Season 3 Commentary with Producer Alex and Director Mitch

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Hey Alex hi Mitch It season 3 it’s done yes it’s over yes and even though we didn’t do a commentary on season two because we didn’t have time we’re going to do one on season 3 yeah looking forward to it the people who are watching these videos if you know

Leaving a comment below like saying how that they you know they like this series and how they they appreciate these kind of videos really goes a long way yeah so commenting sharing liking all these things really help out the channel it’s uh funded by the local government um on

Honestly a limited budget two string budget so it’s a kind of a passion project for me and Mitch to try and promote kagos and some of the people who live here so any you know sharing liking commenting all that kind of activity really helps to justify us to create

More episodes in the future for the prefecture um and that means we can interview more people and bring more of kushim as well so yeah make sure to share and like and leave a comment say hello and also come and visit us as well in kushima now this is an interesting

Season because uh for season one and season 2 you were heavily in uh involved in the actual production yeah that’s true yeah and then for season three you were more of like a advisory production role like you were supposed to be for season one and season two yeah yeah um

And so like a lot of the shots will be the way that we’ll talk about them will be a little different from yeah that’s right and also you know the major difference is that I’m at the beginning of each one as well walking around and saying something so so so I what

Happened okay I was watching one of my favorite YouTube channels and I saw that the beginning uh my favorite YouTuber would speak peace to camera mhm and then the title card would come up with him walking and I was like you know what I really like that I want to try that

Let’s just copy that what’s wrong with copy nothing at all there’s nothing wrong with it so um without further Ado do you want to get started yeah let’s go let’s do it all right let’s go kagoshima is a prefecture known for its diverse and breathtaking Beauty ranging volic Landscapes and Lush

Forests so this is kind of interesting to to film because we went to the park and you like what do I do I just like read from scripts time Shing kima’s Natural Beauty with those from all around the world this time on people of kagoshima so I also didn’t know exactly

What you were going to do with the walking across the shrine gate shot you were just like just leave it to me and and it works right it it was yeah I like this shot this is good so these these shots just make everybody happy also the beginning we we we decided on

Theme music for like the title sequences so that like all five episodes have the same music yeah so one of the challenging things about this video was that noan spoke very well for like an entire hour and I was like how do I make this digestable for everybody I could have kept

Everything in there but we just didn’t have b-roll for it well he’s used to kind of interviews and stuff like that what he’s used to is he’s used to taking people out and and and hanging out with them for like four hours so he’s got that much content to talk about and then

The other thing is like he talked about this historical stuff so he had to like go to like after effects animations how else could you do this visiting some of the most remot he’s been all over the place right look at this he’s been everywhere and and that’s I mean it’s

It’s it’s really cool so one of my I stole from his his Facebook but this is one of my favorite shots to the same place got all his passports Yeah just the incredible history behind these photos Wow it’s unbelievable how many countries he’s actually been to really you know coming from Japan as well places like the Andes it’s not easy to get there he’s been to way more countries than I’ve been to yeah me too so another thing that was kind of challenging about this season not only

Okay so so so no no in this he talks about a zillion places across kagoshima and I was like H do I have Boll for this yeah so yeah we obviously don’t have the budget to like fly out to every place that he he mentions but we tried our very best

Yeah I remember him saying once that like um on the sea if you go out into nature a lot you kind of sense of smell changes and things like that really yeah I can’t remember if he mentioned it in this video or not but he was talking about how you

Could smell if there were fish nearby or something like I can’t remember what it was you turn into like Wolverine or something yeah yeah so this is actually a shot that we stole from uh your your video that we didn’t use oh yeah yeah so from

Zen this uh we we we actually shot this for a different project yes we did didn’t we yeah but it never aired so we could use it for this it’s fine don’t tell anybody no it was there this is this is unfortunately ad doy stock because uh we just didn’t have the

Budget to fly a helicopter out to how did you film this one this is uh Google Earth Studio this was filmed we filmed this this is this was uh yeah this is yeah this is a Mami this is a stock that we had from before this we

Had from before so this is actually a beautiful part of the uh west coast of kushima this is yeah this is Kon D Love K this is kishima right so all of these places like in Kima we just so many different terrains and natural places K and we actually shot his kayak thing

