Hikikomori
94 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSit back and enjoy a weird and shocking story from Japan, both from recent and far history, as researched and told by Vincent.
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#93 - The Piranha Family (Part 2)
February 22, 2024 10:05 - 51 minutes - 70.9 MBWe continue covering the disturbing crimes of Miyoko Sumida and her family, as she infiltrates and rips apart two more families. Today we look at how she added her loyal enforcer, Masanori Ri, and her presumed heir, Tanimoto Rui, to her organisation. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. Check my new album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It...
#92 - The Piranha Family (Part 1)
February 12, 2024 19:15 - 55 minutes - 76 MBMiyoko Sumida was a psychopath with a disturbing ability to manipulate others for her own ends. She was also seemingly obsessed with keeping other people by making them members of her family though marriage and adoption. In a horrifying 25-year career of criminal gang activity and serial murder, Sumida became more cult leader than yakuza. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together...
#91 - Uncle Balloon
January 23, 2024 00:13 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBYoshikazu Suzuki was a perennially-failing music shop salesman, and in the early 90s his debt had amounted to an astronomical level. His plan to get himself out of this debt was to rise above this, literally, by following in the footsteps of Lawnchair Larry. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. Check my new album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Band...
#90 - The Rent-a-Family Fraud
December 24, 2023 18:44 - 1 hour - 103 MBIn April of 2018, the writer Elif Batuman had an article published in The New Yorker, titled "Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry". It explored a cultural phenomenon in Japan, that of agencies where one could hire an actor to perform in a social interaction that would be otherwise awkward or impossible. It became such a popular and celebrated article that it would win the National Magazine Award for that year. Unfortunately, it was also based entirely on bullshit. Today's guest is Hannah La...
#89 - The Monster with 21 Faces
November 27, 2023 18:36 - 1 hour - 114 MBThe Glico-Morinaga Case began in 1984, when the CEO of the Glico Corporation was kidnapped, naked from his home during a bath. While that kidnapping resolved itself fairly rapidly, what followed was a campaign of fear across Japan, as a mysterious organisation began threatening to poison the public's food. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. Che...
#88 - The Saitama Dog-Lover Murders
November 07, 2023 18:40 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBContent Warning: Murder. In the months after the Osaka Dog-Lover Serial Murders ended, but before the perpetrator of that case was caught, a completely separate but weirdly similar case occurred in Saitama. Gen Sekine, a fairly successful dog breeder and utter psychopath, decided that the best way to dig himself out of financial trouble was to kill his way out. Today's guest is Cassie! You can find her via her Twitter. Also be sure to check out her Vtuber persona, Sleep Panda Mei, who st...
#87 - The Osaka Dog-Lover Murders
October 16, 2023 19:44 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MBContent Warning: Murder We return to murder with the serial murders that took place in Osaka in 1992. Over a period of 4 months, the ultimate fail-son Yoshinori Ueda used a chemical used to euthanise dogs to subdue and murder 5 people. Today's guest is Cassie! You can find her via her Twitter. Also be sure to check out her Vtuber persona, Sleep Panda Mei, who streams on Twitch! Check my new album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fa...
#86 - Dekotora
September 10, 2023 20:32 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBToday we explore the working class industrial art movement called "Dekotora", where truckers decorated their vehicles in outrageous and totally bitchin' styles. We also visit a modern day comparison to Dekotora, the phenomenon of "Itasha", or "painful cars"... If you want to see a gallery of the vehicles we're talking about today, check out this unlocked Patreon Post with all the relevent pics. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-...
#85 - Hatsune Miku
August 13, 2023 00:21 - 1 hour - 111 MBThe last couple of episodes were pretty rough, right? Here's something with relatively few problematic elements, Hatsune Miku, the Vocaloid sensation! Today's guest is Mike! You can find him on Twitter at his handle @tokkan! Check my new album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other po...
#84 - Issei Sagawa (Part 2)
July 30, 2023 09:55 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBContent Warning: Sexual Assault, Violence, Necrophilia, Cannibalism. We continue our exploration of Issei Sagawa's life after his 1981 murder of Renée Hartevelt. While you might think that Sagawa would never see the light of day again for his horrific crimes, he was set free, and he spent the rest of his life being a horrible little shit. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do togeth...
