Wow. Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast probably the best way of learning

about life in Japan they're actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris

Brawer. We're joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast Mr Pete Donaldson for the first or

I say second podcast of 2024.

Hey do you just call me Pete de Donaldson? You were quaking at the very idea of me being on the podcast.

Hello Chris I have entered 2024 in the manner in which I left 2023

I've decided to you know continue experimenting

with my fashion choices and I'm currently wearing a red jumper and a red cardigan I'm doubling up on the red and I think I'm probably just going to buy all red clothes Red Tory trousers and just striding in 2024 as the red man not the one out of the Christmas the

Wotan clan your face also well I don't know if it's the camera red it is quite

quite red is if you got the clothes to match the face what's going on with the face?

Well I've got a yeah I've got a three bar heater.

I've got a three bar heater that is just like deliciously empty of electronics. It's just like a couple of heating coils

and I've got it up to absolute maximum because it is bloody freezing in South End.

So yeah. That's what happens when you do a

podcast in a shed at the bottom of your garden instead of the

warm cozy tasty abroad Japan podcast studio although to be fair I have to switch the heating off because you can hear it apparently on the microphone.

So it will soon be colder here.

Joy getting chilly, baby.

But of course, it isn't the nicest start to the year for Japan as you guys are probably aware.

We recorded the last three episodes sort of an advance over the Christmas holidays and we've sort of

lots of bad things have been happening in the week since then.

And we're going to talk about both the earthquake, the plane crash and a few other things that have been happening in Japan.

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