Fault Lines, Snap #717 - Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Glynn goes on a date...and things get shaky.Producer: Pat Mesiti Miller
View ArticleSnap #718 - Leap Of Faith
On the next all-NEW Snap..." Leap of Faith." When you feel disaster looming, but still...you decide to go for it. Snap Judgment, storytelling with a beat.
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The yen is rising. What happens if Japan tries to push its currency down?
A woman counts Japanese 10,000 yen notes in Tokyo. Faced with a strong yen, Japan might look to manipulate its currency. Economist Benn Steil and Emma Smith look at what might happen if Japan decides...
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News Wrap: ISIS claims throat-slit slay of Catholic priest in France
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In the day’s other news: The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the brutal killing of a Catholic priest in France. It happened in a...
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News Wrap: Delta computer outage cancels flights; 67 killed in Pakistan...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Delta Air Lines canceled more than 400 flights today, after a global crash of its computer systems. Hours later, the carrier resumed limited service....
View ArticleCommunity Energy, Olympic Sexism, The Audiobook Revolution
Coming up on today's show:Huge swaths of rural America have been left out of the digital revolution due to poor internet access. Now, some communities are relying on methods from the turn of the...
View ArticleEmperor Akihito's Mark on Modern Japan
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.On Monday, Japanese Emperor Akhito suggested in a televised address that, at age 82, he would like to vacate the throne."I am already 80 years...
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Japan braces for third typhoon in a week
Waves hit the seaside in Chosi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 22, 2016. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERSA pair of typhoons in as many days hit Japan this weekend,...
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News Wrap: Trump says he’s not flip-flopping on immigration plan
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump insisted today he’s not flip-flopping on his plan to deport some 11 million people living in the U.S....
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News Wrap: Strong earthquake strikes Myanmar; militants bomb Afghan university
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Five thousand miles away from Italy, another powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar today, killing at least four people. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck...
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News Wrap: McCain, Rubio win their primaries
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: The presidential race took another sharp turn today. Republican Donald Trump flew to Mexico to meet with that country’s president, hours before giving a...
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Light show turns primeval Kyoto forest, shrine into a kaleidoscope
Photo courtesy of TeamLabFor a few brief days this summer, a sacred shrine and forest in Kyoto, Japan, became a technicolor dreamscape.The Shimogamo shrine, a World Heritage site whose history dates...
View ArticleNot Just A 'Ball and Cup,' Kendama Offers Alternative to Screen Time
A traditional Japanese toy is getting some local residents to put down their smartphones.Known as the kendama, the hobby made its way to Hawaii, then crossed the United States and has finally landed on...
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U.S., Japan, South Korea condemn nuclear test by North Korea
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a Pledging Conference in Support of Iraq, co-hosted by the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan, Kuwait, and the Netherlands at the State Department in...
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News Wrap: Alabama chief justice suspended for preventing same-sex marriage...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In the day’s other news: A disciplinary court in Alabama suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore over gay marriage. The panel found he encouraged probate...
View ArticleMagnitude 7.3 earthquake hits Japan’s east coast, tsunami warning downgraded
In the early morning hours Tuesday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck off the coast of Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.Shortly before 6 a.m. local time,...
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Dog diplomacy? Putin trots out dog before talks with Japan over territorial...
Russian President Vladimir Putin plays with his dog Yume, a female Akita Inu, before giving an interview to Japanese Nippon Television and Yomiuri newspaper at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on Dec. 7,...
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WATCH: Obama and Japanese prime minister meet at Pearl Harbor for historic...
[Watch Video]President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are expected to speak from Pearl Harbor today at 5:05 p.m. EST. PBS NewsHour will live stream their remarks.HONOLULU — Putting...
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News Wrap: Japan’s prime minister makes historic visit to USS Arizona Memorial
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioThe post News Wrap: Japan’s prime minister makes historic visit to USS Arizona Memorial appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
View ArticleThe Church of 'Scionology'
On this week's episode of Freakonomics Radio: if you've built a successful business - be it a bakery, a carmaker or a newspaper - who continues the legacy when you retire?For many Fortune 500...
View Article63 – War and Food and Manga
Manga, the ubiquitous Japanese comic books written on just about every subject—sports, music, sex, shooting pool—represent about 40% of all books published in Japan. In recent decades ‘food manga’ has...
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Mattis to visit Japan, South Korea on first overseas trip as Pentagon chief
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense James Mattis (R) meets with Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joshua Roberts/ReutersWASHINGTON —...
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New Pentagon chief seeks to reassure Asian allies
Retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Mattis testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to serve as defense secretary in Washington, U.S. January 12, 2017. Photo by...
View ArticleDefense Secretary Mattis Visits Asia
Two weeks into his tenure, Defense Secretary James Mattis is making his first overseas trip. The focus will be on U.S.-Asia alliances, a relationship Mattis stressed during his confirmation...
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Executive order that incarcerated Japanese Americans is 75
A large sign reading “I am an American” placed in the window of a store, at 13th and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor, is pictured in Oakland, California in March 1942. Photo...
