weekoverzicht

• Calculator with integrated soroban abacus (Kirainet)

• Are Japan's fish lovers eating tuna to extinction? (Japan Times)

• Over 30,000 suicides in Japan in 2010 for 13th-straight year (Mainichi)

• Kan Reflects at First-Ever Live Internet Broadcast of Japanese Prime Minister: Sometimes Down, Not for Quitting (Japan Real Time)

• Thousands flock to Nintendo 3DS premiere in Japan (AFP)

• Online, Kan commiserates with short-lived predecessors (Japan Times)

• Japan offers to fund part of US high-speed rail project (AFP)

• 'Japan is failliet, en Europa?' ( RTL Z)

• Rakuten continues internationalization push with hire of 16 Indian engineers (Mainichi)

• Suicides in Japan top 30,000 for 13th straight year in 2010 (Breitbart)

• Japanese microbloggers break records with 'Happy New Year' tweets (Independent)

• Elderly people seeking new amusements (Yomiuri)

• Japanese sake exports reach record high in 2010 (Mainichi)

• Sega Installs 'Toylet' Games in Japan's Urinals (Wired.com)

• Haneda's nighttime services falling short with travelers (Japan Times)

• Japanese Lawmaker's Childbirth Sparks Debate (WSJ)

• WikiLeaks: Secret whaling deal plotted by US and Japan (Guardian)

• Jobs can mean difference between life and death (Asahi)

• Dying goes unnoticed amid the hustle, bustle of urban areas (Asahi)

• Struggling Japan PM tries to seize policy initiative (Reuters)

• Sengoku Says Japan’s Finances Near ‘Edge of a Cliff’

• Japan far behind in global language of business (Japan Times)

• Trade pacts one thing, immigrant labor another (Japan Times)

• Japan's population ages: Will it put its elderly back to work? (CSMonitor)

• Raging against Japan’s media machine (Asia Times)

• Flight to see the first dawn of the year (Kirainet)

• Idol pop group sells trips with big discounts (Japan Trends)

• Japan New Year tuna sale sets record of nearly $400,000 (BBC)

• Q+A-Japan PM Kan faces multiple hurdles as year starts (Reuters)

• Japan to Propose Closer Military Ties With South Korea (NYTimes)

• Kan heaps more coals on Ozawa fire (Japan Times)

• Runner takes wrong turn right before the finish line and loses (TOKYOMANGO)

• Omikuji matters? (Tokyo Times)

• Japanese miniskirts even in Winter (JapanSugoi)

• Ie gaaru home girls stay in for lazy cute (Japan Trends)

• QR Code tourist maps revive old town (Japan Trends)

• Gov't to launch hot line for victims of sexual, domestic violence (Breitbart)

• Tokyo department stores enjoy brisk New Year sales (Yomiuri)

• “Arudou’s Alien Almanac 2000-2010″ (debito)

• Arudou's Alien Almanac: 2010 (Japan Times)

• Japan open to talks with N Korea - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Japanese pray for good fortune as working year starts
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• Zen and the art of finding employment (Yomiuri)

• Rush of returning travelers peaks in Japan (Breitbart)

• Foreign crime hits local areas (Yomiuri)

• Le mochi tueur a encore frappé (Aujourd'hui le Japon)

• Japanese women 'can have it all' (Japan Times)

• Global Update - Japan Is on High Alert for Avian Flu (NYTimes)

• Japan's Past Draws China Off Course (NY Times)

• Six killed by New Year mochi rice cakes in Tokyo (News.com.au)

• Moms more worried about children's safety commuting to school than bullying (Mainichi)

• Backroom politics may be endangered art, but floundering DPJ must learn the basics (Mainichi)

• In Japan, an 'I don't' ceremony (Washington Post)

• Its Workers Aging, Japan Turns Away Immigrants (NY Times)

• Japan not alone in demographic conundrum (Japan Times)

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