Anne Crescini talks about how Japanese schools don't have the resources to properly combat bullying, because those resources get used on student hair color and fingernail length.

Ollie FINALLY starts studying Japanese again.
 
Wait, wow WAS Bobby looking at the Holocaust before?

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• Brian's Birthday
• The HELL that is the PTA and how her experiences with it affected Anne's Japan-facing online persona
• How horrible it is to have to join a line group chat
• The reactions Anne's received so far since she's shifted into slightly more Japan-critical territory
• The Praise-Japan-for-pay career track
• The way your foreignness gets wielded against you when you try to advocate for change
• Bullying among adults in Japan
• A very ill timed request for more of your money
• "Black School Rules," what are they and how they are and are not enforced
• Anne's daughter's experience with "hair color verification" rules in her high school 
• What a human rights lawyer told Anne about these kinds of school rules
• The Osaka case in which a girl was forced to die her natural hair, and the way the Japanese courts refused to actually take a position
• Ollie's time as a Japanese high school student
• How students are able to practice self expression on Japanese school campuses
• How hot are those napes, guys? Did you see those napes?
• WHY Japan tries to exert control over children's appearance
• The overemphasis on conformity and how it affects people who naturally do not conform
• Noah's Unseen Japan article on hair regulations
• When and why were some of these rules initially put in place
• How these rules can be applied to discriminate or harass
• Elementary school training bra rules
• The cultural difference around the responsibility on the part of the school to "parent" and instill moral values in students
• The way in which Japan tends to rely on and even voice a desire to have authorities regulate them
• The Japanese approach to the "it takes a village" philosophy
• How the attempts to force kids to conform can lead to bullying
• The pressure placed on schools to take care of kids even outside of the school
• Why schools step back when it comes to bullying
• A recent incident of suicide in which the school actively withheld information about bullying from the family
• A theoretical focus on bullying without any effort dedicated to practical intervention
• Anne's hope for the future

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Content Links:
Unseen Japan Article about Hair Regulations

Social Media Links:

Anne Crescini: Twitter | Anne-chan Kara Miru Nippon Blog | YouTube

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

Syukuro Manabe and some other people win the Nobel Prize, illustrating a lot about how and why Japan claims  people as Japanese.
We talk to Mary Kobayashi about how she defines her Japanese identity, and how media representation works to define "Japanese..." as sexy, anime robot.

The average age of Ollie's friends is getting lower.

Bobby recycles.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• Brian's back!
• Performance anxiety and the introvert/performer paradox
• Syukuro Manabe's Nobel Prize Win 
• How Japan latches on to successful members of the diaspora even when they've left
• Japanese people trying to monopolize all the good qualities
• A thorough interrogation of how Bobby racially profiles his children
• How using "Japanese people are okay with us loving their culture" to defend cultural appropriation
• Mary's research into who the most popular Japanese characters are
• The stereotypes that get used in Western Media to depict Japaneseness
• The stages of minority representation, and how anti-stereotype roles are still racist
• Mary's experience with adult swim and in the entertainment industry
• Her take on how Western Media handles Asian representation, whitewashing and tokenism
• How Korean Entertainment contributes positively to representation
• Terrace House
• How the discussion of what Japaneseness is has moved from one that happens mostly in Japan to one that happens globally

Topics discussed on the extras include:

• Mary's mom knew who Bobby was
• How Bobby curates his personality depending on what jobs he's doing.
• The teenage Ollie Horn who's beating Ollie out of the google search results
• Mary's experience in comedy, music, and entertainment overall
• The unfortunate timing of her departure from Adult Swim due to a move, and the advent of remote work
• The experience of having to do entertainment on ZOOM
• MUCH MUCH MORE

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Social Media Links:

Mary Kobayashi:  Twitter

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

Japan's likely new Prime Minister, Marc Matsumoto talks about how to wield Japanese recipes responsibly, and more.

Ollie's doing another podcast's work for them.

Bobby looks at the new, very strict, tourist entry dress code .

