"INFINITY" CITIZEN x WOW

watched on your twitter, re-twitted on mine, and re-watched here. sweet and enchanting video. and congrats again for having reached your goal, work and live in japan.

Back when I'm still in Indonesia, I would always said it to myself "I will work in Japan, no matter what it'll takes!!"
And now, here I am, working in Nagoya ^_^

well my goal is coming together piece by piece. I should be in japan by next year (hopefully). thats where I will be stationed either Yokosuka or Okinawa. hopefully I get yokosuka.

My dream has always to be working for a japanese company here in the aussieland
Then transfer over if i could ever get the chance

Toshiba was hiring over here just before the eco crash - well, that route's now out of the question ><"

Awesome vid - makes me want to go buy a timer for my DLSR

My wish;
to live and work happily in Japan.

*actually, 1 of my wishes, but I'm okay with that*

I will live and work in Japan.
I will live and work in Japan.
I will live and work in Japan.
Come on everyone, repeat it after me!
That's no.1 on my To do list and the most important one I had since young. I'm sure most of you too ^^

I love videos like this. It's going to be awhile before i can actually get to Japan but i am definately focused on living and working there in the future.

lucky everybody that have go and work in Japan..
congrats..
i definitely go to Japan..must go..i will go no matter what..
but working there....maybe..maybe after i get my licence and learn Japanese language..
or maybe not..
hehehehehe..

WOW THATS EPIC!! how'd they do those effects?? making buildings and things come from pieces and they form actual building and things!! gahh

Well, simply WOW. Inspiring indeed, thanks for sharing it!

if I do well here, I'll further my study in Japan and graduate in instrument engineering. After graduated I'll try find jobs there.

I've still a long ways to go, but that only means I have more time to plan things out and to work harder. I will make it to Japan!

I always had a certain love for Japan ever since I was young, I also have two Filipina aunts living there, a Japanese Uncle, and a Japanese cousin.

I am well aware of the requirements to immigrate there, and a good understanding about the cost of living.

But I have to say that my place, is here in my own country... for now.

I believe there is still so much to achieve here, not only for myself but for my other countrymen too.

I have not even seen yet, all the beauty and wonders that my homeland has to offer.

So I think my Japan dreams can wait, for now i have to face what is already here, what has been given unto me by the Philippines. ^^

It is every Gaijin Otakus dream of living and working in Japan .

To achieve that dream we must work even harder like Danny and achieve out goal .

All I'm gonna say is " Danny, you inspired us all Gaijin Otakus to achieve our dreams of Living in Japan , You almost take us in Japan with your pictures and inspired us with your ideas of creating a better community . Without You , life would be as dull as a rock ."

Something calming about it, the everyday movement of life... I will visit Japan! Want to see many museums and participate in some cultural activities plus of course Akihabara ;)

Awesome vid! I really need to stop wasting time doing nothing in order to go to Japan.

Really sweet video definitely a big motivator.

I will live & enjoy life in Japan~~~~~~~~~

Mh, what could happen to Japan, if the whole world population would live there ?
(an ecological collapse maybe ?)

Well, i also would like to live and work in Japan (as mechanician ? mh... not sure), but i also don't want to give up the relationships i have here that simple.
For some months, that's alright, but not for the rest of my life. That's my opinion yet, but its' imaginable, that my opinion changes by the time.

Meanwhile i will continue to admire Japan and their culture.

Maybe I'm the strange Otaku.. who can't really see himself living in japan.. I try to picture myself living in japan.. and it just doesn't work for him.. doesn't seem a right fit.. I'm way to american I think, very patriotic. Japan is a country I'd like to visit..maybe meet a nice girl to marry.. But not settle..

Very cool video. Mucho pretty.

But it was an advert for a watch???? Seriously???? Tad disappointed by what it was advertising really... could have at least been a super-hd tv or something similar...

Background music really suits this well directed video. Nice.

the only thing that motivates me to work is the fear of not been able to achieve my dream.. but at the same time, i have other fears such as monetary issues.

working toward a goal is fine, but i wouldn't want to close myself to other options =)

would like to know what the background music to the vid is

I NEED that music track... like, really. Minimalist is where it's at! =P

Awesome video, I was pretty motivated to go to Japan anyway though so...

i was lucky and got my chance to work and live here :)

My biggest regret in regards to working in Japan is the fact that in the city I lived in I had to go to a technical college to learn to become a multimedia developer (in hopes of becoming a 3d artist) and not to university. At least with university I could have applied for the JET Program. And there was none of the alternative programs in the city either... also that my high school didn't have a Japanese course, because I needed to start learning as early as possible. I'm learning Japanese now, better late than never!

I am glad I was lucky enough to visit, and hope to visit and even costume there again soon.

