20131025 Ep 1 Tokyo Tonight - Sexless UNESCO Heritage Tax in Japan LIVE

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One of those walter white beads lately I've been kind of obsessed i think i think the halloween to get the head and the glasses and and that would be really awesome i love still kind of enough I could kind of try for a middle middle-aged version of Jesse perhaps I don't know wishful thinking perhaps why aren't you going to also go well I like to go i don't have that level of freedom from work or family i have only a couple of hours each day i love to go down there and I will go down one of these are at one point but that sorry I could I can't get down for the gathering Sean what people actually questions this is between this is the cool thing about this as well of course i can give all my attention to you and not just have to talk to victims so yeah a holland was going with the the netherlands as it goes.
This is pretty sweet how's the quality for you guys the quality looks much better than it isn't a half wages for me i can do some more clever tricks as well for example i can take a screen cap and broadcast the screen cap for example i can put a skype conversation up like this is picture-in-picture how's the sound sound I can see my business is kind of cool yeah i can see myself that was a lot better than i can see on the Hangout are but yea yea it all looks kinda cool so well I guess we need is topics to talk about i'm back drinking the regular old vegetable juice the leg here is pretty pretty terrible and i was told by some people that you how to fix the late on this but only on an old there's an old time for- platform and Pammy I learned something the reason that is a 40-second leg with the sound is because I'm that comment so that the stream doesn't post until the video from this isn't is included into every stream for mobile and for pc and every resolution and so it actually takes at 40 seconds for the stream to do that on every on every single accessible thing so apparently if you can turn down all the if you can like focus on one resolution and turned on the mobile access and all that sort of stuff you can actually improve the latency I can see the comments more quickly but as it happens i'm looking at the screen of myself playing live on my other computer and it's like 40 i counted before so I 45 seconds later i tested by dancing and it was it took 40 seconds for me to start dancing which you never takes that long for me to start dancing so there's something obviously seriously wrong with it so yeah which means i'm going to be reacting to your comments superlight so I apologize for that it's gonna take like a minute before i get to them each time but i will still get to them and yeah so like ecstatic Jack said about 40 seconds ago.
Yes you can do screen sharing stuff like that which I was gonna be kind of like to look at between picture here of myself with like news articles that i like for example and show my flipboard of that would be kind of cool i didn't do enough preparation said that today honestly just getting the sound and the video and everything kind of sink for this is enough effort this is an easy-to-use stuff it's called Wirecast which is the standard while is not made by google youtube it's a third-party software but they allow it's like the main platform for broadcasting yeah you know if you want to hook into the to the light feature so while yeah Shawn Wilson is asking coming back to work in Japan next year's been a few years and we've heard that the tax rates have increased do I know anything about that years they have not increased yet but they will increase we're going to increase I don't get increase like a three percent next year and then another year after that another 2% it'll be it'll be basically a five percent increase in sales tax from five percent of tempest in Japanese screaming blue murder / you know any increase the sales tax but truth is Japan has one of the lowest sales taxes in the world we think about the sales tax of courses that you know the reason government's love to use the sales taxes because it's a cheaper and easier to collect it's much more efficient than something like an income tax.
You know I kind of collect itself you know every time you do a transaction shopkeepers do it all for you and so this thing that you can actually collect more revenue than you can throw through like regular income taxes and so what happened in New Zealand Zealand was one of the first countries to have a sales tax and it was actually like we stepped like sixty-six percent income tax by bringing in like a 12.5 percent sales tax they were able to cut the income tax and sixty-six percent a 33-percent the only problem from that was over and all the sudden extra money so it's actually inflationary because prices only one of twelve percent but incomes went up so much more because of the arm you know because of the people paying well this text at least out of their pockets for the sales tax for the only in context so they actually had to control prices and inflation from there in Japan trying to get out of inflation sounds text seems like a really good idea for that the problem is that they're not giving any tax relief anywhere else this is just purely for more spinning so it's just increased prices with no increase wages or increase other benefits so it kind of it just sucks and you know a lot of people that the first five percent sales text came in at the time that the bubble ended in fact a lot of people blame it for the end of the bubble and I think it's probably well some is a debate whether it was just bad timing and a coincidence then accompany that the end of the bubble or whether it cause the end of the bubble but it's good cause such a trauma in Japan that young people are kind of afraid of the next one and we know it's what brought down and Democrats the fact that they campaigned against the sales tax and then they switch Prime Minister's to a guy who's all forward so yeah you know that is how that is some more questions that i read the article about four yes the article i get violence against foreign woman magic lock up your white women.
