Why does Japan's Prime Minister keep going to the infamous Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo? Andy and Dave certainly have no idea, but that's not going to stop them blathering on about it...

In Part 3 of the "Kansai Diary" Andy visits the ancient capital Nara and regales us with tales of deer poo, enormous gilded boots, ornate gardens with nasty secrets and strange ceremonies conducted in mossy shrines.

STAVKA plays "Asleep on Wake Island", an ode to those miserable gits who constantly complain in this land of plenty. More info on STAVKA can be found at http://www.ardle.net/stavkahome.htm.

Next Dave reads an anti-Zen poem in the 'tanka' style sent in by Arthur Moss, before drawing once again on a 17th century account of Japan in the second part of John Saris' diary.

We round out with 'Dave's an Idiom', in which we talk of huge numbers and repentance, in another snippet of the Japanese language you will never need to use...

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