8:00 summary 😊

Thanks, Senpai. I finally understood that Pitch means "Tone", like in music! ありがとう❤

My reaction went from "you're the foreigner Japan wants" to "nvm..." (This was my first time watching your video btw)

I've watched this many times by now. It doesn't get any less funny.

Can relate to Learning Extremely complicated Kanji but not knowing the entire Grade 1 yet lol 😅

How do I write "I laughed my ass off on the Ghost in the Shell Reference" in 日本語 , senpai?

Imagine if I said I think foreigners should be on their best behavior in the USA instead of starting gangs and taking over apartment buildings? I get called racist and xenophobic just because of my race and not even because of anything I've personally done and legally I cannot refuse service to someone for any reason. The Japanese can literally refuse to rent apartments (shelter) to foreigners. The low wage Japanese person may be frustrated but homelessness in Japan is working and going to sleep in an internet cafe with unlimited soft serve ice cream. Homelessness in the USA? Forget it. Show me the Japanese Camden NJ and I'll eat my hat.

I lived through the Christchurch Earthquakes of 04/09/2010 and then the killer Earthquake of 22/02/2011. We had 19,000 after-shocks. Massive land movements….horrible, many deaths and wounded!

election or erectionの話題のような😂

Watched this video whilst procrastinating with みんなの日本語 on my lap.

In addition to having earthquake supplies, people need to learn to swim. The average causality drowned in less than five feet of water. Less than 1% of the Japanese people know how to swim. It seems a little cruel, but teaching people to swim would cut the casualties immensely. The reason why the Japanese don’t swim is that the water is too cold for comfortable swimming. They mostly just wade.

One of the most impactful videos I've seen on this platform in a long time, and something I and many others needed to see. Thank you.

Without a doubt, Japan needs foreigners. Given the current population decline, there is no other viable choice for the foreseeable future. Look at Singapore: its birth rate is also low, but it compensates by bringing in foreigners, and as a result, Singapore’s GDP per capita is significantly higher than Japan’s. I completely agree that a large portion of the wealth is directed toward baby boomers. Japan’s weak yen and high taxes make it unattractive. Japan Permanent Residents (PRs) are required to pay inheritance tax, and even foreigners who inherit from Japan PRs without any connection to Japan are subject to the same tax. In my opinion, Japan is far from appealing to white-collar professionals, who are precisely the kind of workers Japan needs most to boost its tax revenue. Additionally, Japan PRs must pay an exit tax if they choose to relinquish their PR status. The language barrier is another major hurdle, compounded by extremely complicated paperwork, much of which is only available in Japanese. I could go on, but the bottom line is that Japan is both reluctant to accept foreigners and, at the same time, unattractive to them. I understand how economies function, and I see little hope for Japan’s economic future. Japan seems to want it all: a homogeneous society primarily composed of Japanese people, while also hoping for economic growth. That’s wishful thinking.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

10:31 I seem to remember Japan being involved with something from 1941-1945. Can’t remember what 😂.

5:39 Seems a little suspicious to have exact earthquake magnitudes for 2000 year old quakes.

1:14 What about the massive 9.0 in 2010 that caused the tsunami and explosion of nuclear power plant?!

It seems ironic to say "I think Japan needs more immigrants" and then spend the rest of the video talking about said immigrants and visitors wrongdoings in Japan, as well as what they shouldn't be doing. I realize that you're not an expert on fixing economies but it's easy to see that currently the immigrant worker issue is causing a lot of grief in Japan. Furthermore, it is NEVER a long-term solution for an aging country with a struggling economy, low birthrate, and weak currency. The Japanese government is now planning to loosen the restrictions even more next year, allowing families of immigrant workers to come, and this is a step in the wrong direction. I say this as an immigrant worker myself. The reason is because I've been in the student visa/language study area for almost the past year and what I've seen doesn't bode well at all for the country. The government's only good option is the one they don't want to or won't do, which is a complete financial overhaul so that the people can have a good financial environment to raise kids again -- but the elderly situation makes it difficult because they are essentially controlling everything.

Don’t want to speak Japanese if doesn’t sound good

This is an extremely impressive presentation in multiple ways. Much appreciated, I learned many things I had never fathomed about Japan, its people and the culture. And also got a reminder to pay attention to at least identifying what I don’t know about.

