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Today is Thursday July 25, 2013. The Tenjin Matsuri (festival) is a big event here in central Osaka and it takes place in my neighborhood. I was so excited to see all the people wearing their yukata and enjoying the festivities. It is unbelievably hot here in Japan during this time of year and just walking around requires a lot of energy. After walking around and seeing the festival with one of my friends of Kenya I met up with my friend Kumiko at Osaka Castle Park. She was looking forward to me seeing her in her kimono and enjoyed showing it off to me. After we met we walked up to the castle where there is a lookout over central Osaka. There were many people gathered up top waiting anxiously for the fireworks show to start. The feeling of heat and humidity was so intense. I almost felt like I was going to pass out. The fireworks show was about an hour long. Luckily we were able to view the fireworks from a quiet and peaceful place. Music: Tomorrow will be better, I promise by Exist Strategy https://soundcloud.com/exist-strategy Used under a creative commons license Attribution 3.0 Unported

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http://everybodydiesbook.com/ I visited this very handsome hotsprings called Peitou in Taipei. The area looked a lot like a Japanese hot springs resort, but maybe less touristy and developed. It was pouring rain, which made it nice to sit in the bath and feel the cold rain hitting my face. The photo of the lobster is taken from flickr and is used with creative commons permision. Here is the original photo, please take a look at the users other handsome photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/tupwanders/85978918/ Here is the liscensing info. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Real Life Japan is a series in which you can see what it is really like to live in Japan. This is just my everyday normal life here. You can see what it looks like to live in Japan. I live in Kobe, Japan. This is my city and these are the places I go, the things I do and the people I meet. Enjoy. Transcript Alright, today is Wednesday October 26 and I'm heading out of my house. I just put on my shoes there because here in Japan we don't wear our shoes in the house. Keeps my floors clean. It's a great custom that I also follow. And I just walked out my narrow little door there. Yup, I live in a Japanese size apartment. Not fun, don't recommend it. And I'm lucky because I can park my motorcycle right in front of my apartment. And I say I'm lucky because to rent a car space in my neighborhood can cost at least 200 or 300 US dollars a month. And I'm headed down to the coast right now. It's about a kilometer from my apartment.. And then I'm going to drive along the coast and head towards the center of the city. Outside of the center of the city is a nice area called Hat Kobe, um, and I like to go there and exercise. It's a beautiful day today. The weather is just sunny and warm and it's just perfect. And I like to jog. And before I jog I like to do some stretching and simple exercises. And after I exercisingI just pass by the park and you can see all the children playing in the park. And I was hungry so I headed over to McDonalds, therefore negating all of the positive effects of my exercise. But actually, I only go there once or twice a year so it's okay, actually. And then after I ate I decide I wanted to check out the electronics and there's a lot of huge electronics stores here in Japan. I'm checking out the USB cards and I just want to get something to speed up my computer. I also came to check out the SD cards and you can see these SD cards here are 980 yen for an 8 Gigabyte card. That's really cheap. That's like like 11 US dollars for an 8 Gigabyte card. And I'm checking out some computers. It's just really fun to shop for electronics here because there's . . . you know, there's so much selection and, um, you know there's a couple of big chain electronic stores here so there's a lot of competition which keeps the prices nice and low. And then before going to work I headed over to the Harborland area and just decided to go on a short stroll and enjoy a nice fall evening in Kobe, Japan. And that was my day.