Japan is not safe to be a foreign woman yeah i'm still getting crap about that on Twitter tonight and and all day yesterday and today on facebook i very fly very flippantly well so on that article other but mean to the lady because of the title basic services like no place for Japan is no place for most safe place for foreign woman I mean there's no country in the world is absolutely safe I still think you know well the suicides of this i think everyone not just foreign one Japanese women as well you know everyone and I've never met his stories about dealing with weirdos not the same kind of risk of getting mugged or raped or you know beaten up or stabbed that you might have even a country like New Zealand or countries in Europe or whatever that kind of safety thing that whole idea i don't think there's anywhere in Japan that's not safe for a woman to walk at night at that said that's it instead of that people have to do with that group is on trains are strange kind of stalkers or geeks or weirdos and everyone's got a story about that in different degrees and some stuff in middle kind of scary and some kind of you know for a woman being just presumed to be prostituted streetwalkers sometimes and proposition randomly your ego that this happens so people like you know so this lady kind of related to experience is one very alarming that happened a few years ago and also good that she was picked up by a stranger and carried to the entrance of a lot of weight also that sounds like assault kidnapping attempted rape and she got away from that she didn't mention that she complained to the police about that but what prompted you to write the story was some to strangers and costing her while she's on a bicycle she didn't understand the Japanese that they were saying that she said that they basically seem to be accusing how they held her bike and we're accusing her of having store on the bike first then came up and a woman came up to back him up so she felt these people must be scamsters or something like that trying to you know intimidated the men holding that the tire of the bike apparently put the bike halfway across the road with her salon and she managed to yank it away and get away but she was you know held up by them for 10 minutes I very flippantly maybe too flippantly said lady has a bad day in the class dependable.
Unsafe for foreign woman which you know was probably a little bit harsh on the lady but I mean so there's a bit of debate is that assault III went to law school and we have to base like this you know if every man grabs the bicycle but not the lady but the bicycle makes contact with the way he thought the bicycle which is or maybe he didn't think the bicycle is but you know is it assault and battery is that a crime that the the kit for this is of course you went to the police and the police could have done something then have to necessarily arrest anybody but they could have intervened there's told you he was alone you know no it's not news and I kind of while I can see it would probably be pretty tough to treat them as a soul mind so you know I NRL as I said someone insensitively over and over in my mind this constitutes a really bad day it's like being falsely accused of shoplifting or something like that you know it's pretty upsetting but yeah you know obviously there's a lot of sympathy and a lot of similar experiences from a lot of people out there and I i got quite rightly called out for being a bit too insensitive towards the author and frankly that the title of it no no safe place for foreign woman is deliberately provocative and probably not the choice of the author is probably from the copywriters of the japan times just trying to you know sensationalize and lock up your white women kind of stuff which annoyed me and so I put up a passive group aggressive post and i'm still getting flak for it so yes I heard about that story I talk too much about these things so let's see i am actually in there more than 49-percent along for 49 seconds behind so are shortlisted asking companies i don't think income tax is changing in the near future maybe for the top income tax bracket but certainly nothing else Hugo major asking is the in SF hear in the news in Japan yes it is it's kind of funny is I guess is little well I don't have this little arm is kind of a presumption in Japan that you're being spied on japanese them i think Japanese are much more actually aware of.
Not only the potential for invasion of personal privacy but the consequences of it because in Japan you know trading of personal information is a big industry of the mop of the acquisition they use it for loan sharking for targeting people you know and Japanese you know throughout society that seem to have a general awareness and sensitivity of you know that's what can happen if you give out personal information and indeed part of the problem with nature for example is that you know if it's precisely these people go to youtube and show their school they teach at or tell the name or something like that you know people because Japan is so private they take that as an invitation to becoming a hassle them and so I think that's kind of a kind of them you know there are cameras everywhere in japan on in train stations and highways and stuff and this is how they tracked a lot of our machinery co members this is all been around for a long time the hearing you say stuff i don't think it's really that much of a surprise to anybody and I really preferably probably shouldn't be a lot of history but certainly has been in the news but not in a kind of hysterical or kind of oh my god I can't believe the Americans did this I think everybody kind of and frankly even in Europe I are they really acting that surprised they seem to be if you look at the BBC but you know everyone knows that they've been you know that sensational on the piano since the nineteen seventies or sixties have been able to listen in almost the world phone calls you know allegedly but that seems perfectly plausible to me added I'm it's only a good to see men always into the post on YouTube on facebook have I ever made Arabs and lived in Japan are not including long-term terror tourists so have I met Arabs know I've been Iranians many Iranians are there of course potions.
Not me and when I say maybe there are many versions in Japan I've had a couple of friends I used to work with a Moroccan who was a naturalized Japanese citizen he recently became Japanese he was not a typical more rockin guy and I do.
Demonic encounters Arabs i'm not sure if actually I guess they do he was a actually half spanish half morocco and his parents were diplomats he's coming from a very elite family and not but you know I guess he was half arab in that says but tell you the truth I don't know many herbs so on yep you don't seem to run into Arabs per se in Japan very often there's an interesting thing has been in the news lately that the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry and mystery of the tourism agency has been doing a lot of thumb research and promotion this was before the Olympics thing but it's something is probably gonna gather momentum probably a more indonesia and malaysia looking at extracting tourism from other asian markets but in all sorts of ways actually Japan is trying to attract for example foreign nurses arm and basically workers from philippines they're looking at ways to kind of bring in the butt with the labor shortage obviously bringing the caregiving industries and so on nurses from Indonesian philippines and a big area of difficulty I think that doing that particularly for people from Muslim countries is a the inability of Japan to accommodate you know it's impossible to get all our food or you know to meet to live life here according to religious dietary codes there's no understanding of them and so there's the government actually sponsoring a lot of research into trying to foster Islamic terrorism to japan in to accommodate them so that they're comfortable while they're here it's not in the Arabs his same primarily you know I asian Muslims but at the same time I hope that the pale for them is that we end up getting more Arab terrorists here to be cool to see all of offset on a long flight actually a couple of weeks after nine eleven next to a.
