Pure Tokyoscope Podcast 136: The Japanese Fiction That Made Us!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!
FULL EPISODE! This time on 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) discuss the Japanese fiction books and authors that BLOW THEIR MINDS from Haruki Murakami, to Masaya Nakahara, Kobo Abe, and beyond!
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Show Notes
The Second Japan Avant-garde Poster Fair Show at Bunkamura Gallery
Financial Times: Is Japanese anime the next global IP gold mine?
Inter Ice Age 4 by Kobo Abe
Cyborg Blues by Kazumasa Hirai
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa by Yasunari Kawabata
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Short Fiction by Masaya Nakahara (aka Violent Onsen Geisha)
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories, edited by John L. Apostolou and Martin H. Greenberg
Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction Selected and edited by Alfred Birnbaum
Good Girls Don’t from Chipmunk Punk (slowed down)
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