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Sep 21, 2026
James GaspardHOST
Greetings and welcome to the OK Jazz Podcast, episode number 198, Monday, September 21st, 2026.
James GaspardHOST
My name is James Hussain Cashbowl, Mr. OK Jazz, coming to you today, as always, from the rough and gritty and extremely rainy streets of North Yokohama in the Tokyo metropolitan area of eastern Japan, the world's second largest megacity.
James GaspardHOST
Well, I'm a freelance broadcaster, and this podcast is pretty much whatever's been on my playlists recently.
James GaspardHOST
No borders or genres, just a whole lot of great tunes.
43 MINS LATER
James GaspardHOST
Which is surely true, but, you know, you can easily hear how much his guitar sounds similar to some of the acoustic blues recordings in the U.S. in the 1920s.
James GaspardHOST
It's almost uncannily, uncannily similar.
James GaspardHOST
Well, this is the OK Jazz Podcast with me, James Sustain Cashball, coming to you, as always, from Yokohama, Japan.
James GaspardHOST
Episode number 198, Deep into the Blues.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Kuruma, the native name for the mail cart-like hand carriage I called a rickshaw at first.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
It is only in Yokohama and such Europeanized places that the word rickshaw is understood.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
End note.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
As I sat there the sun rose, and lit up the gleaming water and the thousand pine-decked islands, whose shapes are so fantastic that one can only imagine them to be the work of the drollest of trolls, who with his drollery had a soul that was rare enough to combine nobility of beauty with fantastic form.
1 HR 58 MINS LATER
ExpatriateNARRATOR
January 26th.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
I called on Mrs. G. at the embassy.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
I heard a true story of certain small children in Yokohama, a girl and a boy.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
The former caused her mother much sorrow because of her habit of fibbing.
AlistairNARRATOR
True to his word, he came back in 1854 with ten ships and obtained a treaty allowing American ships to anchor in two Japanese ports and obtain provisions and promising hospitable treatment of shipwrecked sailors.
AlistairNARRATOR
Immediately afterward, the United States sent as consul general to Japan Townsend Harris, a man of such independence that he refused to crawl on his hands and knees, as had been the custom before the Japanese ruler, and of such ability that he soon negotiated treaties granting Americans many new privileges and opening Nagasaki and Yokohama to American trade.
AlistairNARRATOR
Other nations followed suit.
AlistairNARRATOR
In Japan, as in China, treaty ports were opened.
1 HR 43 MINS LATER
AlistairNARRATOR
The four-power group had invaded Manchuria.
AlistairNARRATOR
Subsection The Consortium This policy of internationalized financial imperialism was strengthened after the Chinese Revolution of 1911 when Yuan Shikai sought a reorganization loan of $125 million.
AlistairNARRATOR
Russia, the Russo-Asiatic Bank, and Japan, the Yokohama Specie Bank, were now admitted to the combination.
AlistairNARRATOR
An agreement signed on June 12th, 1912, by the British, French, German, American, Russian, and Japanese bankers, representing syndicates of powerful financial houses in their respective countries, established what has been known as the Six-Power Consortium of 1912.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
The foreigner had already obtained a foothold on the sacred shores of the empire.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
He lived at Yokohama, built houses, carried on trade, and if any too sordid man were, in an excess of patriotism, to chop off his head, instead of being protected and advanced in favor, he was tried for murder.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
The foreigners were asking for more open ports.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
Fresh treaties were talked of, and nothing in the previous conduct of the Tycoon justified the hope that they would not be granted.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
Japan should be saved in spite of him.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
In this dilemma, young Inuye came forward with his plan.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
He had often been down to Yokohama, watching with glowing eyes the evidences of the strength, activity, and, he was bound to admit, the intelligence of the detested foreigner.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
He had even scraped a personal acquaintance with some of them, amongst others a Mr. Gowen, then consul at Yokohama.
AlistairNARRATOR
True to his word, he came back in 1854 with ten ships, and obtained a treaty allowing American ships to anchor in two Japanese ports, and obtain provisions, and promising hospitable treatment of shipwrecked sailors.
AlistairNARRATOR
Immediately afterward the United States sent as consul-general to Japan Townsend Harris, a man of such independence that he refused to crawl on his hands and knees, as had been the custom, before the Japanese ruler, and of such ability that he soon negotiated treaties granting Americans many new privileges and opening Nagasaki and Yokohama to American trade.
AlistairNARRATOR
Other nations followed suit.
AlistairNARRATOR
In Japan, as in China, treaty ports were opened, the customs duties were fixed by treaty, and extraterritorial jurisdiction conferred on foreign consuls.
1 HR 43 MINS LATER
AlistairNARRATOR
The four-power group had invaded Manchuria.
AlistairNARRATOR
Subsection The Consortium This policy of internationalized financial imperialism was strengthened after the Chinese Revolution of 1911 when Yuan Shikai sought a reorganization loan of $125 million.
