Name: "我再也不回去了"，日本的生活更好嗎？(第一部分） ("I Will NEVER Go Back" Is Life Better in Japan? (Part 1))
Uploaded: 2025-10-31T16:26:57.000Z
Duration: 16 min 24 s

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I will never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never go back.

我絕對、絕對、絕對、絕對、絕對、絕對、絕對、絕對不會回去。

You know, I went back to America last year.

When you're paying $16 for a hot dog, yet you can get it for $3 here.

當你花 16 美元買熱狗，但這裡只要 3 美元。

Do you think that Americans or foreigners are treated like second class citizens in Japan?

你覺得在日本，美國人或外國人會被當成二等公民嗎？

If you come here with the entitlement that you're going to be treated equal when you didn't grow up here, when you don't speak a language, when you're looking for an apartment or a place to live, that's the number one thing people will straight up say, oh, we don't take foreigners, we don't accept foreigners.

如果你帶著「我會被平等對待」的權利意識來到這裡，但你不是在這裡長大，也不會說這裡的語言，找公寓或住所時，大家最直接就會說「喔，我們不收外國人，我們不接受外國人」。

Do you think if you lived in the US and you had gotten sick there, you could have been bankrupted by this?

你覺得如果你住在美國，生病了，會是以破產嗎？

We always hear about the millions of immigrants trying to move to the United States, but

我們總是聽到數百萬移民試圖移居美國，但是

There are over 100,000 of us living in Japan right now.

現在有超過十萬美國人居住在日本。

And some of us have decided to make Japan our permanent home.

其中有些人已經決定將日本當成他們的永久家園。

So today we're going to be delving into this topic by interviewing different Americans who have decided to settle in Japan permanently.

所以今天我們要透過採訪一些決定永久定居日本的美國人，來深入探討這個話題。

My name is Richard Inoue and I am from Fukuoka, Japan.

我叫井上理查，我來自日本福岡。

When I first came to Japan, I thought I was going to be here for about two or three years and go back home, you know, with just a Japanese experience.

我剛來日本的時候，以為我只會待個兩三年就回家，你知道的，只帶著在日本的經驗。

But so it was like I was here the year before 9 11.

不過，我在九一一事件發生前一年就來這裡了。

So when 911 hit, that shocked me and I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna stay here.

所以九一一事件發生時，我感到很震驚，心想，對，我要留下來。

I'm from America and I've been living in Tokyo for.

I'm from a really, really small town in northeastern Pennsylvania.

我來自賓州東北部一個非常非常小的鎮。

It's just easy and comfortable to live here and I've developed a lot of health issues since moving here and there's really no incentive to move back to the United States with the health issues that I have, considering how hard it would be for me to live there with them.

這裡生活很輕鬆自在，而且自從搬來這裡後我出現了很多健康問題，考量到我帶著這些健康問題在那裡生活會有多困難，回美國真的沒什麼誘因。

Are you staying here longer than you expected?

你打算在這裡待比你預期的還久嗎？

I didn't really expect to come here for so long.

我沒想到我會在這裡待這麼久。

I wanted to achieve something and then just go Back and to America, Go back to Los Angeles.

我本來想達成一些目標，然後就回美國，回洛杉磯。

But as the times changed and the economies actually changed as well, I just found myself finding that Japan, particularly Tokyo, was a lot more relaxing for me and a lot easier to get along with life.

但隨著時間和經濟的變化，我發現日本，尤其是東京，對我來說更放鬆，生活也更容易應付。

I'm from Vancouver, Canada, the 51st state we snuck a Canadian in.

我來自加拿大的溫哥華，我們偷渡了一個加拿大人進美國，所以是美國的第 51 個州。

I first fell in love with Japan 19 years ago, but

I could not afford to retire in Canada, you know, but

我在加拿大負擔不起退休，你知道的，但是

you know, we have our own house here or apartment, so, you know, we have that already settled.

你知道，我們在這裡有自己的房子或公寓，所以，你知道的，我們已經安頓好了。

So retiring in Japan with the cost of living in Japan is way much easier than going back home to retire, you know, due to the.

