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The Hair Police (w/Anne Crescini)
Anne Crescini talks about how Japanese schools often don't have the resources to properly combat bullying, because they're too busy using those resources on student ha...
How Many Nobel Prizes Does it Take to Make You Japanese? (w/Mary Kobayashi)
Syukuro Manabe and some other people win the Nobel Prize, illustrating a lot about how and why Japan claims people as Japanese. We talk to Mary Kobayashi about how s...
The Secret Ingredient is Entitlement (w/Marc Matsumoto)
Japan's likely new Prime Minister, Marc Matsumoto talks about how to wield Japanese recipes responsibly, and more.
Japan's Ready-For-Prime-Time Players (w/Derek Wessman)
Who will be Japan's next Prime Minister? Japanese Margaret Thatcher? The often shaken AND stirred Kono, TARO Kono? Mr. Speak-softly-and carry-no-nukes? Or Woma...
A Delhi-cate Predicament (w/Dr. Megha Wadhwa)
Dr. Megha Wadhwa shares her research on the Indian diaspora in Japan, as we look at the way Japan's handling of the Covid crisis has affected its Indian community. Don...
World Suicide Prevention Day (w/TELL outreach director Selena Hoy)
TELL outreach director Selena Hoy talks about different cultural approaches to mental health and why Japan needs a lifeline for English-speakers in one of the rare epi...
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (w/Hiromu Nagahara)
Hiromu Nagahara talks about Princess Mako's engagement and upcoming move to New York and the split in Japanese public opinion, between nationalists, who are angry, and...
The Big 97: Sometimes We Like Japan (w/Brian)
An hour-long celebration of JBRC's 97th episode! We take a moment to make sure Ollie is actually surviving, roast some headlines, and have a rare discussion about some...
Land of the Rising Floodwaters (w/ Dr. Wesley Cheek)
After the unprecedented rain and landslides in western Japan, disaster sociologist Dr. Wes Cheek talks about the country's future, and how facing the climate crisis ma...
Paralimited Access (w/Mark Bookman)
Disability activist and historian Mark Bookman talks about how accessibility progress is bolstered by the international spotlight of the Paralympics but hampered by th...
Vax Passports: Valid in Participating Locations ONLY (w/Magdalena Osumi)
Japan Times Journalist Magdalena Osumi updates us on Japan's border entry sitch, and outlines Japan's new "vaccine passport" system, which could help lift some restric...
Stairy Stories (w/Lindsay Nelson)
What's that awful groaning sound?? Nope, it's not us talking about the Olympics, it's Japanese horror! Lindsay Nelson tells us all about the world of scary Japanese m...
Bursting the Press Bubble (w/Oscar Boyd)
The Olympics have begun, but more importantly, the MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE OLYMPICS HAS BEGUN! Officially accredited press person Oscar Boyd tells us about all of the ru...
The Spectatorless, Segregated, Chinese Olympics (w/Meshida)
Japanese comedian Meshida talks what it's like to be a Japanese resident of Tokyo during the ramp up to the Olympics, and how yeah, we're "witnessing history," but so ...
"Sustainable Japan Comedy," or "Recycling Content" (w/Dogen)
Dogen drops by to talk divorcing the professional and personal as a content creator, how to mine the same old Japan for new jokes, and to settle the issue of whether o...
Summer Sonic Lineup Lines Up for a Visa (w/Unseen Japan's Noah Oskow)
Unseen Japan's new manager Noah Oskow stops by to talk social media social justice, how the Summer Sonic lineup hopes to skip the visa application line-up, and how Oly...
Japan in the Golden Age of Consent (w/Dr. Alexandra Hambleton)
A Japanese lawmaker says it would be "absurd" if he got arrested for sleeping with a 14-yr-old. The fascinating, funny Dr. Alexandra Hambleton talks about the issues s...
A Japan Less Traveled (w/Alisha Ivelich)
Japan's closed borders mean that foreign production crews can't get in to produce Japan travel features, so creator Alisha Ivelich is taking the opportunity to fill th...
Localized Pain (w/translator Sarah Moon)
Sarah Moon, anime and game translator, talks about her journey from "weeb suspicious of translation," to "translator that weebs are suspicious of," in the great anime ...
Bonus: No More Olympic Cutbacks! (w/Rochelle Kopp)
Rochelle Kopp joins the buoys for an emergency broadcast to discuss how the removal of a few branches has actually *increased* the shade we continue to throw on the Ol...