AlistairNARRATOR
Russia, the Russo-Asiatic Bank, and Japan, the Yokohama Specie Bank, were now admitted to the combination.
AlistairNARRATOR
An agreement signed on June 12th, 1912, by the British, French, German, American, Russian, and Japanese bankers, representing syndicates of powerful financial houses in their respective countries, established what has been known as the Six-Power Consortium of 1912.
speaker_4NARRATOR
From Calcutta to Hong Kong by steamer, thirteen days.
speaker_4NARRATOR
From Hong Kong to Yokohama, Japan, by steamer, six days.
speaker_4NARRATOR
From Yokohama to San Francisco by steamer, twenty-two days.
speaker_4NARRATOR
From San Francisco to New York by rail, seven days.
speaker_4NARRATOR
From New York to London by steamer and rail, nine days.
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speaker_4NARRATOR
Left London, Wednesday, October 2nd, at 8.45 p.m. Reached Paris, Thursday, October 3rd, at 7.20 a.m. Left Paris, Thursday, at 8.40 a.m. Reached Turin by Mount Cenis, Friday, October 4th, at 6.35 a.m. Left Turin, Friday, at 7.20 a.m.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Arrived at Brindisi, Saturday, October 5th, at 4 p.m. Sailed on the Mongolia, Saturday, at 5 p.m. Reached Suez, Wednesday, October 9th, at 11 a.m. Total of hours spent, 158 plus, or in days, six days and a half.
speaker_4NARRATOR
These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point, Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and London, from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December, and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality.
CornHOST
The wonder.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama and Ikeda, Japan.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Momofuku Ando invented chicken ramen in a backyard shed in Ikeda in 1958 and cup noodles in 1971.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The Yokohama site is four floors, charges 500 yen for adults, free for high schoolers and younger.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The My Cup Noodles factory, where you make your own cup, is another 500 yen.
CornHOST
The man invented instant ramen in a shed, and now there's a four-floor museum.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
The foreigner had already obtained a foothold on the sacred shores of the empire.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
He lived at Yokohama, built houses, carried on trade, and if any too sordid man were, in an excess of patriotism, to chop off his head, instead of being protected and advanced in favor, he was tried for murder.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
The foreigners were asking for more open ports.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
Fresh treaties were talked of, and nothing in the previous conduct of the Tycoon justified the hope that they would not be granted.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
Japan should be saved in spite of him.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
In this dilemma, young Inoye came forward with his plan.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
He had often been down to Yokohama, watching with glowing eyes the evidences of the strength, activity and, he was bound to admit, the intelligence of the detested foreigner.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
He had even scraped a personal acquaintance with some of them, amongst others a Mr. Gowen, then consul at Yokohama.
AlistairNARRATOR
True to his word, he came back in 1854 with ten ships, and obtained a treaty allowing American ships to anchor in two Japanese ports, and obtain provisions, and promising hospitable treatment of shipwrecked sailors.
AlistairNARRATOR
Immediately afterward, the United States sent as consul general to Japan, Townsend Harris, a man of such independence that he refused to crawl on his hands and knees, as had been the custom, before the Japanese ruler, and of such ability that he soon negotiated treaties granting Americans many new privileges and opening Nagasaki and Yokohama to American trade.
AlistairNARRATOR
Other nations followed suit.
AlistairNARRATOR
In Japan, as in China, treaty ports were opened, the customs duties were fixed by treaty, and extraterritorial jurisdiction conferred on foreign consuls.
1 HR 43 MINS LATER
AlistairNARRATOR
Subsection, The Consortium.
AlistairNARRATOR
This policy of internationalized financial imperialism was strengthened after the Chinese Revolution of 1911 when Yuan Shikai sought a reorganization loan of $125 million.
AlistairNARRATOR
Russia, the Russo-Asiatic Bank, and Japan, the Yokohama Specie Bank, were now admitted to the combination.
AlistairNARRATOR
An agreement signed on June 12th, 1912, by the British, French, German, American, Russian, and Japanese bankers representing syndicates of powerful financial houses in their respective countries established what has been known as the Six-Power Consortium of 1912.
Brandon TewHOST
And sloppy baseball, to say the least, would be how I would classify one of those games that I was scoring.
Brandon TewHOST
But yeah, we'll see what Yokohama does.
Brandon TewHOST
I will say this feels like they have like three starters, two and a half.
Brandon TewHOST
But, hey, they keep finding ways to win games.
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Yuri KarasawaHOST
I think that's going to be such a demoralizing way to end the season that they're not going to have what it takes to get to the Japan
Brandon TewHOST
Series.
Brandon TewHOST
We talk about Yokohama.
Brandon TewHOST
In your opinion, starter for starter, like, let's say they face Ymir or Hanshin.
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