* Man, it's Christmas
* A busy week
* And busy holidays
* No Japan Talk until January 5, 2008

* Listener Feedback

* Farm Minister defends research whaling
* Science Minister says UFOs are fun
* Green tea cuts prostrate cancer risk
* Handle keeper

* Ministries say Japan can meet Kyoto targets
* Japan to ban incandescent lightbulbs
* Go to bed, save the Earth
* Teen wars over Internet posts
* Acquitted rapist sues for 126 million yen
* Police lock the barn after the horse is long gone
* Oceans 13 inspires teen crime spree
* Assigning mad cow blame
* Osaka tops in purse snatching for 32nd consecutive year
* Nanjing Massacre. . . Fact or fiction?

* See you next year (January 5)!

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Man, It's Christmas by Jimmy Bratcher
* Christmas Sweeter Than Wine by Heth and Jed
* Another Silent Night by Douglas Spotted Eagle

Links of Interest
* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Big freeze forecast for Kanto
* The perfect rotten end to a perfectly rotten week

* Listener Feedback

* (In?) Justice finally done
* Consumption tax set to rise
* Gibson develops self-tuning guitar
* Toyota develops violin-playing robot
* Ishihara's Franco flub suit dismissed

* Nagging works!
* Tokyo man stabbed by "Spiderman"
* Teacher loses job for skirt lifting
* 13-year-old tries to kill dad with bat
* Crime on the decline
* Shootings on the rise
* Most popular baby names in Japan
* Tired of playing the victim
* 71-year-old bus driver arrested for molesting primary schooler

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Christmas Here On Mars by Bubble
* Country Road ChristmasTime by Craig Cradiff
* Christmas in Malibu by The Rad Dudes

Links of Interest
* Ruisu

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Back after a two-week break

* Culture Shock: The Japan Discovery Challenge

* Japan to regulate the Internet
* Japan getting safer
* Woman casts pearls before bureaucratic swine
* 10 percent in Japan 75 years old or older
* Milk Seafood Cup Noodle
* Whale curry box lunches available in Tokyo
* Japan's dumbest business practices

* One man's buffalo chips are another man's treasure
* South Korea, Taiwan wanted nukes left in Okinawa
* Third time not a charm for unlucky robber
* Splish-splash
* Hospital dumps blind patient in a park
* Quasi-indecent assault
* Primary school teacher arrested for soliciting 13-year-old
* Gas bandits strike fire engines
* Firefighter arrested for arson
* Popular slapping cop indicted
* Inter-generational trouble on the train
* Kitty porn caper: Stranger than fiction

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* The Christmas Season by Sudden Death
* Another Silent Night by Douglas Spotted Eagle
* Christmas in Hawaii by The Hot Rods

Links of Interest
* Culture Shock: The Japan Discover Challenge
* Milk Seafood Cup Noodle
* What Japan Thinks

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* A day late

* Ivica Osim downed by major stroke
* Getting away with murder in Japan
* Japan court rejects confession
* OB-GYN shortage to get worse in Japan?

* Chinese toys safer than those of other countries?
* Crowd strips field of sunflowers
* Big Al would have been proud
* Tax Offices says celeb gaijin are skipping on tax
* Pair robs oldster of gold bars
* A woman's place
* 50% of Japan young subject to "dating violence"
* Police nab "Quick-Draw McGraw"

Music
Podshower
* Beautiful Day by Rika Shinohara
Podsafe Music Network
* Lady Pearl by Madi Sato
MF247
* Proceed (Sleeper Mix) by Hiroshi Takasugi

Links of Interest
* Another tradition fading, Japan Times
* LA Times report on murder in Japan
* Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Featured artist of the week: Rika Shinohara

* Nova failure causes 40% drop in English industry sales
* The yellow fever myth
* Machine judges age
* Space curry
* U.S. pressured Abe to change sex slave stance

* Lottery leavings
* Japan to lower age of majority
* Organization cannot determine who is in charge
* Needle terrorism
* Firefighter drove engines, ambulances without license
* National health insurance uncoverage
* Thieves steal guardrail
* Senior cop arrested for shoplifting

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Headphone
* Bura Bura
* Morning Glory
All by Rika Shinohara

Links of Interest
* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Ninniku Monogatari

* Listener Feedback

* All in the Family Mart
* Blackwater in Japan
* The taxman cometh
* Lost leg located in Tokyo
* Signs with a message that smells

* KittyCon 2008
* Foreigners fight funny food
* 3-million studying Japanese
* KFC chickens out of Japan
* Brain interface for Second Life
* Diabetes rates higher in rural Japan
* Easy pickings in Japan
* The Suicide Club
* Tokyo teachers stiff schools for food fees
* New online dating site law eyed
* Anti-groping cellphone solution
* DENTSU U.S.A. employee sues randy prez

