Hikikomori

This is the first of a two-part series on the author, poet, actor, model and crypto-fascist Yukio Mishima. Today we follow Mishima's early life and career as a national, and eventually international, ...

26 Mar 20211h 3min

Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult, is well-known for being responsible for the '95 Sarin Gas Attack on the Tokyo subway. Their list of crimes, however, does not end there. Another heinous act of the cu...

19 Mar 202143min

In 2007 the body of Lindsay Hawker, a British teacher working in Tokyo, was found dead on an apartment balcony in a bathtub full of sand. The suspected killer, Tatsuya Ichihashi, managed to evade poli...

8 Mar 20211h 7min

We explore the links between the subcultures of Yankii, Bosozoku and Sukeban before watching an elderly Australian man dance in his driveway.   For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on I...

24 Feb 202159min

This is the story of limitless human potential, reincarnation, Lord El Cantare, Atlantis and the ascension of business men to godhood. We look into the creation, beliefs and anime films of the Happy S...

14 Feb 202141min

We look into the career of controversial mangaka and filmmaker Hideshi Hino, who was all about grindhouse, gore and horror. Aside from being one of the inspirations of Junji Ito, he was also tangled i...

7 Feb 202137min

No seriously, big content warning for human experimentation. We return to Manchuria as "Nasty Piss Boy" Shiro Ishii's human experimentation scales upwards. Then, we look at vested interest that seve...

29 Jan 20211h 26min

No seriously, big content warning for human experimentation.   The war crimes committed during the Second World War are heinous, but to forget them, to water down or justify them, is also unforgivable...

23 Jan 202133min