Smile Training in Japan Helps People Socialize Again

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  • čas přidán 1. 07. 2023
  • Many people in Japan are seeking a refresher course in something that should come naturally - smiling. Reports say Japanese people have been signing up for Smile Training because after three long years of wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they say they forgot how to live without one. Now they’re taking classes to re-learn basic social skills like when to smile and how big to smile. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.

Komentáře • 123

  • @Crossing-Blades
    @Crossing-Blades Před rokem +147

    I’m going to pray for the sake of Japan and for its healthy recovery.

  • @sarajohnson6550
    @sarajohnson6550 Před rokem +129

    Bring Smile Training to the U.S. we need it too!

  • @leslieleslie6590
    @leslieleslie6590 Před rokem +53

    They need this in the U.S.!

    • @luisroman934
      @luisroman934 Před rokem +7

      Europeans perceive our smiles as fake because we do it too much.

    • @majikdivaa6199
      @majikdivaa6199 Před rokem +1

      Everywhere NOT only in USA.

  • @agentadrex
    @agentadrex Před rokem +61

    What a good amount of the world’s population needs

  • @Kirby-1030
    @Kirby-1030 Před rokem +8

    No amount of smiles could take away my life‘s pain

    • @mrsteve7521
      @mrsteve7521 Před rokem +2

      Don't let the pain stain your heart please. Heal please 🥺

  • @coffeemixer4292
    @coffeemixer4292 Před rokem +11

    what a dystopia where you need a class to be genuinely happy and crack a smile. I smile when im happy. they must be unhappy.

    • @skycloud4802
      @skycloud4802 Před rokem +4

      Yeah I'd rather give people something to smile about instead of training them to.

    • @avalonjustin
      @avalonjustin Před rokem +4

      @@skycloud4802 Exactly what I said! Give people reason to smile.

  • @NoOneHere2Day
    @NoOneHere2Day Před rokem +23

    This isn't just because of the pandemic. I remember hearing about this in the 80's .

  • @Exerny
    @Exerny Před rokem +12

    +5000 social credit

    • @arceptor
      @arceptor Před rokem +2

      its japan not china lamo

    • @Exerny
      @Exerny Před rokem +1

      @@arceptor u hear nada

  • @tracypower6413
    @tracypower6413 Před rokem +7

    My family needs this. The German relatives all “ smile” like we’re in front of a firing squad !

  • @DesertAidan
    @DesertAidan Před rokem +1

    I attended “how to open your eyes class” in Japan. I’m the only one graduated. I’m from North Africa.

  • @containedhurricane
    @containedhurricane Před rokem +2

    It's like a scene from a dystopian movie. Can't smile if you don't have enough money to have children and to retire

  • @kissdakittycat84
    @kissdakittycat84 Před rokem +9

    That's Interesting 🤔. Me personally, I have always been very "Expressive" with My facial expressions. Sometimes to My detriment. Believe it or not, the ability to Mask your feelings & NOT expressing them on your face is much more important than 1 might realize. Since most of the World has been wearing face masks (ie COVID) & not really having to consciously "mask" the expressions on our faces when we're wearing a literal Mask 😷, it's important to be conscious & mindful now of the feelings we convey to the World & the ppl around Us.

    • @SUGAR_XYLER
      @SUGAR_XYLER Před rokem

      It doesn't matter if you're from Cal 🙄

  • @journeymansmitty8283
    @journeymansmitty8283 Před rokem +6

    Wow I didn't think Japanese people socialize that much let alone getting training for it🤔

  • @retrozip
    @retrozip Před rokem +6

    Feels straight out of the Onion

  • @Visibletoyou23
    @Visibletoyou23 Před rokem +11

    So they’ve never laughed, or smiled, while wearing the mask…..?

    • @cubanalien
      @cubanalien Před rokem +6

      I mean the pandemic was pretty tragic not everyone was at home watching CZcams, a lot of people were mourning…… did you forget how many people passed away all around the world???

    • @Visibletoyou23
      @Visibletoyou23 Před rokem +4

      @@cubanalienNo, I definitely did not, I couldn’t see my grandmother when she passed and she had a very sad send off with her funeral.
      But unless someone you know was dying every waking moment, or you didn’t hear a single joke, see a nice sunrise, get something nice to eat, converse with family, laugh on the phone, or just smile to yourself behind the mask at your inner thoughts then I’d be shocked if you smiled a minute amount of time in 3 years.
      On top of the fact the Japanese tend to wear masks regularly (nothing wrong with that) and that you could be outside when things calmed down with masks, to some how forget to smile? Come on man lol

    • @Buttsceatcgee
      @Buttsceatcgee Před rokem +1

      @@Visibletoyou23to be fair, Japan doesn’t have that much of a great entertainment. They can’t really make parties at their house, or go have fun in clubs.