Check from mom and from rule man and he was very conservative and we had a very interesting conversation especially given the timing that yeah I can't stand it had many more conversations with Arabs unfortunately although i do enjoy talking with people like yourself and you know there's a catch more on the world on facebook who I do enjoy interacting with and to be called me up one day.
Sure is asking me what about crazy things I've seen what are some crazy things I've seen.
He saw some guy banging on the subway window on the way to work the other day everyone's got great i mean you know if 25 million people in Tokyo and they'll have to use the subways so you're always going to get some with some wounds i think the worst I've ever really experienced would be the arm on the inner country line which are used to commute on there was a very front of that train is real sardine territory and you know they're young then that is serious serious like you know you cannot we cannot move can really kind of breathe kind of turkey the first three cars on the country like coming into being in the morning and i used to live two stops from should be isolated in our comment on my mind the trainer's it's fully packed by the time it comes in this was kind of a thing I that some students will always get off from the front of the train so i could step in with someone it's to stick your from inside the door there's this one guy and I saw a few episodes with this guy with other people he was clearly claustrophobic but you need well if he's claustrophobic you're good at the back of the train where it's not so crowded but he seemed to want to always be in the front but anytime you're brushed him he would react like with that you have a face mask and bags something you just like Rowell and had this kind of road rage reaction to people and I saw him getting to you no flare-ups with other people and so one day it was my turn I tried to get III someone stood off and there was a gap with that person was standing which I went to step into but the the crazy guy was there and he was standing on the other side of that gap and he's holding some plastic bags and held his arms over the gap to try to make it look for something like he's trying to make space but you know someone just to do so you know rather than I did the Japanese you know passive-aggressive thing I turned around not facing my student backwards into the spot that opened up the doors are about to close and all of a sudden i get i get thrust basically back onto the platform i get like a single push you know I'm right beside the door so this guy someone informed he screams and she gives me this huge shot back onto the platform and shouts at me you guys pushed into me and I was shocked and I mean I've been physically I mean it's assault technically you know the guy that got shouting at me shouting guidance and guys engaged in something and they're gonna I had to go to work I said one thing I just got off a spot that's my spot i'm getting back in and I got back in he was growling at me the whole way to go two stops it was only 45 minutes it was very unpleasant but down i gotta say I mean having been on as many trains have been as many years the fact that that's the worst that's happened something something but you know I've had certainly had happened and I there's a story was that there's a guy on twitter that I've that I sometimes interact with was actually featured in a story where he going to he was attacked by a crazy old guy on the train and ended up winning a criminal case in a civil case i'm going to pay out from the guy but it became a huge topic on each channel is kind of interesting hearing about that there's a story better I was covered in Japan today we will go back in two thousand team so stuff happens but unfortunately almost no drama and all my time there.
Well I'm talking and not answering questions so let's move it along we got touch people in the house we got Yes No Country for Old Men Mitchell mccools pointing out Mitch putting up quite correctly.
Yeah I i was obviously just a passive aggressive mood that day this model is asking under a lot of one Russian prostitutes in japan i don't know i mean then I hate this are you don't stereotype people there are lots of white russian woman there's a lot of Russians who completed a study of course reason but you know that the far east of russia is hey I can see Russia from my back window but you truly can in some parts of Japan you know the Northeast territory job actually within view of Japan I mean technically Japan doesn't consider the Russian but you know they're full of rushing people at the moment and you know you can't let the other hole Vladivostok of fairest so there's a lot of Russians who come here i mean if you were in cycling more macho versus the big spikes of course a lot of people just come here because you're interested in Japan but certainly there was an association of Russians with the entertainment industry and unfortunately they've been some incidents like a Russian but there was a stabbing incident some months ago involving a kid who was the half Romanian and his mother apparently according to the weeklies worked in an entertainment industry whatever not so the question what happened something country where i used to live there was some blonde gold bars and I think they were all my friends went there and said that they were all Russian that doesn't make them prostitute by the web hosting and process prostituting is very very different but you know there are some great zones in them.
Michael killed picky picky good to see a man how's it going.
So the taste 1962 thanks for pointing out that horrible japan times there was a well-written yeah it's the japan times honestly the the finished as a source of worthy news I only followed the man that I only really follow them and other people you know post something so yeah this policy or I'll be very careful what you put on facebook you never known to catch up extended Jackman a Turkish family on a skateboard trip across Japan turkey and Japan have a very interesting relationship there's not a deep connection with between Japan and Turkey but what there is there for whatever reasons and there are various kinds of reasons that turkey in Japan really considered themselves to be very close friend.