Music
MF247
* Seishun Maggie by The Alan Smithy Band
* For You (Arrive Dream Mix) by Hiroshi Takasugi/
Podsafe Music Network
* Breakin' Out by Shemekia Copeland

Links of Interest
* Ninniku Monogatari
* Alex Kerr
* Dogs and Demons
* KittyCon 2008

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Quiet week in Japan
* Probably no podcast next week (10/27)

* Japan to remain ugly?
* Japanese sleep habits
* Will higher fines stop gangsters from using guns?
* Nintendo is not playing games
* What Japanese people wish their spouses would stop doing

* Foreign teachers at NOVA strike
* JAL to offer premium economy class
* Taxi fares to rise in Tokyo
* Digital New Years cards
* Miss Universe, Riyo Mori, caves to PETA pressure
* Lynching in the name of The Almighty
* Teacher resigns over ribald golf ball gaffe

Music
MF247
* Boarder No Border by EEE
* Starmain by Seseragi 25
* La, La, La by Yoshimi Matsuoka

Links of Interest
* What Japan Thinks

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* All non-Japanese music from garageband.com
* Some equipment trouble, sorry for the static!
* A busy week makes for a bit of a hurried podcast

* Kameda fight

* More on foreign crime in Japan (Zichi Lorentz)
* Cherry blossoms blooming in Tochigi (Melissa Pitsch)

* Hospital closes because of doctor shortage
* Hospitals ask government for relief from drunks
* Foreigners fingered
* Crackdown on foreigners to cause problems

* Government bureau of Wikipedia
* Pitter-patter parent to pay
* Freaks bearing gifts
* Panty perv pinched
* Superstar pedophile
* Lonely man throws bleach on women

Music
Garageband
* Hello California by Salme Dahlstrom
* Raven's Wings by Amy Martin
* Blue Bird Tattoo by Circe Link

Links of Interest
* Zichi Lorenz foreign crime statistics

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Very comfortable in beautiful Tochigi Prefecture
* Listener feedback

* Carbon offsets company starts in Tokyo
* Man tries to rob store in front of police box
* Couple robbed as man proposes in New York
* Normal weather forecasted for winter
* Murder in the sumo stable

* WANTED. . . Still
* Whale meat. . . The healthy choice?
* $50-dollar-a-bottle milk
* The reluctant executioner
* Foreign woman and new born rejected by 7 hospitals
* Woman suffers miscarriage after rejection by dozens of hospitals
* 2,780 cases of multiple rejections over two years

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Take You To Japan, by Davis Coen
* Lady Pearl, by Madi Sato
* Japanese People, by Argyle Pimps

Links of Interest
* Foreign crime in Japan
* Lindsay Anne Hawker website

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Featured artist: K. Juno

* Quiet news week in Japan
* Yasuo Fukuda expected to become next Japan PM
* Japan's Politics: A Family Affair

* Listener feedback

* Pushbutton translation soon to come?
* Suspect's confession rejected by Kyoto court
* Cell phone sales tactics criticized by government
* Cell phone sales tactics defended by industry

* Bloody hell
* "Caucasian man" sprays tear gas on train
* U.S. court rejects suit against carmakers
* Bug spray problem? Or common sense problem?
* Carmaker develops battery that charges in 8 minutes
* Student should get an A for thinking outside the box

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Senshi
* Lorelei
* Unmei (Fate), all by K. Juno

Links of Interest
* Time Magazine: Japan's Politics: A Family Affair

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Another work-shortened show

* Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigns
* Taro Aso and Yasuo Fukuda front runners

* Listener feedback

* 23 hospitals turn away pregnant woman
* Hospital loses surgical equipment inside of patients
* Visiting the doctor in Japan
* Long ago in Japan
* Japanese ministries "make" history
* Earthquake early warning
* In China - democracy is a dirty word
* Homegrown terrorism comes to Tokyo
* More funny money "donated"
* English - the language of dogs?
* Drive-by slasher nabbed

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Japanese Girlfriend by Earwig
MF247
* Sayonara by Chiemi Jones

Links of Interest
* Big Dreams Little Tokyo
* Dogma Free America

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Short and sweet this week

* Big Dreams Little Tokyo

* Feedback on music, guests, etc.

