Oyunkhuu Otgonbaatar and Undariya Rinchin join us to share some of their insights about the Mongolian community in Japan, working in the Mongolian press, and supporting foreigners living in Japan through services like GTN (definitely had their fair share helping us back in the day). 

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Brittany Arthur is the Founder & CEO at Design Thinking Japan. She speaks Japanese, English, and German and has a long portfolio of building long-term trusted business relationships with clients.

Her background is in international business and began her career at Fortune companies working across Japan and Germany. Brittany has trained over 2,500 business people in Design Thinking in Japan which has translated to new businesses and opportunities for many. She is also the producer and host of the Business Karaoke podcast.

Check out Design Thinking Japan: designthinkingjapan.com​

Subscribe to Business Karaoke podcast: buzzsprout.com/1009438​  

Follow Brittany: twitter.com/_brittanyarthur

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Hiroshi Taniguchi is a hairstylist and entrepreneur who has established hair salon businesses around the world. What's the hairstyling business like in Japan? Based on general standards of hair, we'd say they have it on point.

Listen in to hear Hiroshi's story of how he dropped everything he had to pursue the industry in New York, only to come back years later to use his skills to open up a second branch of Mey Salon.

Check out Mey Salon in New York: https://meynewyork.com

Or if you're in Tokyo: https://meytokyo.com

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Shira Putrinda moved to Japan when she was 18 and has lived there for 10 years where she received her bachelor of social science in international governance at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

Needless to say, she's been quite active in Japan, outside of her studies she's practiced Arauma, a traditional dance from Aomori, facilitating a lot of intercultural activities, worked as a teacher, and she has had 6 years of professional experience working at Mitsubishi Motors.

Check out Shira's organization and support refugee projects around the world: rij-npo.org/en/

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Thomas Blackwood is a Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at Tokyo International University.

His Ph.D. dissertation (2005) was a study of Japanese high school extracurricular activities. Focusing on baseball, he analyzed the subjective meanings that participation on a team holds for Japanese high school students (and graduates) in forming their identities and worldviews, in addition to helping them develop interpersonal skills and certain qualities of character.

His current research is focusing on the lives of foreigners in Japan with complicated residential status: asylum-seekers, visa-overstayers, and foreigners convicted of crimes. In addition to interviewing men in long-term detention facilities, Professor Blackwood is working with child asylum-seekers in Japan to understand the long-term social and psychological impacts of living in Japan with uncertain residential status.

In this episode, we discuss his research on high school baseball clubs, team sports, and Japanese immigration detention centers.

Learn more about Professor Blackwood and his research here: https://www.tiu.ac.jp/iis/members/bla...

Check out the initiative supporting refugees in Japan: https://kasumi4refugees.org

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This episode was aired live on 11 June 2020.

Continuing our discussion on adapting to the new normal, we're joined by someone who teaches English and another that deals with B2B to learn more about how Japan's youth are continuing to shift the nature of work during unprecedented circumstances. 

Vanda Taron is a lifestyle YouTuber, where she shares her experiences and suggestions on living as a foreigner in Japan. She is also an account executive at B2B agency, Impact M - BBN's Japan office.

Takahiro Nakanishi is an English teacher that spent the majority of his life abroad, growing up in Tanzania and Indonesia before coming back Japan. He is also a good friend of the show. 

Check out Vanda's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGcggFhk_akHN_o08VvxlIA

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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, how did Japan's foreign population react to the so-called new normal? Foreign residents of Japan, Stevi Hidajat and Dalima Tamang to share their experiences dealing with this unprecedented situation. 

Stevi is a recruiter while Dalima was in the middle of a transition from her last job. Listen in to our conversation to hear more about how they have adapted to the challenges of Japan's by-the-book's approach to the culture of work, the job-hunting process, and even an interactive game at the end.

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Welcome to Bento Bureau, the show where we talk about Japan from an international perspective. This is primarily to serve as our channel trailer on various podcast platforms.

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Welcome back to Bento Bureau!

This is the show where we talk about Japan from an international perspective... or at least we used to until we went on a pretty long hiatus. Not anymore! In this episode, the OG members of the show come together for a reunion, to catch up on what we've all been doing around the world, and to kick off the start of a new journey for the show. 

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