Japan Talk #059
Japan Talk #059 is now available on the Japan Talk website and at FeedBurner.
* Princess Masako controversy continues
* The Roadhouse – For the best blues you never heard
* Cell phone using woman falls onto subway tracks
* Itchyro – head lice infestation in Japan
* Comfort women discomfort
* Taking a byte out of crime
* Metal thieves striking everywhere in Japan
* Eye massager
* NORKS blast Japan crackdown of North Koreans
* Song For Megumi
* Hong Kongers going for pet piglets
* Foreign crime. . . In China
* Girl in China killed by tiger in photo shoot
* Man chops 1,100 trees to paraglide
* JAL pilot arrested for planting microphones
* Hanging requested for murder of suicide seekers!?!
* Pornography and political research
Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Remember, by Black Lab
Podshower
* Kumo Ni Iko, by The Rocos
MF247
* Happy Life, by Snoop
Links of Interest
* The Roadhouse Podcast
* Comfort women
* Asian Women’s Fund
* Great Kanto Earthquake Korean Massacre
* What’s Happening In Tokyo (WHIT)
* iTunes Takeover Announcement [CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE]
* Bum Rush The Charts
* Let’s Narrate
* J-LIST
* Jindiecast
Contact: podcast@japundit.com
Poor Mari….she’s my favorite. If I ever become a j-pop singer and part of the...
Shes definitely at the top of my hot list.
perfeckt 10:10
[...] Now, I usually like what JP over at Japundit says, but I have to say, I was a bit surprised to hear this during his last podcast (which, as I’ve pointed out, are outstanding—join in now if you haven’t already): Excuse me, but until I read this report I had a lot of sympathy for the cause of comfort women. But if you look at the site of the Asian Women’s Fund, you will see that it deals with the misdeeds of the Japanese military in a very straightforward manner, admits guilt, and apologizes for it. As reported above, former comfort women are also eligible to receive compensation, which many of them are rejecting. If all of this is true, it would appear that the comfort women organizations are more intent upon embarrassing Japan than in bringing the matter to any type of settlement. [...]
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:02 am