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Ollie is in Tokyo and Fukuoka (and Hong Kong and KL and Brighton and London and Edinburgh...)
Fancy a Cheeky Valentine's Show? (live show announcement)
The official round-up of 2022 (every single news story) [Part 2: July~December]
The official round-up of 2022 (every single news story) [Part 1: January~June]
Why was Shinzo Abe killed? (w/Jake Adelstein)
Tokyo, City of Dreams/Permissive Zoning Policy (w/Joe McReynolds)
Biden Time! (w/Michelle Ye Hee Lee)
Marching into April/Japanese Castles (w/Oleg Benesch)
Quick update - we're coming back!
Imagining a Militarized Japan and then Laughing (w/Tom Phuong Le)
Locked Out of our $500 Abandoned House (w/Alex Kerr)
JBRC HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2021, YAY!
Married to Our Research (w/Joy Hendry)
Fumio, Fumio, Whatfore art thou, Fumio? (w/Tobias Harris)
Kat(akana) Got Your Tongue? (w/Dr. Wes Robertson)
All in the Same Boat, But We're in Steerage (w/Thalia Harris)
Need a Leader? Try Kishida! (w/Motoko Rich)
The Runaway Bride (w/Aya Shimada)
Burakku Purin: The UK-Japan Trade Deal (w/Pernille Rudlin)
Bonus Extras from E83 (w/Chelsea Schieder)! (No episode this week)
The Hair Police (w/Anne Crescini)
How Many Nobel Prizes Does it Take to Make You Japanese? (w/Mary Kobayashi)
The Secret Ingredient is Entitlement (w/Marc Matsumoto)
Japan's Ready-For-Prime-Time Players (w/Derek Wessman)
A Delhi-cate Predicament (w/Dr. Megha Wadhwa)
World Suicide Prevention Day (w/TELL outreach director Selena Hoy)
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (w/Hiromu Nagahara)
The Big 97: Sometimes We Like Japan (w/Brian)
Land of the Rising Floodwaters (w/ Dr. Wesley Cheek)
Paralimited Access (w/Mark Bookman)
Vax Passports: Valid in Participating Locations ONLY (w/Magdalena Osumi)
Stairy Stories (w/Lindsay Nelson)
Bursting the Press Bubble (w/Oscar Boyd)
The Spectatorless, Segregated, Chinese Olympics (w/Meshida)
"Sustainable Japan Comedy," or "Recycling Content" (w/Dogen)
Summer Sonic Lineup Lines Up for a Visa (w/Unseen Japan's Noah Oskow)
Japan in the Golden Age of Consent (w/Dr. Alexandra Hambleton)
A Japan Less Traveled (w/Alisha Ivelich)
Localized Pain (w/translator Sarah Moon)
Bonus: No More Olympic Cutbacks! (w/Rochelle Kopp)
Japan's Gay Ideal: Macho Matcha Man? (w/Dr. Thomas Baudinette)
Five Rings That Rule Us All (w/Matt Alt)
Comfort Women: Why Deny? (w/Chelsea Szendi Schieder)
What is Visual Kei? (w/Sarahphina)
Games Japan ACTUALLY Wants (w/Stephen Case)
Hiroshima's First Annual PCR-Palooza (w/JJ Walsh)
The Children are the Mirai (w/Jason Mitchell from Nihongodomo)
Japan Stories: More Wack, Less Fact? (w/David A McNeill)
Olympick Your Battles (with Rochelle Kopp)
Late Night Snacks (the Japanese kind) (w/Alice)
Go Virtually Everywhere in Japan (w/Nick Szasz)
Yen-der Inequality (w/Marika Katanuma)
Cosplay for Pay (w/Kat "Mystik" Gunn, Reika)
You Can't Fire Me! (w/lawyer Atsuro Tsujino)
Coal, Mori, and Other Fossils (w/Stephen Stapczynski)
Woke Dad Japan (w/Daniel Yoder)
Japan's Vaccination Vacillation (w/Lisa Du, Brian)
♪ I Think I'm Learning Japanese ♪ (w/Loretta Scott AKA KemushiChan)
A State of Emergency for Suga's Approval Numbers (w/Jake Adelstein)
Get Your 2021 Japan Visas Here! (w/Ann Kilzer)
Oh Come All Ye Faithful Brians (w/livestream Brians)
Famous(?) Foreign(?) Faces (w/Black Samurai)
Nike Wins the Race... Debate (w/Baye McNeil)
Tariff-ic News for Japan (w/Katsuhiko Hara)
Desperation is the Mother of Unnecessary Invention (w/Rochelle Kopp)
VERY CROSS Cultural Communication (w/Tutti Quintella)
Why Japan Voted Trump (w/Saku Yanagawa)
Demon-strably Profitable (w/Matt Schley)
Wasei-Eigo Wide Show (w/Anne Crescini)
Bullshido (w/Oleg Benesch)
A List of Women (w/Yan Fan)
Best bits of Season 2
The Worst Ways to Visit Japan (w/ JJ Walsh)
Let's War! (w/Jesse Johnson)
That's What Yasashii Said (w/Ako Suzuki)
Super Suga Special! (w/Jake Adelstein and Derek Wessman)
Don't be a Bad Influencer (w/CurrentlyHannah)
Stay Home, Japan, You're Drunk! (w/ Matthew Boynton)
Feeling hot, hot, hot! (w/Oscar Boyd)
Sour Korean Grapes and Idol Chatter (w/Amina Dujean)
Has-Been Hamster Turns to Politics (w/Matt Alt)
Government-Subsidized Infection (w/Phoebe Amoroso)
You (Legally) Can't Go Home Again(w/Rochelle Kopp)
The Happiest Place to Die (w/Yumi Nagashima)
When It Rains, It Pours (w/Angela Ortiz)
Not Clear For Re-entry (w/Magdalena Osumi)
Bad News For People Who Want to Mainline Alcohol (w/Brian Ashcraft)
In a way, NHK SUCCEEDS in Explaining Racism (w/Baye McNeil)
The Wizarding World of Disaster Prevention (w/Greg Lane)
Social Activism and Decoy Panties (w/Phil Wang)
Small Foreign Paper takes on the Olympics; Loses (w/Jake Adelstein)
JAPLANDEMIC: Japan Covid Theories (w/Rochelle Kopp)
Sexy Cartoon Fish Talk (w/ Lisa Wallen)
The Golden Week That Never Was (w/Andy Curtain)
Best of Pandemic Profiteering
Give Me Pachinko AND Give Me Death! (w/Ayana Wyse)
Hostess Clubs Are Now Online, But So is Abe (w/Micaela Braithwaite)
Lockdown, Telework, and Other Things Japan Can't Do (w/Rochelle Kopp)
Japan Loses a Comedy Icon to Covid-19 (not Ollie), Plus Embarrassing Places to get Infected (w/Derek Wessman)
Bobby Gets Tested for Covid-19 (like, actually); Olympics Gets Postponed