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We made it! The completely arbitrary milestone of 100 that's solely meaningful to humans because of our bias towards base 10! To celebrate, here's a nice story about an island covered in the cutest rabbits you've ever seen, also a poison gas factory.
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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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The Gateway to Rabbit Island
Live video feed of Rabbit Island
Hiroshima for Global Peace - Okunoshima
Travel Japan - Okunoshima
Wikipedia - Okunoshima
Wikipedia - Itsukushima
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We continue the most famous and baffling fraud case of modern Japan with the tale of Mamoru Samuragochi. This week we examine exactly how the supposed deaf composer was able to get away with presenting another person's compositions as his own for 18 years.
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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
Sources:
The New Republic: Japan's Deaf Composer Wasn't What He Seemed
Classic FM: The Composer Who Was Once Dubbed "Japan's Beethoven"
Time Magazine: 2001 Interview with Samuragochi
Wall Street Journal: Music Critic's Suspicions Led to Composer's Downfall
Inverse: "Clowns farting": The wild story behind Resident Evil's worst soundtrack
Independent: Japanese 'Beethoven' Mamoru Samuragochi admits faking deafness
CNN: Uproar as ‘Japanese Beethoven’ Mamoru Samuragochi exposed as a fraud
Suzi the Sphere Hunter: Onimusha Samurai Survival Horror
Wikipedia: Mamoru Samuragochi
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Born as a second-generation Hibakusha, that is to say a child of Hiroshima A-bomb survivors, Mamoru Samuragochi faced hardship, prejudice and increasing illness throughout his life. Despite these enormous setbacks, he became one of the most respected and successful musical composers in Japan, despite becoming almost entirely deaf.
He was also a liar.
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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
Sources:
The New Republic: Japan's Deaf Composer Wasn't What He Seemed
Classic FM: The Composer Who Was Once Dubbed "Japan's Beethoven"
Time Magazine: 2001 Interview with Samuragochi
Wall Street Journal: Music Critic's Suspicions Led to Composer's Downfall
Inverse: "Clowns farting": The wild story behind Resident Evil's worst soundtrack
Independent: Japanese 'Beethoven' Mamoru Samuragochi admits faking deafness
Wikipedia: Mamoru Samuragochi
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Today, the JWs have as many as 250,000 adherents in Japan, despite having an extremely rocky start in the country in the early 1930s. In recent years, the JWs have experienced controversy in the media and courts once again, this time for serious allegations of abuse of its own members and children.
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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
Sources:
Japan Times: Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses submit report detailing sexual abuse Investigator Magazine: JUNZO AKASHI – A Watchtower Victim Asahi Shimbun: 159 report being sexually abused as Jehovah’s Witnesses Mainichi Shimbun: 3rd-gen Jehovah's Witness in Japan opens up about dark past before opposition parties Japan Times: Japan lawyers form group to support children of Jehovah's Witnesses followers Metropolis: The Door Knockers - Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan Asahi Shimbun: Ex-Jehovah’s Witness opens up about trauma brought by faith JWLeaks.org: Jehovah’s Witnesses face ‘worrying development’ on the treatment of children in Japan Yomiuri Shimbun: Japan Lawyers to Report on Religion-Based Refusal of Blood Transfusions for Kids EWTN Global Catholic Television: Charles Taze Russell YouTube: Senator Mizuho Uehara addressing Parliament over the issue of the JWs and their alleged abuse of children Twitter: Kotaro Tanaka’s account Wikipedia: History of Jehovah's Witnesses -
When the AIDs epidemic began tearing its way through gay communities throughout the world, there was almost no effort made by governments to address the escalating health crisis whatsoever.
Even when heat-treated blood became available, pharmaceutical companies were strangely reluctant to offer these newer, safer products, particularly in South America and Asia, but no country was quite as ruthlessly self-defeating than in Japan, which created an extraordinary conspiracy to put corporate profits above the lives of their citizens
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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
Sources:
Qanon Anonymous, Episode 221: Plasma Vampires & the Blood Business feat Kathleen McLaughlin New York Times: 2003, Beyer Exposed (paywall) New York Times: Japanese Suits on H.I.V.-Tainted Blood Settled (paywall) LA Times: Japan Official Apologises in AIDS Scandal Nature Medicine: Japanese officials were aware of HIV in blood products Washington Post: Japanese Arrested in Blood Scandal CBS News: Japan - Convictions In Blood Scandal National Library of Medicine: Haemophilia patients launch action against Bayer over contaminated blood products Wikipedia: HIV/AIDs in Japan Wikipedia: Green Cross Wikipedia: Contaminated Haemophilia Blood Products JP Wikipedia: Contaminated Blood Scandal -
Weather News Live is a 24-hour a day stream dedicated to reporting the weather... sort of. It has gained huge popularity on the internet over the last few years with live shows hosted by "Casters", young women who have attracted huge fanbases.
