Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/30/2015

• Emblem for Tokyo Olympics almost the same as logo in Belgium - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan dismisses plagiarism claims over 2020 logo | Reuters

• EDITORIAL: Reflections on 2 years without nuclear power ahead of planned restarts - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Learning English requires a different approach | The Japan Times

• Another ward in Tokyo to recognize same-sex couples | The Japan Times

• Potential Abe Successor Speaks Out Against Japan’s Defense Bills - Bloomberg Business

• UFO In Japan: Footage Shows 10 Glowing Lights Float Across Osaka

• Tourism boom drives Japan to convert offices into hotels | Reuters

• Murayama warns of 'crisis' over security bills | The Japan Times

• Japan to accept effective tariff cut for imported wheat at TPP talks | The Japan Times

• Great Buddha of Kamakura set for first overhaul in 50 years - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/29/2015

• Warnings on cost rises were ignored: Japan stadium designers - Yahoo Sports

• Old and tired, some Japan farmers see trade pact jolt as only answer

• Tokyo Olympic stadium designer strikes back at critics | The Japan Times

• Ministry official quits amid Olympic stadium debacle | The Japan Times

• Au Japon, les pères célibataires sortent de l’ombre

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/28/2015

• Warnings on cost rises were ignored: Japan stadium designers

• Abe's special adviser under fire for remarks on Constitution, security bills - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan approves increase in Fukushima compensation to $57 billion

• The library hotel, Japan's latest concept for tourists | Lifestyle from CTV News

• Materialise NV Signs 5 Year Partnership Agreement With Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing, Inc.

• Japan: Moss-viewing excursions gain popularity - BBC News

• Staring at Moss Is an Actual Hobby in Japan | TIME

• LDP lawmakers aim to raise battleship Yamato wreckage | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/27/2015

• Haruki Murakami: the moment I knew I would be a novelist - Telegraph

• Amid ongoing protests, Japan’s upper house to discuss military bills - World Socialist Web Site

• Tokyo plane crash 'leaves three dead' - BBC News

• How to Explore Japan By Train Without Ever Leaving Home · Global Voices

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/26/2015

• Even the departed are abandoning Japan's countryside | The Japan Times

• Toshiba scandal exposes Japan Inc's governance flaws - The Economic Times on Mobile

• More than 11,000 farmed tuna die in wake of typhoon | The Japan Times

• “Sentō”: Japan’s Public Bathhouses | Nippon.com

• Male nipples become tools of 'sexual harassment' during summer, complain Japanese women ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• Blowing whistle on fraud rare in Japan | Business | Journal Gazette

• Light plane crashes into western Tokyo residential area, at least 3 dead - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan, Abe And The Yen | investing.com

• Yuki’s Take / Japan avoiding reality in security debate - The Japan News

• Drastic electoral reforms remain challenging - The Japan News

• Nihonshu overflow | The Japan Times

• Winds of war: Japan's balloon bombs took the Pacific battle to American soil | The Japan Times

• Abe battles to prevent support slipping toward danger zone | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/25/2015

• Suntory's Shinji Fukuyo on why Japan whisky is good neat, on the rocks, in a highball

• Comment: Should Japan ban its Rising Sun flag? | SBS News

• Journalists wonder if the Financial Times is safe in Nikkei's hands | Media | The Guardian

• Nikkei buys the Financial Times: Have The Lunatics Taken Over the Asylum? | Japan Subculture Research Center

• Collection of retro travel posters proves Japan has always been a cool place to visit 【Photos】 | RocketNews24

• Japan's Nikkei pledges to respect Financial Times culture | The News Tribune

• Organizers reveal emblem for 2020 Tokyo Olympics | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Xenophobia Problem | The Diplomat

• How Russia Tries to Intimidate Japan | The Diplomat

• A load of tosh | The Economist

• Beyond the bullet train: the heart of rural Japan - FT.com

• Japan urges Russian prime minister not to visit disputed isles | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/24/2015

