Japan Snitches Paid $63 to Expel Foreigners?!

Ajouté : 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]This is such an interesting topic.

[00:00:03]Topic. This is something I'm seeing on social media. We get through these trends. I think it's like rage bait.

[00:00:08]This one in particular was covered by Matcha Samurai, who's somebody I've been seeing on on Instagram a lot. I laugh all the time from from the takes. So, I think it's it's like tongue and cheeks cheek somewhat true, but yet it's it's like confusing, but yet it's so true. So this this one it says here from a real post backlash erupts as Japan plans to give $63 to citizens 10,000 yen to snitch on illegal immigrants at work.

[00:00:39]This plays into issues that are taking part internationally, especially in the United States. This political debate gets people's blood boiling whether you're on the left or the right. um what happens in Japan is completely a a different subject I like to think and it's uh a Japan only issue but there's some truth to this and then yet the matcha samurai has a funny take on it let's just take a quick look at this >> cancer like a cancer >> and it's and it's somewhat true as Japan plans to give $63 to citizen who snitch on they KNOW WHAT THEY DOING.

[00:01:22]AH, CUZ there's so many snitches in Japan.

[00:01:24]>> I had a good time with this.

[00:01:25]>> Honestly, some Japanese people are so Oh my god. But this is why Japan's safe AND CLEAN THOUGH. YEAH, CUZ in the Japanese society, you know, community neighborhood, they snitch on each other. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU DON'T THROW AWAY rubbish in a certain way, YOUR NEIGHBORS WILL SNITCH ON YOU TO LIKE A COUNCIL or like police and you WILL GET A LETTER SAYING LIKE, "OH, you didn't discard rubbish correctly, so please do so from next time otherwise you'll get fined or something." I'm not even joking. And then you'll be hated by neighbors and you won't be able to live there because it's going to be too uncomfortable to live. Yes, that's what I'm saying. this will work perfectly.

[00:02:08]>> I want to stop here. He's he's hitting he's hitting some really sensitive topics here that are extraordinarily true. If you do live in Japan and if you have been living in Japan, you know that you fear your neighbors maybe more than you would feel fear the police in many ways. Um, one of the reasons why Japan is so safe in my opinion is that police people are always watching what you're doing here. One of the reasons kids wouldn't go to tobacco vending machines back in the day before they had ID check was because there could be a granny that's watching and if she sees a kid sees you doing it of course she's going to tell your family about it and that is actually to a kid even scarier than if the police were to come at least it was back in the day. So people are kind of policing everybody. A Japanese friend of mine told me that the sun is always following watching you. That's why people are honest in Japan because of the shame or the guilt they would feel or that somebody had could have seen them pick up that wallet which is why they would turn it into the police or cash. They would feel shame about that or concern that maybe someone had saw them pick it up so they would might as well give it to the police. That keeps society honest and that keeps society um kind of the the cohesion in society thinking about everybody else within it.

[00:03:22]But um this is definitely written from a western point of view and there's another way to look at this and I want to give that to you from my 28 years of experience living here in Japan and we'll take some questions from everybody here. Let me put the the uh uh the box with with people commenting here. It's always really interesting when you see this here. So let me go through this one and I have another one to talk about here. So this $63 for snitching on for illegal workers here is an actual thing, but it's not really true the way that the post says this here. So what this actually is, the policy comes from Ibadaki Prefecture just north of Tokyo.

[00:03:59]This is real. They have a a problem with they have a problem with illegal workers. Um so it was part of the 2026 this year's budget proposal, not a nationwide law. This is where the social media kind of bends the truth a little bit. It's just a proposal. Now, um it was made to crack down on illegal uh employment of foreign workers and they have a problem with this. There's a lot of factories up in Ibaraki and they don't have the workforce to fill some of those gaps. So, they've been hiring people that illegally and the government doesn't like this. I guess maybe problems collecting taxes and whatnot.

[00:04:36]So, this actually comes from a real budget proposal. Is it law? We're going to talk about that here. But it's sort of bending the truth when you see the media post here. Um, but the the larger issue of of snitching is something I want to talk about for sure about the 10,000 yen reward. The reports for this at Ibodaki say that it it may be um may be paid for valid tips, but payments only happen if the tip leads to an actual enforcement action, meaning you don't get your 10,000 yen if nothing happens. So, you can't snitch and just get paid. You have to snitch and the person uh has to actually be deported.

[00:05:19]After all the action, which could take a significant amount of time, you will get 10,000 yen. So, it's not like people making a living off of snitching. the exact amount of conditions haven't been haven't been um fully finalized to the public yet because this is a proposal.

[00:05:33]Is it a dumb one? Possibly. Is it a smart one? We'll talk about why they even have a cash payment at all. The US has hotlines for immigration uh issues as well, so you could call and and report issues as you see them. That's part of being um in you know public uh policing is something that when you see something wrong you should contact the authorities. So they do have lines like this. This isn't a totally new. Japan already had a nationwide reward system.

[00:06:02]I'm going to talk about that uh in a second. Under immigration law tipers can receive 1,000 to 50,000 yen if a report leads to deportation. This is actually true. This is an old law. what Ibberaki doing is basically taking an existing system based on that and using it to promote it more aggressively which is why social media is on it because it came to the news. I I saw this Ibaraki proposal maybe a few months ago and it didn't really take off because it was just a proposal we see in Japan crazy proposals all the time. So the social media likes to run with that and say that that's actually policy and law.

[00:06:39]This is There is an actual law though for reporting immigration issues and um I'm going to talk about that in a second. How's it going? Brandan is in the house. I'll see you next week. By the way, we do have a meetup Brandy um on the 20th. We're going to be meeting up in Kurami. Um I'm telling people um probably around 3 3:15 uh we'll be there at a cafe and if anybody wants to come and say hi, we'll be there for about an hour um from about 3 to 4:00 uh in a cafe. I'll give you all the information in the next live stream and on Facebook Instagram stories um and on the Discord server. So, if if you're active on that, it would be cool to see you and and to say hi and and get a picture together and talk about talk about your trip and everything. I'd love to hear from you.

[00:07:23]So, uh that's on the 20th. And Brandy, I hope you can make it to make it to that.

[00:07:26]And if not, I will see you uh in the many days that you will be here. Of course, uh we love Brandy.

[00:07:33]Uh so, let let me talk about this uh in a little bit more detail here because there's there's a lot more to it. This is going viral because of the snitch culture fear. I don't know what what's going on with it, but this this um snitch culture I I think you could feel it, but I I don't see it like like a snitch culture thing. I see it in a different way. But the people are are chasing easy money is false accusations.

