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Listener Mail
* John Griesser (Austria): Big fan of Japanese music
* Ramon (Switzerland): Japanese baseball (You Gotta Have Wa)
* Peter Grant (Canada): Knowing Japan from Canada
* Courtleigh Duquesne Cannick: Japan Talk appreciated

Japan News Roundup
* J-gas tax still in the news
* Japanese X-ray technicians at U.S. base not licensed
* Number of J-kids still shrinking
* Bicycle hit-and-run woman arrested

* China snubs Koizumi again
* Burglar cleans our adult film firm
* The high price of rice in Japan
* Yokohama college profs selling degrees?
* High school teacher arrested for in-class up-skirts
* Women make money with peep shots

Music
* Pilgrimage by Momo-J (Podsafe Music Network)
* Diana by Kirk King and the Solar Majors (Garageband)
* Shut Me Up by Bankey (Garageband)

Links of Interest
* Robert Whiting
* Chrysanthemum And The Bat
* You Gotta Have Wa
* The Samurai Way of Baseball

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Golden Week in Japan
* All comedy/novelty tunes this week

Listener Mail
* Cat In The Rain: Keep up the good show
* Keep up the great show, Mr. JP! I'm your big fan in Japan.
* David Penner: Thanks for podcast
* David Powell: Don't forget Monkey Majik
* David Appelyard: Evidence?
* Kevin: What about Japanese health insurance system?

Japan News Roundup
* Gasoline prices back up in Japan
* Truck driver arrested for stealing fuel
* Fight break out in gas lines
* Aomori University: Coffee may help prevent uterine cancer
* Robert De Niro to expand into Japanese-style hotels

* Japanese whisky crowned best in the world
* Chinese snub ex-PM Koizumi with Olympic invites
* Japanese companies poorly organized
* Where's the butter in Japan?
* Court awards damages for man who worked self into a coma
* Man arrested for holding ex-girlfriend hostage
* Man arrested for assaulting flowers
* City worker fired for viewing porn on the job
* Japan to give preferential visa treatment for language knowledge
* Banker wanted to be a weirdo... succeeds... arrested

Music
All from the Podsafe Music Network
* Everything Is Dangerous by Tom Smith
* Box Of Wine by The Clintons
* Spam by Sudden Death

Links of Interest
* Sendai
* Golden Week
* Monkey Majik
* BackpackingAbroad.com
* Frontline on healthcare

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Chris Juergenson - Featured artist of the week

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

* Back after an unscheduled day

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

* Featured artist of the week: Timothy Harada
* Running late due to cherry blossom viewing

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

* Why Obama is leading
* Japundit contributor Marie Mockett's new book

Listener Mail
* The VICE Guide to North Korea
* Tokyo Cowboys
* Kyle - Cleanliness in Japan
* Kyle - How are foreigners treated?
* Alfonso Ponce - Japan-Mexico Free Trade Agreement
* D - How is Japanese baseball different from U.S. baseball?

Japan News Roundup
* Man kills in hopes of being executed
* Teen shoves man in front of train
* Cellphone rage kills

* Chinese government crackdown on online maps
* Crows black out part of Sapporo
* Burqua promoted for pollen allergy relief
* High-tech gravestones
* The Dignity of a Woman
* Police captain arrested in attempted to rape
* Nissan to nix Richard Gere commercial
* Prince Hotels in hot water for rejecting teacher confab

Music
All from the Podsafe Music Network
* Sweet As Sin by Ruby James
* With You, With Me by Timothy Harada
* Emily Has Compassion Fatigue by 3 Blind Mice

Links of Interest
* VICE Guide to North Korea
* Tokyo Cowboys
* Marie Mockett
* Kairoworld
* Chrysanthemum And The Bat
* You Gotta Have Wa

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* POKE-IT-NOTES

Listener Mail
* LT Dan Norton - Thanks for Japan news
* Billy - Chikan experience

Japan News Roundup
* McDonald's Japan wants to make you a star!
* Another vendor to take a shot at red hots
* Gangster apologizes for shooting wrong man
* Yokohama unleashes manners patrol
* The boomerang does come back in space
* Legal news from Japan

* Japan condemns roo cull as hypocrisy
* Single households the majority
* More than half of Japanese use mobiles in bath
* Woman reaches settlement with temple over "purification"
* Cinema drops plans to screen Yasukuni movie
* Chiba cop copies porn evidence for personal use
* Police enticing elderly to surrender driver's licenses
* University professor demands sex for doctorate
* Teacher accused of abusing disabled student
* Man arrested for stripping schoolgirl of underpants

Music
* Mr. Lovely by Beth Thornley (Podsafe Music Network)
* Forest In The Morning by Fumitaka Anzai (Podsafe Music Network)
* Maybe I'm Amazed by Blake Morgan (Podsafe Music Network)

Links of Interest
* Len Cullum
* Larry Simon
* Shoji story on Japundit
* Billy's Blog
* Billy's chikan adventure

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Japan Talk, country style!
* Why are we "award-winning"?