Rewatched, rewatched, and rewatched. Very fascinating video!

Awesome video! would love to live and work in japan, but theres so many obstacles to go through >__< hopefully one day i can visit Japan atleast ^0^

One day I was scared with Shinjuku at night, and decided not to study in Japan for that time. (stupid decision)
But I kept on wishing to live there.
And so I'll start studying in Japan this June~ And I definitely will get a job there!

Really nice video, though for now I won't be in Tokyo =|

Sweet video Would love to see the city and appreciate its beauty when I get the chance to visit!

i am going to through the JET program soon and i will be able to live and work and teach English in japan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

go and work in japan? - maybe. i want to someday.
hopefully i will be there one day. and then i might be asking myself - now what?

i will definetly work in japan some day

That sure took a lot of work...

damn, that was a sweet watch commercial!

Not now, long ago it was an idea but thanks to injuries and head injuries I am looking forward to buying 5000 acres someday and putting a house in the middle with no other houses on the property anywhere. Just me and my family only, no brain smasher stereo people, no kids screaming and busting out our windows no one.

Japan is highly compact and populated so would be the opposite of where I am heading now thanks to injuries caused by other people.

Great video, watched it over and again. Awe inspiring :D

Time lapse with special effects? That's kinda neat... I would like to live and work in Japan someday but I have no idea how I'll get there since I don't even know what I want to do for a living yet -__- I was considering doing the JET program and searching for other opportunities route but they only pay you like... $20k-$30k USD yearly salary... I'm not exactly sure how far that will get you... especially in Japan lol. I'm guessing it's just barely enough to get you by...

This video is love at pure state... i'm speechless...

My dream is to work and live in Japan. With the hopes that the auto industry crisis will go away by the time I graduate, maybe it'll be a possibility.

I wonder how many young Japanese have posters of Los Angeles or New York in their room, stare at it daily, and recite "One day, I *will* live and work in the U.S."

Also, Danny, I've heard you mention this poster a few times before. Do you have an image of it? I've actually looked online for inspirational posters of Japan cities, but haven't liked most them.

That video was pretty incredible! The special effects put into the time lapse video was amazing. Just another thing to keep me motivated to make it to Japan one day. ^_^ Not sure how I am going to do it quite yet...but I will...eventually.

I saw this on Digg a couple weeks ago.
I'm not sure it makes me want to live or work in Japan (guess that means I'll be staying in Canada), but it DOES make me want to do Audio-Video work.

I will create videos as cool as this.
I will create videos as cool as this.
I WILL create videos as cool as this.

Amazing video!

I will go where my "personal legend" leads me and more and more often in recent days--I am starting to realize that Japan will play a part in finding my legend. This video is yet just another "omen" amongst the grand stream of things.

My goal in life is to learn Japanese visit japan some day live/work in japan and have a family in japan ^^ that is my dream.

I will travel to Japan. It's on my lists of goals. I'll probably have to do multiple trips to do everything I want to though ^^;

I'm in my junior year of high school, and I would like nothing more to live and work in Japan.
Hopefully going for an EE/East Asian studies degree in uni, so that I have a chance to one day get transferred to Japan.

Living in Japan is actually not my top priority right now. *dodges the tomatoes* I might make a post about this later, but I really just want to tell stories, preferably through animation. Don't care whether it's here or in Japan so long as that's what I'm doing.

But seriously, thanks for posting all this positive, "Go achieve your dream no matter what" kind of stuff, Danny. It's kind of like what I'm doing is getting indirectly encouraged and condoned. XD

Another great video. Makes me want to open a portal and climb through. Maybe someday.
Citizen should have asked you to do the CM, then you could have rcvd SAW...suddenly accquired Watch...lol

I LIVE

Thats one of the best videos I've ever seen...

Doubt I will live and work in Japan, but who knows.

The music video is awesome. But You could make a video like that of any city. It's the people that are important when deciding where to live. The nice character of people and culture in Japan are what make me want to live there. Of course not everyone is the same but it's a lot better than a lot of other places.

A nicely made video...hm I'd like to visit Japan and stay for a while and maybe work there...

Pretty neat video. The lights in the buildings, I wonder if those were actually cooridnated efforts to turn them on and off, or was it all CGI?

Amazing video! I wonder how they coordinated all those lights...

Yes I will, it is my life's dream and I will not give up! I'm now studying japanese on my own. And just learned all the hiragana ^^

Hopefully if the exchange organization will accept me, I'll be exchanging 11 months to a senior high school in Japan ^^
In future, I hope I'll be able to apply on the JET program. However I'm still in high school now, so that's still far away from now =p

Yes, my waifu and I will return to Japan. I can't wait to have that one way ticket in hand.

Very very nice combination of time-lapse photography and dragonfly modelling

Truly inspiring ^^

Really awesome video! I would like to try living in Japan someday but I don't know if or when that will happen.

