Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/29/2012

• Commentary: Does Japan Have a Strategy? | The National Interest

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/28/2012

• ELECTION WATCH: Lake Biwa inspires anti-nuclear party chief, but will veterans dampen the mood? - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Tokyo is Michelin's most gourmet capital for sixth year

• AFP: Japan anti-nuclear groups join forces ahead of poll

• Japans spelprogramma: sporten met peper in je achterste - De Standaard

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• Japan school trains wannabe Santa-sans

• Japan's ruling party casts itself as reasonable, diplomatic

• US Scientists Find Lessons From Japan Nuke Crisis - ABC News

• Opruimwerkzaamheden Fukushima dringend:

• Verkouden? Doe een mondkapje voor! | Japan

• Korean singers dropped from yearend NHK music show | The Japan Times Online

• Rebuilding projects not linked to disaster halted | The Japan Times Online

• DPJ platform: TPP, end of reactors | The Japan Times Online

• Shiga's Kada readies party; Ozawa joins | The Japan Times Online

• Japan firm offers parents-to-be 3D model of fetus; Tiny keepsake of time spent in womb costs $1,200 - Daily News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/27/2012

• Woodford: Nothing has changed in Japan Inc. since Olympus

• Japan's prospective PM keeps up calls for bold BOJ stimulus

• Analysis: Despite 2011 disaster, pro-nuclear party could win power in Japan

• Senkaku purchase weakened Japan's claim to exclusive sovereignty: experts | The Japan Times Online

• Facebook Needs a Dislike Button for Abe’s Ideas- Bloomberg

• UN envoy: Japan should do more for nuclear victims

• Japan Expands Its Regional Military Role - NYTimes.com

• De 4 grote thema’s van dit ogenblik

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/26/2012

• Japan opposition LDP remains election favorite: poll

• Hopes of Home Fade Among Japan’s Displaced - NYTimes.com

• The LDP's hawkish stance | The Japan Times Online

• Punchy party names hark back to ignominy | The Japan Times Online

• Voters in tsunami-hit zone feel let down as Japan election nears

• The EU’s chance to change Japan? (Part 2) | New Europe

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/25/2012

• Coordination failure cited in stalking case / Information sharing between authorities could have imprisoned suspect, prevented murder : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

• Van vergrijzing gesproken: 'Verkoop luiers voor ouderlingen overtreft die van luiers voor baby's'

• Attitude change needed to shake up the workforce | The Japan Times Online

• Shedding light on problems with Japan's psychiatric care | The Japan Times Online

• Magnitude 4.9 quake rocks Tokyo | The Japan Times Online

• 'Otaku' try out matchmaking masks | The Japan Times Online

• Record 81% of Japanese feel no friendship toward China, government survey shows | The Japan Times Online

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/24/2012

• Fotograaf toont Japan Overpeltse kapelletjes (Overpelt) - Het Nieuwsblad

• The Olympus scandal: Paying a price for doing what’s right | The Economist

• Japan's secret economic weapon: women | NDTV.com

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/23/2012

• BBC News - Japan's ninjas heading for extinction

• Facebook Comes First for Japan PM Hopeful Abe - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Japan’s elections: Pole dancers | The Economist

• Japan's Abe Pledges More Spending to Curb Deflation - WSJ.com

• Faulty fallout forecasts' firm industry-linked | The Japan Times Online

• Kepco plans two reactor restarts | The Japan Times Online

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/22/2012

• Bicyclist loses car driving license | The Japan Times Online

• Hatoyama won't seek re-election | The Japan Times Online

• LDP vows pact with BOJ for 2% inflation | The Japan Times Online

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/21/2012

• Japan-China Relations at a Crossroads - NYTimes.com

• Japan's new nuclear-proof robot gets stage fright | Reuters

• Coalition-building most likely scenario after election | The Japan Times Online

