i finally found out what kawaii. i was walking down the street in japan town in my cookie monster hat when out of no were a lady pointed at me and yelled out "KAWAII!!!!"
i know exactly what you're talking about. i used to work for a very serious auto company from japan and our training manuals would have little cartoon cars and cute little worker guys in overalls on a cartoon lift truck.
When I was little I wanted to grow up to be beautiful but over the past couple years as i have gotten more and more interested in Japan I want to be more cute than beautiful ^^;
even tho i kno ive known its wrong; i use the american way of saying kawaii as "ka-WHY" instead if "ka-wa-EE" even tho i was once told that my pronunciation of it in japan loosly translates into the word for "scary" :D
saving up to go to japan with my mate, we are both 21 now :) i hope to be going next years in the summer. and with every vid i see from you, i wanna go even sooner XD
I suppose one obvious reason for the shift I mention in my other comment may be that WWII left Japan so totally devastated that the society adopted a mistrust of the traditional social norms that lead them to such an outcome. It could be the embrace of kawaii and other similar things is somehow a rejection of Bushido social norms.
It is bizarre how Japan went from being a martial or Bushido society to one which is obsessed with kawaii and similar things in the broadest sense with cute cartoon characters or logos, etc. I wonder how older Japanese, those who were children during WWII and before, feel about it.
I am not saying that it is bad as it shows a pretty clear shift away from social norms that lead to the imperialism of the 1930s, but it is very odd to see that shift being so completely to the opposite extreme.
It's just funny seeing how different everything really is over there, see because if i tried going around Norway filming things for a channel of my own the only thing worth filming would be skiiers, nature and wildlife XD
Would get boring pretty fast i think.
Anyhow, lovely country, must be constantly interesting, especially since you go around looking for interesting stuff all the time, great way to spend your time.
Learning how to speak Japanese is quiet easy. It took my friend from switzerland about 6 months to be able to speak japanese well. Not fluently, but good enough to understand and have a good time :D
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Government Papers have on them cute aliens whit those big eyes staring at you and that's comedy :) I pretty much like the idea that's really interesting :)
Yes, thanks for the info. I say kawaii to my girlfriend time to time, since I've heard it on alot of youtube videos of people seeing pandas etc. She likes it and neither of us is from Asia (many countries, I know!)
@TheJapanChannelDcom Do people look at you funny going into girly shops? (I'm sure here in Canada, people would laugh at me for going to some place like that) ^^
I still don't get the diffrence between かっこい and すごい. After watching this I understood kakkoi is used for cool guys/person and sugoi like cool in general?
yea! if u watch anime u probably heard すごい and like u said it means cool in general and かっこい like u said is a cool guy. And they use かわいい to both guys and girl ... わたちあはかわいいです!^o^
I could visit there but I would have to keep my mouth closed lol . I always say the girls are pretty but I have never called another woman cute unless they were 5 and under =B . and guys I have called cute or handsome :( ....lots of details to remember
i love your channel. so i can learn more about japan. funny on the mt i live on all girls are tomboy and dont care about cute at all. i love cute. all of us guys here dont like the girls here on the mt. we like city girls cause they try to be cute. mt girls like to walk barfeet dirty feet. no fingernail polish and also they are proud they can cut firewood but they cant comb their hair. i love cute. and i love cute asian girls. cute awsome vid
fascinating stuff, I found the how-to video's great, and it strikes me as odd that their general behavior seems to be very serious and reserved. But here you show that they have this fascination (obsession?) with cuteness.
Even going so far as to put cute stuff on official document, something that we would probably see as very anti-serious and inappropriate here. I can't imagine getting a ticket or tax papers with bears or something on them.
actualy it is human, humans destroy what they dont understand, but kuz of laws the hate them... if it looks different they wont get it and they will reject that behaviour, if u want some examples... ill show u some
everything in japan seems to be pretty perfect.... please tell me if there is something wrong... or bad... or i dont know something miss placed except for the japanglish xD
Hahahaha! I know what you mean by 'kawaii girls and kawaii guys'!! I came across some videos of a popular japanese show where guys crossdress and was stunned by how kawaii they are in dresses and makeup! Oh the wonders of Japan! XD
YES!! what bothered me was most of the time, it's the girlfriend, mum or sister who makes the guys crossdress. I thought 'How liberal!' I mean, in the west, straight guys would be really shy and against crossdressing, but in Japan they enjoy it!