At least they get on very well i mean very different relationship for example to Indonesia in Japan where there's actually you know blood spilt in all sorts of stuff you know Jay a lot of Japanese veterans have stayed in Indonesia after the interval to support the the partisan javanese who are fighting against the dutch so you know for people who believe in the ideology of what Japan was doing a little too that they were liberating asia from you know white colonization in indonesian particular a lot of people actually bought into that so much that they didn't even bother going home after the war you know there's a lot of veterans are and not only with that in taiwan as well and that's where dependency special relationships with type 1 and Indonesia in some countries in spite of all the negative history and associated with those places that you know a lot of that japanese to live today and you know it's a big corporations actually fought alongside about independence and you know with with the most the people of those countries after World War Two it's you know it's not widely known history back down.
Nothing like that with two key but they all seem to be very good friends which is a good thing it says it's very nice to see I'm always very happy to see people you know being honest with Japan is indeed I am so Michael pic is a question or comment i think some people in Europe was surprised about the NSA thing I mean a Secret Service e is necessary but for some reason we all spider-friends seems like BS how many of your friends to eavesdrop on yeah yeah so I mean I I grew up in military and intelligence connected family but you know museum so you don't we just keep tabs on all the sheet that's pretty much all that we do there is a clear thing that you know at least between enemies having a certain level of spying you know is something which is understood and accepted and actually contribute to stability in and mutual various the trust but verify that you know its benefits of knowledge verification mechanism which can actually faster stability and peace and so there's the argument that having widespread spying should be X understood and accepted as a given but at the same time what about when the German government is trying to decide whether to purchase boeing or airbus airplanes or if they get a sponsor you know if times are doing that.
What are you know yet what about will trade what about the trade negotiations or you know if you've got actually go shooting with someone who can hear because of the president there was a sovereignty I mean you know and what does that make America I mean is that really make America the king of the world is that the leonardo dicaprio in the front of the Titanic is that because that's kind of how it looks likely it is that something was Europe except those European equal partner to America was just accepted that america's got access to spies on everything and how what you do about that yeah I think it's kind of I mean it is a fact that the Americans can do it and we'll do it because they can do it and who knows what how you can work against it but you know is that the way it should be or the benefits from there are some benefits but yeah I mean I totally agree that it's BS and you know and and certainly I think unless America's Cold on it which they never really have been called on it before they've been doing it for a long time none of this is new stuff so i don't know i mean as you said I think it's BS but down although in the case of Bridget where you're from I mean so this whole thing you know Americans and other spiders on its own people but it could get the information for British intelligence on who's on that the spy on Americans if you know the whole idea of you know actual on these networks are different intelligence and museum provides eavesdropping data to America and Britain and you know we can spy on anyone we want so it all works out in the end of the day the the cooperation particularly amongst the anglo-saxon countries make sovereignty kind of meaningless anyway but is that a good thing.
I mean obviously I'm bomb are more full government will let the good stuff but yeah definitely I mean it's I I understand local being upset yeah this Mother's mention the Turkish three places love Turkish revised to actually work at a oh I was gonna say to location it wasn't it was Greek which I'm definitely never mix those two up it's like mixing up a Palestinian and Israeli restaurant the food is actually very similar but you don't want to mix a month but yes i love i love I'm on the lam man from New Zealand's of course I big fan of turkish food and yeah there's some great turkish food in Tokyo but non arabic food.
I don't know what's with them be nice to see some more and by the way I admit thanks for the thing on the Tunisian Moroccan and you know Algerians it's on that right so we have the my groups and so on who are Arabs and ya XO of course they are you know this is the whole and for a time it wasn't just morocco of course all the spain and everything you know so lots of history there so Ahmed was turkey that was two key actually in la of Japan in World War two I think your world to Don neutral when I was funny because turkey was an LA of germany in the First World War a lot of people don't realize that in the first world war Japan was on the Allies side they were on Britain they predicted British Australian shipping they switch sides and in world war two books italy in world war one was Italy on the outside of the German side I think they were probably on the outside but yea was turkey actually I mean turkey was certainly a best neutral where they actually an ally of Nazi Germany I don't know about that I don't think that's it I think I when you see the stories they talk about the ship break or something of you know Turkish people looked after japanese school japanese people looked after turkey screw and you know the people that people they save two went on to be great big politicians or some other lots of stories like that but yeah and is as Michael picket point exactly what I said I mean exactly where if they can hear everything as much as spying for security counting numbers of nuclear weapons.
