00:00:00 Mika: (silence)

00:00:05 John Daub: Hello, everybody. Welcome to Tokyo. It is me, John. How you doing? I'm in the studio, which is my apartment. Today we have a special guest. They're standing by. They're live from Tottori prefecture and my family on the other side of Japan. Somebody who was on the show back in 2017 of October, if you can believe it. She was in high school and now she's an adult. She's a college student. Hello, Miu.

00:00:36 Miyu: Hi. Hello.

00:00:37 John Daub: Hello. Who's that with you? There's somebody there.

00:00:42 Miyu: This is my mom.

00:00:44 John Daub: Oh, hi, Mika.

00:00:47 Mika: Hi.

00:00:48 John Daub: How you doing?

00:00:50 Mika: Good.

00:00:52 John Daub: It's nice to see you. Me, I want to say Mika. So me, because. Miu. Mika. Mia. Miya. Mika. Miu. So you're at home now.

00:01:06 Miyu: Yes.

00:01:09 John Daub: Yeah. How come you're not in university?

00:01:15 Miyu: I was in the US because of my study abroad, but because of coronavirus, I had to go back. My university in Japan forced me to go back. So, yeah, I'm here in Tottori, which is my hometown.

00:01:31 John Daub: Ah, yes. So it's nice to be back home.

00:01:37 Miyu: Yeah. I'm glad to see my family and my friends. I'm happy.

00:01:43 John Daub: It's nice to have your mom with you there. I'm going to show the video. This is you now that we're seeing from. From 2017. And you're. You're.

00:01:56 Miyu: My English was [laughs].

00:01:58 John Daub: Your English was pretty good. We. I thought your English was fine. Yeah, but you. You shared. And anybody can go back and take a look at this live stream. But you shared with us, everybody, what it's like to go to high school in Japan, what it's like for you. And that experience is something that I thought was really unique because I've never been to high school in Japan. So a lot of people today have questions about. Oh, there you are. We're looking at you in your uniform. You have your high school uniform now on the screen. It's kind of funny, but you took questions from hundreds of people that day and we got a lot of questions for you today too. So I'm hoping that you can answer some questions. Mika. So I got a question for Mika. You have to go soon, right? You're gonna. Yeah, Mika's gonna leave now too. So how is Miu's English?

00:03:00 Miyu: Ah, great. Up.

00:03:06 John Daub: Miu's English has gotten better. That's important. That's important. How is your English?

00:03:16 Miyu: Yeah, my English level is high school.

00:03:21 John Daub: Junior high school. So you're 16 years old, 13 years old.

00:03:29 Miyu: Yes.

00:03:33 John Daub: Yeah. And Miu has two sisters, right? Hikari and Haruka. How is their English?

00:03:46 Miyu: Actually, Hikari is learning English in, like, a private school in Japan.

00:03:52 John Daub: Right.

00:03:53 Miyu: So, yeah, her English is pretty good. Like, she can say pretty easy sentence like, "I can cook" or "I will be there later" or something like that. So, yeah, she's learning right now.

00:04:12 John Daub: I am completely shocked because your English is so much better than it was two and a half years ago. You're very natural with the way that you speak now, which is great. Yeah, all right. So you went to university in Osaka, right? We were talking about this in 2017 a little bit where you're gonna go to university, and you said probably Osaka, which is closer than Tokyo. Yeah. How was that? How was that experience?

00:04:46 Miyu: So my university—

00:04:47 John Daub: Yeah. In Osaka.

00:04:51 Miyu: It is really fun to go to my university. They have better facility for the students and teacher, or like, professor is really good kind to the student. And my university is, I think, pretty big, like, huge university. I think approximately so many. Three. Three million people. Students.

00:05:19 John Daub: Wow.

00:05:20 Miyu: Go to my university. So. Yeah, I really love my university.

00:05:24 John Daub: How many people? 30,000. Saman.

00:05:28 Miyu: No, 3 million. Yes.

00:05:32 John Daub: 3 million is Sambyakuman. That's kind of a lot. 30,000, I was gonna say. That's a little bit off there. What are you studying?

00:05:52 Miyu: My major is the field of England, American culture.

00:05:57 John Daub: Wow. So you can study American culture.

00:06:02 Miyu: What is like some student. Some students focus on the gender problem, and I'm focused for consumption, society, and advertisement.

00:06:13 John Daub: Interesting.

00:06:15 Miyu: Yeah.

00:06:15 John Daub: So you. You had. So you're 18 years old and you did. You moved to Osaka because you. You live in Tottori, not in Osaka. Where were you living? In a campus dormitory. In an apartment.

00:06:32 Miyu: I live in my apartment, which is near my university.

00:06:37 John Daub: Okay. Well, a big apartment.

00:06:42 Miyu: No, just one room. And. Yeah, I live there alone.

00:06:49 John Daub: Wow. So I'm. I'm gonna move the picture smaller. Sorry. So then I'm. Now I'm talking to Mom. Mika. She's living alone.

00:07:00 Miyu: Yeah.

00:07:07 John Daub: Really? So she's kind of. She's an adult already. But—

00:07:52 John Daub: You're. You act older than your age. So a lot of people that are 20, they act like they're 15, but you act like you're 25. So.

00:08:05 Miyu: Thank you.

00:08:06 John Daub: Yeah. That's good. That's good. Yeah. When I. I'm 46 and I act like I'm 15. Yeah, it's true. Kanai says that all the time. I can't. It's a true story.

00:08:20 Miyu: Got a huge gap.

00:08:22 John Daub: It's a big gap. People say that Kanai is younger than me. And actually, they're totally wrong. I'm way, way younger than her. Up here.

00:08:31 Miyu: Okay. Up here.

00:08:32 John Daub: Up here. That's right. It's not a laughing matter. I have many problems. So we got a ton of questions from viewers. It's really great to catch up with you. I'm hoping that I'll be able to come down to Tottori as well to see you guys again. A lot of you.

00:08:52 Miyu: Yeah, yeah.