• KHNL: Photo of ‘mutant’ daisies in Japan triggers radiation fears

• Preliminary Lessons From Japan’s Security Debate | The Diplomat

• Nikkei's 'pink 'un' buy highlights need to escape greying Japan

• Newsonomics: Eight questions (and answers) about Nikkei’s surprise purchase of the FT » Nieman Journalism Lab

• Honda to set English as official language

• Governor Masuzoe’s Olympic Offensive | SNA Japan

• Divided Memories: History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia | Nippon.com

• How the government stacks its panels with 'yes men' | The Japan Times

• Japanese astronaut Yui reaches space station | The Japan Times

• Premier Abe legt militaire wet uit met papieren figuren | Japan

• IMF warns Japan must avoid over-reliance on weak yen

• 79% of public worried about terrorism in Japan, poll shows | The Japan Times

• IMF urges Japan to ‘reload Abenomics’ to continue recovery - BBC News

• Japan: World's largest flower blooms in Tokyo park - BBC News

• Abe Battles to Prevent Support Slipping Toward Danger Zone - Bloomberg Business

• Shinzo Abe Uses Paper Cutouts to Sell His Security Reforms on Japanese TV | Foreign Policy

• INSIGHT: Does today's Japan deserve the love of kamikaze pilots? - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan Debt Risks Rise to Triple GDP Without Change, IMF Says - Bloomberg Business

• Demonstrating for Peace in Japan | The Diplomat

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/23/2015

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• Foreign Travelers to Japan on Track to Set New Record - WSJ

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• Japan on course for a record 18 million foreign visitors this year - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• U.S. investors sue Toshiba for losses caused by false accounting - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• ‘Japanse bedrijfscultuur vatbaar voor boekhoudfraude’

• Miljardenschandaal bij Toshiba schokt Japan - De Standaard

• Heads roll at Toshiba as scandal claims top brass | The Japan Times

• The tragedy of Shinzo Abe | The Japan Times

• Ain't no cure for the salaryman blues | The Japan Times

• Bestuur Toshiba stapt op na bedrijfsfraude | Economie | de Volkskrant

• Probe finds that pressure by management contributed to Toshiba wrongdoing | The Japan Times

• Japan’s pacifism fades, but most Japanese aren’t happy about it

• Documentary reveals dark side of Japan's 'schoolgirl culture' | Daily Mail Online

• The 7 Biggest Corporate Scandals in Japan - Bloomberg Business

• Japan defence paper warns on China and pushes for stronger military role | World news | The Guardian

• CEO of Japan's Toshiba resigns over doctored books | The Olympian

• Asia-pacific - Japan’s Mitzubishi apologises to US prisoners of war - France 24

• 40 years later, former sailor finds daughter he left behind in Japan - Pacific - Stripes

• Meer dan 500 Belgische scouts naar Japan voor jamboree

• Abe’s Japan inches away from pacifism - FT.com

• Japan faces Y5.9 bil loss over scrapped Olympic stadium ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• Mori denies role in failed stadium bid | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/22/2015

• 5 Things To Know About Toshiba’s Accounting Scandal - WSJ

• Analyzing Abe's fixation on the Constitution | The Japan Times

• Mori denies role in failed stadium bid | The Japan Times

• Analyzing Abe's fixation on the Constitution | The Japan Times

• Professors accuse Abe of 'destroying democracy' with new security bills - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/21/2015

• End of the Beginning or Beginning of the End for Shinzo Abe? | The Diplomat

• Japan’s National Holidays | Nippon.com

• In Japan, Teenage Girls Folding Paper Cranes Has Taken on a Whole New Meaning | VICE News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/20/2015