[00:07:56]Absolutely. Because very little of this money is actually ever paid out. Um, it's not like, again, people are making a living off of this. They're trying to seek revenge against uh uh foreign visitors or foreign foreigners living here in Japan. That's not the case.

[00:08:11]That's not what these programs are are meant to do. Um, the optics problem is always an issue in Japan. It really is.

[00:08:20]Japan. Um, and I'm talking just in general. A lot of these problems, like look at Kawaguchi, the city of Kawaguchi and the Lawson's Mount Fuji issue. Such a massively poorly handled PR problem that just it got worse and worse as they tried to explain things. There were the social media created the problem by showing the the um laws with the Mount Fuji and making it this thing you had to do on Instagram and then mount and the city um responded in the most weird way by putting up a wall. Then we didn't understand about the wall. Was it on top of the Lawson? When they first proposed it, they had to sign like people were posting like a wall that was going above Lawson's to cover Mount Fuji. That's not what the wall was. It was on the other side of the road to prevent people from crossing it illegally because there were too many too many missed just missed accidents that were happening and they were trying to reduce a potential loss of life. That's why it was going on and there the way that they did it all was so bad that it took on a life of its own. That's just one instance of the thousands that go on here in Japan where they don't um announce it or or approach it from the from a a proper direction and the western media or western media uh social media takes over and creates a a like a fear or uh sensational issue that makes people click because you click, you get money, you you watch it, you get money. That's sort of the way it is. So, I'm just trying to bring everything back down to earth here. Um, the optics problem is really real. Um, Japan has to do a better job of that and some places are doing a really good job of it. But here's the reality. The social media claim, uh, Japan pays people to snitch on foreigners. Uh, that's only one prefecture so far. Uh, I'll talk about the the larger immigration, um, reward system. Super Mr. Crazy. Again, I feel that this went through it would be it would be I feel if this went through it would be swatting. Well, well, I'm going to talk about that in some more detail, but uh I believe that we'll talk let me show you the current state in the next slide.

[00:10:30]Anyone who can anyone who can report and get paid, you're only paid if an enforcement happens. The new system, it's not a new system. It's an expansion of an existing system. So, this has been around for a while. Targets foreigners broadly, that's false. focuses on illegal employment. Um, which is becoming more of an issue. So, they're trying to clamp down on this before it really becomes a bigger issue because again there's some industries just don't can't get the workers. You have to hire them legally, but sometimes it's just so much easier to do it, you know, illegally, paying under the table, etc. That's not what any government wants to do. They want to collect the taxes. They want to have the information, the data.

[00:11:08]At least that's what a responsible government typically does. In Japan, um, being a conservative culture here, we we tend to do it like this. So, the bottom line is the is this real policy? Yes.

[00:11:20]Um, it's not nationwide. It's not random bounty hunting for foreigners. And big controversy equals bad optics, right? So, it's it just it just doesn't look good here. The current status of this policy. This is I think maybe what some of you were waiting for here. uh as a policy plan tied to a budget, not a passed law. Okay, so that's where we are right now. Was part of part of a plan for Ibaraki Prefecture's budget for 2026. The governor public publicly defended it. I remember watching this.

[00:11:50]I'm like, are are you kidding me? So, he's going to he's going to take this position here, but let's let's hear what he has to say. And it's actually quite reasonable. This is the the reason why that they have a cash reward at all.

[00:12:02]I'll talk about in a second here. the governor public defended it and uh this means that there is a politically approved direction but still administrative roll out not a national legal framework. So this is just an Ibanaki um to address a current problem that's going on here. But my question is like why even have uh a cash reward at all, right? Okay, I want to talk about that in a second. Why even have this at all?

[00:12:31]Um, let's first before we go into that, let's look here at the Western framing and the Japan reality. And this is why I I said snitching might not be the right word.

[00:12:41]The way that the West would frame it is snitching. And the way that Japan really sees it as like it's maintaining harmony. Okay. So, like I always think Japan and and the US, we're like completely opposite on so many different things. This is why when when Americans say, "I want to come and live in Japan."

[00:12:57]Like, do you really do you have any idea? you realize that everything is like backwards here. Unless you have an extremely high tolerance for and and an an ability to adapt to almost any kind of a situation, living here in Japan is kind of going to be great in the first six months and then it's going to make you pull all of your hair out. Uh the individual versus the authority, that's the way the the Westerners frame this.

[00:13:22]The reality group versus disruption. And you don't like that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. You've all heard that one before. Western framing punishment in punishment focused. Japan prevention focused. So there's a different way to look at it. If you're looking at it as prevention focus, you could a westerner could focus on the punishment of it all. Right? So there's a big difference here that actually when the western social media takes over on a Japanese sometimes crazy idea with very poor um framing and poor um uh press release you it can be t take a life of its own in a western direction which does not work in the way that Japan works. I think some of you are most of you are following me with this here.

[00:14:11]Yeah. So the reality check is this is real policy. It's not national law. It's uh rolling out, so we don't know how it's going to go. It's rare and likely very very minimal. U very few people are actually going to get any of this reward money. Uh it has to actually lead to some sort of enforcement. Um snitching, easy money for snitching is not likely how this is going to go.

[00:14:37]So this claim here, it's not exactly it's not exactly honest. All right? It's not exactly true. And uh I think you're kind of seeing how what we see on Instagram is like when you see something like this, especially an AI generated thing, you know, something very easy to make, y better do a little bit of research to find out if it's true or not.

[00:15:03]Um just saying here, let let's see here.

[00:15:05]Um, Walter Walters is here. Why do you think they are attempting to push a western sense of action for a topic likely like this, incentives for tipping off illegal hiring? So, the reason why there's a um, so the US has stuff like this as well, hotlines where you can call in um, report things that you see are reporting suspicious behavior, reporting uh, crime in general and employing um, illegal illegal people to work is a crime. It's that's why the word illegal is in there. But they have cash payments out here as an incentive because uh there are repercussions for those that report. So people typically won't report anything at all because then if you do report something, a whistleblower, you will likely lose your job or you will likely face issues at work. You'll likely and there's no incentive to say anything at all. So they give a cash reward even though it's very small. uh as something to counterbalance that. So at least you know you're going to face a lot of pain by reporting this. We're going to reward you for that pain. A little bit of it.

