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