Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/29/2015

• Japanese cars involved in traffic accidents get new lease on life in Russia - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• JR East to test train with no hanging ads on Yamanote Line from autumn - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• 40 years later, former sailor still searching for lost daughter in Japan - Pacific - Stripes

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/28/2015

• Japan: Work earlier in summer months, says PM - BBC News

• David Ignatius’s full interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - The Washington Post

• Japan nears deflation as consumer prices stop rising - BBC News

• World's first 'Otaku' summit opens in Japan - Yahoo News

• Government studies examine stalking, spousal abuse | The Japan Times

• Japan: land van de rijzende aandelenbelangen - De Standaard Mobile

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/27/2015

• Why Japan Inc doesn’t believe in Abenomics

• Want an affordable earthquake warning system? Use animals, scientists say

• Japan PM Abe to address joint session of U.S. Congress

• Tourism in Japan: Treasure hunt | The Economist

• Boete of cel bij verkeerd identiteitsbewijs Japan | NU - Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/26/2015

• Apple to build R&D facility in Yokohama | The Japan Times

• Beauty queen criticized for not being Japanese enough - CNN.com

• AUTONIEWS (1955-2015): 60 jaar Toyota Crown - Autowereld

• Only one tuna left amid mystery deaths at Tokyo aquarium | The Japan Times

• NTT DoCoMo rolls out smartphone-controlled wheelchairs in Japan | PCWorld

• Grote Magritte-tentoonstelling opent in Tokio - De Standaard Mobile

• Japan Shows Rising Frustration With Companies Sitting on Cash - Bloomberg Business

• Innovation helps Japan's tsunami-hit farmers bounce back

• Japan Puts Largest Warship Since WWII Into Service - WSJ

• Most beautiful places in Japan - CNN.com

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/25/2015

• The Demographic Timebomb Crippling Japan's Economy | The National Interest

• Cherry Blossom Tourism Makes Japan's Economy Bloom

• BOJ needs to spread the wealth to rural Japan | The Japan Times

• In gaffe, Abe refers to SDF as 'military' | The Japan Times

• Government continues Henoko base work, ignoring demand by Okinawa governor | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/24/2015

• Japan Audit: Millions of Dollars Wasted in Fukushima Cleanup - ABC News

• Japan Is Building A Massive 250-Mile Seawall To Block Tsunamis - BuzzFeed News

• Entertainment News, Celebrity Gossip, Hot Photos - E! Online Mobile

• Can education change Japan's 'depressed' generation? - BBC News

• Metershoge Japanse Muur in zee moet beschermen tegen tsunami | De aardbeving in Japan | de Volkskrant

• Chinese official says ties with Japan heading in good direction | The Japan Times

• Tepco compensation to cost taxpayers more than estimated in 2013 | The Japan Times

• Okinawa Triggers New Row Over Relocation of ‘Critical’ U.S. Base - Bloomberg Business

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/23/2015

• Spare a thought for the Western men trapped in Japan | The Japan Times

• Indirectly Speaking / Land of minimalism — and over-informing - The Japan News

• Reken op de Japanse bedrijven, niet op Abenomics - De Standaard

• To reorganize Osaka or not | The Japan Times

• Japan's Shrinking Workforce Helps Its Salarymen Get a Raise - Bloomberg Business

• Fase van diplomatieke dooi tussen China, Japan en Zuid-Korea | Buitenland | de Volkskrant

• Great Wall of Japan? Hot debate over Tokyo’s 400-km anti-tsunami barrier — RT News

• University teachers in Japan work under the shadow of a falling ax | The Japan Times

• L'humour japonais en publicité - Culturepub

• Japan’s Capital Unveiled | The Los Angeles Review of Books

• BBC Radio 5 live - In Short, Burger-scented cologne is ‘pretty brilliant’

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/22/2015

• Police who stand with big sticks | The Japan Times

• Abe Cabinet still has difficulty defining 'colonial rule' and 'aggression' - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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• Security blanket: Should Japan beef up its anti-terrorism measures? | The Japan Times

• Ministers agree on leaders' summit | The Japan Times

• Pope pays tribute to Japan's 'hidden' Christians, rediscovered 150 years ago | The Japan Times

• The wanderer, writer and suspected spy who embraced Japan | The Japan Times

• US, Japan Mark 70 Years Since Battle of Iwo Jima

• Celebrating 50 years of antipathy, recriminations | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/21/2015

