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A hodgepodge of guest interviews, personal narratives, recent news, history, and Japan-related memes and cultural phenomena.
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- Scandal in Japan · 2 h 17 min · Episodio 49In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Igor Prusa, author of Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual, to explore why scandals in Japan so often unfold like…
- Japanese Rebels with David McNeill and Stephen McClure · 1 h 21 min · Episodio 48Japan is often described as a place where the nail that sticks up gets hammered down—but what about the nails that refuse to stay down? In this episode, we speak with scholars…
- Happy Hour #94: BLACK MIST · 4 h 45 min · Episodio 47This is Happy Hour #94: BLACK MIST The episode opens with Jeff accusing Trevor/Trey of being twelve minutes late, Trevor insisting it was two, and both immediately blaming…
- NAGASAKI: The Last Witnesses · 1 h 33 min · Episodio 46Historian M. G. Sheftall returns to discuss Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses, the second volume of his Embers series documenting the atomic bombings through military history and the…
- HIROSHIMA: The Last Witnesses · 1 h 37 min · Episodio 45On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were killed almost immediately, and an estimated…
- The Translator’s Life: Motoyuki Shibata on MONKEY, Fiction, and Language · 1 h 40 min · Episodio 44Note: This episode originally aired in November 2021. My guest today is Motoyuki Shibata, one of Japan’s most celebrated translators of American literature and a hugely…
- Happy Hour #93: Saitama Vice · 3 h 25 min · Episodio 43This week, Jeff and Trevor return from the wilderness with tales of Oregon, AI disco bangers, bear attacks, workplace shorts, maruhara, tokuryu, and Saitama crimes so dumb they…
- Happy Hour #92: Strong Zero Psyop · 3 h 56 min · Episodio 42Episode 92 begins with a clerical apocalypse: Jeff and Trevor discover they are not on Episode 91 after all, but Episode 92, meaning the long-promised Episode 100 is now both…
- Samurai Death Poems with Robert R. Gray · 1 h 21 min · Episodio 41In this episode, we sit down with writer, translator, martial artist, and long-time Japan resident Robert R. Gray to talk about his wonderful little book, Whispers of the…
- Happy Hour #91: 禁止 · 4 h 16 min · Episodio 40This year, we celebrated the Emperor’s Birthday with a Happy Hour. From the Imperial Household to underground heroes, from banned words to ghost-town virality, this episode has a…
- Cracking the Crab: Russian Spies in Japan · 1 h 1 min · Episodio 39In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. James D.J. Brown, Professor of Political Science at Temple University’s Japan Campus and one of the leading experts on Russo-Japanese…
- Tanaka Zakku: From Indian Hackerman to Japanese Citizen · 1 h 35 min · Episodio 38In this episode, we sit down with Zach Mathis—now commonly known in Japan as Tanaka Zakku—a cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience working in Japan. Zach…
- Happy Hour #90: Bureaucrats, Bears, & Bots · 3 h 54 min · Episodio 37In this episode, Jay and Trey are joined by special guest Mythic Weeb James Hatheway for a three-hour tour de force through the green room of modern Japan—covering, among other…
- A Walk on the Wild Side: Japan’s Hidden Lives with Tom Gill · 2 h 33 min · Episodio 36In this episode, we walk the streets of Japan with Tom Gill—anthropologist, longtime Japan resident, and one of the most clear-eyed observers of the country’s marginalized…
- Christmas 2025 DiJ Mixtape · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 35Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas! -J and Trey TRACK LIST: • [0:00:00] 01. クリスマス・イブ / 山下達郎 (Tatsuro Yamashita) • [0:03:24] 02. クリスマスキャロルの頃には / 稲垣潤一 (Junichi Inagaki) •…
- Happy Hour #89: Ball Wars · 3 h 31 min · Episodio 34Jay and Trey are at it again! This week, we investigate why Japanese parks are becoming "no-fun zones" with draconian bans on ball games—is the country waging a war on its own…
- Happy Hour #88: The Takaichi Shock · 3 h 0 min · Episodio 33Please 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…
- Happy Hour #87: Synthetic Rabu · 2 h 51 min · Episodio 31Pour 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…
- Zen War Stories with Brian Daizen Victoria · 3 h 33 min · Episodio 30In 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…
- Happy Hour #86: Bear Plow · 4 h 49 min · Episodio 29When 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…
