Rebuilding My First Project Car — S13 Silvia Project | Part 1

I wont sugar coat it, the current situation here is that foreigners are being used as a scapegoat for the inability to address any of Japan's actual problems like the declining birthrate, low wages, and aging population. The cost requirement for the visa I will be applying for went up to 6 times what it was a year ago, and this has made it impossible for a lot of people that were hoping to start a business over here. Unfortunately this isn't unique to Japan and it's happening in many countries around the world. I love living here, it's just as beautiful as I hoped, and the car culture is something that other countries can't even compare to, and everyone I've met has been so kind and welcoming, in a whole year I've never met a single person that had a real problem with me being a foreigner. So it feels really weird to hear this echo-chamber of hate every day, where people are being fed cherry-picked cases in the news and using that to stereotype an entire demographic. Almost every friend I know here has had increased difficulty applying for Permanent Residency here lately. Friends that have Japanese spouses and families, some with kids that are already 10 years old, yet when they apply for PR they are denied and have to keep getting spouse visas. Coming from a country like New Zealand with a roughly 40% foreign population and everyone considers it a paradise, it seems odd that Japan has barely 3% foreigners and they make it sound like the end of the world. There's still no other country in the world I would chose to live in besides New Zealand, but in the end it might not be up to me. Addressing the last part, yes in this video that was a Chinook, I had to pause the video to go out and check because I'd actually never seen one before. But yeah helicopters to pass overhead from time to time.

I doubt I'll be able to bring over many of my tools, but yeah I will be putting the most important or custom ones in my luggage and bringing them back.