{"podcast":{"title":"In-depth News Features | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News","slug":"in-depth-news-features-nhk-world-japan-news-6248665","podcast_index_feed_id":6248665,"rss_url":"https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/data/en/news/backstory/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/","image_url":"https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/common/podcast_images/english_features_1500x1500.png","author":"NHK WORLD-JAPAN","episode_count":233,"summary":"Feature stories with video and in-depth analysis on the latest news from Japan, Asia and beyond, produced by Japanese public media.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T22:18:54.674897+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-depth-news-features-nhk-world-japan-news-6248665"},"episode":{"title":"Goodbye, NYC MetroCard","slug":"goodbye-nyc-metrocard","published_at":"2025-12-23T09:30:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-depth-news-features-nhk-world-japan-news-6248665/goodbye-nyc-metrocard","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-depth-news-features-nhk-world-japan-news-6248665","url":"https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/4468/","audio_url":"https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/upld/medias/en/news/backstory/articles-4468-9192-202512231829.mp3","summary":"New Yorkers are preparing to bid farewell to a familiar companion: the MetroCard. Sales of the ubiquitous farecard are set to end by late 2025. For more than three decades, the card could be found in almost every wallet or pocket, swiped daily by the millions who navigated the city's subway. Few of them knew that a Japanese designer's work quietly shaped the way generations of riders moved through the city.","meta_description":"New Yorkers are preparing to bid farewell to a familiar companion: the MetroCard. Sales of the ubiquitous farecard are set to end by late 2025. For more t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":383,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/in-depth-news-features-nhk-world-japan-news-6248665/episodes/goodbye-nyc-metrocard/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-depth-news-features-nhk-world-japan-news-6248665/goodbye-nyc-metrocard.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}