* Big sports week in Japan - Part 2

* Ryo Ishikawa comes up short in U.S. Open at Pebble Beach

* LPGA golfer Ai Miazato wins fourth time this year, becomes world #1

* Japan nationals make it to final 16 at World Cup

* Japan goes crazy!

* National team coach and players vindicated

* Can they reach the final four???

* GOOGLE Japan’s most popular prospective employer

* Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder added to Interpol wanted list

* Michael Jackson sleepover in Tokyo

* Japanese told to go to bed an hour early to cut carbon emissions

* Battle of smartphones heating up in Japan

* Wendy’s hamburgers set to come back to Japan

* Wig maker to expand high-priced outlets for women as J-population ages

* Divorce ceremonies on the rise in Japan

* Top department store to start trading in secondhand brand goods

* U.S. researchers link white rice to diabetes risk  

Music (Podsafe Music Network)

* Geisha Wa Odoru, from RoboGeisha

* Surechigau Omoi, from RoboGeisha

* Garlic, by David Silva

RoboGeisha cuts courtesy of Japan Files.

Garlic courtesy of Music Alley.  

Links of Interest

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Big sports week in Japan

* Japan national soccer team picking it up at the World Cup

* Ryo Ishikawa tied for second in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach

* Narita to test “invasive” body scanners

* Woman suspected of being a serial baby leg breaker

* Rail company opens 'beer hall streetcar'

* Toshiba and Fujitsu to merge cell businesses

* Man tosses 3-year-old out of condo window

* Police nab I-am-a-turtle turtle

* Top J-court says baseball teams own players' images

* Antiseptic kills 7,000 fish at city aquarium

* Designer tatami

* Lawson to offer freshly cooked food  

Music (Podsafe Music Network)

* I Like It That Way

* The Women Gather

* Give Love

All by Sweet Honey In The Rock  

Links of Interest

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Speed episode this week

* Golf + World Cup = No time

* 64% of Japanese support Kan Cabinet

* Big time tax increases coming Japan’s way

* I am a turtle

* 118 million yen stolen from pickup truck

* JT to double smokeless tobacco production

* Police raid drug lab in attic of home

* Yakuza arrested for killing the wrong guy  

Music (Podsafe Music Network)

* Baja Taxi, by Brain Bucket

* Middle segment: Weaving Song by Akino  

Links of Interest

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

* Still busy with work, need some rest!

* Japan prime minster changes again

* Slow news week

* Peter Bethune: Case against me is all lies.

* 1000km on a single charge

* Prius tops May new car sales in Japan

* ‘The Cove’ screenings canceled after protests

* Mitsubishi to produce Japan’s first domestic passenger jet

* Couple arrested for locking boy in toilet for 11 days

* Man arrested for dumping photo albums, videos into river

* Japanese wins pizza contest -- in Italy

Music Courtesy of Music Alley

* Not On The Radio, by Geoff Smith

* Google, by Todd Chappelle

* Betty, by Lascivious Biddies  

Links of Interest

* The Cove

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com