We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that chuckers has
exploded. Flight director confirms that:

>On Oct 24, 12:53 pm, Shimpei Yamashita <shim...@gol.com> wrote:
>> On 2009-10-24, chuckers <chucker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Oct 23, 8:46 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> Yanbo, Mabo Tenki Youhou
>>
>> >> Channel Four (Gomiyuri Terebi) evening news ... or it used to be.  I
>> >> don't do Yon-chaneru any more since they moved the newsreader I'd been
>> >> lusting after for many years to another gig.
>>
>> > Don't think it is any more.  Or at least not in the Tokyo region or
>> > during the
>> > time that I tune in to it.  They just have Kihara-san and Sora-jiro
>> > doing the weather
>> > whenever I watch at 6:50 PM-ish.
>>
>> There was a Nikkei article on the Yanmar Diesel weather report a few
>> months ago. Apparently it is still running, but only in some regions
>> outside of Tokyo.
>>
>> Shimpei.
>
>Indeed.  According to this, it doesn't seem to be available except in
>some outlying areas:

Around here we only get 札幌かに本家 as our weather report sponsor anymore. That
hasn't changed in years either.


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