Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/29/2015

• Shinzo Abe’s Critics Fear He’s Moving Japan Toward a Militaristic Future

• In Japan, Small Children Take the Subway and Run Errands Alone - CityLab

• Where's the justice? In Japan's legal terminology, it's almost nowhere to be seen | The Japan Times

• Home-sharing services on the rise in Japan as owners cash in on tourist boom | The Japan Times

• Government skipped recording debate over constitutional reinterpretation | The Japan Times

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• Zero applicants for Japan plan to promote women at work - Yahoo News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/28/2015

• Zero applicants for Japan plan to promote women at work - Channel NewsAsia

• Shinzo Abe tweaks his economic programme for Japan | The Economist

• Legal change will make temp purgatory permanent for many Japanese workers | The Japan Times

• Government skipped recording debate over constitutional reinterpretation | The Japan Times

• Ministry study finds large Tokyo quake would damage 20% of medical institutions | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/27/2015

• What do Japanese men think about dating foreign women? ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• Abe government targets the liberal arts | The Japan Times

• Nation's youth are attempting to establish a new political norm | The Japan Times

• As dust from security bills fight settles, Japan opposition — not Abe — facing crisis | The Japan Times

• Japan's humanities chop sends shivers down academic spines | Higher Education Network | The Guardian

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/26/2015

• VOX POPULI: The art of avoiding responsibility a Japanese trait - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Inevitable looming consumption tax hike keeps the LDP awake at night | The Japan Times

• Abe weighs opening Japan to 'dozens' of Syrian refugee students: report | The Japan Times

• EDITORIAL: 'Abenomics 2' sounds like hollow promises - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• The Japanese people must face up to new realities | The Japan Times

• PLUS | Niet geregistreerd - De Standaard Mobile

• Japan prices fall for first time in over two years - MarketWatch

• The Japanese people must face up to new realities | The Japan Times

• Miyazaki city turns to French flair in a bid to attract new residents | The Japan Times

• A really worrying video about press freedom in Japan - Vox

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/25/2015

• Japan core inflation falls first time in over two years - BBC News

• Jeff Kingston, "Japanese University Humanities and Social Sciences Programs Under Attack", The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 13, Issue. 39, No. 1, September 28, 2015

• 1,000 Days of Shinzo Abe: 5 Highlights - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Japanse minister wil aftreden om olympisch stadion | Buitenland | de Volkskrant

• Abe will need all his Zen calm to press on with Abenomics | The Japan Times

• Abe aims arrows at new targets with three fresh goals for 'Abenomics,' 20% rise in GDP | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/24/2015

• Japan's Abe airs Abenomics 2.0 plan for $5 trillion economy :: WRAL.com

• Why the World Doesn’t Have to Fear Japan | TIME

• Japan's Abe Airs Abenomics 2.0 Plan for $5 Trillion Economy - ABC News

• No ‘Paradise on Earth’: Why Japan Should Right a Historic Wrong | The Diplomat

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/23/2015

• Is Japan abandoning its pacifism? - BBC News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/22/2015

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• When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk - The New York Times

• Internet banking slow to take root in nation where branches offer friendly face time | The Japan Times

• Abe omzeilt pacifisme, maakt Japanners razend - NRC Handelsblad van maandag 21 september 2015

• Japan's creepy mannequin head scarecrows - CNN.com

• The Undercover Princess! Princess Mako of Japan Goes Undetected at British University for a Whole Year : People.com Mobile

• Tokyo at high risk of devastating floods, experts say | The Japan Times

• Japan’s emissions have soared since Fukushima nuclear disaster

• Tokyo at high risk of devastating floods, experts say | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/21/2015

• Japan Dumbs Down Its Universities - Bloomberg View

• Support for Japan’s Abe sags after security bills passed

• Rent a hot guy to make you cry, then wipe your tears away ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• Pacifism bill: Why Japan won't build a nuclear weapon - CNN.com

• 'Don't sell your soul for a Japanese man' | The Japan Times

• Ready or not, government will soon have your My Number | The Japan Times

• Beijing calls laws threat to region | The Japan Times

• Cabinet's approval rating sinks to 38.9% over unpopular security laws | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/20/2015

• Passage of security legislation prompts groups to prepare legal challenges - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan zorgt voor ‘grootste stunt ooit in geschiedenis van het rugby’ - Het Nieuwsblad Mobile

• China warns Japan over expanding military role abroad - BBC News

• Yakuza infighting puts nation on edge | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/19/2015

• Policy hurdles remain despite passage of new security laws | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Coming Cabinet Reshuffle | The Diplomat

• Japan lawmakers pass legislation expanding military's role for first time since WWII - LA Times

• Inside the syndicate | The Economist

• Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Military - NYTimes.com

• Le gouvernement japonais demande aux universités de ne plus enseigner les sciences humaines | Slate.fr

• Japanese soldiers could fight abroad again after security bill passed | World news | The Guardian

• Toyota's Lightweight Car Seat: A Bionic Design | Materialise Blog

• Photos: A History of Skirmishes at Japan’s Parliament - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Japanse troepen kunnen opnieuw overzees optreden

