Imagining a Militarized Japan and then Laughing (w/Tom Phuong Le)
Author of Japan's Aging Peace, Tom Le, stops in to talk about Japan's security concerns and help us think about an important hypothetical question. Ok...
Japan By River Cruise
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Bobby Judo lives in Japan and Ollie Horn used to. OIlie calls Bobby once a week to discuss Japan's most interesting, unique, and affordable river cruises to plan their next adventure together.
Locked Out of our $500 Abandoned House (w/Alex Kerr)
Author Alex Kerr may be single-handedly responsible for the current global spotlight on restoring old Japanese country homes, so we talk to him about ...
JBRC HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2021, YAY!
If you'd like to be entered for a chance to win Baye McNeil's book "Hi, My Name is Loco and I'm a Racist," Ann Kilzer's 禁 calligraphy, or one of three...
Married to Our Research (w/Joy Hendry)
Author of the new book, "An Affair with a Village" and leading UK expert on Japan, Joy Hendry joins us to discuss a whole variety of things, like MEXT...
Fumio, Fumio, Whatfore art thou, Fumio? (w/Tobias Harris)
Abe-ographer (The Iconoclast) Tobias Harris stops by to break down the power dynamics in the LDP, speculate on whether or not Kishida's going to get a...
Kat(akana) Got Your Tongue? (w/Dr. Wes Robertson)
Why do foreigners in Japan speak in Katakana? Well, Bobby does it because the TV director told him it's funnier that way. But Dr. Wes Robertson has ac...
All in the Same Boat, But We're in Steerage (w/Thalia Harris)
Thalia Harris stops by to talk about second-class citizenship in Japan during the pandemic, and also has such an interesting story about the Titanic t...
Need a Leader? Try Kishida! (w/Motoko Rich)
NYT Tokyo Bureau Chief Motoko Rich gets onboard to talk about Kishida's first month in office. What has he done so far? What does his administration m...
The Runaway Bride (w/Aya Shimada)
Aya Shimada tells us what the fuss over Princess Mako's nuptials tells us about Japan's treatment of women, how the media affords privacy rights to th...
Burakku Purin: The UK-Japan Trade Deal (w/Pernille Rudlin)
Business consultant Pernille Rudlin helps us look back on the largely disappointing post-Brexit trade deal between Japan and the UK, which may have on...