Weekly 0verview

• Abe returns to 'retrieve' Japan from its history — or will he just repeat it? | The Japan Times Online

• Hitachi’s Revival Isn’t So Good for the City of Hitachi - NYTimes.com

• Happiest people in the world | The Japan Times Online

• BBC News - Japan bluefin tuna fetches record $1.7m

• Evacuated Fukushima Town Estimates 30 Years before Return - JIJI PRESS

• Governor mulls fee to climb Fuji | The Japan Times Online

• AEP: “Japan plans ‘nationalisation’ of factories to save industry” | ForexLive

• Sacrifice and luck help Japan survive without nuclear power, Stanford visiting scholar says

• Japan is hot in modeland - Mode - Weekend.be - KnackWeekend.be

• Gender equality key to Japan's future prosperity | The Japan Times Online

• The American Woman Who Wrote Equal Rights Into Japan's Constitution - Cristine Russell - The Atlantic

• Japan likely to increase defense spending due to isles row: media | Reuters

• CROOKED CLEANUP: Government mishandled complaints about shoddy cleanup work - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan blijkt hardleers te zijn, lessen uit het verleden zijn allang vergeten - Beursnieuws - Moneytalk.be - Moneytalk.be

• Japan on a budget | Columbus Magazine

• Japan sends envoy to South Korea in bid to dial down tensions - latimes.com

• NYT raps Abe's wartime revisionism | The Japan Times Online

• Fewest traffic deaths seen since '51 | The Japan Times Online

• Decontamination companies suspected of illegally dumping radioactive waste in Fukushima | The Japan Times Online

• Abe to leave Murayama war apology declaration alone, eye 'future-oriented' statement, Suga says | The Japan Times Online

• CROOKED CLEANUP (1): Radioactive waste dumped into rivers during decontamination work in Fukushima - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Nikkei soars on 1st trade day, dollar hits highest since July 2010 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan’s new cabinet: Back to the future | The Economist

• The Entrepreneurship Vacuum in Japan: Why It Matters and How to Address It - Forbes

• Universities receive ¥1.7 billion in donations from power industry | The Japan Times Online

• Just a stop, or where the road ends? | The Japan Times Online

• Why Japan Can't Compete With China - Brian Fung - The Atlantic

• Japan’s Not-Quite-So-Nationalist Leader | TIME.com

• Another Attempt to Deny Japan’s History - NYTimes.com

• deredactie.be: Kinderen uit Fukushima zijn de dikste van Japan

• Japan's steely resolve suggests nationalism based on fear | The Japan Times Online

• Apple’s iBookstore Headed to Japan This Year - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD

• Pair in Tokyo choke to death on 'mochi' rice cakes, 15 hospitalized | The Japan Times Online

• An Abe New Year’s–Then and Now - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Beate Gordon, a drafter of Japan's Constitution, dies at 89 | The Japan Times Online

• Concern grows over ways to reduce duties of aging Emperor | The Japan Times Online

• Japan Can Champion Women’s Rights - NYTimes.com

• Japan plans 'nationalisation' of factories to save industry - Telegraph

• Abe's Ties to Corporate Japan Buoys Big Industry - WSJ.com

• Back to the future for Japan? | The Japan Times Online

• Emperor urges support for disaster victims in New Year's message | The Japan Times Online

• Summer poll to keep Abe in check | The Japan Times Online

• Japan releases Chinese caught illegally fishing | Reuters

• Mocht u er nog aan twijfelen: de lamp brandt niet langer in Europa

• deredactie.be: Japan wil opnieuw kerncentrales bouwen

• Nieuwbakken Japanse premier wil excuses WO II intrekken - De Standaard

• Japan’s New Premier Backs More Nuclear Plants - NYTimes.com

• Even language has winners and losers | The Japan Times Online

• BBC News - Japan 'detains Chinese fishing boat'

• Record 133 inmates held on death row | The Japan Times Online

• Magazine Interview Shows LDP’s Nationalist Side - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Japan's New Year's symbols of prosperity - SFGate

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