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As bookmarks or memorandums.

This is 80 minutes of interviews with foreigners living in Japan. Spoken language is English with Japanese subtitle.



Former half is too sweet and little bit salty in latter half.

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In this 15 minutes video, Polish group and John from UK enjoyed Tokyo.

Living in JAPAN FAQ (17 minutes) 日本に住むことについてよくある質問


What to Pack for JAPAN (6 minutes) 日本に持っていくべき物


Enjoying Japanese casual restaurant (10 minutes)

January in Japan. 7 minutes.

Japanese TV show introducing Autumn leaves in November. 9 minutes and half.

18 minutes video of 25 things to do in Tokyo.



His re-actions is too much for every time after eating.

I would like to remove Tokyo stock exchange and to add Hana-Yashiki.

Beauties passing-each-other.

すれちがい美女

These are planned movies to enjoy one moment of happiness.

She speaks very frequent Japanese in Youtube. At first, I think she could learn very fast because she is young. I was wrong. She had been keep learning very hard.

I found good examples of conversation between foreign boy and Japanese girl.

You may think Mayumi has average (or more than average) English ability. I mean average Japanese girl can speak English like as Mayumi when she is relaxed. Ozzy speaks Japanese to some extent but not enough. Enjoy their conversation.



Here is another girl Makoto who speaks good English (perhaps better than I(me?)). Makoto seems to have some English lessons.

Here is my very personally favorite Japanese actress" Fukiishi, Kazue" in Uniqlo TVCF (1 minute).



Another TVCF (30Sec).

I don't know how "stand-up-show" is defined in foreign countries.

Here is a kind of "Japanese stand-up-show" in English. Do you enjoy it?

Here is Japanese style MANZAI (Japanese Stand-up comedy?) with English Subtitles.

These two guys have clear role in their style. TOKUI (left side) is called BOKE (idiot) and FUKUDA (right side), TSUKKOMI (pointer out).

BOKE plays somewhat idiot and funny things and TSUKKOMI points it out to clarify or to explain for the audience.

In this case, TOKUI (BOKE) has his own special funny concern against BBQ especially for the order of the materials and it embarrasses FUKUDA (TSUKKOMI).



There are some hard parts to translate marked as "???".

First one is "It is up to you that the thoughtless couple go to PACHINKO from the morning".

Second one is "It is up to you that elementary school children participate the disaster drill with half smiles".

At the "??" part, TOKUI just say 五合（GOGOH: about 900g） as GONGO.

When you arrive at Japan, some TV crew might welcome you.

"Why did you come to Japan" is a three years old TV show by TV-Tokyo which is Tokyo local TV station and is very good at low budget program.

(And TV-Tokyo also made very good business by launching "Pokemon".)



Not only at Narita but also at other international airport, they might wait for you.

Casual interviews with foreigners in Japan (in Japanese with English subtitles).

Funny Japanese TV Commercials.

落語：らくご;RAKUGO is traditional Japanese talk performance.

Here is a performance by KATSURA, SHIJAKU who had been trying perform RAKUGO in English.

KYU-DO (Japanese Archery) demonstration.



You will find many word having -DO at the tail like as JU-DO, Ken-DO, Sa-DO or KA-DO. these "DO" is written as "道" meaning way or path originally.

These "DO" came from ancient Chinese philosophy "TAO-ism". TAO is reading of "道" in some era in China.

TAO-ism tell us "Everything has the way it should be". This concept is still kept in our mind deeply.

The real voice of Japanese students

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwsZ0KiHhRg

Slurp the Ramen !

Is this enough for you?

This is not usual Japanese life but a stage performance in Paris in 2011.

Also, this is not usual life.

Japanese Woman1 1982


Japanese Woman2 1982

High school boys' life.

Interviews with Japanese college students about foreigners and foreign countries.

If you want to see many Japanese high school girls...

In last summer this comedy duo "NIHON-EREKITERU-RENGO:Japan Electric Unity" swept over Japan with their phrase "DAMEYO DAMEDAMEEEEEE!".

In this video they perform their show in Japanese and then in English.

English version starts at 4:20.

Enjoy!



As the movie removed, I will post another one. English version starts at 5:40.

In Japan, The GOD (or spirits or else which is not the same as western GOD) exist in everything.

In Ehime prefecture, they have an event to SUMO-fight with the spirit of rice. This event have been lasting for 650 years.

They have three matches. The spirit wins two and looses one every year.

"Maybe Yes, I'm sure" by DOBU-ROCK.

How can I translate 仮装大賞(Kasou Taishou)?

It is a TV show of a contest of (kind of) costume play like this.



Here is the official Youtube channel of the TV show.

https://www.youtube.com/user/kasohntv

Once it was opened to foreign applicants and I had seen some great foreign teams. However there are no foreign team seen in the show.

Here are the champion performance of the shows.

AWA-ODORI(dance):Summer festival in TOKUSHIMA prefecture.

As you see, there are boy's dance and girl's dance in AWA-ODORI (or AWA dance).

Here, you can see the boy's dance by girls. They are not so bad.

I have been addicted to the AWA-ODORI for its "Japanese beat".

Team KOKESAKU: Music starts at 0:56.
It seems to be random moving but ruled or well organized.



High light 2016

Performance of Tokyo team including a foreign boy.
They have different beat from TOKUSHIMA original.

There is another AWA-ODORI festival in KOENJI, TOKYO. It will be held 17:00 to 20:00 on 26 and 27th of August 2017 (next week!).

Here is the TOKYO version of AWA-ODORI (2015).

AWA-ODORI exercise of team GOJAHEI.

I can enjoy these movies for whole 20 minutes.

I love to watch dancing. Here is highlight of High school dance contest in japan 2017.

Do you know "WABI-SABI"?

Even native Japanese hesitates to answer the question at a moment.

WABI-SABI, the Japanese point of view.

Usual Japanese food movie.

Worst five national road in Japan.



1. Highway goes through a building: Umeda, OSAKA
2. Route 157 GIFU prefecture : closed most of year, river crosses road, too narrow to two lanes and sometimes bear appeared.
3. The end of the road : FUKUSHIMA pref. , Fallen road in ITO, SHIZUOKA.
4. Step road : TAPPI-ZAKI, AOMORI pref. even if car can not run, a road can be registered as national road.
5. Road on the sea Route 58 : KAGOSHIMA pref. to OKINAWA. Imginal road on the sea based on the traffic system like as ferry or smething.