It seems so strange to me that houses have a negative value by the time they're 30 years old!!?! The most expensive houses where I live are almost 200 years old!
Yeah see Japan is in the Ring of Fire. So Volcanic activity, earthquakes, and tsunami's are a big problem over there. Structures are constantly being made more efficient.
I live at the Northern End of Germany..and in Summer it starts to become day at around 3am oLo'' At 4 its already bright as day... and its only really Dark between 12Am and 2Am lel xD
I want a comic now where a badass sword wielding anime character, in the middle of some epic battle on the streets of Japan, is stopped by the police and given a fine for having an unregistered sword.
Kuroro Neko I was about to say xD I'm pretty sure that's in the first book of the manga for Ruroni Kenshin. Didn't read far enough to find out if that would be a recurring theme, though.
Lists of facts about Japan are almost always half misleading or straight up inaccurate, and half basic facts that everyone already knows. (Did you know JAPANESE VENDING MACHINES?!) So we've been trying to collect interesting, hopefully lesser known facts about Japan that are actually true for years, and we finally reached 50! This video took the most time to make out of all our videos so far--more than 250 hours!! We put weeks into researching facts, tossing ones that either weren't true or as interesting as we first thought, and verifying the necessary ones with statistics from official sources (do you know the pain… of trying to translate 100+ page government reports…). Those sources are in the description box. We called agencies to ask them questions directly. We visited museums. We drove all over the place and filmed a lot of B roll (oh so much B roll). So here it is, basically everything we know about Japan (well, maybe not everything). Some of you may recognize a couple facts in here that we've talked about in past videos! We're so excited to finally finish this video and we really hope you guys enjoy it!! Thank you so much to all the people who upload images, sounds and EVEN VIDEO OF A RARE CAT HOLY CRAP to Wikipedia!! You’re the real MVP. There were a lot of things there was little possibility of us ever being able to capture on film ourselves. Thank you to you guys for being patient with us as we take our sweet time making these videos. And thank you to Skillshare for sponsoring this and helping us pay for groceries while we spent an entire month working on a single video. orz
お疲れ様でした! I really enjoyed the video. Thanks for presenting facts that are actually fact. It always bothers me when people spread rumors or straight up lies. Again, thank you for your hard work, and welcome back! CZcams isn't the same without Rachel & Jun.
Average Japanese person: Knows 6 different cicada species Average American person: Doesnt even know what continent we live on or How many states there are.
Okay, story time on number 35. I was a young, naive exchange student, with maybe a month left in Japan while I was studying abroad. All was going pretty darn well that day. One of my classes was cancelled, and I had been up late the night before finishing an assignment, so marched my merry self back to my dormitory, was sending my daily photos to my friend in the US, and preparing to take a nap. Out of the corner of my eye came one of those mother flipping centipedes crawling around on my curtains, easily a foot long. Again, being the naive American I was, the biggest insect I'd personally witnessed at that point were locusts and wolf spiders. I shrieked and then, crying, proceeded to message my friend about the atrocity as if she could fly over at hyper speed to kill a bug for me. My Japanese was rudimentary at best, but there was no way I could sleep with that bug in my room, so I had two options: wait upward of four hours for my neighbor to return from class to either kill it or help me ask someone to kill it, which could give the demon ample time to hide until it could kill me in my sleep, or utilize the magical powers of Google Translate to attempt to get my dorm parents to help. Cue 20 minutes of me trying to explain to my dorm dad that there was a huge bug in my room that needed to die, partially based on us tip tapping words and phrases into cheap little flip phones and showing one another because we weren't sure if we were saying the word right (me with Japanese, him with English). Once he finally realized what I was saying he motioned to give me a little vacuum cleaner that A) couldn't sweep up something that big, and B) I'm such a cautious person in general I couldn't move fast enough to suck it up without it running away. Instead of risking such horrors, I lied and told him I was allergic xD Which he took super seriously and grabbed some heavy duty bug spray and a larger than life fly swatter, to join me on the epic quest of ridding my room of this bug. Needless to say he didn't get what I meant by "big bug" when I was telling him, because he was horrified too when he saw the thing! But within minutes the beast was finally dead. My neighbor later pointed out that my room was probably the perfect temperature for bugs to feel comfortable at, because while the rooms had AC I was perfectly used to my family and college dorms keeping buildings at a solid 80 degrees, so needless to say I spent my last month burrowed under blankets and in sweaters to make my room nonviable for life of any kind. And thus, the story of how I nearly died in Japan comes to a close .u.
Corrections: 16. The pie chart shows 801 and 306 as average ages but they should say “all older than.” 26. The numbers are backwards in the first shot! Osaka did buy a 60 Hz generator and Tokyo bought a 50 Hz generator, as explained immediately afterward. 60 Hz is south and 50 Hz is north. You can go over something a million times and there’s always something you overlooked. 😩 Thanks to everyone who spotted these!! If you see any other errors let us know so we can correct them!
Rachel and Jun ties are a Croatian invention, they were first worn by baron Trenk's pandurs and now they are worn all over the world from Japan to the USA. Edit: I'm Croatian.
Fun fact that I didn’t know about ties. The stripes run differently in Japan than America. I went and checked the tie I bought my husband from my last visit to Japan....and b”gosh, Jun was right!! But then Jun is always right😉😉
hey rachel and jun (idk if this sounds stupid but) could you maybe make a video explaning the japanese health sytem etc. I am really curious about this i have read a bit about it on the internet but i would like to hear what someone who lives as a citizen in japan thinks about the health system of japan!
