JapanTalk

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Opening Monologue

• Salme Dahlstrom – great performer, great person
• 100% positive feedback about new format
• Thanks to Korea Black for the inspiration
• Hakata Yamagasa Festival – Video coming soon
• Qiranger – Great source for Korea info
• In The Annex segment discontinued

Weekly News

• Japanese prosecutors demand life for Ichihashi
• Lindsay Hawker’s mother testifies to level of grief
• Tainted beef served in Yokohama schools since April
• More looting reported in Japan disaster area
• Drinkers, phone users to help pay for recovery
• Tsunami-safe Fukushima plant site bluff chopped down to sea level during construction
• Potassium bromate in Yamazaki bread
• Super gonorrhea discovered in Japan
• It’s official: Tokyo bids to host 2020 Olympics

Music

• C’Mon Y’All (Klubjumpers Radio Mix) – by Salme Dahlstrom
• When the Year Grows Old – by Liz Queler and Seth Farber
• The Footie Song – by Lotzie Weaver

Links Of Interest

• Salme Dahlstrom on iTunes
• Salme Dahlstrom on Facebook
• Salme Dahlstrom on YouTube
• Korea Black YouTube Channel
• Potassium bromate
• JAPUNDIT
• Japan Talk on Facebook
• JAPUNDIT on Facebook
• Edward In Japan
• JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
• Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

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Opening Monologue

• New, more conversational format
• Welcome to Japanese listeners!
• Thomas Kohler – walking the length of Japan
• Korea Black – Film maker

• Residents in radiation hotspots anxious
• Disaster debris still a huge, smelly problem
• Radiation fears mount
• High level of radioactive cesium found in meat of Fukushima cow
• Local govts withhold OT pay
• Reconstruction minister quits for tough attitude
• Minister blames blood type for gaffes
• Ichihashi: Regrets rape, panicked when Hawker tried to flee
• Hawker’s father urges harshest punishment
• Debris from Japansteadily drifting toward California
• Kyushu Electric caught in lie
• China claims superior rail tech
• Snake found on Shinkansen
• No more raw beef liver in Tottori
• Rakuten to begin e-book service
• Smartphones Ward Off Pests
• Japan finds rare earths in Pacific seabed
• Tokyo may drop bid for ’20 Games

• Yahoo ordered to pay damages over handcuff photo
• Most raw-meat restaurants in Japan unsanitary
• IMF pushing Japan sales tax hike in 2012
• S. Korea to request cooperation in Japan murder case
• Ishihara eyes another Olympics bid, this time 2020
• Japan man arrested collecting schoolgirl saliva
• JR East to cut train services from June 24
• Gifu to cut power use with siestas

Middle Song
Main Street – by Phyllis Sinclair

• Radioactive sushi fear hits markets
• Search for missing intensifies again
• Money for the missing unclaimed
• Evacuees lose welfare benefits because of cash from TEPCO
• Japan to urge pregnant women to leave radiation hotspots
• Latest revisions confuse locals
• Fukushima’s emergency power failure traced to U.S. design

Ending Song
Just A Little Bit – by Kids of 88

Links Of Interest

• JAPUNDIT
• Japan Talk on Facebook
• JAPUNDIT on Facebook
• Edward In Japan
• JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
• Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

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Opening Music
Japan – by Blue River

Opening Monologue

• To tired for monologue….

• Japan woman lost in Himalayas survives on bamboo
• 10 most expensive cities in Asia
• 30% of firms wanting to get out of Tokyo
• Japanese man says “Marry me” to too many in PI
• Hello Kitty – Miffy tiff resolved
• Japan virtual dinner dates
• How to help quake-hit ‘cat island’
• Donate to “cat island” here
• Dozing train driver outed by passenger’s cellphone snap

Middle Song
Rosey Doll – by Project Van

• 1,700 kids living near N-plant
• Temporary housing left unused
• Radiation above standards found in Shizuoka tea
• Shizoka Pref. attempts to gag website over tea radiation
• J-towns easily addicted to N-plant hosting cash
• (Mutant?) earless rabbit

Ending Song
Do What The Man With The Gun Says – by Martin England

Links Of Interest

• Donate to “cat island” here
• JAPUNDIT
• Japan Talk on Facebook
• JAPUNDIT on Facebook
• Edward In Japan
• JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
• Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

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A New Peace Within – by Leona

Opening Monologue

• Bluegrass Japan Talk
• Leona Tokutake – Bluegrass fiddler from Japan
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here

