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Japan Times staff writer Ryusei Takahashi joins Deep Dive to discuss Prime Minister Suga's pledge to make Japan carbon neutral by 2050.

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Bloomberg's Max Zimmerman takes us through Japan's strain of the QAnon conspiracy. On Jan. 6, the U.S. Capitol came under siege from a mob of Trump supporters, incited by the former ...

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Japan Times reporter Magdalena Osumi provides an update on Japan's border situation. Since the end of December, worries about new strains of COVID-19 have prompted Japan to reimpose border restrictions, including ...

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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.

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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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...