The Notebook on Cities and Culture Guide to Japan indexes all the show’s Japan-recorded and Japan-related interviews. Stay tuned for much more and about the Land of the Rising Sun.
Osaka:
- Brian Ashcraft, Senior Contributing Editor for video game site Kotaku, contributor at Wired, and author of Arcade Mania! and Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential
- Josh Parkin, luthier and proprietor of Josh Parkin Guitars
- Christopher Stephens, translator, writer, and former editor of Kansai Time Out
Kyoto:
- Michael Lambe, Deep Kyoto blogger, teacher, and Public Relations Representative for the Kyoto Journal
- John Dougill, professor of British culture at Ryukoku University, blogger at Green Shinto, and author of Kyoto: A Cultural History, In Search of Japan’s Hidden Christians, and Oxford in English Literature
- Stephen Gill, poet, BBC radio scriptwriter, and executive director of People Together for Mt. Ogura
Nara:
- Pico Iyer, author of Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, and most recently The Man Within My Head
- Christopher Olson, artist, critic, and teacher
Kobe:
- Tim Olive, guitarist, improviser, and sound artist
Los Angeles:
- Todd Shimoda, author of “philosophical mystery” novels with science, engineering, Japanese and Japanese-American themes (this interview covers Subduction)
- Roland Kelts, visiting scholar and lecturer at the University of Tokyo, contributing editor to literary journals A Public Space and Japan’s Monkey Business International, and author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S
- Leslie Helm, former Tokyo correspondent for Business Week and the Los Angeles Times and author of Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
- Dan Kuramoto, founding member of the band Hiroshima
- Eric Nakamura, founder of Asian-American aesthetic culture and lifestyle brand Giant Robot
Marketplace of Ideas interviews:
- John Nathan, translator of Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburō Ōe, filmmaker, and author of the memoir Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere [MP3] [MP3]
- Ian Buruma, writer, documentarian, Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, and author of The China Lover, a historical novel examining on life and career of Manchurian-born Japanese actress Yoshiko Yamaguchi [MP3]
- Kim Richardson, executive producer at The Criterion Collection and producer of box set Pigs, Pimps and Prostitutes: Three Films by Shohei Imamura [MP3]
- Nick Currie, a.k.a. Momus, musician, writer, artist, “avant-gardist,” and Osaka resident [MP3]
- Todd Shimoda, author of “philosophical mystery” novels like 365 Views of Mt. Fuji, The Fourth Treasure and now Oh!: A Mystery of Mono No Aware [MP3]