POPULARITY
Our guest is Morgan Adamson, the chef at Hoseki, a six-seat omakase sushi bar located at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.In previous episodes, we had several non-Japanese sushi chefs who proved that America has a distinctive pool of talent, and that the American sushi culture is on healthy ground. Morgan is definitely one of these talents, and being female, she is particularly unique as the traditional sushi industry has been notorious for not welcoming females to lead the sushi counter.In this episode, we will discuss how a young woman from Michigan got into sushi, how she studied sushi-making and built a successful career, a unique concept of Hoseki where she expresses her own sushi-making philosophy, her advice to future sushi chefs in America, and much, much more!!!-----THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
Our guest is Elizabeth Andoh, who already joined us 13 times and shared her truly deep insight into traditional Japanese food culture. Elizabeth is a food writer and Japanese cooking instructor based in Tokyo, and she has lived in Japan for over 50 years. She runs the culinary arts program called A Taste of Culture, which offers a great opportunity for non-Japanese people to explore Japanese culture through its food. Elizabeth is also the author of 6 cookbooks, including the award-winning “Washoku: Recipes from the Japanese Kitchen” and “Kansha: Celebrating Japan's Vegan and Vegetarian Traditions.”Today's topic is Japanese curry. Curry is a universally popular dish, but like many other things, Japanese people remodeled the original and created a unique style of their own. Now, Japanese people eat Japanese-style curry as often as every 5 days, and the sales of all curry products totals 100 billion Japanese yen, or 660 million US dollars, annually.In this episode, we will discuss when and how Japanese people created their distinctively unique style of curry, the difference between Japanese and other styles of curry in the world, how to make a perfect Japanese curry dish at home, and much, much more!!!-----THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
Our guest is Megumi Hwang, the co-founder of KANKITSU LABO based in New York. She started KANKITSU LABO with the goal to revive the declining citrus farming industry in Japan and spread unique flavors of Japanese citrus to the world.You may have heard of yuzu, or tasted it at a Japanese restaurant and enjoyed its distinctively refreshing flavor. Citrus fruits are very popular in Japan, and there are numerous original varieties in the country other than yuzu.On this episode, we will discover the world of Japanese citrus fruits and how you can use them, and Megumi's mission and activities to support Japanese citrus farms that are seriously in decline due to market competition and the aging population.-----THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
Our guest is Tashi Gyamtso, the chef at Enowa. Enowa is a beautiful new restaurant and hotel in Yufuin, a remote town in the southern part of Japan. Enowa represents Tashi's unique culinary philosophy, which he has developed through his diverse experiences in the U.S. and abroad, including his career as a sous chef at the Michelin-starred Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York.On this episode, we will discuss how Tashi, who is originally from Tibet, got into cooking, his idea of the desirable food supply system and how he practices it at Enowa, the joy and the challenges of running a restaurant & hotel and even a sustainable farm in a remote area of Japan, and much, much more!!!-----THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
Our guest is Yuki Ueki, the assistant vice president of Zen-Noh America. Zen-Noh America is a subsidiary of the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations of Japan.As you may know, Wagyu beef is known for its extreme marbling and delicateness, as well as its unique, pleasant flavor. Behind its deliciousness, there is so much to discover such as its breeds, how it is raised, and the healthy unsaturated fat it contains.In this episode, we will discuss what wagyu is by definition, the difference between wagyu, washu, and Kobe beef, the grading program to guarantee wagyu's quality on your plate, why wagyu's fatty marbling is not bad for you, and much, much more!!!-----THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
Our guest today is David Yoshitomo Utterback, the chef/owner of Yoshitomo in Omaha, Nebraska.Japanese sushi has become a big part of American food culture. The presence of many great non-Japanese sushi chefs in the U.S. proves that sushi does not belong only to Japan. These chefs serve to inspire the tradition and help push it further.David is a classic example of one of these chefs. He was nominated for Best Chef: Midwest by the James Beard Foundation in 2023, and this year, his restaurant Yoshitomo has been nominated for the 2024 Outstanding Restaurant Award by the Foundation as a semifinalist (the results of this competition will be announced on June 10th in Chicago). Also, the Washington Post named Yoshitomo one of America's best sushi restaurants in December 2023.On this episode, we will discuss how David got into the world of sushi, how he studied sushi-making in Omaha, Nebraska (where beef is king), his original sushi that merges the tradition and American-style umami, his collaborations with Japanese sushi chefs, and much, much more!!!Photo courtesy of Joshua Foo.---THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
