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We're looking for dishwashers.
I wanna show you what Japanese dishwashers look like.
Oh! Let's look at the really, really expensive rice cookers.
This rice cooker was originally $950.
They'll eventually sell these floor models for like, more than half off, so you
don't actually have to spend almost $1000 on a rice cooker.
Jun's had rice from these really expensive, $1000 rice cookers before.
Can you like, actually taste a difference?
Mmm... maybe. I like that it can cook fast.
I don't know if you could tell the difference.
Is it worth it? What's the point then?
It's fast.
Oh, it's just because it's fast?
Not just that, but that's my favorite part.
But I didn't buy it. My parents did.
We found the dishwashers!
You put them on your counter.
I'm sure somewhere someone has like the really big dishwasher but no one in Japan really
uses them so if you want a dishwasher you get one of these that you stick on your counter.
Does it just have water that spurts up into it?
How does it..? Yeah.
From back there? I guess from back there maybe.
Mmm.
Have you ever seen one of these in someone's house?
Uhh... I have. There was one at my friend's house.
I just think these are really funny.
I guess these look small to Americans.
Well I guess a lot of people in America have bigger families, too.
Like when we eat if you're going to wash 5 people's dishesor 6 people's
dishes then maybe it makes more sense to have a dishwasher. Plus our houses are bigger.
This is interesting.
What is it? Hmm? What's this?
Namagomi Shoriki. How do I say it in English? Garbage disposal?
Ah... Does that make sense?
You don't have them built into your sink?
Uhh, no, this is completely different.
You put like raw garbage here.
Ohh!! And you can use it to fertilize your plants.
In America- Oh, we have something called a compost pile.
Oh yeah, that's it. Sorry, I forgot the name.
So this is like a compost pile? Yeah.
Is it because you guys don't have like yards where you can like dump all your trash into?
Ahh...
'Cause in America it's normal to put it either like directly into your garden or-
Some people in rural areas do that.
But not in cities. There's no place to put it.
Vacuum cleaners!
They have I guess some kind of small stand up ones, but a
lot of people in Japan use these types of vacuum cleaners.
Where you can like, actually hold it while you walk around and vacuum.
Well it depends on the person.
Yeah. Oh well, I guess because you guys, people don't have carpeted floors here.
so maybe that makes a difference. And houses are smaller.
So many air conditioners!
There are a lot of wall units here.
Because again in this part of Japan they don't really
do central heating or cooling--central HVAC very much.
Our houses aren't that big.
If we just use an air conditioner it's enough.
In America they don't really have ceiling lights like this, do they?
We have tons of ceiling lights.
The houses I went to they don't have it there.
Oh you mean like in houses.
In houses, yeah.
Yeah, I think new houses these days have like--something
that's really popular is called recessed lighting inside living rooms but yeah a lot of the
houses I've been in in living rooms in America we don't have ceiling lights and I hate it!
It's really hard to see.
The first impression I got when I went into an American house was, "It's kind of dark here."
Yeah. The apartment I'm living in right now in America--it doesn't
have ceiling lights anywhere except for the bathroom and the kitchen.
So it's really hard to take videos with my camera because it's so dark with just lamps.
You'll notice here among all these really amazing, beautiful
Japanese fridges that none of them have ice makers on them.
Or like little places where you can put your cup to get water.
Have you even seen one of those here in Japan?
Nope.
Yeah, I've never seen one here.
Oh, so here, in Japan if you want a product you just take one of
these slips up to the counter and then they go get it for you.
Don't they have that in America, too?
Do we? Maybe.
I haven't been to an electronics store in a really long time.
Oh really? I think they have it.
Umm... A lot of places they--they come in like kind of packages like this, that's
just--it's like stuck together with like a lock on it, it's like a security lock box.
And you just take the whole box up.
Or like the whole cabinet is locked and you have to get an employee over to unlock it.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
It was like that at Wal-mart.
Yeah. It's like that at a lot of places where I've lived.
I'm sure some places have this kind of thing.
And for a lot of houses if you buy a toilet it has a control pad on the wall.
Jun's family's toilet has this.
Oh, and a lot of them have a little sink on the back.
And the sink goes directly into the toilet
so there's a lot of deodorizers that you buy that you stick right here
so it washes the deodorizer into the toilet bowl so that the water smells nice.
It's a fancy back massager!
This is uncomfortable.
I don't like it!
It goes really fast!
Come here, come here.
Does it feel nice?
It hurts.
I know! It's just kinda weird.