The last time this was mentioned, I went around and checked. The ties available in Croatia today have the same pattern as in Japan. The ties of the old times (of the above mentioned baron Trenk's soldiers) were all single-coloured and red.
i just appreciate that persona 4 was used as an example of japanese media/games with summer cicada background noises. also, it was weird recognising the specific sounds of the different cicadas from different movies i've watched and games ive played.
*32* * Husband wakes up, proceeds to kitchen.* *Honey there's bamboo in the kitchen!* *No there isn't!!* *Wife proceeds to go into the kitchen and walks straight into some bamboo.*
I love Rachel's voice here, you can really tell that she is enjoying telling you these facts. You can hear that she is smiling and it is making me smile!! :)
This was such a great video! I'm a massive fact nerd, and I don't think I knew anything in this video before. You can really see how much time and effort you guys put into this thank you so much!
The reason kitchen knives are sharper than katanas isn't due to a lack of sharpening methodology in katanas. It's due to the fact that a katana needs to be sharp _and_ flexible, so it doesn't break when cutting. A harder steel can hold a sharper edge, but a harder steel also is less flexible and breaks more easily. So katanas have to compromise between sharpness and flexibility. They're still plenty sharp though. (One way katanas accomplish this is through differential hardening.) Kitchen cutlery doesn't need to be as flexible as a katana because it isn't exposed to the same longitudinal stresses as a sword. You can pretty much focus on sharpness without worrying about flexibility. Thanks for the awesome video!
As you know, katanas also have areas of three distinct hardness levels as well as differential hardening for the needs of the sword - core, back, and edge.
Wow! Was totally waiting for the classic “Katanas are the best swords ev3r!!!!” But that was extremely informative and something I didn’t know. Thank you!
Konglim Khoo, that would affect individual swords, not katanas as a whole vs. knives as a whole. That was the claim Rachel made-- that kniveS can now be made sharper than katanaS, due to improvements in knife technology. 10:23 Plus you waaaay overstate the differences that would exist in "quality of the metal" among swords made by the same skilled swordsmith. My original point was that knives and swords serve different purposes, so they have different needs when it comes to attributes like sharpness and flexibility. That's still a better explanation than just saying "Kitchen knives can be made sharper than swords now!" Plus, any good katana is already razor sharp. Making a distinction between the sharpness of the two based upon the TECHNICAL ABILITY TO SHARPEN them is misleading at best.
Googled them, and they were a little smaller than I remembered, sorry. Still big enough to take up plenty of space in your palm, and my nightmares 😅 Search "asian giant hornet" if you're interested!
6:25 hah! In scandinavia, the sun never really goes down in the middle of summer, especially if you're very north. On the flipside though, on the winters it's the opposite. The sun goes down at 3 p.m and goes up at 8-9 a.m. November, december is pretty depressing... Go to school/work it's dark, come home, it's dark.
@@rachelrecycles369 In such places people can adopt the times of an area further south in the country or many go by Saudi Arabian time. Otherwise northern Finland would only allow you half an hour to eat every day for the month of Ramadan
I’m gonna move to japan some day and I’m gonna own like six of them just for self defense and to be cool I’m kidding about that last bit but my life goal is to move to japan and get two cats and learn Japanese and Korean! XD
This is such an awesome bunch of facts! The cicadas here (just north of Dallas Texas) are so loud that you have to go inside to have a conversation this time a year.
Yeah, my family and I used to live in Dallas for many years. Our German friends and relatives couldn't get the sound out of their heads after hearing cicadas for the first time. My neighbour friends and I used to tie little firecrackers to the cicadas and set them off into the sky. Bang! Well, that was 1970s when things were different for the kids.
They're quite loud in Florida as well. You can easily hear them inside on a hot day. It's why when I first heard them in a anime during a summer scene, it felt so natural!
Some of the facts Rachel seemed to be completely amazed by are totally normal for me as a Swede, like driving camps. And the sun rising at 4 in summer? Here is never even sets! xD
This video is not only fascinating but also incredibly useful for me! I can use a lot of this information in my geography exams this year, particularly the info on the incompatible grids issue after the earthquake/tsunami and the ageing population. It'll be great to have rather "unique" details (in the sense that not many British 18 year olds know them) in my essays, thanks so much for this and I hope you make more of these! I learned a lot
dip.C you either know how thick the bread is sliced by that brand or judge by eye or buy unsliced bread. Usually in america all the prepacked loaves are the sameish slice size unless marked otherwise but artisanal breads tend to be the size that that specific bread was traditionally cut at. And sometimes its just whatever they want it cut at. My family buys mostly unsliced bread honestly, or we make our own. XD
7:27 i remember when i used to catch them with my friends. near my apartment there was a park, and during summer there would be a lot of them. so nostalgic, this was 5 years ago 😭😭😭
right?? recently i visited and the sun rose at 4am and set at 7pm... it should just be pushed back an hour or two!
Před 6 lety+6
Sunrise and sunset is determined by date and which latitude, which is how far you are from the equator. So the sunset time in northern Hokkaido will be very different than it is in Okinawa.
despairinq that's true. A train in Tokyo stops once a week. And the cause is suicide. Jump in front of the train. Like Mayuri. There are many office workers who commit suicide. The cause is too long working hours. The law stipulates that up to 40 hours per week, but most companies do not. This is just one of many problems in Japan.
I live in the southeastern USA....we get loud cicadas too in the summer. you can hear them from inside your house even with all the doors and windows closed.
I learned Japanese because of geopolitical relations that I was too young to understand at the time lmao (I live in another Pacific Rim country and our schools decided to teach Japanese because of trade relations between my country and Japan.)