Our guests are Jeff Miller, the chef/owner of Rosella and Bar Miller in the East Village in NYC, and James Dumapit, the executive chef at Bar Miller. They both worked at Uchiko in Austin, Texas, which is one of the most influential sushi restaurants in America. In 2017, Jeff opened Mayanoki, the first sustainable sushi restaurant in New York, with his business partner TJ Provenzano. They joined us on Episode 129 to discuss their unique philosophy. Since then, their business evolved into Rosella, which earned many accolades and was named one of the Best New Restaurants in America by Esquire Magazine in 2021. James joined Rosella shortly after its opening.In September 2023, the team opened Bar Miller, the 8-seat Omakase-only sushi bar where James leads the entire sushi bar with a pleasant energy and offers exciting culinary discoveries. Along with the expansion of the team's business, Jeff has been deepening his knowledge and experience of serving sustainable sushi.On this episode, we will discuss the meaning and importance of sustainable sushi, the overlooked delicious and sustainable seafood you should try, the challenges and advantages of running sustainable sushi restaurants, and much, much more!!!Photo courtesy of Melissa Hom.---THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
Our guest today is Isao Yoshimura, a private chef based in New York. Isao grew up in the countryside of Japan and came to New York in 1996 where he jumped into the restaurant industry, when authentic Japanese restaurants were still few and far between.His approach to Japanese cuisine is traditional, but his work reflects his free, creative adaptive mindset. For example, he fishes and grows produce by himself to achieve the best taste and flavors he wants to offer to his clients.In this episode, we will discuss how a young man from Japan became a private sushi chef in New York, his unique philosophy of cooking authentic Japanese food, the joy and challenges in his life as a private chef in America, and much, much more!!! *** THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
Our guest is Victor Rivera who is the Head Chef at The Bazaar by Jose Andres in New York City. Before Victor became the Head Chef at The Bazaar, he cooked Japanese food in notable restaurants, including Masa in New York City, which has 3 Michelin stars. Also, he has a very strong culinary background in French with his experiences at top restaurants such as Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Edition and Le Bernardin. At the Bazaar in New York City, Victor uniquely incorporates traditional Spanish cuisine and Japanese cuisine in the style of Spanish tapas. He marries the seemingly opposite food cultures seamlessly and creates synergies. In this episode, we will discuss how Victor got into cooking and in particular Japanese cuisine, what is special about Japanese food for him, the unique concept of marrying Spanish and Japanese cuisine, how Victor executes it so well, and much, much more!!! *** THE NOTO PENINSULA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF As you may know, a major earthquake struck Japan's Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on January 1st. The death toll keeps climbing and the damage to the beautiful region is tremendous. Importantly, 10 of the 11 sake breweries in the Noto Peninsula were completely or partially destroyed. So if you can, please donate through reliable organizations including: The Japanese Red Cross https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html Peace Winds America: A fundraiser by US-Japan Foundation/US-Japan Leadership Program https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/49472/ The Ishikawa Sake Brewers Association https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/index.php (the donation account details) https://www.ishikawa-sake.jp/images/97-1.pdf) Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Japan Eats by becoming a member!Japan Eats is Powered by Simplecast.
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Japan Sea coast on Monday, flattening towns on the remote Noto peninsula.If you'd like to donate to the Japanese Red Cross society you can do so here: https://www.jrc.or.jp/english/donate/We'll be back on Thursday, but if you'd like to get in touch - abroadinjapanpodcast@gmail.com... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sailor Noob is the podcast where a Sailor Moon superfan and a total noob go episode by episode through the original Sailor Moon series!Sailor Noob comes charging back this week, as the villainy reaches a new low! As our heroes remain blissfully unaware, the Amazon Trio sets a trap to capture Pegasus himself...and Naru Osaka is the bait!In this episode, we discuss nursing in Japan, the Japanese Red Cross, Florence Nightingale, "cherry boys", "mog mog", and otedama. We also talk about understanding bosses, Pega-SUS, a free-for-all reference orgy, wacky hijinks, questionable '90s films, wanting that "Death Proof" ending, puke noises, banging on a streetlight, Peggy Fleming Syndrome, GERONTOR!, fake Bob Floy, septic tank roses, the Zack Snyder season, chad face Umino, and a farewell to ebbi fri!We don't have time to deal with wisecracks!We're on iTunes and your listening platform of choice! Please subscribe and give us a rating and a review! Arigato gozaimasu!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sailor-noob/id1486204787Become a patron of the show and get access to our Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon live-action show and our Animedification podcast!http://www.patreon.com/sailornoobPut Sailor Noob merch on your body!http://justenoughtrope.threadless.comSailor Noob is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!http://www.twitter.com/noob_sailorhttp://www.justenoughtrope.comhttp://www.instagram.com/noob_sailorhttps://discord.gg/49bzqdpBpxBuy us a Kōhī on Ko-Fi!https://ko-fi.com/justenoughtrope
