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Last time we spoke about the surrender of Japan. Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender on August 15, prompting mixed public reactions: grief, shock, and sympathy for the Emperor, tempered by fear of hardship and occupation. The government's response included resignations and suicide as new leadership was brought in under Prime Minister Higashikuni, with Mamoru Shigemitsu as Foreign Minister and Kawabe Torashiro heading a delegation to Manila. General MacArthur directed the occupation plan, “Blacklist,” prioritizing rapid, phased entry into key Japanese areas and Korea, while demobilizing enemy forces. The surrender ceremony occurred aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, with Wainwright, Percival, Nimitz, and UN representatives in attendance. Civilians and soldiers across Asia began surrendering, and postwar rehabilitation, Indochina and Vietnam's independence movements, and Southeast Asian transitions rapidly unfolded as Allied forces established control. This episode is the Aftermath of the Pacific War Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  The Pacific War has ended. Peace has been restored by the Allies and most of the places conquered by the Japanese Empire have been liberated. In this post-war period, new challenges would be faced for those who won the war; and from the ashes of an empire, a defeated nation was also seeking to rebuild. As the Japanese demobilized their armed forces, many young boys were set to return to their homeland, even if they had previously thought that they wouldn't survive the ordeal. And yet, there were some cases of isolated men that would continue to fight for decades even, unaware that the war had already ended.  As we last saw, after the Japanese surrender, General MacArthur's forces began the occupation of the Japanese home islands, while their overseas empire was being dismantled by the Allies. To handle civil administration, MacArthur established the Military Government Section, commanded by Brigadier-General William Crist, staffed by hundreds of US experts trained in civil governance who were reassigned from Okinawa and the Philippines. As the occupation began, Americans dispatched tactical units and Military Government Teams to each prefecture to ensure that policies were faithfully carried out. By mid-September, General Eichelberger's 8th Army had taken over the Tokyo Bay region and began deploying to occupy Hokkaido and the northern half of Honshu. Then General Krueger's 6th Army arrived in late September, taking southern Honshu and Shikoku, with its base in Kyoto. In December, 6th Army was relieved of its occupation duties; in January 1946, it was deactivated, leaving the 8th Army as the main garrison force. By late 1945, about 430,000 American soldiers were garrisoned across Japan. President Truman approved inviting Allied involvement on American terms, with occupation armies integrated into a US command structure. Yet with the Chinese civil war and Russia's reluctance to place its forces under MacArthur's control, only Australia, Britain, India, and New Zealand sent brigades, more than 40,000 troops in southwestern Japan. Japanese troops were gradually disarmed by order of their own commanders, so the stigma of surrender would be less keenly felt by the individual soldier. In the homeland, about 1.5 million men were discharged and returned home by the end of August. Demobilization overseas, however, proceeded, not quickly, but as a long, difficult process of repatriation. In compliance with General Order No. 1, the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters disbanded on September 13 and was superseded by the Japanese War Department to manage demobilization. By November 1, the homeland had demobilized 2,228,761 personnel, roughly 97% of the Homeland Army. Yet some 6,413,215 men remained to be repatriated from overseas. On December 1, the Japanese War Ministry dissolved, and the First Demobilization Ministry took its place. The Second Demobilization Ministry was established to handle IJN demobilization, with 1,299,868 sailors, 81% of the Navy, demobilized by December 17. Japanese warships and merchant ships had their weapons rendered inoperative, and suicide craft were destroyed. Forty percent of naval vessels were allocated to evacuations in the Philippines, and 60% to evacuations of other Pacific islands. This effort eventually repatriated about 823,984 men to Japan by February 15, 1946. As repatriation accelerated, by October 15 only 1,909,401 men remained to be repatriated, most of them in the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, the Higashikuni Cabinet and Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru managed to persuade MacArthur not to impose direct military rule or martial law over all of Japan. Instead, the occupation would be indirect, guided by the Japanese government under the Emperor's direction. An early decision to feed occupation forces from American supplies, and to allow the Japanese to use their own limited food stores, helped ease a core fear: that Imperial forces would impose forced deliveries on the people they conquered. On September 17, MacArthur transferred his headquarters from Yokohama to Tokyo, setting up primary offices on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Building, an imposing edifice overlooking the moat and the Imperial palace grounds in Hibiya, a symbolic heart of the nation.  While the average soldier did not fit the rapacious image of wartime Japanese propagandists, occupation personnel often behaved like neo-colonial overlords. The conquerors claimed privileges unimaginable to most Japanese. Entire trains and train compartments, fitted with dining cars, were set aside for the exclusive use of occupation forces. These silenced, half-empty trains sped past crowded platforms, provoking ire as Japanese passengers were forced to enter and exit packed cars through punched-out windows, or perch on carriage roofs, couplings, and running boards, often with tragic consequences. The luxury express coaches became irresistible targets for anonymous stone-throwers. During the war, retrenchment measures had closed restaurants, cabarets, beer halls, geisha houses, and theatres in Tokyo and other large cities. Now, a vast leisure industry sprang up to cater to the needs of the foreign occupants. Reopened restaurants and theatres, along with train stations, buses, and streetcars, were sometimes kept off limits to Allied personnel, partly for security, partly to avoid burdening Japanese resources, but a costly service infrastructure was built to the occupiers' specifications. Facilities reserved for occupation troops bore large signs reading “Japanese Keep Out” or “For Allied Personnel Only.” In downtown Tokyo, important public buildings requisitioned for occupation use had separate entrances for Americans and Japanese. The effect? A subtle but clear colour bar between the predominantly white conquerors and the conquered “Asiatic” Japanese. Although MacArthur was ready to work through the Japanese government, he lacked the organizational infrastructure to administer a nation of 74 million. Consequently, on October 2, MacArthur dissolved the Military Government Section and inaugurated General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, a separate headquarters focused on civil affairs and operating in tandem with the Army high command. SCAP immediately assumed responsibility for administering the Japanese home islands. It commandeered every large building not burned down to house thousands of civilians and requisitioned vast tracts of prime real estate to quarter several hundred thousand troops in the Tokyo–Yokohama area alone. Amidst the rise of American privilege, entire buildings were refurbished as officers' clubs, replete with slot machines and gambling parlours installed at occupation expense. The Stars and Stripes were hoisted over Tokyo, while the display of the Rising Sun was banned; and the downtown area, known as “Little America,” was transformed into a US enclave. The enclave mentality of this cocooned existence was reinforced by the arrival within the first six months of roughly 700 American families. At the peak of the occupation, about 14,800 families employed some 25,000 Japanese servants to ease the “rigours” of overseas duty. Even enlisted men in the sparse quonset-hut towns around the city lived like kings compared with ordinary Japanese. Japanese workers cleaned barracks, did kitchen chores, and handled other base duties. The lowest private earned a 25% hardship bonus until these special allotments were discontinued in 1949. Most military families quickly adjusted to a pampered lifestyle that went beyond maids and “boys,” including cooks, laundresses, babysitters, gardeners, and masseuses. Perks included spacious quarters with swimming pools, central heating, hot running water, and modern plumbing. Two observers compared GHQ to the British Raj at its height. George F. Kennan, head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, warned during his 1948 mission to Japan that Americans had monopolized “everything that smacks of comfort or elegance or luxury,” criticizing what he called the “American brand of philistinism” and the “monumental imperviousness” of MacArthur's staff to the Japanese suffering. This conqueror's mentality also showed in the bullying attitudes many top occupation officials displayed toward the Japanese with whom they dealt. Major Faubion Bowers, MacArthur's military secretary, later said, “I and nearly all the occupation people I knew were extremely conceited and extremely arrogant and used our power every inch of the way.” Initially, there were spasms of defiance against the occupation forces, such as anonymous stone-throwing, while armed robbery and minor assaults against occupation personnel were rife in the weeks and months after capitulation. Yet active resistance was neither widespread nor organized. The Americans successfully completed their initial deployment without violence, an astonishing feat given a heavily armed and vastly superior enemy operating on home terrain. The average citizen regarded the occupation as akin to force majeure, the unfortunate but inevitable aftermath of a natural calamity. Japan lay prostrate. Industrial output had fallen to about 10% of pre-war levels, and as late as 1946, more than 13 million remained unemployed. Nearly 40% of Japan's urban areas had been turned to rubble, and some 9 million people were homeless. The war-displaced, many of them orphans, slept in doorways and hallways, in bombed-out ruins, dugouts and packing crates, under bridges or on pavements, and crowded the hallways of train and subway stations. As winter 1945 descended, with food, fuel, and clothing scarce, people froze to death. Bonfires lit the streets to ward off the chill. "The only warm hands I have shaken thus far in Japan belonged to Americans," Mark Gayn noted in December 1945. "The Japanese do not have much of a chance to thaw out, and their hands are cold and red." Unable to afford shoes, many wore straw sandals; those with geta felt themselves privileged. The sight of a man wearing a woman's high-buttoned shoes in winter epitomized the daily struggle to stay dry and warm. Shantytowns built of scrap wood, rusted metal, and scavenged odds and ends sprang up everywhere, resembling vast junk yards. The poorest searched smouldering refuse heaps for castoffs that might be bartered for a scrap to eat or wear. Black markets (yami'ichi) run by Japanese, Koreans, and For-mosans mushroomed to replace collapsed distribution channels and cash in on inflated prices. Tokyo became "a world of scarcity in which every nail, every rag, and even a tangerine peel [had a] market value." Psychologically numbed, disoriented, and disillusioned with their leaders, demobilized veterans and civilians alike struggled to get their bearings, shed militaristic ideologies, and begin to embrace new values. In the vacuum of defeat, the Japanese people appeared ready to reject the past and grasp at the straw held out by the former enemy. Relations between occupier and occupied were not smooth, however. American troops comported themselves like conquerors, especially in the early weeks and months of occupation. Much of the violence was directed against women, with the first attacks beginning within hours after the landing of advance units. When US paratroopers landed in Sapporo, an orgy of looting, sexual violence, and drunken brawling ensued. Newspaper accounts reported 931 serious offences by GIs in the Yokohama area during the first week of occupation, including 487 armed robberies, 411 thefts of currency or goods, 9 rapes, 5 break-ins, 3 cases of assault and battery, and 16 other acts of lawlessness. In the first 10 days of occupation, there were 1,336 reported rapes by US soldiers in Kanagawa Prefecture alone. Americans were not the only perpetrators. A former prostitute recalled that when Australian troops arrived in Kure in early 1946, they “dragged young women into their jeeps, took them to the mountain, and then raped them. I heard them screaming for help nearly every night.” Such behaviour was commonplace, but news of criminal activity by occupation forces was quickly suppressed. On September 10, 1945, SCAP issued press and pre-censorship codes outlawing the publication of reports and statistics "inimical to the objectives of the occupation." In the sole instance of self-help General Eichelberger records in his memoirs, when locals formed a vigilante group and retaliated against off-duty GIs, 8th Army ordered armored vehicles into the streets and arrested the ringleaders, who received lengthy prison terms. Misbehavior ranged from black-market activity, petty theft, reckless driving, and disorderly conduct to vandalism, arson, murder, and rape. Soldiers and sailors often broke the law with impunity, and incidents of robbery, rape, and even murder were widely reported. Gang rapes and other sex atrocities were not infrequent; victims, shunned as outcasts, sometimes turned to prostitution in desperation, while others took their own lives to avoid bringing shame to their families. Military courts arrested relatively few soldiers for these offenses and convicted even fewer; Japanese attempts at self-defense were punished severely, and restitution for victims was rare. Fearing the worst, Japanese authorities had already prepared countermeasures against the supposed rapacity of foreign soldiers. Imperial troops in East Asia and the Pacific had behaved brutally toward women, so the government established “sexual comfort-stations” manned by geisha, bar hostesses, and prostitutes to “satisfy the lust of the Occupation forces,” as the Higashikuni Cabinet put it. A budget of 100 million yen was set aside for these Recreation and Amusement Associations, financed initially with public funds but run as private enterprises under police supervision. Through these, the government hoped to protect the daughters of the well-born and middle class by turning to lower-class women to satisfy the soldiers' sexual appetites. By the end of 1945, brothel operators had rounded up an estimated 20,000 young women and herded them into RAA establishments nationwide. Eventually, as many as 70,000 are said to have ended up in the state-run sex industry. Thankfully, as military discipline took hold and fresh troops replaced the Allied veterans responsible for the early crime wave, violence subsided and the occupier's patronising behavior and the ugly misdeeds of a lawless few were gradually overlooked. However, fraternisation was frowned upon by both sides, and segregation was practiced in principle, with the Japanese excluded from areas reserved for Allied personnel until September 1949, when MacArthur