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Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan Podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan, without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Broad and we're joined as always by Top London Radio DJ and certified Japaner file Mr. Pete Donaldson Pete.

How are you doing?

I'm alright, thanks Chris, how's the devil are you?

It's very miserable here in London and I'm sad.

Oh, it's lovely, absolutely lovely.

We're in that sort of time now where it's just before summer kicks in and it gets really, really, unpleasantly hot.

So yeah, I'm embracing the weather, it's lovely.

Ah, lovely old job. Well, I hope you get a nice tan.

Do people get tan as quite easily in Japan?

Because obviously it's very humid.

I imagine that might cool you down, cool little surface of the skin down a little bit.

Well people don't like getting tan in Japan, that's why they wear, that's why they use umbrellas in summer.

It's quite surreal when you come over in summer, everyone's using umbrella to hide the sun because it's kind of,

it's in Japan like the peasants used to be tan because they spend so much time out in the fields.

So it kind of looks bad to have a tan.

So it's the complete opposite of Europe and America and everywhere else.

Yeah.

Yeah, I get tan, I get incinerated right there.

So to cake myself in sun lotion just to get by.

So you've said, you message me the other day saying you watched lost in translation.

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