interview she was actually
saying she was quite embarrassed about being

defrauded this way but
it’s just like those men

I have sympathy for who were
defrauded millions of yen by Viti Chiang.

So I feel kind of bad for her.

He says he’s met about 50
women this way so again if you got

20,000 yen from each of them
that’s pretty fair some of the money.

After the rest he said
sorry you know I feel

bad for taking advantage
of these women.

He’s actually not a vet.

He’s actually a day
laborer and then he said

this was a bit that actually
kind of really struck me.

I have always disliked
animals so the construction

of him being a vet was
a very conscious choice.

I don’t like actually
like animals but women

will like a man who
likes animals so I’m

going to pretend to be
a man who likes animals

so much so that it’s
become my profession

and that will appeal to women
and apparently it was successful.

He was given two years,
six months in prison

but it’s been suspended
for four years so

if he doesn’t commit any more
crimes he will be Scott free.

There again did not mention
giving back any of the money.

I actually am now very interested in how
much and how do they give back to the money

of these women do they give back the money
of these women because this is one of those

weird things where
the fraud it’s done

voluntarily and again this
case it’s a very small sum.

So is it worth suing over like if you sue
the guy for 20,000 yen you’re going to pay

probably a lawyer more than
20,000 yen just to follow that suit.

Leena Chaunay on
the other hand she took

millions so getting a
lawyer and suing her would

make perfect sense because you want to get
all your money back but I actually bet it’s

all gone because she
gave it all to host and

she doesn’t have any
money so they’ll just

be like if she ever
works they’ll be docking

her pay for years or something I
have no idea what’s going to happen.

Again her situation the consequences of
what she’s done are the interesting thing is

it’s just going to take a decade
to find out what actually happens.

So maybe Ninja News
Japan ends at some point

because I just you
know run out of content

or run out of time or
whatever but I promise

you in nine to ten
years I’m going to come

back if we leave these chaun pops up again
if I’m still alive and give you the ending

of that story like what has she done what’s
happened since then because I’m interested

in it and I don’t think I’m
ever going to let this go

but it seems like being a
sugar baby or sugar daddy.

There’s a lot of
fraud involved so it’s

probably not going to
work out the way you want

it to so I would say
take all that initiative

take all that effort and put
it towards something else.

I’m thinking of a
suggestion to make right

now that would be
really positive and helpful

for the world and I
can’t think of any I

really can’t I don’t
do what I’m doing right

now this is previous no
money whatsoever but

I haven’t committed
fraud at least I’m not

making money honestly and that
is the Ninja News Japan mission.

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Planned Exfil

I should just start with the news.

The news doesn’t come in like talk.

They just go.

And that’s, I’m pretending to be a new show, right?

So we’re a new show.

Remember, a few weeks back, maybe it was last

month, a woman went on Twitter and she threatened

to release siren gas and kill a bunch of people.

She was arrested.

Again, she used her own account so she wasn’t particularly hard to find.

So when they found her, they arrested her.

Turns out she was primarily an anti-smoking

activist and politician, but she had actually

failed to be successful as a politician.

I was interested in the punishment.

That’s why I kind of tried to keep up with the story.

She threatened to kill people.

She had no siren gas.

She didn’t have the ability to do it.

But she was threatening to kill people.

So I guess just public threats.

What is the punishment for that?

The jail time was it’s a fine.

Turns out it’s 300,000 yen.

It’s, you’d say $3,000?

That’s a lot for posting a tweet.

That’s just really simple.

Daegli just found that interesting because yeah, we hear about the crimes.

We also need to know about the punishments.

I feel like I haven’t got my groove.

That first story was sort of the warm up and I feel that.

It’s weird how much of a skill this actually is.

Time to learn some Japanese.

I mean, you’re here, you’re interested in

Japanese culture, you’re interested in Japanese news.

It’s time to learn some Japanese.

Give you some context first.

The legend of Zelda, tears of the kingdom came out very recently.

Before that, it had not come out yet.

That’s when this story takes place.

Cast your mind back in time.

To before, legend of Zelda, tears of the kingdom was released.

Some people really, really, really liked that game.

They really want to be part of that world.

They’ve been desperate for a new Zelda game forever.

So much so they’re willing to go to nefarious behavior to acquire a copy of Zelda.

So two people became part-time Amazon delivery

drivers in order to upon release day be able to steal the game.

