Pure TokyoScope Podcast 109: Japan's New Otaku Prime Minister?
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) review the otaku credential of Japan's newest Prime Minister. Also some vintage toy talk and anxiety over the price raise of a beloved Japanese kid's snack!
SHOW NOTES!
Matt and Teruhisa Kitahara filming at the Tin Toy Museum in Yokohama (note Mr. Peanut and friends in background)
Cover of The Japan Punch (1878)
Garada K-7 Jumbo Machinder
Legendary Jumbo Machinder boxes on PLAYGIRL Q (1975)
John Ritter in Kabuki-cho (via The Love Boat, Season Seven, Episode 8)
Japan’s New Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba in Majin Buu Cosplay (2018)
Shigeru Ishiba (r) visits a hobby + model show (note Godzilla, Evangelion, Fist of the North Star and other kits)
Matt’s YouTube video on Shigeru Ishiba
UMAIBO ala “Delicious Stick”
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for over 100 episodes.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been: