Trans-Pacific Radio is Now Online!

Filed under: Trans-Pacific Info
Posted by Ken Worsley at 7:55 pm on Saturday, August 26, 2006

One day in June, Garrett came to me with the idea of starting a podcast focused on Japanese news and politics. I thought he had a great idea, but I knew I didn’t have the time to do it. But he kept talking about it. After a few lunches together, I realized he was actually imagining something bigger and bolder - something like an online podcast station with serveral different releases - something I really wanted to do. I thought this idea was even better, but there was no way I had time for something like that.

Two months later, here we are. Ideas usually win out in the end, and we’re glad to finally be online. Our first release, the inaugural edition of Seijigiri, will be out soon. We’ll go through some growing pains, but we hope that our projects and releases will offer something that interests people as well as provides a level of depth missing from most coverage of the East Asia region.

Thank you for visiting, and thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy our materials.

Ken Worsley (and Garrett DeOrio!)


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Comment by Garrett

August 27, 2006 @ 1:09 am

Aw shucks, Ken. You’re swell. There’s no way this would be here without your hard work. Thanks.

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Comment by Tad DeOrio

August 29, 2006 @ 2:25 am

Congrats.

Okay, how or where do I register?

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Comment by Dana

August 29, 2006 @ 10:51 pm

I just want to know…who did the cool logo?

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Comment by ken

August 30, 2006 @ 8:23 pm

‘Twas I Dana.

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Comment by Garrett

August 31, 2006 @ 3:52 am

Tad, try pasting http://www.transpacificradio.com/?feed=rss2 into your podcast aggregator, such as iTunes. This will subscribe you to everything TPR puts out for now.

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Comment by Ken

August 31, 2006 @ 4:04 am

Another thing you can do is use the Flock browser. It’s the same thing as Firefox, but faster and with a built-in RSS reader.

I like it.

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Comment by Miyuki

September 1, 2006 @ 11:05 am

Congratulations! Im looking forward to listening the next one.

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Comment by Ed Sharp

September 6, 2006 @ 12:50 am

I heard about these podcasts from a friend.

They are very interesting. I wish there was similar content to inform Americans about their own political system. If it existed, I would subscribe for Nancy Pelosi - she needs some help!

This is good and I hope you guys are successful and can continue.

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Comment by DeOrio

September 6, 2006 @ 9:31 pm

Mr. Sharp, we love Nancy Pelosi around here.
Just kidding. I can\’t say that with a straight face. We\’re Cynthia McKinney people.
Can\’t do that, either.
We would love to make an American version, but we would have a lot of competition. Some of it good, some if along the lines of Bill O\’Reilly. We could do that - shout and complain about things that never happened.
Anyway, thanks for your support. I\’m glad you liked what you heard and want to assure you that things will only get better - at least if we have anything to do with it.
If I am correct in my deductions, your having found us and your love of Nancy Pelosi would lead me to believe that your friend and I share a surname. Would I be correct?

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Comment by ken

September 6, 2006 @ 11:48 pm

Garrett,
If Ed Sharp’s friend and you have the same last name, that would be a wild coincidence. Not sure how to even calculate the odds on that one.

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Comment by DeOrio

September 7, 2006 @ 1:56 am

Relatively simple arithmetic, Ken, my boy. Just divide the number of people who dislike Nancy Pelosi by the number of people whose surnames are synonyms for “intelligent” and there you have it. As you can see, there aren’t many possibilities, arithmetically speaking. I put the odds at slightly better than those of me getting any sleep tonight.

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Comment by Cal Hobbs

September 12, 2006 @ 12:31 am

I don’t want to know why you know what he looks like getting out of the shower.

Just curious, what is the Japanese view of the royal family?

On a more serious note, where is Japan or the the various parties on the issue of North Korea?

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Comment by DeOrio

September 12, 2006 @ 10:39 pm

Mr. Hobbs, cute name. When two men work together on a podcast, they get close. Just kidding. If you want to see Ken getting out of the shower, wait for that new spy sat to go online.
The Japanese view of the royal family is widely split, mostly, it seems, by age. The older the person, the more likely he is, it seems, to think the issue important. Right wingers are a whole different issue. They really care. The Imperial family shows up in the papers when something big happens. but they don’t dominate the tabloids or anything like that. The Imperial Household Ministry keeps things quite tightly under wraps.
As for North Korea, loathing’s the word. Japan tends to side with the US in the split in the six-party talks, which means they’d like to see hard sanctions and have no diplomatic relations with the DPRK. In 2002, though, after the abduction issue became public, Koizumi went to Pyongyang. Japan deeply fears a possible North Korean missile attack. We’ll try to devote more time to this very important and relevant issue in future podcasts. Keep listening.
Thanks for the comment and the good questions. Thanks for listening, too.

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