Ken and Garrett on Abe’s stonewalling and gaffe, along with his upcoming meetings with Hu Jintao in Beijing and Roh Moo-Hyun in Seoul, which your hosts think will important in setting the tone for foreign affairs in Abe’s administration.� What might happen regarding a North Korean nuclear test?

(Intro: Shamisen and an orchestral version of Kimigayo.)
In the news:

New Prime Minister Abe Shinzo frustrated opposition DPJ and Communist Party Diet members by literally sticking to the script and reading answers written by his aides off of note cards in response to direct, specific questions, especially from DPJ Secretary-General Hatoyama Yukio, during his first session of questioning in the Diet on Monday. The session ended half an hour early due to Abe’s refusal to answer questions or explain his positions.

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It’s been a great week for news and a busy, but good week in other respects as well. Unfortunately, the latter has made it difficult to put out a podcast on the former in as timely a fashion as we would have liked. We have recorded Seijigiri for September 27, 2006, though, and need only finish up the post-production to release it. Bear with us, it’s coming.

To tide you over, we have posted the news, some errata, and, most important, some big thank yous in these show notes.

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More Albrecht! More Ken! More Garrett, whether you like it or not. With so many brilliant ideas flying around, we know you’ll want to catch every one. To this end, we’ve slaved away to produce these here show notes.

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I set out with a grand goal: to make verbatim transcriptions of every edition of Seijigiri to help people who listen to our podcasts as a way of brushing up on their English, who want the info, but don’t have mp3 players, who are hearing impaired, whatever the case may be. It was fun at first, but there’s no way Ken and I will have the time to do it, so Seijigiri’s Inaugural Release will, for now, be the only podcast, other than the Wallace Stevens series, to have a verbatim transcript. I’ll write detailed show notes for every edition from the September 2nd release on.

That is, of course, unless one of our dedicated listeners, a fan, a Seijigiri otaku, wanted to take it upon himself to type it all up for us. We’d give you all of our Sailor Moon stuff.

Anybody?

Keep checking the site; Seijigiri #4 is due out soon as are detailed show notes, if not full transcripts, for every podcast.

Thanks for listening.

- Garrett

Albrecht was great, wasn’t he? We didn’t want to miss a single point; you don’t have to, either. Here are the notes for Seijigiri’s third edition.

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So much good information, so little time. To help our dear listeners with research, the transliteration of names, study, or anything for which they may find a transcript useful, some more detailed show notes are provided here because full transcripts take forever and apparently aren’t seeing much demand.

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For those who want to review, who couldn’t hear us clearly, or can’t listen when they want to for any reason, here’s a transcript of the Inaugural edition of Seijigiri.
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