Japan Talk #081 is now available on the Japan Talk website and at FeedBurner.

* Another work-shortened show

* Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigns
* Taro Aso and Yasuo Fukuda front runners

* Listener feedback

* 23 hospitals turn away pregnant woman
* Hospital loses surgical equipment inside of patients
* Visiting the doctor in Japan
* Long ago in Japan
* Japanese ministries “make” history
* Earthquake early warning
* In China - democracy is a dirty word
* Homegrown terrorism comes to Tokyo
* More funny money “donated”
* English - the language of dogs?
* Drive-by slasher nabbed

Music
Podsafe Music Network
* Japanese Girlfriend by Earwig
MF247
* Sayonara by Chiemi Jones

Links of Interest
* Big Dreams Little Tokyo
* Dogma Free America

* Mainichi Daily News
* Japan Times
* The Daily Yomiuri
* Asahi Shimbun

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com