[00:16:13]It's not it's not much money at all. Um so it's not when when there's money involved though it becomes a PR nightmare really because now taxpayers are funding snitching. But that's not really the case. But you could frame it like that, right? You could successfully frame it. Walter Walters, thank you for that. And I you know what it's it's let's look let's look into this a little bit more. Okay, there's another one here. This one is the existing law and they're tying it to something that's brand new. This is not new. This has been around since as long as I can remember it. It's just that social media when I got here 28 years ago didn't exist. We all knew about this. Japan has a reward system offering up to 50,000 yen to anyone who successfully reports an illegal foreigner leading to their de deportation. This is true. The reason why you you um very little of this money ever gets paid out, um it's not an incentive just to report random people that you don't like. Let's say my neighbor um doesn't like me.

[00:17:16]It's possible. I think I'm a likable guy. If he doesn't like me for some reason, but he sees I'm a foreigner, he he can report me and say, "I think this guy's illegal. I want to give some hardship to him." the police are not going to respond to that. Okay? It's it's not like uh um Japan's immigration office is going to come and knock on my door. There has to be some sort of uh proof that what he's saying isn't just to get back at me for some because he's a not not a nice person and he doesn't like me because I looked at him weird in the elevator because he had some seaweed in between his teeth or something. I don't know. But that's not exactly why the system is like this. So, let's dig into it a little bit here. Japan does have a long-standing reward system under immigration law. Rewards can range roughly between a,000 yen, which is like nothing, to 50,000 yen, which used to be $500. With the exchange rate, if you look at it, US dollars, it's $350. But in Japan, it it's like $500. So, 50,000 yen would be uh able to be spent like $50 $500. Um, only paid if a report leads to a confirmed violation and deportation, which could take a long time ever to get paid out. uh this is a very high bar in order for this to actually happen. The reason that you would report this is because um a crime has occurred or there's there's something just completely off here.

[00:18:38]That's when the reports come in. Most Japanese, they avoid confrontation. They don't get involved in this. They don't want to um uh uh force a problem. They want to avoid a problem. So this like never really ever happens. It's and this is from my experience. It's been around for decades. It's not new. This is this rarely ever happens. The key point is that it's not some sudden new crackdown system. Okay? This is the point I want to make. You're seeing this on social media. There's nothing new about it.

[00:19:12]Okay? It's been around for a very long time.

[00:19:15]Anyone who reports is not true. Um reports are screened. This is what I'm talking about. If we go back to to Ishmael, Ramsay, Johnny Somali, he didn't get arrested for a very long time. We all know what had happened, right? They were investigating, investigating, investigating before they actually made some kind of an arrest.

[00:19:33]So, the likelihood of a report being taken seriously is police got better things to do. All right? It's not going to actually lead to something just because one person.

[00:19:44]Now, let's say five people report it.

[00:19:46]Then there's something to latch on to, right? So you you have to really be really hated in your neighborhood in order for it to perhaps lead to some sort of actual law enforcement issue. Um the the false or vague reports actually lead to nothing. And I'm going to explain to this even even deeper deeper context of something that just happened to me recently with the Japanese police and how the Japanese police actually work here. Um an illegal foreigner. This framing is the biggest distortion based on the politics of today and the way that things are playing out worldwide.

[00:20:19]Uh open borders and closed borders and this debate, you know, left and right.

[00:20:23]Let's keep that in the United States.

[00:20:24]Let's look at the situation just here in Japan from the way it's being framed. Um Japan is a country where you cannot enter without a passport and it's illegal. We really are an island here and we see things quite differently than in the United States for a percentage of the population who is okay with people just coming across the border in Japan.

[00:20:47]I can't think of anybody who would say if you came to Japan and you didn't have a passport, it's okay to to be here. All right, you just it's just not the case.

[00:20:56]The public is overwhelmingly against something like that. So, um it's not a left or right thing. It's just that's a Japanese situation here. Uh it's not against we're against immigration. It's against illegals illegal people who shouldn't who aren't coming in through a legal way. We don't know who you are. All right? That's that's the issue. Um also the the illegal employment really pisses people off here. All right? It really makes people upset and companies do it only because they mostly don't have much more of a choice. All right?

[00:21:30]There's really just not much more of a choice. So they hire people because they need somebody to make the stuff or they can't make the stuff. So that's usually why it happens. Um the the reason this is really scary is because those workers are off the books. They can be exploited. They can be um abused. Uh they can be attacked. There's no legal if they go to the police, they have to explain why they're there in the first place, and that's against the law. So they end up being in a corner. You can there were situations where owners had had um male owners have done bad stuff to female female employees that were off the books because they could most likely get away with it. There's situations of that as well documented here in Japan.

[00:22:15]So unless you are documented, there's no legal way that you can go in and um fight against a really bad person that had hired you. So there's a lot of issues beyond just the person being here illegally. It could be the company hiring you doing bad stuff too, which is often more often than you would think the case. Companies violating uh labor immigration law. Japan is a country of rules. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you understand how Japan actually works. All right? You don't just bend the rules. The rules are the rules. So whether you like the rules or not, even if the rules don't make sense to you, say that's not fair. Well, that's the rule. You have to follow the rules. If you don't follow the rules, you're going against society. Societyy's going to come down to you. come down on you hard.

[00:22:58]Um it's not see a foreigner and report them. That's not how this happens. And and if you see a foreigner and you report them, nothing's going to happen.

[00:23:08]The police are very very busy doing other stuff here. Okay. RF mount is in the house. I wonder how many tourists tourists overstay their visa in Japan.

[00:23:17]From neighboring countries, it is an issue more so. It's not like an American will overstay the visa. um from the western countries. That doesn't happen too. It does happen, but it doesn't happen too often as much as uh let's say somebody came here from a Southeast Asian country and they're making really good wages here and they just decided I'm going to lose my passport and just stay and make the money and send it back home and try to do things illegally.

[00:23:42]that that's going to be really harder because in the digital system now with the my number card, you're going to need to be able to send um money remittances back to your home country to let's say Vietnam, Cambodia, let's say one of the countries in Southeast Asia, just as an example. You're going to need to have a my number card in order to do anything.

[00:24:00]So in the next few years, this illegal working problem will probably go away because they won't be able to do a lot of things because you need to have a ID to do anything. And this is the biggest preventative measure in order to stop this because if you can't send the money back home, what are you going to do?

