Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/30/2015

• ABAC wildlife professor brings home new appreciation for Japan - News - The Tifton Gazette

• Protest bij Japans parlement tegen meer bevoegdheden leger - nrc.nl

• Massa-betoging in Tokio tegen actievere rol voor het leger | NOS

• Japan military legislation changes draw protests - BBC News

• 'Jodo Shinshu' explores one of Japan's most powerful Buddhist sects | The Japan Times

• Ex-Ishin no To founder Hashimoto aims to form new party by mid-December | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/29/2015

• Morphological defects found in Japanese fir trees around Fukushima nuclear plant - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Female sushi chefs are going against grain in Japan | Dallas Morning News

• Taiwan metro cards to show Japan porn star Yui Hatano - BBC News

• Japan to Require Firms to Set Goals in Hiring Female Managers - Fortune

• Dearth of competition in the LDP | The Japan Times

• San Diego and California will bid farewell to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan after 11 years. | SanDiegoUnionTribune.com

• Japan ruling party sets date for leadership vote PM bound to win | Reuters

• Japan requires companies to set goals in hiring female execs - US News

• Fresh Japan data deal blow to Abenomics | Business | DW.COM | 28.08.2015

• Core concern | The Economist

• Japan scales back Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium plans - Yahoo News

• Olympic organizers reveal original logo design, deny plagiarism - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/28/2015

• The Coming Yakuza War - The Daily Beast

• Police brace for yakuza war after Yamaguchi-gumi splits up - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• A toilet seat museum is opening in Japan - Business - News - The Independent

• Clubless goalkeeper Kawashima dumped by Japan | Reuters

• Amazon Prime Video joins Netflix in Japan this fall | The Verge

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/27/2015

• Masayoshi Son speaks: CEO revealed Korean roots to inspire youths facing bigotry in Japan- Nikkei Asian Review

• Abe could be re-elected LDP leader as early as Sept. 8 | The Japan Times

• Anti-Abe feeling grows in SDF | The Japan Times

• Kyoto turns to toilet etiquette signs in a bid to flush out bad behavior | The Japan Times

• Japanse visser raakte door tsunami alles kwijt. Vier jaar later wordt hij aan de andere kant van de wereld herenigd met zijn boot – De Dagelijkse Standaard

• Japan rewrites the rules on using escalators and urges people to stop walking up - Telegraph

• Boek Japanse succesauteur alleen in 'echte' winkel | NOS

• Tokyo: Obama Expressed 'Regret' For Spying Scandal in Japan

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/26/2015

• Inspector General Slams Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy’s Embassy as Amateur Hour | The Rosett Report

• Protecting Japan's democracy | The Japan Times

• IOC tells Japan to have new stadium ready by January 2020 | The Japan Times

• At least 75 injured, man missing after Typhoon Goni wreaks havoc across southern Japan | The Japan Times

• Heat-analysis system could make Tokyo a cooler city - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Ervaringen van een Japanse boeddhistische pelgrimstocht - Boeddhistisch Dagblad

• Why an anime character can be openly gay in Japan, but you can’t | Public Radio International

• Typhoon Goni lashes Japan - BBC News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/25/2015

• Japan vreest Olympische deadline te missen | Sport | de Volkskrant

• You Don't Want to Know About the Girls? The 'Comfort Women', the Japanese Military and Allied Forces in the Asia-Pacific War | The Asia-Pacific Journal

• Typhoon Goni Damages Buildings, Drenches Western Japan - ABC News

• Meet Nitama, new stationmaster at Japan's Kishi Station - CNN.com

• Japan's unmanned cargo ship arrives at International Space Station | The Japan Times

• Japan delivers whiskey to space station— for science - The Washington Post

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/24/2015

• Fire at Japan Kawasaki steel plant near Haneda airport - BBC News

• Japan PM Abe to skip visit to China for WW2 anniversary | Reuters

• A Sprawl of Ghost Homes in Aging Tokyo Suburbs - NYTimes.com

• Pentagon confirms explosion at Sagami US military depot in Japan | US news | The Guardian

• China: verzoening met meer wapens? - Lukas de Vos

• Japan holds live-fire drills at Mount Fuji — RT In motion

• Explosion at US base in Japan | New York Post

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/23/2015

• Abe's revisionism and Japan's divided war memories | The Japan Times

• Abe catches heat from the weeklies in the dog days of summer | The Japan Times

• Russische premier Medvedev maakt Japan boos

• In search of truth - Truth, as seen by an American journalist | Jake Adelstein | TEDxHaneda - YouTube

