Why Japan's biggest mascot contest is over forever!

Abroad in Japan

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Japan Hotels, Unknown, Sushi, Japan Holiday, Documentary, Food, Japan, Japanese, Travel, History, Samurai, Kyoto, Tourism, Learn Japanese, Tokyo, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Anime, Manga, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Japan says goodbye to the financially expensive mascot contest - but *how* will we get cool new mascots now?

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0:00.0	Wow!
0:17.2	Hello and welcome to the Abroad Japan Podcast.
0:19.6	Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan, now actually being in Japan.
0:23.3	I'm your host Chris Broderford, joined as always by England's top Japan enthusiast,
0:27.7	Mr. Pete Donaldson himself, Pete. How are you doing today?
0:32.4	I do like the way you deliver. Well, that actually bit in Japan.
0:35.2	It's not a little bit like Steve Brewer.
0:37.6	And Brewer's rules. You should be used to it.
0:39.3	You should be used to it now, Pete. It's been two years or something.
0:42.4	Where are you right now? Are you out and about? Are you staying in a hotel at the moment?
0:46.3	Because obviously it's very lit where you are and very early where I am.
0:49.4	So I am in a hotel in a place called Izu.
0:53.2	And Izu is a peninsula that juts out of Kanagawa.
0:57.4	Just quite near Mt Fuji.
0:59.0	And the last day of journey across Japan too, escaped to Mt Fuji.
1:03.2	And as to whether or not we've seen Mt Fuji, I will not reveal because I want to spoil it.
1:09.3	But it's a good trip, yes or no.
1:12.7	It is either a yes or no.
1:14.8	But we haven't had a lot of luck with the weather.
1:17.4	The weather has been just dreadful.
1:20.0	I think I mentioned last on the last podcast, we hit a typhoon.
1:24.2	Typhoon Chan-Hon turned up.
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