Hikikomori

Content Warning: Sex Trafficking and Exploitation.

Even before the end of WWII, the Japanese civilian government were preparing for the arrival of the occupying US troops. First and foremost, before any security of basic needs, they determined that they needed to preserve the purity of the Japanese race. To this end, they created a vast network of patriotic brothels...

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

As recommended by Hannah at the end of the episode, check out these feminist Instagram users to wash the taste of Babysan out of your mouth: Laura Bates, fuck_patriarchy, beam_me_up_softboi

Sources:

• Rape and War: The US Experience - The Phora
• Japan's Comfort Women - Toshiyuki Tanaka (2003)
• 3 Dead Marines and a Secret of Wartime Okinawa - New York Times
• Babysan: A Private Look at The Japanese Occupation - Bill Hume (1953)
• The Recreation and Amusement Association - Wikipedia

When Daisuke was invited to a dinner anonymously, he had little idea that the meeting would result in the most joyous moments of his life... but would flat-out ruin the rest of it. After marrying into a multi-national vinegar-based corporation, he found himself at the center of a sinister plot to wrest control over his own son away from him.

Today's guest is Jon Combey! You can find himon Twitter @JonCombey, and his recent limited series on Japanese culture as understood through film can be found @JapanHistorypod.

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Check my new album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy!

Sources:

• The Times (Paywall) - I Married the Branston Pickle Heiress
• BBC - Pickle Demand Rises after Fire
• Mizkan
• Daisuke Nakano's YouTube channel
• Daisuke Nakano's Twitter
• Blog by Daisuke Nakano

Content Warning: Child Murder, Necrophilia

We continue with the utterly heinous crimes of Tsutomu Miyazaki. After his first murder of a child, he entered a kind of prolonged berserker mode, increasing the depravity of his actions, harassing the families of his victims and even taunting the public, the press and the police. And, when he was finally caught, he would blame it all on an alternate persona - the "Rat Man".

Today's guest is Nika Howard! You can find her on Twitter @nika_howard, and all of her wonderful content can be found on her Linktree Page.

Check my new album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. Enjoy!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Murderpedia - Tsutomu Miyazaki
• LA Times - Article on Miyazaki from 1989
• Fumiya Hitotsubashi - The Miyazaki Tsutomu Incident -Painted Scenario- (2001)
• Joe Turner - The Myth of Miyazaki's Hands
• Charles T Whipple - The Silencing of the Lambs
• Wikipedia

Tsutomu Miyazaki was a serial murderer of children, active for about 10 months from August 1988. It's a story that has been heavily misrepresented in western media, particularly in regards to Miyazaki's disability, but the real story alone is enough to chill to the bone.

Today's guest is Nika Howard! You can find her on Twitter @nika_howard, and all of her wonderful content can be found on her Linktree Page.

For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Murderpedia - Tsutomu Miyazaki
• LA Times - Article on Miyazaki from 1989
• Fumiya Hitotsubashi - The Miyazaki Tsutomu Incident -Painted Scenario- (2001)
• Joe Turner - The Myth of Miyazaki's Hands
• Charles T Whipple - The Silencing of the Lambs
• Wikipedia

It's finally here. This is how and why Shinzo Abe was assassinated, and the unexpected failure to deify him after his death.

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Tobias Harris - The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
• CNN - Tetsuya Yamagami, the assassin
• Reuters - Abe assassin given psyche evaluation
• Asahi Shimbun - Protests over state funeral of Shinzo Abe
• Guardian - Opposition to state funeral
• Daily Beast - Assassination sheds light on links between UC and LDP
• Independent - Trump gives speech at UC 9/11 conference
• Nikkei Asia - Japanese politicians tied to UC
• BBC News - Obituary of Shinzo Abe
• BBC News - Man sets himself on fire in protest of state funeral
• Wikipedia - Shinzo Abe
• Wikipedia - Assassination of Shinzo Abe

In this episode we look at the continuing rise of ultranationalist ideology in Japanese politics under Shinzo Abe, including his membership in the secretive and fascistic Nippon Kaigai organisation, his expansion of the JSDF and his fiddling around behind the scenes during the Tokyo Olympics, despite his supposed retirement.

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Tobias Harris - The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
• Guardian - Shinzo Abe questioned over the Cherry Blossom scandal
• Guardian - Keigo Oyamada resigns as Olympic composer
• Daily Beast - Hateful Olympic fiasco caused by Shinzo Abe
• Reuters - Japan PM uses offbeat PR blitz to rescue ratings
• Wikipedia - Shinzo Abe

We continue our journey through the life and death of Shinzo Abe. Today we look at his remarkable political comeback in 2011, along with his the incidents that never seemed to tarnish his popularity, particularly his horrific historical revisionism, and the Moritomo Gakuen scandal...

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Tobias Harris - The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
• Asahi Shimbun - Key Questions on Moritomo Scandal
• The Times - Moritomo Gakuen Scandal
• Guardian - Moritomo Gakuen Scandal
• Japan Times - Moritomo Gakuen Scandal
• Japan Times - Abe stands his ground over Moritomo Scandal
• Japan Times - Moritomo Couple Jailed
• Korea Joon Gang Daily - Abe's pose resurrects horrors of Unit 731
• The Nation - Abe Poses in 731 Jet
• BBC News - Abe visits Yasukuni Shrine
• FT - Abenomics
• Asia Society - Abe denies the use of "Comfort Women" by Japan
• Wikipedia - Shinzo Abe
• Wikipedia - Akie Abe

We embark on a 4-part journey through the life and death of Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-running Prime Minister, who just so happened to get assassinated in May of 2022. As we shall discover, perhaps the damage had already been done by that point...

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Tobias Harris - The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
• The Nation - Abe denies Japanese war crimes
• The Nation - Japan attempts to erase history
• BBC News - Obituary for Shinzo Abe
• The Economist - Biography of Shinzo Abe
• FP - Abe's Ultranationalism destroyed diplomatic ties with China
• Asia Society - Abe denies the use of "Comfort Women" by Japan
• Wikipedia - Shinzo Abe

This is the tale of the rise of fascism in Japan, from its origins in Mussolini's Italy to the first bumbling attempts at coups by clandestine organisations. One of the most unlikely people who became embroiled in one such coup was the legendary comedic actor Charlie Chaplin.

Today's guest is Cami! You can find her via her Twitter page!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Japan Today - Charlie Chaplin narrowly escaped assassination
• Medium - That time Charlie Chaplin almost got assassinated
• The Vintage News - Charlie Chaplin was nearly assassinated in Japan in 1932
• Terror in Japan by Mathew Legare
• Reto Hoffman - The Fascist Effect
• Wikipedia - The League of Blood

We continue our exploration of Shinzo Abe's greatest influence on his life, the war criminal Nobusuke Kishi. This episode we cover his life after being released from prison, and his highly successful and Machiavellian return to politics. What a piece of shit.

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque, by Mark Driscoll
• Japan at the Crossroads, by Nick Kapur
• Nobusuke Kishi - Wikipedia