wow... thats pretty awesome here if u see a gay guy almost everybody start to bother him... pretty sad u know... i dont like humans... and mostly is kuz of that kind of behaviour
and im sorry if it sounds rude but i really did LOL at the idea of government forms having some cute little animal on it...just...wow. xD thats....uh...weird by my standards, lol.
this reminds me of a time i went to the mall to get some new shoes, and i overheard a couple of japanese girls calling the fur boots 'kawaii'...of course being an ex manga fanatic, i knew what it meant, but i was like o_O shoes? cute? wtf.
but i summoned my courage and said hello to them. xD i think it surprised them that i could identify their language. [ sad, on westerners part...too many people dub anything out of an asian persons mouth as chinese. ]
hahahaha no that would'nt be good! xD Imagine someone it those tv-shows he talked about, and the audiance starts screaming KOOWAAAIIIII!!!!! :D hAHAHAHAHAA
That's interesting. I've always known that they are pretty big when it comes to commercializing and advertisement but I never knew it'd also be on papers from the government and the police. That's pretty cool. That alone shows ALOT about the culture.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay i love kawaii
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Lol, I would love to live in a place where the government gave you stickers...
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@KELLERMANisBACK and cute ones, not like a Ron Paul bumber sticker or something. Nothing against Ron Paul though,
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little cute characters in police and government paper...wow...
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the thumbnail is FRIGGIN ADORABLE!
MISSpinkGLITTERbomb 4 months ago
i finally found out what kawaii. i was walking down the street in japan town in my cookie monster hat when out of no were a lady pointed at me and yelled out "KAWAII!!!!"
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Good video:) People in Japan also like to two other words..Kirei and Sugoi ;p ^^
usstan 6 months ago
i know exactly what you're talking about. i used to work for a very serious auto company from japan and our training manuals would have little cartoon cars and cute little worker guys in overalls on a cartoon lift truck.
jen8933 7 months ago 3
what if a guy tells another guy he's cute? hah
Speegonza 7 months ago
can be dangerous..?????!!!!!!!!
rkan665 8 months ago
Kawaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
tripleraven 8 months ago
What would happen if I just went out calling people Kawaii in the street.
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CoIoradoMikeyS 10 months ago
is there one you do about toys in japan if not could u plz do one (^.^)
MegaOtaku12 1 year ago
great video
mrfurball 1 year ago
When I was little I wanted to grow up to be beautiful but over the past couple years as i have gotten more and more interested in Japan I want to be more cute than beautiful ^^;
WiteRainbeau 1 year ago
@WiteRainbeau
when i was younger i was told very often how cute i was but i was miffed because nobody ever told me i was beautiful.
i'm happy with either at 55:)
jen8933 7 months ago 3
thx for the video i ve a new word to add to my list
gohanDaniel1 1 year ago
Pikachu's synchro speaker is kawaii ;)
Kfreeks 1 year ago
Mate your tone is dull, you don't seem to happy living there or something.
Never heard you laugh in any video of yours...
romeosafadi 1 year ago
@romeosafadi ha fuck off romeo, massive troll cunt
TheGreatBritishAlex 9 months ago
I honestly prefer seeing mounds of cuteness on paper instead of mounds of text. i would seriously love to live in Japan!
xXxpainstainedxXx 1 year ago
even tho i kno ive known its wrong; i use the american way of saying kawaii as "ka-WHY" instead if "ka-wa-EE" even tho i was once told that my pronunciation of it in japan loosly translates into the word for "scary" :D
Supersaiiyin 1 year ago
Wait, you refer to your girlfriend. Aren't you married yet?
nokomarie1963 1 year ago
Gee, you're so kawaii I see someone left you flowers. ;)
peterarthur 1 year ago
saving up to go to japan with my mate, we are both 21 now :) i hope to be going next years in the summer. and with every vid i see from you, i wanna go even sooner XD
jonny5312 1 year ago
I suppose one obvious reason for the shift I mention in my other comment may be that WWII left Japan so totally devastated that the society adopted a mistrust of the traditional social norms that lead them to such an outcome. It could be the embrace of kawaii and other similar things is somehow a rejection of Bushido social norms.
gillianorley 1 year ago
It is bizarre how Japan went from being a martial or Bushido society to one which is obsessed with kawaii and similar things in the broadest sense with cute cartoon characters or logos, etc. I wonder how older Japanese, those who were children during WWII and before, feel about it.