#83 - Issei Sagawa (Part 1)
July 10, 2023 21:51 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MBContent Warning: Sex, Violence, Necrophilia, Cannibalism. Issei Sagawa was a highly-educated, intelligent and repressed man. His sexual fetish, unfortunately, was cannibalism, and years of fantasizing and planning led to his 1981 murder of Renée Hartevelt in Paris. After his arrest, however, the story just gets weirder. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another...
#82 - The Tomb of Jesus in Aomori
June 15, 2023 15:41 - 1 hour - 99.6 MBIn the north of Japan's central island there is a small, non-descript place called Shingo Village. The only thing about it that sets it apart from the hundreds of other tiny villages in the area is that it purports to be the true final resting place of Jesus Christ. Tug on this string and a whole bunch of ancient aliens stuff comes tumbling out. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do t...
#81 - The Great Kanto Massacre
June 03, 2023 22:08 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBContent Warning: Natural Disaster and Genocide. On the 1st September, 1923, a megathrust earthquake hit the Kanto Plain, resulting in a catastrophic loss of life. While one would think that tornados made of fire would offer the most horror from this event, the behaviour of the Kanto populace, police and government in the aftermath would be far more disturbing. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review pod...
#80 - Patriotic Brothels and Babysan
April 27, 2023 21:41 - 1 hour - 119 MBContent Warning: Sex Trafficking and Exploitation. Even before the end of WWII, the Japanese civilian government were preparing for the arrival of the occupying US troops. First and foremost, before any security of basic needs, they determined that they needed to preserve the purity of the Japanese race. To this end, they created a vast network of patriotic brothels... Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie ...
#79 - The Branston Pickle Affair
April 17, 2023 22:03 - 1 hour - 103 MBWhen Daisuke was invited to a dinner anonymously, he had little idea that the meeting would result in the most joyous moments of his life... but would flat-out ruin the rest of it. After marrying into a multi-national vinegar-based corporation, he found himself at the center of a sinister plot to wrest control over his own son away from him. Today's guest is Jon Combey! You can find himon Twitter @JonCombey, and his recent limited series on Japanese culture as understood through film can b...
#78 - The Otaku Killer (Part 2)
April 08, 2023 01:25 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBContent Warning: Child Murder, Necrophilia We continue with the utterly heinous crimes of Tsutomu Miyazaki. After his first murder of a child, he entered a kind of prolonged berserker mode, increasing the depravity of his actions, harassing the families of his victims and even taunting the public, the press and the police. And, when he was finally caught, he would blame it all on an alternate persona - the "Rat Man". Today's guest is Nika Howard! You can find her on Twitter @nika_howard...
#77 - The Otaku Killer (Part 1)
March 14, 2023 01:09 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MBTsutomu Miyazaki was a serial murderer of children, active for about 10 months from August 1988. It's a story that has been heavily misrepresented in western media, particularly in regards to Miyazaki's disability, but the real story alone is enough to chill to the bone. Today's guest is Nika Howard! You can find her on Twitter @nika_howard, and all of her wonderful content can be found on her Linktree Page. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be post...
#76 - End of Shinzo Abe (Part 4)
February 19, 2023 22:02 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBIt's finally here. This is how and why Shinzo Abe was assassinated, and the unexpected failure to deify him after his death. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources: Tobias Harris - The Iconocl...
#75 - Shinzo Abe (Part 3)
February 05, 2023 18:10 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBIn this episode we look at the continuing rise of ultranationalist ideology in Japanese politics under Shinzo Abe, including his membership in the secretive and fascistic Nippon Kaigai organisation, his expansion of the JSDF and his fiddling around behind the scenes during the Tokyo Olympics, despite his supposed retirement. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another ...
#74 - Shinzo Abe (Part 2)
January 24, 2023 22:47 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBWe continue our journey through the life and death of Shinzo Abe. Today we look at his remarkable political comeback in 2011, along with his the incidents that never seemed to tarnish his popularity, particularly his horrific historical revisionism, and the Moritomo Gakuen scandal... Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. You can also find me on Tw...
