Bid rigging, Alberto Fujimori, immigration woes

RSS Podcast Feed – MP3  TOKYO – This week, taxpayers pay the price as the practice of bid rigging resurfaces. The disgraced ex president of Peru Alberto Fujimori says he wants to run for office, but this time in Japan. When is a refugee not a refugee?…when they’re in Japan. Want to buy a house and you’re not from around here, better check with the neighbors first, and just how easy is it to make a friend in Japan.

Political gaff, yen falls, and naked news

RSS Podcast Feed – MP3  TOKYO – Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma opens wartime wounds and loses his job. The yen continues to take a tumble against foreign currencies seeing its lowest value since the mid eighties. And the government sponsors naked sign language lessons on an adult television channel.