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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

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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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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 ...

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