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) return from a brief break with tales of a recent journey to London and Glasgow, plus news updates on the absolute state of Toys “R” Us and Halloween in Japan!
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SHOW NOTES
Making of featurette for 'Dracula AD 1972' (UK 1972)
Gorgo in Picadilly Circus (1961)
Toys “R” Us eyes exiting Japan, selling business to Don Quijote operator
Toys “R” Us Japan Exclusive Microman Figures
The Secret History of the 1980s Taiwanese Toy Cartel
Shibuya Takes Halloween Crackdown to a New Level in 2026
Goodbye Bad Halloween Official Video by Shibuya
The Tokyo Yamanote Halloween Train 2006 Montage Video
Tokyo-wan Enjo, aka Conflagration (1975)
Conflagration English Export Dub
Gino Plays the Blues by Greg Starr
Suckerman costume by Collegeville
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