lifted virtually all restrictions on friendly association, stating that he was “establishing the same relations between occupation personnel and the Japanese population as exists between troops stationed in the United States and the American people.” In principle, the Occupation's administrative structure was highly complex. The Far Eastern Commission, based in Washington, included representatives from all 13 countries that had fought against Japan and was established in 1946 to formulate basic principles. The Allied Council for Japan was created in the same year to assist in developing and implementing surrender terms and in administering the country. It consisted of representatives from the USA, the USSR, Nationalist China, and the British Commonwealth. Although both bodies were active at first, they were largely ineffectual due to unwieldy decision-making, disagreements between the national delegations (especially the USA and USSR), and the obstructionism of General Douglas MacArthur. In practice, SCAP, the executive authority of the occupation, effectively ruled Japan from 1945 to 1952. And since it took orders only from the US government, the Occupation became primarily an American affair. The US occupation program, effectively carried out by SCAP, was revolutionary and rested on a two-pronged approach. To ensure Japan would never again become a menace to the United States or to world peace, SCAP pursued disarmament and demilitarization, with continuing control over Japan's capacity to make war. This involved destroying military supplies and installations, demobilizing more than five million Japanese soldiers, and thoroughly discrediting the military establishment. Accordingly, SCAP ordered the purge of tens of thousands of designated persons from public service positions, including accused war criminals, military officers, leaders of ultranationalist societies, leaders in the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, business leaders tied to overseas expansion, governors of former Japanese colonies, and national leaders who had steered Japan into war. In addition, MacArthur's International Military Tribunal for the Far East established a military court in Tokyo. It had jurisdiction over those charged with Class A crimes, top leaders who had planned and directed the war. Also considered were Class B charges, covering conventional war crimes, and Class C charges, covering crimes against humanity. Yet the military court in Tokyo wouldn't be the only one. More than 5,700 lower-ranking personnel were charged with conventional war crimes in separate trials convened by Australia, China, France, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Of the 5,700 Japanese individuals indicted for Class B war crimes, 984 were sentenced to death; 475 received life sentences; 2,944 were given more limited prison terms; 1,018 were acquitted; and 279 were never brought to trial or not sentenced. Among these, many, like General Ando Rikichi and Lieutenant-General Nomi Toshio, chose to commit suicide before facing prosecution. Notable cases include Lieutenant-General Tani Hisao, who was sentenced to death by the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal for his role in the Nanjing Massacre; Lieutenant-General Sakai Takashi, who was executed in Nanjing for the murder of British and Chinese civilians during the occupation of Hong Kong. General Okamura Yasuji was convicted of war crimes by the Tribunal, yet he was immediately protected by the personal order of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek, who kept him as a military adviser for the Kuomintang. In the Manila trials, General Yamashita Tomoyuki was sentenced to death as he was in overall command during the Sook Ching massacre, the Rape of Manila, and other atrocities. Lieutenant-General Homma Masaharu was likewise executed in Manila for atrocities committed by troops under his command during the Bataan Death March. General Imamura Hitoshi was sentenced to ten years in prison, but he considered the punishment too light and even had a replica of the prison built in his garden, remaining there until his death in 1968. Lieutenant-General Kanda Masatane received a 14-year sentence for war crimes on Bougainville, though he served only four years. Lieutenant-General Adachi Hatazo was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes in New Guinea and subsequently committed suicide on September 10, 1947. Lieutenant-General Teshima Fusataro received three years of forced labour for using a hospital ship to transport troops. Lieutenant-General Baba Masao was sentenced to death for ordering the Sandakan Death Marches, during which over 2,200 Australian and British prisoners of war perished. Lieutenant-General Tanabe Moritake was sentenced to death by a Dutch military tribunal for unspecified war crimes. Rear-Admiral Sakaibara Shigematsu was executed in Guam for ordering the Wake Island massacre, in which 98 American civilians were murdered. Lieutenant-General Inoue Sadae was condemned to death in Guam for permitting subordinates to execute three downed American airmen captured in Palau, though his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1951 and he was released in 1953. Lieutenant-General Tachibana Yoshio was sentenced to death in Guam for his role in the Chichijima Incident, in which eight American airmen were cannibalized. By mid-1945, due to the Allied naval blockade, the 25,000 Japanese troops on Chichijima had run low on supplies. However, although the daily rice ration had been reduced from 400 grams per person per day to 240 grams, the troops were not at risk of starvation. In February and March 1945, in what would later be called the Chichijima incident, Tachibana Yoshio's senior staff turned to cannibalism. Nine American airmen had escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichijima, eight of whom were captured. The ninth, the only one to evade capture, was future US President George H. W. Bush, then a 20-year-old pilot. Over several months, the prisoners were executed, and reportedly by the order of Major Matoba Sueyo, their bodies were butchered by the division's medical orderlies, with the livers and other organs consumed by the senior staff, including Matoba's superior Tachibana. In the Yokohama War Crimes Trials, Lieutenant-Generals Inada Masazumi and Yokoyama Isamu were convicted for their complicity in vivisection and other human medical experiments performed at Kyushu Imperial University on downed Allied airmen. The Tokyo War Crimes Trial, which began in May 1946 and lasted two and a half years, resulted in the execution by hanging of Generals Doihara Kenji and Itagaki Seishiro, and former Prime Ministers Hirota Koki and Tojo Hideki, for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace, specifically for the escalation of the Pacific War and for permitting the inhumane treatment of prisoners of war. Also sentenced to death were Lieutenant-General Muto Akira for his role in the Nanjing and Manila massacres; General Kimura Heitaro for planning the war strategy in China and Southeast Asia and for laxity in preventing atrocities against prisoners of war in Burma; and General Matsui Iwane for his involvement in the Rape of Nanjing. The seven defendants who were sentenced to death were executed at Sugamo Prison in Ikebukuro on December 23, 1948. Sixteen others were sentenced to life imprisonment, including the last Field Marshal Hata Shunroku, Generals Araki Sadao, Minami Hiro, and Umezu Shojiro, Admiral Shimada Shigetaro, former Prime Ministers Hiranuma Kiichiro and Koiso Kuniaki, Marquis Kido Koichi, and Colonel Hashimoto Kingoro, a major instigator of the second Sino-Japanese War. Additionally, former Foreign Ministers Togo Shigenori and Shigemitsu Mamoru received seven- and twenty-year sentences, respectively. The Soviet Union and Chinese Communist forces also held trials of Japanese war criminals, including the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, which tried and found guilty some members of Japan's bacteriological and chemical warfare unit known as Unit 731. However, those who surrendered to the Americans were never brought to trial, as MacArthur granted immunity to Lieutenant-General Ishii Shiro and all members of the bacteriological research units in exchange for germ-w warfare data derived from human experimentation. If you would like to learn more about what I like to call Japan's Operation Paper clip, whereupon the US grabbed many scientists from Unit 731, check out my exclusive podcast. The SCAP-turn to democratization began with the drafting of a new constitution in 1947, addressing Japan's enduring feudal social structure. In the charter, sovereignty was vested in the people, and the emperor was designated a “symbol of the state and the unity of the people, deriving his position from the will of the people in whom resides sovereign power.” Because the emperor now possessed fewer powers than European constitutional monarchs, some have gone so far as to say that Japan became “a republic in fact if not in name.” Yet the retention of the emperor was, in fact, a compromise that suited both those who wanted to preserve the essence of the nation for stability and those who demanded that the emperor system, though not necessarily the emperor, should be expunged. In line with the democratic spirit of the new constitution, the peerage was abolished and the two-chamber Diet, to which the cabinet was now responsible, became the highest organ of state. The judiciary was made independent and local autonomy was granted in vital areas of jurisdiction such as education and the police. Moreover, the constitution stipulated that “the people shall not be prevented from enjoying any of the fundamental human rights,” that they “shall be respected as individuals,” and that “their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness shall … be the supreme consideration in legislation.” Its 29 articles guaranteed basic human rights: equality, freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, sex, social status or family origin, freedom of thought and freedom of religion. Finally, in its most controversial section, Article 9, the “peace clause,” Japan “renounce[d] war as a sovereign right of the nation” and vowed not to maintain any military forces and “other war potential.” To instill a thoroughly democratic ethos, reforms touched every facet of society. The dissolution of the zaibatsu decentralised economic power; the 1945 Labour Union Law and the 1946 Labour Relations Act guaranteed workers the right to collective action; the 1947 Labour Standards Law established basic working standards for men and women; and the revised Civil Code of 1948 abolished the patriarchal household and enshrined sexual equality. Reflecting core American principles, SCAP introduced a 6-3-3 schooling system, six years of compulsory elementary education, three years of junior high, and an optional three years of senior high, along with the aim of secular, locally controlled education. More crucially, ideological reform followed: censorship of feudal material in media, revision of textbooks, and prohibition of ideas glorifying war, dying for the emperor, or venerating war heroes. With women enfranchised and young people shaped to counter militarism and ultranationalism, rural Japan was transformed to undermine lingering class divisions. The land reform program provided for the purchase of all land held by absentee landlords, allowed resident landlords and owner-farmers to retain a set amount of land, and required that the remaining land be sold to the government so it could be offered to existing tenants. In 1948, amid the intensifying tensions of the Cold War that would soon culminate in the Korean War, the occupation's focus shifted from demilitarization and democratization toward economic rehabilitation and, ultimately, the remilitarization of Japan, an shift now known as the “Reverse Course.” The country was thus rebuilt as the Pacific region's primary bulwark against the spread of Communism. An Economic Stabilisation Programme was introduced, including a five-year plan to coordinate production and target capital through the Reconstruction Finance Bank. In 1949, the anti-inflationary Dodge Plan was adopted, advocating balanced budgets, fixing the exchange rate at 360 yen to the dollar, and ending broad government intervention. Additionally, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was formed and supported the formation of conglomerates centered around banks, which encouraged the reemergence of a somewhat weakened set of zaibatsu, including Mitsui and Mitsubishi. By the end of the Occupation era, Japan was on the verge of surpassing its 1934–1936 levels of economic growth. Equally important was Japan's rearmament in alignment with American foreign policy: a National Police Reserve of about 75,000 was created with the outbreak of the Korean War; by 1952 it had expanded to 110,000 and was renamed the Self-Defense Force after the inclusion of an air force. However, the Reverse Course also facilitated the reestablishment of conservative politics and the rollback of gains made by women and the reforms of local autonomy and education. As the Occupation progressed, the Americans permitted greater Japanese initiative, and power gradually shifted from the reformers to the moderates. By 1949, the purge of the right came under review, and many who had been condemned began returning to influence, if not to the Diet, then to behind-the-scenes power. At the same time, Japanese authorities, with MacArthur's support, began purging left-wing activists. In June 1950, for example, the central office of the Japan Communist Party and the editorial board of The Red Flag were purged. The gains made by women also seemed to be reversed. Women were elected to 8% of available seats in the first lower-house election in 1946, but to only 2% in 1952, a trend not reversed until the so-called Madonna Boom of the 1980s. Although the number of women voting continued to rise, female politicisation remained more superficial than might be imagined. Women's employment also appeared little affected by labour legislation: though women formed nearly 40% of the labor force in 1952, they earned only 45% as much as men. Indeed, women's attitudes toward labor were influenced less by the new ethos of fulfilling individual potential than by traditional views of family and workplace responsibilities. In the areas of local autonomy and education, substantial modifications were made to the reforms. Because local authorities lacked sufficient power to tax, they were unable to realise their extensive powers, and, as a result, key responsibilities were transferred back to national jurisdiction. In 1951, for example, 90% of villages and towns placed their police forces under the control of the newly formed National Police Agency. Central control over education was also gradually reasserted; in 1951, the Yoshida government attempted to reintroduce ethics classes, proposed tighter central oversight of textbooks, and recommended abolishing local school board elections. By the end of the decade, all these changes had been implemented. The Soviet occupation of the Kurile Islands and the Habomai Islets was completed with Russian troops fully deployed by September 5. Immediately after the onset of the occupation, amid a climate of insecurity and fear marked by reports of sporadic rape and physical assault and widespread looting by occupying troops, an estimated 4,000 islanders fled to Hokkaido rather than face an uncertain repatriation. As Soviet forces moved in, they seized or destroyed telephone and telegraph installations and halted ship movements into and out of the islands, leaving residents without adequate food and other winter provisions. Yet, unlike Manchuria, where