Listener Mail
* Jordan Cassady: Historicast
* Jesse: Thanks for the podcast
* JAPUNDIT: Going to Japan?

Japan News Roundup
* U.S. military to press charges against Okinawa Marine
* Gas tax to return
* Miso paste made to Bach
* Greenpeace to target tuna fishers
* JASRAC raided by Japanese FTC

* Most Japanese against lowering age of adulthood
* Woman throws dead mother into trash heap
* Man sues company for "power harassment"
* Man arrested for 8,000 phone calls to ex-girlfriend
* Company president arrested for stripping on train
* The latest suicide fad in Japan

Music
All from the Podsafe Music Network
* Love Dog by Chris Juergensen
* Long Time Wondering by Chris Juergensen
* Some Sympathy by Chris Juergensen

Links of Interest
* Chris Juergenson
* Sendai
* Ayumi Hamasaki
* Hikaru Utada
* Joey Carbone
* Akiko Wada
* SMAP
* Koyanagi Yuki
* Lindberg
* Historicast
* Going to Japan? Read this!
* JASRAC

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

Listener Mail
* Josh Keller: Fukudome playing for the Cubs
* Geoff Robbins: Interested in visiting Japan
* Gino Rodrigo: Traveling to Japan for the first time

Japan News Roundup
* Nagano to increase Olympic torch security
* Temple thinking of dropping out of Olympic festivities
* RR companies see no need for men-only cars
* Dairy products increase prostate cancer risk
* Glaucoma sufferers in Japan continue to drive
* Rules set for citizen-judges

* Overseas firms best for women in Japan
* Top J-court rules public videos, garbage admissible
* MJ seed possession legal in Japan
* JAL pleads guilty to price fixing in the U.S.
* Toho sues Subway over for Godzilla
* Police advertise to find owner of illegal gun
* Illegal firearm rewards to be offered by J-cops
* Self-service gas stations targeted by thieves
* Trucker offers to fix sabotaged cars for sex
* 3 teen girls arrested for assaulting policemen
* Sexual harassment hotline for women started in Japan
* Infant dies in car as mom plays pachinko

Music
All from the Podsafe Music Network
* The Spirit by Chris Juergensen
* Drifting by Karmyn Tyler
* Round The Bend by Adrina Thorpe

Links of Interest
* Gino Rodrigo
* Kosuke Fukudome
* Nikko

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

Listener Mail
* Eric Gauvin: This is a spider roll
* David Appleyard: The high price of disposing of garbage in Japan
* Kyle: Why are there sub-windows during Japanese TV shows?
* Daneeta Loretta Saft: Thanks from Tokyo Cowboys
* Joe: Joe In Japan is now in Japan
* Mark Robinson: Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook

Japan News Roundup
* The continuing saga of Japan's road taxes
* Giants' Uehara qualifies for free agency
* U.S. companies most female-friendly in Japan
* New law requires backseat seatbelt use
* 10 million yen found in discarded pot

* Japan corporate confidence at lowest level in 4 years
* Toyota accused of using gov't money to develop Prius
* Platform barriers to go up on Tokyo's Yamanote Line
* Lindsay Hawker's killer hiding in Ikebukuro?
* Sony BMG accused of software piracy
* Court say Japanese military forced Okinawa suicides
* Doctor pays phony patients to scam insurance system

Music
All from the Podsafe Music Network
* Wake Up by Timothy Harada
* Song Of Triumph by Timothy Harada
* Good Bye by Timothy Harada

Links of Interest
* Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook
* Utsunomiya
* Tokyo Cowboys
* Kairoworld
* Joe In Japan
* Lindsay Hawker story

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com