* Steaming in Japan

* Weather makes sales of some items heat up

* Featured artist of the week: Fatblueman

* Thanks to Gimmeabreakman

* Correction to hot dog contest story

* Squat toilet update - It's a crock!

* Japan greets terrorist with open arms

* Musashimaru on the state of sumo

* J-deflation a structural problem

* Toyota to cut domestic production 20 percent as hybrid subsidies end

* Foreign criminals expanding into Japan

* PM wife’s book criticizes hubby

* Hangman game insensitive?

* Japan – Average well-being  

Music : Fatblueman

* Incomplete

* Just Don’t Forget About That

* My Song 6  

Links of Interest

* Korean Airlines Flight 858

* Kim Hyon-hui

* Musashimaru

* Fatblueman Website

* Download Fatblueman music

* The Hannah Minx Song (Video)

* The Maggiebon Song (Video)

* Maggie Sensei

* Gimmeabreakman

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Rainy season officially over in Kanto

* Heavy rains in Japan over the past few days

* Japan coverage of the British Open

* Shuzo Matsuoka

* Moorpark Oasis CD giveaway winners

* Thanks to those who suggested JAPUNDIT hosts

* IMF warns Japan of sputtering economy

* IMF wants Japan to raise consumption tax to 15%

* Manchester shopping center installs 'squat loos' for Asians

* Tokyo world’s most expensive city, China catching up

* Man trying to rob police station arrested

* Japanese iPhone app lets you remove girl’s make-up

* Michael Jackson memorabilia stolen from Kyoto department store

* Soy sauce 'could reduce symptoms of the menopause'

* Motorcycle gangs smaller, but more numerous

* Asian homestay students more likely to misbehave  

Music

* Hello California, Salme Dahlstrom

* Never Marry a Peterson, Todd Chappelle (Music Alley)

* Hard Lovin Mama, Katie Webster (Music Alley)

Links of Interest

* Salme Dahlstrom's Website

* Random number generator

* Suppin video

* Another suppin video

* Bosozoku in action

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Podcast feed finally back to normal

* Thank you Libsyn

* JAPUNDIT looking for a new host. Any suggestions?

* Featured artist of the week: David Silva (Moorpark Oasis)

* Moorpark Oasis CD giveaway

* Check out Japanese Flash, a great app for learning Japanese

* Young Japan losing its motivation

* Woman arrested for assaulting boy on bus with umbrella

* Burger King introduces “musical shower” at new Tokyo shop

* Chinese investment pouring into Japan

* Japan railway staff being trained in martial arts

* J-Gov’t to excavate WWII human experiment site

* Japan's speed-eating king arrested at New York contest

* Number of registered foreigners in Japan marks 1st fall since 1961

* Slave labor interns die after 16 hour days

* Ichihashi pleads not guilty to murdering Lindsay Ann Hawker

* Man arrested for damaging church property

Featured Artist of the Week: David Silva

* Guitars and Shady Ladies

* September Bride

* Life Is Good

All songs come from the CD Moorpark Oasis  

Links of Interest

* David Silva's Website

* Japanese Flash

* Unit 731

* Murder of Lindsay Ann Hawker

* Kobayashi speed eatin arrest video

* Planet Japan

* Ed's Mixed Bag

* September Bride video

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* No time to do a proper podcast

* Find out why

Listen to the music of David Silva's new CD Moorpark Oasis

* Hal's Train Song

* Seafood At The Holiday Inn

* Coffee Shop

* Traveling  

Links of Interest

* David Silva website

* Moorpark Oasis

* Moorpark Oasis on CD Baby

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Big sports week in Japan - Part 2

* Ryo Ishikawa comes up short in U.S. Open at Pebble Beach

* LPGA golfer Ai Miazato wins fourth time this year, becomes world #1

* Japan nationals make it to final 16 at World Cup

* Japan goes crazy!

* National team coach and players vindicated

* Can they reach the final four???