Japanese civilians faced widespread sexual violence and pillage, systematic violence against the civilian population on the Kuriles appears to have been exceptional. A series of military government proclamations assured islanders of safety so long as they did not resist Soviet rule and carried on normally; however, these orders also prohibited activities not explicitly authorized by the Red Army, which imposed many hardships on civilians. Residents endured harsh conditions under Soviet rule until late 1948, when Japanese repatriation out of the Kurils was completed. The Kuriles posed a special diplomatic problem, as the occupation of the southernmost islands—the Northern Territories—ignited a long-standing dispute between Tokyo and Moscow that continues to impede the normalisation of relations today. Although the Kuriles were promised to the Soviet Union in the Yalta agreement, Japan and the United States argued that this did not apply to the Northern Territories, since they were not part of the Kurile Islands. A substantial dispute regarding the status of the Kurile Islands arose between the United States and the Soviet Union during the preparation of the Treaty of San Francisco, which was intended as a permanent peace treaty between Japan and the Allied Powers of World War II. The treaty was ultimately signed by 49 nations in San Francisco on September 8, 1951, and came into force on April 28, 1952. It ended Japan's role as an imperial power, allocated compensation to Allied nations and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes, ended the Allied post-war occupation of Japan, and returned full sovereignty to Japan. Effectively, the document officially renounced Japan's treaty rights derived from the Boxer Protocol of 1901 and its rights to Korea, Formosa and the Pescadores, the Kurile Islands, the Spratly Islands, Antarctica, and South Sakhalin. Japan's South Seas Mandate, namely the Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, and Caroline Islands, had already been formally revoked by the United Nations on July 18, 1947, making the United States responsible for administration of those islands under a UN trusteeship agreement that established the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. In turn, the Bonin, Volcano, and Ryukyu Islands were progressively restored to Japan between 1953 and 1972, along with the Senkaku Islands, which were disputed by both Communist and Nationalist China. In addition, alongside the Treaty of San Francisco, Japan and the United States signed a Security Treaty that established a long-lasting military alliance between them. Although Japan renounced its rights to the Kuriles, the U.S. State Department later clarified that “the Habomai Islands and Shikotan ... are properly part of Hokkaido and that Japan is entitled to sovereignty over them,” hence why the Soviets refused to sign the treaty. Britain and the United States agreed that territorial rights would not be granted to nations that did not sign the Treaty of San Francisco, and as a result the Kurile Islands were not formally recognized as Soviet territory. A separate peace treaty, the Treaty of Taipei (formally the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty), was signed in Taipei on April 28, 1952 between Japan and the Kuomintang, and on June 9 of that year the Treaty of Peace Between Japan and India followed. Finally, Japan and the Soviet Union ended their formal state of war with the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, though this did not settle the Kurile Islands dispute. Even after these formal steps, Japan as a nation was not in a formal state of war, and many Japanese continued to believe the war was ongoing; those who held out after the surrender came to be known as Japanese holdouts.  Captain Oba Sakae and his medical company participated in the Saipan campaign beginning on July 7, 1944, and took part in what would become the largest banzai charge of the Pacific War. After 15 hours of intense hand-to-hand combat, almost 4,300 Japanese soldiers were dead, and Oba and his men were presumed among them. In reality, however, he survived the battle and gradually assumed command of over a hundred additional soldiers. Only five men from his original unit survived the battle, two of whom died in the following months. Oba then led over 200 Japanese civilians deeper into the jungles to evade capture, organizing them into mountain caves and hidden jungle villages. When the soldiers were not assisting the civilians with survival tasks, Oba and his men continued their battle against the garrison of US Marines. He used the 1,552‑ft Mount Tapochau as their primary base, which offered an unobstructed 360-degree view of the island. From their base camp on the western slope of the mountain, Oba and his men occasionally conducted guerrilla-style raids on American positions. Due to the speed and stealth of these operations, and the Marines' frustrated attempts to find him, the Saipan Marines eventually referred to Oba as “The Fox.” Oba and his men held out on the island for 512 days, or about 16 months. On November 27, 1945, former Major-General Amo Umahachi was able to draw out some of the Japanese in hiding by singing the anthem of the Japanese infantry branch. Amo was then able to present documents from the defunct IGHQ to Oba ordering him and his 46 remaining men to surrender themselves to the Americans. On December 1, the Japanese soldiers gathered on Tapochau and sang a song of departure to the spirits of the war dead; Oba led his people out of the jungle and they presented themselves to the Marines of the 18th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Company. With great formality and commensurate dignity, Oba surrendered his sword to Lieutenant Colonel Howard G. Kirgis, and his men surrendered their arms and colors. On January 2, 1946, 20 Japanese soldiers hiding in a tunnel at Corregidor Island surrendered after learning the war had ended from a newspaper found while collecting water. In that same month, 120 Japanese were routed after a battle in the mountains 150 miles south of Manila. In April, during a seven-week campaign to clear Lubang Island, 41 more Japanese emerged from the jungle, unaware that the war had ended; however, a group of four Japanese continued to resist. In early 1947, Lieutenant Yamaguchi Ei and his band of 33 soldiers renewed fighting with the small Marine garrison on Peleliu, prompting reinforcements under Rear-Admiral Charles Pownall to be brought to the island to hunt down the guerrilla group. Along with them came former Rear-Admiral Sumikawa Michio, who ultimately convinced Yamaguchi to surrender in April after almost three years of guerrilla warfare. Also in April, seven Japanese emerged from Palawan Island and fifteen armed stragglers emerged from Luzon. In January 1948, 200 troops surrendered on Mindanao; and on May 12, the Associated Press reported that two unnamed Japanese soldiers had surrendered to civilian policemen in Guam the day before. On January 6, 1949, two former IJN soldiers, machine gunners Matsudo Rikio and Yamakage Kufuku, were discovered on Iwo Jima and surrendered peacefully. In March 1950, Private Akatsu Yūichi surrendered in the village of Looc, leaving only three Japanese still resisting on Lubang. By 1951 a group of Japanese on Anatahan Island refused to believe that the war was over and resisted every attempt by the Navy to remove them. This group was first discovered in February 1945, when several Chamorros from Saipan were sent to the island to recover the bodies of a Saipan-based B-29. The Chamorros reported that there were about thirty Japanese survivors from three ships sunk in June 1944, one of which was an Okinawan woman. Personal aggravations developed from the close confines of a small group on a small island and from tuba drinking; among the holdouts, 6 of 11 deaths were the result of violence, and one man displayed 13 knife wounds. The presence of only one woman, Higa Kazuko, caused considerable difficulty as she would transfer her affections among at least four men after each of them mysteriously disappeared, purportedly “swallowed by the waves while fishing.” According to the more sensational versions of the Anatahan tale, 11 of the 30 navy sailors stranded on the island died due to violent struggles over her affections. In July 1950, Higa went to the beach when an American vessel appeared offshore and finally asked to be removed from the island. She was taken to Saipan aboard the Miss Susie and, upon arrival, told authorities that the men on the island did not believe the war was over. As the Japanese government showed interest in the situation on Anatahan, the families of the holdouts were contacted in Japan and urged by the Navy to write letters stating that the war was over and that the holdouts should surrender. The letters were dropped by air on June 26 and ultimately convinced the holdouts to give themselves up. Thus, six years after the end of World War II, “Operation Removal” commenced from Saipan under the command of Lt. Commander James B. Johnson, USNR, aboard the Navy Tug USS Cocopa. Johnson and an interpreter went ashore by rubber boat and formally accepted the surrender on the morning of June 30, 1951. The Anatahan femme fatale story later inspired the 1953 Japanese film Anatahan and the 1998 novel Cage on the Sea. In 1953, Murata Susumu, the last holdout on Tinian, was finally captured. The next year, on May 7, Corporal Sumada Shoichi was killed in a clash with Filipino soldiers, leaving only two Japanese still resisting on Lubang. In November 1955, Seaman Kinoshita Noboru was captured in the Luzon jungle but soon after committed suicide rather than “return to Japan in defeat.” That same year, four Japanese airmen surrendered at Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea; and in 1956, nine soldiers were located and sent home from Morotai, while four men surrendered on Mindoro. In May 1960, Sergeant Ito Masashi became one of the last Japanese to surrender at Guam after the capture of his comrade Private Minagawa Bunzo, but the final surrender at Guam would come later with Sergeant Yokoi Shoichi. Sergeant Yokoi Shoichi survived in the jungles of Guam by living for years in an elaborately dug hole, subsisting on snails and lizards, a fate that, while undignified, showcased his ingenuity and resilience and earned him a warm welcome on his return to Japan. His capture was not heroic in the traditional sense: he was found half-starving by a group of villagers while foraging for shrimp in a stream, and the broader context included his awareness as early as 1952 that the war had ended. He explained that the wartime bushido code, emphasizing self-sacrifice or suicide rather than self-preservation, had left him fearing that repatriation would label him a deserter and likely lead to execution. Emerging from the jungle, Yokoi also became a vocal critic of Japan's wartime leadership, including Emperor Hirohito, which fits a view of him as a product of, and a prisoner within, his own education, military training, and the censorship and propaganda of the era. When asked by a young nephew how he survived so long on an island just a short distance from a major American airbase, he replied simply, “I was really good at hide and seek.”  That same year, Private Kozuka Kinshichi was killed in a shootout with Philippine police in October, leaving Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo still resisting on Lubang. Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo had been on Lubang since 1944, a few months before the Americans retook the Philippines. The last instructions he had received from his immediate superior ordered him to retreat to the interior of the island and harass the Allied occupying forces until the IJA eventually returned. Despite efforts by the Philippine Army, letters and newspapers left for him, radio broadcasts, and even a plea from Onoda's brother, he did not believe the war was over. On February 20, 1974, Onoda encountered a young Japanese university dropout named Suzuki Norio, who was traveling the world and had told friends that he planned to “look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order.” The two became friends, but Onoda stated that he was waiting for orders from one of his commanders. On March 9, 1974, Onoda went to an agreed-upon place and found a note left by Suzuki. Suzuki had brought along Onoda's former commander, Major Taniguchi, who delivered the oral orders for Onoda to surrender. Intelligence Officer 2nd Lt. Onoda Hiroo thus emerged from Lubang's jungle with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition, and several hand grenades. He surrendered 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan. When he accepted that the war was over, he wept openly. He received a hero's welcome upon his return to Japan in 1974. The Japanese government offered him a large sum of money in back pay, which he refused. When money was pressed on him by well-wishers, he donated it to Yasukuni Shrine. Onoda was reportedly unhappy with the attention and what he saw as the withering of traditional Japanese values. He wrote No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War, a best-selling autobiography published in 1974. Yet the last Japanese to surrender would be Private Nakamura Teruo, an Amis aborigine from Formosa and a member of the Takasago Volunteers. Private Nakamura Teruo spent the tail end of World War II with a dwindling band on Morotai, repeatedly dispersing and reassembling in the jungle as they hunted for food. The group suffered continuous losses to starvation and disease, and survivors described Nakamura as highly self-sufficient. He left to live alone somewhere in the Morotai highlands between 1946 and 1947, rejoined the main group in 1950, and then disappeared again a few years later. Nakamura hinted in print that he fled into the jungle because he feared the other holdouts might murder him. He survives for decades beyond the war, eventually being found by 11 Indonesian soldiers. The emergence of an indigenous Taiwanese soldier among the search party embarrassed Japan as it sought to move past its imperial past. Many Japanese felt Nakamura deserved compensation for decades of loyalty, only to learn that his back pay for three decades of service amounted to 68,000 yen.   Nakamura's experience of peace was complex. When a journalist asked how he felt about “wasting” three decades of his life on Morotai, he replied that the years had not been wasted; he had been serving his country. Yet the country he returned to was Taiwan, and upon disembarking in Taipei in early January 1975, he learned that his wife had a son he had never met and that she had remarried a decade after his official death. Nakamura eventually lived with a daughter, and his story concluded with a bittersweet note when his wife reconsidered and reconciled with him. Several Japanese soldiers joined local Communist and insurgent groups after the war to avoid surrender. Notably, in 1956 and 1958, two soldiers returned to Japan after service in China's People's Liberation Army. Two others who defected with a larger group to the Malayan Communist Party around 1945 laid down their arms in 1989 and repatriated the next year, becoming among the last to return home. That is all for today, but fear not I will provide a few more goodies over the next few weeks. I will be releasing some of my exclusive podcast episodes from my youtube membership and patreon that are about pacific war subjects. Like I promised the first one will be on why Emperor Hirohito surrendered. Until then if you need your fix you know where to find me: eastern front week by week, fall and rise of china, echoes of war or on my Youtube membership of patreon at www.patreon.com/pacificwarchannel.