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How many countries are there in the world? The answer is a bit of a tongue-twister. See if you can sing along to this educational song. Maybe you will learn something! Get this song on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/country-song/id847496096?i=847496513 Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mr_andrewhunt facebook: http://www.facebook.com/andrewhuntakaandypandy311 Instagram: andypandy311 Tumblr: http://www.andypandy311.tumblr.com LYRICS: Denmark, Dominica, Armenia, Belarus, Aruba, Argentina, Angola, Afghanistan, American Samoa, Antarctica, Bangladesh, & Andorra, Estonia, Canada, Fiji, Cambodia, Albania, Burma, Ghana, Brazil Ireland, Italy, Japan, and Cuba, Bolivia, Clipperton Island Ya feel? Albania, Belgium, Barbados, Bermuda, and Germany, Cameroon, China And Chad El Salvador, Colombia, Belize, Senegal, Libya, Costa Rica, and Iraq Iran, Nepal, The Bahamas, Samoa, Australia, Grenada, Azerbaijan Turkey, Peru, Senegal, Benin, Ecuador, Jamaica, Bulgaria, Pakistan Djibouti booty booty booty rockin everywhere Botswana, Ghana, Norway, Haiti, Guinea, Gibraltar Ethiopia, Qatar, Guadeloupe, and Monaco Panama, Dominican Republic, Ecuador Kenya, Morocco, Slovakia, Holy See (Vatican City), Burundi, Bhutan Malaysia, Somalia, Liberia, and Namibia, Austria, Egypt, Finland Anguilla, Malta, Cook Islands, South Africa, Chile, Mongolia, Laos, Mozambique Europa Island, Honduras, Saint Helena, Anguilla, Mexico, Cyprus And Greece Poland, Algeria, Zambia, France, Indonesia, Palau, Yemen, Russia, Bahrain Guatemala, Macedonia, Akrotiri, Zimbabwe, Togo, and Netherlands Dhekelia, Mali, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Paraguay, Madagascar Wake Island, Malawi, Macau, Lebanon, Singapore, Vietnam, Cote d'Ivoire Antigua and Barbuda budda budda budda all across the world Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, Oman, Portugal South Korea, North Korea, Guam Jordan, Israel Nigeria, Kuwait, Mali, Puerto Rico Guyana, Romania, Slovenia, Syria, Viet Nam, Montenegro, Gabon Uganda, Uzbekistan, Gambia, Croatia, Burkina Faso, United Kingdom Rwanda, Slovenia, India, Philippines, Serbia, Latvia, Venezuela Hungary, Lebanon, Kiribati (kireebuss) Spain, Georgia, Congo, Lesotho, and Nicaragua, Tonga, Lithuania, Luxembourg, San Marino, Sweden,Brunei Darussalam Romania, Czech Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Myanmar, Switzerland and Iceland, Comoros, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Cabo Verde, Tuvalu, New Zealand, Niger, USA, Thailand, Mauritius, and Vanuatu Micronesia, Tanzania, we here Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, Kazakhstan, Nauru, Tajikistan, Saint Lucia, Turkmenistan, Central African Republic, Northern Ireland, Timor-Leste, Kyrgyzstan, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Swaziland, Equatorial Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Seychelles, Sao Tome and Principe, Ukraine, Democratic Republic of the Congo Liechtenstein, Moldova, Tunisia, Sierra Leone, , Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, United Arab Emirates, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritania Thanks for watching! Shoutout to every continent, in cased I missed a country. And shoutout to VSauce and the Animaniacs for inspiring this song. I love you & will marry you if you share my videos!

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McDonald's in Japan is doing something wacky. We are so surprised... Japan. It turns out that people love McFries, but getting them in extra large boxes and hoarding them seems really lacking in community and love. Therefore, McDonald's Japan has decided to release MEGA POTATO, a double XL order of fries that you're so totally gonna share. Right? Subscribe!!! Click it: http://goo.gl/Z7lbS Check out more Food Feeder: http://goo.gl/z1ypZ Something got lost in translation. McDonald's in Japan has interpreted "super size" as "humongous size." Usually, it's us in 'Murica that love bigger over better, but we are not the home of these XXXL boxes of french fries. "Designed to share" the MEGA POTATO's name is as big as its calorie count. Now, you no longer have to have the inconvenience of ordering two extra large sized packs of French fries, you can order one extra extra extra large MEGA POTATO. Thanks Mcdonald's, the Japanese were burning too many calories switching from one box to another. What else do you think? Tell us in the comments below and Noah might address them in the next Mailbag episode! Tune in to the Food Feeder with Tasted's food guru, Noah Galuten. Noah's been there and done that in pretty much every aspect of the culinary scene from his stint as a popular food writer for LA Weekly to now opening his own highly anticipated BBQ restaurant. Hop on for the ride as Noah gives us the inside scoop on what's hot and happening in the world of fascinating food from fast food news and crazy new food products to awesome events and bizarre food world tidbits. Noah's the guy for everything you ever wanted to know about food... and then some. Click subscribe to check out new episodes every week!

