Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/30/2011

• Keramiste gaat internationaal (Ieper) - Het Nieuwsblad

• Radiation Map by Ministry of Education: Chiba and Saitama, and Closing in on Tokyo (EX-SKF)

• Bland Japanese Prime Minister Fails to Excite International Media (Japan Probe)

• Japan tsunami: 10m yen donation found in Tokyo toilet (BBC)

• Renewing Japan’s air force: Dogfight over the archipelago (The Economist)

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/29/2011

• Government to store radioactive waste in Tokyo, seven prefectures (Asahi)

• Asia Today: Tackling Japan’s High Yen (WSJ)

• Japans PM isolated, out of his depth (Lateline)

• TEPCO overcharged rates for a decade (Majirox News)

• Radioactive soil could fill 23 Tokyo Domes | The Japan Times Online

• Can Japan's Anti-Nuclear Protesters Keep the Reactors Shut Down? - TIME

• Tepco managers face demand to step down ( Japan Times)

• Japan plane's near upside down flip (NZ Herald News)

• Ministry sets radiation levels requiring decontamination (Asahi)

• "Peaceful Rally Ended with Dozens in Handcuffs" (FCCJ: The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan)

• High cesium levels detected as far away as Gunma Prefecture - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/28/2011

• Radiation Map by Ministry of Education: Gunma Looks Worse Than Expected (EX-SKF)

• Japan's PM considered evacuation of Tokyo (Radio Australia)

• Un avion japonais a frôlé la catastrophe, ventre en l’air (24heures)

• Japanese politicians: Check to the kingpin (The Economist)

• Boeing's 787 Dreamliner touches down in Tokyo (BBC)

• Did you know that the Japanese Shinkansen train was late for a total of 0.6 seconds in 2010? (Connected Travelling)

• Toyota shifts gears into growing minicar market (Asahi)

• Q+A-What's going on at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant? (Reuters)

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/27/2011

• No hospital, stores, gas stations or hope (Yomiuri)

• Scots teacher on Japan earthquake six months on (BBC)

• Pro-nuclear mayor wins re-election in Kaminoseki (Asahi)

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/26/2011

• Japanese couples going to Thailand to pick sex of child (Asahi)

• Scosche Radiation Detector for iPhone and iPod touch (The Gadgeteer)

• Fukushima: Ou en est la menace radioactive. (Liberation)

• Video: UARS Burning Up Over Japan? (Japan Probe)

• 3 of Ozawa's aides convicted over political funding violations (Japan Today)

• Noda must make promoters of nuclear power take responsibility for disaster (Mainichi)

• Intl media give little coverage to speeches (Yomiuri)

• Pro-nuclear mayor re-elected in western Japan town (Reuters)

• Prime Minister Noda the no-sider can have no one on his side (Japan Times)

• Kyoto hotel gives capsule concept a makeover (Asahi)

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/25/2011

• Welfare system not faring well | The Japan Times Online

• New website offers peace of mind on liquefaction risk - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Cup noodle museum an instant hit in Japan - World (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Japanese Rice’s Radiation Levels Prompt More Tests - NYTimes.com

• Une blague sur le tsunami et le pastis conduit un Toulousain au tribunal (leParisien)

• Japan earthquake: Tokyo loses skyscraper passion (BBC)

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• The little rascals (Ampontan)

• 20msv/yr: What Does The Rest Of The World Think? (Japan Subculture Research Center)

• Now is the time for a 'brand Japan' that creates and inspires (Japan Times)

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/24/2011

• Mount Fuji snow-capped earlier than normal (Asahi)

• First Instance of #Radioactive Rice with 500 Bq/Kg of Radioactive Cesium from Nihonmatsu City in Fukushima | EX-SKF

• 105,600 Bq/Kg of Radioactive Cesium from Apartment Bldg Rooftop in Yokohama City | EX-SKF

• Japan finds rice needing thorough radiation test

• We're living in a slow-motion 1930s - The Mainichi Daily News

• Feud between Suzuki Motor, Volkswagen heats up - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan to shut down crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by end of 2011 | EUROPE ONLINE

• Japan will not turn inward after disaster: PM Yoshihiko Noda - The Times of India

• BBC News - Plant hunters' legacy help Japan's threatened species

• Typhoon revives deep anxiety in Japan

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/23/2011

• Japanese ‘Yakuza’ Get Expelled From Entertainment Industry (The Daily Beast)

• Homestay in Japan (KnackWeekend.be)

• Current nuclear debate to set nation's course for decades (Japan Times)

• Tyfoon Roke raast over Japanse tsunamigebied ( deredactie.be)

• Yakuza: misdaadfamilies in Japan (Radio1)

• Typhoon creates commuter chaos in Tokyo (Yomiuri)

• Panel to push Mt. Fuji, Kamakura as World Cultural Heritage sites (Asahi)

• Groundwater frustrates Fukushima cleanup (Asahi)

• Typhoon Elicits Tokyo Train Staff Attitude (Japan Real Time)

• Umbrella versus Typhoon no. 15 (Nippon Sekai)

• Belgian club apologizes for Fukushima taunts (Japan Times)

• Noda's wife meets other first ladies (Japan Times)

• Questions about PM's please-everybody attitude (Mainichi)

• Train Ad Campaign Turns Railings into Star Wars Lightsabers (Trends in Japan)

• Al Jazeera: Japan Radiation Levels to Exceed Chernobyl Disaster (EX-SKF)

• Gratis kankeronderzoek redders Fukushima (NDH)

• Japanse nhk world exclusief over op hd (Totaal TV)

• Groundwater frustrates Fukushima cleanup (Asahi)

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/22/2011

• Radioactive ash from metropolitan area has nowhere to go - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Thirteen dead or missing as typhoon makes landfall in Japan (Washington Post)

• In pictures: Japan's Typhoon Roke (BBC)

• Beerschot-voorzitter excuseert zich bij Japanse ambassadeur - Eerste Klasse - De Morgen

• The Story of Beate Sirota Gordon | PRI's The World

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Japan Nieuwsbrief 09/21/2011

• Powerful Typhoon Roke hits disaster-ravaged Japan (BBC)

• Noda wants nuclear reactors back up by next summer (Asahi)

• Japan whistleblower at highest court (AP)

• Extremely Powerful Typhoon No. 15 On Course to Fukushima Nuke Plant (EX-SKF)

• Fukushima, record of a contaminated village (NHK Special)

• Actions speak louder than words over cold shutdown goal for Fukushima nuclear reactors (Mainichi)

• Powerful Typhoon Roke hits Japan (BBC)

• 70,000 psychiatric patients may be released to save money (Japan Times)

• Kawashima: 'Excuses van Beerschot zijn mooi voor mensen van Japan' (Nieuwsblad)

• Hillary Clinton looks horrified as Japanese minister hands her a photo of himself with Bill (Mail Online)

• Photographs of 60,000-Strong Anti-Nuke Demonstration in Tokyo(ex-skf)

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