* Getting busy
* Life of a translator
* Space Cowboys

* Britney Spears Harper's nude makes trouble in Tokyo subway
* Megumi Yokota
* Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
* Vanity postage stamps
* MPEG toilet
* Mobile noodle restaurant
* Narita meat patrol
* Drug drop linked to pressure on North Korea?
* Japan turns away North Korean peace meet envoys
* Geisha go digital
* Most women do not use women-only train cars
* Japanese women think men stink

* Truck falls on building
* Magic number of con artists: 980,000 yen
* Parents accuse teacher of mental torture in son's death
* Officials suspended slush fund receive support from another slush fund
* Man has sex change operation to please lesbian girlfriend
* Baby dies as parents play pachinko
* Novelist admits to throwing kittens off of cliff
* Japan revamps its CPI basket of goods
* Wal-Mart bleeding red in Japan
* Man makes 1,100 prank calls to police number
* Man molests woman who turns out to be off duty cop

Japundit Contributors:
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Mike Plugh in Akita, ghoti in Fukuoka, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Tokyoid in London, Bill (Ampontan) Sakovich in Saga, JP in Tokyo

Music
* Settle Down, Cabin Dogs

MF247
* Resident Of A City, Maiko Sekito

Garageband
* Hello California, Salme Dahlstrom

Podsafe Music Network
* Rocket Science, Brain Buckit

Listener Feedback:
* Hiro from Hiroshima
* Amanda B from Knoxville, Tennessee
* Salme Dahlstrom
* Everybody loves Bart!?!

Links of Interest:
* Next Big Hit
* Podsafe Music Network
* Space Cowboys
* Megumi Yokota
* Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
* What Japan Thinks
* Garageband
* MF247

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* Summer vacation winding down
* NewspaperDirect: New sponsor
* Yasukuni Shrine explained
* Yasukuni Shrine: This year's visit
* Yasukuni Shrine: What the Japanese think
* Rightist burns down lawmaker's house
* Blackout in Tokyo
* New addition to Japan's royal family
* Princess Masako should be pitied
* Crown Prince and family "vacationing" in Holland
* Seattle Mariners looking to sign Daisuke Matsuzaka?
* Jobless man arrested for comic book thefts
* Kazumi Kitagawa revisited
* North Korea's lucrative tobacco product counterfeiting
* Diary of a Student Girl big in North Korea
* Man makes 37,760 calls to directory assistance to hear nice voices
* Junior high teacher arrested for shooting up-skirts (up-kimono)
* Too many women in Japan farding in public

Japundit Contributors:
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Mike Plugh in Akita, Harvey, in Osaka, ghoti in Fukuoka, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Tokyoid in London, Bill (Ampontan) Sakovich in Saga, JP in Tokyo

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Any Town U.S.A., George Thorogood and the Destroyers
* Takaramono With Jun, K. C. Saito
* My Woman From Tokyo, Deep Purple

Listener Feedback:
* GGDeluxe

Links of Interest:
* NewspaperDirect
* Yasukuni Shrine
* Daisuke Matsuzaka
* Kazumi Kitagawa

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* Summer vacation is here!
* Everyone is on the move
* Summer gasoline prices high
* But highway service station pump prices lower
* Watch out for summer fires
* Summertime food: eel in Japan, dog soup in Korea
* Japanese love affair with McDonald's at an end?
* Japan tops in buying power
* A tale of torii
* Giant Gundam plastic model to go on sale
* Paris Hilton themed Hello Kitty?!?
* Thieves use eggs to steal Benz
* Japanese sailor possibly passed restricted info
* Imperial Agency displeased with skyscrapers around palace
* Honda entering the jet business
* 65% of Japanese do not trust china
* Drug problem in North Korea
* Korean boom in Japan sputtering
* Good news for newborns in Malaysia
* Malaysian government fines promoters of Pussycat Dolls show
* Skateboard ticketed for recklessness
* Overworked post office worker throws away 1,400 pieces of mail
* Coast guard traces SOS signals to household phone
* Gynecologist arrested for in-office molestation

Japundit Contributors:
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Mike Plugh in Akita, Harvey, in Osaka, ghoti in Fukuoka, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Tokyoid in London, Bill (Ampontan) Sakovich in Saga, JP in Tokyo

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* It's Summertime, The Loving Its
* Workman, Mogura
* Ra, Mogura

Links of Interest:
* What's Happening In Tokyo
* Torii

Izumo Taisha Shrine, Shimane Prefecture (Thanks to Hiro)

 

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* Koki Kameda's embarrassing boxing match
* Kameda Family
* NHK pays to much for collection, hides details
* Tanigaki against special rates for food and other essentials
* Japan jobseekers getting good deal
* Japan population shrinks for the first time
* Convenience store targets seniors
* Senior crime on the rise
* Yu Darvish
* Most work death victims in control of own schedules
* Major rivers in Japan contaminated with antibiotics and other medicines
* May spawn drug-resistant strains of bacteria
* Wine-bot
* Japan Post breakup
* Japan to colonize moon!?!
* Japan baseball pros want out of all-star games with U.S.
* New Toto toilet walls cut odors
* JR-East uses passengers to generate power
* Mysterious pit traps found on beach
* Man robs woman of 10 yen at knifepoint

Japundit Contributors:
Danny Bloom in Taiwan, David Weber in Tokyo, Marie Mockett in New York, Sylvain Bouchard in Sendai, Mike Plugh in Akita, Harvey, in Osaka, ghoti in Fukuoka, Chef Jo in Tottori, Mr. Wake in Kamakura, Tokyoid in London, Bill (Ampontan) Sakovich in Saga, JP in Tokyo

Listener Feedback
* GGDeluxe
* Armed robbery in Japan
* 300 million yen robbery
* Mr. T
* Japan healthcare compared with U.S.

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Summertime, Lil D
* A Bird Is Crying, Daiki and Little Wings

Garageband
* You Cheat, Soda and His Million Piece Band

Links of Interest:
* What's Happening In Tokyo
* Japanda
* 300 million yen robbery

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