Today we find out that a strong enough scent can break a man's soul, and then we travel to Japan to find out that Japanese Red Cross tricked nerds into donating blood! Is this just a fun story or does it lead us towards a darker truth? Is the internet algorithms intent on diagnosing diseases . . . before we even have them? Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=18482113 PayPal Donation Link https://tinyurl.com/mrxe36ph MERCH STORE!!! https://tinyurl.com/y8zam4o2 Amazon Wish List https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/28CIOGSFRUXAD?ref_=wl_share Dead Rabbit Radio Wiki https://deadrabbitradio.pods.monster/doku.php?id=Welcome Help Promote Dead Rabbit! Dual Flyer https://i.imgur.com/OhuoI2v.jpg "As Above" Flyer https://i.imgur.com/yobMtUp.jpg “Alien Flyer” By TVP VT U https://imgur.com/gallery/aPN1Fnw Links: EP 904 - The Devil Dwells Under The Overpass (Magical Princess Minky Momo Causes Earthquakes episode) https://deadrabbitradio.libsyn.com/ep-904-the-devil-dwells-under-the-overpass Mandated "Aversion Therapy" is brutal...need help https://www.reddit.com/r/SexOffenderSupport/comments/v3i8rs/mandated_aversion_therapy_is_brutalneed_help/ Archive https://archive.ph/c3Et9 Really struggling to get through mandated "aversion therapy" now...getting worse, feels impossible to complete. https://www.reddit.com/r/SexOffenderSupport/comments/xenrha/really_struggling_to_get_through_mandated/ Archive https://archive.ph/kdNLn Is the Japanese government targeting otaku for blood donations? https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadRabbitRadio/comments/wqy0cz/is_the_japanese_government_targeting_otaku_for/ Number of blood donors Japan 2020, by gender https://tinyurl.com/39stbrzd Number of blood donors in Japan from 2013 to 2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1081487/japan-number-blood-donors/ Gender differences in giving blood: a review of the literature https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957494/ Busty Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! Blood Donation Drive Poster Sparks Online Debate https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-10-16/busty-uzaki-chan-wants-to-hang-out-blood-donation-drive-poster-sparks-online-debate/.152264 Busty No-Rin Collaboration Campaign Poster Changed https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-12-07/busty-no-rin-collaboration-campaign-poster-changed/.96212 Twitter user thinks he knows why blood drives use sexy anime artwork in Japan https://soranews24.com/2019/10/16/twitter-user-thinks-he-knows-why-blood-drives-use-sexy-anime-artwork-in-japan/ Hana Uzaki https://uzaki-chan.fandom.com/wiki/Hana_Uzaki Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (manga) https://uzaki-chan.fandom.com/wiki/Uzaki-chan_Wants_to_Hang_Out!_(manga) Japanese Red Cross renews partnership with busty-heroine manga series for new blood drive https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/japanese-red-cross-renews-partnership-with-busty-heroine-manga-series-for-new-blood-drive New Uzaki-chan Blood Drive Posters Revealed — Unseen Japan Praises Design as “Less Sexual” https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/f0ivdb/news_new_uzakichan_blood_drive_posters_revealed/ Red Cross x Uzaki-chan Blood Drive Poster Stirs Debate https://otakuusamagazine.com/red-cross-x-uzaki-chan-blood-donation-poster-stirs-controversy/ Red Cross Responds to Controversy Over New Anime Mascot https://comicbook.com/anime/news/red-cross-anime-mascot-controversy-comment-nsfw/ The New Art https://twitter.com/ontakahashi/status/1223456099480653824 Close Up https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPqW06LVUAEGW7y?format=jpg jessicamorris01 https://www.instagram.com/jessicamorris01/ Why does Frndly TV have commercials? https://frndlytv.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/48000601608-why-does-frndly-tv-have-commercials- ------------------------------------------------ Logo Art By Ash Black Opening Song: "Atlantis Attacks" Closing Song: "Bella Royale" Music By Simple Rabbitron 3000 created by Eerbud Thanks to Chris K, Founder Of The Golden Rabbit Brigade Dead Rabbit Archivist Some Weirdo On Twitter AKA Jack YouTube Champ Stewart Meatball The Haunted Mic Arm provided by Chyme Chili Thanks to Fabio N! Pintrest https://www.pinterest.com/basque5150/jason-carpenter-hood-river/ http://www.DeadRabbit.com Email: DeadRabbitRadio@gmail.com Twitter: @DeadRabbitRadio Facebook: www.Facebook.com/DeadRabbitRadio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deadrabbitradio Jason Carpenter PO Box 1363 Hood River, OR 97031 Paranormal, Conspiracy, and True Crime news as it happens! Jason Carpenter breaks the stories they'll be talking about tomorrow, assuming the world doesn't end today. All Contents Of This Podcast Copyright Jason Carpenter 2018 - 2022
Today's news is from the Japanese Red Cross, courtesy of CAF bringing this to my attention. The original article is here: https://www.jrc.or.jp/donation/about/refrain/detail_08/ You can … NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM APRIL 1 2021 Read More » The post NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM APRIL 1 2021 appeared first on The Giza Death Star.
