Small Talk Japan
Episodes
Police Aresst Former AV Actress as Japan May Run Out of Fuel | STJ 301
29 Mar 2026
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300th Episode, with Alex and Hayato Guest Hosts| STJ 300
02 Mar 2026
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Takaichi's LDP Wins Historic Victory | STJ 299
13 Feb 2026
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Snap Election Time in Japan | STJ 298
07 Feb 2026
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Abe Killer Sentenced and Japan PM Lost on Economy? | STJ 297
21 Jan 2026
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New Year’s Tuna Sells for $3.2 Million Dollars! | STJ 296
09 Jan 2026
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Japan 2025 Recap | STJ 295
31 Dec 2025
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How Dangerous Is the Nankai Trough? | STJ 294
24 Dec 2025
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Going Abroad for All the Wrong Reasons | STJ 293
28 Nov 2025
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Did an Old Man Yakuza Beef End in Arson? | STJ 292
15 Nov 2025
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First Female Prime Minister of Japan! | STJ 291
28 Oct 2025
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No Coallition = No Prime Minister in Japan | STJ 290
14 Oct 2025
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Blame Foreigners for Everything! Japan: FIXED! | STJ 298
03 Oct 2025
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Sanseito Says Gayness Is Contagious | STJ 288
23 Sep 2025
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Another Prime Minister Gone | STJ 287
11 Sep 2025
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Australian Tourist Steals From Grave Drinks Offering | STJ 286
06 Sep 2025
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Massive Flooding in Kyushu and McD's/Pokemon Blunder | STJ 285
18 Aug 2025
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Sanseito's Crazy Position on WW2 | STJ 284
30 Jul 2025
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Is Populism On the Rise In Japan? | STJ 283
14 Jul 2025
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The Most Random Show Yet | STJ 282
27 Jun 2025
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What is a "butsukari otoko" ? | STJ 281
11 Jun 2025
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When Will Restaurants Learn To Stop the Racism? | STJ 279
03 Jun 2025
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WTH Is Abe's Widow Doing? | STJ 280
01 Jun 2025
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Japan Has Financial 'Nuclear' Option in Trade War with US | STJ 278
03 May 2025
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Nintendo Reveals Two-Tier Switch Pricing | STJ 277
08 Apr 2025
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JT Invades the Studio | STJ 276
23 Mar 2025
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Trump Picks a Fight with Japan? | STJ 275
08 Mar 2025
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Foreign Streamer Seen Attacked With A Bottle On Livestream In Japan | STJ 274
23 Feb 2025
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800 Cabbages Stolen Amidst Soaring Prices | STJ 273
12 Feb 2025
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Japan Is Getting More Expensive | STJ 272
02 Feb 2025
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Why Did This SMAP Member Pay A Woman 90 Million Yen? | STJ 271
19 Jan 2025
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Asahi Beer Fires Spokesperson For Getting Wasted | STJ 270
11 Jan 2025
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Mochi-Caused Deaths Rise Over Japanese Holidays? | STJ 269
04 Jan 2025
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Not Paying For Dinner? Domestic Abuse Says Japan | STJ 268
20 Dec 2024
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Luigi Mangione Visits Japan, Calls People NPCs | STJ 267
13 Dec 2024
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Japanese Youth Have Stopped Kissing | STJ 266
23 Nov 2024
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Americans, Run Away to Japan! | STJ 265
11 Nov 2024
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Did the Shibuya Shutdown work? | STJ 264
02 Nov 2024
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American Teen Sets Fire to Tokyo | STJ 263
28 Oct 2024
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Stay Away from Shibuya For Halloween! | STJ 262
17 Oct 2024
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Bomb Explodes at Japanese Airport ON TAPE! | STJ 261
05 Oct 2024
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Wrongful Death Row Inmate Exonerated After 50 Years| STJ 260
26 Sep 2024
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So, I emailed Tim Cook | STJ 259
22 Sep 2024
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When all else fails, does emailing Tim Cook really do anything?
Japan Needs a Border Wall? | STJ 255
15 Sep 2024
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The Mexicans are invading Japan?
Man Steals Neighbor's Cat and Abandons It 70KM Away | STJ 258
15 Sep 2024
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Typhoon Slams Japan And Our Hosts Totally Take It Seriously | STJ 256
31 Aug 2024
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Government's Evil Fuji Wall Foiled by Meddling Teenagers! | STJ 250
12 Aug 2024
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Earthquake in Japan and Other Nonsense | STJ 254
12 Aug 2024
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Woman Floated from Shizuoka to Chiba in a TUBE | STJ 252
13 Jul 2024
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American 7-11 to Become More Japanese? | STJ 251
07 Jul 2024
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Himeji Castle to Increase Prices for Foreigners Only? | STJ 249
22 Jun 2024
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New Survey Shows Japanese People More Lonely Abroad | STJ 248
19 Jun 2024
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Japanese Can't Communicate with Foreign Coworkers | STJ 247
16 Jun 2024
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Rest in Peace Kabosu | STJ 246
02 Jun 2024
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Woman Calls Police 1,200 Times, Threatens Them with Christmas| STJ 245
26 May 2024
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Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episode Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki: "The Go...
New Foreigner Pricing in Japan?? | STJ 243
13 May 2024
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Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episode Why the Japanese Yen is Collapsing https://www....
The biggest Data Theif in Japan: THE WIND | STJ 242
29 Apr 2024
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Toyota is Going to the Moon! | STJ 240
14 Apr 2024
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Wanna become a supporter? https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episodeWeak yen may actually deter Bank of Japan from...
