Why I refuse to leave Japan [NOwAuwKu-lU]

Hello and welcome back to my bridge.

I got this fluffy thing for my GoPro.

It's supposed to make it so the

wind doesn't make a soind.

What's a soind? I mean a sound. Let me

retake that bit. This is a fluffy case

thing for the GoPro. It's supposed to make

it so the wind doesn't make any sound when

it blows. I'm not sure if it actually

works, so let's give it a try.

Those people are still fixing the bridge.

Not sure what they're doing.

So today I would like to talk about why

I like being in Japan. Some of you might

be wondering, why do I keep coming back to

Japan? Why do I want to stay here so much?

Why don't I just go back to England and

live with my mum? Well, that's a very nice

question. Thank you for asking, and I

would like to explain why I like Japan so

much in today's video. And I have a little

list of a few things, a few reasons why I

want to stay in Japan. There's many small

reasons why I like being in Japan, but

these, these are the main, the main big

reasons why I want to stay in Japan.

Okay, so reason number 1,

language. So many of

you may know that I've spent many, many

years, possibly even thousands and

thousands of hours learning Japanese.

That's a lot of hours that I've invested.

It's a lot of time, effort, and energy

that I've invested into learning

something, and I feel like it would just

be a huge waste of time if I

didn't even use the thing that I learnt,

which was Japanese. Unfortunately, the

only country where you can use Japanese is

Japan, There's no other Japanese-speaking

countries. So if I want to make use

of this language that I've spent so much

time and effort into learning, if I want

to make use of it, I have to be in Japan,

really. I don't

like learning things in general, and

that's mainly because it takes a lot of

time and effort and energy to

learn stuff, and I don't want to spend

thousands and thousands of hours learning

something new if that's not going to

benefit me in some way in the future.

For example, if I learn how to

do boxing, if I spend thousands and

thousands of hours learning martial arts

or self-defense, what if I go through my

entire life without ever needing to fight

someone, and I never even get to use my

boxing skills or my self-defense skills,

well, then I've just wasted thousands and

thousands of hours learning that skill for

nothing. I see these people boasting all

the time about how they have hobbies, how

they have been training in jiu-jitsu or

something for years And I think to myself,

isn't that a bit of a waste of time? If

you enjoy it, then sure, why not? But if

you think about it, they've just used

thousands and thousands of hours of their

life to learn a skill that they'll

probably never even need or use. I mean,

when are you ever going to need to fight

someone in the real, in the real world?

When are you ever going to get yourself

into a situation where you need to know

how to box or how to defend yourself.

Maybe you live in a dangerous country, I

don't know. Maybe you live in a part of

the world where knowing how to defend

yourself is important. And if that's the

case, then I would say instead of spending

thousands of hours learning how to defend

yourself, maybe spend those hours into

finding a way to get yourself out of that

dangerous location where you need to. No

boxing or jiu-jitsu to defend yourself.

I like to live in civilized countries

where knowing how to physically defend

yourself isn't really important.

Um, what am I talking about? Oh yeah,

language. So yeah, I've spent thousands

and thousands of hours learning this

language, so I want to be in a country

where I can actually make use of it. And

if I go and live in some other country

like the Philippines or China Well, I

don't know how to speak the language, and

it'll just make life so much more

difficult. So it makes sense to me to live

in Japan. It's kind of like, imagine

someone spending years and years learning

how to play tennis, and then,

and then they join a rugby club. That

would just be so silly. Why doesn't he

join a tennis club? That's what he's been

training for. If you join a rugby club,

well, then you have to start all the way

from zero learning how to play rugby. It

just doesn't make any sense to me to live

in a different country when Japan's a

pretty good country. Plus, I know the

language. That's 5

minutes.

Okay, so the next reason why I like being

in Japan so much is because I like the

women here. Now, you might be thinking,

you just like Asian women. And yes, I do

like Asian women, but for some reason it's

only Japanese women that have this effect

on me. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the

fashion, or maybe it's just because I grew

up watching anime, but I feel

very, very attracted to Japanese women in

a way that I just don't feel attracted to

other women, especially back home in

England. I just didn't feel attracted to

any of the women,

and I could walk around the towns in

England for hours and hours and I wouldn't

even see one woman that I've actually felt

attracted to. But here in Japan, as soon

as I walk out the door, there's at least 5

or 10 women that I see that I think

are pretty good-looking. And even though

I'll never be able to talk to them or

touch them or interact with them, At least

I can see them, and it's kind of nice

being surrounded by so many women that you

feel attracted to. It's kind of depressing

when you're living somewhere and you just

don't feel attracted to the women at all.

Maybe there's something wrong with me, I

don't know, but I just never really felt

that way about English women.

Okay, so the third reason, last reason,

is a— it's a pretty big reason.

Fitting in. So I like being in

Japan because I feel like I fit in more

here than I do in my own country in

England. As you've probably noticed, I

don't look very English, and the English

people love pointing out how I don't look

very English. They'll ask me

things like, where are you from? And

that's, that's an okay question to be

asked. I mean, anyone would be curious

when they see a foreign-looking person,

and they might be wondering, where's he

from? But I just find it a little bit

patronizing and insulting to be asked that

because I'm from the same place that

you're from. It's just weird to be asked

where you're from from someone who's

from the same place that you are from.

Makes you feel like you're not from where

you're from, if you get what I mean.

And even though I'm not from Japan, for

some reason I look more like a Japanese

person than I'll ever look like an English

person. I guess it's just genetics, you

know, Asian genetics are pretty strong

compared to white genetics,

but that's just how genetics work. I don't

have any control over that. But the, the

reason why I like fitting in is because

it feels nice to fit in. It's weird,

isn't it? When you're surrounded by people

that look like you, it gives you

this feeling that you're not a weirdo.

It makes you feel like you belong here,

like you fit in with everyone else.

And the problem with being in England is,

well, everyone just looks so different to

how I look. It makes me feel like I don't

belong there. I feel like I don't belong

in my own country. And that,

that feels very sad, and I don't

like the way that feels. And the kids back

home, they can be so mean. They say

horrible things like, go back to China,

or they'll make fun of my eye shape,

and they'll say all these things that just

make me hate everyone.

Everyone just looks so different to me.

It makes me feel like I'm not welcome

there. Here in Japan,

Japanese people don't point at me and tell

me go— tell me to go back to England.

They don't make fun of how I look because

I pretty much look the same as they do.

So if they make fun of how I look,

they're basically making fun of

themselves. It's nice being able to walk

around in Japan.

It's nice to be able to walk around in

Japan and not worry about being made fun

of because you have a

different kind of face or

your skin looks kind of yellowy.

There's something comforting about that.

I don't feel intimidated walking around in

Japan. I feel like I blend in. I've never

really wanted to stick out or to stand

out. I've always wanted to blend in with

the crowd, and that's just

not really something I'm capable of doing

back home in England just because of how I

So I hope you liked this video. Those were

reasons why I refuse to leave Japan, and

they can— they can keep trying to keep me

out, but I'll keep trying to get back in.

You can't keep me away. This is where I

want to be, and if you think something

silly like a visa is going to stop me from

being where I want to be, then you are

very, very mistaken.

The sun is setting and I would like to

show you a few tricks that I've learnt on

my GoPro. First one I call the spinny spin

spin.

That's pretty cool,

see? And the other one I call the flippy

flip flip.

Oh no,

I broke it.