TANOSHII KAIWA Jenna & Misaki

Is reading news a responsibility? How do we balance keeping up with the world and our personal emotional capacities? Listen to us ramble about recognizing our privilege, where we get our news, how we cope with the news, and more.

To mark the 76th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, we note how history in our respective countries tell the event (or what they don’t tell). And, we try to answer a bigger question: how do Japanese and American citizens stand on the topic of nuclear weapons and guns?

Listen to us gush over Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka, discuss how countries view them as athletes, and laugh? cry? over Jenna’s past as a figure skater and Misaki’s as a professional pianist.

A topic definitely not covered in our textbooks, cuss words! and everything juicy about them in both English and Japanese: what they are, how and why they are used, and more.

Join us in laughing at common Japanese and English phrases that textbooks teach us to say, from awkward greetings to cuss words.

As residents of a large hegemonic state, we were blessed with early access to vaccines, and thus a country that’s appearing to return to “normal.” But what does “normal” mean now? We talk about what we think life post-COVID will and should look like - which habits and practices from the pandemic should continue, and which should go buhbye.