#73 - Shinzo Abe (Part 1)
January 16, 2023 02:53 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBWe embark on a 4-part journey through the life and death of Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-running Prime Minister, who just so happened to get assassinated in May of 2022. As we shall discover, perhaps the damage had already been done by that point... Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can liste...
#72 - Charlie Chaplin Vs The League of Blood
January 05, 2023 23:02 - 45 minutes - 61.8 MBThis is the tale of the rise of fascism in Japan, from its origins in Mussolini's Italy to the first bumbling attempts at coups by clandestine organisations. One of the most unlikely people who became embroiled in one such coup was the legendary comedic actor Charlie Chaplin. Today's guest is Cami! You can find her via her Twitter page! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sour...
#71 - Nobusuke Kishi, Shinzo Abe's Grandpa (Part 2)
December 12, 2022 20:35 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBWe continue our exploration of Shinzo Abe's greatest influence on his life, the war criminal Nobusuke Kishi. This episode we cover his life after being released from prison, and his highly successful and Machiavellian return to politics. What a piece of shit. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or yo...
#70 - Nobusuke Kishi, Shinzo Abe's Grandpa (Part 1)
November 27, 2022 01:16 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBTo begin a long series on the life and death of Shinzo Abe, we must first look at the most influential person in Abe's life - his maternal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi. Beginning his career in 1930s Manchuria, Kishi would eventually be one of the central architects of post-war Japan. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. You can also find me on Twi...
#69 - Nara Dreamland
November 14, 2022 00:56 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBIn 1961, a new Disneyland was due to open in the city of Nara. This would have been the second Disneyland in the world, a replica of the Anaheim original, and a monument of America's cultural dominance across the world. Nara Disneyland never happened, but what we got instead was something far more beautiful. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. ...
#68 - Tokyo Rose
October 30, 2022 03:23 - 1 hour - 97.1 MBTokyo Rose was an infamous radio host operating during WWII, helping to spread pernicious Japanese propaganda with the aim of breaking the spirits of Allied troops. Despite the fact that the US State Department would eventually claim that a Japanese American woman, Iva Toguri, was the culprit, the truth is that Tokyo Rose never even existed. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do toge...
#67 - The Fall of the Shinsengumi (Part 2)
October 17, 2022 16:03 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBWe've made it. The final chapter in the fate of the legendary Shinsengumi. As the reign of the Tokugawa is in its death throes, Kondo Isami gets repeatedly promoted, seemingly unaware that he's being made the captain of a sinking ship. By the time he realises, it's far too late, and Isami might be denied his "beautiful death" of Seppuku. Today's guest is Carly Shields! You can find her via her Twitter page, or listen to the excellent Greetings Adventurers podcast for which she helps produc...
#66 - The Fall of the Shinsengumi (Part 1)
October 09, 2022 01:50 - 45 minutes - 62 MBThe final tale of the storied Shinsengumi... split up into 2 parts. Kondo, head of the Shinsengumi, begins to have a taste of the power he always sought, even as Japan falls into the turmoil of the Boshin war. Today's guest is Carly Shields! You can find her via her Twitter page, or listen to the excellent Greetings Adventurers podcast for which she helps produce! For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You c...
#65 - Sumo Scandals
October 01, 2022 02:49 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBSumo Wrestling is the national sport of Japan, and has been practiced in some form for most likely around 2000 years. It prides itself on its integrity, honor and sportsmanship, and yet considering the innumerable scandals the sport has faced in the past 20 years alone, it could be argued that Sumo is not, in fact, a sport at all. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not An...
#64 - The Tsuyama Massacre
September 14, 2022 23:52 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBContent Warning: Spree Killing by Firearms Despite the social phenomenon of the violent Incel being associated with the advent of the internet, the Tsuyama Massacre of 1938 feels unnervingly recognisable. This is the story of the sack of shit Mutsuo Toi. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you c...
#63 - The Corpse in the Toilet
August 27, 2022 19:14 - 53 minutes - 74 MBContent Warning: Claustrophobia and Toilet Humour A body. A Mystery. A Toilet. This is the story of Naoyuki Kanno, who went missing on 24th February 1989. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You can also find me on Twitter @se...
