theTokyoBill weekly
A weekly English-language podcast exploring life in Japan, one story at a time. Topics cover Japanese culture, society, news, and expat life. Companion to theTokyoBill Japan news brief. If you enjoy the show, you can visit my site: theTokyoBill.com, or buy me a coffee at BuyMeACoffee.com/TokyoBill. :)
Episodes
Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: how Japan went from one of the world's most cash-dependent societies to one of its most complex payment ecosystems.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: a story about analog and digital Japan, and what happens when a society that perfected the old has to decide whether to embrace the new.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: how a country whose constitution renounces war became one of the Indo-Pacific's most sought-after weapons suppliers — and why it had no choice.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: Japan spent thirteen years and billions of yen trying to make itself cool — and this week the government finally admitted it didn't work.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: why August is the season of ghosts in Japan — and why Japanese ghosts are nothing like the ones you grew up with.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: the week when Japan stops, the spirits of the dead come home, and millions of people get on the road to meet them.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: what the Kumamoto earthquake tells us about how Japan has learned to live with the ground moving beneath it.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
Tokyo is telling its office workers to wear shorts — and understanding why that is genuinely news requires understanding how Japan thinks about clothes…and conformity.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: Japan just passed a law to save its imperial family — and in doing so, may have signed its death warrant.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
Japan is drinking less — and the country that invented the after-work drinking party is quietly trying to figure out what comes next.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: why people are lining up at midnight for a new novel in a country that is running out of bookstores.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: how Japan went from having no professional football league to facing Brazil in the World Cup knockout stage — and the manga that started it all.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: a country where two-thirds of the public support samesex marriage, hundreds of thousands turn out for Pride, and the law still says no.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: why Japan is fining people for littering in a city that removed all the bins — and who is actually to blame.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: the crime wave that has no leaders, no members, and no address — and why that makes it so hard to stop.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: Japan wants your students, your researchers, and your workers — just not, if it can possibly help it, your permanent presence.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: the people stealing the roofs off Japan's shrines, and why the rest of the world is partly to blame.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: why bears are coming down from the mountains, and what it tells us about where Japan is heading.
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Stories from Japan, told from Japan.
This week: How the country is dealing with the pressure of high tourist numbers, including implementing two-tiered pricing.
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A Cdn expat in Tokyo, I write about the local craft beer scene & current events related to Japan.
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