Japanesepod101 have podcasts on iTunes I believe. Funnily enough, if you check your dashboard and scroll down to offers, there seems to be a deal for TextFugu members to get 50% off a premium Jpod101 account.

There are some mentioned in this thread, http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/the-secret-to-improving-your-listening/, you have to change your itunes store to Japan to be able to find them first though.

If you want to listen to natural spoken Japanese, I highly recommend obtaining an iTunes Japan account, as that will make available a real treasure trove of Japanese podcasts.

I don’t know about podcasts, but I like to listen to live broadcasts (生放送) on NicoNicoDouga (http://live.nicovideo.jp) . It’s free (although you usually have to join their community to listen – and you may get kicked if they’re very popular and you aren’t a premium member.) and on top of that, a lot of the people who do them are very funny and entertaining.

All you need is a Nico account, which is easy. If you don’t know Japanese very well, it’s not that difficult to stumble around until you find yourself in a live broadcast.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by  Miki.
• This reply was modified 12 years, 3 months ago by  Miki.

@ninjoetsu - if you’re just after the (free) podcasts you just need to change your country to Japan in iTunes.

@ninjoetsu - I’ve only started using so I don’t know heaps about it, but I was able to set it up by going to the iTunes store & in the bottom right of the screen there’s a country icon. After you select that you can choose your country or region. Selecting Japan there allowed me to get access.