* Feedback on Japanese TV

* Productivity (Josh Keller)
* Good news for Japan's hay fever suffers?
* Japan's sick hospitals
* Con artist heaven
* Be an English teacher in Pyongyang
* Dead man indicted
* Teen abductee kills abductor
* More pennies from heaven
* Cop arrested for slapping teen. Public responds

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* She's Gonna Find Out by The Blast
* Hiccups by Riyu Konaka

Links of Interest
* Big Dreams Little Tokyo

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Brutal summer heat finally broken

* Mini cars really not that safe
* Listener feedback about music and interviews

* High-tech homeless
* My first trip to an Internet cafe
* Wheat products prices to rise
* Soy sauce for ice cream
* Interrogations to be taped in Japan
* Camcorder recorder outlawed in Japan
* Fan fire death

* Hachioji to install 1,000 spy cameras
* Department store doldrums
* Whale watching turns into whaling watching
* Station employees out shopping, commuters miss train
* Chimp beans girl
* Prison going to pot
* Thinking hard about charity

Music
MF247
* Violets Be Graceful Forever by Kokushokusumire
* To Above by Yoshimi Matsuoka
* Honey My Heart by Oto

Links of Interest
* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Rainy and cool
* Correction to Episode 77
* JAPAN TIMES embraces bloggers. . . At last!
* Travelers to Inchon International (Korea) beware

* Plummeting stocks, soaring yen
* Land prices in Japan at Bubble Era highs
* American ball player suspended for banned substance
* No respect for Miss Universe in Indonesia
* Leg? What leg?
* Housewives hula for heath
* Cash to burn to reduce emissions
* Sanae Takaichi's bulky government portfolio
* Passenger liner cruises booming in Japan
* The army that could not shoot
* Japan to develop stealth fighter? Can it shoot?

* Natural environment harmony costs lives in China
* Korea confiscating land of WWII collaborators
* Extreme ironing on Mt. Fuji
* Extreme radio exercising in Fukuoka
* 1 in 3 of cars in Japan are minis
* Japan food self-sufficiency at all-time low
* Government cuts subsidies for naked news for the hearing impaired
* Asia most popular among long-term overseas residents from Japan
* 1,500 counts of phone harassment
* Talking Honey Doll

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* My Old Pickup Truck Never Lets Me Down by Doc Bates
* Hana Oriental Beauty by Object Lab
* The Ballad of Barry Allen by Jims Big Ego

Links of Interest
* The Marmot's Hole

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* "Officially" summer now
* O-bon holidays in Japan
* Matt Cohen: Tochigi and Indiana
* Poetry Kanto
* Korean Arts

* 70% of Japanese people happy the LDP is out
* Abe's sensibilities gone to the dogs?
* Wii to blame for poor Japanese TV ratings?
* Lack of transparency in Japan's government
* Kome Kome Club new release
* Worms for food?
* Titanium tiles for temples
* Bureaucrats strike out against the Cubs
* Billy Blanks takes it to bank

* Raising the quality of the Chinese people
* World's first hybrid train running in Japan
* Magnesium the fuel of the future?
* Toilet water piped to taps in Hiroshima U since 1993
* Municipal applicants lie on resumes. . . Understating their qualifications!
* Bubbly kakigori
* Social Insurance Agency workers steal 130 million yen
* Light sticks should not be treated lightly
* Shotgun wedding for Yu Darvish and actress

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* It's Summertime, by The Loving Its
MF247
* Miracle Fruits, by Ryeka & Yuu
* Oshaberi, by Shingo Starr

Links of Interest
* Poetry Kanto
* Korean Arts

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Hot in Tochigi
* Japan election result rundown

* Maximizing exercise benefits by resting correctly
* Coffee, vitamin B6 ward off intestinal cancer
* Strange soft drink flavors
* Tokyo Taxi Association to ban smoking
* Ginza most expensive locale in Japan
* 10 million yen left in oldster's mailbox
* More money found in random mailboxes in apartment complex
* Money falls from the sky in Tokyo. . . Again!
* Windfalls make recipients uneasy
* Attention J-Movie fans!

* Man murdered by computer
* Prius base sticker price to be slashed
* Schoolgirl arrested for Internet scam
* Ben Hills' Masako to be published in Japanese
* Prisoner re-arrested for threats
* Foreign press hit for sensationalizing nuke reactor leak
* A case of mistaken identity
* On hotel guests, fish, and kimchi
* Man throws vodka on barbecue, two suffer burn injuries
* Message in a condom

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Headphone, by Rika Shinohara
MF247
* Tesage wo Kururi, by Eydacos
* Pea....ce, by OtO

Links of Interest
* Slash & Burn
* Ben Hills
* Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
* MF247

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Pretty long show today
* Featured artist: Mako Minimiya

 

* Report on Niigata earthquake
* Problems at world's largest nuclear power plant
* What will happen when the big one hits Tokyo?

