Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/30/2016

• Les retraités japonais vont volontairement en prison pour une meilleur vie | www.directmatin.fr

• Nuclear issues involving North Korea, Japan on table at Washington summit | The Japan Times

• UPDATE 1-Japan's PM Abe aims to double tourist visits by 2020 to boost economy | Reuters

• 110,000 SDF rescuers planned for killer quake in Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan stocks dip as unemployment rate rises - BBC News

• Starbucks is giving Japan alcoholic “Frappuccinos” | RocketNews24

• Summit boost for Japan's 'women of the sea' - BBC News

• Snake Venom, Bee Toxin, Horse Oil, Snail Slime: Saving Face in Japan is Icky Fun | Japan Subculture Research Center

• Japan's Problem with Tattoos

• Japan's Abe Says No Plans to Postpone Consumption Tax Hike - ABC News

• Japan approves record-high budget, focusing on defense, economic recovery

• Security laws usher in new era for pacifist Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan defends new security laws as protesters denounce them - The Economic Times

• Japan to keep tax hike despite falling wages | Business | DW.COM | 29.03.2016

• Scientists attempt to regain contact with Japan's malfunctioning Hitomi satellite | Fox News

• Africanews | Japan’s Abe welcomes ‘iconic’ Mugabe

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/29/2016

• The Woman Who Took Whisky to Japan: Remembering Rita Cowan Taketsuru | Nippon.com

• Tourists lacking a Japan Rail Pass will be in luck in fiscal 2016 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Is Japan's plan for more women in the workplace failing? - BBC News

• Kyu-shirataki Train Station in Hokkaido, Japan, Closes After Student Graduates - CityLab

• Analysis: Japan's Abe to dive back into diplomatic activities - Chicago Tribune

• Japan’s elderly turn to life of crime to ease cost of living

• Can anything rescue Japan from the abyss?

• Japan concerned at possible Russian base on disputed island chain | Reuters

• Japan and China: The Geo-Economic Dimension | The Diplomat

• Japanese man held after teenager 'kidnapped for two years' - BBC News

• Japan Has Set Up a Radar Station in the East China Sea | TIME

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/28/2016

• The train station that stayed open for a single school girl finally closes down | RocketNews24

• Japan's Abe expected to delay sales tax rise, call snap election - again | Reuters

• Tokyo man, 23, nabbed in Ito after Saitama girl, 15, missing two years flees captivity, alerts cops | The Japan Times

• Democratic Party launches with vow to halt ruling coalition | The Japan Times

• New opposition party launched in Japan ahead of election | Business Standard News

• Magazine says pollen allergy being blown way out of proportion ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/27/2016

• Tepco executives get a taste of citizens' wrath | The Japan Times

• Hokkaido Shinkansen Line commences service

• The Hokkaido Shinkansen Line at a glance | The Japan Times

• Why You Should Learn Japanese Before Visiting Japan - Forbes

• The Global Chef: Cherry blossoms and amazing spring fare in Japan | Local News | record-eagle.com

• Trump:

• Happiness in short supply | The Japan Times

• 'Teflon Abe' gets high marks despite unpopular policies | The Japan Times

• In Japan, all other fruits bow to the top banana | The Japan Times

• Russia considering building naval base in area including disputed isles | The Japan Times

• Japan court rules aquarium had no right to stop Australian activist from entering | smh.com.au

• Japan Today

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/26/2016

• Why Do People in Japan Live Longer? - NDTV Food

• Japan executes two prisoners amid protests | World news | The Guardian

• Split, Merge, and Lose? The Future of Party Politics in Japan | The Diplomat

• Japan urged to embrace diversity management as working population shrinks | The Japan Times

• Safety upgrade costs spur Shikoku Electric to ditch plan to restart aging Ehime reactor | The Japan Times

• Japan sends two more inmates to the gallows | The Japan Times

• Japan Opens First Bullet-Train Service to Island of Hokkaido - WSJ

• Japan still can't generate inflation

• Cash Piles Up in Japan While Spending and Investment Wane - Bloomberg Business

• Islamic State a growing threat to East Asia, including Japan: defense review | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/25/2016

• Japan's Abe Taps Experts as He Mulls Delaying 2nd Tax Hike - ABC News

• Shinzo Abe and the Yakuza – SNA Japan

• Twee terdoodveroordeelden opgehangen in Japan - HLN.be

• Government, media equally to blame in debate on free speech, say journalists | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• How Japan justifies its whaling - CSMonitor.com

• Rumored U.S. presidential visit to Hiroshima, Nagasaki stokes mixed reactions | The Japan Times

• Japanese man who reportedly tried to join Islamic State group arrives back home | The Japan Times

