Life in Japan as a "normal" person? || Sam in Tokyo
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- I'm telling you more about what it's like to live in Japan as a normal person and how you can move here too if you want!
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The camera quality is excellent. Very good, informative answers to those questions. Thank you for braving that heat and humidity to make a video for us.
I like the new camera a lot! It definitely has a very crisp image and shows a lot of the world behind you. As long as it won't break your arm while carrying it then I think it would be nice to use. The ambient interim shots between questions were a very nice touch.
Honestly, if you're able to go out and do things I think you should. It allows the people who are stuck inside a way to live vicariously through you and your videos.
I'm really happy you made a video and I hope you'll find the motivation and drive to continue making them if you want to.
#4 is my question! Thank you so much for taking the time to feature and answer it! It's nice to know that it's doable and that knowing Japanese makes it even easier.
Really like the camera quality! Also, this video was super interesting. Already looking forward to the 'dating in Japan' vid! 😄
Pretty nice topics explanations! Also the cam quality and audio is perfect, nice acquisition
It is really very nice to see you make another video. I liked this video and how well you answered all the questions. It looks as beautiful as it did 50 years ago. But I remember it being so crowded and with Covid it look vacant presently. The video quality and audio were very good to excellent. I hope you continue to have time to make more videos and to show more of living in Tokyo now. I like these YT videos more than IG. I don't remember such heat the year I lived outside of Tokyo.
Awesome video, great questions! Love the video quality! It must have been so hot that day! Ganbare!
Glad to have you back.
thank you for al the information & the camera qaulity is great have a lovely day ( Judy )
I don’t know if you have noticed my comment in your earlier videos or not. But I am your secret admirer and respect you a lot from bottom of my heart. You have braved and withered many storms in your life. Your videos always provides solace and a smile on my face. Keep up this work and be blessed.
I don't think any situation in the world should stop you from uploading when and where you want.
I like having videos that aren't all about the mess in the world. It's a good distraction and I'm not expecting vloggers to be addressing political matters.
Nice vlog! Thank you for sharing! Arigatoiu 😊🇯🇵🌸
Cool video, interesting content and the video quality is great! Looking forward to more content
Interesting thanks for sharing Sam. Anything you would have posted. Would have been a welcome break from the crap going on in America. Great to see your still enjoying your life in Japan 🇯🇵.
So glad you came back, missed you very much. Video and audio quality are excellent, but we’re here for the content which is excellent. Looking forward to your next video, stay safe and healthy, wish you all the best!
Love you are back Sam!!
Glad you're back. The camera is pretty good.
Hi Sam! Ich fand dein Video wirklich ganz toll. Die Atmosphäre war super entspannt, keine unnötigen Musik- oder Einblendungen und die 20min vergingen wie im Flug! Ich studiere ab Oktober im Master Japanologie weiter und versuche nächstes Jahr von N3 endlich auf N2 zu kommen. Trotz (oder gerade wegen) Japanologie-Studium ist es wirklich schwierig zu sagen, wo ich einmal landen werde. Aber dein Kommentar, dass es eigentlich egal ist, welchen Fach-Abschluss man hat, und es nur zählt, dass man einen hat, hat mich definitiv motiviert. Ich plane momentan 2021 oder 2022 wieder ein Auslandssemester zu machen, um eventuell bereits Connections zu knüpfen, die ich direkt für nach meinem Abschluss nutzen kann. Du sieht, das Thema ist wirklich aktuell bei mir, dein Video kam also wie gerufen! Danke! LG, Carolin
Viel Glück!!
I am so glad that you uploaded new video.😄👍✨ I am so sorry for you that you could not participate a Yosakoi dance festival this year and all the dancers would be feeling the same. But as time passess these events will be taken place at a smaller scale and less crowded manner. The severe summer heat usually last for two weeks in Tokyo and the temperature goes down gradually so it will be better next week. Your phone and internet costs are a little expensive, btw?
