We kick off with confusing talk of Cow Day, seasonal interregna, Chinese cosmology and eel-eating - all of which are somehow connected.

Next we reveal what Dave's Dad was doing in Malaya in the 1950's and explore the end of empire in that region before opening our ears to another STAVKA track, "Felled in Ginza."

Andy then tackles the slightly dodgy subject of Asian bloodlust - have wartime barbarities merely been transformed into violent manga, sadistic porn and extreme schadenfreude?

Controversy then continues with Dave reviewing Kishore Mahbubani's book "Can Asians Think?", which leads to a discussion of whether or not Japan is different from other Asian countries, as exemplified by its economic success.