    • @Visibletoyou23
      @Visibletoyou23 Před rokem

      @@Buttsceatcgee I mean, fair, but I’d be worried if you only found the power to smile at parties of clubs lol

    • @cubanalien
      @cubanalien Před rokem +1

      @@Visibletoyou23 it seemed like it…. A lot of people spent the pandemic crying for SO MANY different reasons……

  • @honestcomments8053
    @honestcomments8053 Před rokem +2

    This should also be taught in America.

  • @thepixilator9593
    @thepixilator9593 Před rokem +2

    That is so sad. It means they weren’t smiling at home😢

  • @cloroxbleach8425
    @cloroxbleach8425 Před rokem +2

    we have been living in a dystopia

  • @beachbum-mk1cu
    @beachbum-mk1cu Před rokem +2

    They do need to smile more!

  • @Urfavelani
    @Urfavelani Před rokem +4

    This is interesting honestly but helpful

  • @uabforfindingthisbutalr6464

    proof anything is a job now.... someone is gonna hire me for posting youtube comments on their channel one day 😂

  • @GardenerEarthGuy
    @GardenerEarthGuy Před rokem

    Her verticle smile must be awesome!

  • @pennylaynelucas-smythe
    @pennylaynelucas-smythe Před rokem +10

    This is so ridiculous 😂😂

  • @user-ik8gy9di4r
    @user-ik8gy9di4r Před rokem

    It always come from the heart to others

  • @youngmasterzhi
    @youngmasterzhi Před rokem +1

    Hey, do they also use the Happiness Hat that stabs you if you stop smiling?

  • @cruelladevil1001
    @cruelladevil1001 Před rokem +5

    Yeah, give us something to smile about in this wackadoodle world we're living in

  • @anisharamlogan6941
    @anisharamlogan6941 Před rokem +1

    😊 its kinda sad I try to smile at everything even if things arent going the way I want it to

  • @mccoold6521
    @mccoold6521 Před rokem

    Hello inside edition, I would like to say that my mother has seen the narrator in person, and she even emailed her back!

  • @MaxPaxton
    @MaxPaxton Před rokem +1

    Smile Training. Right.

  • @Kawayoporu
    @Kawayoporu Před rokem +1

    I hope we have a lot of Japanese American animators at Disney like how in the old days.

  • @longgreengrasspandapuss7935

    I love japan!

  • @jesusfernandez-eh8cx
    @jesusfernandez-eh8cx Před rokem +4

    I bet they would smile more if they weren't forced to work 50 plus hours a week.... Japan work culture is crushing.

  • @steph8016
    @steph8016 Před rokem

    I’m practicing with them

  • @ericz4780
    @ericz4780 Před rokem +2

    I’ll start smiling when my kids move out of my house

    • @bigbiscuit3622
      @bigbiscuit3622 Před rokem +7

      And our parents generation wonders why my generation doesn’t want kids

    • @fargoth391
      @fargoth391 Před rokem +5

      you'll be the same person to pressure your kids to give you grandkids

    • @StarLightFIlmProductions
      @StarLightFIlmProductions Před rokem +1

      Ya you will definitely be smiling in the nursing home

  • @OscarTheGrouchy
    @OscarTheGrouchy Před rokem +2

    As long as they keep their smiles to themselves and not force smiles upon me and my freedoms

  • @DanielWoolfolk
    @DanielWoolfolk Před rokem

    I smile Less after the pandemic. Not good or bad but something I noticed.

  • @Binknew
    @Binknew Před rokem +3

    That's crazy 🤠

  • @O6i
    @O6i Před rokem +1

    Im always smiling but people think i look mad because of my handlebar moustache is shaped like a frown😊

  • @caitlinwiththechevy
    @caitlinwiththechevy Před rokem +1

    Wow. Is this what our world is coming to? Now…..I’ve seen it all.

  • @isaiahthomaswinters7651
    @isaiahthomaswinters7651 Před rokem +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @Gaming_Musabbir-Vai
    @Gaming_Musabbir-Vai Před rokem

    ❤❤

  • @buzz5969
    @buzz5969 Před rokem

    Japan is weird like that lol but I do love Japan.😍

  • @vidhoard
    @vidhoard Před rokem

    I'll never understand needing this

  • @SA-vm2mg
    @SA-vm2mg Před rokem +1

    😁 good 👍

  • @silviojoseperedacortes7029

    A smile a day keeps the shrink away🤪🤪

  • @onlyfacts4999
    @onlyfacts4999 Před rokem +13

    You know your country is messed up when you have to take a class to learn to smile.

    • @Mini_Lop1
      @Mini_Lop1 Před rokem +1

      Look at all your comments You seem to live a very happy life.

  • @Weeb-yv8ww
    @Weeb-yv8ww Před rokem +1

    love japan from m3x1co

  • @LaShondaFelton1983
    @LaShondaFelton1983 Před rokem

    GOOD MORNING, AFTERNOON AND EVENING @InsideEdition! VIDEO REQUEST: Was kenneth tobey (actor) a extreme true natural blonde?