We're joined by another guest in this episode! Charly gives us a brief rundown of Japanese history, and then tells us about Yaeko Yamamoto, a Japanese daughter of a samurai who was skilled in gunnery and was an all-round incredible woman for reasons you'll discover in this episode. Not only was she a warrior woman, a nurse for the Japanese Red Cross, and a master at tea ceremonies and flower arranging, but she was also the recipient of multiple Orders of Merit and founded several schools. If you love badass women of history, this is the episode for you! Find the full notes for this episode, including where you can learn more about this topic, at learnaboutpod.com. You can also follow us on Instagram and Twitter at @learnaboutpod.
On this week's episode we discuss the Japanese Red Cross's efforts to collect bodily fluids by showing dudes some boobs, and the related twitter/Shonen Jump controversy/reactions. Exactly how much sexual objectification of women is okay for a humanitarian organization and/or magazine for middle school kids? (TLDL: None.) Also, Ollie recommends a river cruise, but be careful with your Katakana, or you might confuse one objectively awful thing with another equally awful thing. And rivers run deep, but so do the nuances of River Cruise related rejections. Bobby explains the ins and outs of metaphors, and maritime marital law. Send us a message with your thoughts at Japanbyrivercruise.com
Welcome to the 7th September episode of our short form weekly news bulletins. Approximately 10 to 15 minutes to round up the weekly games news that you might have missed. This week Christi keeps you to date on Nintendo, Spiderman puddles, new MMO news and slightly underwhelming Witcher news, among other things. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think @clodofwar on twitter, or via voice message on the anchor app! As promised here's my new mastodon account if you're where all the cool folk are: @Pixelchristi@nineties.cafe Our brilliant Newsclod theme tune is courtesy of Erik Matyas at soundimage.org Bleeps and bloops courtesy of audiosoundclips.com Thank you all for making your work available on creative commons. Podcasts like this wouldn't exist without you. Whether that's a good thing... I'll leave to others to decide. Here's the Japanese Red Cross link: http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/donate/
The American Red Cross Iwakuni Station partnered with the Japanese Red Cross Society for a blood drive to benefit local hospitals.
Hello, one and all! Welcome to episode not twenty-six! We do a whole bunch of news and even more anime, and even dare to disagree a bit! Our opening song is Wanna Dance! by Tomato n' Pine and our ending is Ai no Uta by Haruka Chisuga. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:15 News 2:15 Crunchyroll and Loot Anime combine 4:59 Voice Actor and Choreographer Ken Maeda passes away at 44 7:20 Ajin second season announced 12:56 Under the Dog new PV 15:56 Clamp unveils details for new Cardcaptor manga series 17:45 Nintendo NX confirmed for March 17 20:45 Year anniversary of Oh no, Anime!? 21:25 AmiAmi opens a storefront in Akiba 23:30 Savage Garden hits collection to feature Josuke 25:30 Photo of Scarlet Johansson as the Major appears/yellowface in post production 35:10 Kantai Collection's may update brings the USS Iowa and Pola 37:27 Gundam Thunderbolt bluray release plans include English subs and dubs in Japan 41:25 Log Horizon's author Mamare Touno arrested for tax evasion 43:57 Arale from Dr. Slump to appear in Dragonball Super 45:19 KyoAni and the Japanese Red Cross slip up and announce Hibike! Euphonium season 2 46:50 Nier Automata information drop 51:00 Silent Mobius (1990 PC game by Gainax) to be remastered 54:20 2d market to bring Japanese doujinshi to the west translated and uncensored 1:02:20 Cutie Honey signed toilet auctioned off 1:06:50 Fan mail! 1:12:52 Anime 1:13:00 Bungou Stray Dogs 1:14:44 Ushio and Tora, Yu Yu Hakusho, dubs, and 90's shounen 1:20:20 Space Patrol Luluco 1:25:00 Tonkatsu DJ Agetaro 1:28:20 Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 1:30:00 flying witch 1:32:34 Twin Star Exorcists 1:33:26 Sansha Sanyou 1:34:30 Sakamoto desu ga 1:36:00 Re:Zero 1:39:28 Netoge Yome 1:39:57 The Lost Village 1:47:10 Macross Delta 1:47:30 Bakuon!! 1:48:05 Big Order 1:54:50 Asterisk War 1:55:50 Haifuri (Highschool Fleet) 2:02:10 Hundred 2:02:38 Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress 2:08:08 Kiznaiver 2:14:21 Joker Game 2:19:20 Sailor Moon Crystal 2:26:06 Kumamiko 2:31:46 My Hero Academia 2:39:35 Kuromukuro 2:42:56 Jojo Part 4 2:48:35 Outro ~~~ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ohnoanime Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ohnoanime Email: ohnoanime@gmail.com
Multiple Sclerosis Discovery: The Podcast of the MS Discovery Forum
