AMY CHAVEZ on The Widow, the Priest and the Octopus Hunter

03/08/24 • 93 min

Amy Chavez has been a columnist for The Bali Times, HuffPo, and The Japan Times (the latter 23 years). She founded Books on Asia in May 2018. Her articles have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world including Japan, the UK, the US, Canada, Taiwan, Indonesia, and New Zealand. She lives in Japan. Her latest book is The Widow, The Priest and the Octopus Hunter: Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island available at Bookshop.org (an online bookshop that puts you in touch with local bookstores who procure your purchase for pick-up) for those in the US. You should also be able to find the book at Kinokuniya and The Laughing Oyster Bookshop in B.C. Canada, for all our B.C. canuck buddies out there.

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MUSIC:
The intro was my original mashup of Fist of the North Star, a few anime sound bites, some kabuki, a cheap recording of my son’s Buzz Lightyear toy, and “Dubstep" from BenSound.
The outro was "Kanzan Bakuzen Bouzen" by "that old bad enka singer" Chiharu Matsuyama. Apparently, he was a well-coiffed renai baller back in the 80s though.

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LINKS:

The Facebook Page for the book
Amy on Twitter: @JapanLite and @BooksOnAsia
Books on Asia Podcast is here or subscribe

Got something to say? You can find me at the following:

As always, thanks for listening!

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The outro was The intro was つれづれなるままに Tsurezure Naru Mama ni off the 1974 folk album Out Of Mind [アウト・オブ・マインド] by Ryo Kagawa. The intro was my original mashup of Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) anime sound bites with “Dubstep" from BenSound.

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