[00:24:17]Just travel with cash? I I don't understand. So, that's not going to work. Uh I it's a pretty big problem in in the United States. I wonder how big of a problem it is in Japan. I I don't I don't know how big of a problem is because in Japan, the legal system doesn't put out these cases publicly very often. So, we don't hear about it very often. It's as as I said when an exu uh public ex when it when a person is sent to the we have it the death penalty in Japan when a death penalty uh sentence is carried out we all know about it but they never publicly say when the death penalty is going to be carried out you'll hear about it 10 15 years 20 years later that it it had already occurred that's when the news hits the wire again I'm talking about um one that hit uh was the wakyama curry poisoning when I first came in 1998. It was decades later. I I remember seeing on the news, "Wow, that took me back to the first year I came to Japan. And now this person is gone. The way that the Japanese system works is we really don't publicize this. We don't know about it.

[00:25:23]We don't know about the the the criminals and and the the police system doesn't talk about it publicly." And that's a difference between the the uh Japanese system and the American system for sure. So, it's hard for Japanese social media to uh propagate issues that are quite big in the United States in Japan because so much of it is under uh like a layer that we just don't see publicly.

[00:25:50]Um people are making money by doing by snitching.

[00:25:55]This is I I hope that answers your question. People are making money with this. I I they're not again the the only way that the only way that this stuff goes viral because a lot of these stuff have been out on the books for years. This reporting stuff, it's because, you know, they they get money. Immigration is a hot topic and snitch culture is a fearful thing, especially for, you know, in the United States with this stuff going on. So these posts are being made to get you to click and to get you. It's like, "Oh, look. It's happening in Japan. Japan is so big." That that that's not the case.

[00:26:35]It spreads fast. So when I see it, I at first I laugh and then it it it keeps compounding and compounding in a way where people start to believe it. And that's where I like I gotta I got to take a step back from this and and uh uh explain a little bit more detail.

[00:26:52]government should probably raise the reward amount and also tax it remittances to prevent bad. Exactly.

[00:26:57]Yeah. I don't know if Look, I'm going to be honest with you here. I think that offering a cash reward for reporting people, it's just bad. It just doesn't look good because if the government does it, it's taking taxpayer money. It's paying people from from money that we pay in taxes. And I'd rather support, you know, a mother who is who is struggling or um issues that are relevant to everyday life in Japan to maybe, you know, people can't afford child care or some I I'd rather put it into something that's that's more important of an issue than this. I think reporting it as a public duty, but people aren't going to do that. I don't know.

[00:27:40]I I just think that um the this image that you see here, what it should really say is Japan has a rarely used This is This is so true, right? Hold on a second. Just going to move this for a second here. Japan has a rarely used decades old reward system for reporting serious immigration violations, but almost nobody gets paid. This is what this image should say. Japan has a rarely used decades old reward system for reporting serious issues uh violation issues, but almost nobody ever gets paid. That's what the caption should say. That's not what the caption says. It says, "Japan has a reward system offering up to 50,000 yen for anyone who successfully reports successfully reports an illegal foreigner leading to their deportation."

[00:28:27]Do you see how like social media can skew it so it makes you want to click?

[00:28:33]It's just so not good and this stuff becomes reality the way that the police work here in Japan. I'm going to talk a little bit uh I'm going to look at some of the questions that you might have here. Uh but I I we'll do that at the end, but I want to talk about an issue that happened recently. So, um, there there's a somebody in my apartment building who has an alcohol problem, which is something that, you know, has a an issue for people all across this entire country to be honest with you.

[00:29:04]Um, not not just the country, the world.

[00:29:06]Every there's a lot everybody's every country has al alcoholics, people that have a problem with alcohol. Um, I quit.

[00:29:12]I haven't had an a drink of alcohol in over six months now. So, um, you know, I'm I'm getting kind of proud of that actually. But Japan definitely does. And and one of our neighbors uh has an alcohol problem for sure because he's always yelling in in the in the in the in the building. We could hear it. And uh recently we got our our bell rang at around 1:00 in the morning and he was drunk and he had some sort of complaint and uh it scared the it scared us. We have a five-year-old son. We don't know what to do. So, we we we reported this uh of course you do everything you can to diffuse the situation. Um we reported this uh the next day to the building management and you we have to do it in writing. You can't just call. Everything has to be done in writing and hopefully something comes of this. Um but then I I I thought it was a pretty good idea to have a a paper trail. Actually, I have it I have on the ground here. I always I always take I always take notes and stuff. Um what I I try to keep um a book a clipped book of of incidences and things that happen over the course with times and dates and it's recorded in this times and dates thing that I have.

[00:30:31]So if it happens again, I have an I have a a record of it. Um this has a problem with the stalking here in Japan. Like if somebody stalks you one time, the police will probably not do anything at all.

[00:30:43]Um, so the police in usually look at the bullet points avoid opening a case unless it's clearly meets a legal threat threshold.

[00:30:53]They don't like opening up cases that are just petty. They want to open up cases that that are a big issue. And it's hard to tell that at first. Uh, they prefer local resolution. They prefer us to work it out ourselves. And police won't want to get involved. And first perhaps the building management, which is what we did. the landlord and even on a wider thing the community because this person is actually a person within the community and if the community knew about what they did it would be extraordinarily embarrassing for this person. Imagine if we had video of it which is another thing I I I want to talk about try to avoid the police try to avoid escalation unless absolutely necessary. The police don't want to get involved if they don't have to. Which means that there was a man who I remember there was a man uh in Shinozaki where I used to live. He had passed out on the street. He was just drunk. And I told the the police officer, "There's a man who passed out on the street." And the police didn't do anything. They just they looked outside and they looked back at me and and they said, "Uh, okay, Aato." And I stood there for about five minutes and just wondering like, should I help him?

[00:31:57]Should the police do it? And in the end, he kind of woke up by himself and staggered home. Maybe the police knew who he was. Um, he apparently that's the way that things get resolved here. The community will will take care of these issues more than the police will. I don't know if that's a if that's something you agree with or disagree with. Sometimes the station staff, it's their problem, not the police. If the station calls the police, then it becomes a police matter sometimes. Um, he was like I don't know if he was in the station. I think he was in front of the station. Maybe they came under the jurisdiction of the actual station master to help out. and if he needed a problem, if he needed the police, they would come and help. But the way that the police work here is they only step in if it's really necessary. So, um it's not that they don't care, they do. It's just that the system is designed to prevent cases and not build them. They don't want to open up cases. Um then there's just too many cases to handle.

[00:32:52]The system sticks to like what's happening right now, which goes back into what I was talking about earlier.

[00:32:58]So after the issue had after the issue um with the neighbor had um uh the next day had come, we did call the police. We called the police and I I um we explained to them what had happened. Um we explained that we were extraordinarily scared because this person lives right next to us. Um it wasn't that he was violent, but he was yelling. He was very abusive to my wife and to me. And it was something for that was extraordinarily petty that other people in the neighborhood uh in the building were doing. We had I had a um a box of um pocotti sweat. I got like a like a crate of pocotti sweat that came in for the marathon. So I had a box of pocotti sweat, a 24 bottle box. It was it's it's not very big, but it was outside my door. All right. I don't see a big deal with it because people have bicycles outside their door, their their apartment doors.