[intro music] Host – Dan Keller Hello, and welcome to Episode Forty-Four of Multiple Sclerosis Discovery, the podcast of the MS Discovery Forum. I’m your host, Dan Keller. This week’s podcast features an interview with Dr. Monika Bradl, who discusses animal models of neuromyelitis optica, NMO. But first, here are some of the new items on the MS Discovery Forum. According to our curated list of the latest scientific articles related to MS, 69 such articles were published last week. To see the list, go to msdiscovery.org and click on Papers. We selected two of those papers as Editors’ Picks. One – on the use of MRI in NMO –included no fewer than 48 co-authors, a veritable Who’s Who of prominent MS researchers. The other editor’s pick, which had “only” 36 co-authors, was a large study providing strong evidence that disease-modifying treatment reduces disability worsening events in clinically isolated syndrome and early MS. . [transition music] Now to the interview. Dr. Monika Bradl is an associate professor in the center for brain research at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. I talked to her in her office about her work with animal models of neuromyelitis optica to probe what occurs in the early stages of the disease. She first describes why animal models are important. Interviewee – Monika Bradl NMO is a very rare disease, and so you have the problem that you get only very little pathological material, and so when you want to know what's going on at the very beginning of the disease you have to use animal models. And so our pioneer work there in the NMO field was to find out whether the antibody that characterizes about 80% of NMO patients, that's an antibody directed against aquaporin-4, water channel astrocytes, is pathogenic or not. And so what we did is that we injected this antibody then in experimental animals. When we had the animals without any additional CNS inflammation going on, they remained completely fine, and that was at that time a bit of a debate because people thought that the antibodies could enter the central nervous system anyhow. But then it turned out that this failure of the antibody to reach the uninflamed brain had also predecessor in humans. There they had an NMO patient in Japan who was diagnosed with NMO, and when they found that he has pathogenic antibodies, they were first afraid because this patient was blood donor with the Japanese Red Cross, and so at that time then they stored serum samples of all the blood donors for quite some time, and they found out that this person had pathogenic antibodies already for more than 10 years without showing any signs of disease. And so this was then the human patient correlated to what we found in our NMO animals, and what we then also saw is immediately when we make our CNS inflammation with CNS-specific T cells which break open the blood-brain barrier, then the antibody gets access to the central nervous system, binds to the astrocytes, and then induces two different type of killing procedures. So the astrocytes are then killed with either the help of complement or with the help of a mechanism that's called antibody-dependent cytotoxicity; so both of these mechanisms are then responsible for tissue destruction. Interviewer – Dan Keller Getting back to the Japan patient, did they also follow the recipients of that person's blood? It seems like this patient did not have that second hit which would allow the antibody to cause problems, but giving it passively to someone who already had the first hit might cause a problem. Did they look at the recipients? Dr. Bradl I'm sure they did, but there are no records about it to my knowledge. They might have been published in Japanese in some of these Japanese journals, but not in the international journals. But I'm quite sure that there was no immediate transfer of the disease with these antibodies because that would have made headlines. So one can conclude from that that this must have been harmless. MSDF And what animal models are you using? Dr. Bradl We are using rat models, but there are other groups that are working in mice. We use Lewis rats and we think they are great because the rat complement works with the human antibodies, so it provides the help. And we have an NMs strain the Lewis rat which is extremely susceptible to all different types of autoimmune diseases, and so therefore we like rats and their CNS is larger and nicer. But people who work with mice, they also have advantages because they can use the entire transgenic zoo of knockouts or gene-mutated animals, and with this they can learn more about the contribution of individual molecules to the disease process. MSDF Now that you bring up the mice, are some mice more susceptible based on MHC than others; are some resistant? Dr. Bradl There you have to consider one peculiarity of the mouse system. If you use mice, then you have the wrong complement system. So no matter what kind of inbred strain you use, you have to transfer human complement along with the human antibodies to get an effect, plus people who use the mouse model directly inject complement and antibodies into that brain to circumvent the blood-brain barrier. And when they do that, the MHC type of the particular mouse strain doesn't play a role. MSDF Is this using only passively transferred antibody, or do you try to raise antibodies by injecting antigen or modifying antigen? Dr. Bradl Yup. We desperately try to do so, but I have to say that this was not a real success story. So we first tried, as many other people did, to use just convention and normal aquaporin-4 as it is normally produced, or longer fragments of this, but obviously this does not work. And we now know that the antibody recognizes its target only if the aquaporin-4 is correctly folded within the same membrane. And only if this is the case, then there are three extra cellular loops which are available for antibody binding, and these three loops must be properly oriented and strictly optimally aligned in order for the antibody to bind. And this can only be hardly mimicked in the animal model just by immunization. We then tried also to immunize with membranes of aquaporin-4 transfected cells, and there we got a little of antibody titer, but when we used these antibodies to stain tissue in order to find out whether they are good one, we