Deep Dive, a podcast that goes below the surface of Japan

Several different coronavirus vaccines are now being distributed in more than 40 countries across the world, but Japan is yet to approve a single formula.

STAFF WRITERS

Bloomberg reporter Lisa Du joins Deep Dive to discuss when Japan will start to distribute a vaccine for COVID-19, and why it has fallen so far behind other countries.

Photo: Sunrise above Yamanashi Prefecture, Jan. 1, 2020.

DEEP DIVE Dec 30, 2020

Episode 76: So long, 2020

by Oscar Boyd and Shaun McKenna

STAFF WRITERS

We hear from listeners of Deep Dive about what got them through 2020. Thank you to everyone who submitted their stories, it was lovely hearing from you all. We received stories ...

DEEP DIVE / RECULTURED Dec 26, 2020

How has COVID-19 changed Japan's pop culture? Recultured podcast

Recultured is a podcast series by Deep Dive from The Japan Times. It tells the story of how COVID-19 affected Japan in 2020 through the lens of the country’s pop ...

Two anime films — ”Demon Slayer” and “Violet Evergarden” — offer a dash of optimism to end 2020, as Japanese pop culture moves towards the beginning of a new era.

DEEP DIVE / RECULTURED Dec 24, 2020

How has COVID-19 changed Japan's pop culture? Episode 4: Rebuild

by Oscar Boyd, Patrick ST. Michel, Alyssa I. Smith and Shaun McKenna

STAFF WRITERS

Two anime films — ”Demon Slayer” and “Violet Evergarden” — offer a dash of optimism to end 2020, as Japanese pop culture moves towards the beginning of a new era.

Pop group NiziU’s “Make You Happy” became the song of this very strange summer and the government changed it’s tone from stay home to Go To.

DEEP DIVE / RECULTURED Dec 23, 2020

How has COVID-19 changed Japan's pop culture? Episode 3: Adapt

by Oscar Boyd, Patrick ST. Michel, Alyssa I. Smith and Shaun McKenna

STAFF WRITERS

Pop group NiziU’s “Make You Happy” became the song of this very strange summer and the government changed its tone from stay home to Go To.

With stay at home orders around the world, in spring many people turned to Animal Crossing to escape the mundanity of housebound life.

DEEP DIVE / RECULTURED Dec 22, 2020

How has COVID-19 changed Japan's pop culture? Episode 2: Isolate

by Oscar Boyd, Patrick ST. Michel, Alyssa I. Smith and Shaun McKenna

STAFF WRITERS

When COVID-19 brought about a stay-at-home spring, Animal Crossing provided us with a digital island escape. In Episode 2 of Recultured, we look at what happened when the world was made ...

DEEP DIVE / RECULTURED Dec 21, 2020

How has COVID-19 changed Japan's pop culture? Episode 1: Collapse

by Oscar Boyd, Patrick St. Michel, Alyssa I. Smith and Shaun McKenna

STAFF WRITERS

In Episode 1 of Recultured, we look at how 2020 ground to a halt through the lens of "Terrace House," and hear from stars of the show about its dramatic ...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech in front of people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at Sendai Airport on Aug. 23, 2011.

DEEP DIVE Dec 2, 2020

Episode 75: What will a Joe Biden presidency mean for Japan?

by Oscar Boyd and Sheila A. Smith

staff writers

Sheila A. Smith joined us from Washington earlier this week to give her take on what a Biden presidency might mean for Japan going forward.

Pre-pandemic, tourists walk along Matsubara-dori street approaching Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto.

DEEP DIVE Nov 25, 2020

Episode 74: Reimagining Japan's post-pandemic tourism industry

by Oscar Boyd and Alex Kerr

STAFF WRITERS

International travelers to Japan increased from 8.6 million in 2010 to just shy of 32 million in 2019. Then came 2020. Now, with the pandemic reducing international tourism to near ...

DEEP DIVE Nov 18, 2020

Episode 73: Japan's third wave of COVID-19

by Oscar Boyd and Gearoid Reidy

Staff Writers

Gearoid Reidy, a senior editor at Bloomberg, joins us to discuss whether we might see a new state of emergency and the hope provided by the recent news about vaccines.