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Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
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Extreme Recycling
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-01-14)Broadcast Transcript: Singing the recycling blues because you have to separate your chipboard from your newspaper, your steel from your aluminum, your #1 from your #2 plastic? Pantywaists! The residents of Kamikatsu, Japan ... -
Wabisabi
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-01-07)Broadcast Transcript: This is a pop quiz. What is wabisabi? a) Easy. That stuff you eat with sushi that clears your sinuses right up to your frontal lobes b) A character from a Miyazaki anime film. c) The name Tonto called ... -
Noko Jeans
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-12-23)Broadcast transcript: Kim Jong Il. Totalitarian dictator AND fashionista? Possibly. In an entrepreneurial breakthrough, a Swedish firm has contracted with a textile manufacturer in North Korea to produce designer jeans ... -
Hello Kitty Ambassador
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-10-14)Broadcast Transcript: Japan has just added two new words to the language of diplomacy: Hello Kitty. The popular cartoon character was recently called to serve her country as Tourism Ambassador to China and Hong Kong. She ... -
Flower Power Against Crime
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-08-26)Broadcast Transcript: From the "Beautification Bashes Burglary" File comes this: Residents of a neighborhood here in Tokyo are planting flowers to stamp out crime. When a neighborhood watch group reported that streets with ... -
One Dog Policy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-08-19)Broadcast Transcript: First the one child policy and now the one dog policy. First in Beijing and now in Guangzhou, the government is limiting the number of dogs in any household to one. And the regulation wasn't grandfathered ... -
Geek Chic in Akihabara
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-08-12)Broadcast Transcript: In the heart of Tokyo lies Akihabara--a district whose name means "field of fall leaves," though the actual scenery runs more to neon and silicon. This former postwar black market is now the holy land ... -
Golf and Taxes in South Korea
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-08-05)Broadcast Transcript: Bad news for golf mad South Koreans: forget about teeing off if you tee off the National Tax Service. The NTS is cracking down on tax cheats by revoking memberships in pricey golf clubs. Do the math: ... -
Aging Pets
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-07-29)Broadcast Transcript: As Japan's people population gets grayer so does its pet population and this has opened up a whole new market niche centering around dogs in their dotage. In Tokyo, there's a nursing home for the ... -
Korean Spelling Champ
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-06-24)Broadcast Transcript: She's a sixth grader. She's a champion speller. Her favorite word is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. She credits Akeelah and the Bee for inspiring her interest in spelling. She made it to the ... -
Confuciusornis
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-06-17)Broadcast Transcript: Well, it's time to add another item to that long list you're keeping of Things China Had First. This time it's birds. More specifically, one prehistoric bird called confuciusornis sanctus. Or holy ... -
Mudslinging Festival
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-06-10)Broadcast Transcript: For some Japanese, getting naked in public with a few hundred of their closest friends is a fantastic way to spend a cold winter day. Dozens of midwinter "hadaka matsuri"--or "naked festivals"--take ... -
Divorce Korean-Style
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-06-03)Broadcast Transcript: Until recently breaking up was NOT hard to do here in Korea making it a country with one of the highest divorce rates in Asia. The system allowed couples who filed papers at the local government office ... -
Blogocratic Demeritocacy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-05-27)Broadcast Transcript: For a thousand years, China was a bureaucratic meritocracy. Men from any walk of life could become high ranking officials if they did well on the Imperial examination. Failure meant dishonor, disgrace ... -
HRP-4C Robomodel
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-05-06)Broadcast Transcript: In the rarefied atmosphere of the catwalk, you pivot, you pose, you strut your stuff and, if you're HRP-4C, you whirr mechanically, blink electronically then cross your robotic arms and give a polite ... -
Onggi Festival
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-04-29)Broadcast Transcript: Book your tickets now: the Onggi Expo 2009 in Ulsan South Korea is coming up. And the potters of Oegosan Village are preparing for it in a big way: they are going for a Guinness world record by creating ... -
Fireworks Proxy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-04-22)Broadcast Transcript: From the "If you can't stand the heat... get someone else to stand under the fireworks for you" file comes this story from Taiwan: For years, the men of Taidong, have marked the Lunar New Year with a ... -
Maid Cafes
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-04-15)Broadcast Transcript: You step into a café. You hear "Welcome home, honorable master" spoken by an attractive young woman wearing a ruffled and flounced maid's uniform. If you aren't involved in one of those Victorian role ... -
Cloning Dogs
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-03-08)Broadcast Transcript: For those of you who have put off cloning your favorite pet due to the exorbitant cost, good news! The process just got cheaper. A biotech company here in South Korea has discovered that stems cells ... -
Chun Kun
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2009-04-01)Broadcast Transcript: Feeling sleepy? It's spring and the Chinese believe that people often feel sleepier in the spring. They even have a name for the condition: Chun kun--spring sleepiness. Kind of poetic, isn't it? Also, ...
