Pure TokyoScope Podcast 145: A Brief History of Conspiracy Theories in Japan!
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) run amok through a mental mindfield of Japanese conspiracy theories past, present, and future running the gamut from mind-control, urban legends, and how the lunatic fringe is setting up shop in the political arena!
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SHOW NOTES
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer Japanese Bon Dance in Nakano
Chemtrails over Kyoto: What stops conspiracies from hijacking the conversation in Japan? - By Matt Alt
Megazone 23 (1985)
Nobita dies by suicide after realising Doraemon's truth? Netizens refuse to believe this viral theory
Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
Tiger Tanaka’s Secret Train in You Only Live Twice (1967)
Tetsuro Tamaba’s Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die? (1989)
The whole crazy thing is up on Archive.org with Eng subs
Yamato Q leader arrested after followers disrupt vaccine clinic (2022)
Kuchisake Onna (Slit-Mouth Woman) manga, 1979
Jinmenken ("Human-Faced Dog") magazine illustration, 1987
MU Magazine, 1980, cover painting by Noriyoshi Ohrai
Takeshi Kitano Interviews Shoko Asahara, 1991
MU T-shirt by Hardcore Chocolate (model: Younapi)
Editor in Chief of MU magazine, Takeharu Mikami
‘Curse of the Colonel’ lifted? Japan’s Hanshin Tigers hope ritual ceremony bats away years of bad luck
New Show Sponsor: KFC x Pokémon
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