• BBC News - China, Japan and South Korea hold renewed talks

• Abe to be first Japan PM to address joint session of US Congress | Daily Mail Online

• Kanazawa, the Japanese City Time Almost Forgot - WSJ

• Bij gebrek aan (schoon)zoon runt de dochter dit oude Japanse familiehotel - nrc.nl

• China media: Japan ties - BBC News

• Japan herdenkt gifgas-aanslag op metro | NOS

• O no! Michelle Obama stumbles as she greets Japanese emperor - NY Daily News

• Dogs by the hour: Japan offers pet rental service - Yahoo News

• Japan remembers subway gas attack, 20 years on | News | DW.DE | 20.03.2015

• Photos: Michelle Obama in Japan - WSJ

• Why some critics think Japan’s Miss Universe contestant isn’t Japanese enough - The Washington Post

• Japan court denies injunction against MOX nuclear fuel use

• Few Japanese models strut Tokyo's catwalks | The Japan Times

• Coalition takes major step toward loosening SDF rules | The Japan Times

• Relations cool: German Chancellor Merkel's three errors in Japan- Nikkei Asian Review

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/20/2015

• Reactorvat Fukushima zo lek als een mandje - De Standaard Mobile

• Same-sex unions in Japan: Summer of love | The Economist

• On 20th anniversary of Tokyo sarin attack, widow urges Japan to never forget - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japanese Police Arrest Suspect in US Embassy Bomb Threats - ABC News

• US 1st Lady Gets Taste of Japan's Ancient Culture in Kyoto - NYTimes.com

• Abe uses JFK speech to promote Asia ties, encourage dreamers - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan Arrests Suspect in Phone Threats to U.S. Installations - NBC News.com

• Politicizing personal beliefs will invite distrust of Japan | The Japan Times

• Michelle Obama, Akie Abe pledge bilateral effort for girls' education | The Japan Times

• China and Japan hold first security talks in four years - BBC News

• Can Japan Prove Its Cool Factor to the Rest of the World? — Atlantic Mobile

• Stalking cases in Japan hit record high for third year in a row | The Japan Times

• Japan, China hold first security talks in four years | The Japan Times

• Tepco confirms nearly all fuel melted, sank into vessel, in Fukushima No. 1 unit | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/19/2015

• Three Japanese women killed in Tunisia museum attack | The Japan Times

• Taxpayers shouldn't fund war on Asahi Shimbun | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Recovery Is Complicated by a Decline in Household Savings - NYTimes.com

• US 1st lady visits Japan to showcase girls' education aid - Yahoo News

• Shisaku: A Forbidden Phrase Resurfaces

• Japan wage hikes: Are they enough?

• Japan Confirms Deaths of 3 Nationals in Tunisia Attack - ABC News

• Japanese tsunami debris will continue to wash up on US shores, expert says | World news | The Guardian

• SDF to get right to supply ammo, jet fuel to U.S. military virtually anywhere - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Toyota's measly wage increase won't help turn Japan around | The Japan Times

• Japanese scholars criticize U.S. history textbook | The Japan Times

• US envoy Caroline Kennedy receives death threats in Japan - BBC News

• Japan needs to overhaul structure to compete, says Jones

• Michelle Obama Arrives In Japan In Jet-Setting Kenzo Dress

• Japan Investigates Death Threats to Caroline Kennedy | TIME

• Michelle Obama arrives in Japan to make amends for snubbing country last year | Daily Mail Online

• Okinawa gets happy ending with landing of 2nd Universal Studios theme park - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/18/2015

• Le Japon chamboulé par sa première miss métisse - Libération

• Big Japan firms plan bigger pay hikes but smaller firms expected to lag

• Important development in the immigration procedure for Japanese citizens - Meijburg & Co

• The Economist explains: Why the Japanese are no longer on top in sumo wrestling | The Economist

• Is Japan’s Militarization Normal? | The Diplomat

• Toyota joins Japan peers in agreeing to higher base-pay raises

• In Abe's Japan, everyone (hopefully) gets a raise March 17

• 11 of the weirdest bars In Japan - Geek

• Japan's blackface problem: the country's bizarre, troubled relationship with race - Vox

