Everybody Wants To Be A Cat - This Week In Japan

Enter the Nyanopticon With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics finally about to start, Japan continues to be buffered by articles about just how badly things are going. This week features a tag-team of trouble, with Thomas Bach exacerbating the public's anger at the IOC, and Keigo Oyamada being announced as composer for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games opening and closing ceremonies, in spite of a history of abusive behaviour.  Before all that though, there's robot cat ears that read your brain waves, a way to stop crime without actually doing anything, and consuming the faces of beloved anime characters.  Enjoy! Sources: https://soranews24.com/2021/07/19/japans-brain-wave-reading-cat-ears-are-back-with-a-brand-new-twist/ https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14387529 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14398503 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/07/15/national/bach-hiroshima-visit/ https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210717/p2a/00m/0sp/020000c https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14396489 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14397380 https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/status/1416812548217835520 http://www.japansubculture.com/japans-olympic-composer-tortured-disabled-children-and-the-olympic-committee-says-to-the-world-eat-shit-no-problem/#.YPKTX84AZ_w.twitter https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/17/composer-forced-disabled-classmates-eat-faeces-masturbate-will/ https://soranews24.com/2021/07/20/cornelius-resigns-from-olympics-suddenly-pulled-from-sony-webpage-and-nhk-shows-too/ Would you like to hear us talk about Japan some more? Find our podcast here: Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/G-GSpot Itunes: https://tinyurl.com/Ge-Gaitune Twitter: https://twitter.com/GGaijins Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y5kk5key