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Great Video and in my opinion professional summary of the incident and viewpoints. I share your conclusion. In the end we always react based on bottled up emotions from past experiences and in a way are all victims that are overwhelmed and unable to objectively deal with a situation that isolated from unresolved emotions from the past wouldn't actually be problematic.

I want to double check my perception on something. Please tell me I'm wrong if so. If I am in Japan and go into a shop or approach someone, speaking English, furthermore speaking quickly and in a complex way as if I was in the US or England. I would say that's a bit presumptuous and even a bit rude. Now, English is a fairly universal second language and is so in Japan. Given that, if I ask someone, "do you speak English" before starting and English conversation, I do not understand how that is rude and I definitely do no see it as racist. That is most certainly my perspective if a Japanese person is trying to talk to me (or arguing with me) and I am not confident in my Japanese. Help me understand if this is not the case.

Thank you for this great sharing! I was browsing what to do in Morioka and discover a history lesson. Cheers!

How is "Do you speak English" racist? I see no correlation between a person's race and their ability (or inability) to speak English.

I want to live vanlife one day in japan. that is one of my big goal I want to experience. Thanks for showing us inaka

やっぱり外国人は日本人が何に怒っているか理解していないな。 多様性とか言うくせに自分達の価値観でしか物事を理解しようとしていない。 問題が軽微かどうかは観光客の無作法にあるのではなく イギリス人ガイドのトラブルに対する態度なのだ。 日本を理解し尊重するはずのガイドが日本人は英語がわからないだろうと馬鹿にする行為は 日本に対する裏切り行為だと感じるから日本人は怒っているのだ。

Anybody else here after watching Only Yesterday?

Since this has blown up a little in the wake of a link from some Japanese site, I want to be clear: I am deleting comments that are overly racist or just saying "go back to your country." Those are just hurtful and I'd rather not leave them for people to see. I may miss some, but I'm trying to keep this forum as clean (and kind) as possible. 報告：暴言、人種差別的な発言、国に帰れなどのコメントを消します。（それを書いたアカウントをブロックします。）コメントをする前にこのリンクを見てください: note.com/safe_newt9890/n/nbf8dee7663f1 お互いにやさしくしましょう。よろしくお願いします！

日本のルールが守れないなら帰ってどうぞ

Great video Q, a well balanced assessment of what happened. Both parties acted out of line at the time, there’s no denying that, but what came next was just incredibly sad. An embarrassing reflection of humanity at its worst. Nobody deserves to be put through what the guide and his family were, especially over something so petty. Well, I guess lessons were learnt on all sides.

自業自得で草

まず日本語で発信しましょう。誤情報を発信するのはやめてください。

Have you forgotten that shrines are places of worship for the Japanese people? And they were only condemned because they did something barbaric on private property. The woman who warned you only put you on sns because you were verbally abusive and insulting. Either you have forgotten that actions come with responsibilities, or you think it is acceptable to insult Japanese people.

This is your call to block particularly vocal members of gaijin twitter That certain maiko San is going to go on a rant about this video, I feel she goes out of her way to be "offended"

If you cannot respect Japanese customs, culture and manners, don't come to Japan. This applies not only to Japan but to anywhere in the world.

Typical Brits😂 Btw a British tourist was once arrested for trying to break into the Imperial Palace. It was an unprecedented incident Lol

あの英国人ガイドは英語を話せるか？と何回も彼女に聞いてて私はそこに一番むかついた。完全に日本人を馬鹿にしてたよね！日本に住んでて日本語ペラペラのくせに、彼女が英語を話せないのを知ってて何で今それを聞く？馬鹿にするのも大概にしろよ。

You touched on the theme of a great book about people who made the wrong call in the heat of the moment, like the captain of the Titanic, whose crew were in a lifeboat and were calling for him to jump. He did and survived, but his life was ruined. Sorry I can’t remember the name of the book.

素直に注意に従わず暴言吐いたガイドが悪いんだろ。

Thank you for your video. In Japan, there has long been a saying that companies are public assets of society. Conducting business and earning money means that companies are expected to give back to the community, creating a positive cycle of benefits. Therefore, while tourists are not scrutinized too harshly, when it comes to conducting business and earning money, the expected standard of conduct becomes significantly higher. She shouldn't have posted the video on social media, but considering that Kyoto has many temples and shrines that need to be treated with care and that even ordinary Japanese people find it complicated, I believe tour guides should be regulated by a permit system.