乗用車が暴走し母子が死亡した事故から６年となり、慰霊碑に献花する松永真菜さんの夫の拓也さんと父の上原義教さんら、１９日午後、東京都豊島区東京・池袋で乗用車が暴走し、松永真菜さん、当時、と娘の莉子ちゃん、同、が死亡した事故から１９日で発生６年となった。 Bereaved relatives of a mother and a daughter killed by a runaway car in Tokyo's busy Ikebukuro district commemorated the sixth anniversary of their deaths Saturday.

Bereaved relatives of a mother and a daughter killed by a runaway car in Tokyo's busy Ikebukuro district commemorated the sixth anniversary of their deaths Saturday.

Bienvenue dans l'antre des N-Sex !Aujourd'hui, Ken et Antistar reçoivent Thomayo de NintendHOME pour un test complet de Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, la dernière grosse sortie exclusive Switch avant le Nintendo Direct tant attendu de la semaine prochaine !Dans cet épisode, nous revenons également sur les dernières rumeurs sur la Switch 2 ainsi que sur un potentiel Direct surprise dédié à la Switch 1, et faisons comme chaque semaine le tour de l'actualité Nintendo avec des news Pokémon, Nintendo Music, Alarmo, Switch Online, sans oublier le traditionnel point ventes… Nous accueillons également cette semaine une nouvelle chronique Nintenbros in Japan, où Sabrina a été rejointe par Bytell le temps d'une escapade à Ikebukuro ! Enfin, l'émission se terminer avec la FAQ des abonné(e)s Étoile, que nous remercions pour leur flidélité et leur investissement avec tout un tas de nouvelles questions à destination de l'équipe des Nintenbros ! Bonne écoute à vous et comme chaque semaine, un immense MERCI pour votre soutien, sans lequel les Nintenbros ne pourraient pas exister ! Get bonus content on Patreon Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

After an unforgettable journey, we're back in Tokyo for our Northern Honshu Road Trip Japan conclusion! Our last few days in Japan were all about luxury, sightseeing, and shopping, making for the perfect way to conclude this epic road trip. For our last stop, we checked into the Conrad Tokyo, an incredible luxury hotel in the heart of Ginza. With breathtaking city views, impeccable service, and easy access to some of Tokyo's best shopping and dining, it was the ideal place to unwind before heading home. We then spent our final days in Japan taking in some of the best sights and shopping experiences the city has to offer such as strolling through Ginza, shopping in Ikebukuro, and walking tours of the Imperial Palace and Sensoji Temple in Asakusa. After our extensive self-drive adventure through Tohoku, we made sure to return our rental car on time—because, as we've mentioned in previous episodes, punctuality in Japan is taken very seriously - and made our way back to Haneda for our return flight back to the U.S. As we reflected on our journey, we couldn't help but appreciate all the unique experiences, breathtaking landscapes, and cultural discoveries that made our road trip Japan conclusion one for the books. If you're planning a trip to Tokyo and looking for the best shopping spots, must-see historical sites, and a top-tier luxury hotel recommendation, this episode is a must-listen! For more behind the scenes on all our amazing journeys through Tohoku and Japan, be sure to check out our Destinations and Japan pages.

