Why Japanese People DON'T WANT Foreigners to come to Japan [L-pFqO7PdbI]

So recently there's an increasing amount

of articles talking about why Japan and

Japanese people are just sick and tired

and fed up of how many foreigners there

are coming to Japan.

I know Japan's a great country and

everything, I've been there many times,

but it seems like there's just too much

tourism, overtourism, and overcrowding of

specific places, and I think the Japanese

people are starting to have enough of

this.

I went to Japan for my first time ever in

2010, which was quite a long time ago, and

I can easily say that things now aren't

the same as how they used to be.

There used to be way less interest in

tourism in Japan back in 2010.

When I first went to Japan, hardly anyone

was talking about how great Japan is.

But now you've got these massive YouTube

channels that get millions of views that

are just selling the idea of how amazing

Japan is to billions of people across the

world who are now tuning into YouTube.

And when I went to Japan for the first

time, there was a small tight-knit

community of J-vloggers, but they didn't

used to get the insane amount of views

that popular YouTubers get nowadays.

They'll just get a couple hundred thousand

views here and there.

It's not like they're getting tens or 20

million views like they do now.

And to be honest, I don't really blame the

Japanese for complaining about how there's

too many tourists, because when I went to

Japan back in 2010, I had a much better

experience going to the nice places like

Kyoto and Nara and Kobe compared to this

year where it was just crowded, full of

people everywhere.

It's like sea of people everywhere you go.

Overtourism has gotten so bad in Japan

right now, they've had to resort to such

measures like closing off streets because

there's too many tourists and visitors,

blocking off viewpoints to Mount Fuji

because there's too many people standing

around trying to take photos when it's

supposed to be a park for people to park

their cars.

And it does fill me with a kind of sadness

when you go into a convenience store like

Family Mart or Lawson and you expect to be

dealing with a Japanese staff person who's

working there, and you're expecting to use

some of your Japanese that you spent such

a long time learning, and then you end up

with someone behind the counter with a

name tag that has a name saying something

like Jacob or Nathaniel.

It's just kind of awkward because they

think I'm Japanese because I look kind of

Asian, and I'm not going to speak Japanese

to a foreigner when we both obviously

speak English.

And then I'm trying to speak in English

but they keep trying to speak back to me

in Japanese because that's what they're

trained to do.

And it's just really awkward, and I'd

prefer not to have to deal with the staff

if they're not Japanese if I'm going into

a convenience store.

So recently my sister went to Japan for

the first time ever in her entire life,

and I was thinking, what took you so long?

I've been raving on about how amazing

Japan is since 2010.

My entire family have no idea why I keep

going to Japan almost every year since

2010.

And now at least my sister has found out

what's so great about Japan.

But that's kind of my point.

Back in 2010, Japan was like this secret

place that not many people knew about.

Some people knew about it, but it was

mostly just the people who were into anime

and Japanese video games and Japanese hot

girls.

Those were the only types of people who

wanted to really go to Japan.

But now it's like everyone wants to go to

Japan because they've heard how amazing

the place is on YouTube.

So there's kind of like a saying in the

stock market investing world where if you

hear people on the streets talking about

how amazing the gains are in the S&P 500

and how amazing all these stocks are going

up, that's when you want to sell.

Because when everyone's talking about how

amazing it is, That's kind of like an

indication that you're in the peak of a

bubble.

So I asked my sister, how is she finding

Japan?

Do you like it?

And she says, it's amazing.

It's so much better than London.

It's so clean.

It's so safe.

Everyone's so nice and friendly.

It's such a beautiful, well-developed, and

well-kept city.

And I was saying, yeah, that's Tokyo.

That's what it's famous for.

How did you not know this?

I don't like London.

I find it scary and dangerous and unsafe

and extremely expensive.

It also kind of smells like armpits.

Thanks to the really cheap yen right now.

As a British person using pounds, you can

get a really good deal in Japan if you go

there for holiday because everything's so

damn cheap.

