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Hey! I was a foreigner in Japan during this situation! How I handled it: I already understood a bit about radiation so I simply brushed up on it a little more, and then monitored some radiation measuring devices in my area. In the face of all of my extended family calling to tell me to come home, I had to dispel a lot of nuclear myths, but basically even at the elevated levels after the Fukushima incident, I would've gotten more radiation in the sky on my flight back to Australia vs. staying in Japan for another 4 months. I made the obvious choice and stayed. In fact, even if I were only 50km out from the reactor, I probably would have stayed, but would've stopped eating bananas to counteract the slightly elevated radiation levels (bananas are quite radioactive).
How is this even a question? 12 years into my life here, this is as much home as any other place. "Staying behind" is about the worst terminology possible. Id call it simply staying home.
Good on them. I had to deal with such insanity in Kyushu which is exactly about as far away from the disaster as you could be, being a tourist in their land gave them the money they needed to stay afloat in the short term, and the residents who were not "Japanese" who showed their merit as people along side with the many Japanese who did help out, shows the world that Japan is a a country that accepted them, and that people really do have hearts of gold sometimes.
This is ridiculous. When the earthquake and tsunami hit, plan prices went up alot. They nearly doubled. It wasn't about a passive attitude. There were people who literally could not afford to fly out.
i am going to study abroad in japan next month. honestly, people make it sound like the end of the world all the time(Y2K anyone???) it's like the boy who cried wolf. people need to get on with their lives and stop worrying about what might happen. focus on what already happened and help each other out, not run away or freak out every second:P life is what u make it. it is one thing to be cautious and another to run around like a chicken with ur head cut off.
Bad stuff happens everywhere. It's stupid to run just to be "safe". I'm currently studying japanese outside of my schooling and i hope to live there within the next 2-3 years. =D
Foreigners in Japan generally are there for the love of culture and the country. As in love and friendship - one has to show support during the bad times as well as the good. so it doesn't surprise me one bit that most decided to stay.
I feel Japan is very good country. It is natural that many foreigners envy Japan. But if you live in Japan, please learn and speak Japanese. Japan's language is Japanese.
Radiation level of Tokyo is not higher than radiation level of another countly`s city. For exsample, Radiation level of South Korea's city Seoul is higher than Tokyo's level.
Isn't that only a good thing? That they stay to help out with Rebuilding Japan after that terrible disaster that killed so many. Isn't it good that tye plan on staying and helping the country?
Japan is wonderful and stronge, so I don't think anything like a gaint wave or anything can bring down such a strong country like Japan or even the amazing people living there either. I want Japan to live on no matter what.
Yhis video really made me laught. Of course people in Tokyo remained optimistic. The meltdown occured in Sentai, a couple of hundred thousand miles away! LOL
2 comments? A year later, and Japan's government only recently made the statement that the nuclear reactor melt down is contained. I believe the death count is 3 times what they say, as Japan's government has always had a hard time telling the truth... for whatever reasons.
I lived in tokyo for a year its not bad at all and the food is not all that bad. Yes some require a taste for them but over all I think most Westerners would like it. I didn't experience any earthquakes while I was there so I cant give an opinion on that but over all its not that bad of a place it no different than New York City just a lot safer.
From chile, I would leave in there, we have valdivia historical earthquaque with magnitud 9.5 richter and february 29 2010 magnitud 8.6 in santiago, japan 9.0. We have a phrase for this "el hombre es un animal de costumbre" = "the man is an animal from customs", in time, you can go native, sorry my english, we say the same things to E.E.U.U. How they can leave with huracans and dont leave the area?. well you can tell me the same answer to me.
Living in Japan clearly causes a certain adoption, not only of Japanese manners (constant self deprecating smiles and pretending casualness) but attitudes as well. False optimism is the price required of you; in evidence in the denial of danger. Shortly after this video was recorded, high levels of radioactive contamination were found in tea the southwest of Tokyo.
Japanese citizens have chosen to stay? They have no choice. They want to keep working. Where are they going to go? Be homeless in another country? Foreigners not leaving Japan because they work in Japan. All has to do with work, and people are putting Work first, and health safety second.
