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Japan's 'Naked Man Festival' Ends After More Than 1,000 Years

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0:00 [Music] we're going to get Joe back and engaged in this video because we're talking about Japan let's go baby yay I hate Japan don't you know don't you know it make this guy happy interesting thing is we talked about this same topic yesterday but with South Korea MH I love Korea with Japan okay Japan's naked man festival is ending after more than a thousand years of tradition and it's because of the population decline there's not enough naked men there's not enough they're just not the mood it's not because of woke ass ████ going like let's get rid of this tradition oh W WM hasn't hit Japan yet wait what's the naked man festival so this naked man festival um I think it was also in blue-eyed Samurai do you

0:50 remember that random scene okay so basically in this area in Japan uh the soman Sai Festival AKA The Naked Man festival involves hundreds of loin cloth clad men gathering at the koku seiji koku seiji temple in oshu nailed it uh to wrestle for ownership of a bag of talismans blessed by the Temple's Chief priest just a festival has been happening literally for over a thousand years thousand years why stop it I like traditions like that no one's going but population is declining in the a damn he's like the guy that that wrestles The Snake in the sock this dates more than a thousand years it's held annually on the sth day of the Lunar New Year Dao fujinami is a chief priest of the koku seiji temple

1:40 announced that this year's Festival which was held two Saturdays ago or whatever was the facility's last not enough why there's not enough people to participate or not enough people to facilitate quote this decision is due to the Aging of individuals involved in the festival and a shortage of successors oh it's cuz people like that sh lame bro I don't want to ████ ride run around in g strings all day that's hard to they failed to sell it basically yeah there's a lot of ████ like that though it's sad there's a lot you know how like um there's an apprentice culture there yeah so out there mandatory education I think is like 13 or 14 cuz an average 14-year-old is already smarter than a Collegiate like graduate here in America so like um you could take a Apprentice r taex from

2:31 14 you could you know how like Geo Dreams of Sushi he had all those little ████ working for him all the little ████ so you can you can get a job you can start working and it's a lot of like trades jobs too like skill jobs like but also you could become like an apprentice for an artist or whatever and then U you can take that route but a lot of people don't like doing that because um you know the new generation just all over the world doesn't want to ████ like learn how to crack a egg for 10 years it's it's brutal right oh I see what you mean yeah like the the first initial stages are not working yeah you're mopping floors you're like cleaning window places how they clean the M tough and then like to be honest like you when you're done you make like 30k a year for like 10 years and then

3:22 maybe one day you'll be good enough to open up your own Studio but it's brutal like small businesses out there like you just don't make that much everyone there probably works like a couple of hours more than people here but you make way less you make like half but they sleep in the middle of the day and close all their restaurants for no reason cuz they lazy no there's like a tofu guy that that was showing his dead like he he wakes up at like 3: in the morning ████ does all his ████ labor and he makes tofu from scratch and he makes about 20 grand a year but the difference is their quality of life is good cuz like you don't need a car you it's cheap as ████ to rent a place like your house like like if less than a grand you could get something pretty sick a nice apartment whatever food is very cheap all this stuff right so it doesn't cost that much to exist

4:13 but I think the issue is the towns outside of the two major cities Tokyo and Osaka they're all becoming ghost towns so there's no ecosystem so then everybody's moving to the major two big cities and then no one's everyone wants wants to work for companies or whatever or gen Z doesn't want to work at all and then you have like the population Decline and then you don't have that many people being successors of the crafts so whether your family business that you had for like 300 years is dying out or whatever you're doing from Ceramics to like whatever those skilled professions are dying out too so I don't know maybe it's just all around everything's dying out but what's growing is Anime weebs move to the

5:05 country dirty underwear vending machines it's just changing from naked man and g-string to like AI ████ robots or something I think that's what's what's changing says right here yeah Japan's changing to AI ████ robots that's the new Festival that'd be a cool Festival I just saw a recruitment video that's a wild Festival this video right now is pretty funny this guy goes Indian if you have a Visa Indian Student please come to Japan and study that's a guy yeah he was saying that and in the comments it's all these Indians saying don't come here they're so racist I don't ever ████ work in Japan no way I live in Japan for x amount of years don't come here Japan probably is like one of the most politely racist like places on the planet forly racist yeah

5:56 it's like no offense man but who are they mostly racist to other Japanese guys that are not from Japan my brother worked um he was born there and then like I think in like 10 or 12 years old he came to the states right grew up here and then after college after all this stuff he was like you know what I think I'm going to probably like work in Japan travel around and like it's like get connected to my roots and ████ so he had a job with Toyota he went over there and then he's like man I'm an introvert and like I can do with very little you know friends and ████ but Japan ████ sucks and I'm like why and he's like it's hard to make friends here dude like it's so hard like everyone's already like once you you grow up with your

