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Even in the West, in my personal experience, it's pretty difficult to make friends after general schooling is over.

The Austrian girl - what a great level of awareness, and her ability to communicate in English and Japanese (second and third languages) - holy smokes.  Impressive.

Takashi's posture during the first interview had me cracking up, he was trying soo hard not to stand too close lol

hearing that austrian girl speak japanese was super impressive

The Austrian girl really has a good head on her shoulders.  She seems to be incredibly smart,  and she made so much sense about the reasons why it's hard to make friends with Japanese.  I have really learned alot from this channel.

My wife is Japanese, we live in Canada. And when i have been to Japan, i freaked people out when i tried to hug them while saying goodbye. But for us in Canada it's completely normal. I found it funny to see the peoples reactions to closer contact. I respect that, we all have different cultural back grounds. As of now, it is 20 years we live in Canada together. But we expect to move to Japan in 5 years.This will be hard for me, but my wonderful wife had it hard too here in Canada for the last 20 years. So i guess it will be my turn to integrate in another cultural setting. But Japanese people are so kind, it doesn't scare me at all.

I love how the Austrian girl was so aware of the challenges of being an immigrant/foreigner in a countru but is also incredibly willing to break through those barriers. I think thats a really good mindset to have

This was so interesting! I’m American and have a Japanese friend of nearly 30 years. She was an exchange student in my high school and we remained friends. I got to see her when I went to Japan in April and last December.  It was so fun and I loved being able to spend time with her in her country.

"...where are you from?"
"I'm from Austria!"
"Ah オーストラリア!"
爆笑

Everything they say is right. I’ve been to Japan three separate times, and it is hard to make friends, especially when you are a foreigner.  and the fact that you have to approach them first is also true. I remember the first time I went to Japan. I was on a train, leaving the airport heading to Tokyo. There was a young lady sitting across from me with a cat themed suitcase. I just decided to complement her suitcase, in Japanese and then we ended up talking. First, she was sitting across from me, and then she came and sat next to me until she had to get off the train. We exchanged social media to stay in touch. I don’t talk to her all that much now, but I know that if I want to I can reach out to her. You just have to take the first step and just say hello.

I got accepted to study abroad at a Japanese university in March of next year. I hope I’m able to make lots of Japanese friends.

'Austria'

'Oh, Australia'

I'm not Austrian, but I feel this hahahaha

Appreciate the guy that was more honest

I've always found it funny imo that in Japan, meeting or talking to a foreign person is more of a rare occurrence and not everyone has foreign friends. Here in the States, talking to people from all different countries and backgrounds is like an everyday thing that we hardly think about. It's neat to see the smallest differences in cultures can make some lasting impacts on people. Plus I can safely say where I live, I have more Asian friends than white, and I'm white myself.

I really like this topic, especially that you have interviewed both Japanese people and a foreigner. Great job Takashi san!

Takashii: Where are you from?
Yana: I am from Austria.
TaKashi: Australia. How long...
🙃😂

1:22 my man I trying so hard to social distance his hips from the microphone!!! 😂😂😂

When I had my year in Tokyo, 2016. My way of getting Japanese friends was going to these Japanese / English language exchange party meetups, So people who came there were foreigners who wanted to practice their Japanese or the other way around, Japanese people who wanted to practice their English.
I believe I found these meetup through facebook? You kind of joined and then got an email every month of meetups in different parts of Tokyo these parties would be held. I loved them! Got my self a really good japanese friend through that, We kept on chatting through social media a few years after I left Tokyo.

I feel like the hardest part about making friends in Japan is outside of school or work is there's no where to go to just meet people, like in Australia you can literally just go to a bar and start talking to people, it's even easier to make Japanese friends overseas than in Japan