Bad Communication

We wish Andrew a happy birthday and bring you some of the more interesting news stories from this past week.  We’ve got a story about NTT Docomo’s new real time translation service, more radioactive radium found in Tokyo, our wishes for a speedy recovery for the Emperor, yet another Chinese fishing boat captain arrested and a long chat about the future of gaming.  We had a great time and hope you do too!

We wish Andrew a happy birthday and bring you some of the more interesting news stories from this past week.  We’ve got a story about NTT Docomo’s new real time translation service, more radioactive radium found in Tokyo, our wishes for a speedy recovery for the Emperor, yet another Chinese fishing boat captain arrested and a long chat about the future of gaming.  We had a great time and hope you do too!

• Top of the Show
• HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDREW!
• 2.5 Oyaji
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2D5pl-Bzlo
• The Labyrinth (a Japanese study resource)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1FyLa7P_98&feature=channel_video_title
• This is our labyrinth project, a series of interactive video threads for learning Japanese. Gengonotabi on Youtube began this project and is expanding it collabing with other youtubers who also can do Japanese. For each video you listen to 1 spoken Japanese phrase, and you decide if you understand it or don’t and if you don’t you proceed to learn the phrase listening to the phrase repeatedly and seeing the definition.
• NTT Docomo’s Real Time Translation Service [Japan Probe]
• http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/11/04/ntt-docomos-real-time-translation-service/
• More Radioactive Radium Found in Tokyo [Japan Probe]
• http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/11/03/more-radioactive-radium-found-in-tokyo-not-from-fukushima/
• Emperor has Bronchitis [Japan Times]
• http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111107a4.html
• Chinese Boat Captain Arrested [Yahoo]
• http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111107/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_china_boat
• Nintendo in Tough Times [Brisbane Times]
• http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/digital-life/games/nintendo-in-crisis-death-by-iphone-20111107-1n2nn.html
• Track Pick: “Fly Over” by Taka
• http://wacca.fm/m/7940

We’re launching several new features to the show to make things a bit more social and get the audience involved. Check us out our live show on USTREAM every Sunday morning at 10:00am and leave us a voicemail using our new voicemail system! We round off the show by talking about Kansai’s bid to become the ‘backup capital’ of Japan, an open air convenience store in the devastated town of Minami Sanriku, cute cat ears you control with your thoughts, the removal of the precariously perched landmark boat, a track pic, a mario inspired figure skating performance, the implementation of ‘super cool biz’ and one village’s nay sayers eating crow over the construction of a 51 foot sea wall. All this and more and this week’s episode of Bad Communication!

We’re launching several new features to the show to make things a bit more social and get the audience involved.  Check us out our live show on USTREAM every Sunday morning at 10:00am and leave us a voicemail using our new voicemail system!  We round off the show by talking about Kansai’s bid to become the ‘backup capital’ of Japan, an open air convenience store in the devastated town of Minami Sanriku, cute cat ears you control with your thoughts, the removal of the precariously perched landmark boat, a track pic, a mario inspired figure skating performance, the implementation of ‘super cool biz’ and one village’s nay sayers eating crow over the construction of a 51 foot sea wall.  All this and more and this week’s episode of Bad Communication!

• Voicemail & Skype
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  • +81 050 5532 5314
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  • badcommunicationpodcast
    • If you don’t want to spend the extra money, just call us through Skype and it’s free!
• Kansai Bids to be ‘Backup Capital’ [The Japan Times]
  • http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110510f1.html
• Open Air Convenience Store [Asahi]
  • http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0511/TKY201105110210.html
• Cute Mind-Controlled Cat Ears [Tokyo Tek]
  • http://tokyotek.com/cute-mind-controlled-cat-ears/
  • via CerberusTenshi
• Boat Stranded by Tsunami is Lifted from Rooftop [New York Times]
  • http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/in-japan-a-boat-stranded-by-tsunami-is-lifted-from-rooftop/
• Track Pick: “Recall”
  • http://wacca.fm/m/11675
  • with footage from Cerberus Tenshi & Andrew Hawkins
    • Check out Cerberus Tenshi on Twitter and give him a follow!
    • @CerberusTenshi
• World Figure Skating Championship 2011: Super Mario on Ice [Telegraph]
  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/iceskating/8505029/World-Figure-Skating-Championship-2011-Super-Mario-on-ice.html
  • via OceanEdge
• MoE to Allow ‘Super Cool Biz’ [Japan Today]
  • http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/ministry-to-let-workers-wear-t-shirts-jeans-under-super-cool-biz?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=news_on_twitter
• How One Japanese Village Defied the Tsunami [MSNBC]
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43018489/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
• Splitting Sites
  • Bad Communication
    • bc.wanwan.fm
    • youtube.com/bcpodcast
    • twitter.com/badcommpodcast
  • Bridges
    • bridges.wanwan.fm
    • youtube.com/bridgespodcast
    • twitter.com/bridgespodcast
• Show Notes
  • Blog: http://bc.wanwan.fm
  • Email: bc@wanwan.fm
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