登録者、３万人突破おめでとうございます！ キャノンの新カメラで撮影した映像がきれいですね、そして音もいい。手ブレも少ないので見やすいです。 最初の映像で背景に神社、木々の緑にセミの音が合わさってすごく美しい！ 日本の夏が表現されている。 もちろん、Ｓａｍさんもいつも綺麗。 東北とか北海道などへもぜひ旅行してください（笑）
Samu chan, it's so good to have you back! If you ever lack ideas for videos, I'm sur the community will be glad to help anytime. Thanks for the interesting topics and the camera stability looks great. You're improving your heat resistance! ;-) I'm one of these strange people who enjoy the hot season and who goes through 40° without too much hassle... and I like to visit Japan in Summer when it my hair would be a royal mess! I hope you can still enjoy your tikyoite Summer. Stay safe. :-)
Thanks! I think I wouldn’t mind it so much if it was dry heat but when you’re drowning in the air and perpetually damp, it’s quite tough 💦
@@SamInTokyoo I see exactly what you mean as our European dry heat is probably more bearable? I might have experienced むしむし weather in Mexico, Brazil and Martinique but I always wonder if it's comparable. Anyway my skin seemed to be more ("sweatily") moisturised. ^_^
geez! Always a really nice surprise to see a video from you pop up in the feed!
It’s like a rare unicorn that suddenly appears, and blesses us with a video.
Haha!
ps Camera looks great 👍
Great vid, Sam! Most of the things you say about Japan are informative and accurate. There are some other things that I know little about, like dating in Japan :) Keep it going. Please spread the factual faces of this country!
We missed you Sam.
The video quality has improved so yes keep the camera
You should keep making videos that you want. Your videos can be an escape for some people, which can be a huge benefit.
My husband and I are going to look into teaching English once covid has calmed down. We both have had professional careers for the past 6 years so we hope it'll be an easier transition out of English teaching if/when we get there. 🤞🤞
It will never be easy and will be almost impossible. If you don’t study enough about career and job getting system of Japan, it will be a suicidal decision in your life. There are a lot of unique systems of job hunting and recruitment in Japan that you cannot know about in English while many wrote about that in Japanese medias from books to web-media.
Without understanding the systems, it will never ever possible for you to get a proper career in Japan.
You have to catch up with the rulebooks of games of life in Japan which Japanese people have in their brain
Your comments about the "long-term" stay vs. "short-term" stay people are so true (14:23). Even as a viewer, it's difficult to watch people leave Japan, lose contact with their friends there, and often post less often. The tight-knit community within Japan let's us see you all doing things together, and see that these friendships are genuine - Unlike the typical collaborations seen outside the "gaigen bubble". I wish more vloggers understood that just because you have to leave Japan, it doesn't mean you suddenly become uninteresting, less funny or insightful. I feel some view their home country as boring compared to Japan. The truth is that we're subscribed to *you*, not your location.
So true. A travel vlogger I follow had to return to his home city and after quarantine began to showcase all sorts of weird and wonderful sites that are completely off the tourist track. When restrictions began to lift he travelled locally to explore unique Airbnb options like tug boats, tree houses and railway cars that normally don't get a lot of attention.
Though I'm not suggesting that it's Sam's ouvre, there's one person with more viewers than makes sense, who uploads episode after episode of herself (without ever showing her face or speaking, only subtitles)as she makes toast, eats lunch, cooks soup, makes the bed, vacuums the floor, changes the bedding, goes out and about. People watch it because it's Japan. Comments say it's relaxing. Who knows why they choose it?
I think the key is in the title of the platform. It's "you do you" when it comes to CZcams. People who resonate with you will stay.
Ich find diese Videoreihe super. Meistens sieht man ja nur die privilegierte Seite der CZcamsrn und Models, die irgendwie Heidengeld ausgeben, was einfach so unrealistisch für normale Menschen ist und sich nie relatable anfühlt. Ich fand das Visathema super interessant!
I’m doing exactly that - I’m going to language school for 6 months (as soon as students are allowed in) and then looking for a job! I have an MBA so I’m hoping to find a job in the business sector. Thank you so much for sharing!
MBA is useless in Japan and many of Japanese businessmen in higher position hate it and think that MBA is one of the wrost parts of worthless american style of business.
@@ForUploadin I got the degree in the US, thus focused on western business, it will likely help me secure a job as a consultant for Japanese businesses looking to be successful in foreign markets. Or at least the Japanese folks I've spoken with have said this is the case. I also have the skills to be very successful in marketing. The degree has become increasingly valued by Japanese businesses since the financial crisis. So can't say I agree, but an opinion is an opinion!
