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Hello and welcome to the Abruñ Japan Podcast.

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Brodham and joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast,

Mr Pete Donaldson himself. Pete, how you doing today?

I'm good man. It's a Sunday so obviously it's the Lord's Day. I've been to church

all morning, been learning my parables and my religious stories and I'm just ready to get going.

Ready to get going. I do hope you've had a crack in Sunday yourselves. I've had a roast dinner

and yeah it's been a classic Sunday, enjoyable. A classic Sunday and you haven't dropped any more

air pods in avocados this week. I started last week sure very much dropping my expensive headphones

into avocado and ruining both things almost equally. I've been reading about Shinzo Arbe,

apparently you name checked the writer Jake Edelstein, I had elstein last week on the show and

he's kind of been people argue that he might be a bit of a bit of a bit of a mitty,

bit of a fantasist when it comes to getting down on his stories and stuff and he certainly has

a real problem with people criticizing him online but he so come out as bro, you're talking about

he has, he wrote quite an interesting piece about what Shinzo Arbe is going to do next and apparently

like over the past years he's made a very clear that he's very into like mobster movies like Yakuza

films so that's maybe something he might be getting into the old Oyabun kind of Yakuza style films

from back in the air because I think his granddad was quite involved in having pretty strong links

with Yakuza and obviously Shinzo Arbe doesn't but he does like proper naughty gangster films from

betting a day so that's maybe something he'll be moving into. That's amazing. I do know that

Shinzo Arbe is one of his relatives who I think is his granddad perhaps or father I can't remember

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