On two days you’ll notice from the video one has like a very like Sunny sky and the other one’s like stormy like this a little bit gray yeah and there reason why is because uh on the first go we didn’t have this like GoPro mounted on

His kayak I see and I really wanted more facial expressions of him like when he when he was like going around so we actually asked him to go out again to to do another shot this time lapse was difficult because people wanted to keep getting in

The shot where did you shoot that that that was shot on sakima in the in the athletic spot that they have there yeah so this is actually two different days this is one day that’s uh there with these people and that’s my feet on a different day so if anybody ever wanted

To see my feet those are my nobody wants to see them yeah so that was taken on a different day now one thing about neot that was really great is that he had all these wonderful photos yeah I like his Mountain where look though especially especially since his photos

Go back for so long so one thing about Japan is that they all had during the bubble especially they all had great cameras yeah so they all have these great pictures from their past yeah uh and it’s really really it’s it’s easy to go back and find these

Things no this is shot in your office actually it is yeah very stylish office y so this this is a very challenging hike because it’s all Ash and gravel and you will slip and fall yes no I have done many times I I did this about six times last year last year alone

Yeah I mean i’ I’ve done it once and I was like I’m good oh yeah that Good so because he’s such a nature man like we get all these great shots of outdoor for nature comes a passion to preserve it so this is this is something that I had to look up I was like what is this saty sat Umi stuff have you heard about this

Before yeah of course you course shut up I’m in tourism man it’s like part of my job yeah I was just like let’s research what this means yeah yeah so there sea ecosystems and the mountain ecosystems you know with the Agriculture and you know for me like uh

You know I I have to know a little bit about everything to make videos about practically everything so one thing that I have to do is like be really good at Google yeah what does that Mean manami that’s his guy who’s training up lady there Yeah so uh I’ve never kayaked around Sima but I’ve I’ve definitely booted around sakima and it’s it’s crazy how much how the the the the the ocean when you look into it changes depending on where you are yeah yeah yeah it’s a really interesting little

Area no it’s a fun thing to kayak around as well because you got a real sense of the kind of the landscape and see it from a different angle completely so this is a new thing that we we’re doing with season 3 is that we before it’d be like hello my name is

Blah blah blah my my job is blah blah blah but instead of that it’s like we don’t tell what their name is until the end yeah because we go this is the person and then this is their name so it’s kind of this like Quinton Tarantino

Way of doing it there is nothing more quintessentially Japanese than green tea and while kagoshima is famous for producing this aromatic beverage have you ever wondered what happens between the Harvest and the C had a bit of a cold on this this time on people of

Kagoshima it was cold as well but you’re such a sport you’re like all right let’s just pound it out let’s do it this is one of my favorite drone shots oh that’s nice yeah this is on the osumi side of the peninsula which is on the other side from the big

City oh this is kind of one of the more stylized edits that I did the T Fields always look really nice right when you film them from above so I was like okay they’re kind of artistic in their own right so what do I do so

Let’s put kind of like a beat in the background nice eruption in the background there as well got very lucky on that day so Mr eada had we we interviewed him for something like 45 minutes and he got so esoteric about green tea that I got lost

I was like um let’s uh let’s let’s make this more digestible and even though I tried to make it digestible there there I had to like double check that I was not introducing these te’s in reverse order right I yeah cuz it’s so like we we filmed the te’s actually three times

And like the beginning the first shots that we took they didn’t look this dissimilar they look very similar and so I had to go we need very dissimilar looking te so we can show the audience on video that’s how we got that shot mind he’s like a what is it chusty

J yeah he’s b a t right also this this was hard to film the difference in colors it wasn’t immediately understandable on camera I was impressed with these people and how they were just so effective at doing this with no problem just like they were so fast like we we we parked the car we got the Drone out and they almost finished in that time we’re like Slow

Down slow Downy to film this you got a lot to do look have a lot to do I actually um did a you know the tea harvesting machine that drives over the top yeah yeah yeah I one of those ones I was I wasn’t paying attention and I kind

