Your video captures those calm, clean, and peaceful streets of Japan that seem to stretch endlessly. Honestly, just watching the background is so soothing.😊
Tip for people returning back worried about not getting a job. Set yourself up with 6 months or more of work history at a low level entry job that is easier to get before applying for that other one you feel entitled too. Having current some work history back in the home country shows you arent as much of a risk.
Everything you’ve said has happened to me. I had to leave Japan after 11 years because of the 2011 tsunami, and the radiation that ensued. I got my dream job back in Australia, but then got poor treatment from my supervisor because I could speak Japanese with his Japanese wife, whereas he couldn’t! My years in Japan didn’t count salary-wise either. Needless to say I didn’t last long in that job, and eventually returned to Asia!
Welcome to the club! Work colleagues are usually jealous of our ability to speak Japanese to our detriment living in Japan is almost like a curse when you go home disguised as an asset.
Thanks Chase! Another great truth bomb and discussion. I recently passed the 5 year mark in Japan and think about these things often. Very important to prepare and stay alert. By the way, just curious but do you use any editing software for your videos? I also vlog a little too so any feedback helps!
One thing too about employability after several years, is that one gets older. . His point about TV shows everything perfect about Japan is a fairly recent phenom, as it certainly wasn't a thing during the first few years of Heisei. Something changed after the bubble popped.
@@CHASE88888 Chase, perhaps you have info that I don't, but the rules have gotten stricter and stricter since 2015. . Before then, you basically only had to live in Japan 10 years to get PR. After that, you had to show 3 years of 3,000,000jpy/year or more of income (for single person). Then in 2019 they added that you have to have paid 2 prior years into the health scheme and pension plan. Then in 2021 or so they changed it to 5 years of 3,000,000jpy. . What people say about accepting foreigners, and what they really want their politicians to do about accepting foreigners is very different. You can find vids here on YT of some Diet reps at the national level just ranting at foreigners.
@@CHASE88888 chase, yes, there are some special ways to get it earlier, like the point system for highly paid young professionals. . Other than that, I'd like to know about 5 years, as that is very unusual. Of course I do know that it depends a bit on who gets your case at Immigration...
I had 8 years in Japan and been back in my country 7 years now. The first year or two back in my native country I adjusted quite well, able to move internally from my international logistics job (I was a local hire in Japan originally). I've also changed jobs twice in the meantime and even to a different industry so have been able to maneuver the job market quite well. The problem is, as the years have gone by, I miss my Japan life and Japanese society more and more. I'm going back to Japan later this year and expect to stay there the rest of my life. You are right about how Japan changes you, after 8 years I came back very different and it shows. I don't fit in here, and although I don't expect to fully fit in Japan, I now know it suits me better there. Can't wait to be back, and like you said, I have plan A, B and C. Thanks for the video, helps me to think about these things some more.
As I mentioned in previous comments, I left in 94 and returned to the US after 4.5 years being gone. I was 30. I just thought that companies or people would value that I could speak Japanese but they really didn't because my Japanese was not business fluency level. I could see that people weren't sure what to make of me. On one hand they thought it was great that I went to Japan but I didn't fit what they were used to. Plus none of my skills that I learned were applicable. But I needed to feed myself so I walked into the Hilton San Francisco and they hired me to tell Japanese tourists how to get to the cable car. I think you just have to understand that it's going to be a tough adjustment and it's going to take time but that shouldn't stop you from doing it if you feel you've maximized what you can get there.
@@skeetpete6116 I can imagine that. After I came back from Japan, after spending 11 years there, I was living in a resort in Australia for a year, and the front desk contacted me to help some Japanese woman find the location of her wedding party group.
Honestly, I’ve come to hate coming back to the relative chaos in the U.S., even living and working in an affluent area things are just overall….coarser.
Again, spot on!!!! I’d recommend coming to Japan when you’re a little older, after having invested well to enough to live off of your investments. You’ll live VERY well here, especially if you’re receiving your income in USD!!!!!!