It's at this period its industrial espionage that's what exactly what it is and that's just not cool that's not cool white magic for geeky yeah I'm ramadan genki dramatically other day that a very big portion of Japanese you cannot interested in relationships and marriage or don't get me started that's what i really want to talk about two-and-a-half wages the other night kind of its kind of had that discussion with some people who have more focused on the i don't know i mean Japan's one minute it's nothing every 16 crazed maniacs in the next minute it is nothing i mean i realize it's not exactly feeling to live in that Japan is just a normal country with mostly normal people but it doesn't really set one so newspaper and the nice thing about Japan is that you can make up some kind of wacky news about it and it seemed somehow where you know it would be kind of scoffed at and get discredit the paper if you said something about that like with South Africa or new zealand or you know France you know what Japan anything kind of seems credible you know i'm in space even for my own family you know Japan is a little bit like marks you can write you know they you know skateboarding backwards painted purple naked is big on Mars at the moment I don't know I kind of get that I can see how that would be a thing that's been on Mars I i always want to go to Mars that's kind of how it is with Japan I mean you know there's a presumption that you can say whatever you like and no one's ever gonna be able to verify except for the small ignored constantly outraged community of people in Japan and within that the the even smaller community of people who actually live here and care about that stuff and don't actually make a living of writing the BS themselves so we were very small endangered minority but I'm yes so I mean there's been there has been a lot of buzz in Japanese tabloid media about certainly declining interest in marriage and these niches these little pop subculture niches including like that the nodes and so on who you know are opting out of relationships with people and indeed the the thing about women wanting to marry and i have been quite happy lives with the getting paid just enough and having just enough hobbies and enough control over their lives and so on an independent and not wanting to go into that many social obligations that comes with having a marriage or your children you know this kind of an open mother did.
There's a bunch of trends the the government paper talking about this which kind of our link together maybe a little bit i'm feeling to some extent but linking together the shut-ins this community who can't get out of their homes with the needs than either in employment or training education or training the people who basically kind of unemployed staying home with their parents in playing video games but having quite comfortable lives are having kind of party and people living on part-time jobs not full-time jobs and again in Japan you can earn one was a lot of part-time jobs that you can earn enough that you can get by you can move on your.
One and have a pretty normal life without ever saying anything we're having any kind of future but there again so hard to find regular company jobs coming and coming out of university at the moment where that was kind of a failure option that would cause panic and people when it started to happen about 10 years ago really under quiz will be all the people now have kind of come to the conclusion yeah whatever you want to go to sell become a salaryman lose your whole life and control of everything when you can have more time for hobbies and personal fulfillment living on just enough for being permanently part unemployed and as a whole generation of kind of these freedoms who / are alarming to policymakers into people who came through a society where you're getting a job a stable job in a stable company and getting a wife and children was kind of the whole mission and you know the everybody's obligation life these people have completely kind of a backlash against that and you know aspects of the tablet media that like to play up our you know then people get the sexual aspects of that and then and so I mean that's been in the media that as like a really common trend or phenomenon or something that's board spread across the society has always been focused to me pretty much on very specific kind of demographics and subcultures so the way it's kind of been blown up and you know as usual every the way that they painted as being like a trained or fashion it's kind of offensive because it's more subtle than that but there again never tried it you know if I'm if I'm writing a story about a particular subculture for the guardian newspaper and I want to be very specific about you have to understand that the specific subcultures effects of why no no just just thinking for everybody and they do that you know because no one's gonna check in that's what happens.
So you know there's some as usual there is a great some grains of truth to it but it's it's always as usual these things like with the I looking and like with you know all the other stuff it's overblown this model's that's the 1i might have heard of the Ottoman forget our promise paralysis but they are too good for children you yeah yeah I occasionally check with people on facebook from Turkey as well and they talk about this British intelligence has been useless 1963 Burgess McLain is that quote was that the people who are responsible for making British intelligence useless i do not know but Tom why don't I British intelligence is kind of it's got it's a good policy benefit a lot from the one thing that you know me SAS has a fairly positive public profile although there's a few too many people that have gone off in Britain books is indeed happens with seals you know which kind of necessity which is a breach by the way of them do that they have to take when they join much I understand is gonna as meaning that they going to form something new but Britain 10 doesn't have a bad reputation i don't think but you know now so I seem to have caught up to the comments at least that I can see but as usual these things take a while to update so you can find me some more comments also i just refresh the screen and I see some of your comments underneath.
Good to see you man good to see and yeah he's an interesting i will do my best to bring interesting talked to knows i'm completely unprepared this is actually technical test this is using so tell me this looks a lot better quality than the hangouts that I do affected not just for the fact that it's just me talking the actual video quality as well what do you think this is a school i mean i should use this more often it is a real pain to set up but i think if i get into a habit of doing it I can i get i can expand on this a little bit so tell me if that is the case by the way I was a video clip I don't think that's a little video clip i played again if you can hear the sound and the video comes out all back there we go.
