00:00:01 John Daub: Greetings from sunny Tokyo. As you can see we have these beautiful blue skies. The weather is chilly compared to just 12 hours ago when I was live streaming about some unusual tourists from abroad doing some unusual things, which is not uncommon anymore these days.

00:00:45 John Daub: But in this episode I wanted to go over that map right there in the corner. The second prediction for autumn foliage has been released actually a few weeks ago. So this is the second one and I bet you the third one's coming.

00:01:05 John Daub: I won't probably talk about that too much, but let's just say that it's gotten a lot cooler over the last few weeks and that might have adjusted and reeled back in the autumn schedule. This stuff is so hard to predict. How you doing everybody? I see Yoda Jedi 01 is here. Thanks guys.

00:01:30 John Daub: So if you look on the map here, let's just go over this real quickly. The autumn foliage forecast, it looks pretty much like it's reeled in just a little bit. If you look at Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo, we're talking December still.

00:01:50 John Daub: But I think it's probably because the last few weeks have been cooler and this prediction was announced on October 1st. It looks like I would say like four or five days earlier because the weather is getting cooler right now. So I would see Tokyo at the last week of November most likely. Nagoya and Osaka maybe a few days after that. Fukuoka in early December. It's always sort of been around that time.

00:02:20 John Daub: And Sapporo is probably going to be maybe a week or more earlier because it was a lot chillier up there just a week ago. So yeah, if you're trying to predict your trip based on the weather, it's such a difficult thing because I think we had this issue with the cherry blossoms.

00:02:45 John Daub: I'm at Ishikawajima Park. This park, you can see the foliage here. It's starting to turn. There's some yellow leaves on there. You can see the autumn winds are here. There's a high tide. High pressure system. Beautiful place.

00:03:05 John Daub: I came here about seven, six and a half, seven months ago telling you that the cherry blossoms were going to be two weeks late. And it was. It didn't come until April. There's a Skytree over there on the right side coming in. We're kind of a ways away. Skytree's above that building there.

00:03:25 John Daub: So this bridge here will take you to Monzen-Nakacho. It's a beautiful area. The Sumida River here. So that's the forecast for here. I'm going to do another episode on how to dress for late fall and early winter. And I'll probably do that sometime this week or next weekend as we get closer to that. You got to plan and pack your suitcases for all of that.

00:04:00 John Daub: Right now, there's a high pressure system. I wanted to show you really quickly the news. Right here, you can see the high pressure system right now. It's gave us beautiful blue skies, but it also brought in really chilly weather. So it is cold right now. I'm in Japan, which nobody else does except for kids under the age of 12. But I'm running around all that kind of stuff.

00:04:35 John Daub: You can see the cooler wind came down as a result of the system coming through last night. I was outside in it when the weather was starting to turn. This guy is, let me move it on a little bit longer. You can see it's sunny pretty much everywhere in Japan except for Hokkaido.

00:05:00 John Daub: Hokkaido has always been kind of an outlier with temperatures here. But October is my favorite time of the year when a typhoon is not hitting. There is no snow in Japan, but I'm having a hard time getting out. The weather is super cool and no humidity, really warm, still kind of long days, and if you're coming to Japan and you don't want to do August, maybe late September, early October or sometime in the middle of October even is really nice.

00:05:45 John Daub: November starts to get a little bit chillier. But I want to show you the average temperature. It's like 21 degrees Celsius. What is that, like 70s maybe? I guess it's like 70s a little bit. Lows in the 17s, which gets down. It can be as cold as, you know, in Japan. But I guess it's really nice. November, it starts to get a little bit chillier. But I want to show you the average temperature. It's 21 degrees Celsius. What is that, like 70s maybe? I guess it's like 70s a little bit. Lows in the 17s.

00:06:45 John Daub: You can be as cold as that. But I want to show you the 10 degrees, like 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the evening, so it's good to bring a jacket or sweatshirt like I have on today. But with the winds and the lack of humidity, the 21 feels a little bit chillier than normal, so just keep that in mind.

