91: The long road to the Tokyo Olympics - Part 1 w/ Patrick St. Michel
This week, the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics will begin, with the opening ceremony planned for Friday, July 23. It will be a Games like none before it, with its host city, Tokyo, under a state of emerge...
21 Jul 202126min
90: Deep Dive is on a break
Host Oscar Boyd is heading to language school for three months and so Deep Dive will be on hiatus. Make sure you subscribe on whichever podcasting platform you use to be notified when we return. Fo...
6 Apr 20211min
89: Why are the Tokyo Olympics still going ahead in a pandemic? w/ Motoko Rich
With medical experts worried that the Olympics will turn into a superspreader event, polls show that the Japanese public is overwhelmingly not on board with the Games. Yet things are going full steam ...
2 Apr 202131min
88: A clampdown on Japan's asylum seekers w/ Jesse Chase-Lubitz
Japan is a country that is good at many things, but accepting refugees is not one of them. In 2019, just 44 refugees were accepted here. Now, the government has proposed a series of amendments to the ...
31 Mar 202122min
87: Half a million and counting: Japan's rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine w/ Lisa Du
Bloomberg reporter Lisa Du joins Deep Dive to discuss how Japan's vaccine rollout has gone so far, and the challenges the program may face going forward. Read more: 65% see Japan's vaccine rollou...
24 Mar 202127min
86: Twenty-five years of Pokemon w/ Tom Bateman
Pokemon is thought to be the most valuable media franchise in the world, with an empire that straddles video games, television, cinema, trading cards, Pokemon Go and much, much more. This week on Dee...
17 Mar 202131min
85: Ishinomaki: A tsunami-ravaged city, 10 years on w/ Alex Martin & Mari Saito
On this week's episode, The Japan Times' Alex Martin visits Ishinomaki, 10 years after he first went there, to reconnect with residents he spoke with in the aftermath of the earthquake and to find out...
10 Mar 202132min
84: Ghosts of the Tsunami: The tragedy at Okawa Elementary School w/ Richard Lloyd Parry
Richard Lloyd Parry is the author of "Ghosts of the Tsunami," which focuses on the story of a small elementary school in the town of Okawa, around 200 miles north of Tokyo. 74 pupils and 10 teachers a...
3 Mar 202132min
