This week, Carol Haggerty returns to bring you new and important info about smoking in Japan. It’s TASPO, it’s an age verification, and without it, you will be a very unhappy smoker!

Every week, Dai-Cast Supplemental will give you a chance to learn a little something more about Japan, and allow us to clear out our archives of old topics which didn’t make it into the full length show. All in 3-5 minute easily digestible chunks!

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This week on Dai-Cast, it’s an all testosterone three-quarter hour, with Ian, Beej, and Jason Hill as “Black Santa”. On the show, we receive new spam for the site in Japanese, examine the idea of Cat Cafe’s and Rental Girl’s Bedrooms in Akihabara. Plus, a Japanese company comes up with the idea of “Heartache Leave”, and examine the validity of the top photos foreigners take in Japan.

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

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Topics Covered This Week:

• Cat Café in Akihabara – dannychoo.com
• Girls Bedroom for Rent (again, in Akihabara) – dannychoo.com
• Japanese Company Institutes Heartache Leave – japundit.com
• Top Foreigner Photos in Tokyo – japanprobe.com
• Japan Tobacco “Smoking Clean” Posters – jti.co.jp

Beej’s Anime of the Indeterminate Time Period – Rosario + Vampire