@@Lifeisnow1234 I wouldn’t argue with you and what you said are true indeed.
But What you heard from them are Merely true in a very minor part of business scene in Japan which are influenced by foreign ideas and foreign people.
As a matter of fact, Japanese people that you talked with are obviously unusual.
You are lacking of research about Japanese business scenes and markets and all your researches are coming from what are available in English and far from the reality.
First of all, in Japan, generally speaking , companies don’t care about what kind of degree you got other than doctor.
I have a degree of art and literature but now I am working as an engineer partly in a life ware factory.
I am doing all of those things by myself at the same time, sales , design, CAD drawing, machines involved engineering, intellectual property management, dealing with FDA shipping abroad , Public relations like advertising or arranging booths in international exhibitions accounting and almost everything and every thing.
None of them has anything to do with my degree.
I learnt all of those things by myself from books I bought after being employed by the company.
This is quite normal.
For example one of my friends , who god a degree of religion study of buddhism is now working as an accountant in a plastic material engineering company．
Another friend who got the degree of infancy educations, is now working as a software-engineer in an IT company.
This is very very basic and general characteristic of Japanese business career scene. If you don’t know about this, you obviously lack of research..
I don’t mean that Japanese hate American business but in reality, Japanese business people will respect Donald Trump or Cornel Sanders who don’t have MBA and made it in business in wild way because they are considered to know the wild reality of business other hand, they make big fan of ‘ case studies’ you learnt in business schools.
For instance,
Do you know about the vice CEO of Toyota who is also a vice president of Japan omni management association?
He just graduated from a high school and didn’t go to any college or any university.
In other countries somebody like him will end up in being a labour in factory lines but in Japan , without any degree, if you make efforts, it is possible to be at the highest position in such a global company.
Even after becoming a vice president, at least once a week he forced himself to work as a blue collar labour in TOYOTA factory to keep knowing the reality.
That’s is considered worthy in Japanese business scenes and that’s why MBA is useless.
Watch again what sam’s talking about from12:00
Yes, it’s been a long time since we seen you, however, it is pleasant when you make an appearance. It’s good to see you in so many casual environments. Please don’t stay gone so long next time. The camera quality is terrific. Thank you.......
glad to see you again
6:58 Like Haruhi Suzumiya endless 8 arc? I have always wanted to visit Japan, but now I simply can't and it is sad.
心配したけど、元気で良かった。笑顔が素敵になってきましたね。聞きやすい発音勉強になります。お身体ご自愛ください。
Almost a year in Tokyo myself, I have never seen it so bloody empty!
Camera looks great, but I'm sure you can switch out for something lighter if you're going to vlog something particularly active, happy to watch you anyway. :)
Am I the only foreigner in Japan who actually kind of likes the mask culture? It keeps my face warm in the winter, I wear less makeup and it "protects" people from my RBF. I agree with what you said about making friends with other foreigners. When one of my best friends moved back to the UK, it felt like I was breaking up with someone. We both cried.
Maybe it’s different where you live but trains are very crowded in my area. I have to go to work one/two times a week and work near Shinjuku. Most people there seem to be commuting to work normally 💦
That’s strange, almost everyone I know is currently teleworking and I have noticed that when I go to the office (only a few times a week), the trains are definitely emptier than they used to be before corona! :o
Sam In Tokyo Maybe it’s just not everywhere the same? The Fukutoshin is a little crowded, and I always go one hour earlier to work to avoid that. But it also depends on the direction etc. And I assume bc it’s Shinjuku.
It's definitely less crowded but still crowded. I haven't had a packed like sardines ride in a long time and I take the Chuo line from Hachioji.
久しぶりの動画うれしいです
よさこいソーランの活動できないんだ 残念ですね 体がなまる？
次のupload楽しみにしてます
元気そうなのがなりよりです
Thank you very much for the video! I'd like to ask if it is possible to find marketing job for someone with N1 level Japanese but not majoring in marketing (I majored in Japanese culture and language)?
Team Canon 800D! I want to upgrade to the Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM Lens (Currently using the kit lens).
