Fun Friday 24: Interview with Matthew Dons

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Alex Brooke

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this podcast I interview Matthew Dons, a dear friend and long term resident of Japan. We talk about his experiences of doing a home stay when he first came to Japan. Matthew also gives his advice on the dos and don’ts of Japanese etiquette and culture to make your stay in Japan go more […]

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0:00.0	Hello you're listening to Learn Japanese Pod and you're listening to the Fun Friday edition of the podcast, where we talk to
0:15.1	interesting people doing cool things in Japan. And I am joined by my dear friend
0:21.4	Matthew. Hello Matthew. Hello friend Matthew.
0:23.0	Hello Matthew.
0:24.0	Hello Alex.
0:25.0	And also Ben is sitting in the corner.
0:27.0	Good afternoon.
0:30.0	And it's a hot summer's day. We are hanging out in Matthew's beautiful Tatami room.
0:37.4	So Matthew lives out in Western, actually not Tokyo. It is Tokyo. It is Tokyo. It is Tokyo. I spend my whole lifetime people, this is Tokyo. This is Tokyo. I'm sorry.
0:48.0	So we actually passed through Kanagawa to get here. Right. We're in Tokyo. We're in Tokyo. So we are actually in
0:55.6	Tokyo. I stand corrected and as some of you long time listeners might know that
1:00.7	Matthew has appeared on the podcast before. Matthew has been
1:04.2	a dear friend for many years and also a supporter of the broadcast in many ways, one time
1:10.8	helping us to rebuild the website when we got hacked, which was good.
1:17.0	I remember that.
1:18.0	That was good.
1:19.0	Fun memories, fond memories.
1:21.0	But Matthew, for people who maybe don't know you, could you tell us a little bit about yourself
1:26.6	and how you came to be in Japan?
1:29.6	So I'm what is known as a lifer.
1:32.1	That does not mean I'm serving a life sentence for some crime. It
1:36.1	means I'm in Japan for good. So I think I've probably been here for 15 years now.
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