I'm supposed to be researching for a Japanese lesson plan but keep getting distracted.
An Australian guy (I don't know anything about him, but the accent gives his country of origin away pretty quickly) has a youtube culture series under the username TheJapanChannelDcom. He seems to know his stuff.
I found his take on the whaling issue insightful. He makes some fair points, especially at around 5:53 of the 10 minute video.
I also really liked his short description of some Japanese body language. He does the head tilting and air-through-the-teeth thing (from ~1.43 onwards) really well.
