Hikikomori

We look at the work of Takeshi Kitano as a world-renowned director, writer, editor and actor, his failed attempt at breaking into Hollywood, his most well-known role outside of Japan in Battle Royale,...

5 Juni 202153min

This is the first of a two-parter discussing the life and works of the famed actor, director, comedian and tap-dancer Takeshi Kitano, otherwise known as Beat Takeshi. In this episode we look at the st...

28 Maj 202156min

One Piece is not only the most successful manga of all time, it's also the most successful comic of all time. Starting when Oda was only 22, this means that he has spent the majority of his life as hi...

14 Maj 20211h 4min

Each year (that does not take place during the global plague) in Himeji, the Nada no Kenka Festival is held on October 14th and 15th. It's extremely loud, colourful, fun and drunken. It can also be ra...

2 Maj 202146min

This is the story of Chukaku, a far-left organisation that seeks to overthrow the capitalist structure of Japanese society. After several schisms in leftist groups, Chukaku decided to do what many oth...

23 Apr 20211h 11min

In the early morning of May 27th, 1997, a janitor of Tainohata Elementary School discovered a disembodied head of a child in front of the school gates. The perpetrator would turn out to be... a massiv...

17 Apr 202158min

A quiet, close-knit village became the unlikely site of wide-scale arsenic poisoning.  Today's guest is Josh. You can find him on Twitter @josketh, and he co-hosts the podcast Naruto Reviewto. For mor...

9 Apr 202149min

This is the second of our two-parter on the crypto-fascist author Yukio Mishima. We cover Mishima's private fascist militia, and the fascinating, bloody and highly confusing end to his life.   Today...

2 Apr 202147min