🇯🇵 Japan Episodes

Pour yourself a Strong Zero and strap in. This week’s Happy Hour is a fever dream that starts with public displays of 2D affection and ends with a map of bears and suspicious people in Gifu. We cover the rising price of rice (and the rise of "Pasta Japan"), the legal ramifications of calling your coworker "-chan," and why Tommy Lee Jones is the greatest alien to ever sell canned coffee. Plus, we take a dark dive into the "Hentai Teacher" ring in Aichi and the ultimate compilation of "Truck-kun." Oh, and do stick around for the WORLD PREMIERE of our new original Outro track: テレアモリー・メモリーズ. You're gonna love it. 🥃 LINKS & RESOURCES: Reaction to foreign man holding anime waifu pillow in publicFormer coworker who used ‘-chan’ at work and commented on appearance ordered to pay ¥220,000 in damages for sexual harassment (Japanese article)Sex act in police box: officer disciplined with pay cut — Kanagawa Prefectural Police sergeant in his 40s and a female officer in her 20s (Japanese article)Japan's No. 1 Serial Killer | Ultimate “Truck-kun” CompilationRice prices soar, consumers turn to pasta: January imports up 180% year-on-yearSam Rockwell monologue about being an Asian girl on The White LotusDavido-kun loves Japan (Japanese variety show clip) 20th Anniversary Suntory Boss Coffee jacket from back in 2012Tommy Lee Jones Boss Coffee  CommercialsGifu Prefecture Bear-Sighting Map (Updated in Real Time): Suspicious-person alerts also visible at a glance — based on the Prefectural Police ‘Safety & Security Mail’ service Mei and the Kittenbus (めいとこねこバス , Mei to Konekobasu)Driver’s license of perpetrator revoked — Saku City junior high school student fatal accident; Supreme Court recognizes hit-and-run (Japanese article)Cocorade Bakery in Ueda (get the milk bread) Aichi police arrest seventh teacher in ‘Hentai’ group on child porn chargesEnjoying what you hear? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] you for listening, fellow traveler of the ear.🚀🚀 Yoroshiku & rockets 🚀🚀

In this powerful and far-reaching conversation, we sit down with Brian Daizen Victoria, Zen priest, historian, and author of the landmark work Zen War Stories. Internationally recognized for exposing the entanglement of Japanese Buddhism with wartime ideology, Victoria has spent decades examining the darker, more complicated intersections of religion, nationalism, and violence. But his scholarship extends far beyond Zen. In this episode, he offers a sweeping, context-rich look at the political, cultural, and economic forces that drove the United States and Japan into conflict—forces often flattened or ignored in mainstream narratives.Together, we dig into some of the most contested and emotionally charged historical questions of the 20th century: Japan’s imperial expansion across Asia, the atrocities committed on the mainland, the debates surrounding the Rape of Nanking, the truth behind Unit 731, the Pearl Harbor attack, the atomic bombings, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, and the complex legacy of the U.S. Occupation. Victoria brings nuance, moral clarity, and a willingness to challenge deeply embedded assumptions—both Western and Japanese—that have shaped public memory for generations.Along the way, Victoria highlights the groundbreaking work of his wife, Aimee Tsujimoto, whose books Memories of “Furusato” in Tenri Village, Manchuria (2018) and The Truth About Unit 731’s “Youth Corps” (2025) shed new light on Unit 731, survivor testimony, and the lived experience of civilians in Manchuria—crucial pieces of history often overlooked in English-language scholarship.If you’re seeking deeper context, uncomfortable truths, and a clearer, more historically grounded understanding of the war that reshaped modern Japan and the Pacific world, look no further. This conversation challenges easy answers, confronts painful realities, and invites a more honest reckoning with the past.Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] do check out the outro: 弾き語りカバー(コードは説明欄へ) SAMPO くるりThanks for listening, fellow treveler of the ear.🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