I am not saying that it is bad as it shows a pretty clear shift away from social norms that lead to the imperialism of the 1930s, but it is very odd to see that shift being so completely to the opposite extreme.
gillianorley 1 year ago
おっさんが何を真剣に語っとんねん あほか
Occun0913 1 year ago
I want to go to Japan to see all the cute things! ^_^ I'm obsessed
CelesteRepchukTV 1 year ago
is it possible to 'like' twice or more? I've started watching some videos again :P
tawwie 1 year ago 16
@tawwie
You can always try ^_^
TheJapanChannelDcom 1 year ago 8
@tawwie
Yes it is possible. But you have to wait a certain amount of time and refresh the page to do so.
SEThatered 8 months ago
@tawwie
Yes, you can, but after some days.
blasko0 7 months ago
Most of the benot boxes on jbox is super cute! I have a bento fetish Im afraid
emeraldsunsets 1 year ago
It's just funny seeing how different everything really is over there, see because if i tried going around Norway filming things for a channel of my own the only thing worth filming would be skiiers, nature and wildlife XD
Would get boring pretty fast i think.
Anyhow, lovely country, must be constantly interesting, especially since you go around looking for interesting stuff all the time, great way to spend your time.
88Kamikaze69 1 year ago
Have people ever told you that you kinda look like Edward Norton ? Anyway nice videos, keep them coming.
Wildzide00 1 year ago
they have stiff compitition with puppies then
kralalrulz 1 year ago 2
Japan
sorarl1 1 year ago
where does hello kitty come from?!
sleepup7931 1 year ago
Is is difficult living in japan not knowing much Japan, because I would like to live there and learn THERE.
XxlexiaraxX 1 year ago 8
@XxlexiaraxX
Very.
TheJapanChannelDcom 1 year ago 5
:P it is possible.
Learning how to speak Japanese is quiet easy. It took my friend from switzerland about 6 months to be able to speak japanese well. Not fluently, but good enough to understand and have a good time :D
Kanji is just hard. Lol
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MrShankerX 1 year ago
"I had some papers recently from the police.." **oh screwed up!** "..nothing bad..." lol :)
TheIthilStone 1 year ago
How does the japanese girls best like the japanese boys? Cool or cute?
kennethoes 1 year ago
Awesome. Japan is beautiful and amazing.
Chuloloc 1 year ago
I love japan i live in canada :( i wanna go to japan!!!
Marlisa10 1 year ago 4
@Marlisa10
Iam from canada to :3
I wouldnt mind- visting japan ^^
SakuraAvalonBleac25 1 year ago
@Marlisa10 yeah another Canadian.I want to go and live in Japan to XD
TenshiKoneko1 1 year ago
Government Papers have on them cute aliens whit those big eyes staring at you and that's comedy :) I pretty much like the idea that's really interesting :)
balaroo29 1 year ago
Yes, thanks for the info. I say kawaii to my girlfriend time to time, since I've heard it on alot of youtube videos of people seeing pandas etc. She likes it and neither of us is from Asia (many countries, I know!)
Enkeria 2 years ago
can be dangerous... XD
psycho0550 2 years ago
I'm so in love with Japan, i might be moving to Japan with my mother. It'll be like heaven on earth for me. So many cute things. <3
Dinosawrr3 2 years ago
Gosh, I want to have a cute Japanese girlfriend!