Glad to see you! Even the cicadas make it sound extremely hot! Do they have air conditioning there? NVM, you answered that.
This is a very good overview of what it is like to move to Japan as a Gajin. I've always wondered what it is like integrating in to such a different culture from a Western nation.
Just out of curiosity, how hard is it for taller people to get by in Japan? I'm 6'2", so I've always wondered if I would tower over everyone and bump my head on everything...
Yes Steve, you will tower over many people. Fair warning: in some hotel bathrooms you might have to sit to pee (or point and shoot from the door). I'm 5'2" and can palm the ceiling of many hotel bathrooms.😖🤣
Hahaha 😂
Do you eat out frequently? To me the only reason to go to Japan are the food , technological innovation , and sights. Can you do a video on technology or designs that you did not find in Germany such as the window designs are different or that they still are not using smart phones or something of that sort.
Very normal and very cool
The heat is one thing but the humidity will turn a short walk into an adventure 😅 I recommend visitors travel between about the second week of October through cherry blossom season. People planning on living there year round better have plenty of hats, sunscreen and water. I'd rather deal with a bit of rain than heat stroke.
The directional audio seemed okay, I wonder if a lavalier mic might be better when there is so much ambient sounds. On the question of whether a camera is worth the weight vs. a phone or action cam on a gimbel, might come down to lighting conditions and audio options. One solution is to have multiple setups. 🙂 Keep trying different ideas and you'll find out what works for you.
Good advice on the best months to enjoy life in Japan. I could never do the summers or the rainy season.
So weird seeing no other people in the video--it's like a zombie apocalypse hit Tokyo.
so many people in the city. no lock down in Japan. government only advice, no order.you can visit Okinawa. I hope you don't deliver false imfo otherwise ignorant people would believe what you said.
Good to see you back👍 and keeping well 😁, you do know stroking fluffy mic 🎤 covers means mandatory asmr video shall be expected 😂
🤔What to do in lockdown, 💡 do online courses, read books that deserve to be read, swot up on modern history so no politician or celebrity fauxtester can try to get you to buy into a lie or a spun cause... and in general use the time to self reflect and hit the ground running when life returns to normal
Différent times today. I wanna travel
なんにせよ元気そうだし、日本生活にも馴染んでいるようで何よりです。
もうすっかりカメラも使いこなせてるみたいだね。俺のオリンパスはなかなか思い通りにならない、、、
Holy cicada! :)
私の国を紹介してくれてありがとう！𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 ᕱ⑅︎ᕱ
あなたは良いカメラを持っていますね。関西にも来てください。
Wait, do you mean 42 degrees Celsius in terms thermal sensation or actual temperature? If the latter is true, Jesus that’s hot
My guess it is the 'feels like' temperature accounting for humidity, etc.
I forget you are german since your accent is so subtle, just realised you probably speak at least 3 languages, thats impressive
サムが言う「ガイジンバブル」から離れてると、日本人の男からどんな状況でどんなふうに声を掛けられるのか気になる。
Missed the semi buzz
That wide angle lens makes it looks like you lost some weight. Old jvlogger trick I guess
Great to see you back. I was just wondering how you're doing in tokyo and here you upload a video.
what happened to ur channel? Seems like videos got deleted?
If you look on her home page, Sam has made a "playlist" of her older videos. Classic Sam content is alive and well. Enjoy! Link to playlist: bit.ly/32eldMO
Nompack she moved her old videos that were on here to under playlists
love your vlogs! you ma fav white girl in japan. Make more videos, we bored at home.
Wow! Over $1,200 USD per month without food, transport, or fun? It sounds like it can get pricey.
Tokyo for sure is not cheap to live in!
I pay a bit more than that in L.A. County and although it's an apartment bigger than hers, it's an older building with very thin walls and no appliances are included. Coin operated shared laundry, no bills included. And health insurance? Ha! That's unaffordable to me.
落ち着いたビデオに癒されます。よさこいも見たいな
日系人から見ても可愛い((o(｡･ω･｡)o))
I think dating in Japan shouldn't be that difficult for you. I'm guessing maybe you are too picky or most Japanese men are not your type.
you are beautiful.
Please do not walk around in a hot summer day.
It's not done here.
You would got tanned much now I think.
I want to get tan so it’s ok!