[00:33:53]People have um uh umbrella stands, a plant. I don't see how a box is any different, but it just happened to be on the same floor that this person sees every day. And he said, "It's against the rules and blah blah blah blah." And he got extraordinarily angry. But the box had been there for like six months.

[00:34:09]I think I got it in um was it today's April? Four months. So I got this in at at the end of uh December. It had been there for over four months. So I don't understand why he's getting angry because he had alcohol confidence I guess right the alcohol made him really confidence to to want to get angry and he just exploded on every single little thing. I mean things go through people's lives all the time. But when the police got involved they said um you know had this happened before? No. Um has he does he have a Let me I'm trying to think of the question that the police asked.

[00:34:43]Um if if it's the first time they can't really do anything. Um they said please call us when it is actually happening and that was a problem. So we should have called them that as soon as he he kicked the door. He kicked the door um as soon as he rang the doorbell and we we could tell it was somebody that was drunk. We should have called 1110 which is the number for the police department.

[00:35:05]Instead we tried to deescalate it ourselves. We were scared. My wife and I were scared like what the heck is this?

[00:35:11]It's like um I always kind of because we have an auto lock where nobody can enter the building unless they're buzzed in. But it's it's it's like the fear what if the door was unlocked? He could just come in and open the door and come in, right? This is why we lock our doors in Japan. Um maybe it feels like 99% of the time we don't need to. But this is like there's a there's a guy outside our door despite having an autolock who's drunk and and um very angry. And that's when the police would have come, but the next day after it it had deescalated where he probably just eventually fell asleep, actually 20 minutes after, he was still outside the door complaining. Um, I did remove the box to try to avoid the the um, uh, reoccurrences of this. And it might very well actually be a rule that I should be following. That doesn't mean that everybody in the apartment is actually following this because, as I said, people have stuff outside their apartment doors all throughout the entire building. It's kind of crazy. Um, nevertheless, the police response to this was, "Okay, you can't file a report. You can't file a report. There's nothing we can do about it. If it happens again, call us right away and then we can deal with the situation then. If it's after the fact, we are not going to get involved. Hands off." That's the way that the police work here. Um, so my advice to you is that if you see something and you know it's not right, you don't feel good about it and you're scared, don't try to diffuse the situation by yourself, cuz he was drunk and it could have ended up in in violence. Despite the fact that a lot of Japan is not a violent place, you have to be very careful with this stuff. The smart thing for us to do would be to actually have called the police. Um, which we didn't do. Um, actually calling the police would mean filing your report. It would mean more work, but then it would also diffuse the situation and the likelihood of this ever happening again would be lower. Now, with the police not involved, I don't know what the building manager is going to do, and I don't know if anything is actually going to come of this. So, I have to be very careful now when I see this neighbor person sharing the same elevator as me and my family. He hasn't apologized. He hasn't said anything that he's done was wrong. And this is um a little while after this event occurred.

[00:37:23]So the point that I'm telling you this is because the system is very different than what would be in in a western country. You have to understand how the Japanese system is to understand why snitches for money doesn't really work out as well as you think in the west it would. The reaction time is very slow.

[00:37:42]Uh the likelihood of anyone reacting to a quote unquote tip is extraordinarily low. And uh we have a problem in this in this country with stalking. And we all have seen the story of of what had happened at the Pokemon Center a couple of weeks ago, which is a huge tragedy.

[00:37:59]Um the police though, they had talked with this man. It was there was a record of it happening, but he he could have been doing this a lot longer. We the fact that I can't what irritates me a little bit is the fact that I can't start that paper trail with the police until the second time something happens.

[00:38:17]And if it's a sec, if it's a second time, then it could escalate. I would be much happier if the police could talk to him and figure out a way that we can sue this out. Uh figure this out because I certainly don't want to talk to him because this could erupt into violence.

[00:38:32]You know, I'm a pretty cool person. I I'm never going to punch first or punch back because in Japan, if you punch back, you are just as bad as the person punching you, believe it or not. But it's it's an extraordinary issue that I think we have to deal with. And it's part of just everyday life. Everyone in Japan has some sort of issue like this.

[00:38:53]This is another reason why you should have a good relationship with your neighbors, which I I think I do. So when this person goes around telling the neighbors about it, the neighbors will say, "Well, we know John. He's not that kind of a person."

[00:39:07]So any questions? Now I'll take some questions and look at the comments happening here because I know that this is a a very big topic, an interesting topic. Um, but I like to talk from experience of of living here for extraordinarily long amount of time.

[00:39:25]See here, I'm looking at at the comments here. So, John, do you think I'm not talking about US politics at all. I don't my politics has no bearing on what I think shouldn't have any bearing on this. So I'm not I'm not here to influence anybody on politics in the United States. So doesn't matter if Japan is concerned about illegal immigrants because they need a workforce to keep the they don't need a workforce to keep when you talk about Japan. It doesn't work out like that. You're you're talking generalities. Raise the wages so young people can can start a family. You can't atomic kicks. I understand what you're saying, but it doesn't quite work like that in the country where you can just raise the wages. Look, look at um uh companies in California that are forced to pay uh 20 20 $25 an hour uh where they just can't simply stay in business.

[00:40:16]They can't expand anymore. Um a minimum paid a minimum wage job in Japan and and Autobaitto uh is I think the wages are are much lower than they would be in the United States. Um, usually it's for kids under the age of 21 that just want to make some extra money on the side. So the autobito rates and Tokyo I I think it's like around 1,400 yen. You there's a a minimum wage, but a lot of businesses pay much higher than that. Uniqlo pays higher than the minimum wage, I believe.

[00:40:52]But there's it it's it's a it's a job that anybody can do.

[00:40:57]So they don't there's not an actual need to raise the minimum wage if the people are working for that. The reality is that most of those people that are working out are living with their parents anyways. And Japan has a culture where families all live together. So they'll have a house and the the 30somes will be living with the with their parents and their parents will be living with the grandparents. There's a lot of households where the entire family is like living together in the same house.

[00:41:22]I don't see anything wrong with that either. Um there's a diff there's a difference in the way Japan works with individual independence and community group living. With that said, there's also a lot of really small single apartments for very cheap then and there's a lot of lonely people who live by themselves that choose to do so.

