Why Come Japan

This week on the WHY COME JAPAN podcast is long time friend of the show and Jvlog YouTuber Tkyosam. An American male who creates YouTube videos about being fat and having fun in Japan. In the interview Rad talks with Sam about the origins of WHY COME JAPAN, Tkyosam memes, Quitting the Vlog, Why Japan has its sh*t together, and much much more.

You can find Sam here:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/tkyosam

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tkyosam

Twitter: @tkyosam

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tkyosam/

Twtich: https://www.twitch.tv/tkyosam

Tinder: (no link provided)

And of course you can find me here:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/radrey

Twitter: @radorii

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Radrey-Channel-1571653023108925/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/radrey

Today I interview cartoonist Chris Carlier. We talk about living in Japan 14 years ago, selling comics, Hitomi Tanaka, Japanese mascots, disturbing cartoons and much much more.

Check out Chris’s book here on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/Little-Japan-Chris-Carlier/dp/1533321809/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480953845&sr=8-1&keywords=little+in+japan

Or read it for free at his website:

http://littleinjapan.com/

Check out his new blog Mondo Mascots:

http://mondomascots.com/

Follow Chris on twitter:

https://twitter.com/pubgoblin?lang=en

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Hello and welcome to Why Come Japan, a podcast where Rad from Rad culture interviews creatives he knows in Japan. This week’s guest is YouTuber Akasan. We talk about why we REALLY came to Japan, reaction videos, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the differences between American and Japanese pop culture, Japanese YouTube vs. American YouTube, and much much more.

Check him out here: https://www.youtube.com/akasan

Twitter: https://twitter.com/akasan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

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My website: radrey.org

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