Yes, one thing you said, I agree with. I know that when someone works with them, the questions they ask often come from them. You’re handsome, by the way! I hope it’s easy for you to get a girlfriend. How many girlfriends do you have? If someone says 1 or 2, they tell everyone at the workplace and start treating him badly out of jealousy. Also, if someone drives a nice, expensive car or has knowledge from attending a famous university, they don’t like that person. First, they try to crush his confidence and look for every little mistake he makes. They might even call him stupid. After a while, this can make him feel disoriented, stressed, and have a hard time focusing or making decisions, even if he doesn’t make a mistake at work
@@4s14n I never wanted to go there because every year every other year, there are demonstrations about the US bases. I am sure I don’t wanna be mistaken for being in the military because the people over there really resent it.
@@4s14n Your right it is second probably 3rd hand lol I don't like going to places where you have US army bases because the people are different you also have demonstrations from time to time so I'm not interested
I'd been in China and SE Asia for 8 consecutive years before returning home to Canada (coincidentally a stopover in Japan) and it sounds weird to say 'Integrate back into society' when its my society, the society I grew up in. It took me 6 months before I felt 'normal' and there were still episodes of 'reverse culture shock'. That's something people might want to think about IF they plan to live in Japan. I mean, like live consecutive years and years without routine trips back home.
@@CHASE88888 One of my Chinese students returned from Japan after 2 years of university exchange. He was profoundly disapointed and explained it this way: He had become infatuated with several 'anime' series. he gave me links to these anime stories and all I can see is these are like some 'Best friends forever!' types of stories. They go deep into the many high school friends personal relationships and in the stories everyone accepts each other, emotes, loves them no matter what and they all stick together. However, He would tell me, actually all the Japanese students were friendly, he made friends, they were very nice to him. No problem to that degree UNTIL there was a birthday party for a classmate taking place at her home. He was not invited. in fact, none of the foreign students were invited. Then there was a group planning a mountain hike but... only Japanese. Japanese do NOT actually have these worlds where everyone, every 'oddball' and every introverted foreigner or every socal reject is invited to a world of 'best friends forever!' and they all cry, cheer and console each other! Japanese are in 'levels'. I'm a rarer foreigner who DOES actually get along with Japanese because they think I'm funny and semi-cute it seems, however, When there was a wedding I was not invited, when its a personal life circle, I'm not invited, and Japanese do not behave like this particular Anime type of series where they explore deep intimate friendships, crying and hugging each other. This young man was really devasted becasue of his false expectations. btw I would love to see your take on this kind of thing. 'Anime' or Japanese media culture Vs their actual real life way of things. My take is something like this: Japanese do NOT actually join hands in fields and skip along singing 'we are best friends forever!' and sharing deep emotional friendships. In fact, they are very "uptight" about such things. So their Anime series is actually a kind of extreme exaggeration. It's as if they have to go over-the-top in the fantasy, they have to express those things bottled up inside through the fictional stories? *btw I just had this conversation with a man who seemed convinced Japanese really love wild sex and nudity etc etc so basically 'JAV' is what he thinks their world is. I had to break it to him that, in real life, noooo. No sir. no, Japanese are NOT like that at all. I'd nearly say Japanese are the most 'uptight' sort of conservative about sex. Which also goes to my sense that is WHY they seem to put out a lot of outrageous blatant 'JAV'. They have to live what they repress through video stories. It's that way because they are so reserved about that in their real lives. Sorry I end up over-writing in your comments sections but you always hit topics I'm totally thinking about myself these days hah
@@VanillaPeach-y7l 2021. I'd been in Asia for 8 consequtive years. *before that I had gone back home for Christmas or various stints. This is a key thing. If you live abroad but return home for a month or two, even for holidays you can keep glued into your society. but if you are gone 8 or 12 years in a row type thing, oh ya. you will feel 'reverse culture shock',
The pizza doesn't hit right? Better get on that "Pizza La"! The sauce isn't that thick? I know of a great Italian restaurant in Komorro-shi in Nagano prefecture.
He probably isnt far off mingling and living with the ladies and working there 30+ years definitely gets your japanese level at least speaking listening pretty high. JLPT is jus the on paper qualification. A lot of japanese i have met have qualifications in english too but can barely speak a word.
@@elmalanmalan2175 Most people come here thinking it’s going to be a Paradise and never think there will be any problems then all hell breaks loose one day
heh...what kills me about japan sometimes is their absolute rigidity to the rules. like pizza toppings. can i have a hawaiian pizza without pineapple please? oh, no! sorry, but that's how it's made. well just leave off the pineapple...moshi wake gozaimasen... argh...never mind. lol >
First up, as a Canadian, you're supposed to put pineapple on pizza. however, I will never recover from the mayonaisse. somehow making it worse than ever, that 'Kupi' ultra sweet mayo that is pretty much 'icing sugar'.