Wish you would have added a tiny bit more to no.8, i.e. the lack of street names. The block and number system also includes the age of the structure, with no. 1 of block X being the oldest or first address in that block. That is why the numbers within a block are sometimes very random in placement. So, the system is only spatially accurate to a point. There are several historic forces at play as to why this is so. Some of these include, most land previously under the control of a monarch or emperor, limited usable land, rapid and continuous rebuilding, frequent disasters or destruction, and even the level of literacy. The type of numbering system stems from and helps reinforce the mental map that a community uses.
THAT’S WHAT I SAID What did they do before gps?! haha To be fair, a lot of places have maps with the numbered regions posted somewhere so maybe people just used to use maps, same as we did back in the day. :p
Simon and Martina (Some other youtubers) mentioned this once in a podcast. They called somebody to pick them up, but Simon and Martina were waiting on one side of the block and the driver was on the other side of the block, and it took them a while to realize. I'm not sure if this was the cause, but it may have been. I'm sure it isn't a problem most of the time for locals, but I'm sure it has to come up
They started doing their podcast on youtube recently, but I think this was before that, when they only had it on SBS PopAsia. I think it was just within the past couple of months, but I don't remember exactly when. Definitely not too long ago. The overarching conversation had something to do with how Martina was saying she couldn't really stay mad at most people in Japan and how polite they are or something like that. This particular story she brought up to illustrate how the taxi driver was so apologetic afterwards even though it wasn't really his fault, and even though she was upset when she thought he was late as soon as he apologized she wasn't upset anymore.
I didn't know they did podcasts on SBS PopAsia :O Iwonder if it's still available. i'll look into it. Edit : it still is ! I now know what to do in my spare time.
@@gonfreecs7347 I know, but I am not sure if I constructed that sentence in a correct from a grammatical standpoint. I only remembered few words and made that sentence lol
I love how when Jun was talking about cicadas, I thought about how you hear cicadas chirping when it is summer playing Persona 4, then the gameplay image immediately appears on the screen.
Do you mean to tell me that Japanese are so physically clean that their have genes evolved to reflect this?!!! I would PAY to have dry earwax and a little less body odor.
n Unfortunately, the people that don’t have this gene TYPICALLY don’t use deodorant. Rush hour on a Japanese train in the summer can’t get pretty smelly. Then again I’m sure that’s everywhere you go haha
Zoe Kouf It may have been selected for via sexual selection. Some Europeans have the gene but maybe we didn't care enough for it to become widespread. There are things about Europeans Japanese wish they had and maybe it comes down to what we prioritised in mate selection. However it could also be related to other pressures or just random.
@@OneMoreGuyjininJapanTheir deodorants are designed for people with the nonsmelly genes IIRC. I moved there with an agency and they told us to bring our own deodorant from home.
We were actually initially planning on one of us throwing it at the other, but we ended up not having the time. I imagine it's not super fun, though. ( ﾟдﾟ )
Oh whoops I totally assumed this was about the paintballs. Didn’t check the timing. I’m guessing it’s about the buses now... oh my god Hahahahahahahaha
Well in some banks when they get robbed they put paint explosives in, so when the robbers open them they get doused in paint that doesn't wash off. But yeah, imagine how easy I'd be for the police to find a suspect running from the scene of a robbery when they have vibrant colour all over them!
The closest thing I can think of that we have in the US is, in some clothing stores, the clothes have a magnetic tag/clip thing on them that can only be removed at the register once you pay for them. Otherwise, if you try to remove it forcefully, it'll let out a bunch of ink, or dye that is hard to wash off As for convenience/grocery stores, there's just a bunch of cameras everywhere. Or, if the store can't afford enough cameras, they're placed in locations like at the entrance/exit, or right at the register
I live in Arizona and we have cicadas too!! I recognized the sound of them immediately though when you played the audio. It's funny when out of state people hear them. Heard say "why are the trees screaming" lol
I love the sound of cicadas! We have tons of them here in Mississippi in the summer and it's the one redeeming part of the horrible heat and humidity. I love hearing cicadas in the background on Japanese shows.
It seems so strange to me that houses have a negative value by the time they're 30 years old!!?! The most expensive houses where I live are almost 200 years old!
@@couleurful we have earthquakes here too though??
sapphic-julia japan has many earthquakes and also severe tsunamis compared to most countries
That's probably because the 200 year old house was built better than the new homes they have as far as structural integrity
Yeah see Japan is in the Ring of Fire. So Volcanic activity, earthquakes, and tsunami's are a big problem over there. Structures are constantly being made more efficient.
OMG WHEN READING THAT PART HAPPENAD XDDDD!!!
Burglar: * sneaks through the kictchen window *
Japanese Residents: *so you've chosen death*
this comment made me audibly cackle
*so you have chosen paintball*
Uhhhh yes
@Stärry Yünä bcz the knife is sharper than katana
So you’ve chosen...
Paintball fight.. AND DEATH!
In Japan
Police: hey is that a sword?!
Me: yeah
Police: you'll have to go to-
Me: its 14 cm
Police: carry on
What
@Toby M oh lol i get it
"Ah, a man of culture, carry on."
If that was america, the cop would bust out a ruler, measure it wrong, and send you jail. But then not bat an eye as a guy walks by with a glock.
Hejmlando Fantoma
Police: YOU ARE UNDER ARREST
Old man with a walking cane:
Hah! You think 4 am is early sunrise?
IN NORWAY THE SUN NEVER GOES DOWN IN THE HEIGHT OF SUMMER
reary?
when are you sleeping in summer??
We sleep like normal at the normal time, but we just close the blinds
thx
Norway is very cold image,but it's summer.
what is the current temperature?
BTW,Japan is 36〜38℃ now. It's very hot.
I live at the Northern End of Germany..and in Summer it starts to become day at around 3am oLo'' At 4 its already bright as day... and its only really Dark between 12Am and 2Am lel xD
u Lucky ho!- I dont like night ;-;
I want a comic now where a badass sword wielding anime character, in the middle of some epic battle on the streets of Japan, is stopped by the police and given a fine for having an unregistered sword.
