Matt Bigelow
JAPAN WUT? Podcast
AI markets in Tokyo, AI Music, and rising conflict in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Matt Bigelow
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Oct 20, 2025
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Episodes
Japan Wut 121 "CBDC Crickets" 24.11.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We discuss Japan’s Cricket Bug Beers, how De-Dollarisation affects Japan, and using Giant Dolls to Combat the Woes of Depopulation. Strap in. You are living in interesting times. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com NOTES FOR SHOW 121 Japan In hectic post-COVID Japan, more people prefer sleeping to...
Japan Wut 120 "Rope Drones" 21.11.2023
DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We discuss Rope Drones, AI Manga, AI Cameras on Ships, and how war escapes control and predictions, as a Japanese ship with Israeli-control is seized by the Yemeni Houthis amid the Current Wars. Show Notes for Episode 120 NEW PRODUCT/High or Not High Pokemon and Tiffany team up for new accessory line with Pikachu pendant SOCIETY 5.0 New Tezuka 'Black Jack' manga episod...
Japan Wut 119 "Collective Entrepreneurs" 17.11.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We discuss Ramen in Space, how Japan is being peripherally affected by conflicts overseas, and potential SDGs in the Japan Society 5.0 umbrella. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com Show Notes for 119 High or Not High More than 10 who ate 'weed gummies' hospitalized this year: Osaka police Osaka re...
Japan Wut 118 "Very Clean Future" 14.11.2023
DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We discuss how to implement AI technology into society without it becoming dystopian, by analyzing non-dystopian vs. dystopian solutions that are in the market right now. We also take a look at Japanese Onomatopoeia in the workplace. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com SHOW NOTES FOR JAPAN WUT 118 NEW PRODUCT Japanese...
Japan Wut 117 "Billionaire Hippies" 10.11.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We discuss a robot worker killing a human worker in South Korea, economic inconsistencies on why Japan is doing so great and bad at the same time, and how the Philippines is moving away from China’s BRI and toward Japan’s and the US’ wide open arms. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com Show Notes f...
Japan Wut 116 "AI Moats" (Audio Corrected) 07.11.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We discuss drive through drugstores, how AI solutions used by regular Japanese people are being demonized as misinformation while the G7 (headed by Japan) seeks to regulate the AI ecosystem, and how Japan is using the cheap yen as an excuse to bow out of military spending. Strap in! You are living in interesting times. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebo...
Japan Wut 116 "AI Moats" 07.11.2023
N THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We discuss drive through drugstores, how AI solutions used by regular Japanese people are being demonized as misinformation while the G7 (headed by Japan) seeks to regulate the AI ecosystem, and how Japan is using the cheap yen as an excuse to bow out of military spending. Strap in! You are living in interesting times. Follow Matt: Twitter / Faceboo...
Japan Wut 115 "Build Back Worse" 31.10.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We discuss how uninformed politicians at Japan’s G7 meet are trying to regulate AI as a Build Back Better move — they don’t care if their AI solutions are worse, as long as they control them and you don’t. We also cover how the De-Dollarization movement is affecting the Japanese economy, and how a new rice might be high or not high. Strap in! It’s...
Japan Wut 114 "Surveilling Surveillance" 24.10.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We deliver our boots on the ground report from Japan’s biggest tech event — CEATEC. We also analyze some of the Israel/Gaza war protests that are occurring in Japan, plus an investigation into Japan’s menopausal women engaging in the costly act of “Doctor Shopping”. Strap in! It’s only getting weirder from here. Just look around you. Follow Matt: T...
Japan Wut 113 "Information Soup" 20.10.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We cover reviews of Robots in Restaurants and how the AI business model works, the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s new Carbon Credit Market, and review the global leaders who are attending China’s Belt and Road Initiative massive shindig. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com Show Notes Japan Economy, Enviro...
Japan Wut 112 "Disabled Metaverse" 17.10.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We cover Luxury Cars in Your Apartment, the Israeli Ambassador to Japan getting angry about Japanese media coverage of the Israel/Gaza Conflict, Taiwan’s lack of military volunteers despite what’s on the horizon, and a Metaverse for the Disabled being trialled in Tokyo. It’s either WAR, or WEIRD. Strap in. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Ins...
Japan Wut 111 "Data Captains" 10.10.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We cover Japanese denim made from rose branches, the Japanese Government and WEF collaboration on Data Free Flow With Trust, Chinese robo-waiters in restaurants spying and unrestricted warfare in the real estate sector. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com Show Notes for Ep. 111 NEW PRODUCT Project...