Mitsugi and Pancake talk through our New Years trip in Japan! What kind of chaos does the wild duo get into in Ikebukuro this time?! We also wrap up the Winter 2025 anime impressions with: --Ubel Blatt --My Happy Marriage Season 2 --The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper --Honey Lemon Soda --Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms You can support the podcast in the following ways: Merchandise Store: www.AAAShop.info Discord: www.AAADiscord.com Subscribe: www.aaapodcast.com/join Donations: www.aaapodcast.com/donate Patreon: www.patreon.com/AAAPodcast Thank you for your generosity and kindness

In this preview 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) talk about snow country and the increasing amounts of fun to be had in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district. You can hear the full episode by joining the ⁠Pure TokyoScope Patreon⁠! You'll get access to full episodes, bonus content, our Discord server, and an archive of past episodes. ⁠Head over to Pure TokyoScope Patreon to subscribe today!⁠⁠

Japan's ongoing issue regarding seniors causing road accidents continue to spark heated debate!Our next episode will feature both of us recording in Japan for the first time!Check us out on:www.tkorajio.com***Support our Patreon to get access to bonus episodes and episodes 1-50 over at:https://www.patreon.com/TKOrajioPlease give us a 5 star review on Spotify and Apple Podcast to help us out Contact us at:tkorajio@gmail.comInstagram: tko_rajioTwitter @TKO_RAJIO

Sogo & Seibu Co. said Thursday it will strengthen the lineup of luxury brand items, cosmetics and food products at its flagship Seibu Ikebukuro department store in Tokyo when its renovation is completed next year.

This week we welcome a young legend-in-the-making, Payesone Myatmon from Zao Stamina Ramen in Bethesda, Maryland. Born and raised in the shadows of legendary ramen shops in Ikebukuro, Payesone is a second-generation ramen chef who has the culinary pedigree and training every young ramen freak desires. Striving to protect tradition and represent his roots, Zao Stamina Ramen is quickly becoming one of the best ramen shops in the nation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-ramen-podcast/support

5月（ごがつ）の半（なか）ばに埼玉（さいたま）県（けん）所沢（ところざわ）でのコンサートのために、東京（とうきょう）に行（い）ってきました。宿泊（しゅくはく）したのは池袋（いけぶくろ）の西側（にしがわ）だったのですが、今回（こんかい）初（はじ）めて訪（おとず）れて知（し）った池袋（いけぶくろ）西側（にしがわ）の夜（よる）の顔（かお）に驚（おどろ）いた、というエピソードを中心（ちゅうしん）に、所沢（ところざわ）のアクセスの悪（わる）さ、特（とく）にコンサート後（あと）に味（あじ）わった混雑（こんざつ）の話（はなし）を紹介（しょうかい）しています。コンサート自体（じたい）はとても良（よ）かったのですが、それを上回（うわまわ）るほどのエピソードが盛（も）りだくさんの東京（とうきょう）旅行（りょこう）でした。東京（とうきょう）に旅行（りょこう）する予定（よてい）のある人（ひと）はぜひ参考（さんこう）にしてみてください。 In mid-May, we went to Tokyo for a concert in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. We stayed on the west side of Ikebukuro, and we were surprised by the nightlife there, which we encountered for the first time. This episode focuses on the other face of the west side of Ikebukuro and the difficulty of accessing Tokorozawa, especially the congestion we experienced after the concert. While the concert itself was very good, there are many interesting, surprising, and memorable episodes from our trip to Tokyo. If you're planning a trip to Tokyo, definitely consider this as a reference. The script is available here: https://www.makiko-japanese.com/ I will update this episode on Youtube as soon as possible!! Please check out and  subscribe to our youtube channel: ⁠www.youtube.com/channel/UChu8-tNd_4RyWo-iE5cr-Ow⁠ email, comments, requests, also Japanese lesson inquiries: toranomaki.nihongo@gmail.com にほんごのかいわのレッスンもしています。メールでれんらくください。 Please follow our Instagram, @toranomaki.nihongo --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/toranomaki-japanese/message

- Ngày 06/04, Lễ hội giao lưu văn hóa Việt Nam - Nhật Bản đã chính thức khai mạc tại Công viên Ikebukuro, Thủ đô Tokyo, Nhật Bản. Lễ hội này đánh dấu sự khởi đầu cho hàng loạt các chuỗi sự kiện giao lưu văn hóa giữa Việt Nam và Nhật Bản trong năm nay. Chủ đề : Nhật Bản, văn hóa, Việt Nam --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vov1tintuc/support

In episode 73 our host Stephen Lyman visits Aloha Whisky Bar in the Ikebukuro neighborhood of Tokyo. He and owner David Tsujimoto talk whisky discovery, the journey to bar ownership, and the state of Japanese whisky in 2024.

Ikebukuro was Probably my favorite area of Tokyo, and not just because it has two anime set specifically in that area. this is as good a reason as ever to talk about my trip a little. Links: Bluesky Instagram --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lunchboxradio/message

Fluent Fiction - Japanese: Lost in Tokyo: A Serendipitous Journey of Friendship Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/lost-in-tokyo-a-serendipitous-journey-of-friendship Story Transcript:Ja: 東京の生活は駆け足だ。En: Life in Tokyo is a hustle and bustle.Ja: 電車は疾走し、ビルからビルへと海のように波打つ人々の群れが送り出す声と足音は、無数の砂粒が描く模様のように紛れ込んでしまう。En: The trains speed by, and the voices and footsteps of the crowd, like waves in the sea between buildings, get lost amidst the countless grains of sand forming patterns.Ja: このまったくもって一瞬一瞬が価値のある世界で、ユキとハルキは迷子になってしまった。En: In this world where every moment is valuable, Yuki and Haruki have become lost.Ja: 二人は初めて訪れるこの街の喧騒に戸惑い、目的地への道筋を見失ってしまったのだ。En: They are bewildered by the commotion of this city they are visiting for the first time, and have lost their way to their destination.Ja: 目指していたのは池袋のイベント会場、しかしその道すがら、眩く煌びやかなネオン、キラキラと輝くショーウィンドウ、匂い立つ美味しそうな屋台食、そして人々の励ましの声に寄せられ、行き先を見失ってしまった。En: They were aiming for an event venue in Ikebukuro, but along the way, they got distracted by the dazzling neon lights, sparkling shop windows, enticing smells of street food, and the encouraging voices of the people, and lost sight of their destination.Ja: しかし、そんな二人を見守っている一人の少女がいた。En: However, there was a girl watching over them.Ja: 彼女の名前はサクラ。En: Her name was Sakura.Ja: 自他ともに認める都会っ子で、人々の群れの中でさえも、風のようにすり抜け、人々の心象風景の中で活躍していた。En: She was a self-proclaimed city girl, and even among the crowd of people, she effortlessly slipped through like the wind, flourishing in the emotional landscapes of people's hearts.Ja: ユキとハルキの慌ただしい行動を見て彼女は微笑み、二人が本当に迷っていることを悟った。En: Seeing Yuki and Haruki's hurried movements, she smiled and realized that they were truly lost.Ja: サクラはすぐにユキとハルキに近寄り、無理なく自己をパーソナルガイドに任命した。En: Sakura quickly approached Yuki and Haruki and appointed herself as their personal guide without any force.Ja: 「こっちだよ」と無邪気に微笑みながら彼女は言った。En: "It's this way," she said innocently with a smile.Ja: 彼の指は繁華街の路地を指し、足は池袋の方向へと二人を連れて行った。En: Her finger pointed to the streets of the bustling town, and her feet led the two towards Ikebukuro.Ja: 途中、サクラはユキとハルキに東京のローカルな楽しみ方を教え、初めての東京訪問がユキとハルキにとって忘れられない体験になるよう手助けをした。En: Along the way, Sakura taught Yuki and Haruki how to enjoy Tokyo like the locals, ensuring that their first visit to Tokyo would be an unforgettable experience.Ja: そのうち、太陽が地平線に沈むと、ついに三人は目的地であるイベント会場に到着した。En: As the sun set on the horizon, the three finally arrived at their destination, the event venue.Ja: ユキとハルキは感謝の言葉を述べ、サクラは優しく微笑んで別れを告げた。En: Yuki and Haruki expressed their gratitude, and Sakura bid them farewell with a gentle smile.Ja: まるで迷路に迷い込んだような東京の喧騒でも、人々のこころは、時に予期せぬ力で道を探し出す。En: In the chaos of Tokyo, like getting lost in a maze, people's hearts sometimes find their way with unexpected strength.Ja: サクラの微笑みと優しさ、そして都市の奇跡ができたこの日、ユキとハルキは新たな友情を見つけた。En: On this day, when Sakura's smile and kindness, along with the wonders of the city, came together, Yuki and Haruki found a new friendship.Ja: そして、故郷に戻る航空券を握りしめながら、また東京に戻ってきたいという共通の夢を抱き、やがて田舎の街に帰りつくのだった。En: Holding their return tickets to their hometown, they embraced a common dream of wanting to return to Tokyo, eventually making their way back to their rural town. Vocabulary Words:Life: 東京の生活Tokyo: 東京hustle: 駆け足bustle: 喧騒trains: 電車speed: 疾走するvoices: 声footsteps: 足音crowd: 人々の群れwaves: 波打つsea: 海buildings: ビルlost: 迷子になるcountless: 無数のgrains: 砂粒forming: 描くpatterns: 模様world: 世界valuable: 価値のあるYuki: ユキHaruki: ハルキbewildered: 戸惑いcommotion: 喧騒visiting: 訪れるdestination: 目的地aiming: 目指しているevent: イベントvenue: 会場Ikebukuro: 池袋distracted: ひきつけられる

We were on our way to the city's main station to board the bullet train to Kyoto. Travelling on the Asakusa underground line towards Ikebukuro, we had just passed through Kasumigaseki and arrived at Ginza station. We were nearly there. It was Next Station: Tokyo by Matthew Dunstan from Blue Orange. Read the full review here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2024/01/20/next-station-tokyo-saturday-review/ Useful Links Next Station: Tokyo: https://blueorangegames.eu/en/games/next-station-tokyo/ Rulebook: https://blueorangegames.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/NextStationTokyo-Rules-EN.pdf Blue Orange: https://blueorangegames.eu/en/ BGG listing: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/380165/next-station-tokyo Next Station: London review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2023/06/17/next-station-london-saturday-review/ Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) Sound Effects: bbc.co.uk – © copyright 2024 BBC Music: I Feel It (instrumental) by Sascha EndeWebsite: https://filmmusic.io/song/422-i-feel-it-instrumentalLicensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license If you want to support this podcast financially, please check out the links below: Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/tabletopgamesblog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ko-Fi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/TabletopGamesBlog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tabletopgamesblog.com/⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tabletopgamesblog/message

