Let's War! (w/Jesse Johnson)

Japan By River Cruise

Oct 02, 2020•30 min•Ep. 53

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Episode description

Is armed conflict in Asia inevitable? Would China ever really invade Japan? What does North Korea want? Japan Times senior editor Jesse Johnson tries to navigate the tortured landscape of Bobby and Ollie's jokes about these questions.

Ollie's river cruise recommendation is SO GOOD that Bobby is mad that he didn't think of making this... river cruise recommendation first.

Bobby looks into how a Japanese River Cruise court case demonstrates Japan's legal dedication to the people who really matter.

Topics discussed on this episode range from:

What to do with old, defunct hankos
Brief takes on the US Presidential Debates
Bobby's first plane trip in forever
How Jesse ended up on the Asian conflict beat, and how it makes it him feel
A suggestion, then an immediate denial, that there is a spy working for the Japan Times
China's reporting on Jesse's reporting
War Semantics
Who's to thank for keeping the Asian Pacific players from blowing each other up
Whether or not Kim Jong Un is crazy
Japan's constitutional right to join and fight a war
Has China already committed acts of aggression that warrant a defensive response?
WHAT is so GODDAMNED GREAT about the Senkaku Islands?
What happens when China pushes an envelope of sliced salami into the grey zone
How global conflict is really just the same as that time you got off on the wrong foot with your new roommate, Brad
China's villainousness
The difference between the Chinese military and the Chinese people, and how they respectively use replicas of Japanese towns
What Japan wants out of their relationship with China, and what they expect from America in terms of China
Backroom and backchannel backscratching between World Leaders
Why you shouldn't refer to America as "Trump"
How the Hot and Cold Drama between Trump and Kim Jong Un affects Japan
What it could mean for the whole North Korea thing if Biden wins
Potential future aggression :)

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