So compared to London, Tokyo is insanely

cheap, insanely clean and safe and nice.

And she was asking, how come Tokyo is so

nice?

Why can't London be this nice?

Why can't we make such a nice city in the

UK?

And I was thinking, how can I explain why

Tokyo is better than London in the least

racist way possible.

I think one of the main reasons why Japan

is so great is mainly because they've had

hundreds of years of isolation from the

outside world, and they were only forced

to reopen so they could catch up to the

modern world and not be left behind and

get conquered by European colonial powers.

They wanted to be a colonial power of

themselves, so they had to reopen and

adopt to modern ways.

And that's kind of where the downfall of

Japan began.

As soon as they started to reopen, that's

when the shit hit the fan.

In my opinion, I think things would have

been better for Japan if they just kept

the the borders shut back in 1862, and

they never tried to adopt modern ways and

Western ways.

In my opinion, the Meiji Restoration has

to be one of the most tragic moments in

all of Japanese history because it marks a

moment when they ditched their cool

traditional samurai culture and abandoned

it for Western concepts.

They were able to become a military

powerhouse thanks to copying the West and

Western modern warfare tactics, but they

kind of lost a part of themselves, I

think.

So Japan is historically not very known

for mass immigration, and although there

are foreign workers in Japan It's not as

easy to get a visa and work visa and get a

job in Japan as it is in Europe, for

example.

And I think Japan is kind of having its

second Meiji Restoration in the way that

they're gonna have to change how they do

things to adopt to the modern world once

again.

So as you may know, Japan has aging

population where they're getting too old,

not making enough babies, and there's not

enough people to do the damn work.

So what are they gonna do?

They're gonna just die out?

Economy is gonna fail?

Or they're going to have to let in mass

immigration.

And it seems like they're going for option

number 2 because that's better than just

letting your country and economy die, I

guess.

And when you go on Twitter and you look at

the internet, you see all these Japanese

articles and Japanese people whining about

too many tourists, overtourism, this and

that, too many foreigners.

Well, they're just going to have to get

used to it because the government is going

to force it upon them because the

government has no choice.

Robots haven't advanced enough.

They're not making enough babies.

There's too many old people.

What are we gonna do?

I think it's time for Japan to experience

a little bit of cultural diversity like us

in Europe and the West have been so

privileged to be able to enjoy on a daily

basis.

And unfortunately, I just think Japan is

kind of going to go downhill from here,

and I think the 2020s is going to be the

last decade where you can actually enjoy

Japan for what it stands for, which is,

you know, Japanese culture.

Unfortunately, I think into the 2030s and

2040s, Tokyo and Japan is just going to be

transformed into something that people 50

years ago could never have even imagined.

And I am not too optimistic about the

future, and I don't really feel like I

really want to go to Japan anymore.

I feel like I went to Japan during the

golden era, the 2010s.

I think it's going to be very difficult

for the Japanese people to adopt to this

new paradigm, but they're going to have to

adopt with it, just like everyone else in

the Western world has had to adopt with

it, because this is just the way things

are going to be.

So my advice would be, if you really want

to go to Japan and you haven't really

experienced Japanese culture yet, go now

whilst the yen is extremely cheap because

now is probably going to be the best time

in history to ever go to Japan.

Because from now on here, it's gonna get

worse.

If you really love Japan, then you can go

there for holiday just a few weeks and

then leave.

Don't move to Japan.

If you really love Japan, you care about

Japan, it would be better if you weren't

living there.

If you really care about Japanese culture

and preserving the Japanese way, then I

think you'll agree with me in thinking

that it's best to stay away for the long

term and don't try to permanently move

there.

And dilutes the juice.

And if you do decide to move to Japan,

don't be surprised or shocked when

Japanese people become more and more

hostile towards foreigners as they bear

witness to their country's transformation

before their very eyes.

No one likes change.