By far the most popular has been Saya Hiyama who, in mid-2023, found herself at the centre of a controversy normally only reserved for those in the Idol industry.
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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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Japanalysis: Japan’s Ridiculous Weatherwoman Fiasco Saya Hiyama clip 1 Saya Hiyama clip 2 Japan Times: Weather forecaster Saya Hiyama's viral moments say a lot about fame in Japan Oricon News - Saya announces she’s dating Parental bonding in retrospect and adult attachment style: A comparative study between Spanish, Italian and Japanese cultures. Hoenicka et al. (2022) Japanese national well-being survey shows that living alone results in lower satisfaction and affects other relationships, while social networking service usage is related to life satisfaction: A cross-sectional study. Miyaki et al. (2022) Aini: Parasocial relationships in East Asia: A look into obsession Time: In Defence of Parasocial Relationship Parasocial Interactions and Relationships in Early Adolesence -
We end our series on Miyoko Sumida by looking at possibly her most disturbing family invasion with the Oe household, as well as how this eventually led to her accidental arrest and the fall of the Sumida gang.
We also find out how the Yakuza hides bodies (allegedly).
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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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Unknown Misandry Japan Times - the Piranha Family Rhetorica - the Piranha Family Murderpedia - Miyoko Sumida JP Wikipedia - The Amagasaki Incident -
We 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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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Unknown Misandry Japan Times - the Piranha Family Rhetorica - the Piranha Family Murderpedia - Miyoko Sumida JP Wikipedia - The Amagasaki Incident -
Miyoko 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, Not Another Film podcast.
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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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Unknown Misandry Japan Times - the Piranha Family Rhetorica - the Piranha Family Murderpedia - Miyoko Sumida JP Wikipedia - The Amagasaki Incident -
Yoshikazu 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 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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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In 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 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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
Sources:
New Yorker: Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry The New Republic: How the New Yorker Fell into the “Weird Japan” Trap Wall Street Journal: New Yorker Re-Examines Article on Japanese Family Rental Service AFAR: What it’s Like to Rent a Friend in Tokyo Wikipedia: Elif Batuman Wikipedia: Rental Family Service -
The 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.
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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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Singularity Hub: New Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans UPI: Candy Tycoon kidnapped naked from bath Atlas Obscura: The 1980's Crime Ring that Poisoned Japan's Candy and Never Got Caught The Glico website Wikipedia: Aimi Eguchi Wikipedia: The Glico-Morinaga Case -
Content 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 streams on Twitch!
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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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Independent - Dog breeder suspected of killing clients S. A. Ozbourne - The pet shop owner who killed and disposed of his customers Japan Times - Couple handed death sentence over poisoning of four Fuji TV - Kazama's son confesses his mother's crimes Wikipedia - Gen Sekine -
Content 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 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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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Japan Times: Death sentence upheld for Ueda United Press International article Wikipedia: Yoshinori Ueda YouTube: Archives of Pain -
Today 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-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'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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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CNN: Dekotora, the Kitchsy World of Japan’s Pimped Up Trucks Wikipedia: Torakku Yarou Wikipedia: Dekotora SoraNews24: Dekotora NFTs The Itasha Sub-Reddit -
The 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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
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VOCALOID Fandom W Magazine CLASH - Meet Hatsune Miku Nippon.com Miku Expo Crunchyroll - Politician uses Miku for campaign Unseen Japan - The Hatsune Miku Affair Wikipedia - Hatsune Miku -
Content 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 together, Not Another Film podcast.
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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
Sources:
Pink Eiga Wikipedia - Pink Film Murderpedia - Issei Sagawa Vice - Japanese Cannibal Who Got Away With Eating and Raping a Dutch Woman Is Dead YouTube - Vice documentary on Issei Sagawa All That's Interesting - Issei Sagawa Wikipedia - Issei Sagawa -
Content 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 Film podcast.
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 podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.
Sources:
Pink Eiga Wikipedia - Pink Film Murderpedia - Issei Sagawa Vice - Japanese Cannibal Who Got Away With Eating and Raping a Dutch Woman Is Dead YouTube - Vice documentary on Issei Sagawa All That's Interesting - Issei Sagawa Wikipedia - Issei Sagawa -
In 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 together, Not Another Film podcast.
Check my new album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. Enjoy!
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.
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Smithsonian Magazine Japan Today Japan Times Le Monde BBC News The Association for the Study of the Takenouchi Documents -
Content 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 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.
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The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 Smithsonian Magazine Britannica The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan - J. Charles Schencking (2013) Wikipedia - Great Kanto Earthquake Wikipedia - The Kanto Massacre - もっと表示する
