* Very comfortable in beautiful Tochigi Prefecture
* Listener feedback

* Carbon offsets company starts in Tokyo
* Man tries to rob store in front of police box
* Couple robbed as man proposes in New York
* Normal weather forecasted for winter
* Murder in the sumo stable

* WANTED. . . Still
* Whale meat. . . The healthy choice?
* $50-dollar-a-bottle milk
* The reluctant executioner
* Foreign woman and new born rejected by 7 hospitals
* Woman suffers miscarriage after rejection by dozens of hospitals
* 2,780 cases of multiple rejections over two years

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Take You To Japan, by Davis Coen
* Lady Pearl, by Madi Sato
* Japanese People, by Argyle Pimps

Links of Interest
* Foreign crime in Japan
* Lindsay Anne Hawker website

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Quiet news week in Japan
* Yasuo Fukuda expected to become next Japan PM
* Japan's Politics: A Family Affair

* Listener feedback

* Pushbutton translation soon to come?
* Suspect's confession rejected by Kyoto court
* Cell phone sales tactics criticized by government
* Cell phone sales tactics defended by industry

* Bloody hell
* "Caucasian man" sprays tear gas on train
* U.S. court rejects suit against carmakers
* Bug spray problem? Or common sense problem?
* Carmaker develops battery that charges in 8 minutes
* Student should get an A for thinking outside the box

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Senshi
* Lorelei
* Unmei (Fate), all by K. Juno

Links of Interest
* Time Magazine: Japan's Politics: A Family Affair

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Another work-shortened show

* Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigns
* Taro Aso and Yasuo Fukuda front runners

* Listener feedback

* 23 hospitals turn away pregnant woman
* Hospital loses surgical equipment inside of patients
* Visiting the doctor in Japan
* Long ago in Japan
* Japanese ministries "make" history
* Earthquake early warning
* In China - democracy is a dirty word
* Homegrown terrorism comes to Tokyo
* More funny money "donated"
* English - the language of dogs?
* Drive-by slasher nabbed

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Japanese Girlfriend by Earwig
MF247
* Sayonara by Chiemi Jones

Links of Interest
* Big Dreams Little Tokyo
* Dogma Free America

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Big Dreams Little Tokyo

* Feedback on music, guests, etc.

* Feedback on Japanese TV

* Productivity (Josh Keller)
* Good news for Japan's hay fever suffers?
* Japan's sick hospitals
* Con artist heaven
* Be an English teacher in Pyongyang
* Dead man indicted
* Teen abductee kills abductor
* More pennies from heaven
* Cop arrested for slapping teen. Public responds

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* She's Gonna Find Out by The Blast
* Hiccups by Riyu Konaka

Links of Interest
* Big Dreams Little Tokyo

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Mini cars really not that safe
* Listener feedback about music and interviews

* High-tech homeless
* My first trip to an Internet cafe
* Wheat products prices to rise
* Soy sauce for ice cream
* Interrogations to be taped in Japan
* Camcorder recorder outlawed in Japan
* Fan fire death

* Hachioji to install 1,000 spy cameras
* Department store doldrums
* Whale watching turns into whaling watching
* Station employees out shopping, commuters miss train
* Chimp beans girl
* Prison going to pot
* Thinking hard about charity

Music
MF247
* Violets Be Graceful Forever by Kokushokusumire
* To Above by Yoshimi Matsuoka
* Honey My Heart by Oto

Links of Interest
* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com