The Day That Felt Like the End of the World
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Hope you're having a fine weekend so far!
Today I wanted to share a sneak peek of the upcoming Nakasendo episode with you all, without giving too much away, as well as a few changes.
As I mentioned in the previous post, Natsuki and I recently embarked on an epic four day adventure into the mountains of central Japan, traversing the historic Nakasendo ...
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I hope you’ve had a great week!
First off, I’d like to say a big thank you for all the kind words, comments, and messages I’ve received this week from the Abroad in Japan Patreon community.
It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions, highs and lows, over the past week. I was immensely lucky that, against the backdrop of events, ...
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I hope you've had a pleasant week.
As you may have seen in recent days, I've been caught up in some things online.
People have joked about, trivialised it, but it's a serious matter.
I've barely slept, and been unable to eat. I needed to discuss this publicly.
I apologise for the tone in this video, but I'm sick and tired of the internet.
With the...
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Hope you're all have a great week so far!
This weekend we released what must be the fastest video in the history of the Abroad in Japan channel. Today, we've got the Patreon exclusive behind the scenes featuring hilarious bloopers and outtakes, as well as insights in to the chaotic filming process.
We had upwards of 8 cameras rollin...
2025-10-16 16:36:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Hope you're having a wonderful weekend so far.
- Now it's time to make that weekend a heck of a lot more Wacky.
At long last, our epic driving video is out, shot on location at what might be one of the most jaw dropping locations I have ever set foot on.
Even if you don't care about cars - and honestly, I'm not much of a car person myself - Nat...
Hey guys and WELCOME to the weekend!
I've just got back from a brutal three day mountain hike with Natsuki of all people.
Feeling rather sore and obliterated, but my god was it an epic journey.
Can't wait to share behind the scene details/photos in a separate post later here on Patreon.
But for now, delighted to say we've got a Patreon hangout...
It wouldn’t be an understatement to say my thirteen years in Japan couldn’t really have gone much better.
If somebody had told me in my tiny apartment in the early days that I'd end up visiting all 47 prefectures, cycling across the country, opening a bar in Shibuya and meeting Ken Watanabe and the Emperor, I'd genuinely be quite scared.
The thought of it...
Hey guys, hope you’ve had a great week so far!
I’m officially back in Japan and gearing up for an action-packed autumn (my favourite time of year, and always when the best projects seem to come together).
To kick things off, we’ve got a brand new Wacky Weekend! And this time we took the beloved Kei car to the world’s most exclusive racetrack...
2025-09-24 13:36:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hope you're all having a pleasant weekend.
Delighted to say the Patreon exclusive episode for the 101 Things to do in Tokyo video is now up!
With 18 minutes of bloopers and outtakes, to deleted scenes and commentary, we take you behind the scenes and give you the chaotic, absurd inside track on the shooting of one of our biggest Abroad in Japan episodes ever made.
Hey guys,
At last our ridiculous 101 Things to do in Tokyo episode is finally out on Abroad in Japan, after a rather tough summer-long production process of filming and editing!
While we've got a Patreon exclusive episode dropping in the days ahead, in the meantime there's a handy checklist (attached to this post) listing every single one of the 101 Things to do in Tokyo from ...
It’s big.
It’s ridiculous.
It’s finally here.
One of the great things about being human is we can set ourselves arbitrary goals and then slowly ruin our mental health trying to achieve them.
(A bit like the time I bet on Trash Taste I’d get a six-pack in three months. Spoiler: I didn’t. Unless you count the beer tucked in the fridge.)
It's a Christmas miracle!
For the first time this year, I'm in a half decent timezone!
That's right guys, I'm currently in the UK and so for this month's Patreon live catch up, it'll be held at a reasonable hour (albeit apologies to the handful of viewers in Japan).
We're officially just a couple of days away from dropping the second biggest vi...
I won’t lie.
Spending almost the entire summer in Tokyo writing a book left me burned out in every possible way. Physically, because it was the hottest summer in Japanese history and mentally, because writing a book mostly involves staring at a screen until you begin questioning whether words even exist.
Writing a book isn’t quite as glamorous as movies would portray it,...
Happy Birthday to the legend himself - Natsuki!
Twelve years of chaos, laughter and moments that probably belong in a court transcript. We have travelled from the snowy streets of Hokkaido to the beaches of Okinawa, explored abandoned love hotels and ...
Hope to see you there!
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Hey guys,
Good news (x2) and bad news unfortunately.
The bad news is I'm having to postpone tonight's live show a couple of days.
I've not been feeling overly well this weekend - it's most likely heatstroke from filming in the mega-heat/sun yesterday or something else more sinister, but no matter how much Tully's Coffee I've consumed today, it's not been able to m...
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Hope you've had a great week :)
Just to announce this month's live show (July Edition) will be held this Sunday 3rd August!
(We typically hold the livestream in the final days of each month, but I moved it to the weekend, as I tend to find that's when most folks can join).
We've got tons of epic videos coming up, including a Day in the Life episode thi...
This morning, the above photo randomly popped up on my laptop. One of those unsolicited "memory" photos designed to briefly jolt you into nostalgia before you go back to eating cheese over the sink.
But this one was worth pausing for. It was from July 2015, the day I finished my job as an English teacher in rural Japan, after three surreal, sometimes sublime, often confusing year...
2025-07-27 14:34:29 +0000 UTC View Post