Planet Japan Podcast

Over the Obon holiday, I went to Shiraishi Island where the Lady of Japan Podcasts, Amy Chavez (columnist for The Japan Times), resides and tends the Mooo! Bar. She is also one half of the Planet Japan podcast cohosted with Doug DeLong. In an ealier podcast they invited any of their listeners to come to their first ever Planet Japan Beach Party and I took them up on their invite.

I encourage any of my readers of this blog to go over, right now, and start downloading past episodes of the podcast. The show is a real treat: a fun, often funny, and informative look at life in Japan for those of us trying to make heads or tails of the place. It also helps that I am also in one of the episodes (episode #11), you can even see pictures at the Planet Japan blog page. You get to hear me in all my drunken and exhausted glory. Of the several non-native speakers interviewed for that episode, I was the one with the most foreign accent and disjointed sentence structure. I blame the Moo Margaritas. Dang you, Amy, dang you for your delicious boozy beach drinks!

Anyway, the podcast was recently given minor celebrity status when the creator of podcasting himself, Adam Curry, gave the show a thumbs up. So hop on over to the podcast, grab yourself your favorite Japanese oriented libation, settle yourself into your favorite comfy chair and listen to the happenest podcast about Japan on the Internets. Final note: you will have to go to the podcast page itself for the URL needed to subscribe to the show; but you'll be able to listen to the streaming audio from the front page itself.