• Japan ex-ruling party chief urges Abe to erase doubts over war history

• Picketty's impact on Japan | The Japan Times

• Operators to scrap three old reactors in Fukui | The Japan Times

• Japan will struggle to slay deflation warns Bank governor - Telegraph

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/17/2015

• Operators to scrap three old reactors in Fukui | The Japan Times

• Japan Inc wage hikes not enough to meet higher cost of living: Reuters poll

• Who will look after Japan's elderly? - BBC News

• Riken won't sue Obokata over STAP cell scandal | The Japan Times

• Future of Japan's Gambling Legislation To Be Decided in April | PokerNews

• South Korea, Japan, China to meet on three-way cooperation

• Bank of Japan maintains aggressive stimulus, but cuts inflation outlook

• What Can Japan Really Learn From Germany? | The Diplomat

• First Lady Michelle Obama’s Japan Itinerary to Include Visit to Kyoto - WSJ

• Upcoming Apple Watch shop at Tokyo's Isetan department store could be permanent display

• Abe pushes for Japan to become permanent member of UNSC | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/16/2015

• Japan’s Accounting Problem by Adair Turner - Project Syndicate

• Japanners eten Belgische groenten tijdens Foodex

• Japan-China Maritime Crisis Management Talks Are On the Horizon | The Diplomat

• Didier Leroy, nouveau vice-président de Toyota, a dû défendre... ses vacances face aux Japonais - France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais

• Time stands still in Japan's village of scarecrows | Reuters

• Floating fortress Musashi, symbol of Japan's naval ambitions, now a war grave | The Japan Times

• Japanese woman 'strangles husband' over missing gift - East Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

• Slogan writer wants pro-nuclear signboards kept to highlight human stupidity - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan, China eye May talks on maritime crisis management mechanism | The Japan Times

• Japan's 'comfort women' battle spills into the US - Al Jazeera English

• Abe mum on Fukushima at U.N. disaster risk confab | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/15/2015

• Japanese scientists succeed in transmitting wireless energy | National Monitor

• China says Japan ties face test, opportunity this year - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Shisaku: Yes, An Expletive Is Appropriate Here

• Japan's Disposable Workers: Net Cafe Refugees on Vimeo

• Abenomics and the Japanese Economy - Council on Foreign Relations

• Modernising farming in Japan: Root and branch | The Economist

• Dark side of Japan revealed in film about Internet cafe living

• Highly Radioactive Contamination Found in Shipment of Tea From Japan | The Daily Meal

• Failing to rebuild communities in Tohoku | The Japan Times

• Cult attraction: Aum Shinrikyo's power of persuasion | The Japan Times

• Hokuriku Shinkansen Line opens for service, linking Tokyo and Kanazawa | The Japan Times

• Tokyo By Bike - Cycling News & Information from Japan: Kanazawa, its better by bike.

• Failing to rebuild communities in Tohoku | The Japan Times

• Of birds and bugs: journalism in Tokyo and Osaka | The Japan Times

• Hordes of foreign technical trainees go into hiding to escape debt, other problems - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/14/2015

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Fukushima city offers last look in effort to return unclaimed items from 2011 disaster - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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• It's Time for Japan to Punish Tepco

• Japan: Speed-dating plan to boost dwindling birth rate - BBC News

• 'Iron Chef' of 1600s Japan took place in a brothel | The University of Kansas

• Toyota signs up as Olympic sponsor in record deal - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan Still Far From Done Cheapening Yen, Survey Suggests - Bloomberg Business

• Japan understands threat of natural disasters | The Japan Times

• The Face of Japan Is Changing, But Some Aren't Ready 

• Kanazawa, Japan: The bullet train is opening up the country's Edo heritage - Asia - Travel - The Independent

• Japan’s Underemployed are Forced to Live in Internet Cafes

• Japan's Nikkei closes at 15-year high - BBC News

• New coach Halilhodzic vows to rebuild Japan, asks for time

• It's time to punish Tepco | The Japan Times

• Japanese scientists make breakthrough in wireless energy transmission | The Japan Times

• Nikkei closes at 15-year high, but many analysts remain skeptical | The Japan Times

• Japan, France sign defense pact to spur cooperation, joint development

• Eriana Miyamoto crowned Miss Universe Japan - UPI.com

• Japan Eyes Matchmaking, Paternity Leave to Lift Birth Rate | TIME

• France and Japan sign arms pact | News | DW.DE | 13.03.2015

• Google Street View takes you inside Japan's newest high-speed rail

• Customs clearance lines at Narita's Terminal 2 draw fire | The Japan Times

• Delivery of radioactive soil to interim storage begins in Fukushima | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/13/2015

• Apple seeks to broaden R&D prowess with land purchase in Yokohama - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• French minister says Japan should follow example of Europe's postwar reconciliation - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japanese Banks to Link More ATMs to Global Grid - WSJ

