Podcast

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Season 1:
S01E00 – Season 1 Trailer
S01E01 – Daniel McCalla – Translation and Japanese Study
S01E02 – Emily Balistrieri – Translation and Japanese Study
S01E03 – Brian MacDuckston – Ramen Adventures in Hokkaido and Across Japan
S01E04 – Paula Curtis – Graduate Studies, Medieval Japanese, and How to “Do” History
S01E05 – Arline Lyons – JET Program, Translation Memory, Specializing as a Translator
S01E06 – Brian Caster – Reading in Japanese, Self Study, Legal Work in Japan
S01E07 – Tamara Latham-Sprinkle – Professional Translation, Masters Programs, Translation Associations
S01E08 – Kristi Fernandez – Translation Twitter, Light Novels and Manga, Translation Process
S01E09 – Shaun McKenna – JET Program, Journalism in Japan, The Art of the Pitch
S01E10 – Adam Evanko – McDonald’s in Japan, Translation Project Management, Video Game Production, Monster Hunter

Season 2:
S02E00 – Season 2 Trailer
S02E01 – Mel Ok – JET Program, Translation, Japanese Whisky
S02E02 – 一番搾り and 自己分析
S02E03 – Jenn O’Donnell – Mindful Study, Translating/Localizing, Job Hunting in Japan
S02E04 – Tourist Mindset and ノーダメージ
S02E05 – Paul Snowden – Higher Education Jobs in Japan, The Green Goddess
S02E06 – Performative Adjectives and 系
S02E07 – Jason Coskrey – Immersion, Sports Writing in Japan
S02E08 – Roomshare.jp and のり弁
S02E09 – Morgan Giles – Reading Japanese, Translation, MEXT Scholarship
S02E10 – 車検 and 人生初めてのカラオケ
S02E11 – Brian Epstein – Patent Law, Working with Japanese Clients, Japanese Emails
S02E12 – かもしれない and 食中毒
S02E13 – Mercedez Clewis – Intensive Japanese Study, JET Program, Writing/Localizing
S02E14 – The Katakana Fallacy and 言語の支え
S02E15 – Mike Grant – Learning by Ear, Craft Brewing in Japan
S02E16 – S02E16 – Pools and 趣味
号外 – Pre-JET Japanese Triage
S02E17 – Molly Des Jardin – Japanese the Spoken Language, Meiji Era Writing, 全集
S02E18 – 都道府県 and 貪る
S02E19 – Jens Petersen – Japanese in Sweden, Music and Art, Job Fairs
S02E20 – Instinctual Nattō and Introversion

Season 3:
S03E01 – Emergency Murakami Podcast
S03E02 – The Murakami Season
S03E03 – Murakami’s Origin Story
S03E04 – Murakami Novel Power Rankings
S03E05 – Murakami Bibliography – 1979-1987
S03E06 – Murakami Bibliography – 1988-2005
S03E07 – Murakami Bibliography – 2006-2023
S03E08 – Predictions for Murakami’s New Novel
S03E09 – Immediate Reactions to Murakami’s New Novel
S03E10 – Review of The City and Its Uncertain Walls