But I'm Caucasian. :(
SagaciousSilence 2 years ago 3
bless ya going in all girly n cute shops just to show us lol ^_^
LucindaILUVHTF 2 years ago 61
@LucindaILUVHTF
Thank you for appreciating the degree of difficulty!!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago 48
@TheJapanChannelDcom Do people look at you funny going into girly shops? (I'm sure here in Canada, people would laugh at me for going to some place like that) ^^
ThreePockySticks 1 year ago
@TheJapanChannelDcom Lol haveing a japanese girlfriend I get put through the same situations XD
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I still don't get the diffrence between かっこい and すごい. After watching this I understood kakkoi is used for cool guys/person and sugoi like cool in general?
egoimperator 2 years ago
@egoimperator
kakkoi can be anything or anyone cool
sugoi can be like excellent or very
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
yea! if u watch anime u probably heard すごい and like u said it means cool in general and かっこい like u said is a cool guy. And they use かわいい to both guys and girl ... わたちあはかわいいです!^o^
andrecp 2 years ago
ありがとうございます!かわいいのビデオ〜!ハハハ
MMLEW95 2 years ago 4
I could visit there but I would have to keep my mouth closed lol . I always say the girls are pretty but I have never called another woman cute unless they were 5 and under =B . and guys I have called cute or handsome :( ....lots of details to remember
kenyasquest 2 years ago
do you know japanese?
kawaii haha
LadyMeilin 2 years ago
No, not much :-)
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
hi
I confirm, my GF ayumi sends me parcels from kawaguchi, saitama, and never forgets to draw cute little things on them...
my postman is always impressed by them, they're probably the only "kawaii" stuff he has to deliver
mata ne
daxteamparts 2 years ago
hehehehe Kawaii desu neee. IIE KOWAI DESU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jk Great videos. Keep it up!
GundamUber 2 years ago
you are cute!
JPotGirls 2 years ago 4
Nah, too old to be cute :-)
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
nice vid; informative
pianist231 2 years ago
lol are you Australian?
pianist231 2 years ago 2
kAWAII applies to guys too? How do you call a guy handsome sexy guy!!...besides Kawaii???
mitternacht07 2 years ago
Yes, they call some guys cute.
But usually they call guys cool.
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
AYA HIRANO KAWAII DESU! ^o^
KrazyKazooie 2 years ago 2
i find this really interesting!
xxxPrayxForxPlaguesx 2 years ago 2
i am azn =] i wish i show my cute stuff =[ is really really cute
HamsterClawz 2 years ago
Arigatou for posting videos about Japan ^_^
they are really usefull
coolmusicgirls 2 years ago
You are welcome :-)
Making new ones every day!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
i luv this video
alexluvsanime 2 years ago 2
I love your videos, they are always really interesting!
Andreka113 2 years ago 3
Thanks!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
Thanks for your channel I love it !! It's good know people who appreciate Japanese culture and the country Iike I do ......
kaushilopez 2 years ago
Hajimemashite! watashi namae keyno desu. huehuehue
Some 1 take me to Japan please ^_^
I love japan fashion it is different and so colour.
keyn0 2 years ago
Cute is the way! =D
Xstreamz 2 years ago
wow you live in Japan?..your channel is awesome..:)
karlamaye 2 years ago 9
LOL Dude you are my new best friend XD
angelofdarkness15 2 years ago 5
i love your channel. so i can learn more about japan. funny on the mt i live on all girls are tomboy and dont care about cute at all. i love cute. all of us guys here dont like the girls here on the mt. we like city girls cause they try to be cute. mt girls like to walk barfeet dirty feet. no fingernail polish and also they are proud they can cut firewood but they cant comb their hair. i love cute. and i love cute asian girls. cute awsome vid
MOUNTAINOUS 2 years ago 5
fascinating stuff, I found the how-to video's great, and it strikes me as odd that their general behavior seems to be very serious and reserved. But here you show that they have this fascination (obsession?) with cuteness.
Even going so far as to put cute stuff on official document, something that we would probably see as very anti-serious and inappropriate here. I can't imagine getting a ticket or tax papers with bears or something on them.
great video's
oekedulleke 2 years ago 5
Thank you.
Yes, Japan is full of contradictions.