Of turned it and it went through the middle of the te like Clarkson’s Farm moment yeah and it made a big dent in it if you form it from above there’s one that’s got a hole you could say so this is one of the in downtown ton this is one of the most

Like stylish little places that you can go and sit down and enjoy some tea oh and I love that these photos was really happy about this yeah on the the flag outside so this is mrada actually he is this is him like choosing tea as a baby

This reminded me of like the anahis Bush family where they like the kids get like the little sip of Budweiser when they’re born that you know the Legacy it’s just such a stylish little place I really really enjoy his shop this is important actually he’s not

A tea maker but he’s the tea blender right now yeah yeah it’s kind of like being a chef of tea right like you know how like a chef will blend ingredients and cook them to a meal and he’ll take the same he’ll take the different grown products and

Make it into a finished product yeah so here’s a kind of behind the scenes things so Alex decided that all of the subtitles should be in English British English and I’m American as you can hear yeah and so like I have to respell things sometimes yeah Senter sent oh yes

Yeah yeah good I’m glad that you’re learning the uh the proper language I’ve set my word to British English dictionary and it just underlines all my American spelling in red yeah there’s loads of them this is a good shot I really like this yeah we just so happen

To have this this shot here which is like really great cuz it’s really hard to get access to like elementary school kids we just so happened to have this footage where we couldn’t see any of their faces so we could use it yeah yeah this is important you know next

Generation bring up the the kids to understand the culture and also starting when they’re young so they have an appreciation for this is my staff I was like could you be a model for half a day she’s like okay right took her up to a rooftop like

Drink some tea she’s like okay as the green jumper to match the green tea I told her to wear something cute cuz we’re going to film her drinking tea we got permission from the building they were like sure we do whatever we want it so Nice I love this drone shot this is a beautiful little area yeah is that y yeah yeah it’s y we’re like stand there okay so we have to direct them to do things cuz like we know what we went visually but these people aren’t used to being on camera so when

We’re like can you walk touching the tea leaves well that kind of thing yes but it it it made it so emotional because like that’s where he’s talking about we want to preserve this for the next generation and like you know cuz he’s a soul mulier of of tea yeah

Yeah and also you know like the end credits we decided to change that for season 3 as well friendly and welcoming people from the cities to the countryside folks here like to look after and cherish their neighbors today I’d like to introduce you to a man who Blends the warm hearts

Of kagoshima with artistic expression this time on people of kagoshima we were lucky to have snow snow on S that day just lucky can I just say I also had to say folks which is very unusual for a British person I wrote those lines you changed a couple

Of the words yeah yeah yeah but I was going to say chaps but then yeah but oh okay so this the subtitling of this was actually really difficult because the word neighbor is spelled differently in British English than it is in American English but the name of his company is spelled in

American English so we had a little bit of debate of how to do the subtitles I think we settled on inverted commas we did one of the things that we were lucky to do is just get this interview he is so busy yeah he’s to get he’s busy he’s

Not in the pre he’s all over the country you know and when he’s not doing interviews or being busy he’s actually like I think he’s like gardening in his Beachside house in Fuki yes yeah yeah he’s got some projects going on over there he’s such an interesting

Person I mean his b is super famous right okay so we in his interview he talked about his ban a lot and I had to make the maybe controversial decision to cut it from the video and the reason why is basically the rule of video is if you

Don’t have it on video if you don’t have B rule of it you don’t have it yeah yeah and he spoke extensively about his his his band but I was just like well we don’t have any usable footage of it and anything that we do have is copywritten

So I was like sorry this shot is a composite shot because this is actually St definition video from years back so we had to like compos it all together so it didn’t look just terrible but I do like that they have this video yeah I know it’s cool

Yeah this is a high definition video that they have of the event from the the last event that they had before the pandemic right right that’s fun man like everybody outside so when I first came to when first came to kaga lived in kaabi where this event is so I literally lived like

Like 10 minutes away from this yeah yeah and it’s just it’s just a closed down School in the countryside and they just like take it over and make a huge event once a year it’s really Cool so this is actually something that is really important this video I think is talking about how if you’re in kagoshima you’re a VIP just just by default yeah in Tokyo you’re kind of like another number but in in in Kima you’re you’re a person yeah it’s cuz

