* 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