Every year more than two million people visit the Sapporo Snow Festival. Featuring more than 200 snow sculptures, live music, and traditional winter foods the Sapporo Snow Festival is a great way to enjoy a day in the snow!
Starting with a simple domain name and website, Davide Rossi has built Go! Go! Nihon into a hugely successful company that brings students from around the world to study in Japan. On this show CEO and founder Davide Rossi talks about his experience of starting a company in Japan and offers some tips for anyone else who is looking to start a business here.
Renting an apartment in Tokyo is a complicated process filled with all sorts of historic regulations, strange acronyms and more fees than you can possibly imagine. To guide us through this process I am joined by Adam German from Real Estate Japan, who is going to explain the necessary steps to securing your new home away from home.
Eight months after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the small town of Ishinomaki, documentary filmmaker Paul Johannessen went and interviewed a number of residents to find out about the recovery effort. What he found was a strong community who are working hard to rebuilt their lives and their town.
How accessible is Japan for someone traveling in a wheelchair? With it’s busy sidewalks and endless stairs in and out of the train stations, is Japan closed off to someone in a wheelchair or is it surprisingly accessible? On this show I talk to Ashley Olson about her recent trip to Japan and the many surprises she encountered and why she is eager to come back.
On this show Tokyo Podcast talks to Robin Sakai from Social500 about social media in Japan and how it has grown from its early beginnings on mobile phones to sites like 2chan that wield considerable power in influencing cultural trends.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a documentary film by David Gelb that follows the daily life of 85 year old Jiro Ono who is the owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro and is widely considered to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. The film is an intimate look at Jiro’s philosophies on work and life and his insistence on absolute perfection and is a fascinating look into the life of a sushi master.
On this show I talk to architect Robert Day about his 10 day Japan Architecture Tour and about the different architecture styles that are unique to Japan and what to look for if you plan your own trip to Japan.
Tokyo Podcast is pleased to welcome Yoshimi Horiuchi who runs a non-profit organization called Always Reading Caravan that provides mobile library services to families in the rural areas of Thailand. Yoshimi talks to Anthony about the works she’s doing to increase reading in Thailand and the difficulties she faces as a blind woman in navigating the chaotic streets of Bangkok.
In this show Anthony Joh talks to Osaka tattoo artist Hori Benny about the history and intricacies of the Japanese tattoo. Despite a long and rich history in Japan tattoos are still not widely accepted in Japan due to their association with the Yakuza. Benny gives us an fascinating insight into the world of tattooing in Japan.
