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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, we join as always by England's top Japan enthusiast,

Mr. Pete Donaldson himself. Pete, how are you doing on this fine day?

I am good. It's Sunday, I do hope you have all been to church and have also gone to the pub

as discussed in previous episodes about the fantastic Japanese pub, the hub that says that a lot of

churches have pubs attached to them. That's the hub, yeah. Absolutely, 10 sheets of the wind.

God, I love that. Do you know they've removed that? I love that when I went to a good old hub,

the British pub chain spread across Japan. There's three in Sendai No Les and they used to have,

on each table there was a little pamphlet, explaining British pub culture and it was very

simplistic, it said, every Sunday, everybody in England goes to a church and then they all go

to the pub and the pub is built into the church so it's very convenient. I've never been to a church

that has a pub. Is there such a thing, Pete, have you heard of this? No, I remember a pub attached

to a betting shop which is where he used to work and throughout the day the bets would become

less and less legible. I can't figure out what that was going on. That's a potent combination.

I have not been to the pub and I've not been to church but I have certainly been indulging in my

brand new sandwich toaster, many sandwich toasties have been had this afternoon. I a little bit

hello, a little bit brain foggy because I've had so many toasties. How many toasties? What have you had

in them? Cheese and ham. Cheese and ham they look. Oh, lovely.

That's so fantastic. I put a tomato in it was two sour, ruined the sandwich it was awful but other

than that the other three sandwiches that I've had I've had a lot of toasties today. So I bought it

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