• Japan Wrestles With Its Pacifism - NYTimes.com

• Why Japan hangs tough on the history issue

• Tokyo hospitals to add five foreign doctors for expats | The Japan Times

• Japan’s nationalistic music scene: Pop goes the Rising Sun - MarketWatch

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/19/2015

• Japan's Mitsubishi to make prisoners of war apology - BBC News

• Japanese fishing boat, crew seized by Russian authorities over excess salmon haul - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Cabinet approval rating nose-dives after ruling camp rams through security bills | The Japan Times

• Is this the solution to Japan’s glut of empty homes? - FT.com

• Japan′s ′maid cafes′ - A cover for the child sex industry | Asia | DW.COM | 17.07.2015

• China defense minister says Japan bill will 'complicate' region | Reuters

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/18/2015

• Little Thailand: Beachside beer and spicy food an hour from Tokyo | The Japan Times

• Head Tokyo Olympics organizer claims he 'hated' stadium design from the start | The Japan Times

• Thousands urged to flee as Typhoon Nangka hits Japan - BBC News

• Japan is woedend: premier Abe schaft het pacifisme af - NRC Handelsblad van donderdag 16 juli 2015

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/17/2015

• Japan’s Elderly Now Commit More Crime Than Its Teenagers | TIME

• Japan scraps Zaha Hadid's Tokyo Olympic stadium design | World news | The Guardian

• Scholars demand Abe admit wartime wrongdoing in 70th anniversary statement - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• US defense budget already counting on Japan self-defense plan - Pacific - Stripes

• Exclusive: Toshiba faces $3 billion in charges over accounting scandal - sources

• Emperor and empress visit Fukushima, console evacuees - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• What Japan′s defense policy revision means | Asia | DW.COM | 16.07.2015

• NPO Radio 1 - Japan's leger mag buiten grenzen opereren

• Japan's Abe sees progress on military expansion plans

• Parody of LDP security bills video goes viral ahead of Diet vote | The Japan Times

• The Brazilians winning in Japan - BBC News

• Why Are so Many of the World's Oldest Businesses in Japan?

• Wrong way to pass security bills | The Japan Times

• The Abe administration's arrogance of power moment | The Japan Times

• Lower House passes security bills amid protests | The Japan Times

• Japans leger mag ook buiten grenzen opereren | Buitenland | de Volkskrant

• Japan, China Expand Aid to Asia in Fight for Influence - Bloomberg Business

• Japan has started turning abandoned golf courses into solar power plants | Business Insider

• 70 years on, Japanese firm to apologize to US WWII veterans

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/16/2015

• Despite Protests, Japan’s Ruling Coaltion Rams Through Controversial War Powers Legislation · Global Voices

• Amid protests, Japan's legislature pushes ahead with military bills - LA Times

• Krachtige tyfoon bedreigt Japan | Buitenland | De Morgen

• Japan opent de weg naar buitenlandse militaire operaties

• Le Japon se déchire sur un projet de loi pour renforcer les armées

• INSIGHT: Abe never faltered in his crusade for new security legislation at all costs - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan stemt in met sterkere rol leger - militaire inzet in buitenland toegestaan - nrc.nl

• Are These the Last Days of Japan’s Prime Minister Abe? - The Daily Beast

• Protests as Japan paves way for self-defence law change - BBC News

• Japan finally bans possession of child porn - Telegraph

• Robots do check-in and check-out at cost-cutting Japan hotel - US News

• Abe to push Japan security bills through lower house, despite protests

• Government changes its tune on Olympic stadium design amid soaring costs | The Japan Times

• Amid angry scenes, ruling parties force security bills through Lower House committee | The Japan Times

• Japan wordt iets minder pacifistisch - De Standaard

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/15/2015

• Alpaca als getuige op je bruiloft: in Japan kan het | metronieuws.nl

• Japan’s Plutonium Stockpile Creates a Nuclear Headache - WSJ

• Japan's Central Bank Trims Growth Forecast - The New York Times

• Protests Rage in Tokyo as Abe’s Security Bills Head to Vote - Bloomberg Business