• Japans Hogerhuis voert omstreden oorlogswetten door - nrc.nl

• Security policy set the wrong way | The Japan Times

• Fresh rain brings more misery to flood-hit Joso | The Japan Times

• Protesters crowd Diet as security bills face passage | The Japan Times

• Man held in Kumagaya slayings may be brother of Peruvian serial killer | The Japan Times

• Diet enacts security laws, marking Japan's departure from pacifism | The Japan Times

• Selfiestick komt Japanse trein niet meer in | ThePostOnline

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/18/2015

• "The nat. security bills are an exact copy of the third Armitage Nye Report"

• More than 300 bags from Fukushima cleanup washed away during Tochigi floods - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Belgische robotica is big in Japan - Nieuws - Data News Mobile

• PressTV-‘Japan public against security bill’

• Small Waves Reach Japan After Chile Quake, No Injuries - ABC News

• Japan government pushes military expansion bills despite protests | Reuters

• Foreign Joso flood victims hit out at city's monolingual response | The Japan Times

• Opposition parties' delaying tactics throw Diet into chaos | The Japan Times

• Ex-CIA agent: Japan military needed for North Korea collapse - UPI.com

• Police Arrest Peruvian After 6 People Found Slain in Japan - ABC News

• Scuffles as Japan security bill approved by committee - BBC News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/17/2015

• 5 Ways Japan Could Use Its Restricted Military Under New Law - WSJ

• Omstreden Japanse oorlogswetten overleven chaotische stemming - nrc.nl

• Japan Military Bills Provoke Scuffling in Parliament - NYTimes.com

• ‘Made in Japan’ is back in vogue - FT.com

• Japan legislative committee approves security bills - US News

• Japanese politicians brawl in parliament over bill to allow troops to fight abroad | World news | The Guardian

• Japan Downgrade Fuels Doubts About Abenomics - WSJ

• New generation of Japanese anti-war protesters challenge Abe | World news | The Guardian

• Japan opposition tries to halt vote on contentious security bills | Reuters

• Assertive Japan poised to abandon 70 years of pacifism - CNN.com

• Alarm Over Huge Cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences at Japanese Universities | TIME

• Arresting possibilities: a primer on who can bang you up in Japan | The Japan Times

• Security questions go unanswered | The Japan Times

• Japan's defense reform tarnished by low public support, unconvincing sales pitch | The Japan Times

• Tourist numbers continue to surge in Japan, with China underpinning rise | The Japan Times

• Ruling bloc close to clearing security vote | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/16/2015

• Japan Diet Panel to Vote on Military Bills Amid Protests - ABC News

• Justice Ministry unveils eased refugee-recognition criteria but critics quick to cry foul | The Japan Times

• Japan: City launches app to report dog poo - BBC News

• Japan protesters rally as contentious security bills near passage | Reuters

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• The yakuza: Inside Japan's murky criminal underworld - CNN.com

• 15 missing people in Ibaraki flooding found alive - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/15/2015

• Foreigners seeking safe haven in Japan to avoid conflicts at home can stay - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Abe Returned as LDP President in Uncontested Election | Nippon.com

• When disaster strikes in Japan, keep calm and carry a diaper | The Japan Times

• Japan set for historic defence shift, but still not 'normal nation'

• Factbox: Main elements of Japan's security legislation - Yahoo News

• Japan business mood sinks on China anxiety, weak demand: Reuters Tankan | Reuters

• End the nuclear 'safety myth' | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/14/2015

• Doing the splits | The Economist

• More than 3,000 residents of Joso remain evacuated after devastating floods; death toll hits 7 | The Japan Times

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• Hundreds of bags of radioactive waste washed away in Japan floods - Telegraph

• Nagasaki unveils monument to POWs; Dutch survivor attends | The Japan Times

• The entrepreneur teaching Japan how to take more risks - BBC News

• Japan's Mount Aso volcano erupts - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/13/2015

• Koizumi calls for national movement to lead fight against nuclear power - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Order to evacuate floods came too late for some in Joso city | The Japan Times

• Lessons learned while living in Japan

• Changing the World From Within – Part 2 | news

• Nearly 70,000 evacuees still living in shoddy temporary housing - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Repair work in flooded Kanto areas at a crawl due to water volume - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Suite au passage du dernier typhon, le Mont Fuji s’est transformé en Laputa

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/12/2015

• Brewing sake in Japan is becoming a woman's game — again | Public Radio International

• Earthquake Rattles Japan In The Tokyo Area

• Former Bitcoin Exchange CEO Charged With Embezzlement in Japan | VICE News

• Japan Islamic State Threat: After ISIS Call For Violence, Tokyo Beefs Up Security At Foreign Offices

• The International Examiner – Uncovering a ‘closed-minded’ mentality in Japan

• Who Opens a Reactor Next to a Volcano? Japan’s New Nuclear Gamble - The Daily Beast

• Harrowing Photos Document Devastation After Rains Hit Japan

• Japan's centenarian population tops 60,000 for first time | The Japan Times

• Riverbank ruptures leave three dead, 22 missing; Sendai urges over 400,000 to evacuate | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/11/2015