Keah Creations YES
Have you read Rurouni Kenshin?
And then they have to use a kitchen knife which is actually better 😂😂
kinda sounds like Gintama 😬😬
Kuroro Neko I was about to say xD I'm pretty sure that's in the first book of the manga for Ruroni Kenshin. Didn't read far enough to find out if that would be a recurring theme, though.
Lists of facts about Japan are almost always half misleading or straight up inaccurate, and half basic facts that everyone already knows. (Did you know JAPANESE VENDING MACHINES?!) So we've been trying to collect interesting, hopefully lesser known facts about Japan that are actually true for years, and we finally reached 50!
This video took the most time to make out of all our videos so far--more than 250 hours!! We put weeks into researching facts, tossing ones that either weren't true or as interesting as we first thought, and verifying the necessary ones with statistics from official sources (do you know the pain… of trying to translate 100+ page government reports…). Those sources are in the description box. We called agencies to ask them questions directly. We visited museums. We drove all over the place and filmed a lot of B roll (oh so much B roll). So here it is, basically everything we know about Japan (well, maybe not everything). Some of you may recognize a couple facts in here that we've talked about in past videos! We're so excited to finally finish this video and we really hope you guys enjoy it!!
Thank you so much to all the people who upload images, sounds and EVEN VIDEO OF A RARE CAT HOLY CRAP to Wikipedia!! You’re the real MVP. There were a lot of things there was little possibility of us ever being able to capture on film ourselves. Thank you to you guys for being patient with us as we take our sweet time making these videos. And thank you to Skillshare for sponsoring this and helping us pay for groceries while we spent an entire month working on a single video. orz
So much effort!!! Thanks for this you guys!
Ur awesome
Thank you for working so hard on a great video ♡♡♡♡♡ ☆\ (• ◇ •)/☆
お疲れ様でした! I really enjoyed the video. Thanks for presenting facts that are actually fact. It always bothers me when people spread rumors or straight up lies. Again, thank you for your hard work, and welcome back! CZcams isn't the same without Rachel & Jun.
Rachel and Jun I learned quite a bit so thank you for your hard work!
Average Japanese person: Knows 6 different cicada species
Average American person: Doesnt even know what continent we live on or How many states there are.
There's obviously 2 states. Like I'm not even American and _i_ know that
(this is a joke lol)
@@muffintray994 XD
@@muffintray994 umm no. There's 3. New York, Los Angeles and Antarctica 😒
Theres the 13 colonies, and 50 states, so 50 -13, 47?
@@shurjoaunibar and in UK we speak British
Those 11 minutes passed really quickly.. Interesting facts!
lol
Okay, story time on number 35.
I was a young, naive exchange student, with maybe a month left in Japan while I was studying abroad. All was going pretty darn well that day. One of my classes was cancelled, and I had been up late the night before finishing an assignment, so marched my merry self back to my dormitory, was sending my daily photos to my friend in the US, and preparing to take a nap.
Out of the corner of my eye came one of those mother flipping centipedes crawling around on my curtains, easily a foot long. Again, being the naive American I was, the biggest insect I'd personally witnessed at that point were locusts and wolf spiders. I shrieked and then, crying, proceeded to message my friend about the atrocity as if she could fly over at hyper speed to kill a bug for me. My Japanese was rudimentary at best, but there was no way I could sleep with that bug in my room, so I had two options: wait upward of four hours for my neighbor to return from class to either kill it or help me ask someone to kill it, which could give the demon ample time to hide until it could kill me in my sleep, or utilize the magical powers of Google Translate to attempt to get my dorm parents to help.
Cue 20 minutes of me trying to explain to my dorm dad that there was a huge bug in my room that needed to die, partially based on us tip tapping words and phrases into cheap little flip phones and showing one another because we weren't sure if we were saying the word right (me with Japanese, him with English). Once he finally realized what I was saying he motioned to give me a little vacuum cleaner that A) couldn't sweep up something that big, and B) I'm such a cautious person in general I couldn't move fast enough to suck it up without it running away. Instead of risking such horrors, I lied and told him I was allergic xD Which he took super seriously and grabbed some heavy duty bug spray and a larger than life fly swatter, to join me on the epic quest of ridding my room of this bug. Needless to say he didn't get what I meant by "big bug" when I was telling him, because he was horrified too when he saw the thing! But within minutes the beast was finally dead. My neighbor later pointed out that my room was probably the perfect temperature for bugs to feel comfortable at, because while the rooms had AC I was perfectly used to my family and college dorms keeping buildings at a solid 80 degrees, so needless to say I spent my last month burrowed under blankets and in sweaters to make my room nonviable for life of any kind.
And thus, the story of how I nearly died in Japan comes to a close .u.
Silentgrace11 Glad to know you didn't get hurt. I hate centipedes.
Bruh... write a book. I would totally read it
Yes. Write a book, please.
Silentgrace11 Omg I think I love you. You need to start a blog about your adventures! Kindly plz let us know when you do. :D
I'm glad I read this😂
Corrections:
16. The pie chart shows 801 and 306 as average ages but they should say “all older than.”
26. The numbers are backwards in the first shot! Osaka did buy a 60 Hz generator and Tokyo bought a 50 Hz generator, as explained immediately afterward. 60 Hz is south and 50 Hz is north.
You can go over something a million times and there’s always something you overlooked. 😩 Thanks to everyone who spotted these!! If you see any other errors let us know so we can correct them!
Rachel and Jun ties are a Croatian invention, they were first worn by baron Trenk's pandurs and now they are worn all over the world from Japan to the USA.