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/20/2012

• Let international law settle territory rows: Noda | The Japan Times Online

• ANALYSIS: Merger forces Japan Restoration Party to drop major policy stances - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan high-tech toilet maker eyes global throne; TOTO seeks to attract poop-shy US customers - Daily News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/19/2012

• Analysis: Japan politics could fragment further on road to two-party system

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/18/2012

• The muddy issue of cesium in a lake | The Japan Times Online

• 'Cool Japan is over': a sociologist looks at Japan's art world | The Japan Times Online

• Cesium in trout 110 times over limit | The Japan Times Online

• Japan opposition LDP keeps lead before vote: poll

• Japan seeks closer military cooperation with U.S.

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/17/2012

• Swimming Against the Storm - NYTimes.com

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• Abe to make educational system more conservative - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Re-elected Obama won't be Senkaku savior | The Japan Times Online

• Mori, Fukuda, other seniors retire | The Japan Times Online

• LDP-DPJ grudge match may see unity after poll | The Japan Times Online

• Japanse bejaarden worden steeds crimineler - HLN.be

• Parlement Japan ontbonden, medio december verkiezingen :: nrc.nl

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/16/2012

• Ex-Japan PM in line for old job; will pragmatism top nationalism?

• Beaujolais Nouveau corks off | The Japan Times Online

• NHK anchor held over alleged train groping | The Japan Times Online

• Foes forced Noda to call dissolution | The Japan Times Online

• Fault study at Oi nuke plant may impact all offline reactors | The Japan Times Online

• Japan's PM to dissolve parliament, call December elections seen producing no clear winner | Fox News

• Noda’s decision jolts party rank and file, sends small rivals scrambling - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/15/2012

• Going nowhere: 'drunk' businessman walks wrong way down escalator - Telegraph

• Politics in Japan: The

• BBC News - Japan tornadoes filmed in Wakayama Prefecture and Ishikawa Prefecture

• Grote tornado's in Japan gefilmd - NOS Nieuws

• Japan’s Leader Agrees to Hold December Elections - NYTimes.com

• Hashima: het uitgestorven eiland uit Skyfall, maar dan echt - HLN.be

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/14/2012

• Japan Quietly Opens Its Doors to Chinese Workers - NYTimes.com

• Japan PM Offers Immediate Election, with Strings Attached - WSJ.com

• WPR Article | Japan's Post-Fukushima Nuclear Energy Conundrum

• Eilandenrellen kosten Japanse bedrijven 100 miljoen euro in China - Buitenland - De Morgen

• Smoke from last Mt. Fuji eruption reached 23 km - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/13/2012

• BBC News - Made in Japan: Cool but expensive

• Line: Japan's Answer to Facebook, Twitter - WSJ.com

• Japan pulling back from China - thespec.com

• Splitting up: 50-50 is default when dividing assets at divorce | The Japan Times Online

• Nearly four decades on, Hello Kitty continues to entrance young girls | The Japan Times Online

• One-third of men in 20s view marriage prospects as iffy | The Japan Times Online

• Noda set to dissolve lower house by year-end | The Japan Times Online

• Japanse trots treft eigen economie

• Geurwerende onderbroek populair in Japan | Opmerkelijk | NU.nl - Voor het laatste nieuws

• BBC News - Japan high court clears Ichiro Ozawa of funding case

• Consumers Flee to Cash in Japan as Noda’s Economic Woes Deepen- Bloomberg

• Het einde van de Japanse kei car is nabij | Autonieuws - AutoWeek.nl

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/12/2012

• BBC News - Japan economy contracts as global slowdown hits exports

• Japanse economie krimpt fors, vrees voor recessie - Finance - Nieuws - Trends.be

• Big anti-nuclear protest held near Diet building in Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Hashimoto claims nuclear arms abolition is impossible | The Japan Times Online

• Noda remains tight-lipped on possible general election | The Japan Times Online