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• NO PRE-RECORDED MESSAGE FROM BRIAN
• A question that is decidedly outside of Marc's expertise
• Successful predictions
• Marc's technique driven food content
• Demystifying Japanese cooking
• Japanese chefs hoarding secrets
• The Clarissa Wei post about claiming mastery of Asian stuff
• What Marc thinks about the idea of Culinary Cultural Appropriation
• The cross-pollination that lead to what we think of as regional cuisines today
• The David Schlosser sakura mochi incident
• Pippa Middlehurst getting flack for writing a book on Chinese cuisine
• Miin Chan's article about white people dominating the public view 
• Why Marc would never call himself a "Washoku chef"
• The cultural differences between how different countries approach cuisine
• How those cultural differences can affect who becomes the face of ethnic cuisines
• Marc teaches us about how "Konbucha" became what it is in the West
• Food getting transformed through misinterpretation and misrepresentation
• When racism does rear its head to give certain people credit for culinary culture
• Wagyu Beef
• How real food culture/trends get brandified and what suffers because of that

Topics discussed on the extras include:

• How Marc decides what recipes to do on his YouTube channel
• How Google Algorithms rule us all
• More details on Marc's technique-driven approach to teaching
• LOTS of geeking out about cooking and food
• A discussion of what changes when you start cooking professionally
• Measuring stuff for recipe creation and all the ways Japan cheats on tis
• Marc's potentially blasphemous 15-minute curry sauce recipe

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Content Links:

"Shibumi Instagram Post Sparks Outrage in LA’s Japanese-American Community - Eater LA" https://la.eater.com/platform/amp/2021/4/27/22395971/shibumi-instagram-post-david-schlosser-sparks-outrage-la
"Lost in the Brine"
https://www.eater.com/2021/3/1/22214044/fermented-foods-industry-whiteness-kimchi-miso-kombucha

Social Media Links:

Marc Matsumoto: No Recipes  | Twitter |  YouTube |  

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

Who will be Japan's next Prime Minister?
Japanese Margaret Thatcher?
The often shaken AND stirred Kono, TARO Kono?
Mr. Speak-softly-and carry-no-nukes?
Or Woman woman?

Former Diet Aide Derek Wessman tells us "the thing" about each of the four candidates.

Ollie's disappointed that the new boat doesn't work with the old charger.

Bobby is tired of Japan asking him if he's cold.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• How hard we all tried to avoid this.
• Something that's been weighing on Brian
• Podcast guest scheduling issues
• How Derek wields his Twitter account and why his following loves him
• When and why he does his deep dives into Japan politics
• Thanks for all the TELL Step Up Challenge Donations
• Why we're seeing a PM replacement just before a general election
• How and why Suga's popularity plummeted
• A look back on Derek's Suga predictions from our Super Suga Special Show
• Suga's efforts to prioritize the coronavirus pandemic post step-down
• What Suga got right and what the LDP hopes to continue to carry on
• Suga's CO2 Policies
• Perennial Candidate Noda Seiko and what her chances of leading the LDP are
• The Fukuoka/Kitakyushuu Rivalry
• Noda Seiko's weaknesses as a candidate, and whether or not she's just here to steal votes from Kono
• How the office looks very different now that we're post Olympics, post vaccinations
• Hardline conservative Takaichi Sanae, and the power of the backing of Abe
• The root of what her candidacy is about, and what the actual give and take is between conservative supporters and conservative politicians
• The truth about what revising Japan's constitution to allow it to have a military would mean
• Takaichi's Margaret Thatcher obsession and what we can learn from it
• Kishida Fumio and the complicated web of LDP relationships and support
• Kishida's long game
• Bobby get's the word for denuclearization COMPLETELY WRONG: it's HIKAKUKA 非核化
• KONO TARO, and why non-G-folks generally like him
• His vaccine roll-out and how he may have been pretty effective in navigating bureaucracy
• His progressiveness
• What DISADVANTAGES Kono in this election
• Who Derek thinks has the best chance
• Ollie asks which candidate would be the best if your goal is to tank the LDP

Topics discussed on the extras include:

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Social Media Links:

Derek Wessman: Twitter

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

Ollie's going to eat both of those pizzas by himself, but HEY, it's his birthday.