[00:41:43]Just there's two different two different um ways to look at this. But it is certainly a much deeper issue uh than and I'm not going to get into the trap of talking about what's happening in the US which does not have much to do with what's actually happening here in Japan.

[00:41:57]So I'm not going to fall into that trap.

[00:42:02]Um should they pay more? I don't know. I think that they some you know what I don't really think that paying more is actually going to incentivize more people to actually work these jobs.

[00:42:17]I just don't think that's going to be the case. I think there's a demand for for people who want to work at at um Daiso for minimum wage as a cash register because it's convenient and it's close to their house. You know who's taking a lot of the minimum wage paying jobs? People that are retired from corporate life that want a job.

[00:42:35]They want to keep working, but they want to do jobs that um where they can interact with people and they don't really care so much about what the wages are. A lot of the people that I talk to now um that are working registered jobs are senior citizens that have that have actually quit or or retired from their corporate jobs and are doing stuff like becoming a taxi driver, which doesn't pay an extraordinary amount of money, but it keeps them busy, which is what they want to do. Um, some of them don't have pensions that are large enough to keep to pay them in what they want to do or they didn't don't have as many much savings. Maybe they got swindled. Things happen. Um, bad investments.

[00:43:16]But people continue to work into their 70s and sometimes into their 80s doing flipping burgers at McDonald's. I've seen that too in Japan. And I think that's a great thing where seniors are are stepping up. They're from a generation that worked pretty hard during the Japanese miracle. They just have a different work attitude, I suppose. So you see that too. So that you don't need to go directly into immigrant bringing in people from abroad to fill in these jobs here. It's just a different situation. The other thing that Japan is doing to fill those jobs is automation. There's already convenience stores now where you there are no people at all. You have you have an app. You swipe the app when you come in here. You leave without paying it with and and the app automatically takes the money from you and then you leave be you confirm what you had purchased.

[00:43:59]Boom. You leave.

[00:44:02]That's it. You don't need anybody staffing the stuff. Robots are staffing it.

[00:44:09]The way that AI is working now, um I'd say in 10 years we'll have truck drivers, which is and bus drivers. I think everything is going to be automated.

[00:44:19]That's the solution for Japan. And that's Japan is a country that goes into robotics and goes into um look, I've already said this before.

[00:44:29]Robots are robots are celebrated in manga and anime as the as the the the forms of that will save save us. The superheroes in Japan are often the robots.

[00:44:44]Just look at manga and anime. In in the US, it's the robots are the ones that come after us. Terminator, um you know, robots are the scary stuff. In Japan, it's the opposite. As I said, everything in Japan is like different. Okay, you can disagree with me on this. I don't really care if you disagree with me, but I'm looking at this from a Japan p point of view. Um, kind of straddling one foot in Japan and one foot in the United States. I I I love these topics because we can discuss this. 99% of you are are very reasonable on this. There's one there's always a fringe 1% which is uh drinking the the Kool-Aid or the milk or whatever that's on social media for the the party that's on the left or the right or too much. I'm not talking about this in an extreme way. This is just the way that Japan works.

[00:45:30]From my experience, my initial impression of Japan was that its workforce is primarily made up of Japanese residents rather than foreign workers. Um, I like this comment here.

[00:45:42]When you go into the hotel industry and the service industries, you're seeing a lot of people being hired from South India. I think that's great. There are schools in south in in South Asia which means India, Sri Lanka, Nepal um and to a lesser extent Myanmar that are teaching workers Japanese and they're coming to Japan. Uh and the Indians that I have met that work in the hospitality industry making beds and stuff, their Japanese is really good.

[00:46:16]It's it's uh conversational, very polite. there people in India.

[00:46:22]There's like more people in India than China first of all and there's a lot of not smart people in India but there's a lot of extraordinarily smart people in India too. So they they they're coming in and and instead of staying in India, they're they're coming to Japan and they're finding jobs here that pay more than they would in India by learning the culture. And the now the one thing that a lot of the workers need to do is to find a way to um you know the biggest complaint is to smell smell less offensive.

[00:46:53]It's not just me that is talking about this and I don't smell offensive. Um, but in the supermarkets and in some of the hospitality industries, I guess showering or something, I don't know, but it's become an issue and something that Japanese are talking about a little bit. Um, but it's getting remedied.

[00:47:15]This might be the last the last point of of issue in terms of this, but they're on tempor they're on temporary um working visas which don't allow them to stay here as residents forever. They have to go back. But while they're here for several years or a few years based on the visa, they are able to make a living here to learn the culture. They can go back and a lot of them do return either as business, you know, finding a way to connect businesses, but they've learned Japanese culture. That's valuable. So I'm I'm thinking in in my point my point of view my opinion South India South Asia is going to have very strong business leaders that can do business with Japan in the next 10 years based on all of these people. Most of them are kids between the ages of like 18 and 20 25 from India that are coming here to work. They're going to go back learn with this knowledge about Japan and become um some of them business owners or ways to find find ways to um connect Japan's manufacturing industry with Indians labor forces.

[00:48:20]Isn't it going to be fascinating because now it's not just China because China has the kanji and the and a very similarity in similar in the languages where a lot of Japanese manufacturing is done in China. A lot of that's probably going to go to India. It's really interesting. It's a little bit further away, but as more Indians, especially young Indians, learn more about Japanese culture, um there's going to be more opportunities for sure. In particular down in Kitakushu and down in in Kyushu, where there's uh I think there's more of interest from India, Indians coming in in Kyushu, than there is in in Tokyo.

[00:48:51]From my experience, these are great comments here. When I when I um let's see here, drone delivery is something we're seeing more. the robots uh are going back and forth on the streets of Tokyo. I'm seeing more self-driving cars now. So, it's all coming down here. So, the the population issues are not as big of an issue as the West makes it out to be.

[00:49:15]It's just not. I've already talked about this with um uh what is it? No, no, the Japan reporter uh one of the YouTubers there. We talked about the population issues and stuff in a um in an interview where he asked me questions back and forth which was fascinating. But the the reality is that Japan does not have although it does has a declining population and these problems are real the solutions are not mass immigration just doesn't make sense. Japan culture needs to stay Japanese strong, meaning they need to keep that, which is why we're seeing those issues in Fuji uh um Fujisawa right now of a proposed mosque that it will dwarf a shrine that's nearby. Japan just doesn't want that. It doesn't have anything to do with um um hatred towards foreigners. It's just that religion in in general in Japan um that non-Japanese religions have been dis discouraged throughout the history of it. Right? It's just goes all the way back to Dejima. They and the Portuguese and why Japan hated the Portuguese because they kept on trying to convert the Japanese into Christianity and and the shogun's like, "Yeah, you just stay out of our stuff here." Right? So Japanese are they want Japanese to stay Japanese and whether or not you agree with that right or wrong doesn't matter.