00:07:20 John Daub: November it goes down about 3 degrees, then 5 degrees into December. More towards Christmas than it does the first half of December, it's usually fairly warm. You can still get away with shorts if you're a weirdo like me, but I would say the second half of December you probably can't get away with anymore, even though I might push in a little bit more than normal people.

00:07:55 John Daub: And then just January, February is much chillier, maybe 10 degrees Celsius or 50 degrees Fahrenheit is the high. Gil Asakawa, it's nice to see you buddy. I'm looking forward to you. Gil, we're going to have you on the livestream talking about... Gil is an author and a journalist. I met him many years ago, it's been a while now as a Gil, and I'm looking forward to talking about Japanese food.

00:08:40 John Daub: I'm going to be talking about Japanese food in a podcast real soon on this channel. It's good to see you Gil, thank you so much for that. Actually, I want to pull this graph up even higher. If you look at the rainfall, another reason why October might not be the best is the rain.

00:09:10 John Daub: You can see it's 200 millimeters, which is about 2 meters of rain, isn't it? Right? That makes sense. Anyway, it's a lot of rain. It's one of the more higher months. That is mostly due to typhoons. A lot of typhoons come in and they're in the middle of the year. September and October dump a lot of rain.

00:09:40 John Daub: This is just for Tokyo, but we haven't had that much rain. We haven't had that many typhoons recently. There might be one that still comes and falls into here, but average rainfall, usually a little bit more, that's all based on typhoons.

00:10:05 John Daub: Then you can see the typhoon season finishes and November gets real dry. You can see December, usually blue skies. That's another reason why maybe the winter is a little bit better. The daylight. This is something that you really need to consider.

00:10:30 John Daub: When you come to Japan, how much daylight are you getting for your travel? Because you're getting three hours less daylight than just three months ago. That's pretty significant. The sun is down at 5:15 right now. If you come in here at 5:15 p.m. in Tokyo, it's pretty much dark.

00:11:00 John Daub: The sun's still coming up around 6 o'clock in the morning, I would say, but it's much less sunlight than it was in the summer. It's harder. It's different. It's something you have to consider when you're planning out your trip. There's even an hour and a half less sunlight.

00:11:30 John Daub: It starts getting dark around 4:30 in December, and the sun comes up much later as well. You have to plan your trip around the amount of daylight. Just keep in mind, you've got bluer skies in December, clearer skies. You can see all the way to Mount Fuji.

00:12:00 John Daub: But the problem with December is that it's cold. Yeah, things start to slow down as well at the end of the year. We've got bōnenkai (end-of-year parties) and a lot of other events going on. That kind of puts a weird twist on things.

00:12:30 John Daub: But that's the problem with coming to Japan in December, because all the businesses and stuff start closing down or slowing down around December 10th as the holidays come in. Talk a little bit more about the autumn foliage here.

00:13:00 John Daub: Here's the temperatures for this week in Tokyo. You can see it's actually pretty warm. We're at about a little bit cooler than the average right now. This is one of the things that's raining in, the autumn foliage, despite the fact that you can see all that sunshine.

00:13:30 John Daub: It's still a degree or two under the average for October, which means we're getting closer to the end of October. That's one thing. But at night, it's still getting pretty chilly. Yeah, last night was pretty amazing. I had shorts. I could have gotten away with a t-shirt and shorts like summer last night.

00:14:10 John Daub: But that cold front brought in a completely changed weather. It feels, at 18 degrees, it feels like 18 because of the wind. So keep that in mind. The humidity is way down. It smells like autumn.

00:14:35 John Daub: It's not like autumn here in Tokyo. One of the most beautiful places here is Aoyama University. I love walking by. If you're going, if you're walking from, I do this walk from Shibuya to Roppongi sometimes. You go past the United Nations University, the Kua'aina Hawaiian Burger chain, which is a, aloha Hawaii.

00:15:15 John Daub: Yeah, you could go past there as well. And you also go past Aoyama Daigaku (Aoyama University), which is just a daigakuen (university campus), which is such a beautiful, ginkgo trees. The yellow is earlier.