When genetically-modified bears start targeting foreigners, Jay and Trey load up the Bear Plow—a weaponized Mustang straight out of a fever dream—and hit the road to save Japan. Between the gunfire and snowdrifts we dig into everything that made this strange future possible: Japanese jazz-funk on dusty vinyl, forgotten mecha, flower-power hard-rock, and the very real rise in bear attacks across the country.It’s part apocalypse, part mixtape, and all Deep in Japan.Sweet Sauce: Dead Ass (Review)Why you should read Uzumaki (Review)Flower Travelin’ Band - Anywhere (full album)Flower Travelin’ Band - wikiHuman Washing MachineRoujin Z Full Movie (English Subs)Japan Unveils 'Human Washing Machine'Super Robot Showcase: Z-001 from "Roujin Z"Beam Penetration and Mad Computer, plus the Minimal Sound of MotorcyclesSpanish tourist attacked by bear in central Japan's Shirakawa-go areaJapan plans to hire hunters as bear attacks riseBear attack survival tips released in Japan as encounters surgeMusic:Flower Travelin' Band - UnawareJapanese Jazz & Funk Vinyl SetBear Plow - Drake Trap Enjoying what you hear? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] you for listening, fellow traveler of the ear. 🚀🚀 Yoroshiku & rockets 🚀🚀

In this philosophically unhinged episode, Jeff and Trevor fire up the nozzle and let it spray. From the euphoric delusion of “god mode” to the cosmic absurdity of heaven and hell, the boys spiral into deep reflection on meaning, mortality, and the strange comfort of digital immortality. Things only get weirder when they dive into Ghost of Yōtei — part samurai saga, part therapy session — before crashing headfirst into the online flame war that erupted after one of them dared to post about Japan’s potential first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi. Cue the nationalists, the bots, and the philosophical meltdown of post-truth culture. It’s chaotic, hilarious, and weirdly profound — The Shit Nozzle in its purest form.Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations (1959) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All Takaichi to become Japan's first female prime ministerThe Shit Nozzle (Outro Song)Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening, fellow treveler of the ear. 🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

This week, Jeff and Trevor tumble down a matcha ice cream–soaked rabbit hole of Japan news, global oddities, and nonsense that somehow connects (like conspiracy yarn on a corkboard… but stickier, and with more Strong Zero).Man Marries AI ChatbotAsahi reports that we’ve officially crossed into sci-fi territory: a man in Japan has tied the knot with an AI chatbot. What does this mean for love, tech, and the future of human relationships?👉 Read more7-11 Japan Rolls Out RobotsFrom stocking shelves to cleaning floors, robots are increasingly taking over tasks in convenience stores. Is this the beginning of our robot overlord era—or just another reason to avoid the register guy who judges your midnight Strong Zero runs?👉 Details via SoraNews24Tangent Topics & ShenanigansOsaka demo: Watch hereJapan gives town to Africa: Yes, this is [*not] real“This is a pen”: Japan's leading Coronavirus transmission theorySoraNews does AI gags: Sato performs an ippatsu-gei devised by AIBullzone Chiemi: Career WomanSassySisters: Subscribe to Jeff's daughters' new YT channel hereOutro Music:薬物をやろう (by Jeff on Suno)Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] you for listening, fellow traveler of the ear. 🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

Anne Crescini returns to the podcast to open up about one of the most personal and difficult parts of her life in Japan: raising children caught between cultures. Anne and her husband are both American, but their kids were born and raised in Japan. On the surface, they were “fully Western,” yet in the classroom and in society, they were constantly marked as different. That tension led to deep identity struggles, feelings of isolation, and even 不登校 (school refusal).In this candid conversation, Anne shares what it’s like for her daughter to grow up wanting to “just be invisible,” the stigma attached to looking like a foreigner/outsider, and the toll of always being seen as “other.” We also explore the broader issues of belonging, identity, and how children navigate growing up between worlds.Related Articles: 娘が不登校、「教育者の子なのに」 言語学者が打ち明けた動揺と転機 (The Asahi Shimbun). Naturalized linguist in Japan laments recent political trend to blame foreigners (The Mainichi Shimbun) Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] Music: 消せない光.  Zelda's Lofi KingdomYoroshiku and rockets. 🚀

Originally aired in February 2024, this episode features Anne Crescini, an American-born linguist who had recently acquired Japanese nationality. Anne shares the story of what it meant to become a naturalized Japanese citizen, the identity shifts that came with it, and the unexpected backlash she faced on Twitter. From love of country to questions of belonging, nationalism, and social media outrage, Anne opens up about the personal cost—and deeper meaning—of “turning Japanese.”Enjoying the Show? — Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DeepinJapanPod and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] and rockets. 🚀