saw much more staining than we would have liked, and so that means that the membranes are probably contain some antigens which were then, after immunization, targets of antibody responses. So this was so far in our hands a failure. And as far as I know, we are not the only ones that suffer from that. So there is currently, unfortunately, no model which works after immunization with aquaporin-4. MSDF Where do you go from here? Dr. Bradl Well, we are currently modifying our animal models to the extent that we study much more the T cell responses, and we also try to modify the B cell site, but this is a bit of a, let's call it easy way modification. Because we learned along the way that when we have a very, very, very good NMO IgG from a patient, we can work with very low antibody titers, and so that gives us a very nice animal model. And we also know that there are some NMO IgGs which make high titers in the patients but which are relatively lousy in animal models. So we learned from this that we just select and search for the best animal IgG for the model to transfer this; that's the B cell side. And on the T cell side, you'll find T cells in NMO lesions, but people had a hard time to get aquaporin-4 specific T cells. So it was not quite clear whether one needs aquaporin-4 specific T cells at all for the formation of lesions, or whether any other activated T cell that recognizes different proteins in the CNS could do the job as well. So over the last few months, we now were really able to produce really highly pathogenic aquaporin-4 specific T cells which do the job and which guide lesions to sites where they are also seen in NMO patients. And so with this we were now able to really advance our model much, much more than we had done before. MSDF So these T cells you've generated, and these are directly cytotoxic? Dr. Bradl We are not dealing with CD8-positive or cytotoxic T cells, we are dealing with helper T cells. And these helper T cells, we know that they exist because the pathogenic antibodies of the patients have a phenotype that needs T cell help in their formation. But it was all the time unclear whether the T cells only help in antibody formation, or whether they also help in localizing lesions to the correct places. And now we have really for the first time the impression that we have a cell line that does exactly this. MSDF How do you translate what you're finding out in the animal models to the clinical situation? Is it developed enough now that you can make correlates? Dr. Bradl Well, that's a good point. I mean, when you look, for example, at our T cell work, then we observed in our animals that there are a large number of epitopes available for antigen recognition by T cells in the rat. And then it turned out that people observed the same thing in mice, and now we know it's also the same thing in humans. And then when you have so many different epitopes or so many different parts of a protein that can be recognized by the immune system, then you have to figure out whether all of them could give rise to pathogenic T cells or not. And in the Lewis rat, for example, one knows that on myelin basic protein, there are two adjacent peptides which can induce very nice T cell responses, but only one T cell response is pathogenic and the other harmless. And so we initially were facing the same problem with our Lewis rats and the many different epitopes on aquaporin-4, and there we found out that in principle we can also rise T cell responses against many of these epitopes, but we have to use an enormous amount of T cells to get lesions in the CNS. But with our new T cell line, now we know that we only have to use very few cells to get the lesion, so they are the dominant pathogenic T cells. And it's quite nice that in NMO patients with a very peculiar MHC phenotype – that's an MHC phenotype that's mostly seen Brazilian NMO patients – they recognize dominantly an epitope that's very close to ours, and they termed this also immunodominant epitope. And it could be that it's pathogenic as well, but there is not yet any proof for that in humans. MSDF Looking at aquaporin-4 as a target in NMO, do these cells just use it as a target to destroy the cell that it's on, or does it result in a pathologic process by inhibiting the action of the channel? Dr. Bradl There are reports about knockout animals where there is no aquaporin-4 available, also on astrocytes in the CNS. And these animals are apparently healthy under normal conditions, but they show a disease phenotype under conditions where there is tissue swelling going on; for example, under ischemia, and so they cannot cope with that properly. So that means the complete absence of this channel is also bad. Then there are currently two different groups of thinking in the scientific community. There are reports that antibodies can bind to aquaporin-4 and inhibit water flow through this channel, but there are other groups that could not reproduce it. And at the moment it could just be a matter of different antibody preparations or different test systems or different species, so this issue is not 100% solved yet. MSDF Anything we've missed or interesting to add on the topic? Dr. Bradl I think the only thing one can say is that since NMO is such an extremely rare disease and since this makes it necessary that people all over the world cooperate with each other, that leads to an enormously research-friendly atmosphere and an enormous willingness of the people to cooperate with each other, and so on all different types of subjects. MSDF How many patients are there? Dr. Bradl