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 Border we're joined as always by

England's top Japan enthusiast mr Pete Dawson himself.

Pete, how the devil are you doing?

What's going on?

I'm good.

I'm in Fine Fettle, Chris.

I've only recently found out, even though these things are coming at me quite quickly,

that there is a Netflix no is

Amazon Prime thing might be Amazon Prime

uh... yakuza video game TV adaptation that's coming out which looks like a lot of fun and there's a new

your couser where Goro Madhima is a pirate captain and it's all about piracy

and out on boats and stuff like that. I think

Guro wakes up on an island and he's lost his memory and he becomes a pirate cat

because of course he does. He's the best character in Yakuza because he wears an eye patch and he's got tattoos.

And yeah, it's, for you Kuza fans, it's going to be a good year, I think.

That sounds incredible. I mean, I haven't really played the Akuz accuser game in years now, but you have me at pirates. You have me like eyepatches. This sounds amazing. I've noticed, as you say with the Yakusa TV series on Amazon, it seems that all eyes, there's been a lot of kind of eyes on Japan recently, a lot of TV shows here. We've had Tokyo Vice, had its second series this year, which I still have to to watch I quite enjoyed the first series

Shogun as well which won all the Emmys I saw some some articles angry that

Shogun won too many Emmys or some nonsense which is a load of bollocks. It deserved all the Emmies it got.

It was a really great show. But I feel like yeah and now we've got another Ghost of Shishima sequel, right?

Ghost of Yote, the sequel which I think a lot of people thought that was Mount Fuji in the poster

because it's a very Fuji-esque looking mountain.

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