所以在日本退休，加上日本的生活成本，比回國退休容易多了，你知道的，因為

All the costs of daily living, so on and so forth.

You want to just stay in Japan for the rest of your life?

Yeah, I mean, pretty much, like, why not?

對啊，我是說，差不多吧，為什麼不呢？

I can go to the hospital whenever I want to.

I can live in the center of the city and just have a normal blue collar job.

我可以住在市中心，做一份普通的藍領工作。

You can actually take the buses and the train anywhere you want.

你可以搭公車和火車去任何你想去的地方。

It's clean, the people are nice, the language is amazing.

這裡乾淨，人們友善，語言也很棒。

Most of the people that want to come to Japan are retiring or someone that basically is tired of the norm.

大部分想來日本的人，不是退休了，就是對現狀感到厭倦。

If they're tired of, you know, just struggling, struggling and fighting just to make ends meet.

如果他們厭倦了，你知道的，只是為了餬口而掙扎、奮鬥。

Like, I got a friend of mine and they were shocked.

就像，我一個朋友，他們超驚訝的。

Medical health, you're like, I can, I can go to see a doctor for five and ten bucks.

醫療保健，你就像，我只要花五塊十塊就能看醫生了。

And, and then, you know, paying for prescription drugs monthly.

然後，然後你知道的，每個月還要付處方藥的錢。

Prescription drugs, I pay like maybe 20 bucks.

So yeah, and then it's shock when I tell them stuff like that.

所以囉，然後我跟他們說這些事情的時候，他們都會很驚訝。

I was shocked when I seen on the news eggs costing $6.

我在新聞上看到雞蛋要賣六塊美金的時候，真的嚇到了。

So it's like security, you know, just being safe and having, just feeling comfortable.

這就像是一種保障，你知道的，就是安全感，還有自在的感覺。

How does Japanese health care compare to American health care?

日本的健保跟美國的健保比起來怎麼樣？

So you'd rather be in Japan to receive health care here?

所以你寧願在日本接受健保治療？

Well, there's universal health care here in Japan, so I don't have to pay a ton of money out of pocket.

嗯，日本這裡有全民健保，所以我不用自掏腰包付很多錢。

If you were to get the same kind of medical treatment in America, how much more do you think it would Cost.

如果你在美國接受同樣的醫療，你覺得會貴多少？

I've had tons of MRIs, different scans, blood work tests, everything.

我做過無數次核磁共振、各種掃描、血液檢查，什麼都做過。

I can't even imagine the first time I had to get brain surgery.

我簡直無法想像第一次動腦部手術的時候。

I was in the hospital for almost four months.

This past November, I was hospitalized for another one for two months.

去年十一月，我又因為另一次住院了兩個月。

And I can't imagine it would be much cheaper than probably a million dollars if I had to pay for that out of pocket in America.

而且我想，如果我在美國要自費負擔的話，大概要一百萬美金跑不掉。

Just talking to other people and their experiences and stuff, unless I know you can always be one of those people that has, like, a great job that, like, covers everything, right?

只是跟別人聊聊他們的經驗什麼的，除非我知道你一直都是那種有很棒的工作，可以支付一切的人，對吧？

I'm not one of those people that's going to have this amazing job back home that can take care of all that.

我不是那種在家鄉有份很棒的工作，可以負擔所有費用的那種人。

A million dollars out of pocket in America for this treatment.

在美國自費負擔這項治療要一百萬美金。

I would imagine two brain surgeries, plus all of the hospitalizations, and even just like, an mri.

我想兩次腦部手術，加上所有的住院，甚至只是像一次核磁共振。

One MRI back home would probably cost, like, between one and two grand, I think is, like, how much it is.

一次核磁共振，我想大概要一兩千塊美金吧，我猜是這個價錢。

I'll just say I've gotten many, many, many over the past, like, eight years.

我只能說，過去這大概八年來，我做過非常非常多次了。

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