Matsuri in Matsudai (10′15″ 9.4 MB MP3) Every year on August 26th, the village of Matsudai in Niigata prefecture holds its summer festival. This year I was was in town to see some of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial and I stayed over to enjoy the festival. I recorded some of the singing and dancing fun [...]

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Art Triennial (13′01″ 11.9 MB MP3) The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, one of the world’s major contemporary art events, is in full swing this month in Niigata Prefecture. In this podcast, you’ll meet Emi Suzuki, a Japanese artist walking 80 km for her art; Andrea Kliest, public art program manager visiting from Melbourne, Australia; and Hanako [...]

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The miso show

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Moss and ivy covered tomb at Zoshigaya cemetery, Toshima-ku, Tokyo Graveside Chats: Kate Wildman Nakai on Zoshigaya Cemetery (13.4 MB MP3) Kate Wildman Nakai tells Jonathan Wilder about some of the graves in Zoshigaya cemetery. They make brief stops at the graves of the famous, like Lafcadio Hearn and Tojo, and the not so famous graves [...]

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The pickle show

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Tracey Northcott shares her insider knowledge on the mobile phone packet scene in Japan. Golden Girl (10.8 MB MP3) Transcript (PDF) Links NTT DoCoMo http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english Vodafone http://www.vodafone.jp/english EZWeb http://www.au.kddi.com/english Kansai Time Out http://kto.co.jp/ Keitai Novels Shinchosha Co’s Shincho Keitai Bunko (”Shincho Mobile-Phone Collection”) http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/keitaibunko Kadokawa Shoten Bunko Yomihodai (”All you can read collection”) http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/sp/200308-06 Sharp Corp’s Space Town Books http://www.spacetown.ne.jp/dynamic/app/F101/book Mobile Counselling Soutusen Netto (”Net for Quitting [...]

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