Edit: I'm Croatian.
50 facts and you only had a few editing errors.. call it a win!
Fun fact that I didn’t know about ties. The stripes run differently in Japan than America. I went and checked the tie I bought my husband from my last visit to Japan....and b”gosh, Jun was right!! But then Jun is always right😉😉
hey rachel and jun (idk if this sounds stupid but) could you maybe make a video explaning the japanese health sytem etc. I am really curious about this i have read a bit about it on the internet but i would like to hear what someone who lives as a citizen in japan thinks about the health system of japan!
The last time this was mentioned, I went around and checked. The ties available in Croatia today have the same pattern as in Japan. The ties of the old times (of the above mentioned baron Trenk's soldiers) were all single-coloured and red.
i just appreciate that persona 4 was used as an example of japanese media/games with summer cicada background noises. also, it was weird recognising the specific sounds of the different cicadas from different movies i've watched and games ive played.
Ikr
I associate those cicada sounds with Animal Crossing.
i love persona 4 psp games. very japanese style!!
Rachel: "Construction barriers are often shaped like cute animals."
Chopper: "Calling me cute doesn't make me happy! You jerk!"
fork I just imagined him saying that lol
Awwwww 可愛いすぎる
Lol
チョッパー「そ!!そんな事言われても嬉しくねーぞコノヤロー♡」
onepiece is life
*32* * Husband wakes up, proceeds to kitchen.* *Honey there's bamboo in the kitchen!* *No there isn't!!* *Wife proceeds to go into the kitchen and walks straight into some bamboo.*
and wife claims she had been Bamboozled
I can imagine the cicadas in video games saying “ITS SUMMER! ITS SUMMER! ITS SUMMER!”
Oof now I do too
Yeah I hear them in animal crossing
I mainly hear them in hentai...
I always hear the minminzemi type
日本の文化を客観的に見てみると、普段している何気ない事も、珍しいと感じることが出来るよね。
あと、蝉の鳴き声は、時間帯とか、季節によって変わってくるからおもしろいよ。
“Ok, so were sword-smiths, but we cant make swords”
“Wdym?”
“The demand is decreasing”
“Hm..”
“Hm..”
“Mini swords for cooking! :D”
:D
:D
:D
:D
:D
I love Rachel's voice here, you can really tell that she is enjoying telling you these facts. You can hear that she is smiling and it is making me smile!! :)
I love Rachael's voice too. It sounds like the video in my English comprehension text paper
Each time I saw her video, I feel like I'm in text
Anisha Gurung imo i like juns more
Other youtuber’s clickbait : BOOBS
Racheal and Jun’s clickbait : CATS
Mai uwu way better than boobs
The best kind of clickbait.
Well I mean it’s working
OCD Stig ew don't mix those things
Marc-André Demers dont call a cat ”thing”
"Why keep a good idea just and idea? Let's put it into action!" - Japanese people
I love being Japanese
@@AuroraPolkka same
czcams.com/video/IoAs46t5uVE/video.html
Intesrting facts about Japan
1:36ちょっと待て日本人でも初耳
それなwww
それは流石に知らなかった。
I had noticed that 50/60 Hz mistake but I didn't care. It happens! You guys are great and I love learning a little more about Japan!
My mom chases me and my sisters around the house with cicada shells and I've learned to run so fast because of her
Just picked up an audiobook in order to start to recognize words and phrases.
tterby1 cool
JoJo Marie I'm sorry that somehow went to the wrong thread. I apologize.
tterby1 that's okay, haha, I was wondering why your comment was a little random
eek shedinja
Yo! I am a Japanese but even as a Japanese, I didn’t know so many things about my country lol. Thank you for showing us a wonderful video! Xoxo
Have a lovely day. Blessings and light to you.
what’s xoxo?
@@msou8400 idk what it especially means but its like sending a kiss or something like that
@@msou8400 it's a kiss text emoticon
Same! I'm half Japanese, but I didn't even know about the Cicada thing
the terminal village thing made me sad. Their culture and history ends with their population and the whole village eventually becomes abandoned
I have a feeling foreigners will repopulate them as time goes on
To be honest, not only Japan has such problem
This was such a great video! I'm a massive fact nerd, and I don't think I knew anything in this video before. You can really see how much time and effort you guys put into this thank you so much!
Caitlin Shelbourne at least I knew about the bamboo growth :p
I’m learning Japanese because of you two, and have been studying for over 10 months now! I really want to visit Japan!
I'm going to start studying Japanese too in august ☺ wish me luck! ♡
Yay! Good luck, and never give up (woah that rhymed).
Hahaha Thanks!!
I'm starting to learn Japanese as well~♡
OMG thank you for all the likes 😆❤️
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The reason kitchen knives are sharper than katanas isn't due to a lack of sharpening methodology in katanas. It's due to the fact that a katana needs to be sharp _and_ flexible, so it doesn't break when cutting. A harder steel can hold a sharper edge, but a harder steel also is less flexible and breaks more easily. So katanas have to compromise between sharpness and flexibility. They're still plenty sharp though. (One way katanas accomplish this is through differential hardening.)
Kitchen cutlery doesn't need to be as flexible as a katana because it isn't exposed to the same longitudinal stresses as a sword. You can pretty much focus on sharpness without worrying about flexibility.
Thanks for the awesome video!
That was actually really fascinating! Thank you!
As you know, katanas also have areas of three distinct hardness levels as well as differential hardening for the needs of the sword - core, back, and edge.
Wow! Was totally waiting for the classic “Katanas are the best swords ev3r!!!!” But that was extremely informative and something I didn’t know. Thank you!
