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  • I can't do it!

  • I don't know, maybe if I am drunk

  • So making a move is hard? - It is.

  • Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's Cathy Cat!

  • Can Japanese girls go up to a boy and say I like you or how about

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  • I suddenly spoke to you girls right? - Yeah. - Did I surprise you?

  • You did. - But thank you for taking part in our interview.

  • So today we are asking have you as girl ever approached a boy?

  • Never! - Not at all.

  • You are not brave to approach boys? - Not at all. - Zero.

  • Can Japanese girls chat up boys? - I think it's

  • ok..... - I think it's ok. Very cool if they can.

  • You say it's cool but why can't you do it? - I want the boy to approach me!

  • You wish for him to make a move? - Yes - Why so?

  • I want the man to make the first move too.

  • Is there someone precious even you would try to approach?

  • For example a member of Arashi

  • sitting in the seat next to you. - I couldn't talk to them

  • I don't know. Maybe if I am drunk.

  • Please think of your favourite celebrity. That person suddenly

  • works at your job but only for one week.

  • If you don't talk to them within one week, they'll be out of reach again

  • so what will you do. - I think I would say "I like you" properly

  • Wow you can do it. - Well I thought of my favourite female celebrity.

  • If it was a man, I couldn't. But I could tell the women I admire

  • that I admire her. - Like "I am your fan" - Yeah

  • But you couldn't with a male celeb? - Never. - Why?

  • It's too embarrassing. - You're shy too. Well then

  • what will you do in that one week? - Try my best and ask him for his details

  • So Japanese girls want boys to come up to then

  • is there something to help with that? - Look into their eyes

  • Or try to show them I treat them with special treatment. - Do men

  • understand those hidden signs? - I don't think they do

  • What action do you do then? - Say "I only do this for you"

  • or such. That's as much as I can do.

  • In Japan this might be a clear sign, abroad though

  • it might be unnoticed.

  • Girls making a move on boys??

  • That doesn't exist. - It doesn't. - I have never seen it.

  • Not at all. - Absolutely never

  • Why then? - Why....

  • Boys dislike it. - Yeah boys are like that

  • it's bad for girls to approach men. - Girls have to wait for boys to come to them.

  • We have to wait. - True true - You have to

  • sit there like Yamato Nadeshiku er Nadeshiko and wait for ya man?

  • So if girls approach girls it looks bad on them? - In school it's ok.

  • Like confessing your feeling. - Yeah but chatting boys up is forbidden

  • Chatting up always comes from boys. - But then boys

  • generally chatting people up is a bad thing. - So chatting up is a no

  • but love confession is ok - Yeah. - Why? - Cause you know them

  • and you want to tell them how you feel. - First get to know each other

  • and talking to strangers is bad.

  • When you are friends its ok. - If you know each other its ok

  • If you have been friends it's ok to ask the boy to go out. - Yeah

  • That's ok. - But not to strangers. Did you ever want to

  • chat up a boy. - Never - Why?

  • I wouldn't even think of doing that, even if I see a cool guy

  • Are there any celebrities you support right now?

  • Think that that person is working at your part time job for a week

  • together with you. - Oooooh

  • It's not like he's a stranger and you will be working together. So in that one week

  • if you don't approach him, nothing will happen. What do you do? - Don't scare him off

  • - Try to get close without being too much

  • try it. - like how. - Follow his Instagram

  • or send a direct message. If that's not possible

  • I wouldn't want to be too persistent. - You think a lot about the other's situation.

  • I would feel bad for pestering him. He is famous and all.

  • Well... If I pushed my feelings on him...

  • he would be troubled by it. - He is busy after all! - Would feel sorry for him.

  • Just seeing him is fine. - You just look at him from afar?

  • Yeah that would make me happy. - Just having been able to work together is happiness

  • I think that's enough.

  • Wow admirable. You wouldn't try to appeal to him?

  • Maybe a little. - Try to talk a little

  • But only if its ok. - We are already luckier than the average fan.

  • That is more than enough. - How friendly of you

  • I heard girls can't chat up boys in Japan

  • How is it really? Or is it correct? Tell me

  • It's correct. - Totally right. - Have you ever?

  • Never! - I can't talk to boys. - Approaching boys

  • is difficult. - It is. - Making a move is hard

  • but you can't go. So what would you have me do? - Dress flashy

  • I guess I am already doing that.

  • And he might give me his attention? - Yeah!

  • Hard pass i guess. Many girls said there isn't a culture of boys going up to boys unless maybe in school

  • when you have a boy in school that you know. Even if you met your very

  • popular idol person that you admire in a kind of

  • familiar environment, many girls would still not go up to him because

  • they don't want to bother him. You don't wanna push your feelings too much on the other person and maybe

  • annoy or burden them with your feelings. Very interesting. So there is a lot of thought

  • put into the other person, considering the other person's feelings. Also what if he hates me if I do this

  • So there is a lot of ... holding back in a way.

  • So... I guess the boys have to be the first step. Seems to be a big thing here, also

  • many said boys don't like it when girls do the first step...

  • Alright... how are we gonna make this happen then guys? Because we have

  • already had in one of our former interviews... Japanese boys are getting more and more

  • shy... so this is going to be interesting, going into the next century, seeing

  • how dating in Japan will now change due to these circumstances. So thank you very much

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I can't do it!

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