Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

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Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸
@mrjeffu
PhD. Full-time University Lecturer in Japan. Specialty: Japan's Politics/Nationalism/Pop Culture. Views my own. RT/Likes ≠ endorsements. Not a journalist.
Tokyo/Chiba, Japanlinktr.ee/jeffreyjhall
Joined August 2008
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The Japan Episode of Lemonade Stand podcast has been released! We spoke about Prime Minister Takaichi, immigration, Sanseito, historical revisionism, territorial disputes, conspiracy theories, and a whole lot of other stuff! youtube.com/watch?v=Dc0z0u
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Today I had the amazing opportunity to join @aidencalvin, @DougDougFood, and @Atrioc to talk for over an hour about Japanese politics and society on the Lemonade Stand podcast (@LemonadeCast). The episode will be released later this week!
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"Free User Ojisan" (無課金おじさん) is trending in Japan as netizens react to 51-year-old Turkish shooter Yusuf Dikec winning a silver medal without fancy eye gear. They're describing him like a gamer who wins without spending any money on freemium games.
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A viral meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):
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日米貿易摩擦、30年以上ずっとコレ
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A Japanese journalist who covered the first Trump Administration claimed on Kansai TV that Donald Trump says, "I wish I could see Shinzo," when he's feeling down. This information was said to have come from "people close to Trump."
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Uchino Airi, a candidate in the Tokyo gubernatorial race, stripped during her official public television speech, asking viewers if they thought she was sexy. She asked them to add her as a friend on messaging app LINE and pledged to respond to everyone.
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Japanese Twitter users are noting that the decision to replace the iconic Twitter brand name with the letter "X" could turn Twitter Japan into "X Japan." It's a name that has been used for decades by one of Japan's most famous rock bands.
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Video: A Japanese mouthwash brand made this commercial parodying The Exit 8 (with official permission from the creators of the PC game). x.com/EarthOfficialJ
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This is the preview for The Exit 8, an upcoming PC game about being trapped in a Japanese metro station and having no idea how to find an exit: "You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Take a good look around and find a way to escape."
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Palestine was supposed to have a section at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, but could not get permission from Israel to ship items. The Palestine area now empty display cases and signs that say "Shipping was delayed by the Israeli military occupation."
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万博のパビリオン展示、注目株が現れたな…
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The Japanese people are very sympathetic towards Ukraine and view it as the victim of Russian a war of aggression. When this clip of Zelensky being berated at the White House is shown on Japanese TV, I expect many will question the reliability of US promises to protect Japan.
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This is utterly repulsive! Trump and Vance just tried to humiliate Zelensky live on American TV, smugly demanding gratitude while openly mocking him like playground bullies counting favors. My respect for Zelensky—and my embarrassment as an American—just surged off the charts.
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America's newest high speed rail line has opened in Florida. It travels at a speed of up to 120 mph (201 km/h), slightly slower than the 130mph (210km/h) operating speed of the earliest series of Japanese bullet trains that went into service 59 years ago.
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Japan's Minister for Economic Security, Onoda Kimi, was asked at a press conference about her favorite anime/manga. She said that because she's disliked by many people, she would not name any favorites, as doing so might make its fans feel uncomfortable.
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Ichiro went to Hokkaido's Asahikawa Higashi High School to give its baseball team some pointers. One of his demonstration hits went over a protective net and into a classroom window, 130 meters (426 feet) away.
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Thread: Political posters in Tokyo's crazy gubernatorial election. (1) Let's start with one of the posters for Kawai Yusuke, a perennial candidate known for cosplaying as the Joker. Here he's cosplaying as the Mask and advocating polygamy to solve Japan's declining birthrate.
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A guy cosplaying as Yamagami Testuya showed up today at the site of former Abe Shinzo's assassination. Today is the one year anniversary of Abe's death and a lot of people have come to offer flowers at a temporary memorial.
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