Thing is, Amazon gets copies two to three

days in advance so they can deliver on release

day.

This has got two terms.

It’s Naibeke and Uchibeke.

This is when a company worker steals product from their own company.

So these two men joined Amazon day or two before the release of Zelda.

They grab a copy for themselves and then they disappear.

So that’s actually when it became very suspicious.

So they were both in their 20s.

Zelda release date is just around the corner.

It’s like a day or two later and these two guys stop coming into work.

The manager calls the house of one of the men

and he asks the parent, maybe I think this was the mom.

What’s your son doing right now?

She says he’s playing a game.

He sort of pressed her on that and turns out

she found out it was Zelda, a game that had not been released yet.

Of course, he was immediately fired.

He was forced to return the game and pay for the game.

He had to pay for the game he did not get to

keep, which is kind of the appropriate level

of kicking the nuts for this kind of thing.

The second man, he stole not only the game itself, he stole related goods to the game.

So you get like, I don’t know, statues and

books and other things and t-shirts and stuff.

He stole all that kind of stuff.

He was found out, he was arrested.

He actually admitted that reselling stolen goods was actually his main job.

So if I can, the first guy basically return the game, pay, I assume like 7, 8,000 yen.

You’re done.

I am interested to see what the second guy,

what he gets in trouble for because it seems like a much more serious situation.

So we have a 50-year-old man.

Because we’ve had a theme running for the last few months at least.

I think it’s, no, we’ve hit like six months of 50-year-old man getting in trouble.

It’s usually pervy stuff.

This one is a non-pervy 52-year-old man who

got in trouble, which is a breath of fresh air.

It’s refreshing for me as a 50-year-old man

to know that some of my peers are not creepy.

So it’s not, it’s not a single paintbrush.

You can color the entirety of the 50-year-old male group, demographic.

Some of us, I don’t know about me, I’m not

talking about me, some of us are not perves.

Still got in trouble though.

Naughty boys.

This 52-year-old man was arrested for uploading gameplay videos to YouTube.

Now that, I stream, I cut my gameplay videos

into like clips and I upload clips of me playing

these games.

So I was very interested in this, or I was like, what, is this not okay?

When I get arrested in Japan for this, he uploaded three videos.

They were Stein’s Gate, My Darling Embrace, which is a game that was released in 2013.

So you’re like, it’s a really old game.

Who cares if he uploads gameplay of this?

It was recently ported to the Switch, PS4 and PC.

Now the videos were monetized and that actually

puts you in a worse situation because he’s making money off the thing he’s uploaded.

My videos are not monetized because no one watches.

These monetized videos contained the game’s ending.

And that’s actually where it becomes a big deal

because Stein’s Gate, My Darling’s Embrace, is a visual novel.

So essentially what he’s done is he’s taken a novel, uploaded it to the Internet.

I don’t know if he’s speed running or something,

but he basically gave away the ending, which

with companies saying, “D incentivizes people from actually buying the game.”

So it’s negatively impacting their IP if

you post the ending to a visual novel on the Internet.

I actually agree with that philosophically.

I think that’s true.

This is called Netabade.

Netabade is basically the English translation would be like a spoiler.

So because he’s monetized a video that he’s posted on the

Internet that has spoilers in it, the company came after him.

This guy is also done fast content, something we’ve talked about before.

So you get a anime series or a movie and you

cut it down into like essentially primary

plot points and you post that like five minute

summary, ten minute summary of the movie of the anime series up to the Internet.

He had racked up 5.5 million views of his

Steins gate fast content and clearly he’s going

to be in trouble for copyright violation of some sort.

Again, I’m very interested in see where this ends up.

I’ll take off my hat for this one.

90% of experienced recruiters wouldn’t hire balding people.

No, I understand pretty privileged.

I did psychology and university a bit and I really enjoyed it and something I took in

and pretty privileged is something that we can’t help.

We like to deny it sort of on an intellectual

level, but the reality is attractive people have easier lives.

They have a easier lives because other people,

they want to be close to the attractive people,

they want those attractive people to be happy with

them, they want those attractive people in their lives.

Current beauty standards, baldness and balding is

not considered a peak trait for attractiveness.

A company that specializes in thinning hair.

So there’s a little bit bias in this.

Maybe I was a little, mmm, got to look into that one a bit.

They did some research, they did some surveys.