La línea Yamanote de JR es una de las más famosas entre los turistas por su recorrido circular de 30 estaciones y porque conecta muchos de los principales puntos turísticos de la capital japonesa. En esta primera parte lo que hacemos es recorrer la línea desde Shinjuku, en el oeste, hasta la estación de Tokio, al este, por arriba (es decir, por Ikebukuro, Nippori y Ueno). Necesitarás lápiz y papel porque damos muchas, pero muchas ideas de cosas que ver y también incluso de lugares para comer cerca de estas estaciones. En Japonismo mini aprovechamos, además para hablar de comentarios de japonistas en Discord, para reflexionar sobre cómo fue la celebración de Halloween en Shibuya con las prohibiciones de su alcalde. Y, sobre todo, te recordamos que ya está activo el descuento que tenemos con Air France para viajar a Japón. Más detalles en nuestras redes sociales y en la newsletter (japonismo.substack.com). En cuanto a la palabra japonesa, más bien es una frase que escucharás en todos los trenes y que te indica por dónde salir. ¡Dale al play para no perderte nada. ¡Mata ne! ¿Quieres colaborar con el programa? - Colabora en Patreon - Únete a la Comunidad Japonismo - Reserva hoteles en Japón (y en todo el mundo) - Consigue seguro de viajes (¡no sólo para Japón!) - Busca los mejores vuelos - Lleva Internet (pocket wifi o SIM) - JR Pass para viajes ilimitados en tren ---- Continúa la conversación en: - Web: https://japonismo.com - Discord: https://discord.gg/hZrSa57 - Facebook: https://facebook.com/japonismo - Twitter: https://twitter.com/japonismo - Instagram: https://instagram.com/japonismo - Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/japonismo - Newsletter semanal: http://eepurl.com/di60Xn

After endless overtime, obligated afterwork drinking with the co workers and sucking up to the boss**, the Seibu department store staff has finally had enough and decided to do something that hasn't been done in decades: a strike! **This was sarcasm and may or may not have happened..but being Japan this probably happened.Check us out on:www.tkorajio.comblog.tkorajio.comWant to support the show?https://www.patreon.com/TKOrajioGive us a 5 star review on Spotify and Apple PodcastContact us at:tkorajio@gmail.comInstagram: tko_rajioTwitter @TKO_RAJIOThirst Alert BGM: Deoxys Beats - Ｌｏｖｅｒ[ｓ]https://soundcloud.com/deoxysbeats1

Bienvenidos fans de Nintendo!! Hoy continuamos con nuestra serie MADE IN JAPAN. Hoy nos dedicaremos a hablar de Ikebukuro, la considerada nueva Akihabara. Hablaremos de su historia, de videojuegos retro, y de salones recreativos. También hablaremos mucho sobre Pokémon y los míticos Centros Pokémon! En definitiva, hablaremos de muchas cosas, y muy interesantes, así que, no lo dudéis, dadle al play y... hoy más que nunca... acompañadme en este viaje!! No olvidéis dejarnos vuestros comentarios y sugerencias: Mail: arqueologia.nintendo@gmail.com Twitter: @PodcastNintendo

Tokijā, Ikebukuro, B-Gallery atklāta jau otrā Japānas–Latvijas miniatūrgrafikas izstāde. Tā tapusi kā nākamais solis Latvijas un Japānas sadarbības veicināšanā starp abu valstu māksliniekiem, kuru radošās izteiksmes valoda ir grafika. Par izstādi iztaujājam vienu no izstādes kuratoriem Jāni Murovski. Sadarbībai starp Latvijas un Japānas grafiķiem ir ielikts liels pamats. Jānis Murovskis to sauc par 15 gadu projektu, un viņa ieguldījums tajā ir vērā ņemams. 2009. gadā radies pirmais kontakts ar dažiem japāņu māksliniekiem, kas turpinājies arī vēlāk. Japāņu mākslinieku darbu izstāde ar nosaukumu „Japānas stāsti” notika Daugavpils Marka Rotko mākslas centrā. Paši mākslinieki neatbrauca, jo sākās Covid-19 pandēmija, bet izstāde bija. Pēc tam japāņi paaicināja Latvijas māksliniekus pie sevis, un tā 2021.gadā notika pirmā miniatūrgrafikas izstāde Tokijā. Latvijas dalībnieku atlasi uzticēja veikt Jānim Murovskim, un tie bija piecu, galvenokārt, pedagogu darbi no grafikas katedras. Otrajā miniatūrgrafikas izstādē, kas pašlaik skatāma  Tokijā, Latviju pārstāv septiņi mākslinieki. Tagad kārta Japānas grafiķu izstādei Latvijā, un tāda ļoti iespējams arī notiks, vēl tikai jāizdomā, spriež Jānis Murovskis, vai tā būs 3. Japānas–Latvijas vai varbūt Rīgas miniatūrgrafikas izstāde. Starp citu, pēdējā Japānas grafikas izstāde pie mums notikusi pagājušā gadsimta 80. gados, toreizējā Aizrobežu mākslas muzejā. Tikmēr Otrā Japānas–Latvijas miniatūrgrafikas izstāde B-galerijā, Tokijā, būs skatāma līdz 13. augustam.

Recent research shows the Japanese consumer will see the cost of over 30,000 food and drink items go up in price by October as retailers seek to protect profits. Hyper Japan Festival 2023 showcased Japanese culture in London last Friday, attracting upward of 30,000 people. A government survey last Friday showed a marked increase in the number of working women in Japan with a record 30.35 million in 2022, compared with 1.22 million five years ago. In Osaka, news is less promising as a delay in constructing foreign pavilions at the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo site is casting an unsettling shadow over the event with spiraling costs and controversial appointments. Amid soaring temperatures and unpredictable weather both here and abroad, local weather experts recently called an end to the country's annual rainy season which usually runs through June and early July. NOTEBOOK escaped the worst of the sun for the welcome seclusion of "Nominoichi", an old coffee shop (or coffee-tei) in Ikebukuro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Passersby do a double take when they see Kaz Kobayashi and Ikki Goto.The two men glide through Tokyo's bustling Ikebukuro district in full-length samurai outfits, while wielding objects that look like swords. They are members of the Gomi Hiroi Samurai or the trash-collecting samurai. Kaz Kobayashi and Ikki Goto, part of the Gomi Hiroi Samurai group, are actors who perform as samurai who clean up Tokyo. Credit: Julia Kim/The World  “Yesterday was Friday so people are smoking and drinking around here, so there's a lot of trash,” Kobayashi said.On closer inspection, their samurai swords — or katanas — are actually just very long tongs, used to pick up litter. Kobayashi said the tongs are important for novelty value.“We're doing this as entertainment … but it can be tiring sometimes. It's tough, man.”The Gomi Hiroi Samurai do this three times a week. There's four of them, and they're professional actors. In their spare time, they volunteer to keep the streets of Tokyo clean. Goto formed the group in 2009. Since then, they have become a viral sensation on TikTok, with over 700,000 followers and counting.  Kaz Kobayashi and Ikki Goto, part of the Gomi Hiroi Samurai group, are actors who perform as samurai who clean up Tokyo. Credit: Julia Kim/The World   Here in Ikebukuro, they target back alleys and parking lots, which are rife with litter. Kobayashi and Goto, working in sync, slice and spin their tongs through the air, meticulously seizing cigarette butts one by one before tossing them into the wastebaskets strapped to their backs.Manaka Nishibiro, a nursery teacher trainee, watched them from a distance.“Picking up trash is unpleasant for most people, but their performance makes it look so fun,” Nishibiro said, adding that she hopes it might encourage others to do the same. Kaz Kobayashi and Ikki Goto pick up litter in Tokyo as part of an acting troupe, the Gomi Hiroi Samurai, who have an environmental mission. Credit: Julia Kim/The World  An hour later, Kobayashi and Goto took their wastebaskets to a recycling base. There, they separated out every piece of rubbish they've collected. They said that they hope to recruit more Gomi Hiroi samurai  in Japan — and around the world — to spread their message: “We punish immoral hearts.”It means that trash in and of itself isn't bad. Instead, it's people and the actions that stem from their negative mindsets. And a growing sense of negativity is something that Kobayashi said worries him.“This is a problem in Japan,” he said. “People don't go outside.” Kaz Kobayashi and Ikki Goto, actors, use their roles in the Gomi Hiroi Samurai as a way to entertain and encourage people to keep the outdoors clean. Credit: Julia Kim/The World  Last month, a government survey showed that 1.5 million people are living as social recluses in Japan. With loneliness and depression on the rise, Kobayashi said he hopes that their fun, zany take on something as mundane as trash-collecting helps people reengage with the outside world. Kaz Kobayashi and Ikki Goto, part of the Gomi Hiroi Samurai group, are professional actors who volunteer to clean up litter in Tokyo. Their mantra is “clean space, clear mind.” Credit: Julia Kim/The World   “Samurai is a warrior,” he said. “Our philosophy is to help people.”For these eco-warriors, “clean space, clear mind” is more than just a saying — it's the way of the Gomi Hiroi samurai.Listen to the other stories in the four-part Waste Pickers series on The World:Trash sorters in Ghana face health and safety risksIn Mumbai, waste pickers do the heavy lifting of recycling‘We were treated as disposable beings': Waste pickers in Colombia fought for their rights after 11 murder

This week on Krewe of Japan... Jenn & Doug sit down with Chris Carlier of Mondo Mascots to explore the wide & wacky world of Japanese Mascots. Kumamon, Domo-Kun, Chiitan and so many others... Chris shares his expertise & passion for these lovable characters through stories about how they have evolved from marketing & branding tools to international sensations and cultural ambassadors, help drive tourism for small communities, & so much more. ------ About the Krewe ------The Krewe of Japan Podcast is a weekly episodic podcast sponsored by the Japan Society of New Orleans. Check them out every Friday afternoon around noon CST on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Want to share your experiences with the Krewe? Or perhaps you have ideas for episodes, feedback, comments, or questions? Let the Krewe know by e-mail at kreweofjapanpodcast@gmail.com or on social media (Twitter: @kreweofjapan, Instagram:@kreweofjapanpodcast, Facebook: Krewe of Japan Podcast Page, TikTok: @kreweofjapanpodcast & the Krewe of Japan Youtube Channel). Until next time, enjoy!------ More Info on Chris Carlier (Mondo Mascots) ------Mondo Mascots on TwitterMondo Mascots on InstagramMondo Mascots Blog