Bobby looks at the river cruise unions ALLS-WELL-THAT-ENDS-WELL philosophy.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• The "rulebook for integration" in Japan, and why it's never been properly translated. 
• The actual rulebooks that are actually made in an attempt to help non-Japanese integrate in the way Japanese people want. 
• Ollie's black and white striped t-shirt 
• The lowdown on the Indian community in Japan. 
• The stereotypical Indian migrant, and how its changing. 
• The effect on Covid-19 on your ability to get a good Indian set lunch. 
• How the entry ban has affected the Indian population in Japan
• Whether India has been treated worse than other countries. 
• Cross-boarder relationships. 
• Ollie getting himself in knots trying to ask what was actually a very simple question about India getting wealthier and gender equality. 
• Ollie's claim that people not wanting to be friends with him is because of where he's from not who he is. 

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Indian Migrants in Tokyo: A Study of Socio-Cultural, Religious, and Working Worlds

In the Age of COVID-19 – Indian restaurants and the Indian cooks in Japan 

Social Media Links:

Megha Wadhwa:  Twitter | Japan Times Article List

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

Selena Hoy, outreach director from Suicide Prevention Lifeline, TELL, stops by to talk about the different cultural approaches to managing mental health, and why English-speakers in Japan can benefit from a service like TELL, in one of the rare episodes where we ask you to support something that ISN'T our riverboat.

Ollie recommends a cruise that may have set their sights a little high.

Bobby recommends a cruise that DEFINITELY did.

SUPPORT THE JBRC TEAM in the STEP-UP CHALLENGE by GIVING MONEY HERE

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• The true value of Brian
• TELL 
• World Suicide Prevention Day
• What IS TELL's Step Up Challenge to raise funds and awareness of suicide prevention in Japan and how does it work
• What's different right now in terms of our collective, global mental health
• One possible downside of trying to look on the bright side
• The buoys put their money and their feet where their mouth is. Support us here.
• Loopholes 
• The origin of TELL and how it works
• Are English-speakers more likely to use mental-health support services?
• Are anonymous services more easily accessible to Japanese people?
• What are the cultural stigmas around mental health in Japan?
• The range of issues faced by the people who use the TELL help line?
• First-time mental health seekers and other situations that TELL sees regularly by virtue of being a help line IN JAPAN
• The Japanese criteria for judging the severity of mental health issues
• How common mental-health related work leave in Japan: is this a good thing or a bad thing?
• Why prioritizing mental health is in the interests of... capitalism
• Battle of the analogies
• Different cultural responses to the risk of suicide
• A recent immigrant in Japan death that has raised the issue of suicide
• Why do people walk on eggshells around the topic of suicide, especially as it pertains to certain cases
• What precautions news organizations take to prevent copycat suicides
• The glamorization of suicide
• TELL counseling during Covid, and how entry restrictions have changed the nature of the calls TELL gets

As always, the extras are FANTASTIC, and they're like getting a whole extra show for free. Well, not for free.
For like 4 to 5 dollars a month.
You can get access to the extras by supporting the podcast for less than $1 an episode by becoming a member at http://buymeacoffee.com.

Topics discussed on the extras include:

• Selena's Coming-to-Japan story and how she ended up working with TELL
• Ollie tries to do the show IN the extras
• Is the idea of "mental health" and how it's measured fundamentally different in different countries?
• The British "Stiff Upper Lip," compared to Japan
• The recent high-profile examples of public figures prioritizing mental health (in order of importance: Osaka, Koike)
• Japans cultural peccadillos around the expression of emotion, and instances in which it's acceptable
• The way sports creates a safe space for things like crying in Japan, and homoerotic play in the West
• Rugby
• Rugby
• AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WE LOVE RUGBY
• .com
• China cracking down on Western Culture, including non-traditional masculinity
• How gender-roles and toxic masculinity and the repression of emotion relates to suicide
• Statistics by gender around who seeks mental help and who dies by suicide
• Japan's suicide rate in the last decade, and how covid has changed it/who it has changed it for
• Shinjuu （心中）double-suicide/forced suicide when a parent takes their children with them, and whether or not it's more common in Japan
• Why the way we phrase references to suicide and other deaths MATTER semantically speaking
• How we ended up dealing with this topic
• The infinite potential for collaborative brand deals between depression, darkness, and stand-up comedy