* GOOGLE Japan’s most popular prospective employer

* Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder added to Interpol wanted list

* Michael Jackson sleepover in Tokyo

* Japanese told to go to bed an hour early to cut carbon emissions

* Battle of smartphones heating up in Japan

* Wendy’s hamburgers set to come back to Japan

* Wig maker to expand high-priced outlets for women as J-population ages

* Divorce ceremonies on the rise in Japan

* Top department store to start trading in secondhand brand goods

* U.S. researchers link white rice to diabetes risk  

Music (Podsafe Music Network)

* Geisha Wa Odoru, from RoboGeisha

* Surechigau Omoi, from RoboGeisha

* Garlic, by David Silva

RoboGeisha cuts courtesy of Japan Files.

Garlic courtesy of Music Alley.  

Links of Interest

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Big sports week in Japan

* Japan national soccer team picking it up at the World Cup

* Ryo Ishikawa tied for second in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach

* Narita to test “invasive” body scanners

* Woman suspected of being a serial baby leg breaker

* Rail company opens 'beer hall streetcar'

* Toshiba and Fujitsu to merge cell businesses

* Man tosses 3-year-old out of condo window

* Police nab I-am-a-turtle turtle

* Top J-court says baseball teams own players' images

* Antiseptic kills 7,000 fish at city aquarium

* Designer tatami

* Lawson to offer freshly cooked food  

Music (Podsafe Music Network)

* I Like It That Way

* The Women Gather

* Give Love

All by Sweet Honey In The Rock  

Links of Interest

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Speed episode this week

* Golf + World Cup = No time

* 64% of Japanese support Kan Cabinet

* Big time tax increases coming Japan’s way

* I am a turtle

* 118 million yen stolen from pickup truck

* JT to double smokeless tobacco production

* Police raid drug lab in attic of home

* Yakuza arrested for killing the wrong guy  

Music (Podsafe Music Network)

* Baja Taxi, by Brain Bucket

* Middle segment: Weaving Song by Akino  

Links of Interest

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Still busy with work, need some rest!

* Japan prime minster changes again

* Slow news week

* Peter Bethune: Case against me is all lies.

* 1000km on a single charge

* Prius tops May new car sales in Japan

* ‘The Cove’ screenings canceled after protests

* Mitsubishi to produce Japan’s first domestic passenger jet

* Couple arrested for locking boy in toilet for 11 days

* Man arrested for dumping photo albums, videos into river

* Japanese wins pizza contest -- in Italy

Music Courtesy of Music Alley

* Not On The Radio, by Geoff Smith

* Google, by Todd Chappelle

* Betty, by Lascivious Biddies  

Links of Interest

* The Cove

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Thanks for taking the time to write!

* Vitamin E may prevent skin disease eczema

* KHI seals Washington subway deal

* Inax develops 'golden' toilets for Shanghai Expo

* JVC to end Japan production of camcorders

* Court hits sex bias in burns suit

* Great Japan Beer Festival 2010

* Australia to take Japan to court over whaling

* Peter Bethune pleads guilty in Tokyo trial

* Sumo association punishes coaches over distribution of tournament seats to yakuza

* Narita airport to ban smoking in all restaurants

Music Courtesy of Garageband

* Japan, by In Blue River

* Japanese Airline Stewardess, by Los Paranoias

* In Between Your Suicides, by The Blast

Links of Interest

* Great Japan Beer Festival 2010

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Arizona, my defacto home state

* Immigration laws

* A novel concept

* Japan to require disposable lighters to have safety devices

* Reference guide of useful Japanese phrases

* French become first Japanese archery world champs

* H-2A rocket blasts off with Venus climate orbiter aboard

* Photographer indicted for nude photo shoot in cemetery

* Transvestite SDF warrant officer nabbed for indecent exposure

* Japanese man arrested for throwing millions of yen onto highway

* Tape on prints beating fingerprint checks at Japan airports

* New smokeless cigarettes stump lawmakers

Music Courtesy of Music Alley

* Mesa Arizona, by Jeffrey Foucault

* Driving My Toyota, by Todd Chappelle

* Only the Tequila Talking, by Lisa Bouchelle (featuring John Popper)

