CLICK TO PLAY* Back after a week off – What happened?
* Correction: Kokushokusumire
* Japan Talk website (japantalk.org) down
* New Japan Talk website coming sometime soon
* Japan’s disappearing elderly
* Yamaguchi records shows 186-year-old man living
* Osaka records show 228 120-year-olds
* Man keeps mother’s remains in knapsack
* Breakthrough in breeding bluefin tuna
* Japan announces world’s first solar-powered public bus
* Panel: Japan should relax restrictions on arms exports
* California law will demand WWII info from railway bidders
* Leaked info: Mobile site self-regulation of child prostitution controls not working
* Prius to be equipped with humming device to warn pedestrians
* Woman ordered to pay damages over futon beating noise
* Prada strikes back
* Courts hitting bicyclists with high damages for accidents
* Toilet trouble grounds plane
* Japan baseball to use same balls for all teams
* Kyoto uses dummies to “heighten tension” at gov’t office
Music
* Beautiful Day, by Rika Shinohara (Podshower)
* Fred Astaire, by Emma Wallace (Music Alley)
* After You Get Rid Of Me, by Katie Webster (Music Alley)
Links of Interest
* Crapman
* Crapman busted!
* Miyoko Kawahara: Neighbor from hell
* VIDEO: Miyokyo Kawahara in action
* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
Contact: japantalker@gmail.com
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