#62 - The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
August 14, 2022 22:20 - 1 hour - 110 MBThe earthquake and tsunami that rocked Northern Honshu on the 11th March, 2011, had far-reaching consequences beyond the natural disaster. After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant lost electric power, multiple cooling systems failed, and over the coming days multiple core meltdowns led to the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. And it was entirely preventable. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movi...
#61 - The 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
August 05, 2022 15:24 - 52 minutes - 71.8 MBContent Warning: Natural Disasters. 11th March, 2011. 2:46pm. A magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake strikes 45 miles east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. While the initial tremor was severe, the resulting tsunami that hit the shore was catastrophic. Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodca...
#60 - Ogino Ginko and Medical University Scandals
July 21, 2022 14:16 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBOgino Ginko is known as the "first woman to practice Westernised medicine" in Japan. The number of hurdles she had to cross in order to get there was immense. 140 years later, attitudes towards women in medicine have not advanced as far as one would have hoped... Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcas...
#59 - The SoftBank Vision Fund
July 03, 2022 03:37 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBMasayoshi Son is a tremendously wealthy man, and the founder of megacorp SoftBank. He's also the creator of the SoftBank Vision Fund, the largest venture capital fund in the world. Despite being responsible for the investment of over $100 billion dollars to "improve the world", the Vision Fund has made countless unfathomable decisions... such as a $47 billion dollar investment in WeWork. Today's guest is Tara! You can find her on Twitter @Tara__Tea, and her podcast Wintercrest @Wintercrest...
#58 - Shigesato Itoi
June 22, 2022 03:59 - 1 hour - 115 MBOften described as a Renaissance Man, Itoi has been influential in several walks of life, from ad copy to manga, from lyrics to computer games. Let's explore the life of this unlikely cultural hero. Today's guest is my good friend Ben Stonick! You can find him on Twitter @benstonick! For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Fi...
#57 - Kazuko Fukuda, the Hostess Killer
June 04, 2022 00:07 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBIn 1982, Kazuko Fukuda committed a heinous crime. She spent the next 15 years on the run. Today's guest is Jessy, my co-host from Final Fanservice! You can find her on Twitter @jusifers, and her podcast Naruto Reviewto @NarutoReviewto! For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big po...
#56 - The Kitakyushu Confinement Murders (Part 2)
May 22, 2022 16:40 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MBContent Warning: It's brutal. Domestic abuse, torture, rape, murder We conclude our explorations into the heinous crimes of Futoshi Matsunaga, with the elimination of the Ogata family and on-going torture of those around him. It's real fucking bad, guys. Today's guest is Nika Howard! You can find her on Twitter @nika_howard, and all of her wonderful content can be found on her Linktree Page. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos rele...
#55 - The Kitakyushu Confinement Murders (Part 1)
May 15, 2022 12:31 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBContent Warning: It's brutal. Domestic abuse, torture, rape, murder Futoshi Matsunaga was a conman, romancing, deceiving and defrauding women out of huge sums of money. This would be terrible enough if it weren't for his penchant of using electric shocks as torture, and the horrifying series of murders he orchestrated. Today's guest is Nika Howard! You can find her on Twitter @nika_howard, and all of her wonderful content can be found on her Linktree Page. For more content follow me on...
#54 - The Pana-Wave Laboratory
April 25, 2022 16:08 - 56 minutes - 77 MBYuko Chino was the cult leader who used her belief system, Chino-Shoho, to gather followers together, with the stated goal of scientific research that would help save the world from disasters. This pseudo-scientific commune, called the Pana-Wave Laboratory, made headlines in 2003 when it attempted to avert the end of the world by kidnapping an artic seal. Today's guest is Jessy, my co-host from Final Fanservice! You can find her on Twitter @jusifers, and her podcast Naruto Reviewto @NarutoRe...
The Pana-Wave Laboratory
April 25, 2022 16:08 - 56 minutes - 77 MBYuko Chino was the cult leader who used her belief system, Chino-Shoho, to gather followers together, with the stated goal of scientific research that would help save the world from disasters. This pseudo-scientific commune, called the Pana-Wave Laboratory, made headlines in 2003 when it attempted to avert the end of the world by kidnapping an artic seal. Today's guest is Jessy, my co-host from Final Fanservice! You can find her on Twitter @jusifers, and her podcast Naruto Reviewto @Naruto...