They had AI generated faces, so let’s just pretend it’s my face.

They had my face with full hair, with thinning hair and with no hair.

And they did this for a few hundred images and then they would mix them up.

So you would see my face over the course of this process two or three times.

But the volume of hair I have would be changed in each picture.

These recruiters were supposed to rank whether

or not they would hire the person based on what they’re seeing.

It turns out that 90% of experienced recruiters would not hire balding people.

They broke it down into sort of demographics

teens to 30, so this is really just 20s.

90% said no.

40s, so 30 to 40, 86.8% no, and 40 to 50, 75% said no.

So as you get older, maybe you get more used

to people being bald or you understand that

balding is something they don’t have more

control over or you get more conscious or you’re less affected by pretty privilege.

I don’t know, that’s pretty tough.

We wouldn’t get all these 50 year old men creepy

stories if they weren’t affected by attractiveness.

93.3% of the recruiters did say appearance is important.

I agree with that.

I mean, you’re presenting yourself to other

people how you appear is really the first thing they’re going to see.

I can’t argue with that at all.

It is just too bad because how much hair I have, I have very little control over.

Now the thing is, here we get to whether they were conscious of it.

So that was, they were just saying yes, maybe

no, yes, maybe no on each face that came up, let’s say.

They weren’t conscious of the statistics until after.

So then they said consciously, does this matter, does this not matter?

1.8% admitted it was an influence.

16.7% said it did matter, but not 100%.

31.1% said not much.

24.9% said not at all, 25.5% were neutral, which

shows that their bias towards people with full

heads of hair is subconscious and they’re not even aware of it.

So maybe if they can be made aware of it, they

can make better recruiting decisions based

a little less on appearance and a little more on skills and quality.

But at the end of the day, pretty privilege

is a thing and a big part of pretty privilege.

is having luscious, beautiful mains of hair,

which is why I’m growing a massive beard because

it’s the only way I’m going to make up for the difference.

Talking about image and needing people and

hiring and recruiting, the SDF, Japan’s version

of the military, self-defense force, they

are talking about lifting the ban on tattoos,

because they don’t have enough people joining up.

So here’s one of the problems of having sort

of a strict society is you need people to

do things.

If people start doing the things that your

strict society doesn’t like, then you’re going

to like unilaterally declare them unfit and not the right people for the job.

But you might end up needing those people for the job.

So over the last couple years, the SDF has

been reaching out to sort of otaku nerd culture

by using like anime girls and stuff in their

advertising, trying to push onto an untapped segment of the population.

Now, nerds famously aren’t particularly

athletic and stuff, but let’s face it, modern

military, you might be flying drones and working computers and doing admin.

You don’t need to be particularly fit to do that.

But at this point, there are other people who,

if they have a tattoo, the military is like, we will not take you.

One of the guys speaking in charge of the military

said, look, there’s a difference now between fashion tattoos and yet kusa tattoos.

All this tattoo stuff comes from the fact

that criminals used to be branded in tattooed

and then after that, it became like a point of

pride for the yakuza that have lots of tattoos

and then they got into these sort of ornate ceremony like tattoos all over their body.

That’s a thing.

There’s a different thing.

I have a small tattoo on my shoulder and another small tattoo on my back.

That is clearly not indicating that I’m a yakuza.

It’s not saying I’ve been in prison.

I got my tattoos in my late teens.

It is what they’re talking about is a fashion tattoo.

I did it because I thought it would be cool.

I wanted to be a cool guy.

I wanted a girl to look at me and go, ooh, bad boy, he’s got tattoos.

It kind of worked for a bit.

And then that pretty privilege wore off.

It didn’t work anymore.

So there’s that.

And then there’s also the declining birth

rate in Japan means there’s less young people.

There’s less young people overall.

There’s less young people to recruit into the military.

If you can’t recruit more people into the military, you need to broaden the allowable

offenses that they have done so that you can maintain a military.

So they’re really talking about saying, let’s put it very simply.

If you don’t have full body dragon, koi, demon tattoos,

that’s not the tattoos we’re talking about anymore.

What we’re talking about is fashion tattoos.

Those are going to be acceptable in the military going forward.

I’m actually interested because politicians being old and conservative.

I bet they’re not cool with this, but then you

turn out you don’t have a military to defend yourself from North Korea.

