Living Japan

On this week’s episode Brent talk to us about his first acupuncture experience in Japan. Later on we talk about the message of the UN representative Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, who urged Japan to have stricter laws in order to ban the sexual depictions of underage characters in manga. Finally, we answered our first ever Facebook message from our listener Robert, from Poland, who after watching a viral video, asked us if it is true that Japanese children have to clean their schools by themselves.

This week we celebrate same sex civil union certificates in Shibuya and talk about families that want to have different surnames.

On Episode 43 Edgar share’s with us his thoughts after covering the Tokyo Game Show 2015. We discuss a little bit about the changes that are taking place inside the Japanese Gaming industry. The Living Japan crew also discusses about a recent controversy involving an idol that “broke” some stipulations on her contract and will have to pay an important sum of money to her managing company. Join the discussion, what do you think about videogames and the role in Japan in the industry today? Also, do you think the idol did wrong or do you think that the decision on her contract was fair? Let us know in the comments!!

On Episode 42 the Motoi, Brent and Edgar discuss about the answer to the ultimate question: Beer and Snacks in Japan!!!! Following a recent trend and the appearance of more places that sell craft beer, the Living Japan crew has decided to talk about their favorite Japanese beers and which snacks they like to have while drinking. Are they the same than in other countries??? Are there any weird different snacks that you would like to try??? Let us know in the comments!!!

Announcement: During the summer we’ve been a little inconsistent on keeping our uploading of new episodes. That’s why our next episode will be uploaded on Wednesday October 14th, and we will return to our usual schedule (Wednesday’s every two weeks). Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for listening!

On this episode the Living Japan crew answers to one of our listeners questions and talk about how Japanese people exercise, keep fit and practices sports. Joing the discussion, do people in your country exercise as much as Japanese people? How is the sports and fitness culture?? Let us know in the comments!!!

On the latest Episode of Living Japan, we congratulate the team Twin Cosplay, who represented Mexico at the World Cosplay Summit 2015 and got the first prize for their Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask performance. Later, Motoi, Brent and Edgar talk about some of the problems that the organizing committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are facing, specially the copyright issue surrounding the event’s logo; the cancellation of the construction of a new stadium and the possibility of the appearance of an idol group on the inauguration ceremony. Join the discussion, do you think Tokyo is ready for this even? Do you think that having an idol group performance an the inauguration will portray a good or bad image of Japan? Let us know in your comments!