00:15:45 John Daub: So what I showed you, the autumn schedule, that's for autumn foliage, pretty much all of them. But there's also a yellow foliage map here. And this is earlier. So again, like different parts of Tokyo is going to have foliage at different times of the year.

00:16:20 John Daub: It's pretty loud on the street here. It sounds like I'm shouting. It feels like I'm shouting. You can probably hear me a lot better. The mic's closer. It's closer today than it was last night.

00:16:50 John Daub: That yellow autumn foliage is already starting to turn. You can see it. I would say Tokyo, it says 11/26. I'd say it might be a week earlier. Probably the 15th you start to see it turn a lot more. That's three weeks' time from now.

00:17:25 John Daub: But I think this third forecast, if it does come out real soon, that'll be the final one. But I would say it's going to be, it's going to be reeled in just a little bit more because of the cooling temperatures going back down to normal.

00:17:55 John Daub: They said October was going to be on season-need warm. Sort of was in the beginning, but now it's actually, it feels kind of chilly right now. It really does. Wind is shouting as well. I got the wind buffer here for the mic, but you might get some wind in your face.

00:18:30 John Daub: I literally have it. I can feel Tokyo's weather as the riverboats go by. I can talk about the temperature a little bit more while we look at these boats go by.

00:18:55 John Daub: This is also a great day to jump on one of these boats. It's a Sunday, so there's a lot of people on the Sumida River. This is a canal going towards Toyosu, and there's even some jet skis on it. You can rent these at Odaiba. There might be some other places where you can rent them, but it's kind of fun.

00:19:35 John Daub: But I'm not sure I want to take a dip in the Sumida River. It's a little murky in there, but it's still kind of fun to be able to ride around the river. You might need to have a boating license in order to ride them. I'm not really sure.

00:20:10 John Daub: Someone said put the mic inside the hoodie. You know what I'm going to do here? Hold on a second. I'm going to try to do just that. Let's see if you can do that. I'm going to switch it around. The wind's coming from this direction, so I have the mic pointed this way now, so maybe it's a little bit better. I'll put my back to it. How's that? A little bit better.

00:20:55 John Daub: So there you go with the weather. I think that that's pretty interesting here to see the temperatures. Again, it rains typically for eight days. You saw October's got an amazing amount of rainfall, but those eight days are usually typhoon days.

00:21:30 John Daub: So when you don't have them, you get pretty nice blue skies from October all the way to the beginning of March. You can see Mount Fuji, and I bet you today you get pretty good views of Mount Fuji this morning from the top of the Skytree.

00:22:00 John Daub: If you go on Instagram, hashtag Skytree, you might be able to see some of the pictures from up there. It's usually stunning. No snow on the top of Mount Fuji yet.

00:22:25 John Daub: This is a good point for you. Typically, you won't see snow and get those pictures of the snow on the top of Mount Fuji until around, oh, I don't know, like the end of December. Seriously, there'll be a little bit of snow up there, but it's not until maybe the middle of December. It really starts to accumulate.

00:23:00 John Daub: And then you get those beautiful snow caps. You can get into like December 1st some years, and there's no snow up on the top. There might be a little bit now. It's gotten a little bit cooler, but sometimes it'll melt just from the solar radiation.

00:23:30 John Daub: The daylights are a lot long. Daytime light is a lot longer right now than it is in December. So that makes a big impact, an hour and a half more of solar heat melting the snow up there.

00:24:00 John Daub: But by January and February, the caps on Mount Fuji are stunning, and you have really good white cap of snow until about May, which is really beautiful there. Hi, John. Trevor's back. Shout out to Kenneth in Singapore. I believe Singapore, right? Signed up again for the postcard club.

00:24:40 John Daub: Kenneth, I have your postcard right here, and I'm putting it in the mail for you. Thank you so much for signing back up. He used to be a member of the postcard club, just signed back up. Kenneth, this is me at Kochi, the end of the Pacific there. I'll put this in the mail if you want one. I'll send it to you right away from Tokyo, Japan, off of our Patreon. Helps support the channel.

