Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #88: Akihabara Hangover, Biden x Kishida, The Swinging Sounds of Hiroyuki Sanada
Patrick Macias and Matt Alt bring you pop culture from Japan!
In this episode of 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) recover from an Akihabara hangover, review Japan PM Kishida's recent visit to the White House, and groove to the sounds of singing idol Hiroyuki Sanada of Shogun fame!
SHOW NOTES!
The Crucified Ultra-Brothers Diorama at the Tamashii Nations Showroom in Akihabara
The Mini-Skirt Police Idol Group
The rat we saw in Akihabara (note pink stucco wall for scale)
Obama Thanks Japan's Prime Minister for Karaoke, Anime and Emoji (2015)
J-pop duo YOASOBI invited to Bidens-hosted dinner during Kishida visit
A very cursed image (2017)
PM Kishida Namedrops the Flintstones in Congress
Related Article: Matt Alt on The “Dark Matter” of Japan’s Fantasy-Industrial Complex
Hiroyuki Sanada’s debut album ‘Adventurer of Youth’, 1981 (click for full album on YouTube)
‘After the Rush’ LP by Hiroyuki Sanada, 1984 (front and back covers)
Roaring Fire US TV Trailer (1982)
Japan Action Club Musical ‘The Big Adventure of the Fantastic Pirates’ (from left, Sonny Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hikaru Kurosaki) 1982
What is the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast? Well… Author and fellow Substack writer Matt Alt and I have been recording together for over a year now.
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