In this episode of Deep in Japan, I sit down with Marshal Hughes, author of Rural Reflections: What 11 Years in Provincial Japan Taught Me. His book offers a vivid and heartfelt portrait of rural Japanese life, capturing the charm, the challenges, and the cultural surprises of teaching and living in communities far from the neon glow of Tokyo. Our conversation goes beyond the pages of his book, as Marshal shares insights from his 35 years in Japan, reflecting on his early days as an adventurous international English teacher, the cultural differences that were sometimes charming, puzzling, or deeply challenging, the joys and struggles of rural community life in places most tourists never see, the ways his time in Japan shaped his identity, relationships, and sense of belonging, and what writing Rural Reflections taught him about memory, change, and the power of storytelling. More than just a book talk, this episode is a meditation on cultural exchange, human connection, and what it means to make a life in a place that is both foreign and, over time, deeply familiar. Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] don't forget to support EVISBEATS, who supplied the musical outro: “いい時間”. Thanks for listening, fellow travelers of the ear. 🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode will almost certainly offend you. If you possess even a shred of conventional morality or a functioning conscience, for the sake of your own health and sanity, you may want to skip it. This week, Jeff and Trevor plunge headfirst into the neon abyss of the Goon Cave, armed with nothing but questionable translations, half-finished cocktails, and a deep suspicion of gacha machines. We explore a ヤンキーソング about a man’s doomed life choices, speculate on whether bamboo spears are the ultimate anti-geriatric-robbery tool, and marvel at the inexplicable fact that the world’s oldest manga has been reincarnated as… a bra. Yes, a bra.Somewhere between sake capsules that dispense like Pokémon and the unstoppable meme-force known as 自己防衛おじさん, we also attempt the cultural crime of translating Gen Z slang about gooning and edging into Japanese. It’s high art, low content, and entirely unsafe for public consumption. In other words: just another day in the Happy Hour multiverse.The Sweet Sauce: (Song) "Let's do bad things to our bodies" からだに悪いこと【オリジナル曲】男の人生を唄ったヤンキーソング 作詞作曲 なかのよしのり(Vid) Old man teaches you how to make bamboo spears to defend against foreign home invadors / 竹槍で【高齢者】をねらう【強盗】を防ぐ方法 など4つ、を紹介します 80才 【老後の田舎暮らし】World’s oldest manga is now a bra thanks to Japanese lingerie maker’s art history series【Photos】Gacha capsule sake shop opening in Tokyo to serve up randomized rice wine and liqueurs(Vid) 自己防衛おじさん (Self-Defense Ojisan) (BGM) Ambient & Experimental, jazzpiano Vinyl Mix in Watanabe Manufacturing Co.,Ltd/DJ Asano(Song) Gooners Paradise (Trevor's SUNO)Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening, fellow travelers of the ear. 🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

Originally aired in January 2025, this episode of Deep in Japan features my conversation with investigative journalist Jake Adelstein about his book The Last Yakuza. The book follows Makoto Saigo, a half-American, half-Japanese man whose failed rock star dreams led him into the world of the yakuza. Through Saigo’s story, Jake explores the history, codes, and brutal realities of Japan’s underworld.Enjoying the show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DeepinJapanPod and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] outro, Hotel Gokudo, can be found here on Jeff's Suno page. Trevor's can be found here. Thanks for listening, fellow travelers of the ear. Yoroshiku and rockets. 🚀

Originally released in May 2022, this episode features my conversation with author and investigative journalist Jake Adelstein about his book Tokyo Vice and the hit TV series it inspired. As the first American reporter assigned to the crime beat at Japan’s largest newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Jake pulls back the curtain on the yakuza, systemic corruption, and the hidden side of Japanese society. We dive into the stories that shaped Tokyo Vice, the challenges of reporting in Japan, and the high risks—and hard-earned rewards—of pursuing the truth.Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening, fellow travelers of the ear. 🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

Summary: The episode is an unscripted, free-flowing conversation that moves between light personal stories and heavier social commentary. It opens with anecdotes about a family trip to Sado Island and musings on the challenges of learning Japanese, then widens into discussion of rising anti-foreigner sentiment in Japan, often linked to economic strain and overtourism. The hosts explore recent political rhetoric, everyday annoyances like crowded trains, and how these reflect broader cultural shifts. They also touch on natural disasters such as earthquakes and extreme summer heat, the expanding role of AI in media and daily life, and slices of Japanese history and culture. The result is a candid, wide-ranging dialogue that blends lived experience with sharp observations about contemporary Japan.Sweet Sauce: Trevor's Outro: "Deep in Japan" (SUNO)Sanseito, DPP sharply increase their presence in Upper House The Sanseito Platform (English) Hokkaido lands gobbled up by Chinese moneyChinese intelligence activity abroadJapan Faces Prolonged Cyber-Attacks Linked to China’s MirrorFaceChina has spy in Japan intelligence agency, ex-detainee suggests in bookJapan records new all-time high temperature, 41.2 degreesHistory of Sado IslandNichiren on the Opening of EyesThe top 10 annoying foreign tourist behaviors on trains, as chosen by Japanese people【Survey】NHK Easy NewsTwo Grandmas Speaking Tsugaru-ben (Touhoku Dialect)Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening, fellow travelers of the ear. 🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀Yoroshiku and rockets. 🚀