* Abe backtracks on tax rate rise before election
* Farm Minister Akagi appears with face bandaged
* Farm Minister Akagi caught in new funding scandal
* Abe refuses to visit Kochi Prefecture during campaign
* Abe and Ozawa disliked equally by Japan's voters
* Ruling coalition election prospects looking dim
* Cash trash
* Harry Potter mania delayed in Japan
* U.S. growers promoting U.S. rice in Japan

* NORK concerned about human rights in Japan
* NORKs warn Japan about abduction issue
* Kim Jong-il ill?
* Made In China - A label to mistrust
* China warns U.S. against smears
* More bun fun from China
* Japan's shrinking TV audience
* Hotline receives 60,000 net complaints
* Man uses government land to grow marijuana
* Court reduces rape sentence because woman was drunk

Music
MF247
* Kokoro Ga Kawaru Sono Mae Nii (Parted), by Mako Minamiya
* Minna No Nayami (Everyone’s Worry), by Mako Minamiya
* Hyacinth, by Mako Minamiya

Links of Interest
* Mako Minamiya
* MF247
* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Meet The Bawdies
* Typhoon on the way

* New Battle of Okinawa
* Police warn man for throwing away money
* Benefactor leave money laying around government facilities
* Scandal, lost pensions, tax raises and an upcoming election
* Reverse culture shock
* New from McDonald's Japan
* Japan's high-tech toilets to go airborne
* 96% of Japanese HS students use cellphones... Surprised?

* Chinese bun vendors use cardboard in place of meat
* Mos Burger in Thailand
* Man commits suicide by decapitating himself
* Banker arrested for raping job seekers
* Getting while the getting is good
* Man attacks self to avoid work
* Rubick Cube sex

Music
MF247
* I Beg You, by The Bawdies
* Little Girl, by The Bawdies

Links of Interest
* Fuji Rock Festival
* The Bawdies
* I Beg You Video (QuickTime: Broadband/Narrowband)
* I Beg You Video (Windows Media: Broadband/Narrowband)
* SEEZ Records

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Thanks for all the mail and suggestions
* Ello Bello at Rising Sun of Nihon

* Daily Yomiuri Editorial: Kyuma was right
* Yuriko "Cool Biz" Koike takes over as Japan Defense Chief
* Koike calls WWII A-bombing "unacceptable from a humanitarian viewpoint"
* Yuko Tojo to run in next election
* Tojo calls for Japan resolution condemning U.S. of WWII A-bombings
* Tokyo defends whitewashing of Okinawan mass suicides in nation's textbooks
* Business cards printed on peanuts
* Food scandals plague Japan. . . Next up. . . Rice
* A week in Billy's Bootcamp

* The "flying dragons" of China
* Eye-popping girlfriend
* Japan's air traffic controllers to be tested for English
* No more bulldogs allowed on JAL planes
* Wired for sakura
* Gold bars found in trash
* 10,000-yen notes fall from the sky in Tokyo
* No more dead animals
* Man wins mochi lawsuit
* STDs plaguing Japan

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* My Home Boogie, by Tremolo 55
MF247
* Nanahobijin, by Kiki

Links of Interest
* What's Happening In Tokyo
* Rising Sun of Nihon * Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* A beautiful day at the Japundit Media Complex
* New format, shorter shows

* Japan Defense Chief: WWI A-bombings unavoidable
* Panel: Japan should defend U.S. against ICBMs
* Japanese women talk to their computers
* Sumo wrestlers ask for permission to drive
* Most Japan housewives have hesokuri
* Brazilians born to be bad?

* NORK: Thou shalt not communicate
* Men arrested for marketing aphrodisiacs for women
* Money in mailbox? Call the police!
* Woman "escapes" from Japan to North Korea
* Early earthquake warning for the home
* Man nabbed for begging woman to become her slave
* Okinawans against government rewrite of local history
* Man flashes Big Mac at McDonald's drive thru

Music
Podshower
* Beautiful Day, by Rika Shinohara
* Hiccups, by Riyu Konaka">Riyu Konaka

Links of Interest
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Happy to be back

* I stand corrected. . . Snow White is not Cinderella!
* BIG NEWS... Bare receives a compliment!

* Measles outbreak hits Japanese colleges
* Man carries measles from Japan to U.S.
* 40% of nursing care workers refuse work over low pay
* Top 10 Japanese surnames
* Police bust bike rider
* No copyright for "Ina Bauer"
* Foreign runners restricted on school teams
* 5 worst types of tourists by countries
* Tochigi told to pay for issuing gun license to murderer
* Nintendo DS goes to school in Japan
* Japanese women lowering standards
* 11 kids hospitalized for fright?
* Tokyo to restrict ambulance riding rights
* Conwomen pass off sleeping pills as Viagra

