Japan Nieuwsbrief 08/27/2011

• VOX POPULI: Office of prime minister has become weak, ineffectual (Asahi)

  Another of Kan's "achievements" may be that he reminded the public once again of the shabbiness of Japanese politics, as revealed by the shameless scrambling by the ruling and opposition parties alike to discredit and oust him.

• Ministry to provide radiation levels at schools online 24/7 (Asahi)

• Tokyo Morning Drive along the Bayshore route at Sunrise - JapanSugoi - Everything Cool about Japan

• Japan PM race begins with no winner in sight - Yahoo! News

• BBC News - Five candidates battle to succeed Japan PM Naoto Kan

• FACTBOX-Key policies of Japan PM candidates (Reuters)

• Politics in Japan: Sixth time lucky? (The Economist)

• Factbox: Recent Japan leaders and why they didn't last (Reuters)

• Prime Minister Kan Resigns: A Look Back at His Year in Office (Japan Real Time)

• What Will Japan's Future Look Like After Kan? (Japan Real Time)

• Kan bows out, says he did best he could (Japan Times)

• TEPCO knew waters could reach 15 meters (Yomiuri)

• Ozawa decides to back Kaieda for PM (Japan Today)

• Yokohama Monorail (Japan Probe)

• 13% of Radioactive Iodine, 22% of Radioactive Cesium from Fukushima I Nuke Plant Landed in Central/Northern Japan (EX-SKF)

• Radioactive Sludge by Children's Swimming Pool, Again, in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa (EX-SKF)

• Beerschot hanteert nultolerantie na 'Fukushima-incident' (De Standaard)

• Renewable energy law may lack needed 'teeth' (Asahi)

• Japan faces costly, unprecedented radiation cleanup (Reuters)

• A political merry-go-round in Japan (Washington Post)

• Kawashima: "In Japan was er veel reactie op Beerschot" (belgiumsoccer.be)

• Terzake: Sterrensushi (VRT Video)

• After Kan, Instability Looms as Japan’s Greatest Threat (NYTimes)

• Noda, with eye on future, ready to bury hatchet with Ozawa (Asahi)

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