84-yr-old Japan YouTuber uses humor, childhood flight from northern Korea to reach youth
July 16, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Dangerous Jii is seen in a screenshot from the YouTube website, performing one of his Showa job interview sketches. TOKYO Meet Dangerous Jii Denjii for short an 84-year-old YouTuber who has won a solid following among kids and young people with comical sketches on job interviews in the Showa era (1926-1989), shadow boxing, and even English language education in Japan. But what got him into making videos to start with was something far more dire: his memories of crossing the 38th parallel the latitude dividing present day North and South Korea at the end of World War II.