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The Dutch dude was mighty impressive. Dude's been barely a year in Japan and already speaks that well while having good Dutch AND English at just 18 years old. He's good!

I like how you really listen to them and do not interrupt, something most people need to learn ❤

“Going abroad” really does open your mind, especially when you live there a while. My family lived in W. Germany in the 70s and it permanently broadened my perspective. And my father served in the army at 17, also in Germany, and it did the same for him. That young Dutch man was right.

I should know not to start watching Takashi videos late at night. I can’t stop! I love this content. I’ve never been to Japan but taught English to Japanese students in the US many years ago. I loved those girls and they still stay in touch. Such a beautiful culture. I love learning more about it! ❤

This channel is ridiculously good. Takashi is amazing and the interviewees are always phenomenal and compelling.

Ryuta's language skills are phenomenal! (The guy who was interviewed last.) Trilingual at 18...amazing. All the 3 people are so cool! Very inspiring. Thank you!

You are amazing! Thank you for doing this channel. You help so many of us understand, practice, and reconnect. I grew up in Hawaii, so a lot of Japanese there are from Okinawa. Different sounds. I really appreciate that you interview foreigners in Japan, and their language experiences. Thank you and please continue!

The first woman is absolutely gorgeous! 😍

Another great video Takashii san. It is a very revealing commentary on human nature. My heart is with every non-native person in a foreign country. You are absolutely correct to say that people who don't travel and explore other cultures are not likely to be able to relate to foreign guests. Welcome to reality. Keep up the good work. Love is all we need. 🙂 P.S. Even though it may seem like you might never be fully accepted in Japan as a foreigner, I found the people in Japan to always be very kind and polite. It's still a great country no matter what. imo

Thanks for your work takashi, its good to see all perspectives and hear from their life stories and experiences

Takashi, your english is improving massively. Always very interesting videos. Keep it up.

The exquisite young lady interviewed at the beginning is a knockout. Grace, elegance, and utterly beautiful.❤

This was a beautiful video and all your the people you interviewed today were absolutely wonderful and beautiful people! I would accept them completely.

Great segments. Nice depth of field for questions. I see you're an artists at getting people's certain reactions. I dare say.

Takashi you are an excellent interviewer and your guests are fabulous

Your insight of Japanese and Asian culture is refreshing, covering many aspects of it including their sentiments and their struggles.

Takashi - I love your videos. I’m American only but got to spend a month in Japan a few years ago and loved it. Japanese people are hard to get to know, so I had to hire a lot of tour guides. I feel that I am back there with them when I watch your interviews. You speak very directly but also very respectfully at the same time. Thanks for the videos.

I have watched a lot of your videos. V The very interesting topics and themes you introduce really help English speaking foreigners and Japanese people better understand what it is really like to live in and experience Japanese culture. Thank you.

Great video, great interviewer very respectful, and the people being interviewed were good too.

This was very interesting. Very good. Thanks for posting/sharing with us. Cheers!

Great interviews, very interesting.....thank you for the work you put into these!

Great interviews! ありがとうございました 😊

That was one of the most interesting of your interviews! All those people interviewed well and had interesting and insightful perspectives.

I lived in over 20 different countries however none of them were my home country (Cyprus). Because of this I never felt strange at all one way or the other. I never felt the need to belong anywhere because everywhere I was, I was not originally from that country so very quickly especially growing up I just got used to being a local wherever I was. When I lived in Japan, I loved it because if you actually spoke Japanese to people they really appreciated it. I think Tokyo is a little different - I prefer the smaller cities and the villages, especially the villages, regard anyone not from the exact same place as a foreigner anyway and hence its actually MUCH easier to get close to people. It might seem paradoxical but the point is, if you regard everyone as a foreign then you are much more open simply by necessity.

These young people are amazing. They have such interesting lives.

amazing interview of three wonderful people. very inspiring , thank you Takashi

Great report Takashii. I enjoyed very much listening to all these young Japanese experiences.

