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Backstage Chat

• Problems with our main computer
• Japan Talk website problems fixed
• JapanSoc goes to Facebook
• The joys of running a website
• Miscellaneous ramblings

Links of Interest

• Kobe Meet Up, December 12
• JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
• Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

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* Gimmeabreakman talks about Japan Talk
* No new Japan Talk design yet
* Local annual fireworks display
* New video: How to kill stink bugs (kamemushi) without the stink
* Featured artist of the week: Remember September
* Kobe Meet Up, December 12
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* A day late, but here we are
* Few news stories today
* Voting system at JAPUNDIT fixed
* Please help out at JAPUNDIT and vote
* Eating Natto videos added to JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
* Japan Talk intro on the JAPUNDIT YouTube Channel
* English Teachers online comedy series
* Japan Talk hits 500,000 downloads
Continue reading ‘Japan Talk #159’ »

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* New Japan Talk site online shortly
* May skip a show next week for changeover
* New videos added to the JAPUNDIT Video Channel
* Thanks to everyone who wrote in with comments
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* New intro – What do you think?
* Why we played music at the beginning
* New microphone – What do you think?
* Lots of holidays this last week
* Why there are so many holidays in Japan
* New Japan Talk design in a week or so
* Approaching 500,000 total Japan Talk Podcast downloads
* Getting interested in YouTube
* Watch the JAPUNDIT YouTube channel
* Welcome to Japan, Josh Dyer
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* Autumn cool settling in
* Nikko foliage
* Rice harvesting season
* Disappearing green, a bit depressing
* Texas Daddy
* New Japan Talk website coming soon
* Bad Communication, Japan podcast
Continue reading ‘Japan Talk #156’ »

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* Adult-oriented sound today
* A new source of music
* Please support the artists we play
* Remembering 9/11
* Tokyo Travel Forum
* Charisma Man
* Roppongi rats
* Gaijin ghettos
* English teachers
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* Happy anniversary to David and Kathy Silva!
* No real theme to Japanese news this week
* More old folks news
* Relentless heat continues
* Politics as usual

* New Japan Talk website coming soon
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* Back after a week off – What happened?
* Correction: Kokushokusumire
* Japan Talk website (japantalk.org) down
* New Japan Talk website coming sometime soon

* Japan’s disappearing elderly
* Yamaguchi records shows 186-year-old man living
* Osaka records show 228 120-year-olds
* Man keeps mother’s remains in knapsack

* Breakthrough in breeding bluefin tuna
* Japan announces world’s first solar-powered public bus
* Panel: Japan should relax restrictions on arms exports
* California law will demand WWII info from railway bidders
* Leaked info: Mobile site self-regulation of child prostitution controls not working
* Prius to be equipped with humming device to warn pedestrians

* Woman ordered to pay damages over futon beating noise
* Prada strikes back
* Courts hitting bicyclists with high damages for accidents
* Toilet trouble grounds plane
* Japan baseball to use same balls for all teams
* Kyoto uses dummies to “heighten tension” at gov’t office

Music
* Beautiful Day, by Rika Shinohara (Podshower)
* Fred Astaire, by Emma Wallace (Music Alley)
* After You Get Rid Of Me, by Katie Webster (Music Alley)

Links of Interest
* Crapman
* Crapman busted!
* Miyoko Kawahara: Neighbor from hell
* VIDEO: Miyokyo Kawahara in action

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

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* Still more gas man facts
* A busy and noisy week in Japan
* O-bon season
* Events marking the end of the war
* A time to vent frustrations

* Local government defraud Tokyo out of research subsidies
* Sharp developing 3D Smartphone
* Japanese researchers develop follow-me wheelchair
* Dryer Box saves water-damaged mobile phones
* U.S. Says N.Korean Artillery Fire ‘Killed a Lot of Fish’

* Payments to unaccounted for elderly to be suspended
* Hokkaido hope to turn crawdads into tourist lure
* Rent collection agency ordered to pay compensation
* Yen to rise even further?
* What Japanese men hate to see at the beach or pool

Music
* Eikyu Ni Uruwashiku, Sumire no Hana Yo (Beautiful Violets Forever), by Kokushokusumire (Black Violets)
* How It Happens, by Jim’s Big Ego (Music Alley)
* You’re So Pony, by Beth Thornley (Music Alley)

Links of Interest
* Bon Festival (O-bon)
* Kokushoku Sumire Official Site
* Kokushoku Sumire Goods
* Kokusholku Sumire Shop
* Savage Japan Podcast

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

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* More gas man facts
* This week’s show one day late (due to golf)
* Golfjin

* Staying healthy in the heat
* Japanese child abuse cases soar
* Young mother leaves children in apartment to die
* Japan law still too weak on child abuse?
* Tokyo Sky Tree changing the Tokyo skyline

* Japan considering making computer viruses illegal
* Chinese man rescued after two days in toilet pit
* 3D TV comes with a health warning
* Akihabara hotel offers “Train Room”
* New York may ban flesh-eating fish pedicures

Music (Music Alley)
* Tokyo Skyline, by Impossible Songs
* Country Song Titles, by Todd Chappelle
* Coke and Sprite, by Radio Rio

Links of Interest
* Golfjin
* Impossible Songs
* Todd Chappelle

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com

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* Plastic Soul Band taking a break
* Are there any other Japan podcasts left?

* Higurashi
* The gas man cometh
* Are gas checks done in your country? Let us know: japantalker@gmail.com

* Tokyo’s oldest man died 30 years ago!
* Hikikomori bedroom hermits: Japan national crisis?
* Hakuho scores historic three-peat

* JAL to slash 440 billion yen in operating costs
* Capital punishment debate
* Akihabara killer claims he had no choice
* Many U.S. students think Lexus is American brand
* J-cops shut down paper, stone, scissors net site

Music (Music Alley)
* Shirokumo Aosora (White Clouds, Blue Sky), by Plastic Soul Band
* EULA Dancing, by Tom Smith
* C.Q. Boogie, by Katie Webster

Links of Interest
* Plastic Soul Band website
* Hikikomori
* Higurashi
* Akihabara Massacre

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store

Contact: japantalker@gmail.com