• Japan fleet kills 333 whales in Antarctic hunt | Daily Mail Online

• ISIS Aspirant From Japan Arrested In Turkey For Trying To Cross Over To Syria

• Firms filling needs of graying population's aging pets | The Japan Times

• Two Japanese men injured in Brussels bombings named; one remains in coma | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/24/2016

• After taking flak, Abe administration looks to set ceiling on Japan's notorious overtime workload | The Japan Times

• Japan's Mitsui falls after warning of first-ever loss - BBC News

• Agricultural Aftershocks: How Japan is Combatting a Decline in Farming - Modern Farmer

• Octogenarian pickpocket underlines Japan's 'grey crime' crisis - Telegraph

• The shinkansen reaches Hokkaido | The Japan Times

• Japan airport operators step up security, but analysts warn of vulnerabilities | The Japan Times

• Japanse reisorganisatoren annuleren reizen naar België na terreuraanslagen - Reizen - KnackWeekend Mobile

• Japan's ANA suspends Brussels flights through end-March after attacks - Yahoo News

• Japanse touroperators annuleren reizen naar België | AANSLAGEN BRUSSEL | De Morgen

• Runaway Japanese zebra dies in golf course lake - BBC News

• Can Japan work better with no age bias? - BBC News

• Japan seeks alternatives to its pay system - BBC News

• US economist Paul Krugman urges Japan to delay tax increase, up spending - The Economic Times on Mobile

• New security laws take effect next Tuesday but SDF not ready, defense chief says | The Japan Times

• Imperial lather | The Economist

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/22/2016

• Lessons in history and bureaucracy lurk within Japan's geographical layer cake | The Japan Times

• Japan’s funeral sector adapts as ‘peak death’ looms - FT.com

• Japan Today

• Japan's retirees: industrial waste or a silver lining? - BBC News

• Mechelse beiaard speelt Japanse melodietjes (Mechelen) - Het Nieuwsblad Mobile

• Japan Today

• U.S.-Japan security pact still fodder for Trump, but numbers paint different story | The Japan Times

• Japan's commercial land prices in 2015 post first rise in 8 years | Reuters

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/21/2016

• 2 British Ships Arrive in Japan to Carry Plutonium to US - ABC News

• Japan Today

• Metro workers mark 21st anniversary of sarin gas attack in Tokyo | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/20/2016

• Daniel Craig's favorite Bond car is a Toyota | The Japan Times

• Donald Trump comments on Japan and impact

• Johan Uittenbogaard: 'Om er te wonen vind ik Nederland nogal saai'

• US Presidential Polls: Donald Trumps Candidacy Stirs Alliance Angst In Japan - NDTV.com

• 'Drop dead, Japan!' moms try to stay on message | The Japan Times

• Japanse toeristische dienst wil tattoos niet langer weren | Metro

• Tokyo ward to get rid of rats before Tsukiji relocation - The Japan News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/19/2016

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• Japan to mull front-loading public works spending - sources

• Axel Addington:

• Shigeo Sugimoto: Brusselser dan de Brusselaars | Brusselnieuws

• Masafumi Ishii, ambassadeur van Japan, over Brussel en België | Brusselnieuws

• Defiant North Korea launches missile capable of reaching Japan - CSMonitor.com

• Japan Today

• 'Japan China realise dialogue needed over South China Sea' - BBC News

• Japan steps up guard against more missiles from North Korea- Nikkei Asian Review

• Painting the faces of Japan's crowded cities - BBC News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/18/2016

• 17 maart | Japan na de kernramp - BNR Nieuwsradio

• ​North Korea fires ballistic missiles into Sea of Japan - CBS News

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/17/2016

• Wat de ECB doet, gebeurt in Japan al jaren – en het werkt niet - NRC

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• 10 things foreigners in Japan notice about Japanese phone culture | RocketNews24

• Abenomics seen stalling with Toyota pushback against raise | The Japan Times

• Amazon Japan saves sexy adult magazine buyer from embarrassment with thoughtful packaging trick | RocketNews24

• Abe begins G-7 preparations with warning from Nobel laureate not to raise taxes | The Japan Times

• Popular Japan Television Commentator Falls From Grace - WSJ

• Japan Tourism Agency asks spa operators to accept tattooed foreign tourists | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Japan Inc cuts wage rises as Abe fails to boost economy | afr.com

• Denmark named happiest nation; Japan frowns at 53rd | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/16/2016

• Freak snowfall sets up splendid view at pagoda of Mount Fuji - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• The Dippy Opposition | SNA Japan

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/15/2016

• Japon: tout en rose comme des filles, la mode

• How an Anonymous Blog Went Viral and Forced Japan's Abe to Respond - Bloomberg Business

• The centuries-old charm of Japan's cherry blossoms | The Japan Times

• Why 3/11 didn't change Japan | The Japan Times

• Introducing Minshin To, Japan's new main opposition force | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Flawed Nuclear Policy | The Diplomat

