Volume 02, Number 14
Thanks
for tuning in again this week. Click on over to the Japan Considered
Project, sponsor of this podcast, at www.JapanConsidered.org, and have
a look around. The interviews with other specialists on Japan's
domestic politics and international relations have been especially
popular of late. And send your comments and suggestions to me at
JapanConsidered@gmail.com.
News of the Democratic Party of
Japan's efforts to select a new president has dominated Japan's media
for the past week. We begin with a look at the selection of Ichiro
Ozawa to succeed outgoing president Seiji Maehara. I apply the
"factionist" versus "populist" categories introduced week before last
to the leadership change.
Then we consider recent developments
in Japan's management of relations with North Korea. Nothing exciting
has happened this week. But I believe the accumulation of actions taken
by the Government of Japan are worth considering together.
Finally
we take a very short web sound tour of the ITV-Japan streaming video
site. This is another useful resource available to us all free of
charge.
As usual, we close out with a clip of bluegrass music,
this time featuring John Starling and the late John Duffy. From their
two-CD 20th anniversary album recorded for Sugar Hill Records.
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