The radiation level of Tokyo is lower than most of the cities in the world now. go check "Japan Travel Updates after the 3.11 Earthquake" Actually, the radiation level was higher when China did nuclear weapon testings several decades years ago. People die from many causes. Japan has very low murder, traffic-accident related death, and cancer death rates. Also good national health insurance, no terrorist bombings, no riots....... I cannot find any country safer than Japan.
lol simple, many of these people have families, lives, back in their home countries, if the tables were turned in a country with high expat japanese ratio like say australia or hawaii , no one would bat an eye lid. at the end of the day why put yourself in danger needlessly?
@patrick10001 Well I can see the reasoning for it, it's perfectly normal to worry about your health and safety after a disaster. I wouldn't risk death or make my family worry sick about me just because it's Japan. What's the reason you wouldn't leave?
So why aren't foreigners leaving our Toronto,.ont..Say even Canada,.If born there ok,.if not go home,.and stop whining,.We get the father,.then the mom,.then the whole family,.But,'' but '' most of us Canadians do not complain, or be racist like they do when we go visit there,,.
Why would you seriously leave Japan ? Lowest crime rate in the world. Best public transportation system that actually work. As a Nisei who has live in worked in Tokyo I ask my parents.
I guess simply there are not enough jobs in some countries including Europe unfortunately since I had lived in both Europe and North America. on the other hand, Japan might have for them. In yet, it is hard for young people to seek out well-paid job. Honestly, Japan needs to stop treating foreigners like something special...they are just humans like you all. Nothing special if someone can speak English because English is an internationally spoken language. Don't spend substantial amount of money on English education that native just teaches you whatever...that's fucked up to me...
Japan is the most beautiful country in the world imo and i would love to live there
Hey! I was a foreigner in Japan during this situation!
How I handled it: I already understood a bit about radiation so I simply brushed up on it a little more, and then monitored some radiation measuring devices in my area.
In the face of all of my extended family calling to tell me to come home, I had to dispel a lot of nuclear myths, but basically even at the elevated levels after the Fukushima incident, I would've gotten more radiation in the sky on my flight back to Australia vs. staying in Japan for another 4 months. I made the obvious choice and stayed.
In fact, even if I were only 50km out from the reactor, I probably would have stayed, but would've stopped eating bananas to counteract the slightly elevated radiation levels (bananas are quite radioactive).
How is this even a question? 12 years into my life here, this is as much home as any other place. "Staying behind" is about the worst terminology possible. Id call it simply staying home.
Wish I had the experience of living in a country that respects Jazz musicians more then any other!
Good on them. I had to deal with such insanity in Kyushu which is exactly about as far away from the disaster as you could be, being a tourist in their land gave them the money they needed to stay afloat in the short term, and the residents who were not "Japanese" who showed their merit as people along side with the many Japanese who did help out, shows the world that Japan is a a country that accepted them, and that people really do have hearts of gold sometimes.
This is ridiculous. When the earthquake and tsunami hit, plan prices went up alot. They nearly doubled. It wasn't about a passive attitude. There were people who literally could not afford to fly out.
i am going to study abroad in japan next month. honestly, people make it sound like the end of the world all the time(Y2K anyone???) it's like the boy who cried wolf. people need to get on with their lives and stop worrying about what might happen. focus on what already happened and help each other out, not run away or freak out every second:P life is what u make it. it is one thing to be cautious and another to run around like a chicken with ur head cut off.
Finally a positive video about foreigners in japan! Refreshing.
Bad stuff happens everywhere. It's stupid to run just to be "safe". I'm currently studying japanese outside of my schooling and i hope to live there within the next 2-3 years. =D
Foreigners in Japan generally are there for the love of culture and the country. As in love and friendship - one has to show support during the bad times as well as the good. so it doesn't surprise me one bit that most decided to stay.
I feel Japan is very good country.
It is natural that many foreigners envy Japan.
But if you live in Japan, please learn and speak Japanese.
Japan's language is Japanese.
+bakanapatapata I'm learning it!
DownFromTheSky89
Thank you!
