131: It's Shotime!: Shohei Ohtani and the future of baseball
Sports writers often dabble in hyperbole when describing athletes at the top of their game, but when it comes to Shohei Ohtani, the player they call “Shotime,” phrases like “once in a generation” and ...
12 Loka 202224min
130: Deep Dive is back! And the climate crisis is still a problem.
Our minds have been largely preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic the past couple of years, but that doesn’t mean the threats caused by the climate crisis have gone away. Still, sometimes it feels li...
5 Loka 202224min
129: Deep Dive is on a break
The podcast is on hiatus for the next few months. For all the latest news from Japan, please subscribe to The Japan Times and help support its journalism. Thank you to all our listeners, guests an...
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128: When will Japan open to tourists? w/ Kanako Takahara
Over the past few months, Japan has been slowly easing its COVID-19 related border restrictions. In March, after almost two years, it started allowing in students, academics and business people. Then ...
12 Touko 202223min
127: Japan is losing people, but is it all bad? w/ Alex Martin
Since 2008, Japan’s population has been falling, and each year the amount it falls by grows larger and larger. In 2008, the country lost around 20,000 people. In 2010, 100,000, and by 2019, the figure...
27 Huhti 202226min
126: Why the yen has fallen to a 20-year low w/ Yuko Takeo
Since the beginning of March, the value of the yen has plummeted against the dollar, the euro and the British pound. Bloomberg economy reporter Yuko Takeo joins Deep Dive to explain why. Read more: ...
20 Huhti 202228min
125: Nakagin, Nakagone: Demolishing an architectural dream w/ Chris Russell
Demolition of the Nakagin Capsule Tower — an iconic representation of Japan’s metabolist architectural movement — officially kicked off on Tuesday, with fans of the building showing up to take a last ...
14 Huhti 202231min
124: Tokyo's energy crisis — a decade in the making w/ Shoko Oda
Two weeks ago, Japan's government issued its first ever electricity supply warning for Tokyo and its surrounding prefectures, calling on citizens to conserve power to avoid blackouts. Bloomberg energy...
6 Huhti 202231min