That was really cool to hear dutch spoken for the first time! I have a coworker who is Dutch but speaks Japanese so fluently we don't even bother with English. Dutch sounds kind of close to Norwegian interestingly. I wasn't expecting that. Great episode Takashi san. I live in Tokyo also. Would be great to chat with you sometime

Your channel and your content is so good! I just think you're sharing with the world something that is VERY important! It's sharing something that we should all hear and have conversations about with most normal open minded intelligent individuals. There are always going to be ignorant people in every country but for most people we should all hear this. Hopefully it will help people to be more considerate of other people. Such an interesting conversation.

Takashisan, your English has improved so much over the years. It's VERY fast now. Good work! 👍🏻😎

Phenomenal interviews. Thank you!

Half white and half japanese people are really beautiful tbh

I always enjoy these videos one of my favorite channels!

Great interview questions Takashi always good videos

Really love your channel Takashi 😊😊 we're planning to visit Japan next year

Great job Takashi, Keep going We appretiate your effort

Really enjoyed the video, your interview's are always awesome! Thank you for keeping it up 🙇🏻‍♀️ We really appreciate you Takashi-san 🙏🏻

I watched your videos and i think you are best person I have ever seen as the way you talk people,I love it❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Takashii, you are a very, very good interviewer.

What a beautiful Mix. Especially this one 0:30 💘

I love your videos Takashii-san I am always looking forward for new content ❤

I like this series of videos especially hearing about their backgrounds and hearing how bilingual they are. Being of Chinese descent I grew up in the UK and feel more British than Chinese and can associate with the sentiments that your interviewees bring out. Japan is also one of the places that I have great admiration of and have visited 3 times and the idea of teaching English there is tempting.

Very insightful and smiled all the through.

Great Video once again Takashiii. Regarding the comment about friends being denied service in Japan... I think there is a misunderstanding out there with regard to "being denied service" in Japan. Where it can happen is in areas that are related to more adult entertainment, e.g. specific types of niche bars or places that typically have Japanese men as clients in the entertainment / nightlife districts of a city. Normal every day places open to the general public this is not an issue.

Takashi is a great interviewer, is polite, does not interrupt, and always asks great questions. Thank you for continuing to post.

That was interesting. I would like to see more videos like this. Well done. 👏

wow. that was a great video. very informative, and reinforces much of the information that i have gathered to this point. thank you.

Interesting and entertaining as always. Thank you.

Amazing interview & Takashi is a good interviewer!!!

This was a fascinating post - well done.

Just now discovered this channel and subscribed. Thank you for sharing the Japanese life with us.

I find it very interesting that their body language also changes when they change languages. When speaking Japanese, they all stop moving as much as they did in their other languages. Funny to hear the Dutch guy as a Dutch myself. Very Dutch accent! Wouldn’t expect that based on his English and Japanese, but at the same time logical as he lived here for 17 years. Appreciate the content!

Hej Takashii, many thanks for making this video. I have been fascinated by Japan since I was little.... so yes, thanks for making it possible to understand the culture a little more for outsiders. I noticed your expressions and reactions with the young man are slightly different than those with the other two young ladies :) i don't know if others have also noticed it...

This channel is such a big motivator for studying Japanese - like my new video shows, I'm still definitely a beginner at it haha

I'm always impressed with how well kept the locations you film from are. Even though they appear to be back alleys and such. It's a lot trashier here in the US.

Hi 👋🏽 I appreciate this video, thanks for sharing. I begin to get emotional as I noticed the three that you interviewed didn’t feel inclusion from either side of their ethnicity. And I’m proud they took the initiative to travel to Japan. That way they could gain a deeper connection and understanding of their selves and their culture 💚 I would like to hear/see more Japanese travel out and more travel in, business is a good opportunity to gain the experience of worlds. I’m praying for Japan 🩵 my son will some day visit there 🥰 maybe a family trip ☺️

As a half Japanese myself maybe wanting to live in Japan one day, this video was very helpful. Thanks Takashii.🙏🏼

This was really interesting, thank you.

Very interesting video, thank you.

I love your video. You inspire me to make video. Keep it up. I appreciate these interviews

We appreciate these interviews. We learn so much more about Japanese cultures and values as well beliefs.

