Hikikomori

The earthquake and tsunami that rocked Northern Honshu on the 11th March, 2011, had far-reaching consequences beyond the natural disaster. After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant lost electric...

14 Aug 20221h 20min

Content Warning: Natural Disasters.  11th March, 2011. 2:46pm. A magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake strikes 45 miles east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. While the initial tremor was seve...

5 Aug 202252min

Ogino Ginko is known as the "first woman to practice Westernised medicine" in Japan. The number of hurdles she had to cross in order to get there was immense. 140 years later, attitudes towards women ...

21 Juli 20221h 11min

Masayoshi Son is a tremendously wealthy man, and the founder of megacorp SoftBank. He's also the creator of the SoftBank Vision Fund, the largest venture capital fund in the world. Despite being respo...

3 Juli 202255min

Often described as a Renaissance Man, Itoi has been influential in several walks of life, from ad copy to manga, from lyrics to computer games. Let's explore the life of this unlikely  cultural hero. ...

22 Juni 20221h 24min

In 1982, Kazuko Fukuda committed a heinous crime. She spent the next 15 years on the run.  Today's guest is Jessy, my co-host from Final Fanservice! You can find her on Twitter @jusifers, and her podc...

4 Juni 202248min

Content Warning: It's brutal. Domestic abuse, torture, rape, murder We conclude our explorations into the heinous crimes of Futoshi Matsunaga, with the elimination of the Ogata family and on-going tor...

22 Maj 202238min

Content Warning: It's brutal. Domestic abuse, torture, rape, murder Futoshi Matsunaga was a conman, romancing, deceiving and defrauding women out of huge sums of money. This would be terrible enough i...

15 Maj 202249min