• Japan's Abe pushes security bills in summer of discontent

• Group of experts demands new security legislation be killed - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• VOX POPULI: Abe regime connives to pull off brazen 'coup d'etat' without use of a gun - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/13/2015

• Japan cinema legend Miyazaki joins protests against move to widen military role

• A boom in foreign tourism boosts Japan's economy

• Nintendo President Satoru Iwata dies after leading Japan game company through success, woes | Fox Business

• Japan’s ‘Walt Disney’ Decries Abe’s Plan to Expand Military Role - Bloomberg Business

• Satoru Iwata, le PDG de Nintendo, est mort

• Failing on Inflation, Japan Fudges the Numbers - Bloomberg View

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/12/2015

• Japan is not Germany

• The foodie traveller … tries frozen sashimi in Japan | Travel | The Guardian

• Abe weighs early September China visit, but would miss Beijing's WWII ceremony | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Closed-Door Refugee Policy | Nippon.com

• A Eulogy for the Long, Intimate Email - The New York Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/11/2015

• Gloves off | The Economist

• 144 local, prefectural governments release statements condemning security bills | The Japan Times

• How a Japanese Chemist Sparked a Whiskey Empire | Flashback | OZY

• Poll: Japanese Women Don’t Want to Lead | The Diplomat

• Kengo Kuma, SANAA and Nikken Design New Shibuya Skyscraper | ArchDaily

• Mount Fuji gets free Wi-Fi in bid to draw more visitors | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/10/2015

• Japan firms face hurdles as 'service' culture taken overseas | The Japan Times

• INSIGHT: Japanese-Brazilians disillusioned with land of ancestors - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Todd Snyder, a Designer Raised in Iowa, Is Big in Japan - NYTimes.com

• Poll: 37.6% of single young Japanese don’t want romantic partners - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• LDP, DPJ take to Internet to mount security bill-related campaigns of persuasion | The Japan Times

• Kyoto gekozen tot beste stad om te bezoeken | Japan

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/09/2015

• Widow of former Japanese soldier publishes his hidden wartime diary - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan’s long road to gender progress - The Washington Post

• Caroline Kennedy helped secure Toyota exec's release in Japan drug case

• New Olympic stadium dilemma: where to find ¥252 billion | The Japan Times

• Salarymen sidelined as Chinese descend on Japan property market | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/08/2015

• Abenomics is Dying | SNA Japan

• Changes behind the wheel for Tokyo's taxi industry | The Japan Times

• American Toyota Exec Released From Custody in Japan - ABC News

• USA challenges Japan to a giant robot battle - BBC News

• 'Onsen' at center of sex acts controversy to reopen Aug. 1 | The Japan Times

• Fuel is loaded into Kagoshima reactor as first restart nears | The Japan Times

• Waarom is Japan zo veilig? 5 redenen

• Japan's Abe faces growing risk on security shift: opposition leader

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/07/2015

• Heritage Title for Japan Industry Sites Draws Mixed Reaction - ABC News

• Report: Toyota executive arrested in Japan to be released

• How Japan’s shortcomings can trigger its next burst of innovation - The Washington Post

• Gyroscope-powered rides to get street-legal status | The Japan Times

• Evacuation of Fukushima town of Naraha to be lifted Sept. 5 | The Japan Times

• Government downplays forced labor concession in winning UNESCO listing for industrial sites | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/06/2015

• Women's World Cup: Japan reacts with sadness and pride - BBC News

• The U.S. overwhelms Japan in incredible World Cup final win | For The Win

• Cherry Blossoms, Hot Springs, and Blue Movies: Chinese Tourism and Japan’s Image Gap | Nippon.com

• UNESCO decides to add Meiji industrial sites to World Heritage list | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/05/2015

• Japan’s Honorific Language About More Than Manners | Nippon.com

• Japan's troubling lack of romance | The Japan Times

• Bullet trains get rude wake-up call | The Japan Times

• Toshiba's accounting scandal nearly triples to ¥150 billion: source | The Japan Times

