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Abroad in Japan

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0	Wow.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Abroad Japan Christmas Tree podcast.
0:17.2	Probably the best plate to see a Christmas tree as ragged as this if you're watching
0:21.2	on YouTube and some other things. I'm your host Chris Broad. We're joined as always by Japan enthusiast, what's his face, Pete Dalson, Pete. He's not got any better, I've blown it. I screwed the intro, but we're going to go with it. He's not got any better. How many years? Not got any He's not got any more freestyling.
0:37.1	That kind of intro is tattooed onto your soul.
0:40.8	You're going to be like... How many years? He's not got any better. He's not got any more freestyling. That kind of intro is tattooed onto your soul.
0:40.8	You're going to be like, you know, thinking about that.
0:42.6	That's going to be your dying breath.
0:44.5	You're going to be in a hospice going,
0:47.3	The best thing to be in Japan, without actually being in Japan.
0:51.9	Maybe I'm already in the hospice looking back by memory at this point. You are, yes. This is your life, the thing you've got to do every week. I mean, good God. I mean, yeah. Lovely start to the podcast. Lovely start to the podcast. I've just come, look, I'm wide awake and I'm raring to get going because I've just had a shower. But I'm reading, Chris, that Japan's made a human washing machine. I saw this. This looks, it looks utterly terrifying. It looks like something you die in. Yeah. I mean, it literally looks like one of the sort of assisted, what do they call them on the internet? Going to sleep forever. Pods, I forget what the euphemism is for that thing.
1:31.6	Going to sleep forever pods.
1:33.9	Yeah.
1:35.0	Which, yeah, Google a recent story about one of those pods.
1:38.3	It gets fascinating.
1:39.5	Yeah, anyway, Japan's made themselves a human washing machine.
1:44.8	A pod, you get in, you close the lid, human washing machine, a pod.
1:48.9	You get in, you close the lid, and then you get scrubbed,
1:50.8	rinsed and dried like laundry.
1:54.1	It's developed by a company called Science Corps,
1:57.1	and it's recently made available for purchase in Japan.
2:00.5	They're only making like 40 in the next six years, apparently, so I don't
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