Japan Talk #103 is now available on the Japan Talk website and at FeedBurner.

* POKE-IT-NOTES

Listener Mail
* LT Dan Norton - Thanks for Japan news
* Billy - Chikan experience

Japan News Roundup
* McDonald’s Japan wants to make you a star!
* Another vendor to take a shot at red hots
* Gangster apologizes for shooting wrong man
* Yokohama unleashes manners patrol
* The boomerang does come back in space
* Legal news from Japan

* Japan condemns roo cull as hypocrisy
* Single households the majority
* More than half of Japanese use mobiles in bath
* Woman reaches settlement with temple over “purification”
* Cinema drops plans to screen Yasukuni movie
* Chiba cop copies porn evidence for personal use
* Police enticing elderly to surrender driver’s licenses
* University professor demands sex for doctorate
* Teacher accused of abusing disabled student
* Man arrested for stripping schoolgirl of underpants

Music
* Mr. Lovely by Beth Thornley (Podsafe Music Network)
* Forest In The Morning by Fumitaka Anzai (Podsafe Music Network)
* Maybe I’m Amazed by Blake Morgan (Podsafe Music Network)

Links of Interest
* Len Cullum
* Larry Simon
* Shoji story on Japundit
* Billy’s Blog
* Billy’s chikan adventure

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

* Japan Talk in the iTunes Store
* Japundit

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