On this week, we’ve got a laundry list of Liquid Plumber and Vaseline, and start things off with a little anecdote about Ian’s adventures with Junior High students. Then we get a big X from the industry over Batsu punishment games on Japanese TV. But it can all be cleared up by going to a brothel together, if “Japanese Business Traditions” can be believed from the Dentsu CEO. Meanwhile, KFC beats a hasty retreat out of Japan, making room for the Mitsubishi Snackwitch, which will unfortunately not be honoured by the Nova Ex-Employee Work for Food program. Or, they could simply sign up for the Japanese millitary, for their new army of Gundams. And finally, all aboard the Yamanote Halloween Train — Controversy!

Broadcasting to you, not-quite-live from the crystal gondola in the palatial main Tiltyhouse studios in beautiful downtown Noda City Japan, for the education, elucidation, emancipation, enlightenment and mental emolument of the Nipponistic hoi-polloi.

Or in plain English, Dai-Cast is a weekly podcast highlighting recent developments in Japan and Japanese pop culture from a western perspective.

Hosts: Ian Horner, Dan Ross, and Jason Hill, with Brendan Dery as “Beej”.

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Topics Covered this Week:

• Batsu Games Get the X from the Industry – japundit.com
• Dentsu Brothel Visits – japanprobe.com
• ”Nigger in the Woodpile” in Japanese Dictionary – flickr.com
• Mitsubishi to Take Over KFC in Japan – japundit.com
• Adopt a Nova Teacher? – japanprobe.com
• Army of Gundams for Japan – dannychoo.com
• Halloween Train I – boingboing.net
• Halloween Train II – japundit.com
• Haloween Train III, Revenge of the Internet – japanprobe.com
• Beej’s Web Comic of The Week – Cigarro & Cerveja