Inside Japan's princess cafe! | Japan With Sue Perkins - BBC

Sue Perkins starts her journey in Tokyo, Japan's glittering capital city and home to 36 million people. She finds a nation caught between the demands of a hi-tech future and the pull of a traditional past, where people work long hours but struggle to find time for love and relationships. Birth rates are falling and the population is shrinking. What does the future hold for this resilient and innovative country?

Japan With Sue Perkins | Series 1 Episode 2 | BBC

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[claudiaellienor]

The disrespect from the interviewer is crazy. Just because something isn't your cup of tea doesn't mean u can't interview properly.

[HollyWoomy]

The interviewer was so disrespectful and rude... Regardless of your opinion towards these cafes, the women are working adults just trying to earn their salary. Don't be rude to them.

[ing]

Wonder if the show planning was like this:
"Let's go somewhere we don't understand what's going on, and take a big steaming dump on them"
And yeah I think it's cringy aswell, but why so toxic?

[Sabrina-ngck]

Jesus, Sue was being disgustingly rude towards the waitress. Poor girl is just doing her job, chill tf out Sue.

[NecromaKnight]

How rude could you get? Especially when you don’t understand the context and how much joy so many people get from maid cafe’s
maybe the bbc shouldn’t send someone so close minded to great experiences like this, hey BBC if your reading these I’ll happily review such intriguing and amazing places.

[brittany]

You would think that she would have researched it before reporting on it. I don't think she learned about Japanese culture and its customs either....She is so disrespectful. She was literally disrespectful as soon as she stepped into the cafe. Why couldn't someone with an open mind be sent to Japan instead of her? Wouldn't an interviewer or reporter try to understand (seriously) why the people do something like that? I feel so bad for the maid who served her because she could probably tell that Sue absolutely hated the place. She was just doing her job. Also as a person who loves Japan and its culture I am hurt by the very negative outlook for this video (and probably for the series too). It's totally going to be a series about making fun of Japan rather than properly showing its customs and unique aspects.

[Cafeathome]

We look forward to the opportunity to serve our Masters and Princesses visiting from countries worldwide. We hope everyone will take the chance to judge the quality of our service for themselves.

[yoshisuntv]

I’m Japanese and let me share my honey idea. It’s bit long but hope you read all...
(By the way, I grew up in Kyoto and now I live in London. I watched the two episodes of this Sue’s travel.)


Many said she was rude and disrespectful for that culture. I agree with that. She really was. However, I can understand her.

Let me explain.

Sue traveled other places such as Kyoto, Mie and Hiroshima. She met Geikos who want to protect Japanese tradition from disappearing. She met the 81 years super lady who enjoy picking up sea-shells and living in its stress-free community happily. She met the surviver of the nuclear bombing. All of them are amazing, determined and living “truly real life” (at least I felt so).

Then, she came back to Tokyo again. I guess she doesn’t like the kinda weird culture at the first place. But she was more or less respecting other Tokyo’s culture in the first episode (not about business school one tho. But it’s very weird for me too).

Anyway, the point is: because she visited these other areas, met the locals and impressed by their life (and heard their concerns about Japan’s future), she may come to see that everything happens in the maid’s cafe is not merely weird, but uncomfortably fake. The reality that those people only can comfort themselves by this fake relationship is so sad.

If you are the parents of these people in the maid’s cafe, I guess, you’d be sad or angry like saying “please don’t do such a silly things”.

Like this, she seemed to see what happens in the maid’s cafe in the similar way. And she seemed to take the anger to express her feeling and reported that in the disrespectful way. This may be because she came to know people and their life in different cities.

If this is what she felt and so reported based on the feeling, I can understand her and her report is honest. Surely the problem is, the way was rude though.

However, it’s the report about a culture.
It’s difficult to tell a culture is right or wrong objectively. But respecting every single culture seems not to be true journalism. Sometimes reporter’s honest idea tells us something important, I think. And then she honestly expressed that something wrong with the maid’s cafe culture. And so, she gave us (or at least to me) the opportunity to think “Should we accept it as a culture?”, “Should we try making the society in which people are not so dependent on the kind of things?”.

If so, I think, her honesty is respectful.
And in order to deliver the message, (while she could’ve behaved a bit politer), the rudeness can be acceptable as a reporter.


(Well, I don’t know...maybe not acceptable still...)


Anyway thanks for reading!!!
And what do you think about this?
Hope you guys have a lovely day😊

[mrlee]

That girl who was serving Sue seems genuine and very nice. She looks like she knows how to handle any customer professionally regardless of where she works. That's a Quality Trait.

[jas]

1:14 she do gotta realise that some asians have naturally high pitched voice where if we were to talk when we're excited (or even just normally talking) it sounds chipmunk-ish and child-like. i'm 20 and asian and it's annoying for people to assume we're putting on a cutesy act just because woman from where they are from have low pitched mature voices.

[harveybolton]

Not my cup of tea to spend an afternoon but christ BBC, how about leave people to their own devices rather than broadcasting it with a clearly negative stigma? If the waitresses didn't like it, they wouldn't be there. If the patrons didn't like it, they wouldn't be there. Everything doesn't have to appeal to all cultures, you have literally paid to fly a 'journalist' and camera crew to the other side of the earth to shoot a piece on how weird the people are over there and how uncomfortable you are with it. Gtfo then?

[jisforjaneeyre]

I'm quite surprised that everyone is blaming interviewer and I don't think that maid culture is some said it's just about earning salary but...meh

[Kalli]

Im sorry how the hell spending 30 sec doing something not hurting anyone make your te stone cold I think you are very rude and hateful shame on you.

[충무공-ys]

메이드 카페가 문화면 할례도 문화다 문제의식 없는 일본인들에게 착취당한 여성들 인권이나 신경써야할 것
그리고 수는 직원한텐 충분히 젠틀했음

[레몬사탕-kw]

일본 메이드카페을 보며 답답함을 느낀적이 있었는데 진행자분이 속시원하게 털어주시네요!

[별-np]

disrespect는 인터뷰어가 아니라 저기 운영자와 손님들이 종업원에게 하고 있는 거지

[salehal-mazrooei]

I subscribed for BBC for intelligence not for hatred.

[phillip]

She is quite judgemental. Just look at her non-verbals (e.g. shaking head).

[orchidalicia]

Oh my, this interview is the worst I've ever seen...who the hell does Sue Perkins think she is with her judgemental comments!!!😕😡

[shahvez_siddiqui]

2:40 after all that magic.. 'Yup it's cold now'.. was hilarious 😂😂😂