00:08:53 John Daub: A lot of you don't know that when I go to Tottori, I. I could stay in a hotel. No, I like to stay with my family down there. So that's Mika and Miyu and the whole gang. And it's just a lot more fun. Even though Haruka. Haruka might come into the room and do some booze and wake me up. And a boo is. Is a. You know, it's [laughs]. So. John San Jon, okay, say "wake up." And then I smell. I get right up and it's a morning shot of happiness. That's my lovely. I love Haruka. Yeah, she's great. How old is Haruka? How old is Haruka?

00:09:50 Miyu: 12 years old.

00:09:52 John Daub: Wow. So when I first met her, she was like seven or eight. That's crazy. That's. Kids grow up so fast. I'm in shock.

00:10:04 Miyu: Shark. Shark.

00:10:05 John Daub: I'm in shock. So we have here some questions from viewers, supporters on Patreon. So I'm getting to these questions. First of all, you're studying American culture and what do you want to do when you graduate from university? What's your plan?

00:10:24 Miyu: Actually, I'm thinking I went to America. I was in America to be our flight—

00:10:35 John Daub: Oh, yeah, I remember you were saying something like that.

00:10:37 Miyu: Yeah, yeah. But not right now. I'm learning a lot of things. I have been made a lot of people like. And I'm thinking a lot about my. And now coronavirus is crazy. Yeah. So I have to think about that also. And so, yeah, I'm thinking—

00:11:02 John Daub: I think, yeah, it's a tough decision, especially with this, but I think that the airline industry is not doing well. You're probably good to find something new. Study accounting. Accounting is good. I'm serious. If you have an accounting degree, it doesn't matter. You don't have to do accounting, but you'll always have a job. I wish I had studied accounting, but. But it's really hard.

00:11:31 Miyu: Yeah, this makes sense.

00:11:33 John Daub: Makes. Yeah, yeah. I. I talked to Miu, like, she's my sister or daughter or something. She like family, like study accounting, be responsible, do all the things that I should be doing, and do it better than me.

00:11:45 Miyu: Okay.

00:11:45 John Daub: Yeah. All right, so let me get to some of these questions here. Peso255, who is a supporter on Patreon, writes, "given the current situation, how are universities handling impending exams?" Peso, that's really difficult. English. So you're a university student, but nobody can go to class. What do you do to. For exams? And is there social distancing in Osaka at university?

00:12:16 Miyu: Actually, I'm sorry, I don't know about like entrance exam or something.

00:12:21 John Daub: Yeah, right, right.

00:12:23 Miyu: But. But my university changed all of classes to the online class. But I think this year, like the student who is gonna start my university, I think they have done their exam before it spread out. So I think their. They're doing online classes like we do. I think.

00:12:56 John Daub: Yeah. I think online classes are all over Japan right now. It's. But I. I still confused why Japan isn't doing more online lessons. Like, Tottori is fine though. Actually, Tottori is one of the places with almost no coronavirus infection.

00:13:13 Miyu: Yeah, almost. No. Yeah.

00:13:15 John Daub: It's crazy. I want to come there, hang out. With that said with that said that Tottori doesn't have a lot of coronaviruses. Do you have social distancing and wearing masks and being really careful?

00:13:33 Miyu: Yes, of course. In Tottori and Osaka and yeah, everywhere in Japan we have to wear mask. Yeah.

00:13:42 John Daub: Can you drive now? Do you have a car?

00:13:45 Miyu: Yes. What? I don't have a car. I don't have a car, but I can drive if I have a mom next to me.

00:13:54 John Daub: Oh, this is fun. And when can you drive without mom? When is it okay to drive without mom?

00:14:05 Miyu: I don't know. Maybe 18.

00:14:11 John Daub: Yeah, it's. It's. Driving around Tottori must be fun. Just because Tokyo is. Is awful. It's traffic. It's stressful.

00:14:20 Miyu: Always traffic.

00:14:21 John Daub: I was driving around the. The highway above. Above Tokyo and I'm just in stress like this. Like a. Everybody's just going around me. It's very scary to drive in Tokyo. I want to move to Tottori. Kanai's like, we should move to Tottori. I said okay. Yeah. Gonna talk to the buccho. Get a job down there. We'll be okay. We'll be okay. Yeah. Let me get some more questions here. Marty asks, "Is Tebasaki still your favorite food? Oh, you still like tebasaki?"

00:14:58 Miyu: Of course. I love. I love that. Yay. You guys have to eat. You guys should eat every day. I can eat every day.

00:15:08 John Daub: Tebasaki. That's crazy. I remember that you were talking about tebasaki. It was like, very quickly, it was said to everybody, so she still loves tebasaki. Marty. Marty. There's still tebasaki. Do you. Marty also writes, "Do you get to practice your English much? And where. And do you have foreign student friends in your university? Do you still practice English and do you have friends?"

00:15:36 Miyu: Yes, I have friends. You mean in Japanese university or in American university?

00:15:41 John Daub: Marty didn't think about that when he asked the question, do you have here in Tottori, do you have foreign friends?

00:15:50 Miyu: No, I don't have.

00:15:52 John Daub: Wow.

00:15:53 Miyu: Yeah. I do not have. I think there are no foreign people around me.

00:15:59 John Daub: Yeah. Tottori is not a hub of international activity. When I go, I'm one of the few foreigners in the entire prefecture. Maybe there's like 10. When I come and there's 11, there's a party. Welcome. So you. How do you practice your English when you're in Tottori or Osaka? And how many friends do you have in the United States? You must have a lot.

00:16:28 Miyu: I think I have 10 friends in American University. I mean, in America, but in Japan, I have few foreign friends. I don't have a lot actually, but I usually call with my friend. And my best friend in US is a native speaker and like people who are from other country. So I can speak English to practice with them.

00:17:14 John Daub: Okay. Where did you go in the United States? Where were you?

00:17:20 Miyu: I was in Northridge. In LA.

00:17:23 John Daub: Los Angeles. City of angels and devils. Was it dangerous? Were you scared? Los Angeles now. Tasty Chronicles in our group over there. Jeanette. No, Louisiana is fine. Louisiana's safe. But were you worried, Mom? Mika? Kind of worried. Miu, were you scared to go to America?

00:17:54 Miyu: No.