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Fukushima cleanup takes step forward on 4th anniversary of first explosion - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japanese Coastal Town Still Struggling to Rebuild From 2011 Tsunami - NYTimes.com

• Japanese stocks are on fire. But why? March 12

• How Ricoh Returned 90,000 Photos to Victims of the 2011 Tsunami in Japan

• Japan Has Plenty of Jobs, but Workers Still Struggle - WSJ

• An Opportunity for Japan-Korea Ties? | The Diplomat

• Kerknet | Nieuws

• Japan’s asylum laws: No entry | The Economist

• Haruno Yoshida: breaking the mould for Japan’s working women - FT.com

• Microsoft co-founder plans to live-stream tour of sunken Japanese battleship - CNN.com

• Some of Japan's 'nuclear refugees' can finally go home — but they don't want to | Public Radio International

• Google Street View captures reconstruction efforts of Japan earthquake, 4 years after | VentureBeat | OffBeat | by Paul Sawers

• Japan marks anniversary of devastating 2011 tsunami - BBC News

• 4 Years After Japan's Devastating Tsunami, Life Is Returning To The Sea

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• Nobel winner says Japan should follow Germany's lead and abandon nuclear energy - Telegraph

• Reflections on the Earthquake in Japan, 4 Years Later | TIME

• Japan’s Nuclear Reactors Remain Offline 4 Years After Fukushima Meltdown

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/12/2015

• Number of suicides drops by 6.8% to 25,427 in 2014 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• 5,000 apply for refugee status, 11 approved in 2014 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Koizumi blasts Abe's nuclear policy, remark about Fukushima crisis - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Alive in memory: A father’s journey of healing and life - The Japan News

• New genetic evidence resolves origins of modern Japanese | EurekAlert! Science News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/11/2015

• YaleNews | Book: Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace

• Japanese women at a crossroads - BBC News

• Tohoku slowly on the mend | The Japan Times

• Abe's new policy on foreign aid risks playing with fire | The Japan Times

• 4 jaar na Fukushima: waarheen met 30 miljoen ton radioactief afval? - Planet Earth, Ecologie - Knack Mobile

• Radioactive Leaks Remain a Problem on the Fourth Anniversary of Japan's Fukushima Meltdown | VICE News

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: NTT Docomo to offer foreign language quake, tsunami alert service - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Deserted Fukushima town to remove pro-nuclear signs | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Education Minister and the Schools for Scandal - The Daily Beast

• Japan’s not so golden oldies tighten their purse strings

• The unseen casualties of Japan’s lost decades suffer in silence - FT.com

• In Japan, Abe's robot panel aims to give drone industry an edge

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• Merkel in Japan: wees eerlijk over oorlogsverleden | NOS

• Statement adviser to Abe: Acknowledge Japan waged 'war of aggression' | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/10/2015

• Operation Meetinghouse. The Most Devastating Bombing Raid In History. | Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Ex-panel chief says Japan still hasn't learned lessons from Fukushima crisis - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Avoiding the subject isn't such a bad idea in Japanese | The Japan Times

• Some Tohoku disaster areas on fast track to rebuilding while others stuck in slow lane | The Japan Times

• AP News : Tokyo remembers devastating, overlooked WWII firebombings

• Fuji TV removes blackface segment after outcry | The Japan Times

• Tokyo fire bombing 70th anniversary: Survivors beg Japan to remember the forgotten 100,000 - Asia - World - The Independent

• FCCJ - Inching Back to Life

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/09/2015

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Raw voices from Fukushima's aftermath heard in Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Deadly wartime firebombings of Tokyo and other Japanese cities largely ignored - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Mort du mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi

• ‘Do mention the war,’ Merkel urges Japanese | World news | The Guardian

• Hachiko finally reunited with owner in statue erected at University of Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Population shrinks by 92,000 in 39 disaster-hit municipalities - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Merkel calls on Japan to reduce tensions with Asian neighbors - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Visiting Merkel reminds Japan to face wartime past

• Japanse economie groeit minder dan gedacht - Beursduivel.nl

• In a Test of Wills, Japanese Fighter Pilots Confront Chinese - NYTimes.com

• BBC News - Five killed in stabbing at house in Sumoto, Japan

• Japan Gets a Look at Its Future Population Drain in Fukushima Today - Bloomberg Business

• Record 30% of Japanese want SDF beefed up: Cabinet survey | The Japan Times

• Abe calls for swift security legislation at LDP convention | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/08/2015