[00:50:42]It's just it's a Japan issue. Okay. So I don't know what's going down down in Fujisawa. Um I know that um I don't I don't I I don't know how it got approved in the first place, but um I don't know. But these issues are real and there's they're they're issues that are going to be resolved by Japan in a Japanese way.

[00:51:08]That's the bottom line. It always gets it gets resolved in Japan in a Japanese way.

[00:51:14]It's more than just low-skilled labor.

[00:51:16]Japan is losing badly at tech.

[00:51:19]That's Yeah, Korea's kicking kicking our butt with a lot of that stuff. Japan does great with with camera sensors.

[00:51:27]Japan does great with um a lot of high-tech stuff. Uh stuff that's not in consumer products which are cheap that get sold but more massive mainstream more massive industrial stuff that costs a lot of money. So look at it from from that point of view. Okay.

[00:51:46]Can you address the very hostile um comment in Japan Twitter about foreigners taking pictures with their kids in front of school graduation?

[00:51:58]I'm not sure. I'm not too sure about that here.

[00:52:01]We were snitched on before this.

[00:52:05]Yeah, I don't agree with that comment.

[00:52:08]Stranger the snitch thing of reporting immigration goes back decades. by the way, just I just talked about that.

[00:52:16]Looking at the comments right now, so the I I don't know too much about what's going on on Twitter. There's going to be hostile people on Twitter when people get anonymous on on that me on social media. They start start to showing their real opinions and stuff. So, a lot of it can be hostile. But yeah, look, taking pictures in Japan uh is a really sensitive thing because you you can't take pictures of of um the preschoolers, for example, they're in Hoyuen and they're really cute. They're little kids in a basket. Okay, they there's a a basket that they push around. This is another thing. Maybe we'll do a live stream on this one and talk about this issue. I don't want to go an hour on this stuff, but um it's it's really cute and when you see it, you're initially like, "Oh, that's so so cute. I'm going to take a picture of it. But it's very sensitive because these are these are kids in Japan. The parents did not give you permission to post those pictures onto the internet. You're supposed to blur the faces. Foreigners don't have that culture. And a lot of this stuff gets, of course, people get upset about it, right? So, I've seen a lot of the hoen the the preschool um carts now in particular in Tokyo and of course probably Kyto in big cities with a no picture sign on them telling foreigners or not just foreigners anybody don't take pictures of these kids and post and in particular don't post them on the internet. Okay. Nobody likes that in Japan. Public just because you're in public doesn't mean that you the rules doesn't mean that you can publish a photo of somebody in public. You can't without their permission. Now, this rule is gray, meaning if they're in the background of a video that I took, I'm not focusing on them. Therefore, if they did request you to take it down, you should probably blur them or take that cons seriously. But you can't be held liable for something if in the background. Now, if you focus in on somebody's face, this is what I' I've understand from this. You you you capitalize on somebody's image um without their permission. This is there is no gray area. This is ex very clear on what your intent is and uh that is mostly um what when problems arise. Again, I had a friend who who was sued because he had a documentary and he showed um a man with another woman that wasn't his wife and it was in the documentary and it was in the background and he ended up getting divorced so he could prove that this caused harm. This is why Japanese TV blurs the faces just to let you know.

[00:54:58]He could prove that there was harm because of the documentary and he sued and I believe he won.

[00:55:05]It's like such a long time ago because of a documentary that came out that showed him with another woman on something bad that he did, but it was recorded and they didn't ask him and he sued and won. Like like only 0.001% of very small chance that this would ever happen, but it happened and he lost. So there you go. Don't. That's why you don't post the pictures on social media.

[00:55:36]You don't know what's going to go viral.

[00:55:38]It goes viral, you get in trouble. I I I just filmed at a um a child care center.

[00:55:43]Um I had permission to do it. We asked the parents of the kids to come specifically on a on this day and say, "We're going to be filming on this day."

[00:55:51]And we had two kids that came. So, yeah, Photoluke Hawaii was there. Yeah, you remember that, right?

[00:55:59]So why do so many foreigners think Japan should should uh change to suit them?

[00:56:05]This is exactly the point. Uh I I don't know. I don't know. You know what you're getting into, especially if you watch this show. You know what you're getting into when you come here to move to Japan. You're coming to Japan. You're coming to a foreign country. You adopt to Japan, not Japan adopting to the foreigners. It doesn't work like that.

[00:56:25]It just has never done it. So, I I I'm not I'm always kind of surprised, but it's not a new issue.

[00:56:33]Even when I came here in 1998 as an English teacher, I did not like hanging out with other English teachers, in particular from the United States. I I like the Canadians. I I the reason why is because after six months of living here uh too many of the teachers would complain too much about Japan about issues of what the all the things that they didn't like and they forgot the things that they loved and I always tried to do to stick to the positives like well you knew what you're coming into right but it's always been like that where people complain about the system they try to say okay well why doesn't it work like Why does it take so long to do that? Why doesn't Japan work the way it works in the US? US is just so much better. US is just a more superior culture. Well, if that were the case, you know, so many people are complaining about it, wanting to come to Japan to actually live and move here and become residents of Japan because they don't like the system in the United States. Guess what? If you do move to Japan, you're going to discover that that paradise that you thought was paradise, the culture is extraordinarily strict. The culture is extraordinarily conservative. The culture is extraordinarily um non-confrontational to the point where if you do do something wrong, you're going to have like letters sent to you saying you better stop doing this. You're going to lose your lease or you know stuff be stuff that hits you in different ways than in in the US does not directly but indirectly. It's quite irritating.

[00:58:09]Good people do fine here in Japan. If you're not a good person, you will be exposed.

[00:58:17]It's true.

[00:58:20]You have to you have to change to Japan and Japan will never change to you. It not not for centuries. Japan just does not change to what's happening in the in the what what a one westerner wants to do.

[00:58:35]Uh they forgot things that they called them out like Japan in the first place.

[00:58:38]Things they love about Japan. Yeah. This happens over time. It's it's just a really tough stuff, right? When in Rome, that's it's exactly it. John, does Japan apply new rules for nuisance streamers after the Somali? I don't think I don't think so. This is Well, I'll do another live stream on this. I don't want to get too deep out of off of the topic that we're we're talking about today, which is snitching. It does feel like that though, like Japan report avoiding snitching. But again, I just to just to put in in in the way that the west where it go here, the way that the west um frames it as snitching, Japan frames it as like maintaining harmony. The way west frames it like individual versus authority, Japan sees it as like group versus disruption.