L'inverno potrebbe non essere il periodo più gettonato per visitare il Giappone, ciononostante in questo episodio cercheremo di convincervi del contrario! Innanzitutto è meno affollato, i voli costano meno, inoltre ci sono alcuni eventi spettacolari che si tengono solo in questo periodo! Eventi 2&3 dicembre Chichibu Yomaturi : è un festival notturno che si tiene a Chichibu (Saitama), dove le persone trainano splendidi carri per le vie della la città, mentre il kabuki viene eseguito all'interno dei carri! Collegamento da Tokyo: prendendo la linea Seibu Ikebukuro da Ikebukuro si arriva alla stazione di Seibu Chichibu in circa 90 minuti. Oppure, da Kumagaya si può prendere la linea Chichibu e si raggiunge la stazione di Chichibu in circa 90 minuti. Vigilia di Capodanno Jyoya no Kane: si riferisce alla tradizione del suono delle campane durante la notte di Capodanno nei templi di tutto il Giappone.A Tokyo il Tsukiji Honganji è uno dei più famosi. Nel pomeriggio del 31 si tiene una messa e successivamente, verso le 23 inizia il coinvolgente suono delle campane. Nel pomeriggio del 31 ci sarà una messa poi verso le 23 inizierà il suono delle campane. A Kyoto invece il più conosciuto si tiene al Chionin (zona Higashiyama). Dopo la messa, tutti possono partecipare, quindi preparati per fare la fila. Hadaka Matsuri (Festa del nudo): ci sono vari Hadaka Matsuri durante l'inverno ma il più famoso è probabilmente quello di Saidaiji a Okayama. Circa 10.000 uomini nudi in mawashi  “combattono" per afferrare i due preziosi alberi i quali vengono fatti cadere dalla sala principale del tempio. Si tiene il 3° sabato di febbraio. Sapporo Snow Festival: il più grande festival invernale di Hokkaido con le sue varie sculture di neve. Periodo: 4-11 Feb 2024 Quello che abbiamo visitato noi questo inverno Snow monkey park (Nagano): il famoso parco nazionale al cui interno si trovano le vasche termali frequentate dai macachi giapponesi. Si può raggiungere in autobus dalla stazione di Yudanaka. Shirakawago (Gifu): sito patrimonio mondiale dell'Unesco noto per le tipiche case Gassho Zukuri, uniche nel loro genere. Raggiungibile in autobus da Kanazawa o da Nagoya Siti termali che vale la pena visitare in inverno Nyuto Onsen (Akita): conosciuta per l'unicità della sua acqua color latte. Da Tokyo si deve cambiare Shinkansen a Sendai e successivamente scendere alla stazione di Tazawako. Da lì dista circa un'ora di autobus. Ginzan Onsen (Yamagata): rinomata per le sue bellissime strutture in legno dallo stile retrò. Da Tokyo si deve prendere il Yamagata Shinkansen fino alla stazione di Oishida. Da lì un viaggio in autobus di circa 40 minuti. Echigoyuzawa Onsen (Niigata): una delle zone più innevate del Giappone ma le strutture sono molto facili da raggiungere. Da Tokyo si raggiunge con circa un'ora di Shinkansen. Siti sciistici Echigoyuzawa Onsen (Niigata): ha uno degli accessi più facili al sito termale nonché alle piste da sci! La maggior parte delle piste offre il bus navetta gratuito dalla stazione. Hakuba (Nagano): uno dei siti sciistici più famosi, conosciuto per le olimpiadi del 1998. Dalla stazione di Nagano ci sono vari autobus che portano alle piste in circa un'ora. Niseko(Hokkaido): sito sciistico molto popolare e alla moda. Particolarmente frequentato dagli stranieri. Dall'aeroporto di Shin Chitose si raggiunge con circa 2 ore di autobus. Cosa mangiare in inverno Per Natale il pollo fritto del KFC e la torta di fragole. Per Capodanno Soba (noodles di grano saraceno) Durante le vacanze di Capodanno l'Osechi (pietanze chevengono disposte all'interno di eleganti scatole) Pesce palla, granchi, ostriche e buri (ricciola giapponese) Yuzu Mochi e Oshiruko (zuppa dolce di fagioli rossi servita con mochi) Oden (composto da diversi ingredienti come: uova sode, daikon, konjac e fish cakes stufati in un brodo di dashi leggero e aromatizzato alla soia) Il mio posto preferito per mangiare Oden a Tokyo è: Nihonbashi Otako

Woman found dead in Mie Prefecture, Crown Prince and Princess attend UK coronation, Ikebukuro massage parlor robbery, & more… English news from Japan for May 4th, 2023. Transcription available at https://japandailynews.com/2023/05/04/news.html

A 24 year-old man hurled a homemade pipe bomb at the current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida over the weekend as he spoke in public at Wakayama's fishing port. In Tokyo, the 225-meter-tall Tokyu Kabukicho Tower opened in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district the very same day. Meanwhile, the theme music to Nintendo's classic video game Super Mario Bros. is being archived by the American Library of Congress as part of its permanent collection. And amid the noise of campaigning politicians ahead of the upcoming nationwide local elections, we walk through Ikebukuro and Shinjuku to the sound of heavy rain and shopping tourists. — Substack: notebookpodcast.substack.com Instagram: @notebook_pod Twitter: @notebook_pod — Get in touch: notebook.podcast@gmail.com Leave a message: speakpipe.com/notebook — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

- Nằm trong chuỗi hoạt động hưởng ứng năm kỷ niệm 50 năm thiết lập quan hệ ngoại giao Việt Nam – Nhật Bản, hôm nay (8/4) tại Thủ đô Tô-ki-ô (Tokyo), lễ hội Việt Nam tại Công viên I-kê-bư-cư-rô (Ikebukuro) bắt đầu diễn ra trong 2 ngày 8-9/4. Tin của PV Hoàng Nguyễn- thường trú tại Nhật Bản. Chủ đề : Khai mạc, Lễ hội Việt Nam, Công viên Ikebukuro, Nhật Bản --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vov1tintuc/support

Japan successfully launched a rocket yesterday carrying a data gathering satellite from its Tanegashima Space Center. On the ground, a bronze mirror and an iron sword have been unearthed from a burial mound in Nara, while old brick foundations have been discovered directly opposite Tokyo's Toshima City Office in Ikebukuro, an area that once belonged to a photographic chemical maker that was later known as FujiFilm. In Kanazawa, the ‘Town Hack' initiative bring's Daido Moriyama's “Brightness/Contrast” exhibition to the Shintenchi shopping street, with both Town Hack and photo exhibition supported by the nearby Kamu Kanazawa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China decides to tentatively approve a number of visas for citizens from both countries, while Ehime prefecture begins harvesting its crop of ‘Kanpei' orange in Matsuyama. And with January 17th marking the 28th anniversary of Kobe's Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, the Ikebukuro Life Safety Learning Center gives a sense of what future earthquakes might feel like. Elsewhere in Ikebukuro, Chinese 'Gachi' restaurants give an authentic flavour to Chinese food and Aloha Whisky demonstrates its rare, unfiltered array of Whisky from the comfort of a small 3rd floor bar nearby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pokemon card expert Graceon joins me again on the podcast to chat about the myriad of Pokemon shops in Ikebukuro's Sunshine City. Whether it be the games, cards, Go, or just snacks, it has something for everyone! I also share my final thoughts on Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, plus reactions to the latest happenings in Japan. Follow our guest on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/graceonpokemon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/GraceCosplayer (0:00) - Intro Feature (1:17) - Pokemon shops in Sunshine City w/ Graceon Games (25:00) - Pokemon Scarlet and Violet final thoughts News (41:22) - The Super Mario Bros Movie Direct (45:54) - Nintendo Arcade Archives games on sale (48:29) - Tetris: The Grandmaster available on Switch (49:24) - Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope releases in Japan (50:25) - December game merch rundown (51:41) - Japanese Gaming Phrase of the Week (ガー不 gaafu) (52:10) - Japanese Tweet of the Week: https://twitter.com/osu_pokemon/status/1596518313953492992 (52:36) - Closing Social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoGameLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tokyogamelife/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tokyogamelife YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tokyogamelife Website: https://tokyogamelife.com/ Like and subscribe on your favorite podcast app! Send questions and suggestions to: tokyogamelife@gmail.com

「池袋のまちなかでクラフトビールを楽しむ！「IKEBUKURO LIVING LOOP Special Market」参加ブルワリーは？」　池袋駅東口のグリーン大通りや南池袋公園で、池袋周辺・沿線のつくり手や生産者が屋台を出すイベント「IKEBUKURO LIVING LOOP Special Market」 が開催されます！　参加するクラフトビールブルワリーの情報をピックアップしました。The post 池袋のまちなかでクラフトビールを楽しむ！「IKEBUKURO LIVING LOOP Special Market」参加ブルワリーは？ first appeared on クラフトビールの総合情報サイト My CRAFT BEER.

A car driven by someone from the Kyoto Association for the Preservation of Ancient Cultures reversed into Japan's oldest public bathroom or tosu, an important cultural property part of the Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto. And the day before, members of the Chinese Dragon gang were involved in a scuffle at a French restaurant on the 58th floor of a building in Tokyo's Ikebukuro. The gang with ties to Japan and China live in limbo; gang-like but not gang-like enough, falling outside of organized crime laws and considered a nuisance more than a criminal element. Elsewhere, directed by Sho Miyake and previewed in Berlin earlier this year, “Small, Slow But Steady” (or Keiko, me o su-masete), from 2022, loosely adapts the novel Don't Give Up (Makenaide) by Keiko Ogasawara, the first hearing-impaired professional female boxer in Japan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Japanese government mulls removing the entry cap of 50,000 foreign tourists per day. And Wakayama Prefecture harvests 150,000 tonnes of mandarin oranges known for ripening fast in Tanabe City. Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan in Ikebukuro designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Arata Endo in 1921 is also only one of two examples of Wright's work in Japan to completely retain its original appearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fireballs are seen over the skies of Kanto Japan and the Hitoboshi fire-spinning festival spins wheat over the Nanmoku River for the first time in three years. Elsewhere, a memorial archive in Ikebukuro dedicated to the mystery novelist Edogawa Ranpo is open to the public. It is where he lived until his death in 1965, and the studio includes all of his writings and personal effects, shedding light on this important mystery novelist responsible for classics like 'D-zaka no satsujin jiken' (The Case of the Murder on D. Hill), about about a woman killed in the throws of a sadomasochistic affair, and 'Ningen isu' (The Human Chair) about a man who hides within a chair to feel the bodies seated on top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

「JAPAN盆踊りFESTIVAL2022, JAPAN Bon Odori Festival 2022」 Fecha: 21 de agosto Lugar: Parque Ikebukuro Nishiguchi (Global Ring Theater) Horario: 14.30～ (tarde), 18.30～ (noche) Acceso: A 1 minuto de la estación JR Ikebukuro Ingreso: gratis Descripción: La producción está a cargo de la famosa diseñadora de modas Junko Koshino. El tema es «la cultura del nuevo bon-odori» […] La entrada AGO 21: Bon Odori Internacional en Ikebukuro, Tokio se publicó primero en Súper Tokio Radio.

