Learn Japanese Pod

About Learn Japanese Pod

Learn Japanese Pod is a podcast to help you speak natural fluent Japanese

Publisher

Alex Brooke

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Aug 2015

Latest episode

27 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

13 of 200 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Fun Friday 31: Bear attacks in Japan

   Welcome to the Fun Friday edition of the Learn Japanese Pod podcast — the show where we sit down with cool people doing cool things in Japan. In this episode, I talk with Wes Lang about the recent rise in bear encounters and attacks across Japan: the latest stats, what’s causing them, and what Japan is doing to prevent future incidents. We also dive into Wes’s long experience as a master hiker. He was the first American to complete the Hyakumeizan, and he shares practical advice on how to prepare for the unlikely event of meeting a bear on the trail — including what to do, what not to do, and some useful bear-related vocabulary in Japanese. I learned a lot from this interview with Wes, and I now feel slightly more prepared to go hiking — and hopefully avoid any battles with bears! Wes is the creator of hikinginjapan.com, an authoritative resource with detailed information on hundreds of hikes and mountains across Japan. If you love hiking, Japanese nature, or just a good story, you won’t want to miss this one.

2. 

   11 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Podcast 61: Talking about Positive Emotions in Japanese

   Welcome to another episode of Learn Japanese Pod!In this episode we talk about how to express positive emotions in Japanese. You’ll learn some vocabulary, grammar and also a little bit about Japanese culture and how people in Japan tend to display their emotions in public. Premium members can access detailed show notes as well as extra podcast dialogues and audio drills. To find out more, visit out Patreon page here: Learn Japanese Pod Premium Membership (https://www.patreon.com/LearnJapanesePod). For more information about the podcast, visit the main site here: Learn Japanese Pod (https://learnjapanesepod.com)

3. 

   28 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Fun Friday 30: Interview with Timothy Reid

   Musician Timothy Reid shares his experiences with host, discusses transitioning from teaching English to thriving in Japan's music and gaming industries, in this interview.

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Fun Friday 31: Bear attacks in Japan

Published 27 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And that actually became an accidental wildlife preserve. And so you had this explode, not just bears, but just an explosion in wildlife, because there weren't any humans to scare the animals away or whatever. Or to run them over with their car or run them over with their cars and, and all that kind of stuff. Obviously, this climate change you were talking about. So food is becoming more scarce. There are less barriers, less nuts, less acorns. And so they're forced to, you know, forge for food and never human settlements, right? So I think also with the deep population of the rural areas, whereas in the smaller villages aligning the mountains, there used to be a lot more people living there. […]

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YouTube views

1,240,501

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

771 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

584 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

98

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