Oh so does that play the game I mean this stuff is over cool actually so well yes i'm enjoying that 21 magic asking what is the Japanese government doing for working mothers and their plans to raise i guess raise 46 fertility rates in Japan yeah yeah the problem is of course the governing party at the moment really like the average ages what he years old or something and it's a party of social conservatives mainly from rural areas so it means that you know they don't necessarily tackle the problems of modern working mothers quite on the same wavelength is actually interesting thing with this was one of the one of the is probably dead in the sales tax to what brought down the ODP and got the Democrats into power and when the democrats came into power about four years ago they actually aligned with the Social Democrat Party you which is pretty much known as like a feminist it's almost an all-women's party or at least it was at the time and you know women's issues party and there was a lot of expectation that you know in terms of these social issues you know how the Japanese government was always an embarrassment an out-of-touch on fertility issues and working mothers and so on they might actually be some progress on it and they actually put the hit of the social democrats party a lady called surname Fukushima as the Minister of Social Welfare and her mission was to you know fix up the daycare situation and to address all that and even beyond thinking well if there's one thing that the Social Democrats are going to be you know able to do well that is going to be that but it's a it's an issue with many challenges obviously anything dealing between government and the bureaucrats and getting them to do what you want them to do is also very difficult aspect of the job in Japan when it happened I think she tried for a while and she didn't really get very good results and she kind of lost interest and then while she was minister of social welfare issues in Okinawa protesting against the relocation of the American base there and then pulled out of coalition without ever having achieved anything and the result of that is that you know the party went from iphone five percent support 20.10 imagine a very little support and you know that just complete disaster there are definitely the issue of providing adequate day care particularly urban centers like Tokyo is a big issue it's not just an issue in Japan of course it isn't in New Yorkers to me in London as well in terms of encouraging people to have kids I mean the government has they have a child allowance if you have children you just automatically no matter what income you want to get my cat cash to spend so it's like you get a little cash you know and as a regular income you have these cash bonuses for having and raising children I don't know if that's actually cause any kind of a belt of a bump in the in the rates is kind of a famous thing a few years ago where like people talking about the fertility rate is like an eighty-five-year-old repeat veteran who's talking about you know the the fertility issue of the population issue by the way no one ever raises immigration in connection with this is like a don't go there kind of a thing I only think of you know how we how do we make more Japanese and this guy's know the the way he phrased it was kind of he said you know I think what you have to look at this you have to think of them woman is being like machines whose purpose is producing babies and the problem right now is that there are too many broken machines and so how do we fix that it's that they produce more and of course that went down very very well with the feminists I mean the idea that women are machines whose only purpose is pumping out babies and that's exactly why it is if there if there is a backlash I mean that kind of attitude certainly foster it but yeah you know that is what that is.
So I think they kind of lost I mean so the japan is better South Korea Singapore and that's been another developing which is becoming up and response to the six sixes story going around but it has a very low fertility rate and frankly if you ask me why I think it's because I'm if you're in your twenties or thirties and you're living in Tokyo Osaka I think you can enjoy a much much better quality of life and a much more interesting life single including sex but certainly I that single men with kids.
I'm having kids in in Tokyo is it is a real drag people expect you not to use train and the sort of social expectations of question you know you're all of a sudden have to not only look after the kid but the family of your own family your own grandparents and the grandparents of the husband is a lot of social obligations and stuff attached with my getting married to to someone in joining with another family you kind of lose all your freedom and is kind of the society isn't really that kind that you having people having kids you have to put a stroller train you can get some you know nasty looks or your people are expected as a social convention not to take kids on the train during rush hour but then what do you do if you can't drive you supposed two taxis with a crazy expensive you know if you're single in Japan to sleep in every day do whatever job you want I think so you know that so what is a I think that's a big factor for people who are like opting as a lifestyle choice not to get married and not advocate and I think it's just a sign of Japan success it's a it's done too well as is to the lifestyle here I think is too comfortable it's fantastic being single here never come to Japan married trying to come here single you can I was very like I came over here engaged and we broke up and that was like the best thing that happened to me about the Japanese be not just for guiding people for the Japanese people as well tell you it's like I think one of the best places in the world to be single it's just you can do anything you can snowboard you can serve you can eat syrian food you can.
Anything you can think of you can find you in city 25 million people at the moment you have kids here it's actually probably place convenient than it is in Western countries to have kids and their and you know the end of the day I think that the whole government kind of switch our focus around to being more lifestyle oriented which Japan really isn't at the moment it's it's for work & hobbies & and frankly I mean that's kind of cool i mean that's what you I would want your pan to become another australia on some levels and certainly I mean when it comes to things are having a family there's some lessons I think that can be learned.
Thanks for the feedback on the video quality so it's good supply of makeup should be using this sound could be clearer you know i don't i can see the sound levels and half i think i might need to get into Mike mr. Mike get enough juice from the city i could also talk about being a voice but you know sleeping child and all that sort of stuff but yeah yeah there's always clothing I in a kind of it all of these things that we're getting closer now that people and it's been in the news lately that they keep on walking like this specific gene parts of the genes that trigger aging and so on and how to actually you know i mean we could be getting within the foreseeable future close to you know scientifically being able to stop people dying of old age I don't know if that's actually a solution to anything that happens I think the Logan's Run scenario i don't think that's natural healthy at all for that to happen but you know that that's something which could be happening within our lifetimes we can be stuck with all of these old Japanese people forever and the old dozen people like myself but who knows that yeah i think michael says single life here's two attractive everyone here works late in the day and then 6 you develop hotel in time to relax well but I think one of the logical thing young people mostly live by themselves and then.
