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Listened to in 3️⃣9️⃣ countries! 🌍✨ Decoding modern Japan 🇯🇵 through student🌸& professor👓 dialogues. 🚀----------------- 【Recommended for Listeners Who...】・Enjoy learning about economics and business through engaging, story-driven conversations・Are curious about emerging trends and quiet revolutions shaping Japan today
Narrative Japan Podcast🌸 hosts Narrative Japan, a business show with 71 episodes published.
Japan is asleep on $560B of secondhand goods. Auctions just woke it up. ▼ About This Episode At three in the morning, a conveyor belt never stops. Used cameras, trading cards, a luxury watch — each parcel a sold lot head
Japan's 100-yen sushi era is ending — and the big chains are fighting back. ▼ About This Episode For decades, a hundred-yen plate was Japan's everyday luxury — affordable, reliable, almost a birthright. Now that round nu
An eight-hundred-year-old anthology of Japanese poems is quietly becoming one of Japan's most exportable business assets. In a freshly merged rural cooperative office, Haru and Sakura trace how the Hyakunin Isshu — one h
Chocolate mint — "chocomint" — is Japan's most polarizing flavor: people either adore it or swear it tastes like mouthwash. So why is it suddenly everywhere in the summer of 2026? In this episode of Narrative Japan, Haru
Japan has nine million empty homes — and welcomed a record forty-three million tourists last year. In an empty factory locker room on the first day of new safety rules, Haru and Sakura unpack how vacant houses are turnin
Why does a humble red-bean ice bar keep breaking records while everything else gets pricier? In this episode of Narrative Japan, Haru and Sakura settle in at a closing-time izakaya counter to unpack the quiet rise of Jap
Streaming was supposed to kill the movie theater. In Japan, it didn't. In this episode of Narrative Japan, Haru and Sakura meet inside a decommissioned solar power plant — where old panels are being torn down for being m
Japan's parasol market is being quietly rewritten — and the story goes far beyond sunscreen. In summer 2025, 44% of Tokyo men used a parasol for the first time, driven not by vanity but by necessity: Japan's temperatures
In 2012, Japan mandated dance for every middle school student. Fourteen years later, that single policy decision has created a nation of ten million street dancers, a sold-out professional dance league with sixteen corpo
What does it feel like to watch a game in Japan in 2026? More than you might expect. AI now measures audience emotion in real time — timing brand messages to the exact moment your heart rate peaks. Researchers wired up s
Japan's waste management system is in quiet crisis: aging incinerators, a nationwide sanitation worker shortage, and roughly 8,500 fires a year triggered by lithium-ion batteries lurking in everyday gadgets. In this epis
Japan has the world's most rapidly aging major economy — and that gray hair is turning into serious business. In this episode, Sakura and Professor Haru meet in a beauty school practice room and unpack the boom reshaping
Japan's middle managers are burning out — and the next generation is quietly refusing to take their place. In this episode of Narrative Japan, Professor Haru and Sakura explore the crisis hidden inside Japan's corporate
93% of Japanese people say happiness matters — but only 61% actually feel it. This episode explores the gap between knowing and feeling, through data on ikigai, fandom culture, smartphone loneliness, and the surprising l
Japanese high school girls are rewriting the rules of modern consumption — skipping comparison shopping, trusting AI over adults, and turning their bags into identity statements. ◆Introduction: How Japan's teen girls are
Japan's starting salaries are hitting record highs — but rising rents, bonus system overhauls, and Gen Z's unique spending habits are reshaping the entire economy. Sakura and Haru unpack it all. ◆Introduction: The seismi
Japan's Golden Week reveals a nation torn between saving and spending. With 82% of households cutting costs yet airlines hitting post-COVID record bookings, we explore the fascinating "merihari" contrast spending trend r
Japan calls itself non-religious, yet millions visit shrines, buy charms, and hold Buddhist funerals. Explore how faith is quietly shapeshifting into digital platforms, designer furniture, and viral train memorabilia. ◆I
Japan has 4.43 million dementia patients — and a Lancet study says 40% of cases are preventable. From wasabi compounds fighting Alzheimer's to VR nostalgia therapy backed by Google, the race to protect memory is on. ◆Int
Manga in Japan has evolved far beyond bookstore shelves — 66% of companies now use manga IP for marketing, 28 million people read on a single digital platform, and 43% of the population engages in oshi-katsu fandom cultu
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