6:47 friends from junior high or whatever you know you have your little clicks and he goes and that's it like you don't like people drink after work but that's still business what about like the cholo Saturdays yeah oh dude one of those group I want to join the rockabilly Park the rockabilly Park dudes you know they're all Misfits though they're not normal people yeah yeah like people are like so like they're just getting fun of in a way huh no they're like yeah I mean they're just Society normally yeah they're just outcasts okay and a lot of them can be criminally connected and they're just like different you know I think it's pretty interesting though that like Korea and Japan are both having a population problem like I want to see who solves it better cuz they're like well Korea has a lot of like the similar thing is that um I'm hearing from all my friends that uh there's this thing called likei which is like drinking with all your co-workers that's like a big

7:37 part was a big part of Korean culture and now they're saying like the younger generation like no one goes out to drink anymore which changes the dynamic of you know like it makes yeah work way more corporate right but they're also saying like the difference is and I feel like I'm hearing like murmur of this in America too which is in this like social media age like you getting like s████████ drunk can be immortalized right think about all our moments where you're just like but those are sometimes your best nights and good stories with your friends but no one's recording yeah but now if that happens that's like so much shame that you feel and that's like imprinted for kids starting at middle school and high school one kind of shameful moment and they're like I'm never ████ doing that again forever and that's baked into like this new culture where now I'm hearing from all my cousins in Korea and my friends that like yeah they don't

8:27 party hard younger generation does that's in the states too you know that like less people are binge drinking drugs like it still happens but not like our generation yeah yeah you're face I woke up on the couch last night that's our generation they're saying like that's ant just anting gen Z gen Z and younger bring that in they're less sexually active too genz and younger yeah that's a big one too and it's happening worldwide and ████ but maybe they're just they're just smarter like maybe they just they're looking at what ████ up and then they're like I don't want to ████ myself up like that's stupid you know how like when we was the kids and there was no social media but everybody knew how to ████ take the video game out and blow into it everywhere around the world and there's just like this weird interconnected like human

9:17 experience is that like in any way related to a concept where same thing in like a weird uh world's way of healing itself it's like we need to kill off a few of these human beings so just like everybody socially just stops ████ or doing GA is controlling its population yeah like the frequencies are just happening in such a way that like it seems like we're going backwards cuz people are about to die off like crazy but then once it actually does happen there's a weird self-correction that the world undertakes I mean hard to deny it if you have like men's sex drives low sperm counts low hella more gay people porn's pretty good right now but you SE the websites they got a lot of C I feel like it's porn dude I feel like everyone just just watches porn all the time I think that's what it really but there's also like well I guess more

10:10 recorded more gay people than ever more trans people you know I'll say this bro if I was 17 and I had a hard time talking to girls and I could just jerk off and just that's it I would probably just do that too you know what I mean like if we're lucky we grew up in a time we grew up in a time where we had to like go search for that stuff like nowadays everything's so accessible where it's like why would I go talk to this chick I just beat off that's like going to Costco and just going and getting a sample of everything don't you want to buy the big box and eat that too but sometimes it's too for some of these people I think too spicy it's too scary to go do that but I also feel like there's caution now with like the like the Super Saiyan woke culture I also feel like the caution levels of like what's being disrespectful the boundaries I feel like that's super baked into this younger generation on a different level I single now I wouldn't be talking to nobody I wouldn't cold conversation any girl you would know how

11:01 to engage yeah you would know how you would rub some off the wrong way it's not worth the the trouble it just isn't but when you watch a porno don't you want to do that in real life but even with so using the porno example that's across the board though like you know in your guys's uh generation you're talking about you were a dancer I want to meet another dancer you have to go to real life these days people they want to fish oh I just wash fishing content like there's porn for every genre oh Fitness instead of finding like some guy I'm going to lift with I'll just this is my best friend I'm lifting with this guy now so no one is really like going out and meeting everyone like every genre has their own version of porno that's like we're all introvert living viously through the vlogger I think that's what it really is that's what dror Phil said he's like right at the Advent of the mobile phone is when kids stopped living life and they started watching other

11:51 people live life like remember when we were like when when watching people play video games was like a crazy concept to people our age cuz we're like what the ████ why don't you just go play video get it no of course but like but now after a couple years removed you're like oh yeah it's just a thing we get it now it's just what people do but like 5 years ago we were like what the ████ is wrong with you kids go play the video games but they don't want to do that they'd rather just watch I always thought that all of those were advertisements of what it can be like so if someone's like in t Loom I'm like oh I want to go there and ride bikes too and then it's like a it's like a precursor to what I can do like a tourism Bureau thing like oh it's a food vlogger and I'm like oh I'm going to go to that restaurant one day you know but then I can kind of see how if you have low self-esteem that is your access and now more than ever we have low

12:41 self-esteem AI is just a whole another thing where you get to mold be I feel like that's the next step right nail in the coffin yeah you watching someone else but now like I want the thing that I'm watching to do this yeah like that's crazy whether it's porn whether it's that's really sad all I'm saying is porn's real good right [Music] now

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