How Many Nobel Prizes Does it Take to Make You Japanese? (w/Mary Kobayashi)

Japan By River Cruise - A podcast by Bobby Judo and Ollie Horn

Syukuro Manabe and some other people win the Nobel Prize, illustrating a lot about how and why Japan claims people as Japanese. We talk to Mary Kobayashi about how she defines her Japanese identity, and how media representation works to define "Japanese..." as sexy, anime robot.