Narrative Japan Podcast🌸 | Manga-Deck💥 @NarrativeJapan
The Japan even Japanese don't know 🇯🇵 Culture & business, decoded by a student 🌸 & a professor 👓 — new episodes every Monday. narrativejapan.substack.com Tokyo, JPN Joined January 2026-
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Read Haru's view on letting go on purpose in the full write-up: youtu.be/P--hGFltNa4
Omikuji in a bookstore. A gacha in a bourbon bar. Omakase at a hotel restaurant. All three leave the call to chance, or to the shop. Which choice would you be glad to hand over?
Want to see how this course stacks up against a bookstore's omikuji and a bar's gacha? The write-up lines all three up: youtu.be/P--hGFltNa4
A Fukuoka hotel restaurant lets diners leave the whole meal to the chef. The course is called "Carte Blanche": the season's ingredients and the chef's instincts shape the meal. In Japanese, that's omakase. Would you hand over the whole meal, or just one dish?
Is the gacha the only option? The article explains the alternative described by the bar: youtu.be/P--hGFltNa4
A Shinjuku bourbon bar lets a gacha pick your next glass. For a limited time, its all-you-can-drink plan comes with a capsule-toy-style machine: turn the handle, and the gacha decides what you drink next. Gacha, or your own pick?
Which bookstore it is, and how its fortune box works, is in the full write-up: youtu.be/P--hGFltNa4
A library gives you chance meetings with books you'd never pick. One bookstore has turned meetings like that into a service. Would you try a bookstore service built around chance encounters?
From one library cart to three shops in Japan: the whole story is in the write-up. youtu.be/P--hGFltNa4
At the library, Haru hasn't opened a single book. Haru is watching the returns cart instead, where books somebody chose and read pile up one by one. Sakura picks up the top one: "I'd never, ever reach for a title like this." Would you borrow it anyway?
This fall in Japan, a bookstore📕, a bar🥃 and a hotel restaurant🍴 each handed their customers' choice to chance🎲, or to the chef.🧑🍳 Why would anyone give up the freedom to choose?👼 New episode tomorrow — five minutes.🎧 📅 Mon, Oct 19 · 1 AM PT / 4 AM ET / 5 PM JST
Why the towel is made to rotate, and what that changes about laundry, are explained in the article. youtu.be/1gJb3TRRIgg
A hand towel you turn a little after each use. A Japanese housewares maker sells one for the sink, kitchen, or toilet: turn it, and a dry part comes around. How often does the towel by your sink actually get changed?
How the gummy is used, what it costs and how the test sale was set up are each sourced in the article. youtu.be/1gJb3TRRIgg
Shiseido's answer to people skipping cleanser: a gummy you never lather. Wet it and your face, glide it over your skin, rinse. The Nikkei says one lasts about three months at twice a day, for about fifteen dollars. If one step of your skincare could disappear, which would you pick?
The online idea behind skipping cleanser, and what the company did about it, are covered in the write-up. youtu.be/1gJb3TRRIgg
An idea spread online: skipping cleanser is better for your skin. In Japan, young people who rinse with water instead have been called the "face-wash cancel" crowd. Shiseido's experts say water alone may not get all the dirt off. Water only in the morning: would you defend it or drop it?
Who ran the survey and who was asked are set out, with the source, in the article. youtu.be/1gJb3TRRIgg
Half of the women aged 15 to 29 in a 2023 Shiseido survey said they didn't use cleanser in the morning. Sakura, asked the same question in a drugstore, admits she just used water. This morning: cleanser, or just water?
The early-morning drugstore scene that opens the episode is written up in full here. youtu.be/1gJb3TRRIgg
That heart-shaped gummy on a Japanese drugstore shelf isn't candy. It's a face cleanser from Shiseido, a Japanese cosmetics company. Sakura picked it up thinking she'd found the candy shelf. Would a cleanser shaped like candy make you more likely to use it, or less?
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