• Japan gets the message as working mom’s complaint goes viral

• Japan tube drivers seek damages after bonuses trimmed in beard row | World news | The Guardian

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/14/2016

• Bank of Japan scrambles to find positives in negative rates | Reuters

• Fukushima's decontamination workers from the margins of society are being 'exploited' | The Japan Times

• Photos: Japan's 3/11 Tsunami, Then and Now | Asia Society

• A record number of Japanese say they do not feel friendly toward China | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Why Abenomics is failing | The Japan Times

• 2010 census finds educational status of 13,000 foreign kids 'not known' | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/12/2016

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• Winemakers plant seeds of tourism in Japan's disaster zone | The Japan Times

• Disaster survivors make peace with past, embrace the future | The Japan Times

• Grief still raw five years after Japan's quake, tsunami disaster | The Japan Times

• Hunt for missing disaster victims still confounds rescuers | The Japan Times

• Down but not out: Japan's anti-nuclear movement fights to regain momentum | The Japan Times

• Japan marks fifth anniversary of devastating 3/11 disasters | The Japan Times

• Japan sees record high number of foreign residents: Justice Ministry | The Japan Times

• Shaken Beliefs: Seismic Lessons from Japan’s Tohoku Earthquake - The New Yorker

• Het leven staat even stil in Japan - De Standaard

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/11/2016

• In the shadow of Fukushima, a ghost town struggles back to life - LA Times

• Nederlander hielp Japan van stralingsangst af - NRC

• Japan herdenkt vijfde jaardag tsunami - NRC

• Cinq ans après, quelle est la situation à Fukushima ?

• Fukushima Keeps Fighting Radioactive Tide 5 Years After Disaster - NYTimes.com

• Catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima : combien de cancers et de morts ? - L'Obs

• Après Fukushima, «la gestion humaine a été désastreuse»

• A Clean Bill of Health for Kamakura’s Great Buddha | Nippon.com

• Vijf jaar geleden brak de hel los in Fukushima - HLN.be

• The Positive and Negative Sides of Japan's Obsession with Dating by Blood Type | Atlas Obscura

• Japan: PM Renews Reconstruction Pledge on Anniversary of Tsunami

• Japan wants to attract European visitors | DW Travel | DW.COM | 10.03.2016

• Fukushima Report: 10,000 Excess Cancers Expected In Japan As A Result... -- WASHINGTON and BERLIN, March 9, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

• Looking for comfort in art following the Great East Japan Earthquake | The Japan Times

• The 3/11 disasters, five years on | The Japan Times

• Takahama injunction delivers body blow to Japan's nuclear power industry | The Japan Times

• Fukushima's fishing industry struggles amid safety fears, catch restrictions | The Japan Times

• Fukushima researcher says region still 'stigmatized' by 2011 disaster | The Japan Times

• Radiation woes dog Tepco's efforts to decommission Fukushima No. 1 | The Japan Times

• Japan 'cannot do without' nuclear power: Abe - Yahoo News

• Japan Still Searching for the Missing, 5 Years After Tsunami - ABC News

• In Japan, an Incomplete Recovery From the Tsunami

• How Global Investors Turn Negative Japan Yields Into Big Returns - Bloomberg Business

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/10/2016

• 'Fukushima: A Nuclear Story' stands out among 3/11 documentaries | The Japan Times

• Five years on, tests find no radioactive cesium in Fukushima meals | The Japan Times

• Court issues surprise injunction to halt Takahama nuclear reactors | The Japan Times

• U.N. panel drops criticism of Japan's male-only Imperial lineage after Tokyo protests | The Japan Times

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• deredactie.be video: Het journaal 7 - 09/03/16

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/09/2016

• Grim toll rises in Japan’s detention centers as foreigners seek asylum

• Revisiting 3/11: Five years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

• Japan spins wheels as wary consumers stash their cash - US News

• FIVE YEARS AFTER: No plans for over 40% of post-3/11 purchased land in coastal areas - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• G-7 Hiroshima meeting’s posters tossed again after design gaffe - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Tsunami : la reconstruction du Japon année par année

• The Coming Yakuza War - The Daily Beast

• Crippled Fukushima Reactors Are Still a Danger, 5 Years after the Accident - Scientific American

• Gescheiden vrouwen moeten in Japan 100 dagen wachten voor ze mogen hertrouwen - HLN.be

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/08/2016

• Lisa’s Eye on Tokyo: HANEDA--From tiny fishing village to international gateway - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan mulls second tax-hike delay as spending falls | Reuters

• Nationwide yakuza war has officially kicked off, police say - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Donald Trump Laces Into Japan With a Trade Tirade From the ’80s - NYTimes.com

• 32,000 workers at Fukushima No. 1 got high radiation dose, Tepco data show | The Japan Times