• Rikuzentakata looks to future with new tourism ventures | The Japan Times

• Japan’s contaminated Fukushima debate four years on | East Asia Forum

• Japan vier jaar na de tsunami

• Think your week was hard? Tokyo salary man’s insane work diary goes viral – Quartz

• VOX POPULI: Lower voting age a welcome breath of fresh air in stale political milieu - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Center preserves wartime memory of the Great Tokyo Air Raid - Pacific - Stripes

• The problems and pleasure of publishing the horrors of the 3/11 tsunami | The Japan Times

• Rikuzentakata looks to future with new tourism ventures | The Japan Times

• Japan set to share lessons of 2011 disasters at U.N. forum in Sendai | The Japan Times

• The ongoing fallout from Japan’s nuclear meltdown | East Asia Forum

• Electricity and gas deregulation | The Japan Times

• Japanese defense bills set to reflect 3 new criteria - Pacific - Stripes

• Centennial lessons for Abe from the '21 Demands' | The Japan Times

• Okinawa's story told differently in Tokyo | The Japan Times

• More Fukushima evacuees are deciding to stay away for good | The Japan Times

• Where will 'proactive pacifism' lead us? | The Japan Times

• Okinawa's story told differently in Tokyo | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/07/2015

• The Paleo Diet, Japanese Style | The Weekly Standard

• Luc Bossyns (Aquafin) haalde zijn beste advies uit Japan - Ondernemen - Trends Mobile

• Japan's economic losses from disasters were world's third-biggest in last decade | The Japan Times

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: More than 60% of evacuees still stuck in temporary housing - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Fukushima is overal - Vrij Nederland

• Japan, China to hold first security talks in four years

• Tokyo to open 'one-stop' office to help foreigners launch businesses | The Japan Times

• Cabinet moves to put SDF officers, civilians on equal footing | The Japan Times

• Shisaku: First Read - 7 March 2015

• Farm vice minister says sorry for smooching fellow lawmaker - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan: Abe Misses Chance on Immigration Debate | The Diplomat

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/06/2015

• Abe presses forward on collective defense | The Japan Times

• Mais quel est ce démon japonais qui ressemble tant à Jacques Chirac ?

• Chasing Chinese Planes 400 Times a Year Is Wearing Out Japan's Top Guns - Bloomberg Business

• Japan ranks 113th worldwide in women in legislature after 2014 election, up from 127th place | The Japan Times

• Japan, U.S. resume TPP talks but pact's future very much in doubt | The Japan Times

• Growth in Japan uneven, tied to population size: poll | The Japan Times

• Kawasaki teen murder highlights hardships faced by single parents in Japan - 毎日新聞

• Japan’s energy conundrum | East Asia Forum

• Japan’s Youngest Mayor Acquitted of Bribery - WSJ

• ‘Pear Fairy’ Funassyi Shakes Up Japanese Character World - WSJ

• LDP lawmaker calls for yen to strengthen to 100 | The Japan Times

• Major parties submit bill to lower voting age to 18 next year | The Japan Times

• In Japan, People Are Flipping Out Over The Flip-Phone (Galapagos Phone): What's Old Is New Again - Forbes

• Japan and the past: Undigested history | The Economist

• Inflation in Japan: The signal and the noise | The Economist

• Fukushima fears no longer a drag on tourism | The Japan Times

• Imperial Japan’s Musashi: The Greatest Battleship Ever Built? | The Diplomat

• How Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen — and transformed Japanese cuisine - Vox

• Mazda starts production of new MX-5 Miata in Japan

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/05/2015

• Georgie Anne Geyer commentary: After 7 decades, Japan might emerge from isolation | The Columbus Dispatch

• Al 300.000 Brugse Zotten getapt in Tokio | HLN Brugge

• Japan's Obsession With Cartoon Characters - Bloomberg Business

• Japan: Swift Fly the Years, 117 So Far - NYTimes.com

• The End of Japan’s Sense of Security | Nippon.com

• Did Japan Just Change Its Attitude Toward South Korea? | The Diplomat

• Putting a foreign face on the 3/11 recovery effort | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Cat Island: A bad precedent or new form of tourism? - CSMonitor.com

• Own Up to the War Former Japan PM Tells Abe - Bloomberg Business

• Japanese prime minister under pressure over political donations | World news | The Guardian

• U.S. author recounts 'lecture' he got about 'comfort women' from uninvited Japanese guests | The Japan Times

• Many evacuees say they need state support once housing subsidies end | The Japan Times

• Abe government mulls dispatching SDF troops on EU missions | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/04/2015

• Wrak Japans reuzenslagschip na 70 jaar ontdekt

• Countermeasures for Japan's changing demographics | The Japan Times

• Hospitable Tokyo wins bragging rights as world's best city to call home - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• What Are Chinese Tourists Buying In Japan?