* Beijing eatery boasts 100% pure donkey meat
* Strip-tease lessons offered to housewives in Taiwan
* U.S. students think Nokia is Japanese company
* Man douses wife with gas, threatens to fire her
* Golden bathtub pinched from Japan hotel
* Government official robs money to pay for hair treatments
* New law will allow defendants to be questioned by victims
* Toyota vs. Porn Site
* Woman arrested for biting cop
* Man drives drunk to drunk driving trial
* Super-size portions hit Japan causing super-size problems
* Meat to surpass fish consumption soon in Japan
* Wheelchair-bound 90-year-old busted for molestation
* Teacher steals panties of ex-student

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* The Skies Are Falling Down, by K. Juno
* Lost In Tokyo, by Easyflow
* I Refuse To Be Your Hero, by Jesushairdo

Links of Interest
* Rising Sun Of Nihon

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* No Japan Talk next week (May 26)
* Back on June 2

* U.S. elections decided by coin toss
* Corn dog update
* The return of Bart!!!

* Crunchyroll for Japanese drama downloads
* Paul Stookey never replies to Japan Talk

* Haagen Dasz event in Harajuku
* Japan's favorite Haagen Dasz flavors
* Nearly half of Japanese women continue to smoke when pregnant
* 3-year-old boy dropped at baby hatch
* 2-million yen melons
* Talking trash in seven languages
* How many gaijin can fit in a sauna?
* Wired Fluffy
* Japan's Empress wishes to become invisible

* Policeman charged for living with illegal
* Red snapper snafu
* Japan named world's top innovator
* Korea hopes to change the name of the Sea of Japan
* Chinderella
* Women use 3-year-old to shoplift
* Cross-dresser molests woman on train
* Man tries to rob a bank with a fire extinguisher
* Man dumps urine on neighbor's home... 169 times!!
* Female customer attacked by restaurant employees

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Theme of EEE, by EEE
* Lady Pearl, by Madi Sato
* Japan, by Unsteady

Links of Interest
* Crunchyroll

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Beware of springtime flu!

* AUM splinter group breaks with cult
* AUM splinter group raided by police
* Gov't panel urges breastfeeding and lullabies
* Gov't nixes breastfeeding panel recommendations
* More flaming toilet seat news

* Japanese shoppers crave anonymity
* Japanese women blooming with vigor
* Constitutional right to call your boss an idiot
* Japan-Korea tunnel??

* Swing Shot tennis bot
* Japanese Tailhook?
* Crap vac
* Tojo to run for seat in upper house
* Dog saves master on mountain
* 3-minute golf bandits arrested
* Kyoto bans smoking on some streets

* Libyan attacks judge in court
* Crows are no bird-brains
* Kyushu truck driver goes on drunken rampage
* Toyota to go all hybrid?
* Man disposes of father's body in canal
* Sake powered cars
* Japan urges "correct understanding" over trade barriers
* Teen sues over PTSD suffered due to molestation by teacher

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Rock n Roll Can Rescue the World, by Electric Eel Shock
* Piano Per Jun, by K. C. Saito
* Always Low - With You I Am High, by Sumo Sisters

Links of Interest
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Golden Week winding down
* How living in Japan alters your English

* Hand-cranked cellphone charger
* Wagyu burger
* Spray on coolness
* Stress tests for dogs and cats
* Preteen models: Art or porn?

* Prosecutors appeal not-guilty Blackman verdict
* Kumamoto hospital starts baby drop service
* New system offers rewards for info to police
* Man makes 667 prank calls to the police
* More from the Comfort Congressman

* Magicians sue TV stations for revealing secrets
* Hangin' 'em high in Japan
* Hokkaido rescinds ban on Ainu ceremony
* Creating a more perfect Wa
* Officials red-faced over park slide caper
* Physician jailed for photographing nude patients
* Man fatally stabs woman in street to relieve stress

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Tokyo, by Supraluxe
* Dog Tagged, by Urban Clearway
MF247
* Make Inu (Defeated Dog), by Oto

Links of Interest
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Golden Week
* Dog? Sheep? Hoax!!
* Blackman verdict: Not Guilty!?!

* Tokyo taxi companies want fare hike
* Long-distance maglev trains coming to Japan
* Prius owner hack cars to increase mileage
* Election decided by drawing lots
* Two countries dealing with tragedy

* BBS owner charged for not deleting insulting message
* Men try to get residents to drink pipe cleaning agent
* Facemask fetish in Japan
* Man rapes woman aboard crowded train
* Bad bidets burn butts

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Japanese Girlfriend, by Earwig
* Take You To Japan, by Davis Coen
* Hanging Out with the White Boys, by Jesushairdo

Links of Interest
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Busy weekend makes for short show
* Uguisu - Japanese bush warbler
* Experiencing the best and the worst of Japan

* Japanese woman fined in Singapore for fake rape claim
* Call for surrogate volunteers gets doc into hot water
* U.S. court dismisses lawsuit over car accident in Japan
* The continuing story of Japan's 1898 Civil Law

