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Hey guys! Rachel has joined me today!
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I wanted to make a video talking about safety in Japan
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and how safe I feel here
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Because I get asked lots of questions like if I feel safe walking alone at night
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If I've had any issues being attacked by people
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or harassed by people
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So I thought that would be a cool topic to invite someone else to join me
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So that you can hear both of our experiences
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Because I'm sure we've had very different experiences
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I wanna start out by saying that I feel a lot safer in Japan
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than I do in Canada, in general
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Walking down the street here
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I don't feel worried that some guy's gonna come up and grab me
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or try to attack me or anything
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I never have that feeling when I'm walking alone on the streets here
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How about you?
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Exactly the same
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I've never felt in danger here, ever
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For me that's really different to how I feel in Canada
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Canada, I'm sure has a really safe image to it
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and I'm sure it's a lot safer than other countries, many other countries
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But I've been grabbed by a guy before
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in Canada, when I was talking down the street
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So I'm kind of traumatized
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When I'm in Canada I'm always very careful at night time
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I always bring a friend with me if I'm planning to go somewhere late at night
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I make sure that my friend gets a ride over to my house
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and we're gonna walk together
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But in Japan I never feel that I have to do that
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Right, no, it's very similar for me
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I've never been attacked
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But I have stayed in an apartment in America
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and one of our neighbour's houses was broken into in the middle of the night
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while the female neighbour was still in there
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and you could hear her screaming for help, and it was so terrifying!
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I was so terrified
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And I've had a lot of uncomfortable experiences with guys
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Oh yeah, like yelling stuff at you as you walk down the street?
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I have guys... they like to do this thing to me
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where they walk past me and whisper in my ear
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Oh gross!!!
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Ugh I know exactly what you mean
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"Hey baby~" or something
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They think they're being clever
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Has that ever worked on anyone?
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I don't think there's any girl that would react positively to that
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It's always "Hey Red!" or "Sup flame?"
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Oh no... it's even worse for you with your hair D;
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I feel for you... I can just imagine
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That's one thing that I really like about Japan!
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Is that people won't make comments at you as you're walking down the street
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Well actually, that's not true
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They'll make comments about you being a foreigner
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They'll make general comments about you being...
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Yeah yeah, like they'll talk about the shape of your head
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Which is weird. Or like...
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Or like... "Wow! Foreigners have such big noses!"
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They might say something like that
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But people won't be like "Hey sexy!" or "Oooo looking' good!"
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like people in Canada would
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It's not like everyone in North America is bad or something
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I've had a lot of guys who would say stuff
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but they would be nice about it and I didn't feel uncomfortable
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They would approach you in a nice way?
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Yeah yeah, there's definitely people that do that too
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And here people just don't approach me, at all!
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It's nice!
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They're like terrified of me or something
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The only unpleasant experiences that I've had in Japan
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that I really want to share with you guys because
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it's something that I was not expecting at all when it happened
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and I was kind of traumatized
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So I wanna let you know that it's something that happens quite commonly here
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which is sad :/
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People touching you on the train
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Trains here are sooo crowded
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In Tokyo they're packed! Literally like sardines
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People will be like this on the train
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There'll be someone here, someone here
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And people usually have their hands down here
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So it's really easy for a guy to touch your leg
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They'll try and do it subtly
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Just kinda like rub up against your leg
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But you know what they're doing
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The first time I came to Japan, I was 17
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and I was wearing a skirt on the train
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and this guy stuck his hand right up under my skirt
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and like grabbed my butt
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and I was just like "Holy shit what just happened!?"
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I was not expecting it at all
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So I just wanna warn you guys that that's something that does happen here
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and it's not extremely rare or anything
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It does happen quite commonly
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So especially if you're wearing a skirt, something that guys can reach up in there
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be a lot more careful
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Kinda try to block yourself, maybe with your bag
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If you see that you're right beside a guy on the train
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maybe try to get your hands in between the 2 of you
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or something, just to protect yourself
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There are definitely methods to protect yourself on the train
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Like standing with your back to your door
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Yeah, try and get as close as you can up to the wall
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Yeah, definitely
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That's the only... I've had one other bad experience on a train
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I tweeted about it, so maybe some of you followed me as it was happening
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But this guy pretended to fall asleep on my shoulder
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It was so obvious because he was awake
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then all of a sudden he's on my shoulder
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It was so weird because all the seats were open in the train
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and he sat right down next to me, so I was like "Oh god...
