I’ve just downloaded my first program from FMC, a local internet radio station that began in 1996. This station is intimately related to two of my hobbies: (1) listening to mp3s of various radio programs and podcasts and (2) gathering information related to Kumamoto to share here on Facebook. Even so, for some strange reason I had never listened to FMC until day. The occasion for my discovery of FMC is an interview with Yuka Ogata about what I’ve been calling “lozengate” – the big flap about how her use of a lozenge supposedly defiled the “sacred” (“shinsei” [神聖な]) venue known as the Kumamoto City Council. (I’m not kidding – such language has actually been used by council members in justifying their draconian punishments of her.)
At any rate, you can hear the interview (in Japanese, of course) at
http://www.fmc.or.jp/sound/qic20181014c.mp3
Personally, I plan to listen to many more FMC programs after this one. (FMC, where have you been all my life?)
– Kirk