Well, when you look here in Austria, we have about 8 million inhabitants; there are 8,000 MS patients and approximately 80 NMO patients. And this frequency is more or less encountered throughout the world; it's a very rare disease. MSDF Very good, thank you. [transition music] Thank you for listening to Episode Forty-four of Multiple Sclerosis Discovery. This podcast was produced by the MS Discovery Forum, MSDF, the premier source of independent news and information on MS research. MSDF’s executive editor is Robert Finn. Msdiscovery.org is part of the non-profit Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis. Robert McBurney is our President and CEO, and Hollie Schmidt is vice president of scientific operations. Msdiscovery.org aims to focus attention on what is known and not yet known about the causes of MS and related conditions, their pathological mechanisms, and potential ways to intervene. By communicating this information in a way that builds bridges among different disciplines, we hope to open new routes toward significant clinical advances. We’re interested in your opinions. Please join the discussion on one of our online forums or send comments, criticisms, and suggestions to editor@msdiscovery.org. [outro music]
It's our Blizzcon episode! The staff is joined by Sere of Serephita Cosplay as she tells our crew abouthow awesome Blizzcon is! Plus she divulges about her cosplay, voice acting and much more! Plus room for news such as the top twelve violent women in anime and how one Free! fan printed out lifesize characters from the anime to put on her bed! And in news from Japan, some douchebag robbed a maid cafe, and the Japanese Red Cross wants real life consequeces from videogames? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/animejamsession/support
Hello everyone. I’m Misaki. The big earthquake happened on March.11th 2011. So today I'm going to interview an English teacher about the earthquake. So let’s start with an interviewee. M: Hi, what your name please. M.B: My name is Marcos Benevides. M: OK. Can you tell me where are you from? M.B: I’m Canadian, but I was born in Brazil. M:Brazil. OK. I’d like to ask you some questions about the earthquake that happened on March11th 2011. OK? M.B: OK. M: So my first question is that. When the earthquake happened, where were you? M.B: I was at home but I was I just left my house, so I was on the street on my scooter on my bike. M: OK. How did you feel? M.B: I felt very strange because I had been working in my house until about three whenever the earthquake happened. I woke up and I was alone in my house all day I was working from earlier morning and I didn’t eat any food or anything. I just sat in my computer and worked worked worked. In suddenly at 2:30 I looked my watch and I thought oh! it’s 2:30, I didn’t anything I should go get some food. So I jumped on my scooter and I went to the bakery and when I was stopped the red light, the earthquake happened. But because the scooter vibrates, I didn’t notice. I thought I was sick because I didn’t eat so thought “oh! I’m gonna full”. But then I saw people coming out of the buildings and I thought oh, no! It’s an earthquake then I stopped but before that I felt very strange because I thought I was sick, you know? M: Okay. Did you think about going back to your country? M.B: No. M: No? Why? M.B: Because I live in Japan. M: You live with family? M.B: Yes. So Japan is not safety because the earthquake happened. You don’t didn’t nervous in Japan? Oh! Of course I was nervous, but everywhere is dangerous. In Canada we have snow storms and the in other country is there’re hurricanes and tornadoes. So Japan has earthquake but it’s only. Every place has all dangerous. So I don’t think you can’t escape from death. You know? M: Yeah, I think. You didn’t miss your family? M.B: My family was in Okinawa. M: Really? M.B: Uh, my family is Japanese. M: No, your father and your mother. M.B: Did I miss them? No, I don’t know why I would. I mean usually I miss them but during the earthquake I didn’t miss them more. M.B: OK. So when the earthquake happens, will you think about your mind change your mind if another earthquake happened? M: Yes. M.B: No, in fact since the earthquake I bought a house in Japan. So before Japan was my home but now is really my home, because now I have a house. So if another earthquake happens, I will to "ganbatte" like everybody else, alright? So. M: OK. Have you done any volunteer worked or helped for Tohoku people? M.B: Ah,for Tohoku. Well right after the earthquake, I donated money to Japanese Red Cross but I didn't volunteer work to go there. Because I wanted to go there because I was alone,Alright? My family is Okinawa. So I was actually little bit bold because there was no power and all that. So I wanted to go Tohoku to help but there're too many people to go there is not good. So I in the end I didn't go there. But now my house, I am making new window, so took out the old window. And I my wife wants to donate to the window to Tohoku, because they need materials to build houses, alright? So I think we'll do that too. But we have only only donated money, we haven't done other things yet. M: Thank you. M.B: You're welcome. M: Thank you. My question is fished. M.B: It's finish? OK. Good luck! Conclusion The earthquake brought Japan serious damages. This earthquale claimed the many lives. It was awful. But on the other hand, I felt the power and cooprative attitude of all people. I learned that there are no national boundaries in people's warm heart. So thank you for listening. See you!
