Wow! 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 England's Top Japan enthusiast, Mr Pete D'Alson himself.

Pete, how the devil, are you doing? What's going on?

I'm fantastic now. You've reverted to your original introduction of me that you've been doing

for about four years. Last week, in the week before, you decided to just go freestyle jazz on me.

And it is very discombobulating.

I didn't know what was up and what was down, to be quite frank.

How are you, Chris?

I'm a man who does nothing because I'm a man who lives out in the sticks,

travels into London twice a week just to record a couple of podcasts about football and wrestling

and I get up at 6 o'clock at the morning to do this beautiful show.

What has happening in your life, Chris?

I mean, for crying out loud, we've had Halloween and nothing really happened there.

What else has happened?

We've got like bonfire night coming up soon.

There's very little really happening in the bum end of nowhere and South End.

But I imagine in Tokyo, there's a few more exciting things.

You're in the middle of a mad election, aren't you?

The election is so boring.

The person, our wonderful colleague who makes this podcast for us and types up the stories or whatever,

had like a news story on the politics. I was like, remove that. I don't have the energy. It's so

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