I've really enjoyed watching these documentaries you've made. They're very well produced. It's great to see someone (especially a non disabled person) who's willing to research and talk about this. I'm also living in Toronto with a disability and I have in laws in Tokyo. This series has been so helpful in planning our first visit to Japan. You should be proud of your work!

@SierenH

7 жыл бұрын

Alison Reynolds I love them and I'm glad he did this

I absolutely admire Josh and Yuriko and their passion to help and inform other people who will find their knowledge extremely valuable! Congrats for finding them!

I personally like longer, more in depth videos. Your videos are very informative and captivating...I personally love the longer episodes as they delve much deeper into the topic at hand, which you and your subjects do an amazing job at explaining. Keep up the great work!

Greetings from Poland! I'm your subscriber from the beginning and I appreciate a lot what you're making with this channel. I'm very interested in all kinds of social aspects of Japan. There are many Japan vlogers out there, but what they say is either more like a guide for people wanted to go to Japan (every day life, costs and so on), or talking about their personal affairs. Your 1st channel reminds me of a series from the Plenete Channel - documentaries about how the (one day of) life looks around the world (it was in fact from the children perspective). I loved the series and I love yours too. But, going back to this channel - the more adult content is the most interesting for me, and I encourage you to even push it toward more serious topics - homeless people issue, salary man, old people / lonely people, families with disabled children, education pressure and the teenagers problems to fulfill all the expectations, not pure blood Japanese and how the society treat them, suicides. All those topics are real challenges, but you've already approach a difficult topic with a very good result, and I know you can handle every single one of them. It will help you grow and make you a true documentalist. I bet! Also I encourage you to look for the difficult topics on your own, go and explore the city (as you did with the train trip video - great one!) :) I wish you and your whole amazing family all the best! It's quite the time to say - Merry Christmas to you all, too :)

thank u so much. thanks for helping (I'm the camenter u talked about) you rock

I've just watched both videos and thought they were both fascinating and very well done! I personally really enjoyed the longer length of them and if anything was wishing for more when they ended :) The guest speakers were very charismatic and informative and it was really nice to get to see their perspective too!

Thank you for the info. Is there a way you could film the schools that educate the physically disabled? Thanks again. Darrel

@SierenH

7 жыл бұрын

Darrel S yes please

thank you! this one while longer it was more satisfying for the depth of it

@Telenaus

7 жыл бұрын

also "flipside?" did you play command & conquers red alert? lol

Hi Greg, all the content you've chosen to put forward is truly really great. Please continue to do what you are doing. I always look forward to new videos. Hello and thanks from Guam>DC/VA

Can you do a documentary about elementary education. If a kid is gifted and talented, is there an advanced learning programs for these kids?

@GomChingu

7 жыл бұрын

hm im more interested on how the emphasis on clubs after school are. but i think it be hard to get film on school...

@fatemezahraafrasiabi5913

6 жыл бұрын

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I thought the length of the documentary was fine. It kept me hooked because I wanted to know more about how they go about their lives.

I love your documentary. Just keep doing just the way you are doing right now. I love learning more.

I had really enjoyed the documentary, especially since I've been wondering about how accessible it is over there. I would have liked to se a little more info one accessability stuff for the visually impaired, your video mostly focused on wheelchair accessability, with a few small mentions of other accesability features that happened to be multi functional. I did learn a lot and it answered a lot of questions but being visually impaired and wanting to visit Japan some day, I was hoping to hear a tiny bit more info that would have been more relevant to my situation. Still a great video though!

Keep Your Videos comin Really like all the GREAT INFO ☮️💟☮️💟☮️💟☮️💟☮️

Your vision is totally in the right place. Japan is so fascinating. I started watching your documentaries to see what US is doing wrong what japan is doing right and vice versa. What a coincident you said the same thing! The world is globalized yet we are so ignorant. Everyone watches youtube so i think creators in every country should make documentary like yours. We can take these ideas and implement them in our own countries. Also my suggestion for you is to shout this channel out through your kids channel. Its much smaller but it has so much potential.

Nice!

maybe u can do more? I'd be interested

Would love to see how those with intellectual and developmental disabilities fair in Japan. Moving there is something that may come about with my husband's job, but we have a son with I/DD and I would need to be sure there are supports and help available for him.

The documentaries don't feel lenghty. I always find them very interesting. I wondered, why did Josh move to Japan? (every expat always give their stories, I don't remember his). If it's not too nosy to ask...

how life for the blind in japan? in the video, one could see braille but also some relief kanji that looked as if they were meant to be read by touch...?Can one actually readd relief kanji and is thata thing to be taught to blind children?

@Lainlein

7 жыл бұрын

ok autocorrect really made these sentences weird. sorry

what8s the culture like do people treat you like a lesser being for having a diability??

I'd like to learn more about western people having kids and living in Japan. How are they viewed by Japanese people? I've heard from other KZreadrs that western people can not live in Japan forever and have kids because their kids will be made fun of based on their parents.

@LifeWhereImFromX

7 жыл бұрын

Hi, that's quite a black and white perspective of it. My own kids are not old enough to go through the entire school system, so i can't personally comment on it, but I don't think my kids get fun of in school for being half Japanese. I know some other kids (or have heard their stories) and they seem to be doing OK in the Japanese school system as well. Are their cases where kids get made fun of, I'm sure this must happen. From my experience in the Canadian school system, kids get made fun of for all sorts of reasons. For example, some kid picked a fight with me because I had asthma (yeah, weird, right?) I think kids will try to pick out any sort of difference if they don't like someone in order to bully them. I know some adults who have gone to both Japanese and out-of-country schools and they seem to be just fine.

greg i think u focus on the length of the video too much. 10 mins i would say is a good length for most people. 20mins if u have a lot of information and video but u turn into a VICE documentary. although the people that are intestered will always just watch it no matter the length.

@Lainlein

7 жыл бұрын

GomChingu i completely agree. I even prefer longer, dedicated documentaries. it allpws me to really concentrate on the topic. the shorter ones get kinda lost in all the 5-10 minutes clips i consume in one bingewatching session on KZread ^^'

@flea0309

7 жыл бұрын

+Lainlein true! The shorter ones get lost in the sea of videos. I also like more in depth documentaries because I'm a geek and I love information and details :D

@GomChingu

7 жыл бұрын

i was happy with the 10 min docs..... if its concise then thats fine for me.

@flea0309

7 жыл бұрын

GomChingu yeah, I think 10 min docs would be more appealing to the majority. Maybe something like what Greg was proposing is a good idea: to have a concise 10-min video and then another with extra info and commentary, though that's a lot of work. But that way some of the extra footage and info could be used.