NOTIFICATION SQUAD: It's 5am and I've been editing for 18 hours. I can't feel my face. I've forgotten my name. (I think it's Dave). There's a ton of stories and experiences stuffed into this video - I hope you enjoy them! (Just don't ask me about the guy in the basement). I'd like to another Q&A again and indeed, if it does well, I may do another in June. I hope you guys are safe wherever you may be out there right now - things seem to be improving and I look forward to getting out once and again exploring the country. The question is, WHERE should we explore? Let me know in the comments and it'll probably definitely happen.

I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere.

plot twist: the guy in the basement is the real Dave whose YouTube channel was called Dave in Japan until Chris abducted him and took over his channel

Absurd to think someone thought your name was "Dave in Japan." Everyone knows youre Chad in Seattle.

So it's a hotpocket??

In general, the reason why Japanese people ask you your ages is just because they don’t know how to start conversations with foreigners. As you know, Japanese generally is not good at speaking English although we learn English for about six years at school. But  at school we memorized some basic English sentence like “ where are you from?” , “ how old are you?”
So when Japanese meets foreigner, they ask you your country, your ages automatically.
They are just interested in who you are and try to know you doing there best in English. We never try to push our culture on you
Sorry for my poor English but I just let you know the fact.

it´s easily one of the most disturbing things when you can hear people fa...doing random things

WTF?! That plastic wrap is edible? You mean I've been wasting the last 30 years (including several trips to Japan) unwrapping that crap?

as a Mongolian, it was so ridiculously funny to know how Japanese people react to us. maybe one day i will open a sushi restaurant in Mongolia and name it as  oda nobunaga, be my guests.

"Dave in Japan". "The Real Chris Abroad".


Twist of the century.

I love the idea that Chris listens to his YT stock music on his free time, and in his car.

"4/10, I'd rather eat sand"

That's quite the generous rating for some sand. You must be quite the sand connoisseur. Where can we find the tastiest sand?

I like how Chris drives around listening to his own intro music.

Ryotaro’s Smug smile can only belong to a true Japanese spy

Are we not going to talk about Chris locking himself in a closet and torturing himself?
No?
We're just gonna ignore that little scene?

2:34 If I had a hornet jump into my car like that, I'd jump off the moving car and let it explode in the guardrail. I'm sure the insurance company would understand.

When I lived in Japan, I generally didn't hear my neighbor, except when he decided to have a 4AM shouting match with his girlfriend. Those were always fun, and quite frequent. Fortunately, I sleep with earplugs anyway.

EDIT: I lived there for 6 years and never needed a hanko stamp. Not for the bank, or renting an apartment, or anything. Everyone just always let me sign instead.

I had a close encounter with one of those asshole wasps: I was at the Universal Studio at the smoking area, i noticed people started to feel uneasy and shifting around while looking all sides, i'm chilling with a cigarette leaning against a column. Suddenly people start looking at me, the wasp is right next to my hand, instinctively i slapped the bugger and it fell to the ground dead. People looked at me like i was some sort of badass yakuza guy

As someone who has been born and raised in the US, hearing someone suddenly switch to an American accent while talking is the fucking STRANGEST thing. You do the accent well too!

that American accent was so spot on “Dave in Japan”