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Podcast: Pure TokyoScope
Episode: 61: NEWS - Ghibli Sells Out! Big Mac Attack! Gunpla Robberies in Japan!
Description: In our latest episode, Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion) put on their reporter hats, shuffle paper, and ruminate on some recent shocking NEWS items that have shaken Japan to it's very core (Core Fighter, that is...).
They include:
Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki Hayao’s Iconic Japanese Cartoon Home, Selling Controlling Stake to Nippon Television
Taro Okamoto's atomic bomb mural in Tokyo to be restored
McDonald’s anime ad in Japan causes controversy overseas
Robbery and injury at a toy store, robbed of "Gunpla" and other items in Tochigi, Utsunomiya
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