Kushima is digestible it’s a size that is it it still makes sense within our our frame of understanding as a human being when you get to Tokyo it’s just chaos you know so so many people busy competitive you know exhausting right scoring this video was difficult because

We just didn’t I just didn’t know what to do in terms of like mood because he was very serious but he was also very positive so it took a long time to find the right music for this people well in Los Angeles you probably need to say it a bit

More well what I like about his philosophy here is that instead of limiting your behavior this is like giving you the option to figure out what you should be doing yeah which I think is actually quite clever of him to to recognize I want to point out that did all of

These interviews except for the last one and I think that she did a great job pulling the information out of out of the interviewers cuz like you know the people who get interviewed in this interview this this interview was fine but other interviews they can be a little bit nervous yeah

Not used to it cuz there’s a ton of camera equipment behind the that you’re not seeing and she sat was very like comforting and she can get them talking she did a great job people don’t noce what they’re doing as being important or you know don’t

Really know how to express it a helping hand towards there’s also the addition that Japanese people tend to be very humble and will understate what they’re doing or their accomplishments rather than you know like an American be like oh yeah I’m on the Fortune 500 uh it’s not it’s not like Japanese

People to do that so to get them to kind of not brag but like talk about their accomplishments is difficult I I love that they had so much media of these events that was very made things a lot easier now they got a nice office in

Town as well yeah they have a cool building I I think I should point out now that we decided to go with uh ccope fake ccope for all of this yeah like Ultra wides screen yeah yeah gives it that cinematic feel I like how you did a

Few Fade to Black and then you know back him with the music okay so what we try to do on this one is not do any transitions that were like like a transition effect they all have like some sort of like video visual Transition and also getting the last their last comments to line up with the crescendo of the song to hit on their name was a bit of a challenge yeah yeah see like to to do that is kind of hard yeah yeah yeah um but yeah we made

It work so yeah I his his interview I think made it made people understand like how beautiful the the countryside is in in in in kagoshima totally yeah yeah we start off this next one boards and catwalks nestled in the Tranquility of kagoshima Countryside is an atellier producing modern fashion

With a traditional twist this one was hard people kept walking past this took forever to shoot and also on this shot where am I walking to don’t don’t ask that question it’s not important it’s not important that’s the question that that no one but us will know about

Walked into a wall so in this shot like it’s really crazy because it just lines up all the lines just line up perfectly light-hearted music yeah this jibles yeah that’s that’s what I was going for for this cuz it’s kind of like a Whimsical Place so here’s here’s a technical behind the scenes so the interview was done in kind of a space that where there were many people in the background and a lot of building noise and so to De to Denise their voice really took a lot of time yeah this unfortunately had to be

Like processed in order to be cleaned up when you first told me what the you see were doing before I went out there to see it myself I I I had a completely different idea I was like that sounds kind of easy like just take the kimono

And reform it right but then when you start talking about the process of what how they were remaking the kimono it like it became more interesting to that they’re trying to like preserve the actual kimono as much as they can in it original shape sure yeah yeah well thing

About kimono is you can actually bring them back to the the T mono the the kind of roll of fabric that they were created from yeah so if if you have that then you can also turn it back into Aon if you want right right right so they’re

Trying to preserve the cloth of it they also had this these great sewing machines that were all you know manual I’ve never seen such old sewing machines in my Life and like in the middle of summer they didn’t even have AC they were just like we’re natural people that’s crazy yeah we were like can you please turn on the AC cuz our cameras are overheating yeah they had just like loads and loads of fabric it’s a shame CU you know kimono

Industry is shrunk by you know maybe 80% or something like that yeah since it’s Peak and um you know there’s a lot of fabric around that’s not being used and the thing is that the the fabric takes so long to create it’s it’s it’s all a work of art isn’t it This is actually I mean I knew this but this is the first time that I realized that oh that actually has to influence the way things are created after the the the the fabric is created yeah like this is where this is the first time this actually linked in my

Brain so one of the problems the kimono industry has now is that the width of the fabric is not wide enough to create garments for very tall people for men yeah so you know they need to create you know fabric wids 40 cm or more in some cases so they’ve