They might change their mind pretty quickly on tattoos.

Now, this is another story about posting stuff on the Internet.

I actually should have put this at the beginning with the other one.

They’re now over the last year.

They’ve introduced Internet slander laws.

So you’re not allowed to go on the Internet and just say shit about people is not true.

The thing is, this is a young man 22 who wrote fake stories about a plastic surgeon.

Now the plastic surgeon is very famous.

His name is Takasu.

So you’re going to hear, if you come to Japan, you’ll actually see Takasu Clinic.

Takasu?

Clean, Nick.

They’ll have that commercial.

Now, this guy is very unique in that he’s a

Holocaust denier and he denies the existence of the Nanking massacre.

He says it’s exaggerated, but I think we also know what that really means.

Now on the flip side of that, he’s very rich

and during the 1995 earthquake, he actually

donated a lot of money and he helped a lot of people.

So is he a complete son of a bitch?

No, but is he a good person?

It’s pretty much a no there too.

It’s tough because he is clearly just very pro-Japanese.

And does that make him inherently bad?

That’s not a question I’m going to be able to

answer because I’ve never met them in Japan.

So this 22-year-old post, post some stories

that Takasu had killed people in a car accident, which is not true.

But people believed it and it was slandering his reputation.

What do you get for this?

For posting false stories on the Internet, he wrote four total.

He’s gotten three years, but 10 months imprisonment.

So he’s going to go to jail for 10 months right now.

And he’s going to be basically on probation for three years if he gets in trouble.

He actually has to go directly back to prison.

So even if you’re ripping on a piece of shit,

you actually have to focus on the piece of shit stuff.

So this is actually maybe how to, I guess it’s not slander then.

If he had written stories about how Takasu was a Holocaust denier, that’s not slander.

That’s just, he said that you could actually

cite the source of him saying that thing and you wouldn’t get in trouble at all.

Just only be aware of if you’re in Japan or

you’re going to talk about Japanese people, the

laws have gotten pretty strict about what you’re allowed to say about other people.

You just want to shit on them and make stuff up.

You can actually go to prison for that and you can go to prison for like a year.

Asapuro assembly speaker decided that it would

be a really good idea to vote for himself.

I think every politician does that.

They go into the thing and they vote.

Everyone makes a joke about like, who did you vote for?

It’s like a standard media joke with the politician.

I’m fine with that.

Then he thought, you know what?

I didn’t get enough votes for myself for myself.

I’m going to pretend to be my mom and then vote for myself again.

Now my initial instinct got me excited about

the story was I was like, oh, did he dress

up like a woman and go and vote for himself again pretending to be his mother?

Yeah, I didn’t work that way.

Which would make sense.

I think if I showed up to vote in a dress

saying I was my mom, people might be suspicious.

He took advantage of postal voting.

So his mother is disabled.

There’s voters with disabilities can mail in their ballot.

So he did that, voted for himself and sent it in.

Actually, doesn’t 100% say he didn’t vote for himself.

He voted for himself.

I think we can make the assumption.

How did they find out?

And this is the one that maybe hurts the most.

His mom ratted him out.

So he took his mother’s ballot.

He voted for himself.

He sent it in.

You can kind of assume that mom would vote for

her son, but that’s not necessarily the case.

Because if mom is willing to rat you out,

that means mom might not be 100% on board with you being a politician.

That might mean that mom was going to vote for someone else.

So you stole her vote.

So I think actually what happened here is she went to vote for someone else.

He had already taken her ballot, voted for himself and sent it in.

And she called the cops on him, which is, ah, it’s insane.

Here’s someone who’s made some bad life

decisions, which is the heartless soul of the Indian New York people.

People just continuing to make bad decisions.

And we got to keep that going because I need content.

He hits the guy in a scooter.

He’s driving his car.

There’s a guy in an electric scooter going down the road.

He hits that guy.

He would get enough points from this accident to have his license revoked.

If he has his license revoked, he’s not going to be able to go to work.

I don’t know where he lives or the situation.

So apparently public transportation was not on the table for this.

Or maybe he had a job where he had to drive.

So losing his license was out of the question.

He goes to a hearing to try to get a reduced

sentence to lose some of those points that he was going to have put on top of him.

He produces a letter written by the victim saying that basically he forgives him.

It isn’t such a big deal.

I guess that is a thing.

