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Tune in to the No.1 Podcast about life in Japan as Chris Broad and co-host Pete Donaldson discuss weird, wacky and wonderful news going on around the country. From insider travel tips, and language learning secrets, to hilariously awkward travel stories sent in by listeners and a weekly Q&A answering your questions. With over 100 episodes and broadcast every Wednesday, there’s no better place to learn about life in Japan while you’re on the go.

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Does Chris Want To Leave Japan At Last?

Climb aboard the baseball train, team awesome! [email protected] for all your ticketing needs....

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The Osaka Locals Who Spent $500 Treating Foreign Tourists

Just make sure you finish your onigiri first, so that the bugs don't get it. [email protected] for all your messages of support and drawings of us being thrown into fiery pits!...

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China Bans Japanese Seafood As Fukushima Releases Water

Pete and Chris will return, filled to the gills with radioactive content shortly - in the meantime [email protected] - send in your messages or links you'd like us to look at!...

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Hunting for Pokemon in Japan - is it actually fun?

Lids, and the people who hunt them down!...

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Is the world’s most deadly fish worth eating?

Fugu - it's what's for dinner!...

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The Japanese City Pressuring Pregnant Women

It's a man's world. That's why it's frequently unfettered sh*te. ...

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Why I AVOID Eating 7-Eleven Onigiri Rice Balls

Extra value crunch! Pete and Chris are reunited in Stak studios and drink some exceedingly expensive Starbucks....

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Why Travelling Japan without Cash is about to Get More Complicated

On Wednesday, Pete and Chris will be reunited, broadcasting from the SAME ROOM! Will Pete manage to order a couple of Starbucks coffees correctly? No, no he will not....

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Why Not to Leave Food Uneaten in a Japanese Ramen Shop

Waste not, want not! Pete and Chris will return on Sunday for another slice of Japan, but in the meantime you can head over to watch this stuff in video form, baby!...

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Tourist Tarnishes 1,000 Year Japanese Temple with Tacky Cat Drawing

What's wrong with some good old-fashioned doodlin'?...

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'Barbenheimer' Backlash in Nuclear-Scarred Japan as Warner Bros Apologises

And if you'd like to see this show in video form - subscribe to our brand new AIJ Podcast Youtube channel...

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How to Get the Yakuza's Business Cards while Travelling Japan

Head on over to www.youtube.com/ to check out the podcast in video form!...

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Did Chris & Natsuki Survive the 3,776m Climb up Mount Fuji?

Oxygen and ciggies. It's what this proud nation was built upon. ...

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Chris and Natsuki Have Set Off to Climb Mount Fuji! (3776m)

Hide his ciggys. It's the only way Natsuki's going to make it up there!...

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Why Oppenheimer Isn't Being Released in Japan (Yet)

Chris 'Barbie' Broad and Donaldson 'Oppo' Petester will be back on Sunday for more AIJ FUN!...

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Teenage Tourist Carves name into 1,200 year-old temple in Japan

Come on, it's hardly a 1,300 year-old temple in Japan. Now those things are PRECIOUS....

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The Bizarre Region in Japan Where Dolphins, Squids & Monkeys Attack Humans!

The Abroad In Japan Breastfeeding SPECTACULAR!...

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How to Lose $4,600 in a Tokyo Bar: Scams in Japan!

They finally got someone bang to rights! Well done that sleepy, empty-walleted man!...

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A Ghost in Japan: Are the Japanese Superstitious?

And the boys will return on Sunday, Chris's lumbar in pieces after a week of moving metal around!...

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Okinawa's Seas Turned Blood Red...BUT WHY?

[email protected] for all your messages...but we'll be back on Wednesday night UK time for more fun and games and probably more than a little industrial ocean tampering....

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Japan to Release 1 Million Tons of Fukushima Radioactive Water into the Pacific

...for a laugh. Pete and Chris will be back in the former's car for more amazing stories from the other side of the world on Sunday night! Join us......

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Japan Raises Age of Sexual Consent from 13 to 16

Yeesh! Apologies if Petey sounds a little robotic in this one - last show before mic quality goes back to normal!...

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10 Worst Inconveniences of Travelling in Japan as a Foreign Tourist!

If young Peter sounds a little robotic this week apologies! He had a little problem with his mic that Chris had to spend a good while cleaning up! Back to normal next week! Pray for PeteMic™ ...

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Why NOT to work for a Japanese Company

A lot of forms to fill in. Loads!!...

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Why Japan's Biggest Sushi Chain is Suing Diner for $400,000

Don't lick stuff in public. Nothing good ever happens. ...

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Driving in Japan as a Tourist: Is it Genuinely Worth it?

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Why these Japanese Vending Machines Are About to Become Free of Charge

Just want that sweet, free sweetcorn soup, baby! ...