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Abroad in Japan

Why I Love Japanese Nightlife

Abroad in Japan

Stak

Places & Travel, Anime, Documentary, Japanese, Sushi, Society & Culture, Travel, Japan Holiday, Personal Journals, Japan, Learn Japanese, Tourism, Food, Japan Hotels, Samurai, History, Manga, Tokyo, Kyoto

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Dancing. Sweaty people, dancing. Ooolong tea and Moscow Mules on tap.


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0:00.0

Wow!

0:16.0

Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan Port Grant.

0:18.0

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan,

0:20.0

but that actually dig in Japan.

0:22.0

I'm your host, Chris Broad, I'm a join as always

0:24.0

by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Donaldson.

0:26.0

I'm good Chris, I'm bored by the fact that there may be some changes to the quarantine situation for people who are going out to study in Japan and work in Japan.

0:42.0

Except you look at the teasing season and nothing much, as it is.

0:46.0

It's ridiculous, I did like an angry tweet earlier today, like I did, follow me on Twitter where I speed out garbage all day.

0:54.0

Like everyone on Twitter while we count.

0:56.0

I read an article about how someone, I think a journalist for Japan times, came into Japan and it just sounded like a horrendous like process.

1:06.0

You've got to take like five tests, you've got to have three vaccines with the booster, you've got to do so much shit.

1:14.0

And then you quarantine for six days in like a prison room and you get horrible food and then eventually after a million years and a four years of life,

1:22.0

after a million years and a four hundred tests, and you've got to have like three tests while you're in quarantine.

1:27.0

You get released now in Japan into the streets of Tokyo where over a hundred thousand people have coronavirus right now.

1:33.0

And you'll probably just get it anyway.

1:35.0

So don't get it completely redundant, very stupid, horrible kind of perspective where there's this thinking that, you know, it's like, what?

1:45.0

Coronavirus must be worse if it's coming through the airport, blah, blah, blah. Like this whole zero COVID policy that countries have instigated, I think China and Hong Kong.

1:55.0

And Japan's kind of done it a little bit.

1:59.0

And it's just bollocks because all we got to do is let one person in and you're always going to have some travel, some movement between countries, let one person in with it and it's done.

2:10.0

And of course it's spread like wildfire, even though Japan clamped down the new variant, spread like wildfire.

2:16.0

Literally everyone I know and their mum and their dad and their fucking dog got it and nothing could stop that.

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