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This week, Ian talks about the recent METI 2007 robot awards, the Keta Shrine 2008 cormorant prediction ritual, and challenges your morals and sensibilities with an examination of advertising tactics against the yearly dolphin hunt in Japan.

Every week, Dai-Cast Supplemental will give you a chance to learn a little something more about Japan, and allow us to clear out our archives of old topics which didn't make it into the full length show. All in 3-5 minute easily digestible chunks! (

Little video opening to the Dai-Cast episode 52 Spectacular. Good riff on the Battlestar Galactica OP

From the page: "Broadcasting to you, not-quite-live from the crystal gondola in the palatial main Tiltyhouse studios in beautiful downtown Noda City Japan, for the education, elucidation, emancipation, enlightenment and mental emolument of the Nipponistic hoi-polloi.

Or in plain English, Dai-Cast is a weekly podcast highlighting recent developments in Japan and Japanese pop culture from a western perspective.
This Week: Special Golden Week Report! "

Dai-Cast Supplemental is a weekly show to give you, the viewer, something new to watch and learn, and give us a chance to use up some of our old topics.

This week, Ian brings up the Japanese rejection of robots as caregivers, and talks about the rise of Canadian music in Japan. Plus, Jap-Snacks brings you ナンデスカ？

This week on Dai-Cast Zeta, Ian brings you his take on Philip Pullman's "Golden Compass" in Japan, teaches you a bit about Shinto, and examines the poses and prose in Yakusa 3 and it's rap music. Plus, mentions of our new website features, and why you should never vote for Beej in our Dai-Cast host poll.

[editors note: The rap song that Ian "performs" are actual translated lyrics from the hit rap song "Kudan" referenced in the episode...]


Dai-Cast Supplemental is a weekly show to give you, the viewer, something new to watch and learn, and give us a chance to use up some of our old topics.