I asked for okonomiyaki once, but when I asked them to just leave the pork off that they usually put on at the end, they treated me like I was on the Wanted list.
Your video captures those calm, clean, and peaceful streets of Japan that seem to stretch endlessly. Honestly, just watching the background is so soothing.😊
Thank you sir!!
Tip for people returning back worried about not getting a job. Set yourself up with 6 months or more of work history at a low level entry job that is easier to get before applying for that other one you feel entitled too. Having current some work history back in the home country shows you arent as much of a risk.
That might work short term
Everything you’ve said has happened to me. I had to leave Japan after 11 years because of the 2011 tsunami, and the radiation that ensued. I got my dream job back in Australia, but then got poor treatment from my supervisor because I could speak Japanese with his Japanese wife, whereas he couldn’t! My years in Japan didn’t count salary-wise either. Needless to say I didn’t last long in that job, and eventually returned to Asia!
Welcome to the club! Work colleagues are usually jealous of our ability to speak Japanese to our detriment living in Japan is almost like a curse when you go home disguised as an asset.
Especially if you're black, and black men don't even get respect or love in Japan, but black men are supposed to accept our position as butt kissers.
Thanks Chase! Another great truth bomb and discussion. I recently passed the 5 year mark in Japan and think about these things often. Very important to prepare and stay alert.
By the way, just curious but do you use any editing software for your videos? I also vlog a little too so any feedback helps!
Thank you for your support sir I really appreciate it. I use the insta 360 aap to edit my videos
Chase The Traveller, preaching the absolute TRUTH again. Glad to see you're well Chase. Keep on bringing the truth to the viewers.
Yes sir!!
One thing too about employability after several years, is that one gets older.
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His point about TV shows everything perfect about Japan is a fairly recent phenom, as it certainly wasn't a thing during the first few years of Heisei. Something changed after the bubble popped.
@@earlysda probably!
Almost 30 years in Japan. It'd be very tough to get employment back in America.
However, it's really tough getting a permanent visa for Japan.
Japanese permanent residency is a lot easier than before you should look into it further
@@CHASE88888 Chase, perhaps you have info that I don't, but the rules have gotten stricter and stricter since 2015.
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Before then, you basically only had to live in Japan 10 years to get PR. After that, you had to show 3 years of 3,000,000jpy/year or more of income (for single person). Then in 2019 they added that you have to have paid 2 prior years into the health scheme and pension plan. Then in 2021 or so they changed it to 5 years of 3,000,000jpy.
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What people say about accepting foreigners, and what they really want their politicians to do about accepting foreigners is very different. You can find vids here on YT of some Diet reps at the national level just ranting at foreigners.
@ Honestly I'm not an expert but it took me 10 years to get mine I recently talked to foreigners who have gotten it in 5
@@CHASE88888 chase, yes, there are some special ways to get it earlier, like the point system for highly paid young professionals.
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Other than that, I'd like to know about 5 years, as that is very unusual. Of course I do know that it depends a bit on who gets your case at Immigration...
You also lose out on building up social security unless you have your own pension working in Japan
Very insightful as always!
Thank you sir!!
Great insightful points as usual.
Thank you!!
I had 8 years in Japan and been back in my country 7 years now. The first year or two back in my native country I adjusted quite well, able to move internally from my international logistics job (I was a local hire in Japan originally). I've also changed jobs twice in the meantime and even to a different industry so have been able to maneuver the job market quite well.
The problem is, as the years have gone by, I miss my Japan life and Japanese society more and more. I'm going back to Japan later this year and expect to stay there the rest of my life. You are right about how Japan changes you, after 8 years I came back very different and it shows. I don't fit in here, and although I don't expect to fully fit in Japan, I now know it suits me better there. Can't wait to be back, and like you said, I have plan A, B and C.
Thanks for the video, helps me to think about these things some more.
Your welcome I also wish you luck on your journey back to Japan!
So you enjoy living there much more compare to where you are from
@@VanillaPeach-y7l Nope!!
@@CHASE88888
I was asking the initial comment sir
@ No worries
Would like to see a revival of a stable economy, stable birthrate and preservation of japanese culture. Hope to visit one day.
