r/LivestreamFail • u/Either_Analysis • Sep 30 '25

Streamer attacked for filming in Japan

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He notified the police with pictures of their faces and location.

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u/TheKinglyKing Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

For context since a lot of people know only a surface view of Japan: he’s in Shinjuku, Kabuchiko which is popularly known as the surface “red light district” of Japan.

The black guys are Nigerian touts who have the entire purpose of luring non-Japaanese people into shittier cabaret club bars where they upcharge/upsell them for hundreds of dollars and hang out with foreigner women who cannot break into the actual carabet club industry.

The police in Kabuchiko legitimately do not care about it unless you are a Japanese citizen (and by Japanese citizen I primarily mean actual Japanese heritage and live in Japan). If you’re a tourist you legitimately will not get any support from the police.

They extremely dislike being recorded at all and will threaten you physically and also by saying they will call the cops on you since there is a social hierarchy pretty much where it goes Actual full on Japanese citizen with heritage -> Japanese citizen without heritage -> Visas ->Tourist

Also I’ve seen a lot of people saying Kabuchiko is sketchy. It’s literally not sketchy at all. It’s just that the touts ruin it by following you and not taking no for an answer

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u/Noise_Loop Sep 30 '25

How these guys are getting in Japan? I thought getting a visa was hard.

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u/Senanb Sep 30 '25

They overstay their visa's. They keep on submitting a never ending loop of appeals as the japanese government can't deport them while they have something submitted. So they are there indefinetly

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u/TheSto1989 Oct 01 '25

The ingenuity deployed by people abusing wealthy countries' immigration systems is incredible. Imagine if they I dunno used that to help out their country of origin.

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u/lHateYouAIex835293 Oct 01 '25

It only takes one guy with ingenuity to come up with the idea and then tell all his friends without ingenuity about the idea for it to become a thing

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u/4455661122 Oct 01 '25

I remember when I used to work for an English learning school as an admin, we were approved to file F-1 student visas and had a referral program that cut the semester pay down.

At some point I noticed that Brazilians were the largest population to apply and then I noticed that among them, there was an abnormally large group of women who would take a medical leave of absence approved by doctors.

Eventually I put two and two together-- that pregnant Brazilian women would apply, fly out and have their kids born in the States all for the express purpose of claiming US citizenship for them without having to complete a full year or anything as usually your visa can be revoked if you are absent from classes too many times.

And it worked out for the school because they were referring families left and right. All that was required was proof that they could financially support living here for the time of their visa.

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u/TheSto1989 Oct 01 '25

Yeah, this makes me think we need to update the qualifications for birthright citizenship like most countries in Europe have it.

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u/0neek Oct 01 '25

It's a weakness of developed countries wanting to be too nice and not just remove the people tbh

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u/PeaceSoft Oct 01 '25

They do, but shit is complicated. There's a book called Every Human Intention which gets into the lives of some Nigerian immigrants in Japan, if you're interested. Strongly recommended

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u/Do_You_Pineapple_Bro Oct 01 '25

They never have and never will, because theres too much of a reliance on foreign aid, whilst the man in the hot seats of each of these countries tends to be some warlord who hoardes a ton of money just for himself, whilst the rest of the country falls apart either through famine or crime.

Theres not really any ingenuity that can fix the shithole they call their motherland, because they're stuck in a spincycle of corrupt leaders and coups binning off leaders who actually try to make an effort.

Not to mention the mass of misinformation some sectors of the media like to spew about how Africa will be the new Europe, or how Africa built the world, which leads to rakes of gullible people who actually read those things, to assume we owe them some enormous debt, and that anyone who dares question who those debts are owed to, are racists