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/22/2015

• Yukio Okamoto: ‘POWs, Chinese laborers subjected to inhuman conditions’ - Dispatch Japan

• Uniqlo to test four-day week for store workers in Japan - Business - News - The Independent

• Desperate effort mounted to preserve iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan Can’t Ignore Rising Tensions in Korea | The Diplomat

• Japan can no longer afford gifts for citizens turning 100 | Money - Home

• Japan's Nuclear Gypsies: The Homeless, Jobless and Fukushima

• China Criticizes Japan As Abe's Wife Visits War Shrine

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/21/2015

• Embassy of Japan in Belgium - Japan and Me

• Three Western myths about Japan - BBC News

• Abe’s WWII statement fails history 101 | East Asia Forum

• Japan's Problem With Race

• Economists Cut Japan Growth View Again, Widening Gap With BOJ - Bloomberg Business

• Corporate Japan Gets a Jolt From an Outsider - Bloomberg View

• Should the United States Be Blamed for Japan’s Historical Revisionism? | The Diplomat

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/19/2015

• The Olympic Stadium and the Anatomy of Incompetence | Nippon.com

• New Cameras In Japan Can Detect Drunks At Train Stations | Popular Science

• Japan Exports Its Way to Irrelevance - Bloomberg View

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/16/2015

• Growing influence of Japan Conference reflects resentment at Tokyo's postwar settlement with Washington | The Japan Times

• INSIGHT: Separating war criminals from Yasukuni could help fulfill Tojo's final wish for peace - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• The Japanese women who married the enemy - BBC News

• The suicide pilot who took his wife with him to be a TV drama - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japanse keizer Akihito toont berouw over WOII | NOS

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/15/2015

• Before-and-after photos show devastation of Japanese cities at end of war - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• AKB48 not just popular in Japan – Belgian politician lobbying for first European concert | RocketNews24

• Sendai reactors vulnerable to eruptions, state-picked volcanologist warns | The Japan Times

• Au Japon, la petite musique pacifiste impériale - Libération

• For Japan's Abe, a delicate balancing act in expressing 'profound grief' for WWII - CSMonitor.com

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/14/2015

• Commentary: Abe's watered-down apology fails sincerity test - Xinhua | English.news.cn

• Abe expresses 'grief' for war, but says Japan can't apologize forever - LA Times

• Suntory pulls promotional bags bearing designs by embattled Tokyo Olympics logo designer | The Japan Times

• Speech on World War II: 3 words to watch for from Japan's Shinzo Abe - LA Times

• Japan protests visit of Russian minister to disputed island off Hokkaido - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/13/2015

• Will Shinzo Abe say sorry for the second World War?

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/12/2015

• The last kamikaze: two Japanese pilots tell how they cheated death | World news | The Guardian

• «Journal d'Hiroshima»: le terrifiant carnet d'après la Bombe | Slate.fr

• The selective keeping of memories in Japan - The Washington Post

• Why Japan is restarting nuclear reactors, despite public outcry - CSMonitor.com

• Japan restarts reactor in test of Abe's nuclear policy | Reuters

• Was It Right to Drop Atom Bombs on Japan? - WSJ

• Japan restarts first nuclear power plant since Fukushima - BBC News

• Japan laat nucleaire pauzeknop weer los - De Standaard

• Overijsselse scouts laaiend enthousiast over bezoek aan Japan

• 'Car-in-a-bag' created in Japan - BBC News

• Etre un kamikaze japonais… et avoir échappé à la mort | Big Browser

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/11/2015

• A legacy of WWII, Korean residents test nation's ability to accommodate non-Japanese | The Japan Times

• On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Bombing, Japan Remembers Nagasaki · Global Voices

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/10/2015

• Reactor in Kagoshima poised for restart despite public opposition | The Japan Times

• Keizerin Michiko van Japan heeft hartproblemen - Blauw Bloed

• Japan to restart reactor in test of Abe's nuclear policy | Reuters

• Japan's Abe to refer to 'apology' in WW2 anniversary remarks: NHK | Reuters

• Japan herdenkt atoombom op Nagasaki - nrc.nl

• Nagasaki remembered: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told, get off the road to war - Asia - World - The Independent

• Things that are considered rude in Japan - Business Insider

• Under Surveillance in Tokyo | SNA Japan

• Japan remembers Nagasaki atomic bomb, 70 years on - BBC News

• Japan’s Anti-Nuclear Movement at High Tide | SNA Japan

• What Nagasaki looked like before and after the bomb - The Washington Post

• Rare photos taken right after Nagasaki atomic bombing to be preserved digitally - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• 150-year-old images reveal what Japanese artists once thought about exotic American visitors - Quartz