The perfect mix

That was a fantastic video. The two big themes that came out of this is how unaccepting Japanese people are which is super ironic in every which way because they're generally friendly and super polite. But behind that is the idea that Japanese is a pure kind of spirit and if you're just a little bit different you're just not one of us. It's understandable but it's also kind of shameful for the modern world? Highly debatable topic.. The other is the burden that is put on these children and is put on these children to try to make the best of being a part of two different worlds. They constantly kept saying how they didn't feel like they fit in either one and that is a real thing to take into account because it has the potential to completely derail their growing up or even when they get older as it gets harder to make friends. This video was especially important I think to people who are very much open to have Japanese children or children with a Japanese. I'm very much open to it, and I understand the issues that these people are discussing. The one thing that helps me I guess is I don't care to be Japanese because I'm definitely not, and however they respond to that is however they respond. In most cases the fitting in that most people would like to do with Japanese is just at least not be socially kept at a distance, because that's the killer for everybody no matter how sweet tough or whatever your personality is. And that is the big thing that if you can't deal with it you just cannot be there. Cheers all ❤

As 🇯🇵🇫🇷 I really enjoyed this episode and resonated with those people.😂💓✨

Thank you for your interesting show. I like the way you let people talk for a while and really listen to them, to let them express themselves. I was in Tokyo in 1985 and half-American, half-Japanese fashion models were considered cool. Although sometimes I was not able to identify them, my Japanese "family" always could. I'm sorry for them that this kind of international cooperation (having children together) results in their feeling like outsiders wherever they go. But sometimes the outsiders have a special ability to really see the main society more clearly.

As a German, I understood some of the dutch phrases even not knowing dutch at all. Amazing progress my half dutch/japanese friend. Keep going!

Wow. Havent watched in a few years and his channel blew up. I remember when he only had a few thousand followers. Much success bro!

You're doing a very good job Takashii, grettings from Brazil !

Don't know how I wound up here but I found this very interesting and watched the whole video. Good Job!

Japowhites are super beautiful. Great combo!

I like your videos, I think you make good interviews on the racial and cultural subject. I have a personal interest in this matter. Thanks

These were excellent informative interviews ! These young people have adjusted well to their mixed cultures : >)

A brilliant and very interesting video. Thank you. Especially the second and third persons. Very mature and intelligent.

This was such a cool episode!

I'm half American white and half asian. I feel sorry for my fellow halfus who feel like they NEED to be "accepted" by either group to feel one race or the other. I'm proud to be white and I'm proud to be asian and when I convey my love of my heritage I find "acceptance" comes easy.

Incredible video Takashi san! More of these kinds of interviews please. 素晴らしい！🔥

Hi Takashii San! Your fascinating videos keep me sane. Please could you consider making a video about how foreign actors in Tokyo got started? I’m an English actor and I’m moving to Tokyo in April to work as an English language Instructor but I believe I need another visa for Entertainment work and I’m not sure what the steps are to get this and how foreign actors even begin looking for work in Japan! I think many foreign actors are wondering the same thing. ありがとうございます。

I admire the tolerant and positive attitude of Ashley. She doesn’t take much offence at being seen as a foreigner inspite of seeing her self as being predominantly Japanese. I think she would adapt and succeed in almost any culture with those qualities…. even USA 🤔

Loving ur videos, it’s nice to hear the compliments and positivity about America. 🇺🇸. I would love to visit Japan someday. The two mixed girls are very very beautiful. Hope to find someone like them someday also.

I have 2 nieces who are white/Japanese and grew up in Japan. They are currently in their 30s. One still lives in Japan, the other in New Zealand. I always wondered what their experience was. Okay, I get the “ask them” suggestion. I will do that.

I really like to thank you and the people you spoke with, I really enjoyed my short stay in Tokyo. The people were great, and I loved their commitment to their culture. Being a half-breed is true everywhere I'm half Native America & Spanish, but when I go to "The Rez", I'm looked at as Mexican, and Spanish speaking people look at me as White. So Thank You.

