Kanpai Kronicles
Talking about all things Japan: the weird, the wonderful, and the *yabai*. Join Norm and Holly as they share their experiences having lived there, what they've observed about Japanese society from many different angles, whilst getting in some laughs and cries in between!
Kanpai Kronicles
A Feral Halloween in Japan | Kanpai Kronicles 9
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Happy Halloween! In this week's episode we're exploring the wonderful world of trick-or-treating and how that's played out in Japan as well as our home countries!
Timestamps
- 00:00 Intro
- 1:33 Exploring our old halloween costumes
- 5:15 The beautiful Yokai of the Week
- 12:40 Would ghosts survive well in modern Japan?
- 20:25 Our earliest memories of Halloween
- 32:19 How did Halloween arrive in Japan?
- 36:42 The real Horror season happens in Summer
- 41:49 The colourful riot of Shibuya Halloween
- 48:04 Japanese Mad Max Experience
- 55:05 In Kansai they go hard
- 59:01 You are given permission to be feral
- 1:08:41 Better to be weird together than by yourself
- 1:13:58 What would be good Halloween costumes for us?
- 1:17:26 Norm's forbidden halloween costume
- 1:24:09 Pandemic during Halloween, how would it look like?
- 1:26:28 Impulse Halloween and responsibilities
- 1:31:19 Organised chaos across all timezones
Links
- Yokai of the Week: https://yokai.com/kuchisakeonna/
- Article on differences in celebrating Halloween in the US vs. Japan: https://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/en/article/11192
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