00:25:25 John Daub: Michael Sassano here. Thank you for that, brother. I'm going to take the family out. Rainer, I want to say thank you to Rainer in Australia as well. Him and his mom were planning to come here. I want to say happy birthday to Rainer if you're watching. Happy birthday, buddy.

00:26:00 John Daub: We're both kind of disappointed that you and your mom couldn't make it to Japan this time, but we're looking forward to seeing you in the cherry blossom season. So I appreciate it and give you a big super thanks, which you could do on the chats.

00:26:35 John Daub: And we're going to use that for a family dinner, and we'll send you a picture because you and your mom are with us here. We'll be in our thoughts. And yeah, happy birthday, buddy.

00:27:00 John Daub: All right. I wanted to show you really quickly. You guys can take a look at the slides. We've got a little scene from Tokyo here. See if we can get more boats. It's funny because on the weekends, they use this pier near Monzen-Nakacho in Kōtōku. I believe it's Kōtō over there.

00:27:40 John Daub: So you can pick up a boat on that side. It's usually only in the summer. It's interesting to see it today like this. I asked some, I want to talk about a couple of things.

00:28:10 John Daub: So if you're looking for where the top spots of autumn foliage is, I asked our friend ChatGPT, AI, and he said, Tokyo is usually number one. It's just a beautiful place and an easy day trip. Arashiyama, of course, not just the tourist spots, but everywhere around there's beautiful.

00:28:50 John Daub: Oze National Park, Tokorozawa Kon. I think not a lot of people realize how beautiful this park is. It's not a far trip from Tokyo to go and catch the autumn foliage. Probably in a few weeks from now, I think it's a little bit at elevation. Keep that in mind. Elevation is going to change when the foliage changes.

00:29:35 John Daub: So up there in Hokkaido, it's already, the boat is departing now, disembarking. There's already autumn foliage at Daisetsuzan up in near Asahikawa. In fact, it was, they said it was going to change about two weeks ago, like real soon. So that's usually pretty early.

00:30:15 John Daub: And that's number five on the list. Daisetsuzan is a beautiful park. Not a lot of tourists go there. You got to get a, rent a car really to appreciate it. But they got buses that go out there from Asahikawa and from Sapporo, where you can catch tours and look at the people on that boat, just enjoying the beautiful landscape. I wish I was with them right now.

00:31:00 John Daub: Korankei in Aichi Prefecture. This isn't very well known, but the red maples there are quite beautiful. It's a valley. I haven't been there in ages. Rikugien in Tokyo. That's up in, where is that? North of Ueno.

00:31:35 John Daub: This is a beautiful, maybe one of the top spot in Tokyo city. They go see the, they light it up at night, which is really spectacular. Minoo Park in Osaka is also really beautiful. Mount Takao, which is one of the most famous day trips to climb the mountain.

00:32:15 John Daub: It's also, you can go some hiking and see the leaves, get back in a day trip. Eikando Temple in Kyoto, one that maybe a lot of people, yeah, that's pretty central. Kyoto is going to be very busy in the fall. So those are the top spots.

00:32:55 John Daub: There's, you know, there's no best place to see the autumn foliage. For me, again, I like to go to Aoyama University. I like to walk around some of the campuses. It's really stunning stuff.

00:33:25 John Daub: All right. If you're, if you're still watching here, thanks for, thanks for tuning in. Usually in the first 10, 15 minutes of a live stream, you'll get all the information that you need out of topic. But I wanted to just take a couple of minutes. Reset.

00:34:00 John Daub: Last night I did a live stream about a American tourist. This is so interesting. I'm not going to do, hey, sorry it's here. John, does Tokyo have those clothes rental shops you talked about recently? It's online. It's online.

00:34:35 John Daub: And they'll send it to your hotel anywhere. It's called Anywhere, that travel service. It's actually the JAL group. So the Japan Airlines and Sumitomo, these are two massive companies. They're starting to roll it out to other, other companies and other airlines are going to be using this service.