Jimmy Kimmel Says US 'Filthy and Disgusting' | STJ 239
09 Apr 2024
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What's going on with Ohtani? | STJ 238
02 Apr 2024
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Trans Prisoner's Human Rights Abused? | STJ 237
17 Mar 2024
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Leave DJ Soda ALONE! | STJ 236
11 Mar 2024
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Ohtani is MARRIED! | STJ 235
03 Mar 2024
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We talk about Otani, Ghibli, teachers fighting students, and a whole lot more!
Giant Gundam Leaving Yokohama? | STJ 234
27 Feb 2024
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Tuna for tuna?? Who thought of this? | STJ 233
22 Feb 2024
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Miss Japan Steps Down | STJ 232
21 Feb 2024
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Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episode Japanese court approves nonsterilized trans man&...
Mt. Fuji Getting Expensive? | STJ 231
20 Feb 2024
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Special Episode: Unpacking Japan | STJ Special
30 Jan 2024
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Ukrainian Wins Miss Japan? | STJ 230
28 Jan 2024
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Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episode Man believed to be long-time fugitive Satoshi K...
Japan's AI Girlfriend Dating App | STJ 229
19 Jan 2024
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One Piece Being Remade by Attack on Titan Creators and Netflix | STJ 228
22 Dec 2023
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Japanese People Have Given Up On Dating? | STJ 227
18 Dec 2023
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Baseball GOAT Shohei Ohtani Changes Teams | STJ 226
11 Dec 2023
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Japan's Depressing Practice of Throwing Away Grandma | STJ 225
04 Dec 2023
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Understanding Kyoto's Unspoken Language | STJ 224
28 Nov 2023
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Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episode 'He brainwashed her': Tokyo woman says d...
'Men-Only Train Car' Initiative Sparks Debate in Tokyo | STJ 223
21 Nov 2023
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Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episode Car rams into Israeli Embassy barricade in Tokyo...
Attack of the Japanese Monkies | STJ 222
13 Nov 2023
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Japanese Man Breaks into House to Do Woman's Laundry | STJ 221
06 Nov 2023
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Stupid Foreign Streamers are Ruining Japan | STJ 220
30 Oct 2023
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Halloween BANNED in Shibuya | STJ 219
26 Oct 2023
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Articles from this week's episode September foreign entries to Japan at 2.2 mil., 96% of pre-pandemic level https://english.kyodonews.net/news/20...
Amazing Fan-made Live Action Nausicaä | STJ 218
20 Oct 2023
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Secret Sequal to Totoro that Never Hit Theaters | STJ 217
06 Oct 2023
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Movable Life-sized Gundams for Sale in Japan | STJ 216
06 Oct 2023
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Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episodeAt 90, oldest female McDonald's Japan staffer...
Japan's Awesome RPG Cosplay Shop | STJ 215
25 Sep 2023
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Streamers Invade Japan and Egg Pizza | STJ 214
21 Sep 2023
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0:00 Intro / Ricky Is a Human (Mitch forgets to roll intro video) 2:30 The TV Story 7:30 Sakurajima Foot Bath 13:10 Mitch Is Obsessed with the I'...
Robot Substitues to Replace Coming to Class in Japan | STJ 213
09 Sep 2023
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Live-Action Pokemon TV Show | STJ 212
04 Sep 2023
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1:00 Mitch has positive news! 9:38 Kishida eats 'safe and delicious' Fukushima fish https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/the-simpsons-predicted-japa...
The Loss of Japan's Ninja Bear | STJ 211
25 Aug 2023
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Unsolved Mysteries of Nara | STJ 210
19 Aug 2023
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Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episode Japan economy gets major boost from weak currenc...
Japan's BIGGEST Pokemon Card Display | STJ 209
13 Aug 2023
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Mt. Fuji is DANGEROUS | STJ 208
06 Aug 2023
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How Mixed Kids are Treated in Japanese Schools | STJ 207
30 Jul 2023
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This week, Natsuki and Mitch talk about Japan's deadly heat stroke problem, bullying in Japanese schools, Japan's Bigmotor scandal, and more!...
Foreigners FINED for Smoking in Japan | STJ 206
22 Jul 2023
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Support us on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smalltalkjapan Articles from this week's episode: Nintendo's Famicom game console marks 40th a...
Japan's Summer is Too Hot to Handle | STJ 205
14 Jul 2023
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Stolen Pokemon cards mishandled by police, a World Heritage temple vandalized by a foreign teen, a woman whose citizenship was suddenly revoked in Ja...
Post War TV About Japan Was Unbelievable | STJ 204
07 Jul 2023
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This week, Mitch and Natsuki talk about a disturbing American TV show following the life of a man who lived through the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, a new...
Is Japan Planning on Ending the JET Programme? | STJ 203
02 Jul 2023
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This week, Mitch and not Natsuki talk about how Japan sends a man to tell women how to do their job, how Japan's government might be replacing ALT...
Nissan Conspiracy Ends in Billion Dollar Lawsuit | STJ 202
24 Jun 2023
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This week, Mitch and Ricky talk about a giant crane game, a million dollar lawsuit against sushi terrorist, a billion dollar lawsuit against Nissan fo...
The Best Part of Japanese Baseball | STJ 201
18 Jun 2023
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Is IN-N OUT Coming to Japan? | STJ 200
09 Jun 2023
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Japan Court Rules in Favor of Same Sex Marriage | STJ 199
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Mitch and Natsuki are joined by special guest from Natsuki's past to talk about life in America vs Japan, as well as talk about the new...