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An official shot for this year’s lineup for NHK’s annual “Kohaku Uta Gassen.”
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Things get warmer with Xi; Johnny’s get the cold shoulder
While Japan and China look to ease tensions, NHK makes things tense with a Johnny’s-less “Kohaku” announcement.
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Bear goes the neighborhood? Japanese wildlife is on the move.
This week, Alex K.T. Martin joins us to discuss why people are encountering bears, boars and other wildlife in the most unlikely of places.
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Japan’s 'four-eyed tax hiker' and the curse of Colonel Sanders
Baseball writer Jason Coskrey and editor Joel Tansey discuss the Hanshin Tigers’ Japan Series victory; Gabriele Ninivaggi explains how the prime minister hopes to get a home run with his tax plan.
A banner at the entrance to Shibuya’s Center Street makes it clear this is no place for a party.
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Oct 26, 2023
The specter of Itaewon has Shibuya spooked
By Elizabeth Beattie and David Cortez
One year on, Elizabeth Beattie joins us to discuss where Itaewon stands after its Halloween disaster, and what its legacy means for celebrations in Japan.
A woman takes her meal alone in Tokyo's Yanaka neighborhood. As the country ages, Japan's average caloric intake has been shrinking.
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Oct 20, 2023
Table for one? What depopulation in Japan means for dinner.
By Shaun McKenna and Alex K.T. Martin
As Japan’s population ages and more people find themselves isolated, solving their dietary needs is shaping the way the country feeds itself.
The classic Japanese ghost story often features a vengeful female ghost.
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Oct 12, 2023
[Rebroadcast] Japan’s got ghosts
By Shaun McKenna and David Cortez
This week we discuss a few horror movies before “Uncanny Japan” podcast host Thersa Matsuura tells a classic Japanese ghost story.
Aoi Suzuki and her two sons head back down to a barbecue after watching the sun set.
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Sep 28, 2023
Traveling Okinawa with a broken heart
By Shaun McKenna and Lance Henderstein
Writer and photographer Lance Henderstein reads us his article on traveling Okinawa during the rainy season.
Leaves of marijuana plants from which hemp fibers are extracted at Japan's largest legal marijuana farm in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on July 5, 2016
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Sep 21, 2023
Does a university cannabis scandal point to a larger trend?
By Shaun McKenna, Yukana Inoue and Tomoko Otake
A drugs scandal at Japan’s biggest university draws attention to a troubling statistic: Cannabis use among young people is on the rise.
The incoming and outgoing presidents of Johnny & Associates, Noriyuki Higashiyama and Julie Keiko Fujishima, bow at a press conference on Sept. 7.
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Sep 14, 2023
Johnny’s talent agency has admitted to a past of abuse. What next?
By Shaun McKenna, Karin Kaneko, Alyssa I. Smith and Patrick St. Michel
Karin Kaneko joins the show to update us on how the story is unfolding.
An activist in Seoul protests Japan’s plan to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
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Sep 7, 2023
Anger at Fukushima’s wastewater; hope in its renewables
By Shaun McKenna, Anika Osaki Exum, Gabriele Ninivaggi and Francesco Bassetti
Good news and bad news out of Fukushima.

A new wave of Chinese elites is flocking to Japan
Toyosu, a reclaimed area and former industrial zone in the Tokyo Bay area, has become popular with a new wave of Chinese immigrants for its breathtaking views of the Tokyo skyline.
Japan is enticing for digital nomads, but visa hurdles remain
Akina Shu has visited around 50 countries as a speaker and ambassador on the digital nomad lifestyle since 2020.
Reluctant CEO becomes billionaire at Netflix rival in Japan
Yasuhide Uno, Usen-Next Holdings CEO, has transformed his father’s company into Netflix’s biggest competitor in Japan.
Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses submit report detailing sexual abuse
Ayuko Kato, minister in charge of child policies. A group of children of Jehovah’s Witnesses have submitted a report to the Child and Family Agency detailing sexual abuse.
Wasabi effective in improving memory of elderly: study
A research has found that hexaraphane — a component found in wasabi — helps improve the episodic and working memories of elderly people.

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An official shot for this year’s lineup for NHK’s annual “Kohaku Uta Gassen.”
Things get warmer with Xi; Johnny’s get the cold shoulder

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Yoshiko Koide sits in a classroom at Nagoya College where she teaches a Japanese-language observation seminar.
How a dictionary came to spark outrage among the web’s otaku
By Thu-Huong Ha and Yukana Inoue

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