The first video's theme is How large is Tokyo? | Biggest city in the world. I think Tokyo is clearly small in size. Japan is very small country to the rest of the world. And it is one of 47 more. You can understand how small it is. But this is just size. I think it is big as far as size and people and so on. In Japan, there is a word "Zyoukyou". It means move to Tokyo. It's used by people who live in other prefectures to go to Tokyo. Why Tokyo? Because Tokyo is the most developed. They compared trains line and maps in the video. We can see that the same area is less green. I think maybe something gathering in Tokyo.
The second video's theme is Hilarious Japanese apartment names. I think I have some sympathy for this theme. We Japanese often use English not as a meaning but as a way of hearing sounds. This is also seen in product names. I have found that people who understand English try to read the meaning when they see it. I think Japanese English class in school is not for talking. Just grammar. Just test. So a lot of Japanese people say "I don't speak English" or "I don't speak English very well". But we want to use a English. Because we thinks English is cool. An example I can think of is the text on the T-shirt. I have seen a video of interviewing someone wearing a shirt with English text on it and asking if they knew what English text meant. It was interesting, but this is something that happens overseas too. It is tacky to see such shirts in Japan.↓
Sometimes Japanese people find English and funny, and vice versa. It was a very interesting theme.
Very nice ! 20/20
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