Listener Mail
* Nick Ramsay - Japan Soc pronounced as Japan "sock"
* Mike Hutson - Congratulations on #100
* Mark Meyers - Japanese food overseas
* Jessica - Greetings from new listener
* Kaori Umeda - Greetings, and thanks for remembering

Japan News Roundup
* Charles Jenkins: The Reluctant Communist
* Mark Geragos representing Kazuyoshi Miura
* Miura's blog leads to his arrest
* Japan defense official: Nation will go on alert over Taiwan
* Cartoon cat Doraemon appointed ambassador

* Woman prevails in suit against yakuza. . . Kind of
* Greenpeace claiming to be effective
* German activist denied entry to Hokkaido port
* Man dies of heart attack trying to rescue another man
* Junior high school girls arrested
* Light sentence expected in murder of American
* UNICEF: Japan not doing enough against child porn
* Good Samaritan arrested for robbing elderly women
* U.S. govt: Japan's courts serve accusers
* Couple try to scam man for on-train groping incident

Music
* I Can't Settle Down by The Gordons (Podsafe Music Network)
* Birmingham by Beth Thornley (Podsafe Music Network)
* Spotted Mule by Michael Gaither (Podsafe Music Network)

Links of Interest
* JapanSoc (Japan Social Bookmarking)
* Charles Jenkins
* The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
* Doraemon

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Lots of stress at Japundit Media Central
* Hacking hangover
* Where did all the readers go?
* Real-world work piling up
* May have to cut back on JAPUNDIT posting

* JapanSoc Japan Social Bookmarking site

Listener Mail
* Ruisu - Congratulations on 100th
* Dave Keyes - Congratulations on 100th
* David - Congratulations on 100th
* Zichi Lorenz - Japan's first English teacher
* Sasha - More about the movie "Nobody Knows"
* David - Origins of the Japanese
* Noriko - Okinawa Marine rape case
* Kanon - Okinawa Marine rape case

Japan News Roundup
* Woman hate farding on trains, but do it anyway
* Researching finding ways to deliver drugs thru food
* Yakuza paid to empty building of tenants
* KONISHIKI under the knife for gastric bypass
* Council proposes stricter stance against tobacco
* Embassies in London refuse to pay for congestion
* Armed panty robber claims innocence by indecency

Music
* Stress by Jim's Big Ego (Podsafe Music Network)
* Talk, Talk, Talk by Cheryl B. Engelhardt (Podsafe Music Network)
* You're An A**h**e by Jim's Big Ego (Podsafe Music Network)

Links of Interest
* JapanSoc (Japan Social Bookmarking)
* Nobody Knows
* Ruisu
* Zichi Lorentz
* Origins of the Japanese
* Ranald MacDonald
* Ainu

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Number 100!!!
* Replaying songs from Episode 1
* A taste of what we sounded like back then

Listener Mail
* Brian Starchman - Nobody Knows
* Kelton - Spider rolls
* Keisuke - Disappointed with lack of news last week
* Victor - New listener
* Alfonso Ponce - Saludos from Mexico
* Zichi Lorentz - Keep it up

Japan News Roundup
* Rape charges against Okinawa Marine dropped
* Chinese deny culpability for tainted dumplings
* Kiyoshi Miura. . . Nabbed in Saipan
* Japan mulls exempting foreign students from airport fingerprinting
* Rainboner Bridge
* Low cholesterol bad for you?
* MacAir. . . Insides full of waste?

* Strange Japanese mating rituals
* Surgeon attacks nurse
* Teacher sends 170 emails to student
* Tips on impressing the opposite sex
* Japan's first English teacher
* Electric bike, only for the rich
* Slowhand to Pyongyang?
* Teen girl grabs groper
* Ichiro Suzuki set to break multiple records
* It's my hobby
* Nissan Navara unsafe?
* Tokyo Koto Ward's green brainwashing scheme
* Police arrest serial foot fetishist

Music
* Sick As A Dog by Brad Sucks (Podsafe Music Network)
* Hey Love by Three Legged Dog (Podsafe Music Network)
* Who Dogs the Outlet by George Hrab (Podsafe Music Network)

Links of Interest
* Nobody Knows
* Kameda Family
* Ranald MacDonald
* Ainu

* Philly roll
* Spider rolls

* Kelton
* Zichi Lorentz
* J-LIST

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

Contact: podcast@japundit.com