Rurouni Kenshin feelings XD
Konglim Khoo, that would affect individual swords, not katanas as a whole vs. knives as a whole. That was the claim Rachel made-- that kniveS can now be made sharper than katanaS, due to improvements in knife technology. 10:23
Plus you waaaay overstate the differences that would exist in "quality of the metal" among swords made by the same skilled swordsmith.
My original point was that knives and swords serve different purposes, so they have different needs when it comes to attributes like sharpness and flexibility. That's still a better explanation than just saying "Kitchen knives can be made sharper than swords now!" Plus, any good katana is already razor sharp. Making a distinction between the sharpness of the two based upon the TECHNICAL ABILITY TO SHARPEN them is misleading at best.
I'd like to see a video of you guys sharing Japanese folklore or mythology or just stories told to kids to teach them or scare them.
Me too
that would be cool
Yeah! Youkai rock!
yess
YES!
"This is, in part, due to many reasons"
*Speech 100*
Reaching the word count for an essay
That 50/60hz thing is seriously mind boggling.
You should see how electrical grids are in other countries that had to purchase the generators from foreign companies. It gets really weird.
I found it fascinating that they have Micros that run on 50/60 Hz.
I think their wall current is 100V (+/-)
The electricity thing is very unconvinient. Im sure they knew it was gonna be a problem but gave in to the presure of usas government. XD
I want that Pikachu bus. I don’t know what I’d use it for. I just want it.
kindergarten bus
I often see it when I am going to school.
Same.
I feel you....
Same
Me: "Japan looks really cool, I would love to go over there."
*Video shows a big fuckoff centipede*
"Welp looks like I can't go there anymore."
I don’t understand
Tbh my concerns are less about the centipedes and more about the hand-sized hornets 😨
@@IceUrsa216 show me hand size hornet
Googled them, and they were a little smaller than I remembered, sorry. Still big enough to take up plenty of space in your palm, and my nightmares 😅
Search "asian giant hornet" if you're interested!
@@IceUrsa216 okay
日本人でもへーと思う事が多かった
Wow!! 50!! よく集めたねー！すごい！👏👏 My daughter's kindergarten bus was 'Pikachu'! 😊
Ahhh she was so lucky!! haha
Cute ☺️
tomoko tomoko Can I be your daughter please?
Hehe I seen one too!
so lucky!
WHY IS JAPAN SO MUCH MORE ADVANCED THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD.
except that half of the technology/habits are still in the 80s era lol
have you ever heard of China??
IKR
The Dancing Squirrel
*cough cough* China *cough*
In some ways... I think every country is advanced in a few areas and woefully inept in others.
6:25 hah! In scandinavia, the sun never really goes down in the middle of summer, especially if you're very north. On the flipside though, on the winters it's the opposite. The sun goes down at 3 p.m and goes up at 8-9 a.m. November, december is pretty depressing... Go to school/work it's dark, come home, it's dark.
I m Bangladeshi,i like japan 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵♥♥♥🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Same
Thank you!!
We love you,too!!!!!!
Hi Bangladeshi
( •8• ) Thank you！
I will find those native cats!
I want a full video of Jun slicing things with that knife he sharpened.
Him slicing random stuff was more satisfying to watch than those actual videos called "THE MOST SATISFYING THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN!!!"
Go to juns kitchen
DrGrukar McNinjaSixthGun at first I thought you meant he should cut the cats with his knife and I had to read the sentence again 😅
FINALLY I KNOW WHAT THE FLOWER IN JUNS VIDEO WAS!!!!!!!!!!!
SAME I WANTED TO KNOW TOO LOL
I've experienced how tough it was for muslim to do Shubuh prayer (early morning prayer before the sun rise) in Japan during summer .-.
ALLAH !!! IT MUST BE SO COLD
How would you do it in a place such as Alaska when then sun never sets or rises? It's just always there.
@@rachelrecycles369 In such places people can adopt the times of an area further south in the country or many go by Saudi Arabian time. Otherwise northern Finland would only allow you half an hour to eat every day for the month of Ramadan
That explains the obsession I have noticed with super sharp kitchen knives in some Japanese videos
:0 *Who needs a Real Sword when you have a Japanese Cooking Knife?!*
I’m gonna move to japan some day and I’m gonna own like six of them just for self defense and to be cool
I’m kidding about that last bit but my life goal is to move to japan and get two cats and learn Japanese and Korean! XD
lemme add in katana
i have a 300$ damascus japan chef knife, it literally cut through everything in my kitchen
now i know what this means!!!🔰🔰🔰🔰🔰
Wait how did ya do that?
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Pineappleflamingo :3 is that on iPhone or what is that
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GG_CoverYT it’s apple
7:36 I wasn't expecting to see Persona 4 here, but I'm happy nonetheless
私は日本人ですが知らない情報が多くありました。
勉強になります
They’re back!!💜
ド라면Doramyun ikr 👌
This is such an awesome bunch of facts!
The cicadas here (just north of Dallas Texas) are so loud that you have to go inside to have a conversation this time a year.
Yeah, my family and I used to live in Dallas for many years. Our German friends and relatives couldn't get the sound out of their heads after hearing cicadas for the first time. My neighbour friends and I used to tie little firecrackers to the cicadas and set them off into the sky. Bang! Well, that was 1970s when things were different for the kids.
It's the same in Chicago!
They're quite loud in Florida as well. You can easily hear them inside on a hot day. It's why when I first heard them in a anime during a summer scene, it felt so natural!
7:43 マジ？ww
そんなに歯医者いるの？！(日本人)
Some of the facts Rachel seemed to be completely amazed by are totally normal for me as a Swede, like driving camps. And the sun rising at 4 in summer? Here is never even sets! xD
Best facts of Japan I've ever heard. I cannot wait to visit Japan someday! I am so ready to go!