Never done that before which is like a big hurdle but you know if if the need is there in the market they’ll start having to change that forward yeah we whenever I go like wear a kimona somewhere they’re always like ah it’s so short sorry I know yeah

Yeah I’m glad that we had this scene where you know he was actually dressing with a with a client Um Yeah it’s just it’s such a it’s such a worthwhile cause to preserve you know that that history you know cuz like I mean this year this season you know we’ve got the history of tea we’ve got the history of the of the of the fashion and the clothing yeah you know we’ve got

Music I mean we’ve got a little bit of everything this season kagoshima is home to many famous actors personalities and musicians today we meet the mother of one of Japan’s most famous that’s I in the back in the background we couldn’t show it we couldn’t show it gone on to inspire generations of

People this time on people of kagoshima so do you you need to explain who I is to people who aren’t familiar so I is a major singer songwriter in Japan and she did the theme song to Baymax M and uh she’s just she’s from kagoshima and she’s Barbara’s daughter

And she’s just like wildly famous yeah uh and whenever Barbara gets into media so so often she’s portrayed as the mother of eye and so when I this this is the only interview this this season that I didn’t in nais and so because it was in English and when I interviewed her I

Started the interview saying Barbara this is your story not I story this is not talking about you through the framework of eye this is your story but there’s still little hints of ey in the background you see the posters and everything Italy in Italy my dad uh

Learned to speak Italian very well so Barbara is technically half Japanese yeah so when they first met my mom was washing clothes for the soldiers they fell in love immediately and I think it was 194 so this was also difficult to score because Barbara will say very like in

Like a little bit further along she’ll start saying very emotional things but she’ll say in such a happy way right right so it’s like I want to be emotional in the scene but she’s smiling so much it’s like uh what do we do when

I was living in La I met never seen when I was 31 years old I was working in real estate and he was my boss’s client that’s how he met when I first she had a wealth of of photos DVDs and everything so much media

That we could we could pull from I got off the airplane and we went to uh Sendai satai and it’s beautiful green and sky is blue and flowers and everybody seems so kind and that all feeling last in it one day I understand that feeling 100% because the next day I realized nobody

Spoke English my husband was too busy to be with me and me and aan she was that’s B she looks exactly the same she doesn’t I couldn’t do anything I was just lost and lonely my first year living in kagoshima was a toughest because I didn’t understand the Customs men in

Relationship such an old photograph and look at the way she’s holding her chapsticks it’s like incorrect it’s just it’s like the the perfect Foreigner Fish Out of Water story I was looking at the mustach we had such a hard time my look at these photos that she has it’s just I’m so

Happy that she had these I kept saying I want to go back home I want to go back home I was homesick I was negative I was sick I mean we both understand how it’s like to live in a in a place that’s not our own quote unquote home so and my

Daughter too no matter what I had I was crying or down she was the same so we both I would just stay in my room because I don’t want to go out because I don’t want to hear Japanese and even if I speak English nobody understands me I

Go to the market I don’t know which is sugar and which is salt everything I I’ve had this before where I couldn’t understand the kanji on something so I asked old lady I was like excuse me can you read this kanji to me so many things happened I made so many mistakes with

The Customs going in my neighbor’s house with shoes on she said put on the slippers never done that but I have done this next one the tmy room that’s no good slippers on taty have done that before what about toilet slippers into the uh foret about them first year my

Husband and I when we came to kagoshima he said we’re only going to stay one year but that one year became 39 years so she said that her husband’s from kaga in the video but it kind of the way that she said it didn’t fit so I just like

It’s I just imped it it so the doctor checked me but he can’t find what’s wrong with me so they put me in the hospital and finally the doctor said uh we know what’s wrong with you and I said what he says stress so because of stress I kept

Getting fevers and I I felt well I was in depression right I made myself sick thinking negative and thinking bad things and having the two kids I don’t know how to raise him worrying about that and uh my husband couldn’t help me too busy so anyway that was my

Life yeah it must be hard with two kids especially you know how that feels right well yeah you’ve got you’ve got two kids here so it was my mom that helped me pull out of this and the reason why is because I called my mom and I said I got