00:17:55 John Daub: Good, good. Maybe because I'm so friendly, everyone is like. Like me. No. Hey, welcome to America. The roads are paved with gold.

00:18:07 Miyu: Yeah.

00:18:08 John Daub: Yeah. And when you were in Los Angeles, what was. What was that like? The first week, the first few days, arriving in America, were you excited, nervous, scared to speak English? What was that like?

00:18:24 Miyu: I was a little bit nervous for the first time I went to there. And of course I. I don't have, like, any friends. So I was like, yeah, a little bit confused about cultural difference between America and Japan. And also, food is not. Didn't fit for me. I have been eating Japanese food every day. So, yeah, sometimes I got sick because of food or. Yeah.

00:19:02 John Daub: Did you put on weight? Did you get bigger?

00:19:06 Miyu: No.

00:19:07 John Daub: Really?

00:19:08 Miyu: Yes.

00:19:09 John Daub: When I go back home, I get really big. I eat pizza. I eat everything that I can eat. Whatever I can get, I eat it because I know I can't eat it when I come back to Japan. Pizza, burgers, all the good stuff, I just like fill my face and I get really big from that. You are fine. Did you miss Japanese food?

00:19:32 Miyu: Yes, I was eating Japanese food in a Japanese restaurant in Los Angeles.

00:19:40 John Daub: Wow. Was Japanese food in Los Angeles good, like at restaurants or were you eating cooking for yourself?

00:19:51 Miyu: I was eating in the Japanese restaurant. I think they have pretty good food in Los Angeles.

00:19:58 John Daub: In Los Angeles, yeah.

00:20:00 Miyu: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:20:01 John Daub: Right. But is it better than Tottori? Is it better than your mother's cooking? Better than mom?

00:20:08 Miyu: I cannot say better than better than mother. My mother's meal.

00:20:14 John Daub: What? Yeah, let me get her in here. She's really. Actually, Mika's cooking is really good. It's really good. So. Yeah. Yeah, I missed. Yeah, it's good. Good cook. Yeah, I was always eating. That's why I stay at, at Mika's house. It's good food. Very good food. I eat three times a day with Haruka and Hikari and sometimes Haruka takes my food and I try to take hers. She gets angry. It's fun. It's exciting. I don't know where to sit. Sometimes I'll sit in Hikari or Haruka's chair and they get angry. Yeah, you've done that too. That happened before. Great. We have some more questions here. Will Richie asks, "What are the most. What are you most passionate about today that will influence you in your life as you get older? What passions that you have now that will shape who you are as an adult?" That's a tough question, Will.

00:21:31 Miyu: That's a tough question.

00:21:33 John Daub: Well, what influences you now? Is it in American culture? Is there something that has changed you that will change who you are as a person as you get older? These are deep.

00:21:50 Miyu: So. So one thing I really like about American people is like they're so. They always have confidence about themselves. But as you know, like Japanese people is like so shy and not open minded and they always like, I feel like kind of they are wearing masks.

00:22:18 John Daub: Yeah.

00:22:19 Miyu: So yeah, when I was in America, I really have confidence about myself because all the American people, they're so like confident.

00:22:31 John Daub: So that's interesting. You're seeing it from a different side. I always think, think that too. Americans are very friendly with strangers. You could be meeting them for the first time and they're. You're really close friends. In Japan, people are very they have a, a wall between them.

00:22:50 Miyu: They always like cover distance. Like a wall.

00:22:53 John Daub: Yeah, I, I, it's the making friends in Japan was the hardest thing for me. That's why a lot of people have other foreign friends. But to have really good Japanese friends is very hard in Japan. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of a challenge out there. So. But you were able to make a lot of friends in Los Angeles?

00:23:20 Miyu: Not, not really a lot, but yeah, few people.

00:23:24 John Daub: And you went out with your friends and partied to discos and dance clubs—

00:23:29 Miyu: And you know, actually I went to the club only one time because I was 19, so I was just able to go to 18 Club.

00:23:44 John Daub: Wait, so you didn't get a fake ID? You didn't, didn't get a fake ID. Wait, is your mom still there? Is she still there? Oh, she is, she's still there. Sorry. Yeah. Okay, we'll talk later. We'll talk later.

00:23:59 Miyu: I was trying to get a fake ID because my friends actually told me about that. But I couldn't find like people friends who have same face.

00:24:12 John Daub: Oh, you have to find somebody who looks like you. Yeah, yeah. That's hard. That's hard. I never had a fake ID. I have really didn't have much of a social life in college. I would know was not liked or loved and didn't need to go out and anyways in, in at Ohio State in the 1990s, you could, you could just go out and get a drink. Anybody, anywhere. House parties. House parties. I learned a lot life. Let's go back some of these questions here. Ananda Kang writes in, "Has living overseas made you think differently about some aspects of Japanese culture and societal norms?" I think Ananda, she answered that a little bit. But now that you're back in Japan, how has living in America changed your life? What do you do differently now? It's deep. I can tell you what changed my life in Japan. But we'd have to be here all day and night. That's crazy. It's a lot.

00:25:32 Miyu: Yeah. So as I mentioned before, I was like really shy. I'm so like Japanese person. I experienced a lot of things in America. Like there was of course tough time for me. I couldn't speak English really well at the first time when I went to America. So I was confident and but my friends like American people really chill, they're so, they're so open minded and they said like you are always you so you can be yourself always. So it's like, yeah, I have confidence right now.

00:26:37 John Daub: Yeah. That's good. You can be yourself. You be you in. In Japan, you're always. I don't know. I don't want to. It's hard for me to criticize Japan. But you're. You can never really be yourself in public. You have to be. You have to hide your feelings a little bit and be—

00:26:59 Miyu: Yeah.

00:26:59 John Daub: So that's why we say in Japan, we have many masks. Everybody has a private mask. With your family, you have a mask for school, a mask for business, a mask with your friends. Even with your friends and your family, they're different. It's crazy, right?

00:27:17 Miyu: Yeah.

00:27:18 John Daub: I have one mask. It's getting wrinkled. It's getting old a little bit, but it's a good mask. It's the only mask I have. Yeah. But I think that you. I know you only from living at home. I don't know how you are with your friends, but before you went to America, did you have different masks?