THAT was fascinating.

Experience of every half asian : Too Asian in foreign country and too foreign in Asian country

That was intense! Thank you for another great video!

I really enjoy you videos! You're a very good interviewer ☺️

These people are beautiful! They are physically beautiful and a great personality so articulate smart well spoken. Love this channel.

You can't really take your eyes off Kat. Stunning.

Amazing interviews

I had to go to Japanese school every Saturday too, but sadly I was kind of upset I had to miss some soccer games so I didn’t really take it too seriously. Now that I’m an adult I wish I would have taken Japanese school seriously and studied harder learning Japanese.

A lot of my friends initially thought it was interesting that me being Half-White/Filipino, I also had somewhat of a Southern accent that would come out at times, growing up in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Great interviews.

Takashii is a great interviewer

i can somewhat relate. Not the same like these guys but in a way. Both my parents are Mexican from Guadalajara and Veracruz . They came to the US and I was born in California. I grew up but never hanging out with other Mexicans. So it was normal California life. Then going to mexico to hangout with my family in mexico. I standout as the white guy in the family due to my mannerisms and the way i speak. But was never treated that differently. Only problem I get when i visit mexico is that i standout as a american with my accent and so the when i go out to buy stuff and they see me as a american, street store owners will up the price on items on me when buying at stores. Just because im visiting mexico and walking around doesn't mean i have money. In most mexican family they will always have that one family memeber that they nickname " el güero" (sounds like wuueedo) meaning white boy. Never gotten that nickname but when they give it to some people it doesnt have any malicious intent when its friends and family that call you that. They even got nicknames as "gordito" or "el gordo " meaning fat guy. mexico is cool but its not safe in some areas. once the sun is down no one goes out at night. Just wanted to share

Loved the video.!

Very interesting! Thank you

先ずはTAKASHiiさん、私みたいな人に関する動画を作ってくれてありがとうございました～。実は他のハーフも似たような経験があったかどうかを気になったのでこれを見て嬉しかったです。 Japanese/Danish currently in US but with longer stretches spent in Japan, UK, Denmark. An observation when I look at fellow half-Japanese half-something else: you can find people ranging from "Wait... you're only half?" all the way to "Dude, there's no way you're Japanese." I can totally relate to not being Japanese enough for other Japanese people but that seems to change depending on who I'm with and what I'm doing. In the UK, I spent years as the only non-white kid in the class; it's easy to come across as Japanese when you're the only "other" in the room. My time spent in Japan is typically a bit different. Like Ryuta said, it's easy to be frequently labeled as foreign since I don't look 100% the part. However, if I'm hanging with family or Japanese friends, while I feel like an item of curiosity, if I make an introduction with my exceedingly normal name, most of the time it seems like the response going through people's heads is: "Oh, you look a bit different but you're still one of us? Cool." Meanwhile, if I'm with my wife (white curly-haired blonde American) people seem to be more inclined to attempt speaking English to be hospitable. But then there's been other occasions like the time my dad introduced me to a bunch of his elementary school classmates in Ibaraki, where there are comparatively few non-Japanese folks: while most people were welcoming and cool it seemed like one lady was looking at me puzzled/confused (or maybe even with suspicion) as if to say "Something's wrong with this picture."　😋 While it's a lot simpler being "normal" in whatever environment you're in, overall, life's been more interesting being the weirdo. I don't know if any of the bilingual (multilingual) folks here might relate, but if I'm speaking Japanese VS English I've noticed my personality and mannerisms are a bit different.

They're all so beautiful/handsome....

Excellent interviews! So very enlightening. I am an 80 year old. I loved Japanese Art History and I love the entire Japanese Aesthetic, Chinese Art History too. I of such a mixed extraction. My maternal ancestors are of Eskimo Orientation. If there is Asian in the origin, I am so euphoric! I was born blonde and blue-eyes. I tried to learn Japanese as a young adult but it was very difficult to not have Japanese-speaking friends. I love this video. Than you.❤️☮️☯️💟

Very interesting show thank you😮😊