Pure TokyoScope Podcast 125: The Fuji TV Scandal! Sayonara Shakey's! Otaku Power in Ikebukuro! (Preview)
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In this preview episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, authors Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) talk about snow country and the increasing amounts of fun to be had in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district.
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Show Notes
The Mikado Game Center in Ikebukuro
Executives at Japan`s Fuji TV and parent firm resign over a sex scandal linked to a former star
The Golden Voice of Jim Nabors TV Commercial
Sayonara, Shakey’s: All-you-can-eat pizza chain disappears from Tokyo’s Shibuya
All You Can Eat - The Fat Boys (from Krush Groove)
New report on nuisance behavior in Shibuya outside the Gaijin Mart (Shakey’s on the 2nd floor)
Shibuya’s Hachiko Family public art installation will be permanently removed, not relocated
Kanye West Set To Lose $20 Million Tokyo Dome Deal
The Beastie Boys on TV in Japan (1987)
New Sponsor: Century Sushi
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