It's cheaper than ever to visit!
When It’s Chase, I thumb up without seeing the video
Thank you sir!
Y'all look at this shit. This a black man speaking some TRUTH right here
Everyone else is afraid to say it LOL
As I mentioned in previous comments, I left in 94 and returned to the US after 4.5 years being gone. I was 30. I just thought that companies or people would value that I could speak Japanese but they really didn't because my Japanese was not business fluency level. I could see that people weren't sure what to make of me. On one hand they thought it was great that I went to Japan but I didn't fit what they were used to. Plus none of my skills that I learned were applicable. But I needed to feed myself so I walked into the Hilton San Francisco and they hired me to tell Japanese tourists how to get to the cable car. I think you just have to understand that it's going to be a tough adjustment and it's going to take time but that shouldn't stop you from doing it if you feel you've maximized what you can get there.
You were lucky not all cities have Japanese tourist
@@skeetpete6116 I can imagine that. After I came back from Japan, after spending 11 years there, I was living in a resort in Australia for a year, and the front desk contacted me to help some Japanese woman find the location of her wedding party group.
Honestly, I’ve come to hate coming back to the relative chaos in the U.S., even living and working in an affluent area things are just overall….coarser.
I think you need to head back to Japan until your ready to return home.
Lots of truth has been said in this video
@@jurajsladkay2608 Yes sir and it’s based on experiences related to me by multiple expats
Again, spot on!!!! I’d recommend coming to Japan when you’re a little older, after having invested well to enough to live off of your investments. You’ll live VERY well here, especially if you’re receiving your income in USD!!!!!!
True indeed make sure you have a career at home first!!
Your dji osmo 3 camera is very sharp. Vids look awesome quality.
Thank you but I use multiple cameras
Yes, one thing you said, I agree with. I know that when someone works with them, the questions they ask often come from them. You’re handsome, by the way! I hope it’s easy for you to get a girlfriend. How many girlfriends do you have? If someone says 1 or 2, they tell everyone at the workplace and start treating him badly out of jealousy. Also, if someone drives a nice, expensive car or has knowledge from attending a famous university, they don’t like that person. First, they try to crush his confidence and look for every little mistake he makes. They might even call him stupid. After a while, this can make him feel disoriented, stressed, and have a hard time focusing or making decisions, even if he doesn’t make a mistake at work
You know Japan very well LOL
@@CHASE88888 Haha, it’s hard to really know them at first. We live with them for a long time and study them, lol.
@@ebccoltd We have no choice but to study them lol
Some people never recover. Seen a few cases. You can try and be supportive of them,but then you realise its a done deal for them.
Indeed!! It's a done deal.
Chase, do you plan on visiting Okinawa someday or maybe doing an episode about it?
@@4s14n I never wanted to go there because every year every other year, there are demonstrations about the US bases. I am sure I don’t wanna be mistaken for being in the military because the people over there really resent it.
@@CHASE88888 this sounds like second hand experience. With all due respect, why don't you go and find out?
@@4s14n Your right it is second probably 3rd hand lol I don't like going to places where you have US army bases because the people are different you also have demonstrations from time to time so I'm not interested
Out of curiosity, how much longer are you wanting to live in Japan? Is it safe to say that you have become bored of living here?
I'm in South America now LOL but go back and forth
I'd been in China and SE Asia for 8 consecutive years before returning home to Canada (coincidentally a stopover in Japan) and it sounds weird to say 'Integrate back into society' when its my society, the society I grew up in. It took me 6 months before I felt 'normal' and there were still episodes of 'reverse culture shock'.
That's something people might want to think about IF they plan to live in Japan. I mean, like live consecutive years and years without routine trips back home.
I hope my videos prepare people for the realities unlike most other videos out there about Japan
@@CHASE88888 One of my Chinese students returned from Japan after 2 years of university exchange.
He was profoundly disapointed and explained it this way:
He had become infatuated with several 'anime' series. he gave me links to these anime stories and all I can see is these are like some 'Best friends forever!' types of stories.
They go deep into the many high school friends personal relationships and in the stories everyone accepts each other, emotes, loves them no matter what and they all stick together.
However,
He would tell me, actually all the Japanese students were friendly, he made friends, they were very nice to him. No problem to that degree UNTIL there was a birthday party for a classmate taking place at her home.
