Japan Talk #085 is now available on the Japan Talk website and at FeedBurner.

* Quiet week in Japan
* Probably no podcast next week (10/27)

* Japan to remain ugly?
* Japanese sleep habits
* Will higher fines stop gangsters from using guns?
* Nintendo is not playing games
* What Japanese people wish their spouses would stop doing

* Foreign teachers at NOVA strike
* JAL to offer premium economy class
* Taxi fares to rise in Tokyo
* Digital New Years cards
* Miss Universe, Riyo Mori, caves to PETA pressure
* Lynching in the name of The Almighty
* Teacher resigns over ribald golf ball gaffe

Music
MF247
* Boarder No Border by EEE
* Starmain by Seseragi 25
* La, La, La by Yoshimi Matsuoka

Links of Interest
* What Japan Thinks

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit
* Jindiecast

Contact: podcast@japundit.com