If the guide had admitted his mistake without provoking the woman who warned him, there would not have been a huge uproar.

Howl and bark! you’ll look as crazy as a box of frogs, but the only predatory animals that eat bears, other than bears, are wolves. Your voice carries further and is likely to instigate the flight reaction from a bear as they are programmed to be wary of wolves and dogs. Recently, in December of 2022 a bear attacked a man who then plunged down a mountain in Kamikitayama Nara, he died, but it’s close to the story you mentioned. Oh, and I love Sake, I’m no expert so I’d appreciated any information you have about it. 😊

You'd like Jon Ronson's, "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" check it out!

She accused them of acting very poorly at the shrine, yet not a shred of evidence of that has been released. She edited in another video of an Asian man ringing the bell very wildly. The only video that was released was of her harassing and haranguing the tourists until the tour guide finally snapped. He was politely asking her to leave them alone the entire time and asked her if she spoke English probably because it would be easier for him to explain to her in his native language. He only got angry when she used the very rude tern "Omae" to him first. This lady is a supposed nationalist and she regularly targets foreigners and tourists for views. He should really sue her for this because there are laws against "誹謗中傷" or Cyber-bullying/Defamation.

「do you speak English！？」WTF！！ If I’m a Japanese and only speak Japanese in Japan ,why do I have to speak English ！？ こういう上から目線の外人（特に欧米人）はたくさん存在します。 ましてやこのガイド（イギリス人？）多少なりとも日本語ができるのに基本的性格は残念ながらやっぱり上から目線の欧米人！！これが現実です。　ただただ悲しい😢

Always assume you are being filmed, and anything you do, say, or write will not disappear, but will be screenshot, recorded, permanently saved, and will be sharable forever, and shared with your most hostile critics. Assume that anyone you encounter will be able to find your home address, and those of your employer, or loved ones. This should have been clear to people since the earliest days of the existence of email and text messaging, but if this is not clear to you now, make sure you operate your life from here on out with this understanding.

Karens have to be Karens, even in Japan.

I always take my Akita and Shiba with me when I hike in the mountains, both boys, and both capable of scaring off most Asiatic Black Bears. Luckily, I never encounter brown bears. Get a big dog or two folks, you’ll be good to go. Just a point about the Asiatic black bear, they are an older species of bear and are prone to be more aggressive than black bears. Once they attack they will peruse you if you don’t fight, you gotta stand your ground and fight if you need to. When hiking in the mountains of Japan, I always carry something I can fight back with, as well as protecting myself, I can work with my dogs and protect them. Recently, bear attacks are on the rise, it’s best not to be complacent, stay vigilant and carry something to protect yourself with.

sitting on the bamboo fence... why?

Oh my .. totally agreed with you Quinlan

Sounds like a Japanese Karen. There are crazies in every culture! She should be reported to law enforcement.

I will not go to Kyoto, I feel like they are looking to dislike us. Getting tired of it. I want to be in the countryside, real tours small islands with ferry boats, also Beppu island and Onsens , 90 year old women pearl divers. By the way in the cities I had to get the police to get a taxi to take me, I am white and they just don’t want us. Another time in Asakusa in the pouring rain I had many taxis pass me. So now I take photos of them. Also ha, the won’t sit next to you on the train, fine. Why not take a cheap bus ride to Fuji and no dumb convince store? Sorry I am not a writer, I am a retired tourist , and remember there are better areas than the crowded unkind ones.

No, I watched the video. The guide was clearly being snarky. You're trying to paint the whole interaction as something else. Also not impressed with how you want to "set aside" the parts where the guide was being inflammatory and unnecessarily confrontational.

imo both parties might have overstep boundaries but social media blown it up real bad (she obviously farming engagement off it) when I was in Ginza during 2017, there is a big boom of China tourist some restaurants staffs actually ask if I'm from China, luckily I flash my malaysia passport. they quickly usher me in while a tour bus of China tourist just pull up opposite of the road... I think they ban China tourist for being messy, loud & rowdy

Kyoto people are PARTICULARLY rude. I understand that overtourism has probably made it worse, but the way Kyoto people verbally attack you is something I've never experienced anywhere else in Japan. And I'm Japanese haha! I won't be going back to Kyoto any time soon. Great video as always!

may not be a good idea to add wasabe because wasabe kills bacterias

All sides were in the wrong... but nobody deserves lasting punishment for simply being rude. I agree with your assessment.