Man, I both like and dislike this home. I like the internal gardens, it allows them view of nature and light in plot they have. But at the same time, that garden make the home quite cramped all around, with a lot of corridors and small rooms instead of open usable space. Aka, shape of the home forces you to have a lot of corridors, which is basically just wasted space. I would have probably just pushed that garden to one side of the house like you normally would do, instead of having it in the middle dividing the house. I think this house just isn't big enough to have that kind of central garden. Other than that, I think everything works really well and looks really nice. Well, maybe other one is single closet, it sounds smart. But I think in practice it's going to be quite inconvenient, especially with family. Idk, I just think overall the building is not using space in smart way. It is really cool, but just from practicality and livability perspective to me this doesn't work. And to be honest, those very tiny rooms for kids also to me are problem, yeah, they are fine for when they are really small, but it's just going to be problem when they grow up a bit. Unless you plan to move. They should have their own space to have a desk to do homework, have laptop and whatnot. Ultimately, I just feel like focusing on that central courtyard compromised the layout way too much.

watched this thrice and I laughed all those times. Thanks for the good laugh Dogen ?

I LOVED watching this, I would love to see more longer-format videos explaining the nuances of Japanese culture. Great presentation, thank you Dogen! ^^

Hilarious. And your speaking ability is truly impressive. I aspire to be half that skillful.

bro the title of the video is weird 💀

1:48授業飛んでゼリア行かん？ って言ったらもう満点

I'm Brazilian, I'm watching videos in English about how to learn Japanese... I didn't understand half of what this guy meant.

あれ演技だったのか…

My favorite nose is listen

The crossover we never knew we needed!!

アメリカ人はもっと豊満な体形の女性が好みだと思っていた。 道元さんが上げた女性は皆痩せ形のスレンダーな体形で以外だった

墓穴

Dogensan, have just discovered you. I realise I have been way too reverent in my Japanese studies. Now I am going to have some FUN with this🎉😂

一つ賛成するのは、FF7初版はいいゲームだね。初版ね。

最後クソ笑った

I like the Tanaka part😂

なんかごちゃごちゃ言っているけど、文化が相容れない地域（基本的に東アジア文明圏ではない地域）からの移民は増えないにこしたことはない。思いやりや気配りの文化などは日本列島にこもった日本人が千年以上かけて培ってきた日本社会における生存戦略で、いくら移民が表層的にまねをしようとしたって、生まれつき日本人のDNAを引き継いでいない人間に「そうしてくれ」といったって限界がある。口で言って皆が言うこと聞くなら、世界はもっと平和になっているはずですよ。 そして、そもそも少子化だって人口が戦前の八千万人ぐらいに戻ることは、なんら問題ではない。焦って移民で数を補わなければならないという発想が間違ってるんですよ。外国人が日本のためにできることは、日本にわざわざ移住しようなどと思わないことです。他人の家に、ずかずか乗り込んでこないことです。日本は日本人のためにとっておいてください。あなたには、あなたの国があるでしょう？

日本を侮辱する外国人がいて、外国人のイメージを悪くする一方で、 日本の事を尊重する外国人がいて、外国人のイメージを良くする どちらが多いかで、イメージは変わる

well this is awkward

移民を受け入れる。 だが移民要件はしっかり作る、そして犯罪は厳正に対処し強制送還と再入国禁止を堅固なものにする。 がセットなら良いんじゃないかと思う。

声が優しいだけに非常にシリアスかつディープで既に後戻りできないフェーズであることに一層の悲壮感が出てくるお話。 日本はもはや大気圏突入しつつあるアクシズみたいな状況なのよ。

そして外国人がその「豊かな日本」のソフトパワーを横取りして稼ぐ 福祉も頂いちゃう、お宅もだいぶコケにしてくれてたよな？Dougenさんよ？

I thought this was about wrestling

The first thing I did when I got home after my first trip to Japan (exactly 2 weeks ago), was drive to Costco (in the snow) to buy the TOTO washlet.

How does Japan prepare for this? Is there substantial warning? And high enough tsunami defences?

1:25 Dogen「………😀😐🫥」

流石です😊

I studied Japanese in a language center and like everyone, first we started with Hiragana, which we finished in, I think, 12 hours in total(4 hour classes every Saturday). We finished the first cour with that and some grammar. Second cour starts, we learned Katakana in 1.5 hours, literally the same day. Our teacher was absolutely sure that we would learn it in that amount of time, which in hindsight we did. But we had so much more reading practice going on with Hiragana that it was and still is way more easier to read. Now I hold a JLPT N3 certificate but I still get stunned every time I see Katakana 😭

そんなことしなくても日本に来たら嫌でも見て覚えるよ、怠惰な人を除いて

It would be so much easier to learn Japanese if the translations didn't always flip the word order and sentence structure around. You read subtitles and think hmm that's weird cause I don't hear the Japanese words for this translation at all so you learn nothing but arigatou. Especially bad when they pause mid sentence.