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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 and we're joined as always by Top London Radio DJ and Certified Japaner File, Mr. Pete Donaldson.

Yes, hello. What's different about the podcast, Chris?

It's his word. It's like, it's a weird, it's a weird, 4D podcast experience for me because I am back in London ladies and gentlemen sitting opposite Pete Donaldson's face.

It's really weird. I forgot what this feels like.

You're separated by a bank of monitors from a top. London Radio DJ, he knows how all of the buttons work or at least some of them anyway.

You're enjoying a cafe near a coffee because you say it's the coolest place to go.

Yes.

And you're just enjoying the fruits of London at the moment.

I'm a little bit reverse culture shock because I've been back about five days now and I've spent the last five days just sitting in a room editing videos.

So it's actually my first day to experience people and lights and excitement.

So I walked, I came here and two wrists through Central London and it's just really weird because I'm in London, not Japan.

It's a little bit easier to figure out what people are saying because obviously you speak Japanese, you understand what they say.

But I imagine there's a little bit more labour involved with the old noggin.

It is.

Yeah, so well I'm in Japan, right?

If I listen and make an effort I can work out people are saying that in the UK it's just bombarding my ears with people.

I just walked down Savile Row.

Oh, where people get lots of expensive stuff for a suit.

You're just here like these just very posh people like, oh, salted buckles today for 500 million or often going to Tenerife on the weekend.

It's just, always for accents. It's just kind of fun and exciting.

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