Is Japan Safe? How crime is different here. #japanlife #japantravel #japaneseculture #japan #travel

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  1. My wife told me once when she was a teenager, she walked past a mansion and behind a sliding door a man undressed himself in front of her. She said "otsukaresama," bowed and walked away.

  2. It boggles my mind that the touts get away with any nefarious thing they do to people. Putting something in peoples drink seems to be a common thing for people simple enough to follow them to the ā€œbarā€. Why would the touts (the ones that are usually employed because they speak English, which seems to be Nigerian more often than not) risk their residency being involved in this? Presumably the ā€œbusinessā€ is ran by Japanese locals, right? Especially the stories of people getting strong armed to going to a close atm to pull money out if they don’t have any on them.

  3. Another interesting video!

    I'm reminded of your previous video where you were discussing how Japan is not perfectly clean everywhere. That you'll find locations where dumping has occurred, even when a sign is posted to not dump there. Two of the three common crimes you talked about – stealing umbrellas and bicycles – sort of reflect the same mindset: If no one sees you doing it, it is okay. Due to the ubiquity of umbrella and bicycle usage, perhaps no one will bat an eye if someone grabs an umbrella when there is a sudden rainstorm or when someone takes a bicycle and rides away. Unless it is clearly a theft, it won't be assumed to be so. Confrontation is avoided in any case. As far as stealing panties, maybe that reflects the s*xual frustration for many men in Japan. Perhaps I'm wrong there.

    Here is and idea for a future video, although it is a bit out there. I've been studying Japanese for the last two years and I always see emphasis on learning mora (timing) and pitch accent with words. Given the influence of western music, with variations in timing and tones while pronouncing syllables in words , how does that impact the understanding of what is being sung? Hope I'm making sense here.

  4. Thank you for covering another interesting topic. My experience living in Japan and raising our kids there is that it is overwhelmingly a safe place to visit and to live. I can’t recall anything ever being stolen, apart from my purse which was stolen by another gaijin! Also the number of times we have left things behind in places , sunglasses, jackets, bags etc and each time they were handed in, all intact.
    I do though have two stories from the early 90’s that are a bit gross, that I’m hesitate to write about but I will as it is part of this topic. Twice I have been flashed at by two different guys. One was while hanging out washing off my verandah and the second more alarmingly was while riding my bike with one of our kids on the front and another on the back of the bike. The guy had jumped out from behind some bushes along a bike trail by the river. Both times we reported the incidents to the police who came to the house to take the report. The policeman who came to investigate the incident in front of my balcony also did a security check of our apartment and made a few recommendations to improve safety which we gave to the managers of our place, who to their credit installed them all! Both times the police said they believed they were crimes of opportunity as we were living in a semi-rural area with lots of construction going on with lots of people coming and going and hanging around the area. Although pretty awful at the time, it definitely didn’t change our perception and love of Japan apart from maybe making us a bit more vigilant of our surroundings, which actually isn’t a bad thing, regardless of where you are living.
    Thank you again and looking forward to your next topic! Roll on 5,000 subscribers!

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