00:35:15 John Daub: So yeah, I'll put a link in the description of this video. We'll put it in the comments after the video if you want to go. But if you just search Anywhere, W-E-A-R Anywhere, W-A-N-W, where, W-H-E-R-E, it's kind of a fun play on words. The website will come up and you can see all of the clothes and they'll send it to any hotel nationwide to rent for two weeks.

00:36:05 John Daub: I'm going to put this inside. How's that? Is that a little bit better? Oh, it's a little bit better. Sorry guys. It got a little heated in the comment section here.

00:36:35 John Daub: Look, I am American and I understand that the culture in America has changed, but that doesn't mean that you can say that when you come to Japan, you have to follow the rules and the laws of Japan. And yeah, maybe it's not a big deal. What's the big deal?

00:37:15 John Daub: In Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Asia in general, you have to follow the laws more strictly because I guess in the US there's so much other crime. This is such a small thing. But in Japan, it's sort of a big deal when you break the law.

00:37:50 John Daub: And there's a lot of power theft where apartments are so big, it goes together. I guess it's just hard for, it's hard for Westerners perhaps to understand, but we've got so many of these kinds of condos. And if you're poor, you just can't afford your rent.

00:38:25 John Daub: Some people might take drastic action. And it's been in the news quite a bit over the years I've lived here. I've seen it in news reports where neighbors steal power from other neighbors. I don't know if it's because they don't have money.

00:39:00 John Daub: I would think that that would be one of the things. They're too embarrassed to ask about it. So they break the law. People are too embarrassed to ask for help. So they find a way to get around it. And then they end up getting arrested or getting in really big trouble or fined. I don't know what happens.

00:39:40 John Daub: But it is a crime here. But this is the thing that bothers me, okay? And we don't want to make it where breaking the law is fine just because you're a tourist and Westerners think it's no big deal because it's a big deal here in Japan.

00:40:20 John Daub: This one person commented and said, I had an experience with a foreigner at an onsen (hot spring bath). She brought her iPad with her so she could read while bathing. In the onsen, which is public. No cameras allowed, even if you use it or not for photographs.

00:41:00 John Daub: She said, and I quote, It's fine. I'm not taking photos anyway. I left immediately. Can't deal with people like this. Somebody brought an iPad to the onsen. And then they said, what's the big deal?

00:41:35 John Daub: Folks, I'm not shocked anymore. I never heard of somebody who thought it was okay to go to a public bath and it was normal. Nobody else is doing it. This is the kind of stuff, and this is the reason why I'm highlighting it.

00:42:15 John Daub: It's not so much to shame the person, although they deserve it. It's to educate you. Right, facepalm. This is to educate you that this is happening. I don't want you to be a Karen. I don't think I'm a Karen. Maybe I wouldn't have called the police. Maybe I would have.

00:43:00 John Daub: I probably wouldn't have called the cops if someone was using a public electrical socket. It's wrong to use it in a public bath. It's wrong to use it in a park. It's wrong to use it anywhere without permission. In Japan.

00:43:40 John Daub: Unless it says that you can use the electrical socket, assume that you can't use it to charge anything. In Japan. Just assume that you can't use electrical sockets for charging. You can get power stealing even if it's at a park. It seems like a gray.

00:44:25 John Daub: Yesterday I was saying when I was backpacking 20 years ago, I would see the electrical outlets in the park. And it's hard to understand because it looks like an auto camp which you're allowed to use. You plug it in for your RV. There's no gray area.

00:45:05 John Daub: Okay. So I point out these things because Japan is watching and showing you on the news that this is happening. So when you do break these rules or laws based on what you think is common sense and read the comments.

00:45:45 John Daub: People are like, this is no big deal. I'm like, what? I'm like, ridiculous that she got the cops called on her. No, it's not. And regarding phone use while driving. The Japanese. Japanese people are the worst. Almost everyone is on their damn phones while driving. Really? I don't see anybody. Really?

