Drum roll please!!

The winner of our grand JapanesePod101.com competition, in which we’re giving away a one year Premium Japanese language course (worth $180!), is….

CAROLINA BRUNE!

Congratulations to Carolina – we’ll be in touch with details of how to claim your prize!

Thank you to all the other entrants – and remember that you can get 25% off any JapanesePod101.com with the discount code we gave out in part 4 of Episode 12.

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Winner of the JapanesePod101.com competition!

Japan Podshow is doing really well, with a great audience base that continues to grow with each episode. However, we appreciate that some people don’t have the time to listen to a full episode – but at the same time they do want to hear the interviews with our special guests, who tend to talk a lot more sense that we (George and Joseph) do.

Also, we sometimes record excellent, inspiring interviews with guests, but due to time limitations are unable to fit them into Japan Podshow in their entirety.

Enter Making it in Japan – a purposely minimalistic podcast. As we say over there:

“Making it in Japan showcases the achievements of English-speaking entrepreneurs and artists. In our interviews we hear how they have built businesses or carried out artistic projects, learn of the challenges specific to Japan that they faced along the way (and how these were overcome), and find out what they would tell others who are thinking of pursuing careers in related fields.”

We have three episodes up already, two of which were first broadcast on Japan Podshow.

Check them out and subscribe at www.pokya.jp/makeit.

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New podcast from Pokya: Making it in Japan

The full adventure story will be included in the next episode of Japan Podshow [iTunes] [RSS] – in which you’ll also hear about George’s trip to China to see the eclipse.

As most of our energy went into live streaming the event, we didn’t have much time to take photos. To be honest, it was the communal atmosphere up there that was the most memorable thing – we were united by the sun and moon (how cute). But still, here’s a couple. We were fortunate it was cloudy as we’d taken the wrong filter with us, and thus had to shoot the sun ‘raw’!

It was an amazing adventure. It had all the making of a great movie
- extreme hardship on the night climb
- despair and dissapointment as we are advised to get off the mountain before the storm worsens
- an amazing final triumph as having climbed down the most difficult section of the mountain we look back and see blue sky: despite total exhaustion we once again scale the heights to finally see the solar eclipse!

There are about 8 videos shot live on Mount Fuji available here
Here’s the main video taken during the eclipse. It’s 40 mins long. Sorry about the wind noise! It cuts off at the end when I try to go down to Mt/ Fuji’s crater

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Photos of the Solar Eclipse taken on Mount Fuji

Details are yet to be announced, but it’ll be happening in the next few episodes, so keep listening!

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Win an iPhone 3G on Japan Podshow!

Firstly, thanks to everyone who has downloaded our show so far, and special thanks to those who have sent in feedback, both positive and negative.

We’re now a quarter of the way through our first series, and will be doing our best to keep you informed and entertained right up to episode 12.

In addition to the audio version of the podcast, now and then we’ll be uploading video to our YouTube account – the first video (shot during the recording of episode 3) is now live.

For iTunes users, we would be very grateful if you could subscribe through iTunes as this helps us get a good deal more exposure = more listeners = more leverage = better programs/prizes for you! Also, if you enjoy our show we would invite you to write an iTunes review for the show, which only takes a second.

We are now in the process of adding our podcast to various podcast directories, and hope that you will help to spread the word about what we’re doing if you enjoy it. Or if you don’t enjoy it.

Thanks!

Joseph and George

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Housekeeping

iTunes

We recommend listeners subscribe using iTunes – we can be found in the iTunes store by searching for “Japan Podshow” – or simply by clicking this link! If you don’t have iTunes, you can download it from here for free.

Other RSS reader / podcast catcher

For those who don’t like iTunes but instead prefer to fumble around in the dark (which can of course be a lot of fun) we have a plain old RSS feed (like the iTunes link this is audio / video only, no blog posts) that you can use with your favourite podcast catcher.

We also have a separate RSS feed for this blog – subscribing to this will give you all the blog posts and the podcast content. (at least we think it will. It’s not really been thoroughly tested yet, so do let us know what happens!)

You will of course also be able to listen directly from this website when new episodes are released.

Feedback

As mentioned on the previous post we would love to hear your feedback – visit our contact page for all the options, or comment on any post.

Speak to you soon!

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Japan Podshow feeds go live!

We plan to release a short audio promo edition within the next week – we’ll post a note on this blog when we do that, and we’ll also Twitter it (follow our updates here).

We plan to have both an advanced feed for iTunes users (featuring audio / photos / embedded links etc) , and an MP3 feed for those whose devices rely on wind-up mechanisms to operate.

Follow us on Twitter to make sure you’re the first to know when we go live.

In the meatime, if you’re attending Tokyo CGM night (March) watch out for us with our mics there – and maybe even plug yourself on our first episode!

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Podcast feeds

This week will see us finalise our online social-network presence, and move out into the real world in search of more stories to add to those we have in the can.

It’s been an interesting journey so far. Being an unknown start-up has both advantages and disadvantages: some people are understandable reluctant to contribute on a Podcast that they have yet to hear, whilst others are keen to be a part of something new, fresh, experimental and exciting.

We’ve continued trialing technology. With the sound equipment now sorted this week it’s been the turn of mobile device live video streaming apps – namely Qik and uStream. There’s not much between the two, although with uStream there has been a problem of the video feed failing to show up on our account page, thus whilst its widespread use and additional bells and whistles are appealing, the simplicity and reliability of Qik is seductive.

Watch this space to see which we eventually choose!

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One step closer to launching

Here at Pokya we’re busy working away on the first episode of Japan Podshow, due for release in the next month.

Japan Podshow’s mission is to inform and entertain both the foreign community in Japan, and those offshore who have an interest in the country.

An important part of the show will be the section where we highlight some of the amazing things that expats are getting up to over here.

If you, or someone you know has an interesting / inspiring story connected with life in Japan, we’d like to hear from you. Perhaps you’ve set up your own business here, or have played a key role in improving the quality of life for expats. Maybe you have your own theatre company, or you regularly dress up as a crocodile and go dance in Odaiba.

We’d be looking to feature your story for 5 and 10 minutes. It could be an an audio interview, a video of your crocodile dance, a mini-documentary, or a short story. The format is up to you.

We look forward to hearing from you – you can contact us here.

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Japan Podshow needs you!

Japan Podshow is currently in production, but will release it’s first episode shortly.

Subscribe to our RSS feed in order to be the first to know when it all kicks off.

Thanks for visiting!

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Japan Podshow will be launching soon