Pure TokyoScope Podcast 167: Japan's New Video Game Boom!
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture direct from Japan!
PREVIEW 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) explore the sudden rush to enter the game market from players like Toei and Sanrio as part of a bigger government push to increase Japanese pop culture exports! Can you dig it?
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SHOW NOTES
Prime Minister Takaichi Voice Acrylic Stand Adds Recorded Messages to LDP Convention Giveaway
Japan begins selling lethal weapons after lifting of ban
2-XL by Mego Commercial (1978)
TOEI Launches TOEI Games and Sets April 24 Lineup Reveal
Sanrio launches gaming brand, tapping fast-growing global market
Trailer for Sonny Chiba’s The Bodyguard
Japanese government wants overseas anime market to roughly triple in 10 years, but are they crazy?
Japanese Fire Sergeant Suspended After Forcing Coworkers to Play Homemade Board Games on Duty
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (2009)
Show Sponsor: Hibachi Express
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