Welcome listener to chapter 196 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the QAnon International

Japan episode.

As always, we are your host, Jake Rakutansky, Julian Field, and Travis Vue.

This week we're resuming our sporadic but determined series about QAnon spread outside

of the United States of America.

So far we've tackled Germany and the Netherlands.

But this time we're exploring a truly surprising place for Q's movement to take hold.

Japan.

In a way it's only poetic justice that QAnon, a conspiracy theory berth on the so-called

Chan image boards, would migrate across the Pacific to the country where these online

spaces first began.

For more information about that you can listen to episode 128 from Anonymous to QAnon,

where we trace its roots back to the 1980s in Japan.

And to help us with today's endeavor, we'll be interviewing Sarah Haetower, an independent

cult and extremism researcher with a focus on Japan.

But before that, Travis is prepared a segment to explain just what we mean when we say

Japanese QAnon.

QAnon first got traction in Japan on blogs in 2018.

So blogging is still very popular in Japan and there are several blogs that support new

religious movements.

These blogs unsurprisingly were full of conspiracy theories, prophecies and questionable medical

advice.

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