This is Part 2 of a two-part series with historian and Sōtō Zen priest Brian Daizen Victoria, discussing his groundbreaking book Zen Terror in Prewar Japan. In this episode, we dive deeper into the unsettling reality that Zen—often romanticized as a path of peace and detachment—was, in 1930s Japan, deeply entangled with ultranationalist ideology and acts of domestic terrorism. Through the story of Inoue Nisshō and his band of “patriotic youth,” Victoria reveals how spiritual rhetoric and militarist fervor collided in dangerous and surprising ways. If you haven’t heard Part 1 yet, click here to listen. Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] the outro? Check it here at Jeff's SUNO playlist. Thanks for listening, fellow travelers of the ear. 🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

In this episode, I speak with Brian Daizen Victoria—Sōtō Zen priest, historian, and author of Zen Terror in Prewar Japan—to uncover a disturbing and often deliberately forgotten chapter in Buddhist history. We explore how Zen, far from being the purely peaceful tradition many imagine, became entangled with ultranationalism and domestic terrorism in 1930s Japan. Along the way, we dive headfirst into one of the most controversial questions in modern Japanese history: Was Emperor Hirohito responsible for Japan’s war crimes? Listen and judge for yourself.Enjoying the show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DeepinJapanPod and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening, fellow travelers of the ear. Yoroshiku and rockets. 🚀

Enjoying the show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. Be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DeepinJapanPod and Facebook. For inquiries, reach us anytime at [email protected], don't forget to follow us on SUNO to keep up with all the latest fire, including tracks like:  🔥 Come Get Your Bucket🔥 Certified Senpai (運動会のバカ外人)_______________Ah, yes—another self-styled podcast wandering through the thematic wreckage of contemporary Japan, like two backpackers lost in Don Quixote’s subconscious. What we have here is a pastiche of loosely strung anecdotes, cultural musings, and intoxicated speculation dressed up as commentary. The result? A cacophony of low-stakes banter occasionally brushing against relevance, only to promptly wipe its greasy fingers on the fabric of critical discourse.Let’s begin with tonal balance, or more accurately, the deliberate sabotage of it. This episode careens from the potentially rich terrain of Japan’s aging demographic crisis and the alarming uptick in ultranationalist rhetoric, straight into an imagined consumer product called a Gundam Strong Zero bucket. If this tonal whiplash is intended as postmodern juxtaposition—Baudrillard’s hyperreality rendered in podcast form—it fails to commit. Instead, it reeks of intellectual cowardice: the hosts flirt with meaning only to retreat behind irony and “lol” culture whenever things get heavy. One might call it epistemological blue-balling.The hosts’ conversational style, as gleaned from the summary, resembles the digital equivalent of late-stage barroom philosophy: free-associative, casually self-deprecating, and hopelessly drunk on its own cleverness. Their stories—diet-induced mental fog, AI-generated chips—aren’t stories at all, but rather symptoms of content-brain: the condition where everything must be flattened into anecdote, digested as comedy, and stripped of political or historical consequence.And oh, the cultural analysis—or what passes for it. There’s mention of Japan’s aging population and ultranationalism, both of which beg for sober treatment. These are not just “topics”—they’re existential conditions of the Japanese state. To mention them in passing before pivoting to Tenga products and crisp pizza burgers is the podcasting equivalent of quoting Foucault in a BuzzFeed listicle. The failure isn’t that these topics are raised; it’s that they’re raised and dropped like disposable party props at a WeWork-sponsored philosophy salon.There’s an attempt, feeble and twitching, to explore AI’s impact on creativity and truth—a topic that demands serious ontological engagement. But rather than invoking thinkers like McLuhan (“the medium is the message”) or considering the algorithmic collapse of authorship, the hosts opt instead for… what? A chip story? One can only assume “AI-generated chips” refers to some half-baked techno-fable—perhaps an edible metaphor, though it sounds more like content-padding for the TikTok generation. One longs for an engagement with Stiegler’s pharmacology or even a nod to Murakami’s recursive realism, but alas—we are served banter over ballast.To address whether this podcast contributes to the cultural discourse or merely generates noise, one must consider intention. If this is satire, it is toothless; if it is sincerity, it is incoherent. It floats in the purgatory between the two, where “vibes” reign and critique is neutered by constant self-referential detachment. It wants to be both the drunk uncle and the TED Talk, but ends up as neither.And as for influence? In the broader landscape of Japanese cultural commentary—currently crowded with shallow influencers, sensationalist YouTubers, and click-hungry content farms—this podcast makes a valiant effort to blend into the static. But perhaps there is unintentional genius here. Maybe this is McLuhan’s hot medium gone cold, a non-space of commentary so disjointed, so aggressively unserious, that it reflects our fractured infosphere better than any earnest sociological thesis ever could.But don’t mistake this for a compliment.