  • @nancymolina10195
    @nancymolina10195 Před rokem

    How they forget? I thought that smile training is for dentist, to make people smile with their beautiful teeth shown. But when I replay again n hear it carefully, *it’s not for dentist, it’s only for yr expression smile training* 😅.

  • @Levante_
    @Levante_ Před rokem

    Ok I’ve seen everything now

  • @fargoth391
    @fargoth391 Před rokem +1

    I CAN NOT 💀

  • @ysraeldumadara1039
    @ysraeldumadara1039 Před rokem

    I begrudging became 'kinda bitter of this news.... cause I have a clinical depression.... I even had an "episode" of that 'cause of fighting my cruel father.

  • @capricornsweetheart8102
    @capricornsweetheart8102 Před rokem +1

    Wow.. this made the news🤭😂

  • @MrKlausHeisler
    @MrKlausHeisler Před rokem

    Joker's Henchpeople while a big grind smile.

  • @amandad6104
    @amandad6104 Před rokem

    This is cute 😁

  • @bravo_01
    @bravo_01 Před rokem +3

    Fake Smiling

  • @audreytelles
    @audreytelles Před rokem +2

    Ai não né, sorrir está no nosso dna, é um instinto primitivo.Só se eles "involuíram"

  • @prankinjp
    @prankinjp Před rokem +2

    悲しいわ

  • @shorts_mania6
    @shorts_mania6 Před rokem +6

    Smile training?the world is doomed

  • @alejandro1992ramirez
    @alejandro1992ramirez Před rokem +1

    😂😂😂😂 smile training

  • @mystorey
    @mystorey Před rokem

    This is atleast 1-2 months Old news

  • @Danny-nc6ol
    @Danny-nc6ol Před rokem

    C'mon

  • @benclarke8840
    @benclarke8840 Před rokem +1

    And I thought chess training was pointless

  • @DKsHighlights
    @DKsHighlights Před rokem

    Imagine wearing a mask

  • @cosmicjerry
    @cosmicjerry Před rokem

    😁 🍜 ✌️

  • @TheBebe2214
    @TheBebe2214 Před rokem +3

    Seriously?

  • @Jessie-J
    @Jessie-J Před rokem

    3 years without smiling? So sad

  • @aquatic5790
    @aquatic5790 Před rokem

    Nahhh bru the teachers doing anything to get that bag

  • @majikdivaa6199
    @majikdivaa6199 Před rokem

    yah with all the social media around the world today , People glued to their phone.
    They dont look around , or noticed anything around them any more ! which is freaking sad .
    Walking across the street at the traffice light , keep looking at the phone and the car coming to hit them .....Oh well....Its your stupidity !

  • @creepertech3077
    @creepertech3077 Před rokem

    get a job at Chick-Fil-A you will defiantly learn how to smile :D

  • @tendy101100
    @tendy101100 Před rokem

    Eee ooo ee oo eee oo

  • @shawnlawrence973
    @shawnlawrence973 Před rokem

    What is this April Fool's Day in July you got to be joking me.. just comes off as satire to me but it's completely real, people really need to have another human teach them how to smile again. Sad..

  • @badcuzimpeachey
    @badcuzimpeachey Před rokem

    But they been wearing mask since i was in middle school why is that

  • @sirkronix5274
    @sirkronix5274 Před rokem

    😂

  • @youcanknowit9374
    @youcanknowit9374 Před rokem +1

    Omfg

  • @Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    Omg lmao

  • @muslimstrategistgamer2849

    It's over for Japan, it never for began for them.

  • @GODi76667
    @GODi76667 Před rokem

    This should be thought in Russia cuz they never smile not even once🤔😏🙂

  • @vph7
    @vph7 Před rokem +1

    Japan is a weird place

  • @thinkhine8866
    @thinkhine8866 Před rokem

    Switch on joke 😂 Audio or movie or music or channels.

  • @1103Christina
    @1103Christina Před rokem

    Wow people really need to relearn how to smile!? 🤔🤣🤣

  • @MorisHOCHMUTKOMMTVORDEMFALL

    Secular Republic of iran revolution woman life freedom in Iran teheran Zahedan Sanandaj city stadt hamedan

  • @goatmode7317
    @goatmode7317 Před rokem +1

    What is happening to this world 💀

  • @kimzapanta91ify
    @kimzapanta91ify Před rokem +1

    Really? Forget how to smile because of the pandemic? 😂

  • @peerlesscultivator6873

    Crazy this is the same country that was dominating Asia and contending with the Soviets back in the day 😂😂

  • @felixvelasquez3447
    @felixvelasquez3447 Před rokem

    That's Disgusting!

  • @sam42017
    @sam42017 Před rokem

    No life

  • @jax1492
    @jax1492 Před rokem

    japan is weird

  • @geman741
    @geman741 Před rokem

    im sorry but that's pathetic

  • @cruelladevil1001
    @cruelladevil1001 Před rokem +7

    Cringe-worthy

  • @MC-kj7dy
    @MC-kj7dy Před rokem

    Incels in the us need this