Unlike New Zealand Australia America of the is a lot of apartments she designed for living alone so yeah you the hotel thing is mainly for people who live you know with fabulous family so not necessarily that and and there again as always the hobbies & dating stuff like that that is the excuse of people use for getting out of work early it's just kind of funny i think now people are actually hobbies through it maybe hobbies are becoming more is sufficiently interesting that they don't even feel the need to God and drinking and the foreman anymore vice versa perhaps that's happening so people can hear that his from the market so this is the mic this is the one right i think it could be that picky Oh.
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Sorry about the mike thing the better should be a little bit bigger or maybe I look at redesigning a little bit but in the end of the day it's just a little graphic thing he wants it well I'll ask again Hugo Hugo major what was your question again let me show i recently read the headline units go to list japanese food as an intangible cultural heritage what I think of this and how do i think this will go with respect to endangered species mm so endangered species you're talking about like whale.
I don't know about that let me see one terms of japanese food is a UNESCO cultural heritage I think that's wonderful japanese food is of course fantastic and frankly not just even sushi not even the japanese japanese food that the wisdom through damage Japanese are just good at cooking and they're good with ingredients and then all your food in Tokyo is pretty good no matter what it is I don't really get this thing is that this kind of units go to heritage finish that Japan has everything seems to be registered with us correctly you know I think it is gradually has an office inside the ministry of education minister of culture and education so I guess that's perhaps why is I'm sorry the computer i think it is picking up the computer fan noise and let me just check if so I've got the front focus up I'm sorry it's picking that out maybe if I just holds my hand it'll pick it up this but yeah yeah with the unit's good thing i don't know it's like you know it's great that japan so many heritage sites but i think it's almost like too much to me I've got a personal thing that you know for years and years Japan tried to list pal Fuji as units go global cultural not cultural natural heritage which is what I'm sure it's a huge mountain it's a symbol of Japan and you know that's what they should have been aiming for but they kept getting rejected because every time the unesco people come and they have certain criteria for natural heritage sites that they have to be protected from garbage and abuse and you know and every time they went there's a lot of legal garbage dumping around are not Fuji is farming this you know that the places like treated like a huge garbage side of the suicide forest the famous one is very nearby this you know there's this kind of a lot of stuff which you know the three pictures around Mount Fuji really needed to pull finger and really invest a lot of money and really trying to look after Mount Fuji in order to get it to qualify for the UNESCO Heritage status but what happened instead after trying and failing three times and after some half-hearted attempts to improve things rather than actually tried it do what they were supposed to do them to to protect Mount Fuji and to really make it worthy of global natural heritage they figured out a loophole of just applying for cultural Heritage's did where it got accepted so they got it registered as UNESCO and as a result they can try to keep treating it like a toilet which is kind of a shame.
So yeah i don't know i mean the the unesco thing is a little bit like a small version of the Olympics to me i don't really understand fully what the benefit of it is but it's kind of a status and prestige thing which you know great they got it.
Three guards to food i have no idea how that translates I mean I don't think Japanese diet is based on endangered food i know there's the association with tuna and and well made and whatnot you know some of the pandas necessarily in fact I mean the whole definition of Japanese cuisine if you ask me is you know the reason the reason that they good with food here is because Japan is a country which basically until the 20th century onto the late meiji period late 19th century anyway famine was a pretty normal part of life in Japan is not a human friendly country if you have a look at the nhk documentaries that look at all.
The civilizations that have been in Japan it's they sound like four or five different people in Japan are like the last six or seven thousand years or something crazy going on at 10,000 years but they kind of come to Japan and survive for a few hundred years and staff to death and then different people came and they started it and more people came and they stuff to do and you know people only really japan only started to sustain population with Chinese were able to come over with the universe growing technology and I figured out of your advice in Japan but you know Japan is a rocky harsh weather volcanic it is is not is not a very food friendly country traditionally and even all through the whole Shogunate period you know they were like 1l Nino and you know how the country with Diana family and I'm not unlike what used to hear about Ireland for example so the point is you know when Japanese we having dinner and it's only a fish and some rice and some seaweed they focused a lot of time and you know if it on to making sure that they did those things very well and I think that's the thing that you know I coming from a culture British culture which tends to just put a bunch of vegetables or meat into a part of assault and boil it.
You know I think British cuisine or British culture pretty much abuses food and there's a Protestant thing behind them this idea that you know indulging and obtaining pleasure out of foods is somehow sinful I've heard about this is a Protestant kind of thing with Japanese kind of go the opposite way they don't they don't gorgeou you know that they still depends kind of a Protestant ish kind of culture but time with regards to food i think we've got it right you know it's not like you have to have crappy food to show humility know it's like they actually show humility by sharing food respect here and that's that's what comes out and that's why they do all food great here i have no idea how that's gonna be translatable marketed into global heritage I think Japanese are starting to accept as well tune is going to be off the diet and in the future it does kind of a lot of people but i don't think people are demanding.