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Tokyo Gyangstar, by Shinichi
* Do You Know, by K. Juno
* Keep On Moving, Comfortable Mix, by EEE

Links of Interest
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Let's Narrate
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Back after an unscheduled week off
* Japan talk mentioned on Ed's Mixed Bag
* Beyond Main Street - a variety and comedy vidcast about Disneyland
* GG Deluxe asks about Kenneth Eng
* Zichi Lorentz, English artist with a Japanese name
* Apple store comments and ratings

* Ishihara disses Kansai disaster response
* Tokyo population growing
* 40% of Tokyoites against 2016 Olympic bid
* Matsuzaka does not live up to hype in home opener
* Japanese ambulance services on the decline
* Japanese military secrets leaked during porn swap
* Is Japan safe for foreign women?

* Drinking breast mile reduces weight?
* Family lives for years with five bodies
* Women refuse to leave Japanese man's harem
* Fake fur bad for the skin?
* Man arrested for posting films of animal cruelty
* Fake marriages between homeless men and PI women
* Couple arrested for advertising their love life

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Big In Japan, by Super Gene
* Japan, by The National Pool
* Osaka Rap, by Alex Brooke

Links of Interest
* Ed's Mixed Bag
* Beyond Main Street
* Zichi Lorentz
* Rising Sun of Nihon
* Tochigi Prefecture

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Let's Narrate
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Last day of March! One quarter of the year gone
* Japan's antiquated divorce laws slated for update
* What "zoku" are you?
* Do Americans in Japan take Japanese names?
* Rate us and leave a comment on the iTunes store!

* Manga and anime - Japan's new ambassadors?
* Business group suggests plan to reorganize Japan
* Seaweed to be tapped as biofuel
* Blowfish sake
* Buddha machine
* Green tea possible AIDS treatment

* NHK no match for 2-channel
* Ai Kago fired from Hello! Project
* Rivers of money running through Japan
* Japanese-Chinese couples top international divorces in Shanghai
* Woman fined 100,000 for stealing toilet paper
* Are foreign women safe in Japan?

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Girls Do It Better, by Sumo Sisters
* Tokyo Skyline, by Impossible Songs
* Japanese People, by The Argyle Pimps

Links of Interest
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Ai Kago
* Tochigi Prefecture
* Rising Sun of Nihon

* Korean-Arts
* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Japan Foreign Minister says Japanese more trustworthy in the Middle East
* Japan land prices rise for the first time in 16 years
* U.S. sailors go Japanese while at sea
* Uncle Deadbeat
* Dr. NakaMats runs for Tokyo governor, vows to repel missile attacks
* Narita Airport pours alcohol down the drain
* Wine is fine in Japan's sex industry
* Japanese arrested for porn possession in Dubai

* The $170 noodle feast
* High School Licca
* NTT official calls for more expensive cell phones
* Japan invents tissue dispensing robot
* The case of the $20,000 carp
* Indecent exposure
* Cop nabbed for copping upskirt photos
* 81-year-old man arrested for paying 14-year-old for sex

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Sakura, by EEE
* Lorelei, by K. Juno
MF247
* Kingyo/Goldfish, by Snoop

Links of Interest
* Dr. NakaMatsu

* Korean-Arts
* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Japundit Contributors
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Tubbypaws in the U.K., Kaishin in Casablanca, Alex Pappas in Ottawa and Tokyo, Mike Plugh in Akita, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in Canada, Overoften in Kumamoto, Edward Chmura (JP) in Tokyo

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* It finally snowed in Tokyo!
* Film suggestions for Bryan Starchman

* Tokyo gubernatorial race update
* Morning Musume to have Chinese members
* Mumps outbreak linked to Japan?
* Churches in Nagasaki don't appreciate rude tourists
* Sharp recalls 500,000 washing machines
* Panel calls for more central government say so in education
* Bolts in the news

* Taiwan Nazi movement
* Patching up the great firewall of China
* Rat found in restaurant curry pot
* Driver who killed 4 gets 5 years
* Aichi Prefecture to break gang ties!?!

