Tokyo Podcast
Summary: Anthony Joh returns to Japan and to the airwaves with Season 2 of the Tokyo Podcast. If you’re one of the listeners who stuck around – thank you! Since the whole world is stuck at home under quarantine thanks to the coronavirus, now seemed like the perfect time to bring you some fresh, updated content on life in Japanland.
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Podcasts:
Anthony kicks off his Japanese language series by talking to Richard Graham who runs the very popular Genki Japan website. Richard has been making YouTube videos for some time now helping people learn Japanese in a fun and unique way. We compare different methods of learning Japanese and how you can say "may the force be with you" in Japanese.
I also talk to Paul Papadimitriou who runs a website covering the mobile phone industry in Japan. We talk about the recently released Apple iPhone 4S and how Apple's business model has caused quite a stir in the Japanese mobile market. We also touch on the news that KDDI/Au us now selling the iPhone 4S and thus breaking the iPhone monopoly that was held by SoftBank for many years.
Anthony also went to check out a Thai Japanese festival and comments on the good relationship between Thailand and Japan. The festival was a good chance for Japanese people to try many different kinds of Thai food, although Anthony noticed that the durian booth wasn't too busy.
The tech world was stunned today by the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Steve was an amazing entrepreneur and Anthony talks about what he learned about business by watching how Steve ran Apple.
On this show Anthony talks about leaving Thailand and the difficulties and challenges of finding an apartment in Japan, a process filled with large amounts of paperwork, procedures and endless fees.
Typhoon Roke slammed into Japan today at the height of the Tokyo rush hour causing the train system to come to a complete stop. With over 6 million people using the train system per day any delay is going to cause massive back ups. On this show Tony experiences both a typhoon and the notorious Japanese rush hour.
On this teaser episode of Tokyo Podcast, Anthony talks about what will be coming up on future shows. Some of the topics that will be covered will be: living and working in Japan, Shinto, sports, and the mysterious and sometimes frustrating Japanese language.