Well, thanks for being motivational!

I remember watching this sometime ago.
Hard to believe something this well made is a commercial.. ^^;

Great commercial! Once more I think my life would be better if Brazilian admans were Japanese. lol

I'll be in Japan living in Japan in a matter of ten years. That's my goal. ^^

Great way to debrief after a long day at work. Makes me regret not buying that Eco-Drive watch I saw at Costco a couple of months back.

I don't know if I will live in Japan. I just can't see myself moving away from my friends and family to go to a place where I know nobody. Perhaps if a waifu or fiancee-u came from Japan, I would. But, right now it looks like it would be very lonely.

However, to VISIT is a different story. I WILL visit Japan in a year and a half. I WILL speak okayish Japanese by then.

one word...."GREAT".

what a cool video. it's like super time lapse. nice watch too

Might have sold me a Citizen Eco-Drive watch...

Hmmm nice vid. Must have taken quite some time to film and composite everything.

Awesome vid. Love the trippy music too.
I'd love to live in Japan, but reality tells me that this will not happen. I feel that at this point in my live I would have to give up too much for it ^^.
Nevertheless, I *will* at some point go there, even if it is 'just' for a vacation.

I'm getting past the point of being able to live and work in Japan, but if I have the chance then I will take it. Right now I can't even think of living and working there, just visiting would be satisfactory enough for me :)

Danny, you're one of the most inspiring person i know. Thanks to you and some other people, i have the motivation to be taking more and more steps toward my goals and dreams every day, despite the hard times. I KNOW someday i'll be there. And to read you, to talk about it, i know it's getting me closer to that goal. Thanks for sharing all that with us, you're helping me changing my life for the better! And I'm sure i'm not the only one here!!

Next year i'll go live one year in China to improve my mandarin and my IT skills and be closer to my dreams! One more step towards me conquering all Asia, muhahaha!! ^^; Thanks from the bottom of my heart Danny. I'll see you there when i'll make it!

Very nice video. It certainly is enticing.

To live and work in Japan is my dream, and I'm working towards it everyday.

The video did't show up though, just a blank flash lying there, as every other video posted here. Because The Great Firewall of China banned youtube for some reason.

Motivation huh? China it self is a HUGE motivation for me now. I wanna get outta here!

...Well, thank you anyway. Always happy to read your blog.

Man, I *SO* want to transfer badly to my Japanese branch office. >_<
Too bad, they don't have a need for my position over there
as it is currently filled. Maybe in the future, if they
expand then I would get an opportunity. :)

Really nice. But it looks like the same could be done with New York as much as Japan so it's not like it makes me think Japan is that much cooler.

The graphic and idea is amazing!
PS. Lego can build the world!

beautiful video, some of the most intruiging time laps Iv'e ever seen.

I will live and work in Japan.
I will live and work in Japan.
I will live and work in Japan.

It would be interesting to live and work in Japan. So much culture.

Wicked video. Most inspiring. I just want to live in Japan. Sooo i'll change it up a bit.

I will win the lottery and live in Japan.
I will win the lottery and live in Japan.
I will win the lottery and live in Japan.
I will win the lottery and live in Japan.
I will win the lottery and live in Japan.
I will win the lottery and live in Japan.

This is the first time i write.
I will live and work in Japan.
I will live and work in Japan.
I will live and work in Japan.

Amazing video, i love the song! :D

next year i will go to Japan to do research for me & me friends business, dealing with some aircraft galley expert there..
can't wait..
i hope i can make it..
it will be my first step to Japan..

dont think id ever have enough determination to move to japan, heck, i havent even got enough determination/motivation to even attend japanese language courses or even self study XD

amazing pictures, indeed Japan cities are worth to see, but one can get surprises, like the city inhabitants make the city and... they are just as human as the current neighbors. -_- May be its my hikikomori side. =P
Thanks for the video and pictures, will help me improve. =)

I will work and live in Japan, I just love the video. I just recently purchased 3 books to help me start learning the japanese language. The books are:

First Book of Basic Japanese Writing (Kodansha's
Children's Classics)
Kodansha's Furigana Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English English-
Kana Flashcards (Japanese Edition)

Does anyone have any other suggestions for a beginners way to learn Japanese...

Thanks in advance.

awesome video... so inspiring!! hey... im new to this website and i feel a bit silly not finding it seeing as im a japanese culture freak... gonna be taking japanese lessons for the next year before i do a trip to Japan.. was just wondering what the essentials are to not make an a** of myself when i do eventually get there? (would be great if you could reply as well danny... btw love the website.. glad i found it)

Its so pretty!!
I think I almost had a tear at the end......(^_^)

Can't believe that it was for the watch ad.