Today Steph and I share stories about our travels around Japan, work culture in English teaching, reasons for coming to and leaving Japan, and post leaving depression.

Part 2 with Sam.

Interview and first time talking to Sam. He lived in Qatar and Okinawa while serving in the U.S. military, and has a depth of knowledge in Japanese history and matchlock guns.

We continue our discussion with living long term in Japan, getting bad at English, things that change while being away from your home country, making sure everyone knows you lived in Japan, the type of person that moves abroad, living in a bubble, acceptance in Japan as a foreigner, the foreign female vs male experience in Japan, dating, reminicing on past experiences, housing differences in Japan vs. Western countries, and how being in another country changes you. 

Today I interview Jemma and Atif, former coworkers of mine from Australia and the U.K. respectively, each with about 5 years of experience living and working in Japan. We talk about international couples, life in Japan, career decisions, work opportunities, international work culture and difficulties, what it feels like to leave and return to your "home" country, what is home, and life after expatting. 

Took a break for several months but am back now and plan to do weekly uploads. Along with interviews coming up, I plan to start recording shorter format solocasts, like this episode. Enjoy.

Kim Watkins joins me in a conversation about her years of expatriation around China, Japan, and Vietnam.

We went deep into the emotions of travelling to work, especially when by yourself. 

Unfortunately our audio became slightly muffled at points throughout the episode. I did my best to clean it up, but a transcription for this and previous podcasts may be coming in the future.  

Conversation with Alex Morgus about video games, indie game development, moving to a new country, teaching, food, UFO's, ghosts, metaphysics, and "weeaboos".

Arthur and I talk about Halo, Fallout New Vegas, shitting on Funko Pops, movies, big pharma OPINIONS, armour, having nice things.

Rittenhouse, Politics, Racism, Fuzukawa*, History. Episode Recorded Nov 19th for context.