Sick I was in the hospital I can’t live here I can’t speak the language it’s too difficult I have the two kids she said her mom’s response really surprised me in the interview and she said her mom get angry what are you saying you know your life is your

Responsibility I said I can’t be happy my husband is not home he’s always gone and she said your happiness and your life is your responsibility I think that’s why they call her mom’s generation the greatest Generation right cuz like they went through the war and they just became

Like nails tough it’s too difficult I’m worried I’m tired and she said change it I can do it I love being here I’m happy Barb’s mother would be the greatest Generation Barbara would be a boomer we would be Millennials are we Millennials noticed conversation like yourself what if was before Millennial

Important thing is to like yourself self between that and a millennial the if you don’t like yourself I’m technically a millennial people are not going to like you they have the same feeling that you do the kids will not be able to get this is actually psychologically true like if

You project negativity negativity will come back to you but if you project positivity then positivity will come back to you wor about yourself I I want to point out a little production map that we had so she’s got these giant bay windows at her house and like it was a cloudy day

So the sun kept coming in and out oh so hard to edit that she said this is such a great photo we’ve got I think this on the sakima fairy we’ve got Barbara her two children like the in can do it so she encouraged me and because you know she came to America

When she was 22 she only went to in Italy Elementary School four fourth grade so she had to work at 10 years old Coming to America she couldn’t speak English but she had a good life she made her own life my dad too he didn’t speak English but they made their own life

They worked hard so she said you can do it I mean that’s that’s tough love right this this is a great little scene that we were just lucky to be there at this the time that these were coming in oh nice I read a lot of books and the

Reason I read a lot of books so I didn’t have any footage of her books so we just had to like and send me 300 books you see who would set books up like that in real life but they’re talking about books and we have to have some visual for it it’s

Got to have to fake it in koshima I said there’s no English books so they send me 300 books and it was books about thinking positive about making your goals and dreams come true image train when she was talking about this I I was

Trying to do the math I was like so this must have been the 80s like when selfhelp and Power Girl stuff like 300 books I read and um one of the main things I noticed that every book I read being thankful is important and another thing is smile smile and healthy smile

And confident smile and successful and the thing is you have to smile 80% of the day I love this picture I want to do it a a of the day is in the morning when you wake up must be Ohad City I think it’s City here in KAG every morning I

Put mirrors all over the house so I could we we had to use AI super sampling to upscale the images cuz I mean this is all shot in 4k but like if the the the photograph from like the 8S oh my God like this right so anyway I practice

Practice practice and I read 300 books and every morning I wake up with a smile and I breathe and and that helped me to become positive and a different person so one thing that was a challenge for Barbara was to give this interview in English and talk about these things in

English because she’s so used to giving these tops in Japanese right and not one have I said I want to do it everything is coming to me I give one talk then I get five calls later I do another talk I get more calls happy let’s be [Applause]

Happy because I did so many lectures after 10 years of giving lectures her books for when she was talking about that I was actually kind of confused like we were editing I was like which book is she talking about and I tried to look them up and their ISBN numbers

Didn’t have like publishing dates on them I didn’t have access to the books I was like I had to take a guess at it but I guessed right okay so many research Young when was that yeah yeah this is uh some years ago um I said at that time I

Want to write a book maybe 10 years ago said I have to do it so I I really thought about that after the talk I said yeah I got to write my book you know because reaching people people in lectures it’s only like 100 people here or 50 people here or

Whatever it is we were talking Alex about how you need to write a book yeah people they can read it over and over again Japanese good for people and it’s good for me because Ian bar books are in Japanese all the things that I learned for myself too so I went back to

Los Angeles and I wrote the book in 3 weeks the reason why is because I had notes notes notes notes I organized my notes into sections positive living confidence this this I separated everything family uh you know Communications and so then I wrote the book in English in three weeks I came

Back to Japan and it took 9 months to translate because I cannot read and write Japanese somebody H I have to talk to somebody in Japanese to tell them what I want to say and then to check the book book it takes like 10 people to

Check it for me to make sure the kanji is right and what I’m saying I can understand this exactly like getting your emotional meaning across in Japanese is actually quite difficult you really need a very talented translator I wrote the second book is because the first book I wrote people