00:27:45 Miyu: Yes.

00:27:46 John Daub: Yeah.

00:27:46 Miyu: In Japan, I was wearing a mask with my friend. With my boyfriend. Yeah.

00:27:55 John Daub: Wow. And now you. You're a little bit more freer. You feel different.

00:28:00 Miyu: Yes.

00:28:01 John Daub: Right. So Japanese companies would say that you have become a corrupted. A corrupted Japanese, and we cannot hire you. You're ruined. And your way of life is too. Too relaxed.

00:28:16 Miyu: No way.

00:28:16 John Daub: Really? You think you could work in a Japanese company? Now you're ruined. It's over. You're free.

00:28:24 Miyu: I can work. I can work because I'm Japanese. I can be Japanese and a little bit Japanese American or something.

00:28:32 John Daub: I think so. I think so. The best thing is to take a little bit that you learn from America and take the things that are your core, which is a very good person. You put it together and it makes a better person of you. I've taken the things from Japan and they've made me a better person. And I learned more. I look at other people more than, like, pouring someone's sake glass. I'm always trying to read the air. Wait, there's something wrong here. It's not me, it's you. No, it's not you, it's me. Sometimes I can see myself more. Because in Japan, we always are worried about ourselves. Do we look okay? Are we saying the wrong thing? Is this the wrong situation? Should I go? Should I stay?

00:29:19 Miyu: They always care about that.

00:29:21 John Daub: So then. So now I can talk to you? In Japan, we feel more stress, right? Right. Just everyday stress.

00:29:31 Miyu: Yeah, I think so.

00:29:34 John Daub: Yeah. And now you can turn it off a little bit. You just stop caring, right? You just. I don't care. Welcome to the American way of life, baby. Yes. I don't care. Let's get a T-shirt and sweatpants and no makeup and let's go to Starbucks in Tottori. Yeah. That's the place to be.

00:29:58 Miyu: That's what I was thinking about. Yeah.

00:30:00 John Daub: Yeah.

00:30:02 Miyu: American people don't care about that. But Japanese people always have to make up in front of the people. Friends, even. Even my family.

00:30:14 John Daub: Right.

00:30:16 Miyu: So weird.

00:30:17 John Daub: But you act different, you look different. When you speak Japanese. This is a good question. When you speak Japanese and when you speak English now, does your personality change? Wow.

00:30:34 Miyu: Yeah, it's changed a lot. Like, I use, I don't know, han gesture. Like more passionate.

00:30:43 John Daub: Wow. Yeah, yeah.

00:30:45 Miyu: But when I speak Japanese, I'm just like, "Konnichiwa." Yeah. Like so calm.

00:30:55 John Daub: So I'm looking. I'm looking here at Mika. Has. Has Mew changed because of America? Is she different? Kawata Makara? Yeah, She knows herself. Yeah. So, yeah, when you have to travel and you're alone and you live as an adult, you start to learn your limits and you learn about yourself. And now you're comfortable being you. You don't worry about everybody else. I think that's what mom was trying to say. She. She's comfortable being her, and that's good. I'm not comfortable being me. A lot of times I'm somebody else. Yeah. My viewers know that I'm always making faces and problems. Problem child. Yeah. So what do you want to do now? Let's. Let's put all the cards on the table so you're home.

00:32:40 Miyu: Okay.

00:32:41 John Daub: When do you go back to school? Do you go back to America? What's. What's your plan right now?

00:32:47 Miyu: Go back. Okay, I'm not gonna go back. Right? Yeah. And I have to graduate my university first.

00:32:56 John Daub: Okay.

00:32:57 Miyu: I mean, university.

00:33:01 John Daub: Yeah. Shout out to Bradshaw's studio is here. And Mikayla, I saw you chatted in there earlier. Thank you. Hello, Michaela. Just want to see. I can't see the super chats so well in here, but. So mom has gone more. Bye. Bye.

00:33:20 Miyu: Yeah, she's. I think. I don't know.

00:33:27 John Daub: She's not. She's gone.

00:33:28 Miyu: Yeah.

00:33:29 John Daub: That's all we know.

00:33:30 Miyu: I think she's gonna bring my charger.

00:33:32 John Daub: Oh, okay.

00:33:35 Miyu: Yeah.

00:33:37 John Daub: I've kind of frozen here.

00:33:42 Miyu: Yes, I know.

00:33:43 John Daub: So just let's. You frozen on the. On the screen. Just take. Let's take a look for a second. Let's take a look for a second at the video from 2017 so you can see how much she's changed. I'm trying to fix the. Trying to fix the settings here.

00:33:58 Miyu: Yeah, I changed.

00:34:00 John Daub: I know, I know. Here she comes back. You're both wearing Abercrombie and Fitch shirts here.

00:34:09 Miyu: Yes.

00:34:10 John Daub: You got that in America?

00:34:13 Miyu: Yeah.

00:34:21 John Daub: Let's see if I can get this. Get this going back here. I can't get Jan's camera back. Why is that? I wonder what happened to me. I used to be. My camera stopped. I know. It's weird. I can't move. It's a nice picture. Yeah. I look. I do look very different here. We'll just do the picture in picture for now. Yeah, I do look very different here. What do you mean? Wakai. I looked younger. I look the same. No. What? It's not that different. I've been using face pack Matcha and. Yeah. Japanese sake. It's working.

00:35:24 Miyu: Yeah. That's good for your skin.

00:35:26 John Daub: Yeah. You stay young, you know. Really? Really? Yeah. They're just saying that. They're just saying that. I can't see all the. Shane. Shane Posh is here. Shane says hit that like button. So Danae, everybody hit that like button. If you like these formats, I'd like to have Miu to come back because she has some time. We have a lot of questions to answer about Japanese society and I think. So let me see if we can get some more questions. If you do have some questions for. For me, you, or for Mika. It looks like Mika's still here. You can go ahead and ask and we will try our best to answer because that's what we do. That's what we do. So you're. You're. Now let's see here. So in here in Tottori, do you have any like quarantine? Do you have to stay inside or can you just go out more naturally?