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/09/2015

• Truth hurts: censorship in the media | The Japan Times

• Draft of Abe statement does not include ‘apology’ for Japan's role in WWII - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/07/2015

• Osaka joins Yokohama in adopting school textbooks critics say 'glorify war' - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Walking holidays in Japan: the best mountain hikes to tackle | Travel | The Guardian

• Anxiety rises over Abe omitting non-nuclear principles from Hiroshima speech - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Exclusion of nonnuclear principles from Abe's Hiroshima speech causes stir | The Japan Times

• Japan Leaders at Fault for ‘Reckless’ War, Panel Tells Abe - Bloomberg Business

• Belgische ontwerper stapt naar rechter voor plagiaat logo Ol... - De Standaard

• Hiroshima - The New Yorker

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/06/2015

• Hiroshima : le combat des « hibakusha » contre l’oubli

• Defense minister triggers uproar with comments on nuclear weapons under security legislation - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Le monde marque à Hiroshima les 70 ans de la première bombe nucléaire

• Shrine that venerates Japan's undigested militarism becomes focus for revisionist patriots who want to bring back pre-war constitution - Asia - World - The Independent

• Hiroshima atomic bomb: Survivor recalls horrors - BBC News

• Designer defends Tokyo Olympic emblem as original, denies plagiarism - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Major Makeover for the University Entrance System | Nippon.com

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/05/2015

• Is Japan's Emperor Akihito Trying To Stop Abe? - Forbes

• Tokyo Heat Likely to Set Record - WSJ

• Hiroshima atomic bombing did not lead to Japanese surrender, historians argue nearing 70th anniversary - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• In surprise move, government to suspend Nago construction for one month | The Japan Times

• Foreign Policy | the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/04/2015

• Mobile Web - News - As an American teen, Minnesota man witnessed World War II in Japan

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/03/2015

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• ‘Olympische Spelen stalen mijn logo’ - Het Nieuwsblad Mobile

• Exploring Japan's military past | The Japan Times

• Getting Japan's youth engaged in disaster preparedness | The Japan Times

• Opname capitulatietoespraak Hirohito online gezet

• Bevrijdt premier Abe Japan van de spoken van WO II? - Buitenland - TROUW

• Inside Japan's 'corpse hotels' - Yahoo Maktoob News

• Will Abe face up to Japan's past? - The Nation

• Commentary: Japan's silence on U.S. spying betrays masochistic diplomacy towards Big Brother - Xinhua | English.news.cn

• Original audio of Japan emperor's war-end speech released - World - Fredericksburg.com

• A center in Japan simulates earthquakes — and it's open to the public

• Claiming the right to be Japanese — and more | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/02/2015

• Why Japan's 1945 surrender speech is almost incomprehensible - CSMonitor.com

• A political turning point for Japan's youth | The Japan Times

• Victims’ justice | The Economist

• Toespraak Japanse keizer Hirohito opnieuw te horen | Buitenland | de Volkskrant

• Japan Is Going to Try Aging Whisky in Space

• MtGox bitcoin chief Mark Karpeles arrested in Japan - BBC News

• Japan's Enron reckoning | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/01/2015

• Judicial review panel votes to indict ex-Tepco execs | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 07/31/2015

• Spending by foreign visitors in Japan hit record ¥888.7 billion in April-June | The Japan Times

• Is Japan Becoming a Threat to Peace? | The Diplomat

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• Topmannen Tepco toch vervolgd voor nucleaire ramp Japan - nrc.nl

• Belgian designer demands halt to use of Tokyo Olympics emblem - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Colonial management was never a 'charity' | The Japan Times

• Het Japanse minimumloon: een bakje noodles per uur - NRC Q

• Japan Elite Stock Gauge to Get Surprise New Addition: Tepco - Bloomberg Business

• Will Japan Survive Its Great Big Debt Disaster? | The National Interest

• Tokyo Olympic Games logo embroiled in plagiarism row | Art and design | The Guardian

• Japan's Minimum Wage Only Enough for a Bowl of Ramen - Bloomberg Business

• Better Get Used to it, China: Taiwan and Japan Will Get Closer | The Diplomat

• China and Russia will hold drills in Sea of Japan

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• Nation's political culture stands at major crossroads | The Japan Times

• Shell to sell Japan refiner stake for ¥169 billion to Idemitsu | The Japan Times

• Des écolières à vendre au Japon | VICE News

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