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Opening Music
Keen – by Liz Queler & Seth Farber

Opening Monologue

• News summary
• Golden Week – 10 days this year
• JAPUNDIT website revamp
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here

• Too many volunteers in Tohoku
• Day 49 Buddhist services held for disaster victims
• J-nuclear crisis adviser quits in protest
• J-weather chief under fire for self-censorship request
• Psychiatrists providing aid to traumatized foreigners

E-mail: Transcultural_mental_health@yahoo.co.jp
Phone: (080) 5196-8325
Fax (03) 5225-1292

• PM: Tepco, and state, responsible
• Japan to remove radiation-tainted topsoil at schools
• Mountains of trash a big problem
• People ordered to relocate rejected by moving firms

Middle Song
The Return From Town – by Liz Queler & Seth Farber

• Daylight Saving Time another casualty of the earthquake
• Cup Noodle Election
• Japan consulate protests Korean geographical names in ad
• Japan Post to slash bonuses by an average of 500,000 yen
• NPA panel proposes autopsy units
• Brit pinched for campaign noise protest
• Fukuoka police issue hand grenade warning
• Fukuoka Police Grenade Page

Ending Song
Rosemary – by Liz Queler & Seth Farber

Links Of Interest

• Cup Noodle Election website
• Fukuoka Police Grenade Page
• 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
Chameleon – by Pixikill

Opening Monologue

• News summary
• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake U.S. Amazon
• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake U.K. Amazon
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here

• Fukushima evacuation zone to be widened
• Local govts lose track of 40% of residents
• Banned spinach hits market
• Fukushima Governor won’t allow restart of reactors
• Why Japan’s earthquake was so strong
• Majority of Japan tsunami dead were older than 60

Middle Song
Freak Out – by Pixikill

• The Flight of Japan’s Immigrant Workers
• Reporting of post-disaster sexual violence remain a rarity
• Sailor bares all to avoid Iwate tour
• Fukushima evacuees face discrimination
• Taxes to play role in quake recovery
• OECD urges Japan to raise sales tax
• Gov’t to drop 1,000 yen expressway toll limit
• Japanese robots await call to action
• Japan files protest over newspaper cartoon about nuke emergency
• Cigarette sales drop 10.1% in FY 2010, largest fall on record

Ending Song
Rock It – by Pixikill

Links Of Interest

• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake U.S. Amazon
• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake U.K. Amazon
• 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
Black Water – by Fatblueman

Opening Monologue

• News summary
• 2:46 Quakebook Project
• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake U.S. Amazon
• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake U.K. Amazon
• Our Man In Abiko

• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here

• QiRanger reply to story about Sea of Japan

• QiRanger’s main YouTube channel

• TEPCO to pay provisional compensation
• Farmers want TEPCO to pay up
• TEPCO to sell 100 billion yen of assets
• J-Gov considering secret plan to dismantle TEPCO
• Few vehicle owners had disaster insurance
• J-tourism industry crashing
• Japan non-food exports also being hurt

Middle Song
Hope – by Fatblueman

• Reclaimed Tokyo Bay developments losing appeal

Liquifaction facts


• J-Gov considering “reconstruction solidarity tax”
• Suntory pitches in with “Sukiyaki” commercial series

• Lady Gaga, AKB48 to perform in Japan Aid Show

Japan bracelets at Lady Ga Ga shop
Lady Ga Ga donates $1.5 million

• Kanebo jumps into market for double-fold eyelid glue
• A salute to the U.S. military

U.S. Air Force 353rd Special Operations Unit
DOD Japan relief effort news
First person experience in U.S. military relief efforts

Ending Song
Black Water – by Fatblueman

Links Of Interest

• 2:46 Quakebook Project
• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake U.S. Amazon
• 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake U.K. Amazon
• Liquifaction facts
• Busan Kevin to run for Japan kids
• Support Busan Kevin here
• Japan bracelets at Lady Ga Ga shop
• 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
Osaka Boys – by Davina Robinson (Courtesy of Music Alley)

Opening Monologue

• News summary
• Cherry blossom time in Fukuoka
• Spring is around the corner
• Translation work booming
• Japan earthquake news slipping off the front page
• Questions still remain about Fukushima atomic power plant

• South Korean schools close over J-radiation fears
• Looking back to look ahead
• Reporters venture into the Fukushima exclusion zone

• Toyota to suspend North American output for five days

Middle Song
Oh No – by Kaiser Cartel

• Maldives to send 600,000 cans of tuna to Japan
• Tohoku job losses could exceed 81,000
• JAL asks employees to take unpaid leave
• J-convenience store sales rise in quake aftermath
• Too much contamination? Just change the rules!
• Japan lifts restrictions on produce from the north
• Belt Geiger counter
• U.S. apparel brand pulls Japan t-shirts after Korean protests
• Japan quake manmade?

Ending Song
Keeping You For Mine – by Renee Wahl

Links Of Interest

• VideoNews.com
• J-CREW
• HAARP High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
• Are We in a HAARP “Earthquake War”?
• 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
Which Road Takes Me Home – by Fatblueman

Opening Monologue

• News summary
• Featured Artist: Fatblueman
• Get Fatblueman music at JAMENDO
• Back to normal format
• New Japundit Media Complex
• Earthquake refugees still lacking bsic needs
• More on “flyjin”
• Self-proclaimed community builders

• Japan names quake: Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Dai-Shinsai)
• Fukushima radioactive water leaking directly into sea
• Prices plunge at Tsukiji as demand sinks
• Yakuza looking to score in earthquake aftermath

Middle Song
Incomplete – by Fatblueman

• J-government planning mass relocation
• Radiation from Fukushima exceeds Three Mile Island
• We should stop running away from radiation?
• Nuclear’s green cheerleaders forget Chernobyl at our peril
• Quake activity rises sharply around J-volcanoes
• Japan looking for danger zone workers

Ending Song
Hope It Turns Out Alright – by Fatblueman

Links Of Interest

• 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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Monologue

• My views about the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake

Links of Interest

• Flyjin
• 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

• News summary
• Going retro in the intro
• Nice words about Canadians
• Where has all the snow gone?
• Japan Talk now on Facebook
• JAPUNDIT now on Facebook
• CD giveaway results soon
• Mr. Sysop to do call in session… Skype: mrsysop35

Japan planning talking, tweeting space robot
Russia rejects Japan’s “radical stance”
Hiromi Ozaki’s Menstruation Machine
Takefuji founder’s son beats tax bill
Tokyo’s Ginza Line to go retro

Middle Song
Tokyo Skyline – Impossible Songs (Music Alley)

Japan’s ruling party going to pieces
DPJ revolt may be spreading
Aussies flocking to Japan
Authorities looking for break in condom case
World’s first robot marathon
YouTube video leaker pens book, calls leak his “civic duty”
Passengers handed prison terms in drunk driving case
Japanese young women thinner than ever

Ending Song
Hey You – Insist

Links of Interest

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

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

Robert Koehler, the man behind the amazing The Marmot’s Hole blog about all things Korean has written a very kind and flattering post about Japan Talk.

Robert has been a good friend of JAPUNDIT and Japan Talk from day 1, so if you have any interest in Korea, please be sure to pay The Marmot’s Hole a visit.

Had great fun today at the Utsunomiya gyoza matsuri.

Took a bunch of video which I plan to edit and put up on YouTube.

Just got back to Japundit Media Center, and will get started on the podcast.

Please stand by…..