Happy Holidays from the 2008 NUFS Podcast Team!!

A New Year's card from all of us to all our listeners. Thanks for listening to the NUFS Podcast and

よろしくお願いします for 2009！

NUFS Podcast 051

Merry Christmas to all from the NUFS Podcast!! To celebrate this most festive of holidays, the NUFS Podcast this week explores the question: "If Japan's not a Christian country, why do they celebrate Christmas?" Hear what Nihonjin and foreigners alike have to say about that!

Renae Muller from the "Oz Style" corner bids us a final farewell -- before she leaves for Australia, she's asking her friends at the International House how they plan to spend their Christmas & New Year's holiday.

And finally, Yukko & Kayoko (with some big help from Shoko) report on a survey of 100 NUFS women that examines their attitudes toward work. Why do Japanese women face discrimination from companies when they're looking for a job? They wonder if women themselves share any of the responsibility for the discrimination they experience.

Hosts: Yukako Ono & Kayoko Sato
Producer: Shoko Watanabe
Production Team: Shoko Watanabe, Yukako Ono, Kayoko Sato, Renae Muller & K-sk Dei
Executive producer: Tom Kenny
Time: 13:12
Recorded: December 15-18, 2008

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NUFS Podcast 050

What’s your favorite song these days? That’s what Naomi & Chucky want to find out from NUFS students this week. Listen and see if students talk about your favorite song!

The topic of marijuana use was in the news recently when some university students in Japan were arrested for growing or possessing the drug. In this week’s NUFS podcast, our hosts present a report of student opinion on this matter, based on the results of their survey of 100 NUFS students. Should marijuana be illegal? How about the use of medicinal marijuana, which is becoming more common around the world?

Hear the results of the survey of Japanese students and opinions from international students on this controversial topic.

Hosts: Chiaki Tokorozawa & Naomi Takechi
Producer: Kunihiko Kikuchi
Production Team: Kunihiko Kikuchi, Naomi Takechi, Chiaki Tokorozawa, & Keisuke Dei
Executive producer: Tom Kenny
Time: 16:32
Recorded: Dec 9-11, 2008
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NUFS Podcast 049

A rather serious NUFS podcast with two fun guys! Takumi & Kazuto talk about rice, beef, and about food in general as they explain about the challenges Japan’s food self-sufficiency. What’s the problem?

While the guys go and eat a hamburger, our Aussie students, Brenton & Renae present some international reaction to the recent US election: Will Obama make a difference? Hear opinions on their corner “Oz Style.”

Finally. what do students dream about for their future? Find out what NUFS students are thinking about these days!

Hosts: Kazuto Ochiai & Takumi Ota
Producer: Marie Kanazu
Production Team: Marie Kanazu, Takumi Ota, Kazuto Ochiai & K-sk Dei
Executive producer: Tom Kenny
Time: 20:26
Recorded: December 1-4, 2008

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NUFS Podcast 048

Do you watch movies when they come to the movie theater? Or do you wait until the movie comes out on DVD to see it? Yukko & Shoko talk about how expensive movie ticket prices are in Japan and they ask international students how much it costs to see a movie in their countries.

Then Yukko has surprising answers for you about WHY tickets are so expensive!
Next, they turn to the serious subject of the past abductions of Japanese by North Korea. Producer Kayoko Sato has a special report to give you background information about it, and Yukko & Shoko find out how much International students know about it.

No matter where you come from, you’ll learn a lot from this program of the NUFS Podcast.

Hosts: Yukako Ono & Shoko Watanabe

Producer: Kayoko Sato

Production Team: Yukako Ono, Kayoko Sato, Shoko Watanabe & K-sk Dei

Executive producer: Tom Kenny

Time: 10:43

Recorded: November 25-27, 2008

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