• Japanese island overrun with cats after population explodes - Asia - World - The Independent

• Spring break: The real reason Michelle Obama is going to Japan - CSMonitor.com

• Roedel herten legt Japanse luchthaven plat - AD.nl

• Why do most concerts held in Japan prohibit taking pictures? | RocketNews24

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: 71% of residents dissatisfied with work at Fukushima nuclear plant - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• In the Cockpit With Japan's Kamikaze Pilots - Bloomberg Business

• Workers getting smaller share of corporate earnings despite record profits | The Japan Times

• Why Japan Does Not Have America's Super-Rich Problem

• Interview: Haruno Yoshida, Japan business lobby’s first female executive - FT.com

• US billionaire Paul Allen discovers wreck of Japan's biggest warship Musashi | World news | The Guardian

• Schools told not to use 'inappropriate' supplementary teaching materials: Sankei | The Japan Times

• « Tokyo Fiancée » : le Japon d’Amélie Nothomb de nouveau à l’écran

• Japan’s Solar Power Growth Falters as Utilities Balk - NYTimes.com

• Emperor and prime minister diverge on Japan’s memory of war

• Fukushima data show rise and fall in food radioactivity : Nature News & Comment

• U.S. researchers criticize Japanese gov't for pressure over history textbook - 毎日新聞

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/03/2015

• Polish president's shogun joke shock in Japan - Thenews.pl :: News from Poland

• Thomas Piketty's Japanese tour | The Japan Times

• Rebooting innovation in Japan - BBC News

• Small step by Tokyo district could be giant leap for LGBT equality

• Abe's LDP chapter got funds from subsidized firms | The Japan Times

• Japan PM Abe faces questions about political donations

• Donations scandal ensnares Japan leaders - FT.com

• TV drama, plaudits: a cocktail of success for Japanese whiskey | The Japan Times

• Local Politics: Heading for extinction? | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/02/2015

• Japanese retain fascination with Anne Frank | Culture | DW.DE | 02.03.2015

• Terrorism is low on the list of dangers threatening Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan to Continue to Push its Stance on History

• North Korean missile launch draws swift protest from Japan | The Japan Times

• A bottle of prescribed Adderall lands an Oregon woman in a Japanese jail | OregonLive.com

• Prince William meets Japan tsunami survivors who handwrote newspaper - BBC News

• Japan’s Young Stand to Gain Stronger Voice - WSJ

• Japan's high child poverty rate driven by an increasing number of single-parent families - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Abe's choice of words | The Japan Times

• Prince William encourages Miyagi 3/11 survivors | The Japan Times

• Abe visits Futaba to check out radioactive waste site | The Japan Times

• DPJ vows at convention to hold firm against Abe's security legislation | The Japan Times

• Toyota Starts Building Mirai In Japan, Shares

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/01/2015

• Prince William Gets Close Look at Tsunami Disaster in Japan - ABC News

• Inflammatory articles aren't helping mags' circulation numbers | The Japan Times

• Sony Japan lost all its 20th Anniversary PS4 winners | GamesRadar

• Volcano grows Japanese island - CNN.com

• Omotenashi — Japanese hospitality? | The Japan Times

• Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe | The Japan Times

• Tokyo to rejigger three Olympic venues in cost-cutting drive | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 02/28/2015

• The candy, the whip and freedom of press in Japan | The Japan Times

• BBC News - Prince William is dressed as samurai warrior in Japan

• FCCJ - Four Years After: An Illustrated Guide

• As Abe pushes for more robust military, Japanese push back - CSMonitor.com

• Brutal 'ISIS-inspired' teenager’s killing shocks Japan — RT News

• Prince William lays flowers at Yokohama war cemetery | The Japan Times

• Two more Cabinet ministers ensnared in money scandals | The Japan Times

• Japan and the ‘Counter-Pivot’ | The Diplomat

• Is Japan's Prime Minister the Next Putin?

• Prince William Strikes a Friendly Contrast to Japan's Prince - ABC News

• FCCJ - Confessions of an Instant! News! Celebrity!

• In Japan, Chinese tourists are a welcome boost — if a loud, messy one - The Washington Post

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