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Also known as YOUは何しに日本へ？ Country of origin Japan Original network TV Tokyo Network TV Tokyo | 6.8/10 IMDb Narrated by Bobby Ologun Original language(s) Japanese First episode date 9 January 2013 Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Voices of Daniel Kahl
Carolyn Kawasaki Presented by Osamu Shitara, Yuki Himura Genres Variety show, Comedy, Reality television Cast Yuki Himura, Bobby Ologun, Daniel Kahl, Carolyn Kawasaki, Kaori Manabe Similar Variety show, Unbelievable, Guru guru Nainti Nain, The World's Astonishi, Goddotan Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why did you come to Japan? (YOUは何しに日本へ？, Yū wa Nani Shi ni Nippon e?) is a Japanese television programme presented by Osamu Shitara and Yūki Himura, a comedy duo known as "Bananaman". It is a regular programme on TV Tokyo on Monday evenings. The show was first broadcast in the form of two pilot shows in June and October 2012, before becoming a regular broadcast late on Wednesday nights from January 2013. Due to its popularity, it was moved to the prime time evening slot on Mondays from April 2013. In the programme, a team of interviewers go around various airports in Japan with Narita International Airport as their main reporting hub and ask non-Japanese arrivals "Why did you come to Japan?". They then attempt to follow the interviewees on their journeys around Japan, in a process called mitchaku shuzai (密着取材, lit. "close-contact reporting"). A question posed for departees is, "What souvenir did you buy?" Besides interviewing people at airports, another skit tries to find non-English teaching foreigners in randomly chosen cities throughout Japan.
The show is narrated by Nigerian-born TV personality Bobby Ologun, with additional voiceovers provided by Daniel Kahl and Carolyn Kawasaki. The programme has featured coincidental encounters with celebrities at the airport, including British actor Benedict Cumberbatch and American former baseball player Leron Lee.