Often leaves me scratching my head!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
sugoi!!im canadian i wish i could go 2 japan!!
kawaikurokuma 2 years ago 5
glad you liked it.. more cute coming!!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
actualy it is human, humans destroy what they dont understand, but kuz of laws the hate them... if it looks different they wont get it and they will reject that behaviour, if u want some examples... ill show u some
Afro3200 2 years ago
ohhh those cute pinky stuff made crazy when I was little... and I still keep my little cute japanese treasures...
your videos are really great :) pls keep up the good work
greetings from egypt...
shafak48 2 years ago
Hello Egypt!
Thank you!
More kawaii coming this weekend :-)
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
most japanese stuff really IS damn cute! and i love it!! xD
pink and fluffy...take hello kitty for instance. ;)
one reason i love japan so much! xD
AyuChan90 2 years ago 4
everything in japan seems to be pretty perfect.... please tell me if there is something wrong... or bad... or i dont know something miss placed except for the japanglish xD
Afro3200 2 years ago
Planning a video on the difficult stuff later!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
i wanna marry a kawaii japanese girl when im older
darkangelofdeath14 2 years ago
good luck!
TodaErika87 2 years ago
thanks ;D
darkangelofdeath14 2 years ago
Hahahaha! I know what you mean by 'kawaii girls and kawaii guys'!! I came across some videos of a popular japanese show where guys crossdress and was stunned by how kawaii they are in dresses and makeup! Oh the wonders of Japan! XD
xcinnamonx 2 years ago
Yeah, cross dressing is HUGE on TV.
Lots of gay guys doing it.. but lots of the "coolest" straight guys too!
No homophobia here!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
YES!! what bothered me was most of the time, it's the girlfriend, mum or sister who makes the guys crossdress. I thought 'How liberal!' I mean, in the west, straight guys would be really shy and against crossdressing, but in Japan they enjoy it!
xcinnamonx 2 years ago
wow... thats pretty awesome here if u see a gay guy almost everybody start to bother him... pretty sad u know... i dont like humans... and mostly is kuz of that kind of behaviour
Afro3200 2 years ago
I understand friend..
but it isn't humans.. it is that society..
that is another reason I live here!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
cool and strange
maverickx5105 2 years ago 2
kawaii desu ! *neko chan*=(^-^)= lol
tiannazx3uploadzx3 2 years ago
Before you said the word cute
you looked so giddy.
=]
TheTwelfthDoctor 2 years ago
super kawaii video lol
otakugril2008 2 years ago
5 stars for a cute Japan
wizzbangtg 2 years ago
..."can be dangerous.." so funny :D btw great vid
dagga18 2 years ago
that why I luv japan because everything's cute!
i luv the cute characters they have..
(^_<)
LeenLuvsU 2 years ago 5
hahaha. for sure! :P
KunoichiKira 2 years ago
This is important because next thing you know, the rest of the world will be picking it up.
If you are in marketing or advertising business, take notice.
allgoo19 2 years ago
and im sorry if it sounds rude but i really did LOL at the idea of government forms having some cute little animal on it...just...wow. xD thats....uh...weird by my standards, lol.
KunoichiKira 2 years ago
this reminds me of a time i went to the mall to get some new shoes, and i overheard a couple of japanese girls calling the fur boots 'kawaii'...of course being an ex manga fanatic, i knew what it meant, but i was like o_O shoes? cute? wtf.
but i summoned my courage and said hello to them. xD i think it surprised them that i could identify their language. [ sad, on westerners part...too many people dub anything out of an asian persons mouth as chinese. ]
KunoichiKira 2 years ago
hahahaha no that would'nt be good! xD Imagine someone it those tv-shows he talked about, and the audiance starts screaming KOOWAAAIIIII!!!!! :D hAHAHAHAHAA
xmadteaparty 2 years ago
That's interesting. I've always known that they are pretty big when it comes to commercializing and advertisement but I never knew it'd also be on papers from the government and the police. That's pretty cool. That alone shows ALOT about the culture.
rinakitto 2 years ago
lol, even the government has cute images on their papers? That's awesome!
AbortedSheepFetus 2 years ago
Love the videos :D
You should do a video about Johnny's Entertainment!
x0xMomochanx0x 2 years ago
no, he shouldn't.
glasseyelashes 2 years ago 2
I thought "kawaii" meant "so cute".
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