Japan By River Cruise

Apr 30 2023 127 ep. 32 mins 136
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Stand-up comedians Bobby Judo and Ollie Horn purport to report on the Japanese river cruise industry each week.

  Society & Culture  Comedy
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Ollie is in Tokyo and Fukuoka (and Hong Kong and KL and Brighton and London and Edinburgh...)

Apr 30 2023 3 mins  
Little message from Ollie to say that he's heading to Japan as part of his stand-up comedy tour. Tickets are available with a big JBRC discount if you use the promo code JBRC. https://tickets.olliehorn.com/tokyo - Friday May 5th @ Good Heavenshttps://tickets.olliehorn.com/fukuoka - Saturday May 6th @ Shimokitazawa- Tickets now on sale for Brighton Fringe previews and Edinburgh Frin

Fancy a Cheeky Valentine's Show? (live show announcement)

Feb 02 2023 2 mins  
Links to tickets! Get your tickets ASAP for guaranteed entry! https://peatix.com/group/12083451/events

The official round-up of 2022 (every single news story) [Part 2: July~December]

Jan 22 2023 68 mins  
We did it! The second half of all of the news that came out of Japan in 2022. All of it. And we don't get side tracked or distracted by other chats. Thank you for listening! Back with guests from February!

The official round-up of 2022 (every single news story) [Part 1: January~June]

Dec 21 2022 70 mins  
Part one of a (potential?) two-part run down of every single news story that came out of Japan in 2022.

Why was Shinzo Abe killed? (w/Jake Adelstein)

Nov 01 2022 55 mins  
Shinzo Abe was assassinated. But did he deserve it? Jake Adelstein gets remarkably close to making the case that he did.

Tokyo, City of Dreams/Permissive Zoning Policy (w/Joe McReynolds)

Jul 09 2022 59 mins  
Joe McReynolds is co-author of a new book about how flexible micro-spaces create the spontaneity and vitality of Tokyo, and how so much the city is built on the often very niche dreams and passions of its citizens, and also slash-fan-fiction.

Biden Time! (w/Michelle Ye Hee Lee)

May 31 2022 49 mins  
Joe Biden's Straight Talk Express comes to Asia! WaPo Bureau Chief Michelle Ye Hee Lee joins us to talk about what Biden took away from his time in Japan. If he's anything like most Americans, we're betting that list includes a Hello Kitty T-shirt and a fake sword.

Marching into April/Japanese Castles (w/Oleg Benesch)

Apr 07 2022 58 mins  
Japan Scholar Oleg Benesch joins us to to talk about the past, present, and future of Japanese castles, and break down the debates around them, proving that when it comes to historical Japanese strongholds, things aren't always black and shiro.

Quick update - we're coming back!

Mar 09 2022 3 mins  

Imagining a Militarized Japan and then Laughing (w/Tom Phuong Le)

Jan 27 2022 30 mins  
Author of Japan's Aging Peace, Tom Le, stops in to talk about Japan's security concerns and help us think about an important hypothetical question: Ok, Japan, let's say you CAN have a military. THEN WHAT?