Why is North Korea upping its pace of conducting missile launches, including one that went straight over northern Japan? Are they on the verge of conducting a nuclear bomb test, and do they pose a tangible threat to Japan's national security? Aaron and Parker discuss rising Japanese household spending, Japan's largest airport hotel complex to open at Haneda after almost 3 years sitting empty, and an escaped 1.6-meter-long snake that turned up in the owner's neighbor's toilet.
