http://www.transpacificradio.com Independent Podcasting from Tokyo. Featuring Seijigiri, a discussion of Japanese news and politics, as well as TPR News, our twice a week look at Japan's top stories. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Subscribe to Seijigiri by RSS Subscribe to all TPR releases by RSS In this edition of Seijigiri, co-hosts Garrett DeOrio and Ken Worsley take a look at the 2010 budget, which was recently passed by the lower house and is thus guaranteed to become the official budget. From there, the show moves on ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2010/03/09/seijigiri-61-budget-ldp-japan-soft-power/ Subscribe to Seijigiri by RSS Subscribe to all TPR releases by RSS It's good to be back. Thanks to everyone who kept in touch during Seijigiri's absence from the airwaves, or the series of tubes, or whatever it is. In this edition of what remains perhaps Japan's only political podcast, your hosts Ken ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2010/02/03/seijigiri-60-dpjs-1st-diet-session-begins-overshadowed-by-ozawa-scandal/ No, TPR is not dead - just retooling, resetting, and more. We'll be back soon. For those of you who are in Tokyo and need a fix, tomorrow night Adam Richards and Garrett DeOrio will be doing a live edition of Seijigiri at the Pink Cow in Shibuya as part of ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2009/11/30/live-seijigiri-at-the-pink-cow/ Former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who lost his Hokkaido Diet seat on August 30th, after his drunken appearance at a Rome G8 conference in February led to his resignation from the Cabinet, was found dead in his Setagaya home by his wife at about 8:15 this morning.So far, Tokyo police ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2009/10/04/shoichi-nakagawa-found-dead/ The day has come. Tomorrow, the International Olympic committee will meet in Copenhagen to decide which of the four finalist cities - Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, or Tokyo - will get the dubious honor of hosting the Games of the XXXI Summer Olympiad, better known as the 2016 Summer ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2009/10/01/olympic-decision-tomorrow-say-no-to-tokyo/ September 19th marked the tenth anniversary of human rights activist Debito Arudou's first visit to the Yu-no-Hana Onsen in Otaru, Hokkaido and the first of three times he and some of his companions were turned away due to an explicit "Japanese Only" policy that turned out to be, according to ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2009/09/24/otaru-10-years/ As expected, Yukio Hatoyama officially became Japan's 93rd Prime Minister yesterday and just the second since the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party was founded not to belong to it. Just as importantly, after roughly two weeks of managing to keep the press at bay and leaking little, if anything about the ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2009/09/17/hatoyama-officially-becomes-pm-names-cabinet/ Continuing on with the Kinki region, we reach Kyoto (which, just in case no one's told you in the last few minutes, is historical), home of some big names. Sadakazu Tanigaki, a likely leader of the newly-chastened LDP, held on to his district 5 seat while former Education Minister and ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2009/09/07/election-results-kyoto/ Continuing with Hyogo, district 8 was fairly interesting: neither a DPJ nor and LDP candidate ran as both deferred to smaller allies - the New Party Nippon in the case of the DPJ and the New Komeito in the case of the LDP. The NK candidate, who lost his seat, ... http://www.transpacificradio.com/2009/09/07/election-results-hyogo-districts-7-12/ Continuing with the second most-represented prefecture Kinki region. . . HYOGO D1 Candidate Status Party Prev. Age Votes W IDO Masae - DPJ 0 43 111,183 - MORIYAMA Masahito I LDP 1 55 73,767 - AJIGUCHI Toshiyuki - JCP 0 39 20,760 - HARA Kazumi - Ind. 0 59 19,995 - MAKIYAMA Kenji - HRP 0 52 2,868 D2 Candidate Status Party Prev. Age Votes W MAKOYAMA Koichi - DPJ 0 52 111,208 - AKABA Kazuyoshi I NK 5 51 88,502 - IMURA Hiroko - JCP 0 63 23,041 9,995 - TAKEUCHI Tomohiro - HRP 0 45 4,485 D3 Candidate Status Party Prev. Age Votes W DOI Ryuichi I DPJ 6 70 102,350 - SEKI Yoshihiro I LDP 1 44 67,833 - KANEDA Mineo - JCP 0 44 18,703 - KUROE Kenji - Ind. 0 53 11,011 - YAMAMOTO Masaharu - Ind. 0 53 2,866 - MORIMOTO Kiyoshi - HRP 0 52 2,039 D4 Candidate Status Party Prev. Age Votes W TAKAHASHI Shoichi - DPJ 0 45 142,684 - INOUE Kiichi I LDP 7 77 103,336 - ISHIHARA Shuzo - Ind. 0 58 20,924 - SATO Rui - HRP 0 32 5,299 - TOYAMA Takeshi - Ind. 0 61 4,427 D5 Candidate Status Party Prev. Age Votes W KAJIWARA Yashuhiro F DPJ 1 52 142,631 PR TANI Koichi I LDP 2 57 109,497 - MARUOKA Masumi - HRP 0 51 7,406 D6 Candidate Status Party Prev. Age Votes W ICHIMURA Koichiro I DPJ 2 45 172,889 - KOBIKI Tsukasa I LDP 1 50 104,014 - KITANO Noriko - JCP 0 46 28,098 - UENO Yoshihiro - HRP 0 38 6,096 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2009/09/07/election-results-hyogo-districts-1-6/