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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