[00:59:29]Westerners might see like punishment focused. Japanese reality is like the prevention focused, right? We're preventing a crime from happening. We're preventing an accident. We're preventing loss of life, right? This is about the law since Mount Fuji thing. We're putting up a wall on the other side of the wall to prevent to other side of the road to prevent people from walking across illegally uh on a red light on a on a green light because we've had too many incidences where cars almost killed somebody.

[00:59:59]But social media said, "I can't believe this city is blocking the Mount Fuji view." They're so focused on the punishment. They didn't understand that what the city was doing was preventing loss of life. All right? And the message gets blurred because they did the Japanese side of it so bad with the PR or so bad with rolling out this. They didn't think about, okay, maybe we better do a better job of explaining what exactly why we're doing this. They let it have a Japanese leaders let it have a life of its own. And I got to be honest with you, they don't care. They don't really care what what Westerners think about Japan.

[01:00:40]Japanese leaders don't really care about what Westerners think. If you don't like it, you can leave. They don't really care what you know what who Japanese leaders care about the opinions of Japan citizens that live here that vote that pay taxes.

[01:00:58]Tourists bring in tourist dollars. You can make that argument. That's true. And the more this happens, tourism is not going down just because of one or two incidences like this, right? Tourism is not going down. Everybody, I'm not going to Japan now because this happened.

[01:01:14]Japan had 42 million tourists last year.

[01:01:17]You know, Japan, like France had 150 million. It's still it's still only a third of what France gets. But Japan had like when I first came to Japan in 28 1998, Japan had less than a million foreign visitors. Okay? China didn't have the economic miracle that it had had to travel over to Japan. And Westerners didn't know anything about Japan to come here. So when I got here, it was like under a million. Now they have 42 million.

[01:01:46]They don't Japanese leaders only care what Japanese citizens have have to say about it. But they they'll make the system with less and less friction because that's what Japan usually does.

[01:01:57]They'll find a way to make things more seamless and less frict with less friction. Um but it takes time.

[01:02:04]That's why uh that J Japan might be losing the tech war because tech is so fast now where a new camera would come out every four or five years. Now you have to have a new camera out every year. That's why DJI and Insta3 are winning the camera wars. And if if DJI has a a full-frame camera that comes out, they're probably going to destroy Sony. So, this is another battle.

[01:02:30]Um, that's not true. Japan does care what foreigners think. What do you mean by foreigners? Foreign residents or foreign tourists? Japan tell me like this. They they all watch videos about us reacting to Japan. They all watch videos of us and do nothing. They all watch videos I'm I'm not sure what you mean like by foreigners here, foreign residents or foreign tourists. I'll make another video on on one of the issues that I'm having. Uh how my life has changed as a result of foreign tourism is really fascinating actually. Um it's really hard to do stuff. People assume that I'm a foreign tourist. It's really hard. I get looped into this. people trying to struggle with English when they see me walk in and then I I I say one word in Japanese or two words and they they instantly you can see their body like relax like thank God thank goodness he could speak and it kind of understands our our language and culture but at first it can be really nerve-wracking for them just just because of my face as being different that they have to treat me differently.

[01:03:36]Um, Japan does not really the leaders are not going to make policy decisions based on um what a tourist a a tourist doesn't like about it. Maybe over if a lot of people have an issue with it, they'll find ways to do it, but they don't really they might say that nothing's going to happen from it. No action will happen. That's not the way Japan works. As I said with the even with the police department, making a complaint probably leads to nothing. You have to call them when it really happens.

[01:04:06]you can make unless it happens like unless the the bad neighbor does it like three or four times, the police aren't going to do anything.

[01:04:14]It's the same thing like if a tourist has an issue, nothing's really going to change, right? Um, foreign resident, it's not the way the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. If it's a if it's something that's happening quite a bit, then they'll find a way to make it less frict less friction like with the immigration lines at Narita and Haneda have be gotten a lot easier, right? Soon there'll be no humans there at all.

[01:04:40]It'll just be frictionless where you just can go right through through uh apps and and facial recognition and all this other stuff, biometrics in your passport.

[01:04:51]You don't need to have people there.

[01:04:52]People can cause frictions with other people. You have no more friction. It's all automated. You'll be you'll be screened um with cameras and then if you are determined to be an issue, then a human will step in.

[01:05:06]Police came every time I called on a on a loud neighbor. Strange Japan. I as I just said, if it's happening at the moment and you call at the moment, the police will respond. If you try to tell them after the situation has has is over, they're not going to do anything.

[01:05:25]As I said, if we had called on this neighbor when it was happening, they would have come. So, you're not saying anything that is any different than anything that I'm explaining right now.

[01:05:36]What would a black a police offer do if the black American threatening to slap the Italian streamer saying amigga?

[01:05:43]Well, the police are not going to do anything after the fact. There there is video to it. Um there was the um the uh other YouTuber that got hit in the head with uh a tout in Shinjjuku and he that that tout was not deported. He was still on the street. Another YouTuber, a popular YouTuber went in there and he he found the guy who slapped the guy in the back of the head and he's still doing what he does.

[01:06:09]Police um and he didn't get deported and he he got he was on camera attacking another person. So he's still there doing what he does.

[01:06:25]There you go.

[01:06:27]You said first four times they won't I don't even understand what you're talking about now.

[01:06:39]Okay, we're done with that there. Move on. All right, guys. Um I actually don't have much too much more time. I got other stuff that I have to do today, but I I do appreciate the conversation here and if you have any questions, absolutely leave the comments below in the uh uh comment section of the video.

[01:06:55]I think the feedback and the back and forth is really interesting. Keep it very respectful. But um yeah, Japan doesn't have a snitching culture. I think it's just the way that the West kind of frames this. The re the reality is that it's more like um you know, group adhesion, right?

[01:07:14]It's it's it's only one prefecture. Uh you're probably not going to get paid and uh this does not happen very often.

[01:07:21]Social media kind of plays this up into rage bait.

[01:07:25]Take care guys. I'll see you in another live stream tomorrow. We'll talk about something a lot more and more interesting or we'll go outside do some walking. But uh on 4:30, April 20th and Strange Japan, if you want to come and say hi there, we can talk about it uh you know face to face which is always a lot a lot lot more interesting. Um, I'll be there on 420th uh for a meetup for about an hour. I'll give you more information on that again soon. Take care, guys.