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Fighter in the Screen, by K. Juno
* Passengers, by Ruby James
Podshower
* Morning Glory, by Rika Shinohara

Links of Interest
* Suggested Japanese comedy films

* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Japundit Contributors
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Tubbypaws in the U.K., Kaishin in Casablanca, Alex Pappas in Ottawa and Tokyo, Mike Plugh in Akita, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in Canada, Overoften in Kumamoto, Edward Chmura (JP) in Tokyo

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Winter is hanging on
* Favorite gifts for White Day, March 14

* Japan empress falls ill
* Shinichi Mori in feud with songwriter
* Taking Japanese food seriously
* Asian Women's Fund to be disbanded
* Japan and Korea at war on the net
* Tokyoites sue government over WWII Tokyo air raid
* Changing face of crime in Japan
* Gaijin saves woman from burning building

* Government smoking curbs can threaten Chinese stability
* Wife of Chinese dissident to sue Yahoo
* North Koreans being abused in Japan?
* 300 orders received for 1 million yen brandy
* Lost in space
* Judge says man he sent to death row in '68 is innocent

Music
MF247
* Typhoon, by Hai Kara Boys
Podshower
* Niji-iro (Rainbow Colors), by Hiroki Oshiba
Podsafe Music Network
* GP, by EEE

Links of Interest
* White Day
* Enka
* Asian Women's Fund
* Wasabi

* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Japundit Contributors
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Tubbypaws in the U.K., Kaishin in Casablanca, Alex Pappas in Ottawa and Tokyo, Mike Plugh in Akita, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in Canada, Overoften in Kumamoto, Flaffer in St. Louis, Edward Chmura (JP) in Tokyo

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

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* Comfort women backtrack

* Court: Teachers must comply with orders to play anthem
* Court: Traditional mura-hachibu village ostracism illegal
* Tougher drunk driving laws in Japan
* Crime victim arrested for drunk driving

* Laws limit liquid carry-ons
* Japan ranks only 25th as travel destination
* Premium mimikaki ear picking
* Urine-based battery
* Lining up at the Cup Noodle trough
* Women arrested for cremating dog in park
* Murder or suicide?
* Teacher shares child porn to enjoy camaraderie
* Climax Series
* Turn offs for Japanese women

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Check Fuse, by Pizzi Puti
* Umi Wo Mi Ni Yukou, by Suiren
* River, by Madi Sato

Links of Interest
* WordPress bulletin
* The Marmot's Hole
* Kimi Ga Yo
* New Japanese limits on liquid carry ons
* Mimikaki
* Yamamoto Mimi Kaki Ten (Japanese)

* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Japundit Contributors
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Tubbypaws in the U.K., Kaishin in Casablanca, Alex Pappas in Ottawa and Tokyo, Mike Plugh in Akita, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in Canada, Overoften in Kumamoto, Flaffer in St. Louis, Edward Chmura (JP) in Tokyo

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Princess Masako controversy continues
* The Roadhouse - For the best blues you never heard

* Cell phone using woman falls onto subway tracks
* Itchyro - head lice infestation in Japan
* Comfort women discomfort
* Taking a byte out of crime
* Metal thieves striking everywhere in Japan
* Eye massager
* NORKS blast Japan crackdown of North Koreans
* Song For Megumi

* Hong Kongers going for pet piglets
* Foreign crime. . . In China
* Girl in China killed by tiger in photo shoot
* Man chops 1,100 trees to paraglide
* JAL pilot arrested for planting microphones
* Hanging requested for murder of suicide seekers!?!
* Pornography and political research

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Remember, by Black Lab
Podshower
* Kumo Ni Iko, by The Rocos
MF247
* Happy Life, by Snoop

Links of Interest
* The Roadhouse Podcast
* Comfort women
* Asian Women's Fund
* Great Kanto Earthquake Korean Massacre
* Japan Probe

* What's Happening In Tokyo (WHIT)
* iTunes Takeover Announcement [CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE]
* Bum Rush The Charts

* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Gaijin Hanzai Ura Fairu (Foreigner Underground Crime File)

* Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne

* Nagano Governor disses HIV sufferers. . . Or did he?
* Sign language swindler
* Anti-whalers imperialists?
* Hot springs blues
* Chocolate can make you thin?
* New Year predictions not worth a pig in a poke

* Naughty Boy Theme Park, Taiwan
* China to stamp out line jumpers
* 5-year old saves younger brother and sisters from fire
* Men's guide to riding the trains in Japan
* Blond hair and blue eyes need only apply

Music
MF247
* Eikyu Ni Uruwashiku, Sumire no Hana Yo (Violets, be graceful forever), by Kokushoku Sumire (Black Violets)
* Minna No Nayami (Everyone's Worry), by Mako Minamiya
* Sayonara La La La La, by Chiemi Jones

Links of Interest
* Foreigner Underground Crime File Statement
* Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne
* E.Webscapes

* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

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, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in Canada, Overoften in Kumamoto, Flaffer in St. Louis, Edward Chmura/JP in Tokyo

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Bubble era buffoons
* Man gets life for rape
* Gangland wars on in Tokyo
* Parents sue government over daughter's suicide
* U.S. lawmakers to press Japan about comfort women
* China agrees: It's the Sea of Japan
* Kim Jon-il awarded peace prize

* Hong Kong: Where fat is thin and thin is fat
* Thai woman returns home after 25 years
* Japan Adoring Husbands Association
* Hot springs hokum
* Cameron Diaz charges Softbank some hard cash

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, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in the U.S., Overoften in Kumamoto, Flaffer in St. Louis, and JP in Tokyo

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Loop, by The Plastic Soul Band
* Somehow, by The Plastic Soul Band
* Wonderful Life, by The Plastic Soul Band

Links of Interest
* Plastic Soul Band on CD Baby, Amazon Japan, Podsafe Music Network
* Bubble economy
* Comfort women
* Japan Adoring Husbands Association
* Natto
* The Marmot's Hole

* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Setsubun
* Mamemaki
* Family Mart deserving of boycott?

