In a special bonus summer episode of the Just Japan Podcast, host Kevin O’Shea talks about what goes into making an episode of the podcast. How is it recorded, edited and uploaded to the Internet and how is it produced? What’s the process for finding and interviewing guests? There’s a lot of work to get...

In Episode 121 of the podcast, host Kevin O’Shea welcomes back regular guests Mully and Pee Jay. Mully and Pee Jay are both long-term expat residents of Japan who arrived here in the early 1990’s. What did they do for entertainment in the days before the Internet was around? How did they make friends before...

Long before the maker movement existed, Akihabara was world famous as a destination for hardware geeks, robotics nerds, and audiophiles and tinkerers of all kinds. Hundreds of tiny specialty shops lined the areas back streets and did a surprising brisk business in items you could not find anywhere else. The internet changed all that. …...

In Episode 120 of the Just Japan Podcast, host Kevin O’Shea chats with returning and frequent guest Mully of the Mully’s Place Podcast. They take a stroll down memory lane and chat about their favorite TV shows of the 1970’s and 80’s. They also talk about Japan stuff! Kevin and Jim talk about Japanese food,...

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In Episode 119 of the Just Japan Podcast, host Kevin O’Shea talks with Brett Larner of the Japan Running News. With the Rio Summer Olympics kicking off this week, Kevin gets the analysis of the Japanese Athletics team (specifically runners) from Brett. Brett is the “go to guy” when it comes to expertise in the...

Uber and Airbnb represent a new very kind of startup, one that could not have existed twenty years ago, and the very thing that make these companies so transformative in the United States ensures they will never succeed in Japan. You see…   The post 51: The Real Reason Uber is Failing in Japan appeared first...

PokemonGO is in Japan! In Episode 118 of the Just Japan Podcast, host Kevin O’Shea brings Andrew Higgins back on the podcast to talk about PokemonGo in Japan. When they last talked, the game was in many countries, but not Japan (much to the frustration of both Japanese people and foreigners in Japan). Now it’s...

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