Japan Nieuwsbrief 07/10/2011

• With Japan at a crossroads, it's instructive to recall the Hidaka affair (Japan Times)

  "The Japanese don't have much of a consciousness of human rights or the rights of the individual. Even the word kenri is not really the equivalent of 'rights.' The Japanese think that insisting on your kenri is an activity associated with egoism."

• Insider blew whistle on Kyushu Electric TV stunt (Japan Times)

• Gov't to conduct 2-stage 'stress tests' for nuclear reactors (Kyodo)

• Visiting Japan this Summer (Kirainet.com)

• Decontaminatie Fukushima zal tientallen jaren duren (De Standaard)

• Japan's Economic Gloom Runs Deeper This Time (NYTimes)

• Survey: 50 percent of coastal towns have no tsunami evacuation plan (Asahi)

• Quake victims receive messages of encouragement in Paris (asahi)

• Quake jolts northeast Japan, nuclear workers evacuate (Reuters)

• Disaster-stricken prefectures lose 30,000 people (Asahi)

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