• Could Hamp's detention reinforce prejudice? | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/04/2015

• Toshiba accounting irregularities likely to exceed 100 billion yen - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan enacts law to ascribe employee inventions to firms | The Japan Times

• Japan is het lichtend voorbeeld - De Standaard

• Fatal Fire on Japan's Airtight Bullet Train Exposes Lapses - ABC News

• Take a Stroll Through the Backstreets of Japan - IGNITION

• Abe's poor answers on security bills | The Japan Times

• From dog coats to toilet paper, Nadeshiko fever hits stores ahead of World Cup final | The Japan Times

• Japan is back in the final after emotional 2011 win - US News

• UNESCO and Japan’s Act of Forgetting | The Diplomat

• Japan's falling population will set a new record every year until 2060 - Asia - World - The Independent

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/03/2015

• Why does Japan have such a high suicide rate? - BBC News

• Battleship island – a symbol of Japan's progress or reminder of its dark history? | World news | The Guardian

• Helft van de Japanners heeft bijna nooit seks — Wel.nl

• This calico cat stationmaster was loved all over Japan | Public Radio International

• Policy Fixes Needed for Japan’s Elderly Women | Nippon.com

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/02/2015

• American ramen fanatic publishes book of Tokyo's top noodle joints - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Law gets serious about cycling safety | The Japan Times

• Japan naar finale WK vrouwen dankzij eigen doelpunt Engeland | NU - Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl

• With rental rules set to change, can Airbnb succeed in Japan? - CSMonitor.com

• Japan isn't especially religious, but there's still plenty of religion | Public Radio International

• Japan's crowded, punctual rail network faces dilemma over security checks | The Japan Times

• Man who self-immolated on shinkansen 'couldn't live on pension,' says neighbor | The Japan Times

• Japan’s population decline the steepest on record - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan Today

• Toyota's top female executive steps down after arrest in Japan

• Officieel: Brussel - Tokio wordt avondvlucht - Flightlevel

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/01/2015

• ANA vliegt vanaf 25 oktober dagelijks van Brussel naar Tokio - HLN.be

• With Japan’s volcanic activity rising, Mount Fuji climbers urged to wear helmets - News - Stripes

• Toyota's Top Female Executive Resigns After Arrest in Japan - ABC News

• Shinkansen passengers recount terrifying ordeal with man who set himself ablaze - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan Today

• VOX POPULI: The peace of a company of strangers shattered on a Shinkansen train - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Abe's ill-conceived university policy | The Japan Times

• Behind the LDP lawmakers' remarks | The Japan Times

• Suzuki president hands keys to his son after decades at the wheel | The Japan Times

• Japan's bid for heritage listing of early industrial sites revives ire over POW, forced labor | Star Tribune

• This week in Hate Mongering In Japan: Fuji TV wins for Korean mistranslation ‘sans malice’ : Japan Subculture Research Center

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 06/30/2015

• Two die as man sets himself on fire aboard Japanese bullet train - LA Times

• Deel Japans vakantieoord ontruimd na vulkaanuitbarsting | NU - Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl

• In Japan, a plan to expand military's powers faces growing resistance - LA Times

• Let's discuss NHK in the news | The Japan Times

• Salarymen's allowances lowest in three decades as living costs rise | The Japan Times

• Japan's Productivity Puzzle - Bloomberg View

• 'Fietshelm' van 1,7 miljard is olympische strop voor Japan | Buitenland | de Volkskrant

• Fuji TV apologizes for subtitles inaccurately quoting South Koreans | The Japan Times

• Japan bullet train 'self-immolation' fire kills two - BBC News

• 2 dead after fire on Shinkansen train - The Japan News

• LDP media bashers put security bills in doubt | The Japan Times

• In Japan, even the gun enthusiasts welcome restrictions on firearms - The Washington Post

• Japon : le prix honteux de la maternité ! - Grazia

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