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So...
This one.
So, this is from Korokoro-san.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, but I think we have Rougan, right?
But the thing is, do you say like...
Old...
Old eyes?
Yeah, if it's just...
You got your...
You know, you got your eyesight lower and lower.
But do you have that concept?
Like, if it's like low...
Yeah.
Age or like...
I never thought about this.
I have no idea in French.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In French, we say just...
Like, it's like a...
You say like...
Your eyesight...
My eyesight is getting more poor.
Poor?
Yeah, poor.
Yeah.
That's all I know.
So...
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I'm not sure because I'm not too deep into the world of Rougan.
Okay.
In America.
But there's this product in United States called V-U-I-T-Y.
Okay.
Vuity?
I don't know.
It's basically an eyedrop for Rougan, right?
Okay.
And on the shoukin page, it's...
Don't let age-related blurry near vision hold your back.
Okay.
Age-related blurry near vision.
It's long.
Age-related blurry near vision.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's exactly what Rougan is.
Yeah.
But on the word...
Right next to the word blurry near vision, there's a...
In parentheses, a very medical-looking term.
Okay.
I don't know how to pronounce it.
Presbyopia.
Presbyopia.
Presbyopia.
Sounds like shoujo-me.
Yeah.
Presbyopia.
Yeah.
Presbyopia.
I've heard that before.
Presbyopia.
Huh.
Something phobia is a...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I wonder if that's how you say it.
Presbyopia?
It's so difficult, I've never heard it before.
Rougan is a word you often hear in daily conversations, right?
Presbyopia, I don't remember hearing these words, medical terms,
like in the commercials or on TV.
Oh, true.
Rougan is, I think it's not like proper medical term, I guess.
It's just like katakori.
Right.
You know.
Right, right, right, right.
I think it's like more like a...
Like...
I don't know.
It's just otoroe.
Yeah.
It's just otoroe of your body.
Yeah.
It's not a medical condition, right?
Right, right.
That's why it's common and widely said.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like not being able to eat oily stuff as you get old.
Yeah, it's just like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But reading glasses, I hear that.
Oh.
I hear that a lot, reading glasses.
Reading glasses.
Yeah.
Rougan kyou?
We do say rougan kyou a lot.
Uh-huh.
I think it...
Yeah, I think that's the same thing, but...
Yeah.
For real?
Yeah.
But it doesn't include like any age element.
Oh, true.
It's just reading no matter like how old you are.
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It's just reading glasses.
Like I think in America, if you see reading glasses, it's automatically connected to age-related shit.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So you have that image.
Yeah.
Like just like rougan, it's like age thing.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So maybe...
So probably not as common as rougan, the word rougan itself in Japan.
But yeah, I guess it's a symptom.
It's a very common symptom.
Okay.
And...
Yeah, yeah.
It's that concept.
Yeah.
Nearsightedness?
What was that?
Nearsight...
Nearsightedness.
Okay.
Myopia.
Means your eyes are naturally over-focused, causing clear close-up vision but blurred distant vision.
Yeah.
Rougan is something you do like this, right?
Uh-huh.
So your eyes automatically like focusing on something far.
Far.
You can't see the nearest things.
Is that rougan?
That's what I'm...
Rougan is you can't see close.
Yeah.
So you have to create distance.
Yeah.
For example, like when you're reading a newspaper or something, you do this.
Oh, okay.
That's rougan.
That's rougan.
Yeah.
Okay, okay, okay.
Because usual shiryoku ga ochiru, you can't see the far things.
And then things come up close, then you can see it, but you can't see the, you know...
Far away.
Far away.
You know, letters and kanbans.
So when you're rougan, you can't see close and far?
Yeah, that's what I think.
I see.
Wait, what do you have?
I can't see far away.
Okay, so...
I can see very close.
Okay, okay, okay.
Very close and very...
I'm okay with that.
Okay.
Yeah.
I kind of...
So I have a, I would say, very good eyesight.
Okay.
And people...
When I say this to people, people would say like,
Ah, jaa, rougan ki wo tsukenai to ne.
Okay.
Is...
That's what...
Yeah, that's what...
It's a common shit?
Yeah.
So I think it's rare that you have both of them.
Oh.
I mean, I'm not sure, but...
I see.
Huh.
I have no idea.
Huh.
Wait, can you survive without ever having a rougan?
Yeah.
So it's possible to not never have...
Yeah, I think it's possible to have a great eyesight forever.
Oh.
But, I mean, I...
Honestly, I'm not a...
Huh.
I'm not an expert on it.
Huh.
Though...
Wait, can you see close?
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Yeah.
Right now?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So...
Wait, so when do you think you have to watch out for the rougan?
Now.
So you might get it during your 30s?
I think so.
Whoa.
It's not like one day you can see.
It's getting, you know...
Right, it's gradual, right?
Yeah, yeah.
But I don't know what should I do.
Well, let's look it up.
Let's look it up.
Rougan.
Ah, but see there are like both ways meganes.
Ah, enkin ryouhou megane.
Yeah, I never got that.
Like, what is that?
That means you can't see the nearest things and also the farthest things.
How the fuck is that possible?
How is that possible?
I don't know.
Hmm.
So, what I don't know, what I'm not sure about is you have rougan, word, rougan.
And also you have like kinshi and enshi.
Ah.
And I, obviously which one, either one of them kinshi enshi should be rougan.
But...
Okay.
I don't know which is which.
Yeah, that's a great question.
Hmm.
That's a perfect article.
Perfect article.
All right.
All right, can you...
Yeah.
Sure, of course, of course.
Yeah, I'll pass on a baton to you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
So, I'm gonna read it.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
So, that's the opposite.
The opposite, yeah.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
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Hmm.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Hai, hai, hai, hai, hai.
Hai, hai, hai, hai, hai.
Hmm.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Very complicated.
Yeah, very complicated.
Yeah, like a...
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, which means I'm like that.
Do you?
I'm Kishi, no?
I don't know.
Wait, don't everybody have Kishi?
Wait.
Isn't Kishi...
It feels to me the glass is like this, no?
It's like...
It's got like a little...
What do you call it?
Like a snadoke shape?
Yeah.
Oh.
Wait, so...
So, you're Kishi?
I'm Kishi, right?
Yeah.
Are you?
Well, yeah, I mean, I can see up close, but I can't see far.
That's Kishi, right?
That's Kishi.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes, yes.
Right, right, right, right.
So, like an O-shaped.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
O-shaped?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Different glasses.
I see.
I see.
I see.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I kind of got it.
I kind of got it.
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You kind of got it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I see.
So, it sucks to have a Enshi and a Rougan.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
It's possible to have the both of them, right?
Right, right, right, right.
And it's...
With Enshi, you need to rely on your ability to adjust.
Yeah.
So, and if that's broken, which is Rougan, then it's going to be very difficult.
Right.
You're going to need a lot of different glasses all the time, too.
Right, right, right.
Okay.
One for other things.
Yeah.
One for this.
Yeah.
One for this.
Right, right.
Get it.
Uh-huh.
I see.
Okay.
I see.
Okay.
Kind of got it.
Kind of got it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Bye.