View ArticleOne Korean Family, Four Generations Later
Min Jin Lee joins us to discuss her new novel Pachinko, which traces four generations of a Korean family. Lee recounts the origins of the Korean diaspora, beginning with Japan’s annexation of Korea in...
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Trump budget prizes military buildup and sweeping cuts
Watch VideoThe post Trump budget prizes military buildup and sweeping cuts appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
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Will Tillerson’s tougher talk get Kim Jong-un to the table?
Watch VideoJUDY WOODRUFF: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at one of the most tense places on the planet, the border between North and South Korea, it’s the second of his stops on an important,...
View ArticleICE Doubles Down, A Contraceptive Crisis, The Anime View of the World
Coming up on today's show:Earlier this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions doubled-down on tough Trump-era immigration policies. John Sandweg, former acting director and acting general counsel of...
View ArticleJapan Braces for Next North Korean Missile Test
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Tensions are on the rise in East Asia as countries in the region carefully watch North Korea's next move.Earlier this week, President Donald...
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News Wrap: ‘Imminent attack’ on French election thwarted
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Voting is in the news across Europe today, starting with a surprise announcement from London. British Prime Minister Theresa May called for an early...
View ArticleFan Overboard!
This week, Studio 360 gets obsessed about fandom: a look inside the world of black cosplayers at ComicCon, Kurt visits a Japanese pop culture paradise, and an atheist proselytizes “Jesus Christ...
View ArticleNerd's Paradise
Roland Kelts, an expert in Japanese pop culture, takes Kurt to Akihabara, a retail paradise for otaku — obsessive fans of manga and other Japanese culture. But a tragedy casts a shadow over the fun and...
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Seven Navy crew missing, skipper hurt after collision off Japan
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald, damaged by colliding with a Philippine-flagged merchant vessel, is seen off Shimoda, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo/Reuters on June...
View ArticleU.S.S. Fitzgerald Crash: A Mystery in The Pacific
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Both Japanese and U.S. officials have launched multiple investigations to try to piece together the events that led to a Saturday morning...
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7 Magnificent Concert Halls to Feast Your Eyes On
You go to the concert hall to (hopefully) hear great music. But even though the sound of the orchestra and human voice might be the main draw, we know that gorgeous surroundings are more than an added...
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V-J Day at WNYC: A Behind the Scenes Look
WNYC Program Director Nathan M. Rudich in the 1940s courtesy of Glynn Rudich.Seventy-two years ago today WNYC program director Nathan M. Rudich arrived at the studio at 6:15 a.m. just before the AM...
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North Korea missile launch over Japan shakes U.S. allies
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioMILES O’BRIEN: The U.S. and its Asian allies are trading barbs in the wake of North Korea’s latest missile test early today.Nick Schifrin has our report.NICK SCHIFRIN:...
View ArticleNorth Korea Bucks the U.N. With Latest Missile Test
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Early Tuesday, North Korea fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japan's northern Hokkaido island and landed in the Pacific ocean. The...
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Analysis: Should the U.S. set a ‘red line’ for North Korea?
A missile is launched during a long and medium-range ballistic rocket launch drill in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang on Aug. 30. KCNA photo via...
View ArticleJapan Prepares for North Korean Conflict
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. As tensions continue to rise between North Korea and the United States, Japan is being put on high alert.On Monday, a Japanese newspaper...
View ArticleNaturally Good For You
Tree huggers might be onto something. Florence Williams explains how nature can make us healthier.
View ArticleNorth Korea minister calls Trump’s threat ‘sound of dog barking’
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s foreign minister has described as “the sound of a dog barking” President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy his country.The comments are the North’s first response to...
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Trump to travel to 5 countries in Asia in November
U.S. President Donald Trump meets South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 6, 2017. Photo by Carlos...
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What a North Korea hydrogen bomb would do to the Pacific Ocean and space...
“Nutmeg” nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on May 22, 1958. This surface blast was 25.1 kilotons, so 1.5 times stronger than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. North Korea’s alleged hydrogen bomb test in early...
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U.S., Japan agree to maximize diplomatic pressure on North Korea
Monitor in Tokyo shows news of North Korea firing a ballistic missile on July 4. File photo by Toru Hanai/ReutersTOKYO — U.S. and Japanese diplomats agreed Tuesday to maximize pressure on North Korea...
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This Japanese ‘hidden figure’ enlightened the world with her sunspot sketches
Hisako Koyama spent five decades inspecting the sun, especially sunspots. Sunspots are temporary dark spots that appear on the surface of the sun, where areas of intense magnetic activity lower the...
View ArticleJapan Heading to Snap Election
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for a snap election which will be held on Sunday, a little more than a year before his term was to...
View Article#4059: Music Rooted in Buddhist Chants
Listen to music rooted in the spiritual chanting of Buddhist monks - from Japan, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. Hear music by Cambodian composer Him Sophy & his music-theatre work, “Bangsokol: A...
View ArticleBeethoven’s Ninth Is a Christmas and New Year’s Staple in Japan. Here’s Why.
If you ever find yourself in Japan during December, there's a good chance you'll hear Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with an exceptionally rousing “Ode to Joy.” While Beethoven’s enthusiastic reception on...
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