Japan Wut 110 "Techno-Climate Wars" 03.10.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We cover why weird men appear when a group of people exceeds 100, Bill Gates giving PM Kishida an SDG Award, and the Japanese Self Defense Forces plans to use AI and fight climate change. Plus some good ol’ bug eating. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com SHOW NOTES 110 NEW PRODUCT Keep your hands...
Japan Wut 109 "AI Highways" 26.09.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We cover Kyoto’s retro toothbrush vending machines, Japan’s plans to build highways for self-driving cars, and the US’s aim to expand Space Force in Japan amid China’s and Russia’s implementation of advanced radar systems equipped with AI post-processing capabilities. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigel...
Japan Wut 108 "Brain-Bio Digital Twins" 19.09.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We cover how Japanese telecoms plan to turn your brains into digital twins, why the weak yen is attracting trashy tourists, and how the UN turns Japan’s would be brilliant engineers into weirdos who want to make us eat bugs. SHOW NOTES NEW PRODUCT Yamaha adopts wood-based reinforced resin for watercraft SOCIETY 5.0 Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagge...
Japan Wut 107 "Smartphone Toilets" 11.09.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt discusses smartphone toilets, ingrained double-think, and why we’re told by the elites to blame everything on Putin. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com SHOW NOTES FOR EP 107 NEW PRODUCT Flush by phone: Japan toilet maker responds to demand for touch-free facilities G20 Narendra Modi: As ‘One...
Japan Wut 106 "Electronic Skin" 05.09.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt discusses Final Fantasy Whiskey, Electronic Skin for surveillance, and presents an update on the Japanese Government’s initiatives to work with the World Economic Forum on developing a circular economy. They want to change you, and you will like it. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com Show No...
Japan Wut 105 "Nuclear Sushi" 29.08.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt discusses beer psyops, the threat — or non-threat — of Fukushima Nuclear Water, AI Rice, WEF Green Transformation in Japan, and the unpredictable effects of depopulation: bug farms and less help for the disabled. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com SHOW NOTES FOR EP. 105 NEW PRODUCT/SERVICE F...
Japan Wut 104 "Boomerang Block" 22.08.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt discusses a Japanese wearable air conditioner, and does a deep dive on Japan’s mortality rates, the current effects the response to Covid (which is coming back) has on the economy and bug bullies in Ehime. EP. 104 SHOWNOTES NEW PRODUCT Wearable air conditioner belt COVID Experts urge caution as new coronavirus 'variant of interest' takes hold...
Japan Wut 103 "Dementia Bowels" 17.08.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt discusses reasons why Japan doesn’t experience wildfires so much, strapping kids with surveillance tech, and a study that links bowel movements with dementia. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Official Website: matthewpmbigelow.com SHOW NOTES FOR EP. 103 NEW PRODUCT Osaka Expo ¥1,000 coins go on sale for low price of ¥13,800 SOC...
Japan Wut 102 "Hydrogen High" 08.08.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt discusses turning Japanese bullet trains into baseball bats, the importance of infiltration before launching a war in respect to Japan’s reliance on the USA, and a proposed Japan Society 5.0 Boat that converts the oceans into hydrogen energy for the future no one asked for. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram / OFFICIAL SITE SHOW...
Japan WUT 101 "Creepy Weirdo Follower" 02.08.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt and discusses the Japanese battle between decentralized and centralized currencies, robots in restaurants, and masked teens serving up bugs for their elders. It’s weird times, man — and not just Japan. We are all weird now. Buy the ticket, take the ride. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram NEW PRODUCT Japan’s cat robot waiter now...
Japan Wut 100 "Thin Blue AI" 25.07.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt discusses Japan’s quantum computing business applications, Japan’s Self Defense Forces use of advanced weaponry in other countries, and does a deep dive into Japan’s decisions to use AI Cameras in Police Force activities. It’s a big one, for episode 100! Tune in. We’re only 2% weird. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram Sources Rel...
Japan Wut 99 "Chinese Salami" 19.07.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt discusses smart home markets for Japan, more on why the WEF is weird and needs to go, strange edible bug museum in Kyushu, and workers refusing to return to the office after stupid COVID. Follow Matt: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram SHOW NOTES FOR EP 99 NEW PRODUCT Japan’s new energy drink feels like getting slapped in the face by an anime...
Japan Wut 98 "Bug Booze!" 27.06.2023
ON THIS INSTALLMENT… DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … Matt and DJO discuss bug booze, digital transformation in Japan, and a crazy gaijin rampaging in a Police Station in Japan. For photos and additional content, go to the Official Website . Follow Matthew Bigelow: Twitter / Facebook Page / Instagram DJO: https://gab.com/TokyoWatch Show Notes for Ep 98 NEW PRODUCT Japan’s popular Moonlight brand begin...
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