Bad Communication

Coming up on this week’s show we’ve got some great stories on this pre-Halloween episode of Bad Communication including some balls, some exercise balls, problems at customs, soda and beer can art, some tips for raising in a bilingual child and some reasons why Japanese people don’t like the Korean rapper PSY’s hit song Gungnam Style. All that and more on this week’s Bad Communication!

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• Japanese Company President Decides All Chairs Get Replaced by Exercise Balls [Rocket News 24]
  • http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/10/23/japanese-company-president-decides-all-chairs-get-replaced-by-exercise-balls/
• No Takers for Free Legal Consultants at Haneda [Japan Times]
  • http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121026a2.html
• Pic Pick – Empty Beer Cans Become Art: 17 Photos That Will Make Your Jaw Drop [Rocket News 24]
  • http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/10/17/empty-beer-cans-become-art-17-photos-that-will-make-your-jaw-drop/
• 16 Tips for Raising a Bilingual Child [Gaijin Pot]
  • http://injapan.gaijinpot.com/live/family-schools/2012/10/26/16-tips-for-raising-a-bilingual-child-in-japan/
• Convincing Japanese [Japan Intercultural]
  • http://www.japanintercultural.com/en/news/default.aspx?newsid=217
• Japanese Don’t Like ‘Gungnam Style’ that Much [Japan Today]
  • http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/japans-indifference-to-gangnam-style-riles-s-korea
• Hokkaido Shinkansen Tunnel [NHK News]
  • http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20121023/t10015951791000.html
• Show Notes
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• J-Geek
  • http://youtu.be/NwKfAsKDXNY
  • https://www.facebook.com/jgeek.tokyo
• I Wanna Deliver a Shark [Design Interactions]
  • http://www.design-interactions.rca.ac.uk/ai-hasegawa/i-wanna-deliver-shark
• JR East Plans Free Wi-Fi for Tourists [Japan Times]
  • http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120906a5.html#.UEf2JXgsnOo.twitter
• National Government to Purchase 3 Senkakus Islands [Japan Probe]
  • http://www.japanprobe.com/2012/09/06/national-government-to-purchase-3-senkaku-islands-from-private-owner/
• Pressure in Mount Fuji is Now Higher than Last Eruption [Wired]
  • http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/06/mount-fuji
• Pan-kun Attacks! [Japan Probe]
  • http://www.japanprobe.com/2012/09/07/famous-performing-chimpanzee-pan-kun-viciously-mauls-woman/
• Poisonous Spider Infestation [Japan Probe]
  • http://www.japanprobe.com/2012/09/07/poisonous-spider-infestation-in-hyogo/
• Track Pick – Butterfly by GARNiDELiA
  • http://soundcloud.com/garnidelia/butterfly
• Top Ten Reasons to Visit Osaka
  • http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/life/king-kansai-10-reasons-visit-osaka-574795
• Show Notes
  • Blog: http://bc.wanwan.fm
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A man about town, a newcomer to Japan, host of the new Tokyo Podcast with an impressive resume, Anthony Joh joins us as a guest on this week’s show. In addition to our chat with Anthony, we talk about a McDonald’s french fry scandal, the Tokyo Motor Show, the most expensive car accident in history and some vintage subway manner posters from times forgotten. We had a ton of mail from the viewers we were hoping to get to, but we unfortunately ran out of time. We’ll get to it first thing on next week’s show. Be there!

A man about town, a newcomer to Japan, host of the new Tokyo Podcast with an impressive resume, Anthony Joh joins us as a guest on this week’s show. In addition to our chat with Anthony, we talk about a McDonald’s french fry scandal, the Tokyo Motor Show, the most expensive car accident in history and some vintage subway manner posters from times forgotten. We had a ton of mail from the viewers we were hoping to get to, but we unfortunately ran out of time. We’ll get to it first thing on next week’s show. Be there!

• Top of the Show
• Anthony Joh from Tokyo Podcast
• http://www.tokyo-podcast.com/
• Track Pick
• http://wacca.fm/m/23739
• Is McDonald’s Skimping on French Fries? [Japan Probe]
• http://en.rocketnews24.com/2011/11/29/mcdonalds-japan-skimping-on-french-fries-we-weight-6500g-of-fries-average-large-fry-10g-short/
• Tokyo Auto Show [Autoblog]
• http://www.autoblog.com/tokyo-motor-show/
• http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/T111204003966.htm?from=rss&ref=dyolwsj
• Most Expensive Car Crash in History [BBC]
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16027006
• Vintage Tokyo Subway Posters [Pink Tenticle]
• http://pinktentacle.com/2010/08/vintage-tokyo-subway-manner-posters/
• Show Notes
• Blog: http://bc.wanwan.fm
• Email: bc@wanwan.fm
• Leave a Voicemail:
• Skype: BadCommunicationPodcast
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• Send us a video voicemail and we’ll play it on the show!
• Future Guests:
• Kurt & Mully (December 19, 2011)
• Jason (January 9, 2012)
• Live Show
• Monday nights at 8:30pm in Japan

Where did the time go? Only a week late, but chock full of newsy goodness out of Japan! We’ve got a story about designer prosthetic limbs, a robotic pillow that gently mauls your face when you snore, a disastrous delay of the very popular video game Love Plus, the world’s fastest supercomputer, a pervy female groper and some post-apocalyptic images of Japan. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Where did the time go? Only a week late, but chock full of newsy goodness out of Japan! We’ve got a story about designer prosthetic limbs, a robotic pillow that gently mauls your face when you snore, a disastrous delay of the very popular video game Love Plus, the world’s fastest supercomputer, a pervy female groper and some post-apocalyptic images of Japan. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

We kick it into high gear with Alex K. returning for his third consecutive appearance on the show!  Lots of great stories, some of which include an upside down ANA flight, a Korean soccer fan who we can all agree is kind of a dick, the end of the Doraemon train, some messages from you guys and a story about a guy who attempted to smuggle $2.1 million worth of meth into the country.  Great stories and great personalities on this week’s episode of Bad Communication!

We kick it into high gear with Alex K. returning for his third consecutive appearance on the show!  Lots of great stories, some of which include an upside down ANA flight, a Korean soccer fan who we can all agree is kind of a dick, the end of the Doraemon train, some messages from you guys and a story about a guy who attempted to smuggle $2.1 million worth of meth into the country.  Great stories and great personalities on this week’s episode of Bad Communication!

The one and only Alex K. joins us again to chat about the happenings of the past week.  Among the things we talk about are a story about the greatest robbery in Japanese history, an article about being funny in Japan, the booming business of ‘corpse hotels’, some messages from you guys, 3D characters you can touch and rice paddy art.  All this and more on this week’s episode!

The one and only Alex K. joins us again to chat about the happenings of the past week.  Among the things we talk about are a story about the greatest robbery in Japanese history, an article about being funny in Japan, the booming business of ‘corpse hotels’, some messages from you guys, 3D characters you can touch and rice paddy art.  All this and more on this week’s episode!