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Learn about Sushi and many surprising facts about Sushi. Japan offers a wide variety of cuisine. But the most well known is the sushi. A combination of rice with either fish, meat, seafood or vegetables. Sushi is actually the rice and not the fish as many westerners believe. It appeared in South East Asia, some time in the fourth century, but it is thought to been introduced to Japan almost four hundred years ago. So, here I am at a sushi bar. Our guide for today is preparing us some tuna. So he first forms the rice bowl. The rice is usually white and short grained and mixed with vinegar, sugar, salt, kombu and sake. Stickiness is the most important factor but the vinegar dressing varies regionally. He is trained for thirteen years. It is very fresh. Scallop, for the dip. He is cutting into smaller bits. Put some wasabi onto the rice. Usually soy sauce is not put dirrectly on the sushi. I guess it is the style here. So now he is making us some hosomaki, which only has one filling. It is in a roll, like that. He is putting some tuna. And that is technique. "Roll it loose and place the fillings with the fish. That is the secret." The sushi is usually served with kisho. That is the gatti, the horseradish. And that is the wasabi. This is the Tamaki. It is quite big. It has alot of volume. These are the different kind of seafood used in sushi. Here is the sea urchin, sardine, the arch shell, the scallop, which I just had. The octopus, the hadami, blood scallop. This is yuko, showing you Tokyo.

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During August I was having my Galaxy s2 repaired and was left with a cheap replacement phone from Au (my phone provider here in Japan). My apologies in advance for the low quality video. The good quality videos will return in September... Usually in August I leave Japan for the month to get out of the heat, but this month I decided to buckle down and tough it out. Most evenings I headed out to the beach and cooled off in the ocean water. August was kind of lonely month for me as I was transitioning into my single life.

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If you have a question about Japan please ask me on my channel and I will try to answer it. One of my viewers asked me, "Is it difficult to get a driver's license in Japan?". Okay, that depends on what country you're coming from. There's two categories. The first category there's countries like The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, and I'll leave a list of those countries in the description area of this video. If you're from one of those countries, all you have to do is go to the department of motor vehicles in your prefecture here in Japan and you simply just change your license from your countrie's license to a Japanese license. That's it, you're done, you're finished. Okay, if you're not from one of those countries, then it is very difficult to get a driver's license. And unfortunately America is not in that first category . . . LIST OF COUNTRIES THAT ARE EXEMPT FROM DRIVING TEST IN JAPAN: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Taiwan and South Korea.

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If you have any questions about Japan please leave a comment on my channel page. I will answer questions that I find interesting or that I think will be helpful to other people. Opening sequence: GengoNoTabi http://www.youtube.com/user/GengoNoTabi Song: Lazy day Artist: Acoustic Sounds In this episode of Japan answers I am answering the question: how are Christians treated in Japan. When Japanese people see westerners they automatically assume that they are Christian. Japanese people are not deeply religious. Society here in Japan is based on Buddhism, but I would say most people here are superficial Buddhists. Japanese people seem to be very open to learning and discovering new things. Unlike people from some religions, Japanese people do not seem to be particularly judgmental about other religions. Many Japanese people are curious about other cultures including those cultures' religions such as Christianity. Here in Kobe, Japan we have a Christian community and many Christian churches. It is my opinion that, overall, Christians are received very well here in Japan. keywords: Japan facts, about Japan, moving to Japan, study abroad in Japan, travel in Japan, living in Japan, Japan society, Japan blog, Japanese culture society, modern Japanese culture, learn about Japan, lessons on Japan, questions about Japan, questions Japan, Japan questions, Japan forum, Japan knowledge, understanding Japan, Japanese people, information about Japanese people, life in Japan, interesting life stories, Christians, Japanese Christians, Christian in Japan, Christianity in Japan, Japan Christianity, Christian Japan, Japan and Christianity