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ミンミンゼミとアブラゼミとツクツクボウシしか分からんて笑笑
This video is not only fascinating but also incredibly useful for me! I can use a lot of this information in my geography exams this year, particularly the info on the incompatible grids issue after the earthquake/tsunami and the ageing population. It'll be great to have rather "unique" details (in the sense that not many British 18 year olds know them) in my essays, thanks so much for this and I hope you make more of these! I learned a lot
日本人でも知らない情報多いんじゃないか？
面白かった〜！
Чта?
あなたのにほんご！🇯🇵
申し訳ありませんが、異なる言語の翻訳者を使用していますので、わかりません
I dont understand anything but okay
That bread thing is rly clever omf
Emily Barclay I was about to say that. Like I didn't even consider anywhere else would do it differently...
和輝Kazuki In Germany some super markets let you use a machine to slice whatever bread you like however thick you like :)
Fancy Hatching We have that in England as well.
What do they do in countries without this system? sell the bread unsliced?
dip.C you either know how thick the bread is sliced by that brand or judge by eye or buy unsliced bread. Usually in america all the prepacked loaves are the sameish slice size unless marked otherwise but artisanal breads tend to be the size that that specific bread was traditionally cut at. And sometimes its just whatever they want it cut at. My family buys mostly unsliced bread honestly, or we make our own. XD
This is why I love your channel, too many knowledge in every video 😍
3:47
*JAPANESE SYMBOL FOR BEGINNERS*
if u remember that you deserve a veterans discount
Rasim Efe Everybody knows. That is basic knowlegde lmao
0:25 You throw that orange ball at robber/shoplifter in America,you are most likely to get hit with a lawsuit.
The only reason I can identify some cicadas is from catching so many in Animal Crossing: New Leaf... which is an originally Japanese game...
Sadie Blackwell Same here! High five!
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Same
Ikr as soon as u step outside in new leaf cicadas are all u here!
It IS a Japanese game, technically. Nintendo is Japanese.
7:27 i remember when i used to catch them with my friends. near my apartment there was a park, and during summer there would be a lot of them. so nostalgic, this was 5 years ago 😭😭😭
727 wysi
The Japan buses look soooooo cute
I love that you used a P4 clip as pop culture example! ♡
what always bothered me in japan: the sun goes down wayyy to early…it gets dark at 6pm, even though its not even close to winter :(
This is probably my biggest complaint. I need more sunlight!
Those of us in the Midwest would be right at home. Sunrise is at 4:55am in the summer, and sunset is at 4pmish in the winter.
very similar to my country, 6pm IS SO DARK.
right?? recently i visited and the sun rose at 4am and set at 7pm... it should just be pushed back an hour or two!
Sunrise and sunset is determined by date and which latitude, which is how far you are from the equator. So the sunset time in northern Hokkaido will be very different than it is in Okinawa.
Can’t believe Rachel called Dallas Dal-as I’m crying and shaking rn
Now you know what it's like to hear Americans pronounce British towns
I love Rachel and Jun
Basically, Japan does everything better
except that 50hz and 60hz thing.
Pretty much.
the high suicide rate is the best part imo. 10/10
Except for food, the food is bland af
despairinq that's true.
A train in Tokyo stops once a week. And the cause is suicide.
Jump in front of the train. Like Mayuri.
There are many office workers who commit suicide.
The cause is too long working hours. The law stipulates that up to 40 hours per week, but most companies do not.
This is just one of many problems in Japan.
I love Japan.
Me tooooo
I have never been but it seems great! loved this video
I live in the southeastern USA....we get loud cicadas too in the summer. you can hear them from inside your house even with all the doors and windows closed.
There’s a reason I’m learning Japanese
がんばれ👍
I learned Japanese because of geopolitical relations that I was too young to understand at the time lmao (I live in another Pacific Rim country and our schools decided to teach Japanese because of trade relations between my country and Japan.)
Wish you would have added a tiny bit more to no.8, i.e. the lack of street names. The block and number system also includes the age of the structure, with no. 1 of block X being the oldest or first address in that block. That is why the numbers within a block are sometimes very random in placement. So, the system is only spatially accurate to a point.
There are several historic forces at play as to why this is so. Some of these include, most land previously under the control of a monarch or emperor, limited usable land, rapid and continuous rebuilding, frequent disasters or destruction, and even the level of literacy.
The type of numbering system stems from and helps reinforce the mental map that a community uses.
1:18 How do you navigate in the streets? I don't understand.
THAT’S WHAT I SAID
What did they do before gps?! haha
To be fair, a lot of places have maps with the numbered regions posted somewhere so maybe people just used to use maps, same as we did back in the day. :p
Simon and Martina (Some other youtubers) mentioned this once in a podcast. They called somebody to pick them up, but Simon and Martina were waiting on one side of the block and the driver was on the other side of the block, and it took them a while to realize. I'm not sure if this was the cause, but it may have been. I'm sure it isn't a problem most of the time for locals, but I'm sure it has to come up
In which podcast?
They started doing their podcast on youtube recently, but I think this was before that, when they only had it on SBS PopAsia. I think it was just within the past couple of months, but I don't remember exactly when. Definitely not too long ago. The overarching conversation had something to do with how Martina was saying she couldn't really stay mad at most people in Japan and how polite they are or something like that. This particular story she brought up to illustrate how the taxi driver was so apologetic afterwards even though it wasn't really his fault, and even though she was upset when she thought he was late as soon as he apologized she wasn't upset anymore.
I didn't know they did podcasts on SBS PopAsia :O Iwonder if it's still available. i'll look into it.