He was not invited. in fact, none of the foreign students were invited.
Then there was a group planning a mountain hike but... only Japanese.
Japanese do NOT actually have these worlds where everyone, every 'oddball' and every introverted foreigner or every socal reject is invited to a world of 'best friends forever!' and they all cry, cheer and console each other!
Japanese are in 'levels'. I'm a rarer foreigner who DOES actually get along with Japanese because they think I'm funny and semi-cute it seems,
however,
When there was a wedding I was not invited, when its a personal life circle, I'm not invited,
and
Japanese do not behave like this particular Anime type of series where they explore deep intimate friendships, crying and hugging each other.
This young man was really devasted becasue of his false expectations.
btw I would love to see your take on this kind of thing. 'Anime' or Japanese media culture Vs their actual real life way of things.
My take is something like this: Japanese do NOT actually join hands in fields and skip along singing 'we are best friends forever!' and sharing deep emotional friendships. In fact, they are very "uptight" about such things.
So their Anime series is actually a kind of extreme exaggeration. It's as if they have to go over-the-top in the fantasy, they have to express those things bottled up inside through the fictional stories?
*btw I just had this conversation with a man who seemed convinced Japanese really love wild sex and nudity etc etc so basically 'JAV' is what he thinks their world is. I had to break it to him that, in real life, noooo. No sir. no, Japanese are NOT like that at all.
I'd nearly say Japanese are the most 'uptight' sort of conservative about sex.
Which also goes to my sense that is WHY they seem to put out a lot of outrageous blatant 'JAV'.
They have to live what they repress through video stories.
It's that way because they are so reserved about that in their real lives.
Sorry I end up over-writing in your comments sections but you always hit topics I'm totally thinking about myself these days hah
Which year
@@VanillaPeach-y7l 2021.
I'd been in Asia for 8 consequtive years.
*before that I had gone back home for Christmas or various stints.
This is a key thing. If you live abroad but return home for a month or two, even for holidays you can keep glued into your society.
but if you are gone 8 or 12 years in a row type thing, oh ya. you will feel 'reverse culture shock',
@@theasianjaywalker4455
Which country in asia is highly developed and advanced
It’s not easy to leave .
Nope it isn't once you spend more than 2 years here
The pizza doesn't hit right? Better get on that "Pizza La"! The sauce isn't that thick? I know of a great Italian restaurant in Komorro-shi in Nagano prefecture.
I prefer Pizza Hut lol
Does Chase have JLPT N1?
@@sawmill6344 No lol
He probably isnt far off mingling and living with the ladies and working there 30+ years definitely gets your japanese level at least speaking listening pretty high. JLPT is jus the on paper qualification. A lot of japanese i have met have qualifications in english too but can barely speak a word.
@@jOeLwAlBy That's the problem people don't care how bad Japanese people speak English they get hired LOL
加古川！エィー！日本語能力試験はめっちゃ古いで、今見てる人知らんやろう？
このオッサン以外は。😀
🤣
@ オッサンは俺の事。誤解しないで。
@@earlysda No worries!
Most people come here with just plan A.
@@elmalanmalan2175 Most people come here thinking it’s going to be a Paradise and never think there will be any problems then all hell breaks loose one day
@CHASE88888 when shit hit the fan that's when people want to scaped. 😂
@ by that time they’re allready in too deep so it’s not easy
@@CHASE88888 yep👍🏼
FIRST!
Of course!
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heh...what kills me about japan sometimes is their absolute rigidity to the rules. like pizza toppings. can i have a hawaiian pizza without pineapple please? oh, no! sorry, but that's how it's made. well just leave off the pineapple...moshi wake gozaimasen... argh...never mind. lol >
Yup that's why they lost the edge and other Asian countries are succeeding they refuse to change.
First up, as a Canadian, you're supposed to put pineapple on pizza. however, I will never recover from the mayonaisse. somehow making it worse than ever, that 'Kupi' ultra sweet mayo that is pretty much 'icing sugar'.
I asked for okonomiyaki once, but when I asked them to just leave the pork off that they usually put on at the end, they treated me like I was on the Wanted list.
@@theasianjaywalker4455 LOL I'm like you the pineapple is ok The mayonnaise definitely not LOL
@@earlysda They considered it an insult because everything in Japan is perfect lol