Summer Sonic Lineup Lines Up for a Visa (w/Unseen Japan's Noah Oskow)

Japan By River Cruise

Unseen Japan's new manager Noah Oskow stops by to talk social media social justice, how Summer Sonic's hopes to skip the visa application line up for THEIR lineup, and how Olympic Fever is on the rise, starting with the Ugandan Team...

Ollie talks about the harder to get delicacies available aboard the Olympic Athlete's Dining Cruise.

Bobby has news about GariGari-kun doing something VERY GROSS and VERY ON BRAND.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

• Noah's beef with a "Kosher" Kobe River Cruise
• Some super-meta Brian shit
• The growth of UnseenJapan, its goals, its audience, and its Twitter presence
• What happens when you translate Japanese voices into English for a twitter audience
• The trials, tribulations, and pitfalls of doing Social Justice online, and how it resulted in a pretty impactful shakeup at Unseen Japan
• Bobby's Twitter clout chasing, social media addiction, and how the twitter "call-out" cycle escalates
• "Never send to know for whom the Twitter mob calls out. It calls out thee."
• The shift in UnseenJapan's focus and how it wields it's Twitter presence
• Summer Sonic's announcement that it plans to bring in international artists and why people are so upset
• How genuine the announcement really is?
• The feasibility of them actual doing this, with some insight from Ollie into what it takes to get an entertainer's visa
• A weird diversion into Arianna Grande and James Corden
• Noah's situation being separated from his fiancee by Japan's entry visa restrictions
• Japan's lack of flexibility or exceptions for people with real pressing reasons to get into Japan, and Japan's current timeline
• The recent pandemic-influenced changes in attitudes in other countries towards giving even non-married couples visa leeway
• How is being in Japanese study abroad or employment limbo indefinitely affecting people's academic/professional careers and personal lives
• The potential economic effects on Japan of NOT being able to bring in new foreigners to live, study, or work
• The impact of the treatment on the hands of the government on foreigner's desire to live and work in Japan, and why Noah suspect's that the current suffering probably won't matter to Japan in the long run
• The Olympics as a test case for the ability to run major "international" events

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Topics Discussed on the Extras:

• Noah's recent article on the history and current status of Japanese school laws regulating hair color
• Japanese school uniforms
• Pronouns

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Noah Oskow: Twitter | Unseen Japan Article List

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