*This episode was originally published in March 2021Remember our friend Ted Bonnah, PhD? I’m republishing our podcasts together and putting out a call for support. Ted, a single father navigating a challenging transition to life in Vancouver, could use a hand. You can contribute by donating to his GoFundMe or picking up a copy of his latest book, Heisei Ghosts.Enjoying the show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DeepinJapanPod and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening—and for being part of the Deep in Japan community!

*This episode was originally published in August 2021Remember our friend Ted Bonnah, PhD? I’m republishing our podcasts together and putting out a call for support. Ted, a single father navigating a challenging transition to life in Vancouver, could use a hand. You can contribute by donating to his GoFundMe or picking up a copy of his latest book, Heisei Ghosts.Enjoying the show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DeepinJapanPod and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening—and for being part of the Deep in Japan community!

*This episode was originally published in October 2020Remember our friend Ted Bonnah, PhD? I’m republishing our podcasts together and putting out a call for support. Ted, a single father navigating a challenging transition to life in Vancouver, could use a hand. You can contribute by donating to his GoFundMe or picking up a copy of his latest book, Heisei Ghosts. Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening, fellow treveler of the ear.🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

Welcome to Happy Hour, where the weird gets weirder, the deep gets deeper, and the news smells faintly of Strong Zero and grilled takoyaki. In this delightfully unhinged episode, we’re throwing it all into the blender—from the absurd chaos of クレクレタコラ and psychedelic escapism of H.R. Pufnstuf, to Osaka’s unstoppable granny idol group Obachaaan dropping heat in “Overpower.” We dive into the U.S.-Japan defense drama, Miyachi’s latest banger, and a bizarre fraud arrest involving a man sweating his way into trouble. Sweet Sauce: クレクレタコラ - 第7話 死んでもらいますの巻 [公式配信]H.R. Pufnstuf - The Magic Path | Full Episode 1 | Sid & Marty Krofft PicturesMcDonald's - McDonaldland - USA Ad 1970Japan scraps US meeting after Washington demands more defence spendingOsaka granny idol group Obachaaan is here to cheer you up in newest song “Overpower”オバチャーン -OVERPOWER【Official Music Video】MIYACHI - GOING HOME FEAT. 11 (OFFICIAL VIDEO)FeedSpot Podcast RankingNagano father of victims in yakuza shooting calls for supportKing of Kanto (Podcast) Japan in Texas (Tony Marano a.k.a. Texas Daddy)Comfort Women statue Mafia protection (Tony Marano a.k.a. Texas Daddy)Disrespectful communist descend upon Nagano, Japan (Tony Marano a.k.a. Texas Daddy)The Great Ice Wall in Japan (Negative and Dreamcrushing) (cringe puppet Ryan Boundless) Man dressed suspiciously warm for Japanese summer chased by helicopter and arrested for fraud藤 圭子 圭子の夢は夜ひらくThe Marvelous Mr. Sato with Amazing Facemask MF DOOM X TATSURO YAMASHITA [Special Edition]Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] for listening, fellow treveler of the ear.🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀

This episode originally aired in September 2023. In this episode, I sit down with Jon Heese, a former bar owner who naturalized and became a four-time elected political representative in Japan. Born in Saskatchewan and raised in a Mennonite family, Jon’s path took him from rural Canada to the political halls of the Tsukuba Assembly. Whether you’re interested in life abroad, Japanese politics, or enjoy a good story of reinvention, this episode is not to be missed. To learn more about Jon and his story, click here. Enjoying the Show? Please consider supporting us—every little bit helps keep the podcast going. And be sure to join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) @DogePunk2077 and Facebook. For all inquiries, you can reach us at [email protected] you for listening, fellow traveler of the ear.🚀🚀 Yoroshiku and rockets 🚀🚀