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Abroad in Japan

Why Not to Live in Japan’s Countryside!

Abroad in Japan

Stak

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

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

"Annoying Interpersonal Interactions" are what make the world go round.


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0:00.0

It'll be quite heartwarming and good, but it could also be a disaster. So it could be fun either way. Wow. Hello and welcome to the Abroad in Japan podcast. Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan. I'm your host Chris Broadbord. We're joined, as always, by England's Top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Donaldson himself. Pete, how the devil? Are you doing it? What's going on? Did you just wave at me like the queen there? He's sort of waved your hand like that and went, oh. The queen's back. What do you? She's waving at Pete Dawson. She's back. Well, you know, Charles has been doing bits and bobs out and about with his big old sausage fingers. But yeah, I'm doing well, Chris.

0:39.1

Project Knock a Wall Down has ended its third week

0:43.3

because I have limited time in between work and babies and stuff.

0:48.2

Yeah, all my dekons rotten, rotten.

0:51.2

So I've basically just been going to...

0:53.6

I've been driving with the Toyota Century to the timber yard

0:57.3

around the corner from my house,

0:59.0

and then hanging these...

1:00.8

You know, they must be like five metre decking boards

1:04.2

out of my sort of window, like a big lance.

1:07.1

So it basically looks like a sort of Sherman tank.

1:09.3

So going down the street.

1:10.6

Oh, you know, when they take those big

1:12.5

wind turbine

1:13.9

legs what they go fucking called

1:16.6

the turbine

1:17.5

wind turbine

1:18.4

you know like the wind turbines

1:20.8

are massive and like each

1:22.7

um is it blade

1:24.5

what blade that's the word

1:26.0

and each blade has to be taken down quite windy, rural streets one by one.

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