In this episode, Delaina, a long term American ex-pat and Shinya, a dual Australian & Japanese national talk with Shohsei ODA, a native-born “dosanko” to Hokkaido and drummer for the band the SUNBATHERS. This Washington DC based indies rock-pop group has over 1.5 million plays on YouTube and 2.3 million Spotify streams.

Shinya and Shohsei go in-depth on their “hafu” experiences and the differences between attending a traditional Japanese public school, and Australian school and the Hokkaido International School.