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CONTENT LINKS:
Donate to TELL Here
Participate in the Step Up Challenge

Social Media Links:

Selena Hoy:  Email: [email protected] | Twitter | TELL 

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

Hiromu Nagahara talks about Princess Mako's engagement and upcoming move to New York and the split in Japanese public opinion, between nationalists, who are angry, and normal people, who don't care.

Ollie pays close attention to the head chopping facilities list on this week's cruise recommendation.

Bobby does NOT like that thing that you all like.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• How sometimes it's okay to just do something to connect
• Hiromu's recommendation for a way to enjoy studying Japanese history
• Amy Stanley's book:
  Stranger in the Shogun's City
• How learning about the history of the place you live can enrich your day-to-day
• Japan's history of leveraging Japanese art and Bobby and Ollie getting to feel like they contribute to the conversation
• The relationship between exporting/importing cultural products and political developments
• Ollie and Bobby find out that "Japanning" DOESN'T refer to becoming a high-functioning alcoholic
• "Enjoyment" as a catalyst of social change for VERY IMPORTANT REASONS
• The Japanese elite generation who loved Opera and saw their own stuff as backwards
• Princess Mako's upcoming nuptials and relocation to New York
• Why is this a big deal and why are nationalists so upset about it?
• A brief background of the current Imperial Family
• What's the debt scandal around her fiancee Komuro Kei, and his mom's broken off engagement
• The possibility that Princess Mako will turn down and "snub" the lump sum cash gift that royal daughters get when they marry
• The opportunistic timing of Komuro's mom's ex-fiancee's claims
• How Imperial succession works and why that places Princess Mako in a more important (but not THAT important) spot
• How the Ultra-nationalists see Princess Mako, and her duty to not "sully the dignity" of the royal family
• Not all Imperial Princesses are equal
• The unprecedented abdication of the previous emperor whose name I do not know
• The constitutional restrictions placed on the Imperial family
• A comparison between the actual authority of different countries' Imperial households throughout history
• How Japanese emperors have, nonetheless, influenced policy decisions
• How recent decisions and movements in Japan's symbolic monarchy bring up questions of constitutional legality; where do private decisions or expressions of opinion cross over into the iffy legal territory of swaying political decisions
• What's the anxiety around Princess Mako becoming Americanized?
• Who do Japanese royal daughters tend to marry and why?
• The reasons being used against Princess Mako moving to the states
• The fear that Princess Mako could be Japan's Prince Harry

As always, the extras are FANTASTIC, and they're like getting a whole extra show for free. Well, not for free.
For like 4 to 5 dollars a month.
You can get access to the extras by supporting the podcast for less than $1 an episode by becoming a member at http://buymeacoffee.com.

Topics discussed on the extras include:

• Japanese emigration throughout history
• Hiromu's own families 
• Reasons for and against Japanese people to seek employment/opportunity/adventure abroad
• What it means to be "kikokushijo: returning ex-pats" in Japan

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Social Media Links:

Hiromu Nagahara:  Twitter | MIT Profile | Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan's Pop Era and Its Discontents

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

An hour-long celebration of JBRC's 97th episode!
We take a moment to catch up and make sure Ollie is actually surviving, roast some headlines, and have an extremely rare discussion about some things we love about life in Japan.

Ollie recommends a river cruise that thinks you should quit nursing that beer, pussy.

