Welcome to Podcast Club Tokyo! This is a community for Podcast lovers. It’s like a book club — but for podcasts! Each month, we pick one inspiring episode to listen to, then come together to share ideas, perspectives, and good conversation. It’s a fun way to discover new viewpoints and connect with curious people.
The episode for this month is "The Lady Vanishes" by Revisionist History
If you haven’t listened to the episode, it’s available here for free.
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-lady-vanishes
In the late 19th century, a painting titled "The Roll Call" by a virtually unknown artist took England by storm. But after that brilliant first effort, the artist all but disappeared. Why?
The story asks us to reflect on what it means to be the first to enter a closed world, and why some good deeds inspire more good deeds—while others do not. Social psychologists call this effect moral licensing: when you open the door to one outsider, it can paradoxically give you a sense of permission to close the door to others. Once you see it, you can find it everywhere in our daily lives.
The aim is not to find the right answers, conclusions, or win the argument, but to discover different points of view and get to know people to enrich your life 🙂
Event Details
-There will be a summary of the episode to refresh our memory.
- Depends on the number of people attending, split into 2 to 3 groups, then exchange thoughts and ideas within and across the groups.
Event Fee
The event is free, but we kindly request that everyone order at least one item from the Communita Café menu at Impact Hub Tokyo. In this way, you support opening this community to everyone free of charge.
Event Venue
Impact HUB Tokyo is part of the Impact HUB Global network, a global community of entrepreneurs seeking to create social impact. Since opening in 2013, they have provided a community co-working space for a diverse range of entrepreneurship, working styles, industries and cultures, bringing together many entrepreneurs and start-ups, freelancers, artists, intrapreneurs and NPO leaders from Japan and abroad, and continues to foster collaboration between its members. From 2022, it became an incubation center accredited by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and offers entrepreneurial support. In 2023, it launched a café, “Communita Cafe”, which is not only open to the community but allows locals, neighbors, entrepreneurs and freelancers to come together.
