Meet Lawson, a British creator who first came to Japan living in Kobe and Nishinomiya, where he quickly picked up the Kansai dialect. Now living in Tokyo, he's become known for his fluent dialect as a foreigner.

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0:00 Intro

1:07 Meet Lawson

4:36 Learning Japanese

7:41 Studying Japanese in university

10:19 Coming to Japan

16:11 Becoming a salaryman

25:18 Origin of name Honmani Lawson

29:51 Move to comedy videos

36:39 How Japanese comedy works

41:42 Reacting to videos as a foreigner

43:22 Learning Japanese comedy

48:08 Does this interfere with your job?

52:14 How comedy changed his life in Japan

54:30 Looking back

58:31 Impact of his platform

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The British comedian who became an honorary Kansai Japanese

Unpacking Japan

The British comedian who became an honorary Kansai Japanese