• Angry blog post sparks movement for improved day care | The Japan Times

• Why Japan’s ‘Womenomics’ Isn't Working

• Sawa slams Japan as women fail to qualify for Olympics | FOX Sports

• The famous ama female divers – Toba, Japan | euronews, Postcards

• Fukushima. C’est le contribuable japonais qui règle la facture | Courrier international

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/07/2016

• Five years after Fukushima nuclear disaster, nuclear power not needed, former Japan PM Naoto Kan says

• Documenting Tohoku's long road to recovery | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/06/2016

• Japan: 'We nearly lost Tokyo' | WeatherWatch.co.nz

• Ageing, indebted Japan debates right to 'die with dignity'

• Why Japan Is Excited About the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

• Japan's counterterrorism efforts falling short | The Japan Times

• TEPCO Prosecution: A Sign That Japan’s Nuclear Industry Is in Free Fall | The Diplomat

• EU refusing Japan's request for use of smaller wine bottles | The Japan Times

• Tohoku is literally still waiting to move on | The Japan Times

• National pride obscures harsh truth about Sharp deal | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/05/2016

• Japan Today

• WLBT: Aging Japan tearing down abandoned homes

• Drone maker DJI eying Japan's massive photography sector | The Japan Times

• Law failing non-Japanese in forced divorces: advisory group | The Japan Times

• Japan's porn industry preys on young women: activists | The Japan Times

• Tokyo settles lawsuits, halts landfill at Henoko | The Japan Times

• Japan vergeet plek voor olympische vlam in nieuw stadion - Buitenland - TROUW

• Toeristen in Japan in de huid van Nederlanders | Telegraaf.nl

• 2020 Olympics organizers again misfire with cauldron conundrum | The Japan Times

• Japan PM suspends work on U.S. base on Okinawa

• Japan's Monster Tourist Boom

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/04/2016

• Japan ruling party to tackle 'taboo' of expanding foreign labour force | Daily Mail Online

• Man uit Waalre (95) krijgt 8800 euro schadevergoeding van Japan na overleven atoombom | Omroep Brabant

• Inside one of Japan's psychedelic death temples

• Japanese monetary firepower misses the mark - FT.com

• Japan Today

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• Japan’s nuclear power plans don’t add up | East Asia Forum

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/03/2016

• North Korea fires missiles towards Japan as dictator Kim Jong-un retaliates furiously to new sanctions - Mirror Online

• Japon: haro sur les

• How did an experienced team of bankers and lawyers botch the $5.8 billion Sharp-Foxconn deal? - Quartz

• North Korea fires missiles into Sea of Japan after UN votes for harsher sanctions | Daily Mail Online

• Japan's fledgling global voice | The Japan Times

• Japan: Survey of Working Women Says Sexual Harassment Is Widespread - NYTimes.com

• TV journalists slam minister's threat against 'biased' programming, fear media self-censorship | The Japan Times

• Death Is a High-Tech Trip in Japan's Futuristic Cemeteries | Motherboard

• NPO Radio 1 - Japan, het meest vergrijsde land ter wereld..

• Japan Today

• FEATURE-Japan's nuclear refugees face bleak return 5 years after Fukushima | Reuters

• With Bet on Japan, Sharp Stumbles - NYTimes.com

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/02/2016

• Japan Today

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• Fujisawa field tests start for Robot Taxi's driverless cabs | The Japan Times

• Japan's Supreme Court dismisses liability of family in death of man with dementia | The Japan Times

• Japan's Supreme Court dismisses liability of family in death of man with dementia | The Japan Times

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 03/01/2016

• Japan Study: A Third of Working Women Were Sexually Harassed - ABC News

• Japan driverless taxi start-up eyes partnerships with automakers | Reuters

• The high price of Japan's economic gaffes | The Japan Times

• Fallen Japan idol Nori-P emerges as survivor of 'bullying' culture - Yahoo News

• Foreign visitors push hotel industry past a record 500 million annual stays - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Top TV journalists slam communications minister’s ‘shameful’ remarks - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• After Abe: Will Japan Fall Back Into Old Habits? | The National Interest Blog

• Trial in Japan will delve into 'the hidden truths' of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown - LA Times

• The Economist explains: Why the Japanese are having so few babies | The Economist

• For Japan, is Sharp better off dead? - MarketWatch

• Tepco bosses indicted on Fukushima negligence charges

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Japan Nieuwsbrief Daily 02/29/2016

• Survey finds post-disaster reconstruction slow in Tohoku prefectures | The Japan Times

• Abe vows to correct wage differences between regular, nonregular employees | The Japan Times

• Drie ex-toplui kerncentrale Fukushima aangeklaagd - HLN.be

• 'Landmark' ruling sent Japan's foreign residents back to welfare limbo | The Japan Times

• PS Vita TV Discontinued in Japan

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