Edit : it still is ! I now know what to do in my spare time.
police: is that a sword?!
me: no its a big kitchen knife
police: alright, sorry for the bother
❤Your channel is literally my comfort place. You make me so happy. Love you❤
8:32 mercy from overwatch , is that you?
Ash Lim Same lol
OMG it is
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What??
Ash Lim I knowww I noticed that too!! It looks just like her and I’m pretty sure it it her lol
You make Japan sound like an even more interesting country! Once I finish my bachelor's degree in English I'll be looking for a job there!
I just started watching 'The Devil Is A Part Timer', so number five helped me understand something in it. Thanks!
*I'm MOVING !!* damn right I am
I am livid from those cicada noises. I am in Japan for the first time and they are so loud
Lyra Cole I’m in japan too! I haven’t really heard cicadas though..
bunnyluvnae Then you're not really in Japan lol. Go to the nearest playground with trees and poles, your ears will be destroyed
ElectricPyroclast or maybe I’m in a busy area... pretty sure I’m in japan bud
Southern United States has these hoes too. They are the worst.
bunnyluvnae I'm in the Kansai area and they are SO LOUD when i bike to school
4:56 it’s not a cute animal. ITS CHOPPER FROM ONE PIECE OMG
bakayarou, watashiwa racoon janai.
Hope someone with Japanese knowledge corrects me. :P
blasttrash hmmmm, if I am correct, that means “idiot/moron, I’m not a raccoon”
@@gonfreecs7347 I know, but I am not sure if I constructed that sentence in a correct from a grammatical standpoint. I only remembered few words and made that sentence lol
Lol ok
YEAH AHHAHAHAHAHAHA
I loved this!! Would love more videos like this!! You guys are the best!
Reasons why i love japan:
1-Anime ( gore like Devilman and Elfen Lied)
2- People are educated
3-police is nice in there
4-i like their culture
I love cicadas for the first week and then I just wish they would let me be lazy and sleep on the weekends >
They’re SO LOUD haha
They become background static :)
TahliaEspen I wish they did that for me. I swear my brain is like “6am! It’s 6am! Wake up and listen to the cicadas! Wake up!!!!”
have you tried some earplugs?
BlackJoe23 yep. Can’t sleep with them in... it sounds like my head is inside a seashell.
すごく久しぶりです！
待ってました！日本人も知らないことも書いてました笑
Um what
これは日本人でも面白い🥰
I love how when Jun was talking about cicadas, I thought about how you hear cicadas chirping when it is summer playing Persona 4, then the gameplay image immediately appears on the screen.
Do you mean to tell me that Japanese are so physically clean that their have genes evolved to reflect this?!!! I would PAY to have dry earwax and a little less body odor.
n Unfortunately, the people that don’t have this gene TYPICALLY don’t use deodorant. Rush hour on a Japanese train in the summer can’t get pretty smelly. Then again I’m sure that’s everywhere you go haha
I don't like having dry earwax tbh. But I like not having much body odor or in my case body hair as well lol
Zoe Kouf It may have been selected for via sexual selection. Some Europeans have the gene but maybe we didn't care enough for it to become widespread. There are things about Europeans Japanese wish they had and maybe it comes down to what we prioritised in mate selection. However it could also be related to other pressures or just random.
@@OneMoreGuyjininJapanTheir deodorants are designed for people with the nonsmelly genes IIRC. I moved there with an agency and they told us to bring our own deodorant from home.
It’s so cool to see what Japan is like and how it’s different from America! You guys did a great job on this video! I hope for more to come!
*TAKE ME TO 🇯🇵JAPAN 🇯🇵*
TakemetoJapan.com lol I want to go SO BAD!!
Juns english sounds so good! And Rachel has gotten better at Japanese!
I love this channel
I love Japan
@suben me too!
1:11
Just imagine getting hit by one of these things.
We were actually initially planning on one of us throwing it at the other, but we ended up not having the time.
I imagine it's not super fun, though. ( ﾟдﾟ )
...you were going to throw a bus at each other? o.o
I might die from laughing
Oh whoops I totally assumed this was about the paintballs. Didn’t check the timing. I’m guessing it’s about the buses now... oh my god
Hahahahahahahaha
Rachel and Jun lol XD
3:45 **skeppy trolling flashbacks**
As a Japanese resident, I have never seen a cicada because when I hear them I run and close my eyes
I also don't like cicadas
I'm in Japan right now and I'm loving it so far!!!
Congratulations on becoming a fabled island nation!
Angry Applesauce oh fuck
Wow the paintball idea for the thieves should be used in other countries!
Well in some banks when they get robbed they put paint explosives in, so when the robbers open them they get doused in paint that doesn't wash off.
But yeah, imagine how easy I'd be for the police to find a suspect running from the scene of a robbery when they have vibrant colour all over them!
cant they bring a bag with clothes and change
Dan Catface // Prince Daniel they needs to run, not change clothes.
Measles European Chickenpox ...? Learn decent grammar
The closest thing I can think of that we have in the US is, in some clothing stores, the clothes have a magnetic tag/clip thing on them that can only be removed at the register once you pay for them. Otherwise, if you try to remove it forcefully, it'll let out a bunch of ink, or dye that is hard to wash off
As for convenience/grocery stores, there's just a bunch of cameras everywhere. Or, if the store can't afford enough cameras, they're placed in locations like at the entrance/exit, or right at the register
I live in Arizona and we have cicadas too!! I recognized the sound of them immediately though when you played the audio. It's funny when out of state people hear them. Heard say "why are the trees screaming" lol
i always come back to this video once in a while, i never get bored by it at all
I love the sound of cicadas! We have tons of them here in Mississippi in the summer and it's the one redeeming part of the horrible heat and humidity. I love hearing cicadas in the background on Japanese shows.