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Real Life Japan is a series in which you can see what it is really like to live in Japan. This is just my everyday normal life here. You can see what it looks like to live in Japan. I live in Kobe, Japan. This is my city and these are the places I go, the things I do and the people I meet. Enjoy. Transcript: Alright, so I'm going to go pay my rent today. Today is the 1st of the month. It's December 1st. It's really cold today. My rent is 45,000 yen. That's about 500 US dollars. I'll show you what it looks like here. So, these are 10,000 yen notes, so that's ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, forty thousand and this is a five thousand yen note right here, okay, so that's 45,000 yen. So here in Japan we use like the postal system. We can use the postal system as a bank. There are ATM's at the post office. So I keep some money there and I just pay my landlord directly by depositing money directly into her postal account. Anyways, I'm going to go pay my rent at the post office now. Okay, so I'm going outside now. Gas man. Alright, yeah, the post office is really close to my house. I'm just going to cut through a little tiny ally here. Look how narrow this road is here. Isn't that cool. Only in Japan. Okay, I'm almost at the post office. Nothing is going to draw more attention than a big white gaijin holding a camera in your face. This is where I have to pay my rent. いっらしゃいませ。通帳又はカードをお入れください。しばらく、そのままでお待ちください。 Just put my money in here. Okay, I just payed my rent and now I'm going to go get some vegetables so I can make dinner tonight. Illegally parked. There's the supermarket. It's looks crowded. I'm looking for celery. I'm going to the hundred yen shop. Alright, I finished all my errands. Ah, it's so cold today, and I'm just walking back home now through the park. Oh, we can see the beautiful fall leaves here changing colors. That's nice. 全て言って: hello, good morning, 後は？How are you? Thank you. 合ってるよ。 My name is . . . What are you guys doing? 何しているの？ えっとね～、どんぐりを崩して、はとに餌をあげとう はとのため？ Okay guys, have fun. 楽しんでください。Bye bye

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Click for more info, and check these out as well: My Website is: http://kickthegrind.tv/ Tweet Me Here: http://www.twitter.com/KickTheGrind My Facebook Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/KicktheGrindTV Check some photos here: http://www.instagram.com/kickthegrind Thanks for watching! and remember... Experiences are worth more than Possessions. Kick the Grind - - - - - - - - - - - - - A dream come true. I've been wanting to travel the world since I was young. The idea of the unknown, the different, and the unexplored has always been an interest of mine. Travelling the world in 80 days was my opportunity to do just that; to push into some of the more daring adventures of our world, camera in hand. This video is a montage of my adventures over the past 3 months, and also a Thank You to everyone who supported me along the way. Thank you for the likes, comments and encouragement. This one goes out to all of you. 13 countries, 35 flights, and one amazing RTW experience that will stick with me forever. You'll see pieces of some videos you've already seen me share (Cormorant fishing, Pandas, etc.) but has a lot of video of things that are still to come (Yantra Tattooing, Mt. Fuji...) Kick back and enjoy a highlight reel of some of the best memories of my 80 days with Cathay Pacific.

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Check out a capsule hotel and the incredible small rooms inside. Other Information Featured Hotel VIVI Roi Bldg 4F, 5-5-1 Roppongi 03-3404-4126 Want to see the world's smallest hotel room? Follow me and I will show you the Capsule Hotel in Tokyo. The check-in process is very similar to a regular hotel. You can walk in and then ask for a room. I am given a yukata-style uniform, and my pod number is number sixteen, and this is a key for my locker. We are going to head to the locker first and leave my bags and belongings there. Here, on the diagram, you see two numbers for one section, so this indicates that it has two bunks, an upper bunk and a lower bunk. Let us check out where number fifteen is; it is just across the hall. Here we are. It is pretty spacious, huh? Not exactly a coffin, although slightly larger than that—just enough space for a person to sleep and sit in. As you step inside, you manage to notice there is a pillow, blanket, mattress, light adjustment here. We have a fan attachment here as well, and even a small television. Yes, they managed to fit a small television in a Capsule pod. Early in the morning, an alarm starts going off, hinting guests to check out. Restrooms and bath areas are communal. The hotels are largely used by office workers who have missed their last train. Most of the guests are male, but there are some Capsule Hotels that have a separate section for females as well. At some of them, you can even buy new shirts and pants for your new day. Per night's stay is somewhere between twenty-five to fifty dollars, not bad for a city like Tokyo. I had a pleasant time in the Capsule Hotel, and now I am going to check out. This is Rioko, showing you Tokyo.

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