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Es posible que me hayáis dado algún tirón de orejas por no hablar mucho de la capital de Japón. Y es mi asignatura pendiente, al menos en este pódcast. Hoy os hablo de esta zona tan interesante de Tokio, donde podemos encontrar muchos atractivos. Solo tienes que seguir escuchando. ¡Un abrazo y gracias por el apoyo! Músicas CC: -Sakuya3 por PeriTune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72NiAgXcREo Imagen CC: -"center at ikebukuro tokyo" en Creative Commons Media: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega_center_at_ikebukuro_tokyo.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.es by Alfonso Mártinez González "Ryo Suzuki"Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de GAIKAN - Japón/Japan Limited Podcast. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/651913

Ikebukuro west gate park Wants to feel like a mix of Durarara! and Black Lagoon but ends up not being up to the task. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lunchboxradio/message

No episódio #134 do Animes Overdrive, Pedro Lobato, Gabi Tozati, Matheus Bianezzi e PH Mota conversam sobre Durarara!! Nesse podcast, vamos fazer adentrar as ruas de gangues e criaturas mitológicas (irlandesas) de Ikebukuro no Japão e conversar sobre Durarara!!, anime de escolha pessoal da nossa rainha Gabi Tozati. Envie comentários e sugestões no twitter do Animes Overdrive (@overdriveanimes), no Instagram ou diretamente no e-mail podcastoverdrive@gmail.com. Caso você goste bastante do nosso podcast e queira nos ajudar, você pode fazer isso de várias formas diferentes: a) a primeira coisa que você pode fazer é obviamente nos indicar por aí e mostrar nosso programa para seus amigos e amigas para que mais pessoas nos conheçam; b) a segunda forma de nos ajudar é participando no nosso financiamento coletivo recorrente no nosso projeto do Catarse, em que poderá escolher uma entre duas categorias de apoio e com isso poder ter acesso a podcasts exclusivos e um grupo de apoiadores; c) a última forma, é sendo um inscrito no nosso canal na Twitch, principalmente se você assina Amazon Prime e pode dar essa inscrição de forma totalmente gratuita. Com o seu apoio na Twitch, você também terá acesso ao nosso grupo de apoiadores no telegram! E um agradecimento mais do que especial a todos os nossos apoiadores do nosso Catarse! Obrigado por acreditarem em nosso projeto!

With old train stock on the JR Ube line in Yamaguchi revived amid a surge of new COVID-19 cases throughout the country, second-hand book stores nearest to stations remain a constant, dependable presence. Take Bohemian's Guild in Jimbocho for example, or Totodo in Shibuya. There is also Flotsam Books near Daitabashi station, SO BOOKS close to Yoyogi-Hachiman, Honk Books in between Kanamecho and Ikebukuro and Kongen Shobo near Ekoda on the Seibu-Ikebukuro line. After all, knowledge is power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apply for 1 on 1 online coaching HERETo get more details click HEREIn this episode, I will be taking a deep dive into a topic I find interesting.Topics:-What needs to be in your lower body training.Read it HERE. References: Kubo, K., Ikebukuro, T., & Yata, H. (2019). Effects of squat training with different depths on lower limb muscle volumes. European journal of applied physiology, 119(9), 1933–1942. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-019-04181-yZabaleta-Korta, A., Fernández-Peña, E., Torres-Unda, J., Garbisu-Hualde, A., & Santos-Concejero, J. (2021). The role of exercise selection in regional Muscle Hypertrophy: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of sports sciences, 39(20), 2298–2304. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2021.1929736Maeo, S., Huang, M., Wu, Y., Sakurai, H., Kusagawa, Y., Sugiyama, T., Kanehisa, H., & Isaka, T. (2021). Greater Hamstrings Muscle Hypertrophy but Similar Damage Protection after Training at Long versus Short Muscle Lengths. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 53(4), 825–837. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002523

As Osaka experiences a record high of infections and Tokyo looks set to follow suit, the izakaya Bacchus in Ikebukuro takes refuge below ground, surrounding itself in English football memorabilia and local baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another gutter dispatch, lo-fi, lowbrow.

Gangs are using Air Tags in Aichi to track the whereabouts of Police and three early paintings by Taro Okamoto have been unearthed in Paris by collectors. Meanwhile, Tokyo's infamous 'Kissaten' coffee houses like Nominoichi in Ikebukuro, the 'Jazz-kissa' DUG in Shinjuku and Rojina in Kunitachi are all places to avoid detection, rediscover the odd idea, or simply invent a new one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's June 10, 2022. BoxerBlu prepares for a journey to help his mother drive cross country. We learn about companies that illegally lease dogs; how a man "married" a fictional character named Akihiko Kondo; Vladimir Putin's secret attack dolphins; the death of Regine, the creator of the first disco; how PimEyes knows everything you've done online; and a father who created a roller coaster for his 3 year-old.  And we learn about BGG Spring

It's June 10, 2022. BoxerBlu prepares for a journey to help his mother drive cross country. We learn about companies that illegally lease dogs; how a man "married" a fictional character named Akihiko Kondo; Vladimir Putin's secret attack dolphins; the death of Regine, the creator of the first disco; how PimEyes knows everything you've done online; and a father who created a roller coaster for his 3 year-old.  And we learn about BGG Spring

Gutter films, gutter talk, from the gutter. Recorded through a drainpipe with a rat in it for minimum audio fidelity.

Today, we will be chatting with Grant Buchholtz. Grant and Miho Buchholtz serve as missionaries at Evangelical Covenant Church and pastors at Tokyo Life Church in Ikebukuro. In this episode, Grant talks about the blessings and challenges of being on home assignment back in the US. He talks about helping his kids navigate the challenges of being put back in school in the American system and the perks of having this season back in America while missing their home church in Tokyo. Grant also talks about his journey of God calling him and Miho to ministry in Japan and planting a church in the heart of Tokyo. In this episode, we also talk about the enneagram and the importance of serving and ministry out of a place of knowing God's love for us. This podcast exists to showcase how much God loves Japan through different stories of people. It is like God sending a care package to the ones He loves in Japan! If you would like to share your experience with us, please email carepackagetojapan@gmail.com, and we would love to have you on the podcast as well! Let's all continue to pray and praise God for the beautiful country of Japan. Pray for Japan

Ikebukuro Color gang image https://kwsklife.com/color-gang/ Yamanote Line from Ikebukuro to Nishi-Nippori How many stations have you ever gotten off between Ikebukuro and Nishi-Nippori? Even if you have lived in Tokyo for a long time, a bunch of people has never gotten off some of the stations above. Personally, I have lived in the super minor stations like Tabata, Otsuka,,,,lol I hope you will enjoy the episode today. みなさん 今日は、山手線の30個ある駅の中で、池袋駅から西日暮里駅までをざっとご紹介します。 日本は、駅によって、すごく特徴があるため、街並みや遊び方等が変わってきます。 山手線の駅を知っていると、リスナーさんの日本生活も大きく変わってくることと思います！ そんなわけで、今日は駅紹介です！ 【ひとことフレーズ】 ・治安（ちあん）が悪い　⇔　治安が良い 治安は peace and order とか、public security です。会話では、ほとんど、治安が良い、治安が悪いという表現で使われます。 治安が悪い場所は、犯罪が多く、トラブルに巻き込まれやすい地域です。 風俗街、繁華街（例えば、歌舞伎町（かぶきちょう））などが、治安が悪いと言われるエリアです。 例）最近のNYは、治安がだいぶ良くなってきた。夜でも飲み歩いても大丈夫です。 例）昔の池袋は治安が悪かった。 ・迷路（めいろ） これは、ゲームや遊園地など、Mazeのように、行く道が複雑である場合に使われます。 特に、東京では、新宿駅、池袋駅、東京駅など、駅がとんでもなくドでかい場合、よく、迷路みたいだね！とか、池袋は迷路だから行きたくないとか 道や、駅の中が複雑で、目的地になかなかたどり着くことができない場所などに使われます。 例）池袋の地下は、複雑すぎて、迷路だわ。だから、行きたくない。 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kaichijapanese/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kaichijapanese/support

On this week's episode of The One Piece Podcast we have hosts Zach, Ed, Steve & Alex -- live from Ikebukuro in Japan -- to talk about the trip so far and go through the Manga Recap for Chapter 944, "Promise"! We are excited to announce our next adventure, we're headed to Japan! #OPP10 0:00:00 - #OPP10 & Manga Recap: Chapter 944 You can subscribe on Patreon and get access to our 500+ episode archive, exclusive episodes with our special guests, SWAG and a lot more. Don't miss out, subscribe at patreon.com/onepiecepodcast to get the full One Piece Podcast experience! We have the full One Piece Podcast documentary The One Piece Podcast Goes to Japan exclusively on Patreon! We are MAJI!!​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of The One Piece Podcast we have hosts Zach, Ed, Steve & Alex -- live from Ikebukuro in Japan -- to talk about the trip so far and go through the Manga Recap for Chapter 943, "Smile"! We are excited to announce our next adventure, we're headed to Japan! #OPP10 0:00:00 - #OPP10 & Manga Recap: Chapter 943 You can subscribe on Patreon and get access to our 500+ episode archive, exclusive episodes with our special guests, SWAG and a lot more. Don't miss out, subscribe at patreon.com/onepiecepodcast to get the full One Piece Podcast experience! We have the full One Piece Podcast documentary The One Piece Podcast Goes to Japan exclusively on Patreon! We are MAJI!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices