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Postcards from Asia radio spots: Recent submissions
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Let's Sleep at Your Place
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-05-19)Broadcast Transcript: Sure, Mongolia still has its yurts, its nomads, its fermented yak's milk but it also has a reality TV show: танайд хоноё which means Let's Sleep at Your Place. The host is Tengis, a friendly and ... -
School for Singles
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-05-12)Broadcast Transcript: You've heard of Generation X? Well, meet Generation S. S for single. Here in Japan, there is a big market niche of single twenty- and thirty-somethings. A market niche into which the Infini School of ... -
White Day
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-05-05)Broadcast Transcript: The Japanese culture is one of obligation and protocol. For example: Valentine's Day. No undisciplined, bi-gender gift exchange here. Oh no. February 14th is sex specific: only women give gifts. And ... -
Hangul
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-04-28)Broadcast Transcript: Once upon a time, the Koreans wrote using Classical Chinese characters that they called hanja. Then, in 1443, King Sejong commissioned someone to invent a phonetic alphabet they could call their own. ... -
Naked Sushi
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-04-21)Broadcast Transcript: Sushi's global presence is indisputable. Did we hear you say "Shooko o dase" which is "Prove it" in Japanese? Okay. March 8th was International Women's Day, a holiday created in 1911 to celebrate the ... -
Great Wall Chocolate
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-04-14)Broadcast Transcript: From fortification to fatification: A chocolate replica of the Great Wall was recently made here in China. It was created for the World Chocolate Wonderland whose sole purpose is to get the Chinese ... -
Great Wall Historic
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-04-07)Broadcast Transcript: Nothing says "Do Not Disturb" more effectively than a 3,000-mile fortification of brick and mortar. The Great Wall of China, or chang cheng, was begun over 1,000 years ago by Qin Shi Huang Di, the ... -
Videogame Marriage
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-03-10)Broadcast Transcript: And the prize for the most extreme nerd culture in the world goes to... Japan where a college student known only as SAL9000, his game-playing alias, has married Nene Anegasaki, a video game character ... -
Nightingale Floor
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-03-03)Broadcast Transcript: A thousand years before electronics, the Japanese already had home security systems. Well, palace security systems like the one at Nijo Castle in Kyoto that was designed to keep the Tokugawa Shogun ... -
Kimjongilia
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-02-24)Broadcast Transcript: Don't leave Pyongyang without a visit to the Central Botanical Gardens to see two flowering plants that are so DPRK: kimilsungia and kimjongilia. Kimilsungia--or the flower of Kim Il Sung--is a type ... -
NK Vacancy
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-02-17)Broadcast Transcript: My fellow Americans... start packing. North Korea has eased travel restrictions for US tourists. Instead of only being allowed to visit during the Mass Games from August to October, US tourists are ... -
Tiny Tiger
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-02-10)Broadcast Transcript: The Chinese New Year is just around the corner. There are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. This year is the Year of ... -
Year of the Tiger
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2010-02-03)Broadcast Transcript: Xin nian kuai le! That's happy New Year in Chinese. It's a Tiger year. The Chinese zodiac runs on a 12 year cycle and each year is governed by an animal: rat, ox , tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ... -
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 ...