This Podcast goes out to honor and pay tribute to all those affected by the tragedy in Tohoku Japan. Words cannot express the magnitude of this event so this one in a pure dub and instrumental style. These Podcasts are always free, but we are asking for all our listeners and supporters to donate $10 to the Japanese Red Cross effort by following this link: https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=0&5052.donation=form1&df_id=5052 Photo Courtesy of Steven Nereo
It all happened while we watched and gasped. Never before has the world been exposed to such vivid and comprehensive footage of a disaster of this magnitude. The Japanese Tsunami is unique among all natural catastrophes in its power and exposure to the world. The images have been riveting but it is critical for us to remember they are indeed real. Real people were consumed. Real people were scrambling from those horrifying waters. Mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons spent their last moments in abject terror and were washed away in an instant. And because we watched it happen on computer and TV screens, it seems distant and unreal. And the pain and suffering will continue. Radiation leaks, homelessness, disease, mourning, rebuilding and the fear of recurrence - these will be the new normal in these coastal towns. It is right for events like these to completely rock our sensibilities. It is right to mourn, normal to question, and good for us to respond in tangible ways. The following articles and links are provided for us to enter in to this tragedy in a way that is honest, human, charitable and hopeful.In the end, comprehensive answers may elude us. But we can draw comfort from the God who holds our tears in a bottle (Ps. 56:8) and who was willfully crushed under the full weight of the world's sin and agony to deliver all of those who would trust Him into a place where tsunamis happen no more.Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:1–6)From The Boston Globe's The Big PictureNews Stories - What happened?Powerful quake, tsunami kills hundreds in Japan - An AP article summarizing the eventsUpdates and Video of Japanese Earthquake’s Aftermath The latest news updates from the New York TimesQuake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth's axis From CNNStone In The Pond: Charting The Path Of The Tsunami - animation of the NOAA modelThe Japanese Tsunami - The Big Picture Japan Floods Nuclear Reactor Crippled by Quake in Effort to Avert Meltdown - from the New York TimesNuclear Experts Explain Worst-Case Scenario at Fukushima Power Plant This is provides a solid explanation of the possible meltdown (HT: my buddy Doug Dale) In Minamisanriku, Heartbreak as 9,500 Remain Missing - Time Magazine. This is a town of 17,000.Human Reaction and Biblical Answers - What are we to think?Sympathy for Japan, and Admiration by Nicholas KristofA Prayer for Japan by John Piper. Here is a moving excerpt from that prayer:O God, we humble ourselves under your holy majesty and repent. In a moment—in the twinkling of an eye—we too could be swept away. We are not more deserving of firm ground than our fellowmen in Japan. We too are flesh. We have bodies and homes and cars and family and precious places. We know that if we were treated according to our sins, who could stand? All of it would be gone in a moment. So in this dark hour we turn against our sins, not against you.And we cry for mercy for Japan. Mercy, Father. Not for what they or we deserve. But mercy.Have you not encouraged us in this? Have we not heard a hundred times in your Word the riches of your kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not a thousand times withhold your judgments, leading your rebellious world toward repentance? Yes, Lord. For your ways are not our ways, and your thoughts are not our thoughts.From The Boston Globe's The Big PictureNPR Interview w/ Piper regarding the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean This is a remarkably helpful piece and one I have gone to time and again when faced with the inevitable questions that accompany profound suffering. Charities - How can we respond?Crash Japan A dear friend of mine in Hamamatsu City and Makoto Fujimara both mentioned this organization as a great place for disaster relief donations.UPDATE 3/17/11Thursday, 17 March 2011JAPAN DISASTER APPEALIn the days following WWII General Douglas MacArthur appealed for 1000's of missionaries to come to help rebuild the devastated nation. Unfortunately only a fraction of that responded to the call. Today we are appealing once again for Christians to come help Japan rebuild. These are some of the things that CRASHJAPAN, a national network of churches, missions and ministries is prepared to facilitate in Northern Japan in response to the disaster.1.2 Water Supplies 2.2 Bulk Food/Meals3.1 Provide Shelter for Victims/Evacuees3.2 Provide Shelter for Relief Workers/Volunteers4.1 Medical Equipment and Supplies4.2 Basic Medical Care or First Aid4.3 Non-Prescription Medicines5.1 Provide Clothing, Bedding, Blankets6.2 Personal Hygiene Items7.1 Trauma Counseling7.2 Spiritual Support8.1 Debris Removal and Cleanup8.2 Construction and Repair9.1 Transport / Shipping of Goods and Supplies9.2 Point of Distribution / Final Delivery9.3 Provide Storage Space, Warehouse Facility9.4 Transportation of People10.1 Web Development, Web Support12.2 Fund Raising12.3 Financial Management12.4 Volunteer Management12.5 Manage/Mobilize Volunteer Networks13.5 Language InterpretersIf you are able to help in any of these areas - please contact us at 213-457-3154 in the US at 050-5534-5729If you are able to donate funds please contact pnethercott@crashjapan.comIf you are able to send a volunteer team please contact bthompson@crashjapan.comIf you are able to send relief supplies please contact yhari@crashjapan.comChurches Helping Churches - these folks have done an excellent job leveraging relationships between churches to mobilize relief efforts in Haiti and now they taking what they have learned to Japan.World Vision - World Vision is assessing the role they might have in aiding victims and is planning to create child-friendly space for children to play as a first step.American Red Cross From the website of the American Red Cross:Since early Friday morning, we have been in close contact with our colleagues in the Pacific region to offer our support and learn more about the humanitarian needs. The Japanese Red Cross has indicated that it would accept financial support from the American Red Cross for its role providing first aid, emotional support and relief items to those displaced.On Sunday, the American Red Cross will deploy a disaster management expert from its Washington, DC headquarters to Japan for a week-long mission. She will serve on a seven-person, international team focused on providing high-level support and advice to the Japanese Red Cross, which continues to lead the local earthquake and tsunami response.You can donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting "redcross" to 90999 as well.God have mercy.How should we respond to the tragedy in Japan? from Summitview Community Church on Vimeo.