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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 -
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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.
Sources:
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.
Sources:
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 -
Content 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 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.
As recommended by Hannah at the end of the episode, check out these feminist Instagram users to wash the taste of Babysan out of your mouth: Laura Bates, fuck_patriarchy, beam_me_up_softboi
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Rape and War: The US Experience - The Phora Japan's Comfort Women - Toshiyuki Tanaka (2003) 3 Dead Marines and a Secret of Wartime Okinawa - New York Times Babysan: A Private Look at The Japanese Occupation - Bill Hume (1953) The Recreation and Amusement Association - Wikipedia -
When 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 be found @JapanHistorypod.
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.
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!
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The Times (Paywall) - I Married the Branston Pickle Heiress BBC - Pickle Demand Rises after Fire Mizkan Daisuke Nakano's YouTube channel Daisuke Nakano's Twitter Blog by Daisuke Nakano -
Content 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, and all of her wonderful content can be found on her Linktree Page.
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.
Sources:
Murderpedia - Tsutomu Miyazaki LA Times - Article on Miyazaki from 1989 Fumiya Hitotsubashi - The Miyazaki Tsutomu Incident -Painted Scenario- (2001) Joe Turner - The Myth of Miyazaki's Hands Charles T Whipple - The Silencing of the Lambs Wikipedia -
Tsutomu 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 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 podcast app.
Sources:
Murderpedia - Tsutomu Miyazaki LA Times - Article on Miyazaki from 1989 Fumiya Hitotsubashi - The Miyazaki Tsutomu Incident -Painted Scenario- (2001) Joe Turner - The Myth of Miyazaki's Hands Charles T Whipple - The Silencing of the Lambs Wikipedia -
It'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 Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan CNN - Tetsuya Yamagami, the assassin Reuters - Abe assassin given psyche evaluation Asahi Shimbun - Protests over state funeral of Shinzo Abe Guardian - Opposition to state funeral Daily Beast - Assassination sheds light on links between UC and LDP Independent - Trump gives speech at UC 9/11 conference Nikkei Asia - Japanese politicians tied to UC BBC News - Obituary of Shinzo Abe BBC News - Man sets himself on fire in protest of state funeral Wikipedia - Shinzo Abe Wikipedia - Assassination of Shinzo Abe - Daha fazla göster