00:36:34 Miyu: Basically, we have to stay inside. But since we don't have like. We don't have like a lot of case—

00:36:43 John Daub: Yeah.

00:36:46 Miyu: Of coronavirus. We can go out grocery store and like a little bit. Working. Working or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36:59 John Daub: And if. If we go back to university here, I'm moving all over the place. But Japanese University and American University. Is it. Which one do you like better?

00:37:14 Miyu: Because I know I can say I. I can say I like American College.

00:37:19 John Daub: It's harder. American University is more difficult.

00:37:23 Miyu: It's harder. That's why I like, like we can learn more practical skills.

00:37:29 John Daub: Interesting.

00:37:31 Miyu: I think because I was surprised. For a lot of students in America working really hard about their study.

00:37:41 John Daub: Yeah.

00:37:43 Miyu: So. Yeah.

00:37:45 John Daub: Thank you. Ramsey Silent and Nagi A. I appreciate that. I see the super chats coming in. Yeah. So I. I think a lot of people don't know that, but the Japanese university is very easy because. Yeah.

00:38:00 Miyu: It's so easy to get a credit.

00:38:02 John Daub: Yeah. It's hard to get in easy. And once you get in easy, it's easy process.

00:38:09 Miyu: Yeah. To graduate.

00:38:10 John Daub: Yeah. I thought about going to Japanese college, but that would be. I don't know, what would I study? I've been learning from the world of life, you know. Yeah. So, Tottori, how is, how is everything in. I get so many questions. For me, I'm looking at the one. What kind of jobs does Miu want? So she wanted to be a flight attendant, but now she wants to do something different.

00:38:39 Miyu: Yes.

00:38:39 John Daub: Not 100% sure. You can be a radi—

00:38:43 Miyu: I don't wanna. I wanna ask—

00:38:46 John Daub: You could be a—

00:38:47 Miyu: What should I do?

00:38:48 John Daub: What should she do? That's right. So if you're watching, put in the comments below. What should she do? Yeah.

00:38:55 Miyu: Yeah.

00:38:55 John Daub: I don't. I don't. Look, I don't know what I should do. All right. I'll just be honest with you. I don't know what I should do. All right.

00:39:03 Miyu: Yeah.

00:39:04 John Daub: Like, what is my job when I go into. When I go to another country, they say, please write your job in the, you know, in the box. What do I write you? YouTuber. Before YouTuber, I didn't know what to write. Not employed. I don't know what. I don't have a career, like doctor or lawyer. They say you can write professional. But it reminds me of that movie the Professional, which didn't end well for him. Called Leon. Do you know Leon? Yeah, with the little girl. Natalie Portman. No, it's a different title in Japan than in. In the United States, it was the Professional. And in Japan, Leon, like maybe 20 years ago, that movie. I don't know. I guess you can do whatever you want. You could be a YouTuber. You know, a lot of people are doing it.

00:39:56 Miyu: Yeah. I'm gonna think about it.

00:39:58 John Daub: Yeah, think about it. You could be like your mom. Your mom does radio and TV. You could do that.

00:40:07 Miyu: Yes.

00:40:07 John Daub: Yeah. You're more natural now, so it's hard to do that. I'm frozen. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of things. So you said you have a boyfriend now.

00:40:24 Miyu: Yes.

00:40:25 John Daub: Is he watching? I hope not.

00:40:29 Miyu: I don't think so.

00:40:31 John Daub: Okay, that's good.

00:40:32 Miyu: Yeah.

00:40:33 John Daub: Yeah.

00:40:34 Miyu: I didn't care about this YouTube, did you? Because he cannot understand English—

00:40:42 John Daub: And you didn't tell him about the American boyfriend—

00:40:47 Miyu: American boyfriend. I don't have American.

00:40:50 John Daub: It's a bad joke. If you did, you would have said, "Oh, no." Oh, that's right. He doesn't know. It's a joke. All right. You passed the test. You passed the test. Miu passes. She's an honest person, right? Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. What sports do when you compare Japanese high school with Japanese university? In high school, you have club sports. Is it different in college? Do you still have to do club sports? What. What are your extracurricular activities like in Japanese college? What do you do for fun in Osaka?

00:41:30 Miyu: Japanese college have a lot of club and also like a community.

00:41:37 John Daub: Okay.

00:41:38 Miyu: Like, they have so many kind of community between the student in a. In Japanese university.

00:41:47 John Daub: Okay.

00:41:49 Miyu: Yeah. So basically we can choose what you want to do. Yeah.

00:41:57 John Daub: I'm redoing this. The screens here. Sorry, guys. Yeah. Yeah. Good. And what. What did you want to do? What kind of activities did you. You do in college?

00:42:12 Miyu: Actually, I didn't do anything, but I have been doing classic ballet. When I was three years old, I studied ballet and I still continue to do that. So I was trying to find ballet school and I found one school near my apartment, so I went to there.

00:42:36 John Daub: Oh, good. So you could still. Still do ballet. It's just hard. Kanai also does ballet, but it's. It's hard for her to find a good school. When you're traveling, you just can go in and take classes, but the style is different. So in America, you did ballet in America? A little bit, yes.

00:42:56 Miyu: I was taking ballet class.

00:42:58 John Daub: Oh, in American. Would like to hear about that. Because she take. She took classes in. In Paris and in Prague and Vienna when we were traveling. She would take classes all around the world. Yeah. And she. She always said that each country has a different style. The teachers sometimes—

00:43:18 Miyu: Yeah.

00:43:18 John Daub: Are more. It's more fun in outside Japan—

00:43:22 Miyu: It's more fun.

00:43:24 John Daub: Yeah. It's hard work, but. But the teachers emphasize it being more fun where Japanese is like dance stretch. It's kind of not so sweet. Yeah, it's stressful. But when she studies abroad, it's more fun. She likes it. And the dancers are friendlier a little bit as well. Yeah. Great. Do we have any more questions for Miu or Mika? Last call, everybody. It's. It's now 12:15. Last call. Last call. It's 12:15 in. In Tokyo right now. 12:15 in Tottori as well. What should you. What do you recommend people to do in Tottori if they come to visit? What should people do?

00:44:16 Miyu: I, I, I strongly recommend to go to Daisen, which is high mountain. Mount Daisen.

00:44:30 John Daub: Right. Mount Daisen is Mount Fuji of the West. They say.

00:44:34 Miyu: Yes.

00:44:35 John Daub: Yeah. I've climbed Mount Daisan two times for TV. Because I had to. It was my job. I climbed. No, three times. I did Mount Daisen three times. Right. For BS, Sanin, NHK and myself. I climbed it because I wanted to. Three times. That's crazy. How many, Mika, how many times have you climbed Daisen? One time.

00:45:04 Miyu: Only one. Only one time. I think only one time.

00:45:10 John Daub: One time either.

00:45:12 Miyu: Yeah.

00:45:13 John Daub: Wow. So that means I'm a real Tottori guy. Because I climbed Daisen three times. It's inside of me. I drink the water, I eat vegetables. I drink the water, I eat the wagyu. I am Tottori man. All right. Yeah. You tell the Yonago traveler's office this is the guy to do more PR videos. All right. Just look at me. I'm not crazy. I like. You know, a lot of people don't know. One of the most beautiful things that I saw, natural things I saw was in Yonago. It was in. When I came in June for the Natsu Baraki Mika took me to. Was it Mika or Otsuka san? I don't know. But we went to see the Hotaru. Do you remember? No, that was with Mika. Yeah. We saw the Hotaru. Fireflies.

00:46:14 Miyu: I. I remember that. We went there together.

00:46:17 John Daub: Yeah. I have never seen fireflies like that in Japan. Yeah. That's a symbol of very, very clean water. When you see fireflies and you don't see Hotaru, we say Hotaru in Japanese for firefly, lightning, bug. But the Hotaru. Hotaru in Yonago around Daisen is so beautiful. It's just an example of how clean the water is. And Daisen gives you such clean water. It's a place. I think that the population was increasing while it's decreasing everywhere in Japan. Yonago was increasing in Tottori, which is crazy. Right? People have a good life. Why am I living in Tokyo? Huh? Why am I here? I don't know. My question to you. Why does John live in Tokyo? I don't. I don't know myself. I wish I had an answer. I need to come up with an answer. We're still. We might move. We might move. It's not a guarantee. People watching that I'm going to be living in Tokyo forever. Because I'm serious. Japan is so big. To me, I think it looks like California. The size of Japan is so small. On the map. But it feels big, right? From. From Yonago to Tokyo feels like me. The same as Los Angeles to California. Like Los Angeles to New York. It's Yonago. Seems like a different world. You're not that far away. But it feels like we're really far away, right?

00:47:54 Miyu: I think so, yeah.

00:47:55 John Daub: Japan is. Is like that. There's 47 prefectures each one then with. With like a uniqueness. And Japan feels super big. But it's not. It's small, but it's big to me. It's weird. You have to live here. You have to live here. No, I'm not moving back to New Jersey, Gary. I'm staying here. I don't think I could go back if I wanted to. How long have you guys known each other? Kim Tan. How long have I. Have we known each other? Miu.

00:48:27 Miyu: For four years.

00:48:29 John Daub: For four years?

00:48:30 Miyu: Five years.

00:48:40 John Daub: Four or five years. Yeah.

00:48:42 Miyu: Yeah.

00:48:42 John Daub: I first came there with. For. Only in Japan. Yeah. I came to film—

00:48:48 Miyu: Yes.

00:48:48 John Daub: I came to film the Night Train, Sunrise, Izumo and. Wow. I filmed a lot. Eishima Ohashi, the Bridge. I came to film the Bridge and I contacted your sister, Mika's sister, who is a friend of mine. For 12, 13. 13 years we worked at Shueisha. And that was. That was a really good experience. And then she introduced me to her family down in Tottori. That's how I know. So I know. Yeah. I know Mika's sister for a lot longer. Although I. I actually. I meet Mika. I meet you more than your sister.

00:49:38 Miyu: Why?

00:49:38 John Daub: It's true. I meet. I meet Mika more than her. And her sister lives in Tokyo. That's weird. That's scary. Weird, right? She lives. She lives. I could ride my bicycle to her house. Ring ring, ring ring. Right? But I come to Tottori like once or twice a year. And I never have been to her neighborhood ever. It's crazy. Yeah. So do you always stay up until midnight? Mika? Is that okay for Miu? She's an adult. I guess she's—

00:50:17 Miyu: Guys. Okay. It's totally okay. Totally fine.

00:50:21 John Daub: What are you gonna do when. When grandpa wakes up at 5 in the morning? I won't say no. We're not gonna talk about that. This is all private information. Da da da da da da. It's an inside joke. It's an inside joke. Great. So you guys look. Look good. Let's see if we can do this again. See if we can get this. We're having some difficulty with the software. It's kind of messing up. I was paused on this image to see. It's a great image but I don't know what happened right there. Just kind of paused. I'll take a screenshot, but thank you. Thank you. Miu, any last questions? Let's give one more minute and if you have. I'm looking at the chat right here. If you have any last questions, I'll take one more from you about life in Japan. Shane, thank you so much for the super chat. I completely missed a lot of them. Did you have a homestay in America? Where did you stay?

00:51:28 Miyu: Home stay? Yes.

00:51:29 John Daub: Oh, you did? So you live with an American family?

00:51:35 Miyu: Yes, a little bit for around months. But basically I live in my dormitory.

00:51:42 John Daub: Okay, so you got a chance to eat home cooking American food.

00:51:47 Miyu: It was so good.

00:51:48 John Daub: Really.

00:51:49 Miyu: And I experienced American Christmas with my family. Like a first family.

00:51:54 John Daub: American Christmas is so much better than Japanese Christmas.

00:51:58 Miyu: It's so much better.

00:52:00 John Daub: There's a lot. I got more passion. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of gifts and Christmas trees and stuff. It's a lot of fun.

00:52:09 Miyu: Yeah.

00:52:09 John Daub: Yeah. That's good because if you were in New York, you would have. You could have stayed at my. My family's house and in the middle of. In the east coast because I stayed your family's house all the time. Like. Like a couple times a year sometimes. So you're welcome in our family's house and in. On the east coast and. Yeah. In Tokyo anytime. Everything's closed here. Tokyo Disneyland's closed. Everything's closed. It's depressing in Tokyo. It's not a good time. But I think. I think in June or July maybe June. Kanai and I. Because I have a Menkyo. I have a license now, thank goodness. Yeah. So I can come and drive over and visit. Just it's. We're not supposed to leave Tokyo now. So Tokyo people can't go out. We're trapped. It's a crappy situation. So we got to stay here. Daniel. Daniel writes in here. Is living in Japan good for long vacation? Like six months? Yeah, why not? Daniel? Yeah, I think Daniel's asking me. I don't know. Nika, do you like. Do you like Osaka or Tottori or Tokyo? Where do you like to live? Where was better?

00:53:44 Miyu: What's good about Tottori is the best.

00:53:49 John Daub: Why?

00:53:50 Miyu: Why? Why?

00:53:55 John Daub: There's no people. It's small population. That's good. But. Isn't that a little boring? A lot of nature. Yeah. You need a car to get everywhere. Yeah. For her, Tottori is the best because you're. You're a Tottori girl for your sister. Tokyo is best. No, your sister likes—

00:54:38 Miyu: Haruka. Also say Tokyo is not best.

00:54:42 John Daub: She likes Tottori.

00:54:45 Miyu: She likes Tottori.

00:54:52 John Daub: Yeah. I'm afraid to say your name. Should I just say Mommy? Okay. Mommy. Does Mommy like. I don't want to say. I don't know if I could say. Okay. Yeah. So Mommy likes Tottori instead of Tokyo. Yeah. Miho shrine. Miho Jinja. I love Miho no Seki. So Miho Jinja. I did an NHK show there. That was pretty cool. Miho no Seki. Yeah, I like that place. Very cool. Thanks so much for the question, everybody. Those that are watching, thank you so much.

00:55:25 Miyu: Thank you.

00:55:26 John Daub: Have a good night. And happy Mother's Day to Mika. Happy Mother's Day. Thank you, Mama. No, he. Yeah.

00:55:34 Miyu: Yay.

00:55:35 John Daub: That's now today. Yeah. And nice to see you, Miyu. You look good. Great pronunciation. Perfect pede. Great pronunciation. Yeah. You've changed a lot over the years. And we'll see you soon. Either I'll come. Either I will come to you or we'll do another one of on the YouTube. By the way, her Instagram is on the. On the bottom. It was. It was MI2 times. GA. You can see Mika Muse Instagram page. M. I underscore. Underscore. G A, right? Yeah. I'll put it in the description. The. This stream has, like, malfunctioned like crazy. I can't do anything, but. All right, thanks, guys. I'll see you later. Oh, yes. Bye Bye.

00:56:31 Miyu: Bye bye.

