B (60:37)
Yeah. Basically dissolving Japan's Minister of State for coexistence with foreign nationals. Onoda Kimi made a long post today expressing her views on immigration. She stated that some industries in Japan cannot function without foreign workers and that we should not ignore this reality. It's drawn extremely negative reaction from anti immigration netizens. They don't want to be told why Japan needs foreign workers. They want to revoke Prime Minister Takachi's policies that are increasing the amount of foreign workers in Japan. I think it's just really the opposite of that. This is interesting too because this Denny says, the first time I went to Tokyo in 2013, every restaurant, every Family Mart, Lawson's, Seven Eleven, etc had mostly Japanese staff. Now almost every Family mart has at least one foreigner working there. Yesterday I went to McDonald's and Ioma and almost every staff was Indian. It's just crazy now when I was just there because I frequented, you know, the Family Marts, the Seven Elevens, you know, the Lawsons, which are there big chains. And I didn't never saw any native Japanese there. It was all. It was either it was all foreigners of some kind. Now the good news is they also like the Indians, they spoke English, which was good for me, which I did see one, the Lawson's. It was by our hotel when we were in Tokyo, the first hotel. It was. Yeah, there was one. I saw one Japanese, you know, native Japanese, but every other one, none of them. So, so, so why was it okay in 2013 to have, you know, natives, you know, Japanese work in there? But now it's not. It's. I think it's a little bit of a, you know, a big deal too. And the other, the other thing too was when I was down in Kyoto and I was searching for restaurants, looking on an app, man, I saw so many halal restaurants that I was shocked. I was like, wow, how many? It's like every. It was like it was almost Like a two to one comparison, like of halal restaurants in Kyoto, which is where all the, the Shintu shrines and the, you know, the, the temples are, the Buddhist temples are, you know, they're everywhere, they're all over the place. And I was just like. Well, I've been told that it's a lot of, it's for tourism. And I did see quite a few, you know, Muslims there. It makes a lot of sense. But there were a lot of, But I also saw a lot of, I did see some, you know, a lot of Asian, you know, type Muslims too, you know, so I don't, I don't know, man, I'm, I'm not, I'm out. But I was just like shocked. I was expecting it. Now it expects to see something more like that in a Tokyo where I didn't see, I didn't run across any one halal restaurant. But I mean, Tokyo is huge. Seven times the size of New York City. It's massive. I mean, what would you know? Well, I mean, of course, would you. It might be prevalent there because of tourism, but I certainly didn't see it. But the catchy here, she's taking a big bold move, but man, she's moving quick. So she has a snap election and can transform the government overnight. She can start enacting a lot of her policies. She's been very bold and talking about, you know, the kind of people. And again, when I, if, if I think about Japan and the reason I love Japan is because of the culture, the culture there, the food, everything about the Japanese culture is next level. And I, I would certainly hate to see. Why would Japanese want to erode their culture by bringing in people that are not willing to assimilate and not willing to, you know, toe the line. And you think about from education all the way up, you know, the, it's one of the few cultures where elders are very respected. And what I was amazed by just being, you know, coming from the US and being able to look at it from an outside lens. I was impressed that even young kids, how well behaved they were. You know, you jump on a subway and it's quiet, except when you get these loudmouse, you know, foreigners coming in screaming, laughing at the top of their lungs, not respecting Japanese culture. Even as a tourist, you should read up on what the Japanese culture looks like. And we were quiet. We never talked on subways only because it was the culture, you know, we, we knew about it. And who did I always see talking and make it a scene? English, of course. They're Loud at time, drunk half the time, midday, hammered out of their mind, talking loud. A lot of foreigners coming on there. It's like, if you need to have respect for the culture and the underlying thing, it's why my wife and I went to. We. When we asked for places to eat, we said, where are the places that the Japanese eat? We don't want to go to tourist places. We want to go to traditional stuff. That's why we had a traditional breakfast. We were only. The foreigners in there. We're very respectful. Wanna. Want to respect the culture, you know, speak as much Japanese we can and. And try to communicate, you know, with our phones and their language because, you know, you want to. You want to make the best effort you can. And unfortunately, I was embarrassed by a lot of Americans that just walked around speaking English, making a scene, being loud and boisterous. And there's no. There's no wonder why Americans are hated, because most. I always. I've always had this assertion of, like, is every American that travels an. I've been. I was in France. I was trying to speak my best friends. I was looking at that, and they met me in English, right? But they understand that I was trying to communicate in French. I was making the attempt. Meanwhile, people complaining about their food, and I'm like, great, loud Americans given, you know, complete. To every American that travels. And anybody just quiet and respectful of a culture and trying to understand what the culture is like. It was just. It was embarrassing on so many levels just to see how people act. And you're like, you want to just go over and smack them. But if I was 4, I was far away from those foreigners on the. On the. My wife's like, don't get involved. I'm like, I'm gonna go tell those guys to shut the up. And she goes, don't do it. And I said, I don't care if there's six of them. I'll take all six of them on. I go, I am not gonna put up with this. I was gonna go up there and say, respect Japanese culture. Please keep your mouths. You know, please keep your tone down. But it was over the top, Jeff laughing like that, just being complete idiots. She's like, don't do it. I'm like, because I'm with you. I'm whispering because I won't do it. But, you know, if Jeff and I were there, I'd go cut right through that crowd. Go tell them to shut the hell up.