This is the thing is a perception that Japanese want to wipe out wells and tuna and that's not true i think you know i mean remember Japan she supports the moratorium on wailing witch witch Iceland and Norway don't they I i think generally broadly speaking Japanese do I mean that the point is when Japanese support the moratorium on wailing they supported because they want to let the number of wells increases they can eat them again it's a different thing to you know where is Australia you know they they discovered oil and Saudi Arabia and they didn't need them for you know don't for making tires anymore and all of a sudden you know whales like these super wonderful things that we need to protect whereas you know never change for Japan you know that the whole point of conservation was letting us eat more of them maybe this is the fear if they have a moratorium on treating fishing you know all of a sudden we're going to have some Australians talking about how to know like super intelligent animals maybe day out and maybe they'll be a cultural war over that as well but i don't think there's any opposition to restrict him catches and acceptance that the cost of tuna is going to go up and I don't think that UNESCO here at Utica is going to affect that and definitely makes let's go get a panda bogus and I know I know I know a good place just between us or else we got here yeah the computer 100-percent sorry about yeah I it's making a lot of news I might put a towel under that or something to suppress the noise hold the mic otherwise i want i'm pretty sure i am using the this mike yes not the computer mic so well its the Lords even with that is annoying that picks it up so people ask me about the TPP i'm all for the TP you know needs you and founding member of the TP new zealand through necessity in the 80s got rid of all trade barriers and subsidies and tariffs and so on and you know the idea the idea of being able to get all that cool food and a and not have to pay in Japan it's pretty high tariffs on a lot of things i'm personally or forward of course it would affect rule in effect farmers and rural Japan very negatively but you know Japan is frankly held hostage by warez France as breaking up Britain traditionally i'm in most countries to some extent are held hostage by the the countryside democratically of course you know votes and some rural parts of Japan or with like 50 confronts urban dwellers let myself get screwed in Japanese democracy and the economy the economy is based on you know making sure farmers connecting very good income and live very comfortably without doing very much more people in the cities you know don't get the same sort of support and they have to buy all this very expensive food i don't think the farmers should be screwed necessarily but at the same time I think who do you prioritize the consumers or the you know there-there's of the philosophy which we've been through in Japan and there's a big cultural shift in New Zealand from a very socialist minded that you know the government should make sure that everybody is happy and looked after and you know we don't need to be competitive your everyone should be able to do what they want to do to this kind of mentality which which came through with my generation that you know if we can't make if New Zealand is not able to be used to make cars in new zealand for example is required by law that we had to manufacture cars and you know as a result of manufacturing for 5,000 cars a year all cars went up like twenty thirty percent price to tariffs and the cousin would be made an easy one that great in comparison to what you could buy from overseas so nobody was really benefiting except for that you know the 400 workers who are making tarts and the philosophy is if you can make those cars better than someone else in another country then why why not let people focus on doing what they do well and give people the benefit of their hard work doing what they do well being able to buy the best stuff at the best price if people can broken grow japanese rice in Indonesia I i say let the Indonesian people get the money when you left the Japanese farmers find another job you know doing something that they can do competitively that said of course in the case of rice specifically Japan is a looks at rice as a national security issue the last time Japan made out of rice was the nineteen thirties and they took hold even from approach of getting land in China to make up for it which of course did not work out well and that's I think why China doesn't make a big fuss about your pens wise tariffs even though America does i think everyone has to accept that Japan is always going to protect rice production but I don't see why it needs to protect budget production or you know we to stuff like that it's really only just for keidel and 41 prefecture to have the whole country gets hold of held hostage I I don't get that so I'm not for the TPP myself although some aspects of TP do something especially our intellectual property and the other way that the American American corporations are screwing the American people through the extended copyright and the crazy IP laws that they have in the States and the United States extending those laws now they're the kind of forcing other countries including those joining the TPP to adopt their own in the same standards of our protection of mickey mouse which is dumb and that's not good but by enlarge the cheaper food and better quality stuff i'm all for that's my personal take on that yeah except Jack crows crows and crazy intelligent i actually I mean I Japanese Cruiser famous you know what these people study them and say I honestly this matter than some people I know pretty much yeah so yes r Peter gonna Arik and yes i do have a resume Mike it's an h2 it's good but I don't know is it's not know vaina as long as it is not its ok i like it i like to think that can use it as a USB Micro I could unplug the USB the veteran use it as a as a you know portable recorder and that's quite the quality but time he knows so I'm going to refresh one more time as a couple more handsome couple more questions and wrap up how did you like this should make this a regular thing I think this is something I want to do in addition to the osu thing because especially like I haven't done something in two or three weeks now i might set up a regular night i also wanted something in Japanese once a week I always plan all these shows that i never get around to doing yeah yeah all then you point out even Japanese yield you know they're importing all these foreign heels i guess with rivers disappearing we're getting cemented over and whatnot it's tough but indeed and stratosphere is doing is basically heated up to dissipate from a completely i assume you mean from the computer actually I mean this is like a full-on heater it's actually quite warm human that's called tonight but that is it so well thanks for 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It's been called training I are like I said this is a technical test but it was too quite good front and talk to you again soon thanks for the check and take your leave some comments on what you think any ideas if I'm gonna do this kind of thing a live show more regularly what you want to see you let your Japanese shouid certain topics you know let me give you some ideas and are also this up into a more regular thing I think this well so it could talk in your piece.
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