Hello From Nihon

In this episode we talk about the newest season of Terrace House on Netflix. This season is called Terrace House Back In Tokyo 2019 - 2020. The six guests are back in Tokyo and this year's new members are Shohei Matsuzaki, Kenji Yoshihara, Ruka Nishinoiri, Kaori Watanabe, Haruka Okuyama and Risako Tanabe. The housing in Terrace house Tokyo is amazing and spacious. We also talked about the potential scandals that can take place in up coming episodes. 

We went over Rilakkuma, Aggretsuko, Terrace House, Ai Nori And Real Love in this episode of Hello From Nihon. These are our favorite Japanese Netflix shows that you can watch right now with English subtitles. These Japanese Netflix shows will give you a front row seat to Japanese culture and customs while entertaining you at the same time.  

We just got back from the Ghibli Museum in Fukuoka Japan and we compare it with the Tokyo Ghibli Museum. We also talk about Miyazaki Hayao and his anime work. We also went over what motivates his anime movies  like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro. We also talked about the new Japanese era of Reiwa and what it means.

Having mixed race children as a parent brings up concerns about the problems your mixed race child will face. Here in Japan where most people are of one race we know that are mixed raced children will have some difficulties. You're going to have Japanese people assuming our children are from other countries and treating them like foreigners. Just recently, I read an article of a mixed race child committing suicide because she was bullied at school. How will we prepare our mixed raced kids to deal with these issues in the future? We cover that and more in our 5th episode of Hello From Nihon. 

We went to a transgender Japanese live show here in Japan where we saw transgender Japanese people singing and dancing. The show is called Anmitsu Hime and it's been around in Southern Japan for over 35 years. In this Hello from Nihon episode we talk about the show, how transgender people are treated in Japan and how societal norms are changing in Japan.

If you want to stay in a Japanese Ryokan, take a dip into an onsen or eat tasty Kaiseki Ryori then you need to listen to this Hello From Nihon episode. In it we talk about Youfuin and all it's charms. We go over the Yufuin no mori and all the cool stuffy we found in and around southern Japan.

We are getting better at our Japan podcast, today we went to secret Japanese restaurants, Geisha, the Kyoto tourism crisis and kaiseki cuisine. We also covered many other things about Kyoto Japan. 

This is our first Japan podcast, Neko and I (Ike) went over the outer-space brother manga, That Time I was reincarnated into a slime anime and  the Octopath Traveler nintendo switch game. We also went over some Japanese words and Japanese cultural differences between the west and east. We are  just getting started so if you have any suggestions please let me know.