Show Notes
This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 32 - "Unidentified Mobile Suits" (謎のモビルスーツ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the history of ice cream in Japan (part 2), and Yazan's turtle tattoo.
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- Web resources (in Japanese) about the history of ice cream:
“アイスクリームの工業化.”日本アイスクリーム協会,
https://www.icecream.or.jp/biz/history/japan02.html
“アイスクリーム時代の到来.”日本アイスクリーム協会,
https://www.icecream.or.jp/biz/history/japan03.html
細野明義. “アイスクリームの日本昔話.” 日本アイスクリーム協会,
https://www.icecream.or.jp/biz/history/oldstory.pdf
“日本アイスクリーム史 - 昨日、今日、そして明日へ.” 日本アイスクリーム協会,
https://www.icecream.or.jp/biz/history/history.pdf
- Calculator to adjust past prices for inflation.
- Wikipedia page on the three sacred treasures (traditional and "new").
- I got population numbers by searching “Japan population [date]” in Google. It cites the World Bank as one of its sources for historical population data.
- Article about the mid-1980s luxury ice cream fad in Japan, namely for Häagen-Dazs:
Chira, Susan. “AN ICE CREAM WINS JAPANESE.” The New York Times, 20 Aug. 1985.
- Paper about an ethnographic study of fast food perceptions and consumption in Japan:
Traphagan, John W., and L. Keith Brown. “Fast Food and Intergenerational Commensality in Japan: New Styles and Old Patterns.” Ethnology, vol. 41, no. 2, 2002, pp. 119–134. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4153002. Accessed 5 Feb. 2020.
- Explanation of "indirect kiss," and several other romantic gestures that show up in Japanese media.
- Wikipedia page on Japanese tattooing, including notes on the status of tattoos in the modern period.
- English-language articles about discrimination against people with tattoos in Japan:
Justin McCurry for The Guardian, Mayor of Osaka launches crusade against tattoos. May 17, 2012. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/17/mayor-osaka-tattoos.
Author unknown, the Japan Times, Supreme Court upholds Osaka city's tattoo check on workers as legal. November 14, 2016. Available at https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/14/national/crime-legal/supreme-court-upholds-osaka-citys-tattoo-check-workers-legal/#.Xj2PnGhKiUm
- Article by Bryan Ashcraft (author of Japanese Tattoos: History * Culture * Design) for Kotaku about a government crackdown on tattooing:
Japan is Trying to Destroy Tattoos, updated June 3, 2016. Available at https://kotaku.com/japan-is-trying-to-destroy-tattoos-update-1747046619
- Discogs record for the Japanese release of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, including its release date.
- July 1985 Spin Magazine interview with Sting.
- The Dream of the Blue Turtles full track and a playlist for the full album.
- Review of The Dream of the Blue Turtles album discussing its success:
Jeff Giles for Ultimate Classic Rock, REVISITING STING’S SOLO DEBUT, ‘THE DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLES’. Date unknown. Available at: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sting-dream-of-the-blue-turtles/
- Wikipedia page for the color ao (青、あお) and Jisho.org entry.
- Article about traditional Japanese color theory:
Sarah W. and Fiona for Tofugu, The Traditional Colors of Japan. September 12, 2013. Available at https://www.tofugu.com/japan/color-in-japan/
- Wikipedia page for the blue-green distinction in language.
- Japanese Wikipedia page for the Green Sea Turtle (アオウミガメ). Thom accidentally dropped a syllable during recording - he said "aomigame" but it should be "aoumigame.
- The music used in the AEUG Broadcasting Channel segment was Gemini (Instrumental Version) by Josh Woodward, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The work is available at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-12-Gemini and Josh Woodward's website is www.joshwoodward.com.
- The voice of Yugi the AEUG Assistance Aardvark was provided by Adam Black, who encourages you to check out https://oneearthsangha.org/ to help save our planet.
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