Whoa thats so crazy! Are you up Komagatake there? Looks familiar.

Out of respect for her age I would avoid talking about the japanese lady involved , still there are civilized ways to point out a mistake after all we are human beings and we do mistakes no matter how hard we try to avoid them . As for the rest of the japanese people that reached the point of harassing that British person , I don't think they even deserve our condemnation , they are just a disgrace for the human race .

I feel like Kyoto is the hive of racist, rude, pretentious and just generally insufferable nationalists. I had zero negative experiences in Japan until I came to Kyoto. Overly sensitive locals, completely overbearing rules, outright disrespects towards foreigners and a general feeling of resentment towards anything not inherently Japanese were my daily companions. Tokyo? No issue. Neither In Shizuoka, Nagoya, Okayama, Tottori, Osaka, Shimane… Just in Kyoto.

You're correct. He doesn't deserve this. It's a symptom of an unfortunate part of contemporary culture. It would be completely annoying to have your city overrun by tourists, but they were granted visas, sold train tickets, hotels, etc. Japan has many rules. Some are common sense and some wouldn't even be understood by some tourists. This is what traveling is about. It's up to the tourist to want to learn and be respectful within common sense, and up to the locals to control their environment and help teach. Kyoto-jūin can be proud even with other Japanese. It's a bit of a city planning problem and a bit of a cultural challenge with scaling, growing, and adapting to the travelers who are not familiar with how things work there. Of course being blatantly disrespectful and oblivious to your environment is unacceptable anywhere.

Thank you, Quinlan, for being a responsible steward by putting this information out there. It's a gentle warning to visiting foreigners as well as foreigners who live and work in foreign countries to be respectful, kind and also have healthy boundaries. I think anyone with a platform that lives in a foreign country should be giving these reminders. It creates accountability for all, keeps everyone safe and lets everyone enjoy their visit/lives.

It is a scary thought and I feel for the guy too, especially his family. I guarantee you everyone’s had a nasty 90 sec moment in their life, or just done something out of the heat of the moment that you instantly regret. To have that immortalized and plastered all over the internet for unbridled ridicule would be enough to drive anyone crazy. I try to teach my family that if someone’s recording you, it’s never for anything good..

Just goes to show that being doxxed that way is not just a Communist thing they do in China, it's a cultural thing that is done within East Asia in general.

Ha ha, I bet they wish they had overtourism in Sanriku!

The tourist who caused the issue acknowledged their fault and apologized. There is some measure of the guide being responsible for their group, but accidents will happen. That's just how people are. The lady took things WAY too far. And it was a bad look for the guide to ask her to speak English, but he was probably flustered by that point and may have been having trouble remembering Japanese to speak it. It's a hard language. It def doesnt warrent the continued harassment and nothing ever warrents doxxing.

Just need to be careful not to get rage baited. That woman filming was just waiting for that moment. Even when being confronted, always be respectful. Never raise your voice. Always assume you're being watched and being recorded and any part could easily be misrepresented.

Let's face it and say it out clearly: crazy Karens are everywhere and the image of the ever so orderly, clean and safe Nihon is just that: An image produced and pushed not at least by RUclipsrs often of foreign background (Is it a condition to obtain a residence permit to sign an avowal never to speak anything negative about this country and it's residents❓ 🤔💩🤭 ) and part of Nihons media (especially NHK and the right wing press). Some TV station (privat and also more centered ) show a more truthful image: accidents, murder, car crashes, fires, homelessness...everywhere 🧐😳😲😉😄😁😂🤣

After listening to the story. He was wrong but they already apologized at the shrine. But she was being so rude. But on a different matter would it have helped if he went to the police for some help? What can foreigners do in that situation? If we are ones to be harassed by an unpleasant person?