00:46:35 John Daub: The law changed in 2019 and got extremely strict. And I have not seen anybody. I went back to the US and I saw people on their phones all the time. It's actually quite scary. Their eyes aren't even on the road and they're driving.

00:47:15 John Daub: A red light or somebody crosses the street and they're going at full speed. All it takes is a second before you kill somebody. And Japan has put in a place new laws for bicycle riding. You can't ride a bicycle with a smartphone in your hand or you'll be fined more harshly than you were before.

00:48:00 John Daub: And they're giving out flyers. Yesterday, the national news showed in Kobe and Hyogo Prefecture where on November 1st, they're notifying all of the citizens that the fines for riding a bicycle with a smartphone is big trouble.

00:48:40 John Daub: I don't even know if you can put the smartphone on your bicycle. You can put it on your bicycle anywhere, like even in a holster. So before you do that, make sure you check because the laws have gotten quite strict where I think they're tapping down on Uber Eats and the other food delivery services for this kind of stuff.

00:49:25 John Daub: But there's been a lot of accidents and it's on the rise here where people are using their smartphones, driving and getting into accidents. It went down during, of course, you know, that era where nobody was going outside. But it's way up. It's back up at all-time highs right now.

00:50:05 John Daub: So they're incorporating this. And that's one of the reasons why I don't know anybody can defend her because this is obviously a smartphone that this person is filming with. This is against the law. And like the operator of the car told her that she could not film.

00:50:50 John Daub: They all do it. It's in the website of every single one of these car companies. They could lose their license. They can be fined for your stupid actions. Because you want to get a picture that, you know, they're going to give you for free anyways because they have somebody.

00:51:30 John Daub: You can use a smartphone when the car is stopped. You can't use it when the motor vehicle is in operation and you're the driver. It's just don't do it. It's just it's like one of these things in the 21st century that we just learned. It's going to kill somebody.

00:52:15 John Daub: All right. And anybody, everybody who is defending this person, please. When you come to Japan, you are subject to the laws of Japan. Whether whether it's one yen. People were saying people were equating it in the comments.

00:52:55 John Daub: One person equated it to I don't I don't know what they equated. It was really bad. It wasn't a really good. I loved her response there. You have to equate this to if you steal one yen or if you steal 100,000 yen or if you steal 1 million yen.

00:53:40 John Daub: Yeah, you're probably going to get different sentences if you were to be arrested. But one yen stealing is still theft in the eyes of the law here in Japan. In New York City, I think it's a misdemeanor up to a thousand dollars and they let you go. Just crazy. I don't know how New York City is so soft on crime. You can see the results of it. I hope it does get better. I love New York City.

00:54:35 John Daub: In Tokyo, you steal one yen and somebody reports you. You're going to have you're going to spend the day in the police station for stealing one yen. I guarantee you or you're going to be inconvenienced and have to spend two hours with a police officer as he pulls out a report.

00:55:20 John Daub: Some people saying it's hard to hear. Yeah, so whether or not you steal one yen or you steal 1000 yen or 100,000 yen, stealing is stealing. Whether it's one yen or 100,000 yen. It's a law. It's a rule. You don't do it.

00:56:00 John Daub: Cutting in line. You cut one space or ten spaces, you're still cutting in line. So cutting in line is like a rule that you would never do. You don't want to do it. Look, it's Japan. You follow the rules here in Japan.

00:56:45 John Daub: That's too windy. What am I doing? I'm going. How about now? When you're in Japan, you follow the rules for Japan. How about now? I'm just quaffing in a corner. It's got to be better.

00:57:30 John Daub: You can't steal one yen, ten yen, 100,000 yen. Doesn't matter. Stealing is stealing. Theft is theft. Somebody said, oh, she's only stealing this amount of wattage of power. We don't know that. You don't know how much power somebody's stealing.

00:58:15 John Daub: This happened at a residential house. It's a residential house. It's somebody's private power outlet. This isn't a public thing. Like, you know, if there's a power outlet, let's say there's a power outlet right here. You can't just put your phone there and the police are going to say nothing to you. That's not your power. It's stealing.