Bobby tells a group of people how they can get what they deserve.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• A service that provides MORE than everything you need to do nothing
• Ollie's fringe fiasco, and how he's benefitting from the fact that everyone else but him (maybe) has Covid
• How the Fringe is radically different from the last time it was held
• The vaccination/situation
• A weird biophysical phenomenon during performing
• The power of mind over body
• The construction of a comedy hour and how it differs cultural
• Fidelity to an ostensible theme
• Consistency
• The Russian Man who Swam To Hokkaido
• IOC Chairman's Bach Returns to Japan for the Paralympics
• The Yakuza Boss who was sentenced to death for ordering murder
• Why our show tends to skew-anti-Japan
• Our attempts to describe why we like Japan without getting into Japan cliches
• The difference between enjoying life in JAPAN and just enjoying life AWAY FROM YOUR HOME COUNTRY
• UNCLE OLLIE'S DISCOUNT RUGS
• The feeling that Japanese employees care about your employee experience
• How we've already failed with our terms for the show
• A debate about whether or not Japan is more cycling-friendly than other countries, including a discussion of the difference between cycling tourists and cycling commuters
• The splendor of Michi-no-eki
• The Ten-million dollar toilet
• The extreme rarity of tourist traps in Japan
• Why it's always important to remember that Japan is not defined by its major cities and vice versa
• Why doing the above can undermine your otherwise worthwhile take
• The ubiquity of cheap or free snacks
• The non-ubiquity of drugs
• Strict drug laws and what that means for the drugs that you do come across
• What it means in terms of parenting
• Is the lack of drugs the reason why alcoholism is so bad?
• Comparatively less pressure placed on the middle class to get a useless expensive academic education
• Comparatively higher value placed on a dedication to a trade/craftsmanship/art/athletics
• Better labor laws
• How hard it was to think of content for this show

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Social Media Links:

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

After the unprecedented rain and landslides in western Japan, disaster sociologist Dr. Wes Cheek talks about the country's future, and how facing the climate crisis may require never-before-seen levels of "shikata-ga-nai."
Ollie recommends a climate change simulating cruise that is ALREADY behind the times.

Bobby throws some classic comedic misdirection in your face.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• Whatever happened to all those RAINBOW HATS?
• Updates with Ollie's continuing run of terrible luck at the Fringe, and how he's discovered that his pain is funny
• Wes's wild journey from bourgeoise JET ALT to MMA Photographer to disaster recovery researcher, and how 311 (not the band) changed the direction of his life
• Brian's in a bit of a mood
• The JBRC Alumni network and Wes's work adjacent to previous guest Angela Ortiz
• How we're funding the boathouse
• The extreme weather and its effects on southern Japan
• Wes getting caught in the weather in Kagoshima, Bobby being in it in Fukuoka
• A brief description of rain
• Exactly HOW severe the level of precipitation was and how this is creating challenges for areas that didn't see these challenges
• How Japan's topography makes it vulnerable
• Japan immigrant pessimism from Alex Kerr's 'Dog's and Demons' but how Japan's tendency to put concrete everywhere can actually be good
• What are the extreme lengths Japan might have to go in preventative measures?
• How Japan news media is reframing its approach to covering extreme weather stories
• What does that "Once in hundred year" storm terminology actually refer to statistically?
• A very clear illustration of why we invite people who are smarter than us on the show
• What motivates politicians to gamble with disaster preparedness
• Why politicians frame disasters as unforeseeable and what disaster researchers try to do balance that out
• The inherent conflict between running day-to-day politics and caring about the long-term
• Helplessness in the face of disaster
• Geographical climate crisis triage
• When should we give up?
• Is there messaging that can get people to not adapt a shikata-ga-nai attitude towards man-made climate disasters?
• The proliferation of "Bousai" (disaster preparedness) content in Japan
• The effect of measuring the value of a society based on its GDP, and how that relates to who we put the responsibility for saving the planet on
• Why Wes tells his children not to recycle (not really)
• How is Japan positioned to face the future?
• What sort of things should Japan concern itself with going forward?

As always, the extras are FANTASTIC, and they're like getting a whole extra show for free. Well, not for free.
For like 4 to 5 dollars a month.
You can get access to the extras by supporting the podcast for less than $1 an episode by becoming a member at http://buymeacoffee.com.

