* Report on Niigata earthquake
* Problems at world's largest nuclear power plant
* What will happen when the big one hits Tokyo?

* Abe backtracks on tax rate rise before election
* Farm Minister Akagi appears with face bandaged
* Farm Minister Akagi caught in new funding scandal
* Abe refuses to visit Kochi Prefecture during campaign
* Abe and Ozawa disliked equally by Japan's voters
* Ruling coalition election prospects looking dim
* Cash trash
* Harry Potter mania delayed in Japan
* U.S. growers promoting U.S. rice in Japan

* NORK concerned about human rights in Japan
* NORKs warn Japan about abduction issue
* Kim Jong-il ill?
* Made In China - A label to mistrust
* China warns U.S. against smears
* More bun fun from China
* Japan's shrinking TV audience
* Hotline receives 60,000 net complaints
* Man uses government land to grow marijuana
* Court reduces rape sentence because woman was drunk

Music
MF247
* Kokoro Ga Kawaru Sono Mae Nii (Parted), by Mako Minamiya
* Minna No Nayami (Everyone’s Worry), by Mako Minamiya
* Hyacinth, by Mako Minamiya

Links of Interest
* Mako Minamiya
* MF247
* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

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

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* New Battle of Okinawa
* Police warn man for throwing away money
* Benefactor leave money laying around government facilities
* Scandal, lost pensions, tax raises and an upcoming election
* Reverse culture shock
* New from McDonald's Japan
* Japan's high-tech toilets to go airborne
* 96% of Japanese HS students use cellphones... Surprised?

* Chinese bun vendors use cardboard in place of meat
* Mos Burger in Thailand
* Man commits suicide by decapitating himself
* Banker arrested for raping job seekers
* Getting while the getting is good
* Man attacks self to avoid work
* Rubick Cube sex

Music
MF247
* I Beg You, by The Bawdies
* Little Girl, by The Bawdies

Links of Interest
* Fuji Rock Festival
* The Bawdies
* I Beg You Video (QuickTime: Broadband/Narrowband)
* I Beg You Video (Windows Media: Broadband/Narrowband)
* SEEZ Records

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

Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Daily Yomiuri Editorial: Kyuma was right
* Yuriko "Cool Biz" Koike takes over as Japan Defense Chief
* Koike calls WWII A-bombing "unacceptable from a humanitarian viewpoint"
* Yuko Tojo to run in next election
* Tojo calls for Japan resolution condemning U.S. of WWII A-bombings
* Tokyo defends whitewashing of Okinawan mass suicides in nation's textbooks
* Business cards printed on peanuts
* Food scandals plague Japan. . . Next up. . . Rice
* A week in Billy's Bootcamp

* The "flying dragons" of China
* Eye-popping girlfriend
* Japan's air traffic controllers to be tested for English
* No more bulldogs allowed on JAL planes
* Wired for sakura
* Gold bars found in trash
* 10,000-yen notes fall from the sky in Tokyo
* No more dead animals
* Man wins mochi lawsuit
* STDs plaguing Japan

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* My Home Boogie, by Tremolo 55
MF247
* Nanahobijin, by Kiki

Links of Interest
* What's Happening In Tokyo
* Rising Sun of Nihon * Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast Contact: podcast@japundit.com

* Japan Defense Chief: WWI A-bombings unavoidable
* Panel: Japan should defend U.S. against ICBMs
* Japanese women talk to their computers
* Sumo wrestlers ask for permission to drive
* Most Japan housewives have hesokuri
* Brazilians born to be bad?

* NORK: Thou shalt not communicate
* Men arrested for marketing aphrodisiacs for women
* Money in mailbox? Call the police!
* Woman "escapes" from Japan to North Korea
* Early earthquake warning for the home
* Man nabbed for begging woman to become her slave
* Okinawans against government rewrite of local history
* Man flashes Big Mac at McDonald's drive thru

Music
Podshower
* Beautiful Day, by Rika Shinohara
* Hiccups, by Riyu Konaka">Riyu Konaka

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

Contact: podcast@japundit.com