00:59:00 John Daub: Just because we have laws on the books because people have been doing this for a long time. Maybe after World War II, it's something power theft is something that the citizens of Japan deem as a problem. And there's a law saying that you can't do it. Stealing is stealing.

00:59:45 John Daub: So if you're in Singapore, Malaysia, anywhere in Asia, China, just don't do it. Use your common sense. And if you're coming from the United States or anywhere in the West where your laws are a little bit more, I don't know, liberal, I guess to say, then you've got to have to change.

01:00:30 John Daub: You come into a foreign country. Please check the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Consulate. They have a website. And they tell you. Everybody who's traveling to Japan is subject to the laws of Japan. And the State Department will step in and help you if you get in trouble. They'll give you a lawyer. But you are subject to the laws of Japan.

01:01:20 John Daub: Just ask Johnny Somali because now he's subject to the laws of Korea. That's another tragic. Tragic? Did I just say that? That's another story for a time I will never ever cover again because I think he was banned for at least seven years and probably for life for what he did.

01:02:05 John Daub: That's all I got for you. Thanks again for watching, everybody. If there's any more updates on this, I'll let you know. But I think for the most part, I'm not going to cover this season's schedule.

01:02:45 John Daub: I will go, I think, and look at the clothing and how to dress perhaps for the end of November and December. This is a long 30 minutes to give you an update on the forecast and yesterday's live stream.

01:03:30 John Daub: In the U.S., it's just like a formality. Yeah, I would say so. Look, what happens in the U.S., that's the U.S. way of looking at things. When you have to say what's the big deal, you're in trouble here in Japan. That just does not work. It's a big deal. It's a big deal to somebody.

01:04:20 John Daub: And somebody's always watching you in Japan. Here's another thing that you got to know. Someone's always watching you. There's somebody from a window. They're always watching you and they'll call the police because it was at night when this person did it, wearing a helmet, sitting on the ground, probably there for more than five, ten minutes.

01:05:10 John Daub: I don't think she was there for like just a minute to charge her phone to be able to check where she was. Obviously, the police had to react and it probably took a minimum of five minutes to get there. So I'm guessing that she wasn't. She was there for quite a while.

01:05:55 John Daub: It's not a lot of power. But again, as I told you, one yen is the same as 100,000 yen is the same as one million dollars. If you steal in Japan, you're a thief. It's strict.

01:06:40 John Daub: But this is why you come to Japan and you have safe streets. Don't take advantage of Japan's hospitality. Don't take advantage of Japan showing so much respect to foreign visitors. And guests don't take advantage of it. You're subject to the same laws as everybody else.

01:07:30 John Daub: You might get some leniency because you are a foreign tourist and maybe you don't know. But the more people take advantage of the Japanese hospitality, the more it's going to go away. Just just because just because that's people are reactive and they learn their lessons. Japanese.

01:08:20 John Daub: There is a there is a study that showed that the country with the highest IQ is Japan. You always see it on the Instagram reels. Which country? Which country is the highest IQ like listing off stuff? It was for some reason it was Japan. Trust me. People here are not stupid. They understand that they're being taken advantage of.

01:09:10 John Daub: The culture here is such a polite, respectful one. When people are disrespectful like this and you bring that mentality to another country, it changes that other country towards all tourists. Because how do you differentiate? 1% can ruin it for the 99%. 1% can ruin it.

01:10:00 John Daub: Well, turn around. Turn around. We got a police boat. Awesome. And that they're running but not awesome. Whatever the problem is. Wait. All right. The hundreds of people watching are not impressed. My son Leo, who's three, would be very impressed.

01:10:45 John Daub: Anyways, take care, guys. Hope you have a great day. Stay positive. I know it's kind of rough out there, but good things are always going to come around. It's always going to come back around to some good stuff.

01:11:30 John Daub: And I'll take you around Japan, take you to Kawagoe, and there's a couple other trips I'm going to be taking you out of Tokyo this upcoming week. So all good things. Bye bye. Mata ne.