Why Come Japan

In this videoless episode, I interview an illustrator who I met off Instagram. We talk about Popodoodle used paid advertising on Insta to gain a following, his skeleton art, his love for Dragon Ball, life as a Japanese American, and more. Check out Popodoodle here:https://www.instagram.com/popodoodle/

In a very special episode, we get to learn how simple it was for Marc Cavazos to be arrested in Japan and what the process looked like. We also talk about what Japanese prison life is like, how Japan processes criminals by getting them to

In my most NPR-esque interview, I interview Joe McReynolds and we have serious listening problems. If you pay attention to the interviews as I do, you’ll notice how Joe tells me things about what stuff he’s done before, yet it doesn’t register with me and

Today on Why Come Japan, we go to a random park in Japan to try to record a more ambient podcast. Was this a lame idea? Or was it neat? You decide. In the interview, we talk about Ian’s books, book signings, John Hancocks, what

In this episode, I interview long-time Japan video blogger ThatGuyFox. We talk about his Why Come Japan origin story, Hip-hop dancing in Japan, Dance Dance Revolution, Eric Andre, Favorite books, Christianity, the state of the world today, and much more I can’t remember. Check out

In this episode, I talk to Kevin O’Shea for the first time despite knowing of each other for over ten years through the Infernet. In this episode, we learn about Kevin’s life journey starting from video games to teaching not only in Korea, but also

Why Come Japan comes back for its latest attempt to do an in-the-flesh interview, instead of the usual computer to computer google hangouts thing. Again, I fail to make the sound sound good (as stated in the beginning). This time Rayme Michaels has written another

This episode was recorded on March 19th, 2019. Karl’s first film link: https://vimeo.com/156791115?fbclid=IwAR28RJdL2-DIsureyrrTfAiYr3tXmIPZqYTHXvD1xLOaskZcqwIg16xOjzc In this episode, Karl talks about how his life in Japan as a filmmaker and a teacher at Temple University Japan (TUJ) began. Other things we talk about are the TUJ film

This episode was recorded on March 16, 2019. Steph and I catch up with each other by talking about Star Wars (since her name has jedi in it and we never talk about this), then we talk about her journey from Japan to England, having

This interview was recorded on March 8th, 2019. In this episode, I get to meet Jones and his cat for the first time. We talk about Tokyo Creative (his… I guess you would say sponsor), living/working in Japan, creating YouTube videos, going to Butler cafes,

This episode was recorded on January 28, 2019. A very sick Radrey talks to Hikkipedia on his show for the first time (and hopefully not the last!) The meat of this episode comes around at the end when Radrey learns that Emily (Hikkipedia) was a

This episode was recorded January 22, 2019. Kid “Jim” Shoryuken joins the show via a crappy internet connection and we talk about his adventures of picking up and collecting videogames, going to college at TUJ in Japan, his satirical Japanese vlogger video series that everyone

This episode was recorded on January 18, 2019. In this one Hiko talk about his life of being an attorney in the land of the rising sun and his rise to power. Other things Simon talks about is how to pass the Japanese Language Placement

This episode was recorded on January 11, 2019. In this one, we talk about not only Sebastian’s Japan origin story, but also what its like to work in a legit Japanese company, how being half Japanese effects him in the Japanese workplace, working at YouTube/Google,

This episode was recorded on January 4th, 2019. Here’s a solo episode with me talking about plans for the new year. To see the full uncut version of the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/radrey Here’s me Patreon & Ko-Fi Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radrey Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/radrey SOCIAL MEDIA Like: https://www.facebook.com/Radrey-1571653023108925/

This episode was recorded on December 28th 2018. With Tired & Determined (aka TokyoJoVlogs) we talk about his name change, all the tech he reviews in his videos, working in the air force in Japan, how he got the high numbers of subscribers and followers,

This episode was recorded on December 21, 2018 Radrey learns that his guest is also a musician. Then later we talk about amateur filmmaking in Japan, coming up with ideas to become creative, and much more. Listen to Justin (Yufeoh) on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/spacechannelstudio See his

This episode was recorded on December 14th, 2018. In this episode Radrey talks with tour guide and Kagoshima expert KagoCam and how it is to run a freelance business giving tours in Japan. See his website here: https://www.kagocam.com/ To see the full uncut version of

This episode was recorded on December 14, 2018. Radrey invites Jimmy back to Why Come Japan to talk about his PlayStation collection both from America, Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong. We also talk about how he used to work at NHK, our top best and

This episode was recorded on December 1st, 2018 Today Radrey goes to Ginza studio to talk to the guy who runs the space below known as the Ginza Hub. This place: https://ginzahub.comhttps://ginzahub.com// To rent the studio click this link: https://ginzastudio.com/ Zach and Radrey talk about