ありがとうございます！
bakanapatapata why?
other than the tax rates XD
観光客や短期出張者なども日本語が話せないと駄目でしょうか
After what happened, Japan still looks like the safest country, I cannot imagine Italy after something like that..
This video was made in March 19...
Actually a lot of foreigners have left Japan now after the 4 nuclear meltdowns.
Radiation causes cancers.
The answer is quite simple. As soon as you leave Japan, you are no longer a foreigner. You can't be a foreigner and still be in your home country.
Japan isn't a tiny island, it's long.
You can be 1000 miles from Fukushima and still be in Japan.
On a side note, no one in Japan panicked about the end of the world in December either. Way to stay classy world. smh
thanks man
we love every country in Europe too!
I didn't leave, but I think a lot of "foreigners" did. It was a pretty painful experience though.
ALL HAIL JAPAN!
I would not leave Japan if I lived there no matter what happened, Japan is a too damn awesome country.
why is this so surprising? of course people in Tokyo are calm AFTER the earthquake
Wow...why was hurricane Katrina in New Orleans people react so completely different?
that first sentence made no sense
Radiation level of Tokyo is not higher than radiation level of another countly`s city.
For exsample, Radiation level of South Korea's city Seoul is higher than Tokyo's level.
Isn't that only a good thing? That they stay to help out with Rebuilding Japan after that terrible disaster that killed so many. Isn't it good that tye plan on staying and helping the country?
Life continued in Tokyo through much worse.
Japan is wonderful and stronge, so I don't think anything like a gaint wave or anything can bring down such a strong country like Japan or even the amazing people living there either. I want Japan to live on no matter what.
In that case ,why aren't Japanese people leaving Japan if nuclear meltdown is so
imminent?
im korean and i repect japan too... as long as they respect us
Yhis video really made me laught. Of course people in Tokyo remained optimistic. The meltdown occured in Sentai, a couple of hundred thousand miles away! LOL
I would live in Japan, even with a shorter lifespan. Japan has more qualities that I seek than my country.
Now that's a crazy generalization. XD Or maybe we don't live in the same Europe.
This is no big deal , Its Godzilla that scares me
2 comments?
A year later, and Japan's government only recently made the statement that the nuclear reactor melt down is contained. I believe the death count is 3 times what they say, as Japan's government has always had a hard time telling the truth... for whatever reasons.
it's difficult to leave without their job and life place
and japanese media say not perfectly about radiation
i planned to go to japan just as the tsunami hit, so i had to cancel....but i wish one day i can go there and maybe even live there
GO Japan! people in the USA stand with you
no problem to stay in japan and do what is right with them. don't use any insult issue or you have to leave.
They called people who left Japan flygins.
But isn't it nice that they stay and help out? I am a bit confused with what you mean by "why are they not leaving".
Question: why do I often see people wearing masks in japan? Is the air quality bad?
Why are some of you talking as if radiation is the only thing that can harm people? Earthquakes? Tsunamis? Terror crimes?
Filipinos at 2:01 haha. Our school trip to Japan was cancelled because of the earthquake, but I would have still gone if it hadn't been. :(
1:25, that foreigner is a heavy!
when you studied radio activity, you'll leave.
We are with Japan...during the good times...and the bad times...banzai!
I lived in tokyo for a year its not bad at all and the food is not all that bad. Yes some require a taste for them but over all I think most Westerners would like it. I didn't experience any earthquakes while I was there so I cant give an opinion on that but over all its not that bad of a place it no different than New York City just a lot safer.
From chile, I would leave in there, we have valdivia historical earthquaque with magnitud 9.5 richter and february 29 2010 magnitud 8.6 in santiago, japan 9.0. We have a phrase for this "el hombre es un animal de costumbre" = "the man is an animal from customs", in time, you can go native, sorry my english, we say the same things to E.E.U.U. How they can leave with huracans and dont leave the area?. well you can tell me the same answer to me.
i wouldnt care about an earthquake or some other problems in japan , id probably still rather live in japan than in germany, because germany is crazy.