Topics discussed on the extras include:

• How Ollie and Wes think that being able to edit podcast audio makes them fucking Keanu Reeves
• How the new internet economy screws you guys, sorry
• Wes gets a brief education on UK sitcoms before he SURPRISE SURPRISE moves to London. TWEET AT HIM ABOUT his soon to be defunct @ on twitter!
• Wes's podcast Atticus Shrugged, covering US politics in the south
• How the names of places work, and how Florida politics skew, plus a brief moment where Bobby pretends to remember college football
• A definition of "florida crackers" that we were unfamiliar with
• Why Wes hates thinking about good things
• Once Wes almost ran for Congress against Matt Gaetz
• Are there parallels between current US populism and Japanese political trends?
• How legacy politics and elite association membership controls the relationship between politics and the media
• The western tendency for people to define their personal/social identity based on their political affiliation and how that doesn't really happen in Japan at large
• The US pulling out of Afghanistan, and Japan's reaction
• The relationship (financial and otherwise) between Japan and Afghanistan over the years
• Nakamura Tetsu
• How Japan doesn't accept refugees, except they gave it to that Myanmar Soccer Goalie
• The Utada Hikaru contradicition: How Japanese people choose whether or not they consider someone Japanese
• How lots of countries will make "humanitarian" choices when it involves people who are good at sport
• Should Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson have been forgiven? (HOW THE HELL DID WE GET HERE?)
• How the US rightwing is just trolling
• Bobby's lighting fail when we made that Olympic video

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Social Media Links:

Dr. Wesley Cheek:  Twitter | Podcast-Atticus Shrugged

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram

Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic

Disability activist and historian Mark Bookman talks about how accessibility progress is bolstered by the international spotlight of the Paralympics but hampered by the lack of accessibility at the policy-making table.

Ollie interrogates the patriarchy.

Bobby seems pretty consumed by his anxiety about how much time we have left.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• Ollie's disastrous start to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and how a Brian intervened to save the Day
• How AirBNB does in terms of accessibility
• How Japan travel accommodations do with accessibility overall
• What Mark's work as a disability activist entails, and how his daily life and interactions inform his activism
• The concrete web of support that's required to make a disabled person's
• The challenging of advocating for people with invisible disabilities in Japan
• The importance of inclusivity in accessibility conversations
• The Paralympics as an opportunity to reflect and improve on accessibility
• How Corona has illustrated some of Japan's social barriers to accessibility
• Japan's over-reliance on care networks for disable people
• How Japan's aging population and shortage of caregivers highlights disability and accessibility issues
• The chance that the Paralympics offers to address some of these issues
• How incredibly sporty we all are
• Mark's experience being consulted by the Japanese government to work on accessibility issues
• How Japan's attitude towards accessibility compares to other countries
• Japan's legal history around accessibility
• How transportation accessibility has rippled out to other areas
• How Japan's inclusion TARGETS set them apart from other countries
• A brief history of Japanese disability welfare laws and where they excel
• WHY they excel in those areas
• Disability visibility in government, and how it affects public perception
• Japan's history of high-profiled disability
• How the Paralympics can function to create "undesirable accessibility"
• How the Paralympics can be helpful to some and harmful to others
• Some really disastrously bad Paralympic advertising messaging
• What Mark tells a government when they ask what they should do
• Why the government needs to do more than just ask Mark what they should do

Topics discussed on the extras include:

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Content links:

Mark's Ted Talk: Paralympics as Possibility: The Past, Present, and Future of Accessibility in Japan
Article on Covid-19: The Coronavirus Crisis: Disability Politics and Activism in Contemporary Japan
Accessibility Mapping Project

Social Media Links:

Mark Bookman: Twitter | Bookman Research

Ollie Horn: Twitter | Instagram
Bobby Judo: Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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• We record remotely using Squadcast and the podcast is hosted on Transistor. 
• Bobby uses the Samson Go Mic and Ollie uses the AT2005USB mic