* Man, it's Christmas
* A busy week
* And busy holidays
* No Japan Talk until January 5, 2008

* Listener Feedback

* Farm Minister defends research whaling
* Science Minister says UFOs are fun
* Green tea cuts prostrate cancer risk
* Handle keeper

* Ministries say Japan can meet Kyoto targets
* Japan to ban incandescent lightbulbs
* Go to bed, save the Earth
* Teen wars over Internet posts
* Acquitted rapist sues for 126 million yen
* Police lock the barn after the horse is long gone
* Oceans 13 inspires teen crime spree
* Assigning mad cow blame
* Osaka tops in purse snatching for 32nd consecutive year
* Nanjing Massacre. . . Fact or fiction?

* See you next year (January 5)!

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Man, It's Christmas by Jimmy Bratcher
* Christmas Sweeter Than Wine by Heth and Jed
* Another Silent Night by Douglas Spotted Eagle

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Big freeze forecast for Kanto
* The perfect rotten end to a perfectly rotten week

* Listener Feedback

* (In?) Justice finally done
* Consumption tax set to rise
* Gibson develops self-tuning guitar
* Toyota develops violin-playing robot
* Ishihara's Franco flub suit dismissed

* Nagging works!
* Tokyo man stabbed by "Spiderman"
* Teacher loses job for skirt lifting
* 13-year-old tries to kill dad with bat
* Crime on the decline
* Shootings on the rise
* Most popular baby names in Japan
* Tired of playing the victim
* 71-year-old bus driver arrested for molesting primary schooler

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Christmas Here On Mars by Bubble
* Country Road ChristmasTime by Craig Cradiff
* Christmas in Malibu by The Rad Dudes

Links of Interest
* Ruisu

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Back after a two-week break

* Culture Shock: The Japan Discovery Challenge

* Japan to regulate the Internet
* Japan getting safer
* Woman casts pearls before bureaucratic swine
* 10 percent in Japan 75 years old or older
* Milk Seafood Cup Noodle
* Whale curry box lunches available in Tokyo
* Japan's dumbest business practices

* One man's buffalo chips are another man's treasure
* South Korea, Taiwan wanted nukes left in Okinawa
* Third time not a charm for unlucky robber
* Splish-splash
* Hospital dumps blind patient in a park
* Quasi-indecent assault
* Primary school teacher arrested for soliciting 13-year-old
* Gas bandits strike fire engines
* Firefighter arrested for arson
* Popular slapping cop indicted
* Inter-generational trouble on the train
* Kitty porn caper: Stranger than fiction

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* The Christmas Season by Sudden Death
* Another Silent Night by Douglas Spotted Eagle
* Christmas in Hawaii by The Hot Rods

Links of Interest
* Culture Shock: The Japan Discover Challenge
* Milk Seafood Cup Noodle
* What Japan Thinks

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com