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Abroad in Japan

Why Rural Japan Doesn’t Want Foreign Residents

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

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Towns and villages in the rural Japan are an attractive option for foreign immigrants. But is life in the countryside all it's cracked up to be?


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0:00.0

Do you belong here?

0:02.0

Do you belong here?

0:05.0

Trouble shooting an engine in a military workshop?

0:08.0

What did guts say it?

0:10.0

Want to turn the volume down?

0:13.0

Or stay here and get paid to learn a trade.

0:17.0

With an army apprenticeship that will set you right for life.

0:21.0

Still listening, you belong here. Army recruiting now,

0:28.1

search Army jobs.

0:32.3

Wow. Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast probably the best way of learning

0:47.8

about life in Japan without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris

0:51.1

Broad and will join as always by England's top Japan

0:53.2

enthusiast Mr Pete Dawson himself Pete how the devil are you doing what's

0:58.1

going on I'm good Chris I have just turned on the lights to record this show and I just realized that I bought very cheap glasses. I brought my glasses when walking into a wall recently and I grabbed my prescription from the

1:16.1

opticians and I said you know what I'm not going to spend 250 quid on new glasses

1:20.0

because that's how expensive they are because it's a massive monopolistic racket here in the

1:25.1

UK and pretty much everywhere in the world to be honest.

1:27.9

There's one company that are spectacles and they've got us all by the danglies.

1:31.8

And I just went online, it spectacles.com and I went online and just bought

1:38.0

some for 50 quid and they're good and they're cheap and they're fine but I've just realized I didn't do I didn't plump for the extra

1:46.2

kind of photo sensitive courting so I'm just noticing that on the YouTube you'll be able to

1:51.6

see very reflective.

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