• Japan faces 'monetary cliff' - The Tell - MarketWatch

• Japan Contraction Piles Pressure on Noda, Central Bank: Economy- Bloomberg

• How debts and double-dealing sparked Japan-China islets row

• Fault under Japan nuclear plant 'may be active'

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/11/2012

• AFP: Japan's gadget failures: one man refuses to forget

• Local media are too vague on Fukushima radiation risk | The Japan Times Online

• Giving voice to the survivors of the unprecedented 3/11 disaster | The Japan Times Online

• OECD forecasts Japan's share of global GDP will halve by 2060 | The Japan Times Online

• Pepsi launches 'fat-blocking' cola in Japan - Daily News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/10/2012

• Japan’s Premier May Announce Plan to Join Free Trade Pact - NYTimes.com

• Chinezen houden niet meer van Japanse auto's - Economie - De Morgen

• Former head lawyer to run for Tokyo governor | The Japan Times Online

• Japan moet dringend werk maken van afbouw schuldenberg - Beursnieuws - Moneytalk.be - Moneytalk.be

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/09/2012

• Exposure to low-level radiation can cause leukemia, U.S.-Ukraine study of Chernobyl cleanup workers finds | The Japan Times Online

• Aides: Japan's Noda Mulls December Election - WSJ.com

• Japan Seeks Tighter Pact With U.S. to Confront China - NYTimes.com

• In the valley of the uncanny | The Japan Times Online

• Japanese Politicians Move to Steer Away From Fiscal Cliff - Bloomberg

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/08/2012

• Japanse economie zwakt verder af - Beursduivel.nl

• Is Japan Risking War to Save the U.S.-Japan Alliance? - Forbes

• Nepal man cleared after 15 years in Japan jail - NY Daily News | NewsCred SmartWire

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/07/2012

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• The Associated Press: Japan utility seeks more funds for nuclear crisis

• Grote zorgen over Japan - De Standaard

• Travel agent for ill-fated party did not check route | The Japan Times Online

• Japan, China engage in war of words at ASEM summit | The Japan Times Online

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/06/2012

• Japan's nuclear dilemma: Is geothermal the answer? - CSMonitor.com

• Japan's leaders give up on quitting nuclear power - CSMonitor.com

• Japan's nuclear dilemma: What to do with all that nuclear waste? - CSMonitor.com

• China relentlessly harries Japan in island dispute - Houston Chronicle

• Japan's electronics behemoths speak of dire times ahead - Tampa Bay Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/05/2012

• BBC News - Japan and blood types: Does it determine personality?

• Symposium looks at the disturbing rise of online nationalism | The Japan Times Online

• Nuke industry funded NRC's safety experts | The Japan Times Online

• Where emperors sleep: Japan's keyhole-shaped burial mounds | Lifestyle | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/04/2012

• Reconstruction from Japan’s disaster: A pile of pork | The Economist

• AFP: Japan's electronics sector in race against time

• Japan nuclear safety team took utility money - Chicago Sun-Times

• Toezichthouders Japan kregen geld van kernindustrie | Algemeen | NU.nl - Voor het laatste nieuws

• Japan tech groups confront past mistakes

• Minister Makiko Invades the Ivory Tower - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Corporate governance in Japan: Back to the drawing board | The Economist

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/03/2012

• Japan lives on borrowed money as hi-tech dream dies | Business | guardian.co.uk

• Tv-maker Sharp voorspelt eigen dood - news - ZDNet.be

• Only 49.3% of paid leave in Japan is taken, ministry says | The Japan Times Online

• Higashikokubaru to run again for Tokyo governorship | The Japan Times Online

• Behind the no-nuclear option | The Japan Times Online

• MOX plant construction shown | The Japan Times Online

• Nuclear crisis crew not told of danger | The Japan Times Online

• Sharp widens loss forecast to ¥450 billion | The Japan Times Online

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 11/02/2012

• "Koyo", la saison des feuilles rouges au Japon | Japon Information

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