• In Japan, 1 in 6 children lives in poverty, putting education, future at stake | The Japan Times

• Authorities knew of flood risk; detailed simulation done 10 years ago | The Japan Times

• Stranded, worried: The faces of Japan's flood victims - CNN.com

• Largest Yakuza Group in Japan Splits Up - Bloomberg Business

• Japan Floods Leave 1 Dead, 22 Missing as Another River Bursts - Bloomberg Business

• Won Kim a photographié les habitants des plus petites locations tokyoïtes -

• How Japan's devastating rainstorm came about | The Japan Times

• Storm flood rips through residential neighborhood; helicopters pull survivors from collapsing homes | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/10/2015

• Japon: une ville envahie par une rivière en furie

• Japan floods: City of Joso hit by 'unprecedented' rain - BBC News

• Dramatic scenes unfold amid massive rain, heavy flooding in Tochigi, Ibaraki prefectures - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan floods spark evacuations of thousands from towns | World news | The Guardian

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/09/2015

• Japan's largest mafia group splits

• Drunk man arrested in Japan for attacking 'emotion-reading' robot - Telegraph

• Abe remains LDP president after Noda fails to build enough support to run | The Japan Times

• Can Towns Near Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant Recover? - ABC News

• Japan PM Shinzo Abe secures new term as ruling party chief - BBC News

• Kan AirBnB slagen in Japan? | Japan

• Being 'Hafu' in Japan | Al Jazeera America

• Analysis：Private lodging trend takes hold amidst surge in foreign tourists, but legal problems persist - 毎日新聞

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/08/2015

• The search begins: tips for tapping the Net in Japanese | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/07/2015

• Death? War? What's next for the games? | The Japan Times

• Nuclear plants and leprosy islands: Rise of 'dark tourism' in Japan unveiled - Telegraph

• Japan's Abe unlikely to tackle hard reforms in next term: economists | Reuters

• Long-time residents of Naraha facing dilemma with lifting of evacuation order - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Why Japan's right keeps leaving the left in the dust | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/06/2015

• In 'non-religious' Japan, the shrine can still exert a pull - CSMonitor.com

• Japanse Abenomics hebben verwachtingen niet ingelost

• Japan ruling bloc weighs scrapping regional public hearings on controversial security bills | The Japan Times

• We’re busy. Get an abortion | The Economist

• Japan reopens radiation-hit Naraha. Who's returning home? - CSMonitor.com

• Gang split may end with a whimper, not a bang | The Japan Times

• Refunds on all food considered to ease '17 tax hike | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/05/2015

• The veiled cause of Abe's legislative predicament | The Japan Times

• Japan town near damaged nuclear plant lifts evacuation order - US News

• A look at Japan′s anti-government protests | Asia | DW.COM | 04.09.2015

• Digging in Japan – a journey through the record shops of Tokyo and Osaka

• 'Standing out' as a disabled foreigner in Japan - BBC News

• Google launches music streaming service in Japan - The Economic Times on Mobile

• Why Did Imperial Japan Surrender on the USS Missouri? | The Diplomat

• New map lets you see Japan through cat's eyes - CNN.com

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/04/2015

• TELL THE PRIME MINISTER | Tokyo Filmgoer

• Cats Get Google-Style Street View Map in Japan : Discovery News

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• Abe-Park first summit eyed for late October | The Japan Times

• [VIDEO] Closing of Hotel Okura’s main building, Aug. 31, 2015 | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/03/2015

• Au Japon, les yakuzas se déchirent

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• Ex-chief justice blasts Abe's lack of respect for constitutionalism - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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• LDP panel delays adopting proposals to change drinking, smoking age a day after unveiling the plan | The Japan Times

• Witnessing Japan's surrender in China - BBC News

• Japan’s Kamikaze Museum Holds Poignant Lessons on the Value of Peace | TIME

• BOJ's Kiuchi warns Japan won't hit inflation goal for another 2-1/2 years | Reuters

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/02/2015

• September 2, 1945: When Japan Surrendered | The Diplomat

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• Abenomics Starting to Look Like a Failure - Bloomberg Business

• Waarom Japanse leerlingen zelfmoord plegen op 1 september - De Standaard

• Japanners drinken minder dan vroeger | Japan

• Japan bids adieu to landmark that hosted presidents, stars - StarTribune.com

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 09/01/2015

• Accusé de plagiat, le logo des JO 2020 de Tokyo ne sera plus utilisé

• Tokyo 2020 scraps logo in latest blow to reputation

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 08/31/2015

• Is Japan's Goal of 2% Inflation Attainable? - Bloomberg Business

• In Japan, Foreigners Increasingly Fill Workforce Gaps - WSJ

• Whale meat cargo ship arrives in Japan via new Arctic route to avoid protesters | The Japan Times

• Abe's Aug. 14 statement and the geopolitics of grammar | The Japan Times

• VW ordered to sell back Suzuki stake valued at ¥463 billion | The Japan Times

• U.N. opens office dedicated to women's empowerment in Tokyo | The Japan Times

• Thousands protest Abe, security bills at Diet rally | The Japan Times

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