#53 - Johnny & Associates
April 15, 2022 03:02 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBContent Warning - Discussions of Child Sexual Abuse. Johnny Kitagawa is Japan's most successful music producer of all time, having represented artists for over 50 years. His company, Johnny & Associates, are notorious for bullying, blackmail, control and monopolies. There have also been more troubling accusations about Kitagawa since the early 90s... Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that w...
#52 - JAL Flight 123
April 03, 2022 19:49 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MBContent Warning - Prolonged Peril in an Aircraft On the 12th October 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123 was on route from Haneda Airport in Tokyo to Osaka International. After catastrophic decompression in the aft bulkhead, the pilots wrestled for 32 minutes to keep the plane in the air. What resulted was the worst loss of life from a single-plane crash in world history. Today's guest is Hugo! You can find him via his Twitter page. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Ins...
#51 - The Rise of the Shinsengumi
March 19, 2022 22:36 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBWe return to the storied history of the Shinsengumi, covering their rise in fame, power, influence and... indiscriminate murder. Today's guest is Carly Shields! You can find her via her Twitter page, or listen to the excellent Greetings Adventurers podcast for which she helps produce! For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on Instagram where I'll be posting photos relevant to this episode! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Fi...
#50 - Inejirō Asanuma
March 10, 2022 13:03 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MBSocialist politician Inejirō Asanuma was active at some of the most volatile times in Japanese history, having to thread the dangerous political weaves of both Imperial Japan and reconstruction after the end of WWII. His death was one of the most infamous events of the 20th Century, and has been strangely influential even in modern times... Today's guest is Keegan! You can find him on his Twitter handle, @OleKeeg. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my othe...
#49 - Gen'yōsha, The Black Ocean Society
February 18, 2022 18:23 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBGen'yōsha, or the Black Ocean Society, was a clandestine far-right organisation created in response to the Meiji Restoration. Disaffected samurai decided that, to make Japan great again, it had to force the Imperial Army to invade Korea, and then China. It did this by essentially being the CIA decades before the CIA were a thing. Today's guest is Mollie! You can find her on Twitter @MollieMM9, and she hosts the wonderful podcast Sex With Ghosts. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencep...
#48 - The Tokaimura Nuclear Incident
February 10, 2022 20:43 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBContent Warning: Medical Stuff The Tokaimura Nuclear Powerplant has provided energy to Japan's power grid since the 60s. It wasn't until the 90s, however, that it suffered two notable nuclear incidents, the second of which led to one of the most prolonged and painful deaths of modern times. Today's guest is Josh. You can find him on Twitter @josketh, and he co-hosts the podcast Naruto Reviewto. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final F...
#47 - Nekonomics
January 20, 2022 20:24 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MB"Nekonomics" once referred to the unexpectedly dramatic increase in revenue that businesses could earn simply by having a pet cat as a mascot. Today it has evolved into something more widespread in Japanese society - the enormous and rapidly-growing market of felines and feline accessories. Today's guest is Michael, aka HumanFilthXVX. You can find them via their Twitter page, and can watch them play games over on their Twitch channel. For more content follow me on @hikikomoripodcast on I...
#46 - Article 9
January 13, 2022 03:02 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MBThe Constitution of Japan was brought into effect two years after the end of World War II. The most well-known and controversial part of the Japanese constitution is Article 9, forbidding Japan from keeping a standing army or entering into war. Here is how Japan has broken its own laws repeatedly since 1952. Today's guest is Jonah Gregory! You can find him on Twitter @aREALjonah, and all of his wonderful content can be found on his bio. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or yo...
#45 - The Sasebo Slashing
December 23, 2021 14:20 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBContent Warning - Murder, Suicide In 2004, Okubo elementary school in Sasebo was the site of a horrific event, a murder that made headlines around the world... and was subsequently picked up by the worst net denizens around to create a meme. Today's guest is Kym Stonick! You can find them on Twitter @kymcattys, and all of their wonderful content can be found on their bio. You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Anot...