Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #89: Three Million Tourists Can't Be Wrong!
Pure TokyoScope PODCAST #89: Three Million Tourists Can't Be Wrong!
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) take a batch of recent news headlines from Japan including overtourism, serpents where they don’t belong, a rare shooting in Tokyo, and the rising fear of a big earthquake in the capital city!
SHOW NOTES!
Foreign visitors to Japan top 3 mil. in March, single-month record
Snake on a train: Discovery of serpent delays Tokyo-Nagoya shinkansen
Police officer fires at man in Tokyo's Shibuya district
Tokyo Earthqukes: Is the Big One Coming?
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.
Our show is a mix of Japanese pop culture news and features and some of our best episodes to date have been:
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