• Kan survives no-confidence vote
• Vote targeted both Ozawa and Kan
• Cabinet rebels rethink positions after no-confidence loss
• Time for a coalition govt in Japan?!?
• Private DST programs in Japan
• Aussi beef to blame for Japan E. coli?
• Fugen eruption – 20 years later
• J-gov targets doubling of consumption tax by 2015
• Balloon Boy Parents Want to Auction ‘Flying Saucer’ for Japanese Relief



• Original Balloon Boy hoax
• Balloon Boy Auction

Middle Song
Life’s Inspiration – by Leona

• High levels of strontium detected at Fukushima
• Tea leaf shipments halted over radiation fears
• Ibaraki city schools ban Ibaraki food
• Regulations hindering recovery of Tohoku
• J-seniors ready to help in nuke cleanup
• Volunteering in Japan Part 1
• Volunteering in Japan Part 2

Ending Song
International Dateline – by Leona

Leona & The Johns Tour dates

• June 4 (SAT): Tochigi
• June 5 (SUN): Tokyo
• June 7 (TUE) Kochi (883-4579)
• June 8 (WED) Tokyo
• June 9 (THU) Oita
• June 10 (FRI) Osaka
• June 12 (SUN) Kyoto

To purchase the “A New Peace Within” CD,
contact Leona at: fiddlingleona@gmail.com.

Links Of Interest

• JAPUNDIT
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here
• Japan Talk on Facebook
• JAPUNDIT on Facebook
• Edward In Japan
• JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
• Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

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Opening Music
Fish, Eggs, and Sushi – by Moochie Mac & Friends

Opening Monologue

• News summary
• Soggy Fukuoka
• Rainy season arrives 12 days early
• Hotter than normal summer expected
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here

• New leaks discovered at Fukushima
• Japanese robots non-existent
• Contaminated water problem “massive”
• TEPCO believed Fukushima could stand up to any tsunami
• Iwate to scrap unclaimed cars
• UN: Japan suffered synchronous infrastructure failure
• Japanese becoming less prone to bow to authority

Middle Song
Somerset Roppongi – by Moochie Mac & Friends

• Maglev gets green light
• Osaka Gov Hashimoto: “Stand for anthem or quit!”
• Japanese couple appeals deportation order to U.S. Supreme Court
• Japan does not acknowledge Taiwan’s assistance

Ending Song
Kawaiine – by Moochie Mac & Friends

Links Of Interest

• JAPUNDIT
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here
• Japan Talk on Facebook
• JAPUNDIT on Facebook
• Edward In Japan
• JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
• Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

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The Grind – by The Kobolds

Opening Monologue

• News summary
• Back after unscheduled week off
• Took a trip to old Japundit Media Center, Tochigi
• Back in Fukuoka
• Dealing with my smoking neighbor
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here

• Tsunami height may mean billions of yen to TEPCO
• Government divided over radioactive tea
• Local govts clear playground dirt
• More than 2,000 safes turned in to police since quake

Middle Song
Itinerent – by The Kobolds

• Japan to tourists: It’s safe to come back to Japan
• Foreign students targeted for tours
• Dumb reporting, dumb writing in a news report
• Robbers stage Japan’s largest cash theft
• Kyushu University to abandon female student quota
• LSE academic’s claim ‘black women less attractive’ triggers race row

Ending Song
Buckle Up – by The Kobolds

Links Of Interest

• JAPUNDIT
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here
• Japan Talk on Facebook
• JAPUNDIT on Facebook
• Edward In Japan
• JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
• Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

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Cheated – by Lana Grant

Opening Monologue

• News summary
• Golden Week coming to an end
• New improved, revitalized JAPUNDIT website
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here

• Bad meat kills four in Japan
• Info about all 77 million Sony network users leaked
• Verbally abused city official granted compensation
• NYC taxis going Nissan

Middle Song
Buckled Down – by Lana Grant

• Japanese researchers develop remote kissing device



• Post-tsunami compensation battle raging in Japan
• NORKS cracking down on mobile phone use
• Advice: Don’t drive to escape a tsunami
• J-govt fiddles with radiation numbers to enable use of schools
• Winter hot bath potential heart stopper

Ending Song
Black Hole – by Lana Grant

Links Of Interest

• JAPUNDIT
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here
• Japan Talk on Facebook
• JAPUNDIT on Facebook
• Edward In Japan
• JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
• Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com