* Asashoryu denies fixing sumo bouts
* Hachiko, the faithful dog
* The marketing of a prime minister
* Man playing rugby at age 90
* Canon ordered to pay employee for discovery - both sides unhappy
* Michael Jackson: Fan appreciation, at a price

* Beer + Milk = Bilk
* Korean pair arrested for massive spam attacks
* Dirt eating girl
* Egg shell ads come to Japan
* JAL no longer to punish for human error
* Schoolyard spat turns into big trouble
* Shootings at record low in Japan
* Japan Male Virgin Club

* Japundit Party in April?

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, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in the U.S., Overoften in Kumamoto, Flaffer in St. Louis, and JP in Tokyo

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Not On The Radio, by Geoff Smith
* Lorelei, by K. Juno
* Do You Know, by K. Juno

Links of Interest
* Setsubun
* Family Mart
* Hachiko
* Shemya
* Sophia University
* Viidoo.com
* Browse At Work
* Wendy's Japan
* Anburger on Wendy's Japan Site (Found this after the podcast was finished.)

* Let's Narrate
* J-LIST
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* New Japundit sponsor: Fight file bloat with d'peg!

* Japan Talk News - Sumo Match Fixing Claims
* Japan must rewrite constitution
* Japanese government considering copyright law rewrite
* Japanese Nationalists to produce Nanjin movie
* Japan to host unofficial meeting of the IWC
* Coca Cola recall
* Japan to scrap moon mission?

* China bans pig references in the Year of the Pig
* Doggy pedometer
* Hello Kitty's new tunes
* New Toto Apricot toilet seat
* Man defrauds people in pachinko scam
* Third time's the charm for Miss Japan
* Japanese man nabbed for shooting "down under"

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, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in the U.S., Overoften in Kumamoto, Flaffer in St. Louis, and JP in Tokyo

Music
Podshower
* Beautiful Day, by Rika Shinohara

MF247
* Gospel Michi, by Soushi (Storybook)

Podsafe Music Network
* Hold On, by Tom Waits

Links of Interest
* d'peg from SomeWare
* Engadget
* Let's Narrate

* Rika Shinohara on CD baby

* J-LIST
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* All-female artist music episode
* Noodle King Update
* Natto shortage in Japan
* But is there?
* An-burger
* Calorie counting machine

* Murder Japanese Style - with a bowling ball
* Accused groper writes a book
* Frustrated train conductor vents with mischief
* Fair pay urged for Filipino nurses
* Skimpiest school skirts in Japan
* Kiss Meter
* Smell-o-phone
* If you're going to San Francisco

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, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Tokyoid in London, Iron Chef in Australia, Peter Payne in Gunma, Dr. Paul Nicholls in the U.S., Overoften in Kumamoto, Flaffer in St. Louis, and JP in Tokyo

Music
Garageband
* Hello California, by Salme Dahlstrom

Promonet
* Borderline, by Jody Watley

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MF247
* Right The Way, by Riy

Links of Interest
* Popgadget
* Let's Narrate
* natto
* anko

* J-LIST
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Crazy week last week at Japan Talk
* Japan Talk featured in Podcast User Magazine
* Japan Talk Birthday
* Japundut Birthday

* Low Adult Day (January 9) Turnout
* Sea of Japan? Sea of Peace?
* Obituary: Momofuku Ando - inventor of instant noodles
* Japan Web Cams
* Shinto nuptials attract Taiwanese
* CASIO calculators - 1 billion sold
* China: Teenage sex survey
* China: New syphilis epidemic
* North Korea: Monster bunnies
* Cambodia: seasonal rat boom
* Fujiya - bacteria filled food
* Japanese eager to perform sex on camera

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Dinner And TV, by The Loving Its
* Kuseni, by EEE (Triple E)

Garageband
* Blue Thunder Boogie, by Mark Scott LaMountain

Links of Interest
* Japanese Webcams at Globocam
* Podcast User Magazine
* Jindiecast
* Podsafe Music Network
* Japundit

Japanese Terms Used
* kuseni: and yet

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

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