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this isn't going to end well"
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So he "falls asleep" on my shoulder and I'm just like
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Ugh and I move over and he kind of falls off
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And then he tries it again
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and then I look at him like "What are you doing?"
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And he leans in to kiss me!!!
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What the!?
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Like he was so close to kissing me!
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And I woulda punched him so I'm really glad that he didn't
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because it could've ended horribly with the police and everything
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Here, I'll reenact it with Rachel
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You'll be me
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Ok so he's on my shoulder right
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and then I kinda nudge him off
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Then he looks up and looks at me, and then he's like...
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and he got like THIS close to my face!!
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and I was like "WHOA whoa..."
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"What the hell..."
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In English I'm just like "Fuck off!"
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"What are you doing!?" I was really surprised
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He stood up, and went over to the door
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and he got off at the next stop
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I don't know if it was his stop or what
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But thank god, he got off the train
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and we didn't really cause a big scene
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There were 2 other people a little further away from us on the train
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And they just kinda started laughing
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Which I thought was kind of mean, it wasn't funny to me
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I was pretty pissed off
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No, that's really creepy
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But those 2 incidents are the only 2 issues that I've had
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And the only 2 incidents where I've felt kind of uncomfortable
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It's not that I feel unsafe
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because I've never felt that someone's going to physically harm me
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But yeah, sexual touching
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You gotta be careful with that stuff in trains in Japan
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Have you had any bad experiences on trains?
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I haven't actually
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But usually I go out with Jun
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So I dunno if guys are more like... ya know, Jun's so tall and stuff
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I'm sure if they see that you're with someone else
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Especially if you're with someone that looks like your boyfriend
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they're probably not going to try anything
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Because you would tell them right?
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You'd be like "That guy just touched me!!"
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So yeah it's definitely safer to be with someone
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I have been approached a couple of times before
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It's called "nanpa" - like getting hit on by guys
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But it's not... like I've had it happen in America too
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Like uncomfortably and some guys are just, you know, they're just kinda nice
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and here I wouldn't say it's uncomfortable
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It's a little... sometimes it can be weird
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Because they'll come up to you and be like "Hey, where are you from?"
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"What's your name?"
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And then they'll go right into "Wanna go on a date?"
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or "Wanna come back to my house?"
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And it's like "Ew. Who are you? I do not know you"
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It's not gonna happen.
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I had one guy not too long ago, he came up to me
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and was like "Hey, are you from France?"
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and I was like "No" and he was like "I'm sorry"
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Why are you sorry I'm not from France???
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He's like "I like your style"
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and I was like "Ok, thanks"
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I was like "I'm married"
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As soon as he walked away he said I'm sorry again or something
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or like "I like your style"
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At least he apologized, that was nice
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I've had people get angry at me when I said no
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They'd be like "What's your problem?" in Japanese
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Usually when guys nanpa you here they're drunk
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Ah, yeah
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You're in the city late at night and someone's stumbling home from a bar
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A lot of times they're with a group of friends
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and a guy will come up and be like "Hey my friend speaks English!"
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or whatever, and they're all giggling in the background
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"He speaks English~" and like "You wanna go get a drink?"
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And I'm like "No."
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I never feel unsafe though, right?
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I don't feel unsafe
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As awkward and obnoxious it is to be picked up by people you're not interested in
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I never feel like "Omg, this guy might attack me!" or something
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In Canada I often feel like I kinda gotta be careful
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Yeah, I mean, there are bad people everywhere
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And there are good people everywhere, so it's not like you know...
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It's not like, this country is amazing and this country sucks or anything
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But in general I feel a lot safer here and I like that
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because I like going for walks at night, and I like going jogging at night
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and it's nice to not have to worry too much
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In general I would say Japan is a safe country
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to walk around at night time, you don't need to worry about getting mugged
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That rarely, I don't think it ever happens here
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I've never heard a story where someone attacked someone to try to steal their money
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I do see a lot of signs for "hittakuri" in our city, like purse snatching
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I've never seen that happen
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But they have actual signs up here in some places
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"Beware of hittakuri"
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People wil ride along on a bicycle or a motorbike and grab your bag
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So be careful of people stealing stuff
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But that's not a common problem
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Yeah I've never heard of that happening, so that surprised me when I saw those signs
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So if you guy have any other questions related to this topic
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Leave them down below
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and me and Rachel will try to reply to some of those if we can!
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Hope that was helpful for you guys
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