Links of Interest

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Apologies for missing last week

* On the mend

* “Ghost” set for a Japanese remake

* Japanese government blocks child porn ban

* Tokyo bookstore group to launch magazine titles for iPad in June

* Softbank suspends acceptance of iPad orders

* Japanese ordering iPads from U.S. ending up with empty boxes

* Man ordered to compensate neighbors for feeding stray cats

* $3,400 Gundam figure

* Man arrested for forging documents to marry ex-wife's daughter

Music

* Japanese Girlfriend, by Earwig

* Famous Song, by Ruby James

* Relish, by Little Thom  

Links of Interest

* Bandai Premium website

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Tim Hawkins

* Corrections

* New Japan video blogger list on JAPUNDIT

* New Japan learning resource list on JAPUNIDT

* Tokyo population goes over 13 million

* Tokyo Tsukiji fish market to limit visitor access

* U.K. national part to implement voluntary Japanese tourist tax

* Japan consortium plans robot moon walk within five years

* Full-page anti-Futenma base ad placed in the Washington Post

* Japan abolishes statute of limitations on murder

* Akasaka Prince to fall to wrecker’s ball

* Kewpie Mayonnaise making it big in the U.S.A.

* Just think about it, and it is done

* Ex-yakuza bigwig sentenced for Peko-chan doll thefts   

Music

* The Government Song, by Tim Hawkins

* Day of Reckoning, by Amy Martin

* Mad Cult, by The Volume Brothers

Links of Interest

* Tim Hawkins website

* Tim Hawkins on YouTube

* The Volume Brothers on MySpace

* Amy Martin website

* Gimmeabreakman

* Hikosaemon

* Peko-chan

* Kewpie Mayonnaise

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* The Blast

* Apple Captures 72% of Japan Smartphone Market in 2009

* Whaling commission proposes limited commercial hunts

* Japan to open first overseas military base

* Shintaro Ishihara’s mouth gets him into trouble.... Again.

* Man wins strange lawsuit over cell phone burn injury

* Black-Asian violence not about race!?!

* Taxation, immigration changes coming to lure foreign firms to Japan

* Fewer smoking, but lung cancer still on rise

* Ugly Veggie

* Court says firing of ex-sumo wrestlers over marijuana was warranted   

Music

* She's Gonna Find Out, by The Blast

* Sing The Melody, by Melody Chubak

* Give My Love, by The Blast

All courtesy of Garageband.  

Links of Interest

* The Blast website

* Melody Chubak website

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Heavy snow on the Kanto Plain

* Japundit takeover update - no real news

* Private detective agency helps clients track down old flames

* J-population shrank by record 183,000 in '09

* Woman sues Prada Japan for firing her after she reported inappropriate remarks

* Woman becomes trapped in washing machine

* Gundam Café opens in Akihabara

* Kenzero: New Japanese malware automates blackmail

* Yokota Air Base bands “The Cove”

* College students arrested for staging rescue to woo girl   

Music

* Tracheotomy, Little Thom

* Happy Birthday, Craymo

* Birmingham, by Beth Thornley

All courtesy of Music Alley.

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Baritone sax?

* Golf with Mr. Pink gives me a pain

* Tiger/Nike parody videos

* Japundit takeover news

* Japan Talk news

* Nikkei restricts links to website

* Man takes flight attendant hostage at Narita airport during deportation

* Record sales at McDonald’s Japan

* Man arrested over woman's 7 million yen bill for host club visit

* 'Stand Up, Japan' - Japan's newest political party

* Top court rules Net providers must release info on users who post defamatory comments

* Another campaign announced against subway molesters

* Right-wingers vow to block 'The Cove' in Japan

* Tokyo to trial electric 'filling stations' to boost green transport * Tsukiji to shut out sightseers for one month 

Music by Beth Thornley

* Wash U Clean

* Still Can't Hide

* Mr. Lovely

All courtesy of Music Alley.

Links of Interest

* South Park, Dolphins and Whales

* Nike/Tiger Woods Parodies

* Beth Thornley website

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com