Dan Orlowitz

New Podcast: Fan Culture in Japan

We're joined by Japan-based journalist @aishiterutokyo.bsky.social and Yokohama F. Marinos superfan @stuartcw.bsky.social for a whistelstop tour around the fan culture of football clubs in Japan.

Listen on your preferred platform here ⬇️

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This reminds me of how, for a time, Tokyo Verdy had the biggest Instagram following of any Japanese sports team after they signed Pratama Arhan and got flooded w/ Indonesian followers.

Of course he got like an hour of playing time over two years but they're still leading the #JLeague by a hair!

So what're we arguing about then?

We ate at Queen Sheba once and I recall it being dece.

I have heard *very* good things about Little Ethiopia over on the other side of the Arakawa.

maps.app.goo.gl/2Kb1L1TMDJag...

Which place did you go to?

I once asked if they could do a half-and-half, because I thought strawberry+peach would be an amazing combo, and I was told no =(

the courage and spirit of the Iranian players to do anything at all tonight, with so much chaos and uncertainty unfolding back home, is just remarkable. they should be so, so proud. #KORvIRN #AFCWAC

are the Icee machines also self-serve and how many seconds do you figure i can just open my mouth underneath the nozzle and hold the trigger down before security comes, hypothetically of course

Joel Chima Fujita got a Topps NOW card, good for him.

jp.topps.com/products/joe...

the irony is that they can find me talking shit about Mastodon on here *way* more easily than they could on their own social network with a search function that is crippled by design.

ESPNAssignmentDesk @ESPNAssignDesk · 2h Hello, Dane! Please see your DMs for a message from us! Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA You do not have permission to use it — as I’ve told you numerous times in DMs. Shouldn’t have laid off all those reporters if you wanted locker room content.

This is the correct energy against our media overlords

Yeah I know where like 75% of my blocks come from - mostly soft-as-baby-shit fandom people, Blue MAGA types who are mad when I call them out for their reply-guy silliness and recently people who I guess were offended that I made fun of Mastodon. But there's a couple that are mysteries to this day.

They were preseason games but the American Bowl ran for quite a while.

There was also an NCAA D1 bowl game in Japan for over a decade!

You are thinking of the Rams, who in 2005 were still in St. Louis. The Chargers were indeed in San Diego and the Raiders were still in Oakland!

I don't know how far I'll get with this, but I'll at least try to have a Simpsons moment for every day of the Women's Asian Cup. Here is Day One. #WAC2026

Top 5 cities that haven't hosted an international game (in the modern era) that you'd like to see give it a try?

No Way to Stop Randomly Bombing Other Countries Says Only Country That Keeps on Doing This.

Qatar suspending its domestic comps as well.

🌏The Women’s Asian Cup is underway!!! Make sure you are following great journos at the tourney and PLEASEE share more I need to follow too!

➡️ @battledinosaur.bsky.social @shelatneel.bsky.social @thefarpostpod.bsky.social @joeylynchy.bsky.social

let's fucking gooo 🔥🔥🔥

Shuji Muramatsu//Ethan Scally goes pro with LAFC 2. Hopefully I can watch him in some MLS NextPro games

The Asian Football Confederation is postponing ACLE and ACL2 West Zone matches because of *waves hands*

Samurai Japan gashapon w/ frame magnets of their WBC uniforms, ¥500.

The purpose of this website is to help unburden your brain by releasing horrible sentences that live in there like demons

「高市外交」の急所、米国がハシゴを外すとき　ベネズエラ攻撃の含意 - 日本経済新聞 対中外交を考える際、日本の外交当局は米国にハシゴを外されるリスクを常に警戒する。「2026年は特に注意が要る」という。トランプ米大統領が11月の中間選挙に向けて中国と何らかの取引をする可能性が高いためだ。米国外交の歴史を踏まえれば、問題の大きさがわかる。米国はかつて欧州の紛争と距離を置き、自らが位置する西半球の安定を守ればよいという「モンロー主義」をとってきた。第2次世界大戦後に「世界の警察

Very much ancillary at this point, but once again a reminder to Tokyo that it can have its alliance or it can have its commitment to some semblance of a rules-based order but harder and harder to have both.

www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

I just want your man to get his haircut before nuclear war!

we're at war with WHO?

It's a good day for soccer.

#Verdy #Marinos #JLeague

Curious about how you've put this together - we really need something similar to collate Japanese soccer coverage.