Still don’t listen they still not positive they’re still not you know uh being you know the way they should be enjoying their life so Alex is uh British and uh I don’t know if he buys into the uh overly positive message yeah you tend to be a little rain cloudy

Sometimes it’s not rain cloudy it’s just not an American out so everything in the second Barb is very Japanese American definitely so that was a second book what’s wrong with that I’m I’m Japanese American precisely that’s the problem years and then I thought to myself what’s the most important thing that I

Learned all this time and I said yeah I want to tell people if you know she’s always had colored hair i’ I’ve seen her go through so many colors over the years life be happy and make it a habit making it a habit is important you know not just smile okay then finish

Because most people do things three days and they’re finished so that’s what my uh third book then the fourth book I was in a magazine called Jose jishin and the writer professional writers came to kagoshima and they were with me for a week so after we did the article in the

In the magazine the writer said to me I met him in Tokyo and he said I have so much information about you I could write a book and I said yeah let’s do it and he said let’s do it so he went to the top people and presented my uh story and

They said okay so every for one year every month sing I went to Tokyo and we did the book together so that’s Happy dictionary my fourth book four books I think she’s also got a couple other Publications out there as well yeah by Art is one I love to do it

It’s something it’s a new challenge for me and creating art wow you know and it’s like a a child to me when I write it and then I go to sleep the next morning I look at what I did and I said oh man that’s good and it inspires me

Because I could never I could never think of myself as so one of the challenges that we always have every season we’re on season 3 now is to figure out who we want to present and the the mixture I don’t want to say the word diversity but we want we want people

From various backgrounds um and we try we try our best to get at least one foreign person living in kagoshima and that’s where barara was just like the perfect mixture of you know living here for almost my entire life happy love happy love and everything so my theme of my Artic she’s

Overcome a lot though cuz Ming here in the 1970s and is much different to I mean we came here in the early and like internet you know yeah I mean they didn’t have smartphones they didn’t have Amazon but still I mean they I could talk to my friends over the

Internet you know when she came here she like use MSI to call long distance to talk to your parents and stuff you know so I’m happy about that but it’s a it’s a new adventure for me and um two years ago I had the goal and dream to do one

In Tokyo so 2 years ago I did it in Tokyo and this year too in Tokyo we filmed several of her events and it’s just amazing all the people that she draws the crowds that she draws going to do it in LA so anyway that’s going to be a big

One for me so next year is my challenging year to create really really exciting art and really beautiful amazing that she’s continuing to to challenge new things and try new things out and do it in different places you know she’s got an amazing amount of energy like we did a an hour long

Interview and at the end of it she’s like I could do more I was like I was like I was a lady life that was sad and lonely doing nothing and little by little my life changed because of the people because of oh this is a great

Transition there they are my family is always supporting me and every time I I every year life gets better and better and better so I don’t know where how far I’m going but this year you know I’m 75 but I know my future I’m thinking like maybe until 80 I’ll do lectures and

Things like that but art I can do forever I think and I’m thinking that I want to do more to help people you know I write a column a hold on column for the newspaper here in an advice column in in koshima but I want to do something more I want to do

Like I’ve been always thinking about this for many years a talk show in kagoshima I you know there’s more I can there’s more people I can touch there’s more people I can make happy I just feel like I’m not finished yet I’m not I haven’t reached this last line that she

Said kind of hit hard with me I don’t know why I that’s why you know I love koshima koshima has given me so much to my life if I was living in La I wouldn’t do all these things I know kagoshima has the power kohima needed me and I needed Kohima all right that was season 3 Alex how did you feel about it yeah it was good so we did a lot less episodes this time but more in- depth a bit more of a kind of documentary feel bit more dramatic in some places and we also met some really interesting people doing

Verse and interesting things again so it just shows you that you know there are some great people here in kagoshima uh lots of people to meet when you come and travel here uh and we hope to welcome more visitors from overseas in the future for all of you guys out there who

Made it to the end of this video please please please leave us a comment that goes a long way with the local government they do read all of the comments and uh we would really appreciate that thank you guys for watching and we’ll see you maybe season

4 thank you take care all right bye everybody’s good let’s get it let’s get it