Living in Japan clearly causes a certain adoption, not only of Japanese manners (constant self deprecating smiles and pretending casualness) but attitudes as well. False optimism is the price required of you; in evidence in the denial of danger. Shortly after this video was recorded, high levels of radioactive contamination were found in tea the southwest of Tokyo.
Japanese citizens have chosen to stay? They have no choice. They want to keep working. Where are they going to go? Be homeless in another country? Foreigners not leaving Japan because they work in Japan. All has to do with work, and people are putting Work first, and health safety second.
The radiation level of Tokyo is lower than most of the cities in the world now.
go check "Japan Travel Updates after the 3.11 Earthquake"
Actually, the radiation level was higher when China did nuclear weapon testings several decades years ago.
People die from many causes. Japan has very low murder, traffic-accident related death, and cancer death rates. Also good national health insurance, no terrorist bombings, no riots....... I cannot find any country safer than Japan.
Practically simple Japan is not Europe.
"I believe it will all be blown over by next week" ... to north america.
Is anyone monitoring the air quality with regards to the nuclear power plant?
Thumbs up if u LOVE JAPAN!!
" I'm American" LOL
I couldn't agree more...
Thank you so much.Please visit Japan.
Japan is a great place ^^
Dang, Pierce Brosnan look alike @ 1:09.
Are foreigners in different countries usually male? I wanted to see what a female foreigner looks like.
I love his accent at 1:00. ^^
So months later, radiation still spreading..... are they leaving NOW?
lol simple, many of these people have families, lives, back in their home countries, if the tables were turned in a country with high expat japanese ratio like say australia or hawaii , no one would bat an eye lid. at the end of the day why put yourself in danger needlessly?
Why talk to foreigners in Tokyo only... I live in friggin Sendai and I am not leaving... Where the hell is my interview!?!
I love Japan, I guess everything is ok for now!
of course the japanese themselves won't leave
Don't forget Australia.
So how serious is the radiation risk in Tokyo now? will you get sick if you stay there for say 1 year?
that whole area is doomed long term. it is much worse than they are saying. birth defects will be bad.
lol, the Ausie is happy there aren't many foreigners. the white guy is African, and the Asian is an American... japan confuses me.
Tobey Maguire doing voice-over...
last couple is from singapore.. the accent. lol
@patrick10001
Well I can see the reasoning for it, it's perfectly normal to worry about your health and safety after a disaster. I wouldn't risk death or make my family worry sick about me just because it's Japan. What's the reason you wouldn't leave?
Because most westerners feel the need to help people in trouble.
So why aren't foreigners leaving our Toronto,.ont..Say even Canada,.If born there ok,.if not go home,.and stop whining,.We get the father,.then the mom,.then the whole family,.But,'' but '' most of us Canadians do not complain, or be racist like they do when we go visit there,,.
Why would you seriously leave Japan ? Lowest crime rate in the world. Best public transportation system that actually work. As a Nisei who has live in worked in Tokyo I ask my parents.
I think you accidentally that sentence.
I love Japan !
Are there seriously only 3 comments including this one in a over 150,000 views video
YEP!
I guess simply there are not enough jobs in some countries including Europe unfortunately since I had lived in both Europe and North America.
on the other hand, Japan might have for them. In yet, it is hard for young people to seek out well-paid job.
Honestly, Japan needs to stop treating foreigners like something special...they are just humans like you all.
Nothing special if someone can speak English because English is an internationally spoken language. Don't spend substantial amount of money on English education that native just teaches you whatever...that's fucked up to me...
one of the couple sounds fairly malay
anwser of the video title: It's Japan. :D
Answer: Free noodles !
Ha! I knew that guy was South African, that accent...heheh. X3
off topic but what is this trend about asian girls and white guys?!
Right now is good( i mean: they think is good) The tragedy will start since next generation.
Side effect after Chernobyl touch all Europa.
SHIBUYAAA!
Japan is the best country ever :P
What kind of accent is that? 1:10
its called radiation. not a good thing.
i dont understand why they keep masks to cover their mouth ?
no people
can some one tell me what's with the mouth masks please??
Sir,....it is pronounce To-kyo. -_-'
Why japanese cover their faces???
Someone tell me why they are all wearing face masks? lol
@patrick10001 100% agreed