If I can get the person I hit by accident to

say he was an accident, he didn’t mean it.

He’s a good guy.

I could get a reduced sentence.

Kanji is hard.

Kanji is the Chinese characters used in Japanese.

And they’re hard.

I studied them and I’ve honestly kind of given up.

I am thinking I should go back to school or

something to do some more practice and more speaking.

It’s sort of buck up my level a little bit.

But at the end of the day, I’m probably never actually going to learn how to read.

It’s just too much.

Maybe you want to retire?

I’ll have the time to sit and study Kanji all day.

I do not have that time right now.

The cop notices Kanji for the man’s name.

His own name is written incorrectly.

As soon as the guy is pushed on it, he confesses that he wrote the letter himself.

So he hits someone with a scooter.

I don’t know.

Probably some bad decisions were made in there.

He decides to forge a letter.

Does not check the name closely enough so he gets it slightly wrong.

Gets caught on that and immediately gives himself up.

That is someone who needs to rethink all of their life decisions.

All right.

This is the last story of the day.

It is therefore the creepy guy story of the day.

This guy is 22 years old.

That’s two or three stories today.

We have 22 year olds.

So they got their own thing going on.

He went to the men’s bathroom in a train station.

He took off all his clothes.

And then he hit them.

I don’t know where he hit them, maybe up on the shelf or something.

He took all his clothes full of what put them away.

So no one would know when he hit them.

He then sneaks into the women’s bathroom.

And he gets his smartphone out.

He brought it with and wasn’t in his pocket

because his pocket is back in the clothes in the other bathroom.

He gets out his smartphone and he starts

trying to take pictures of women going to the toilet.

A woman who is in the bathroom, I assume looks up.

It’s either over under the stall that the

Japanese stalls go almost all the way to the grounds.

That’s going to be really hard.

So she notices that someone is pointing a

smartphone camera over the top of the stall.

And she freaks out as completely appropriate to do that.

The guy, completely naked, runs back into the

men’s bathroom to get his clothes and get.

out of there.

During that time, the woman goes to the station attendant.

Station attendant calls the police.

They’re probably police in the area.

There’s always police around, sort of big stations.

The police show up and they arrested the guy pretty, pretty easily.

He wanted to take pictures of women peeing.

He admitted that straight up.

There is a big question in this story.

And the big question for me is why do you take off all his clothes?

So we can assume part of the reason he was caught so easily.

He was going to get caught anyways.

There’s cameras, there’s other stuff.

If you had to use a ticket to get into the

station or something, they’re going to track all that.

He’s going to get caught.

You’re going to get caught way more easily

if he has to go into a bathroom, retrieve his clothes.

Because I don’t know where he hid them.

I was actually thinking if he hid them in a

stall and someone else was using that stall, he

would have had to wait for that person to finish using that stall.

Naked.

It’s the naked part that’s always going to stand out.

Because if someone else comes in, I’m standing

outside the stall naked, waiting for the

person in the stall to finish so that I can go in to retrieve my hidden clothing.

Someone else comes in the bathroom, sees me completely naked.

They’re going to call the station staff too.

What do I got going on?

This is a big problem.

So he goes back into the bathroom, has to put

on his clothes, putting it in your clothes takes

time.

If he has shoes on, I did he have bare feet.

That’s now the question.

Being naked is one thing.

Being naked with bare feet, trying to run around a station.

You’ve got to take off your shoes to put your pants on and your underwear.

This was a bad plan.

Clearly, for him and his fetish, being completely naked was part of the process.

But the reality is that level of inhibition to

his escape, obviously not a personal inhibition because he’s naked.

The inhibition to his escape is so severe

that it made it just 100 times easier for the cops to catch him.

I understand that people with fetishes of this

degree, their brains get kind of overwhelmed.

But if you’re going to commit these kinds

of crimes, this is Ninja Nusra Pym, Criminal

Advice of the Day, you’ve got to have an escape plan.

And that escape plan cannot include, I’m going

to stop and take the time to put my clothes back on.

That’s just factually, you have to have a plan

of egress when you are going to commit your crimes.

And if you don’t have that, don’t commit the crime.

So plan of attack, ingress, execution, egress, that is the most basic plan.

Each one of those has to be as efficient as possible.

Or just don’t let your fetishes overwhelm

you to the degree where you end up naked in a

women’s bathroom trying to take pictures of them peeing.