* Too busy for a proper podcast

* All wacky Christmas music

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* The Christmas Season, by Sudden Death
* Drinking Up Christmas, by The Dwarves
* Christmas In Hawaii, by The Hot Rods
* Christmas Here On Mars, by Bubble

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Christmas Season is upon us
* Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story opens in Japan
* Year end in Japan

* Tokyo Governor Ishihara in hot water (again!)
* Japan government cracks down on bullying
* Classes where teachers befriend students more prone to bullying
* Cities act against parents refusing to pay for school meals

* English good for Asian mental health?
* Native language determines rhythm

* Motormouth Mino Monta makes Guiness
* One in three Japanese bloggers quit

* China. . . Where the fake becomes the original

* Hi-tech umbrella
* Edible squid postcards
* Beaujolais bath in Hakone
* Discovering your outer beauty

* 25% of borrowers who die in Japan commit suicide
* Elderly pressed into buying lucky seals
* Elderly couple find 3 million yen in own kitchen

* Bart is back! Talking about his cousin Vinney

Japundit Contributors:
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Kaishin in Casablanca, Alex Pappas in Ottawa and Tokyo, Mike Plugh in Akita, Bill Fish in Fukuoka, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Harvey in Yokohama, Peter Payne in Gunma, JP in Tokyo

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Man It's Christmas, by Jimmie Bratcher
* Christmas In Hawaii, by The Hot Rods

* Kyou wa Nandaka (Somehow), by Plastic Soul Band

Links of Interest
* Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
* The Raw Feed
* Edible dried squid post cards
* What Japan Thinks
* Let's Narrate

* Podsafe Music Network
* J-LIST
* Japundit

Plastic Soul Band Music available here:
* iTunes
* CD Baby
* Podsafe Music Network

Japanese Terms Used
* nen: year
* kai: meeting, party
* shin: new (That's why they it the shinkansen.)
* bo-nen-kai: year end party (forget the year party)
* shin-nen-kai: new year party

Contact: podcast@japundit.com