00:56:33 John Daub: That's nice. That's always fun. And you can see there's the video. You guys are still on with me. I don't know. There's. The video has malfunctioned a lot. So I can't. I just put myself in the middle of the screen here. I think there's too many processes for my old computer. But if you have any more questions, I'll be here for another minute. But I missed a lot of Super Chats. I'll go back and read them and respond to them in the next live stream tomorrow. Sorry about that, guys. I really do apologize if I missed some Super Chats. UFO Bob can clue me in if you can, about what I missed. Ramsey silent. I literally in. I saw Nagi's, but literally I could not see the Super Chats. There's no tag to see it. I just have top and live. And I can't see Super Chat. So it's a bug within YouTube. And yeah, I do apologize, guys. So if you do have any questions, leave it in a comment below and I will see who sent me super chats and address them in the next livestream. Tomorrow morning, probably it's going to be a housekeeping one. For those that are Patreon supporters. The postcard is right here. It's gone out. It's on its way to you. It's going to take three to seven weeks because the mail is so slow going to the United States, but. But not the fret. It will make it. It will make it. The postcards from last month just started arriving into Canada and the United States this past week. So it's on the way. Just the mail. Everybody everywhere is taking a long time. I did use some special Kanazawa stamps, which I think you're really going to like. But the support really does help. And I did have one comment. When is the haircut, James? Yeah, I'm in dire need of a haircut. I think next week. I want to have it as a chance to grow the membership and then see what I can do with that and maybe use that money to help for a charity for the month that comes in. So I might cut my hair for charity. I think that would be the best way to do it. And then my hair will have meaning. Right? I saw that. I saw that PewDiePie was doing. He's another YouTuber with like a hundred million subscribers. He was doing memberships for charity. I thought that was really great. So I might do that and cut my hair and then activate the memberships and then everybody who becomes a member, everything will be donated to charity for next month. And I think that's really cool. Then, you know, I would have, I would have grown this for a reason. Kanai is going to do it. She has the clippers and we've been watching YouTube videos, so it will happen. It's just, it's kind of nerve-wracking. It's, it's, it's worrying for me. I, I could try to do it myself, but just let. The woman wants to do it. What can I say? She really wants to do it. This, this is really bothering me because I, I don't know why is it. Okay, well, this is a little bit better now. This is the best I could do. It's crazy. But I hope that you guys really enjoyed this live stream. I'm, I'm so happy that I got a chance to see. We got a chance to meet up with Miu. I recommended. I, I kind of pitched this idea to her about five or six days ago. And I said, let's do it. Let's do ask Miu Part 2. And she's like, okay. And her mom was very happy. And I didn't expect Mika to join us, but that was more fun. It was more fun to have Mika with us. And I didn't think she would stay the whole time either, but that added to it. It was pretty cool. The thumbnail for this was taken from a screenshot of us in the 2017 livestream. The Go back and check it out. It is so much fun. And if you just saw this, you're going to really have a lot of fun to see how much Miu has changed over the last two and a half years. It's incredible. Her English. Before she'd think in Japanese, like she was translating her English. Now she's just natural where it's coming out. And I get like this. If I speak only Japanese for a day or two, then I start to think in Japanese. But it's hard to shift gears. And she did such a really good job of shifting gears because I know she has not been speaking English a lot because she's home in a place with not a lot of people or Westerners to practice English with or Japanese to practice English with. But it's. It's good. Of course Mom's going to be listening. Yes. Yes. Tomorrow I do have another live stream in the afternoon. I. On Monday, we're going to have Ruth Jarman, who's a friend of mine, to talk about travel in Japan. She's very connected here with other businesses in the travel industry. She's going to know more about when you guys. When you guys can come back to visit Japan again. Stuff about the visas, about the flights. She will be the person to ask all those questions. And I've been getting them over and over. When can I get to Japan to travel? Let's ask Ruth. She knows more than me because she's got her ear to the ground and she's got more wires leading into that ground underneath her. But we're also going to be talking about the countryside of Japan and some of the things that. Ideas that I have to help the countryside and some of the things that she's doing where we have so much synergy that it's going to be a lot of fun to do some projects together. And I got to tell you something, that Lady Ruth has more energy than the sun. Seriously. That's Hana's mom, so I shouldn't say Ruth, actually. Okay. I'll be interviewing Hana's mom on Monday. And that's gonna be a lot of fun. We'll probably do it around 11:00am, which is 10:00pm New York and 7:00pm California, I believe, and eight hours difference from here in London and Sydney, you know what time it is. If it's. It's like lunchtime. I believe in Sydney and Singapore we got viewers all over the world. It's hard to give all the times. It is super interesting. Kanai and I, we do not eat. We did get one comment. I got a comment that was slightly insulting, like everybody is losing their job and you're eating $50. Wagyu says, Is this what your Patreon supporters are paying for? That's what they asked. And my response was, look, first of all, brighten up. And I understand it's a dark time and you can vent. That's okay. It's not going to make you feel any better. But I get super chats and support to make interesting live streams. And for me to sit back and eat a bag of potato chips is not interesting. I also don't eat luxury food every day. It's ridiculous to think that we eat like that. I had a bowl of cereal. I eat oatmeal. And Kanai cooks. What? You guys, if you're on Instagram, you know what she cooks because I upload the pictures. She cooked karaage. So we eat very frugally. But when we're doing live streams, we're going to make it really special. So on Tuesday or Wednesday, we're not quite sure, we're going to order a kaiseki bento. We have to order it three days in advance and it costs. The cheapest one is about $50. It's a magnificent meal for one person. It's a treat. And I think once a week we treat ourselves to something really nice. And this notification shouldn't be coming up. Hide it. Hide. It's actually the screen of the iPhone is kind of messing it up, but we come on now. I can't change the screen. It's crazy. The epoch is stuck on that. Oh, well, it'll be all right. And on Tuesday or Wednesday, we'll have kaiseki cuisine. And on Thursday, I'll probably do an announcement video on the direction of the channel on the other channel and what I'm doing with another channel. So all of that will be explained to you, I'm guessing next week, but I'm waiting on an animated opening that I've been working on, which is really exciting. So there's a lot of stuff happening behind the scenes I'll be introducing the membership buttons and we'll probably do that when I do the haircut. So then we can, we can give that money to frontline workers is I think what we're going to do, which is it seemed like a really good idea to either the food bank that I know, Second Harvest, or another food bank. We haven't decided yet. But we want to try to take what we're making and do something good with it. And I know that my Daimyo supporters and Patreon supporters really want to do something special or help on the front line here in Japan. And I think that's something that I can do hair for that. Irvine writes in here for more Kaiseki Ryori donations. Thank you, Irvan. All right, you know what? I'll upgrade it. So that answer to that very cynical person that left a comment, this is why we are doing it. We're doing it to give something unique to people that are watching this show. And Kaiseki Ryori is one of those things that's just like, so beautiful. I think it's going to inspire a lot of people and actually it's worth it. In order to make good live streams or good video content, you have to spend a little bit to be able to bring something interesting to them. You can't just tell a story in your living room. You got to buy something. And sometimes instead of buying a $10,000 camera, maybe it's $100 lunch. And within that, you're gonna give us a good story. And that's really what makes YouTube so interesting. It's finding a story that inspires. And you can't do that all the time by just talking to a camera for free. You have to invest back into your own content. And that's what we do with, you know, food. Kaiseki Ryori, which is beautiful. Thanks so much for the support, everybody. I'm looking right now at the comments here. Just don't, don't pinch any more of Kanai's food. Yeah, you saw that. That's mal. I did take one piece of her wagyu and I, I think she didn't notice. So I have to pay it forward. Tomorrow I'll be cooking breakfast. I usually cook breakfast, by the way, it's waffles, pancakes, or cereal or something. It's pretty easy. I, I also, by the way, I do the dishes. I gotta do the dishes. John is entertaining us and putting money back into the content. Florencia, thank you. Yeah, I think people, you know, I don't get too up upset with critical comments. I like them. I embrace them. The the problem is though, like, I do have to explain it sometimes, not often, it's better just to ignore them. But I do think that all YouTubers should take that support and put it back into the show. Make it better and better if you can and have fun with it. Right? I think it's all about having fun and I can do that with a kaiseki bento. Come on. We only live once and it's kind of dark living right now. So bring some sunlight to it to everybody feed Kanai tag is now trending on Twitter. Thank you. We don't want to watch John eat cereal, Kim. No, you don't. It's awful. Sometimes when I'm laughing, the milk comes out of my nose. You don't want to see that. Now all of a sudden people want to see that. Guys click the thumbs up button like, give some love to me. So we can get the stream and make it really popular for her. And I think I'll do another live stream with her maybe just so we can do practice her English. But I'll tell you what I want to do. We have a Discord server. The Discord server allows me to take phone calls from people and I can bring in the phone calls from Discord. And then we can have you ask Miu some questions. I think that's better that way. And if you have a good question, I'll probably add you as a friend on the Discord server. And that makes it easy for you to talk directly with Miyu. I'll just patch you through. That sounds like a pretty good plan. And now, Mommy, just send me a message. Don't send me any messages. The notifications are popping up. This is crazy. So good night everybody. Thanks for subscribing and liking. I'll see you again tomorrow in a live stream. Great. Busy week coming up. Stay safe. Stay positive, everybody. Bye. Bye. Gotta like click a dozen buttons.

01:09:17 Miyu: Bye.