Selected Japan News Articles 5 Sept. - 11 Sept

• Japan's Trade Minister Yoshio Hachiro Resigns in 8 Days (EX-SKF)

• President Obama's Special 9-11 Message Only for Yomiuri Shinbun (EX-SKF)

• Six Months: Living with Radiation (Japan Real Time)

• Post-tsunami Japan sticking with nuclear power (AP)

• Six months on, few signs of recovery (Japan Times)

• Niets is gevaarlijk in Japan, behalve de berg (De Groene Amsterdammer)

• Japan to mark six months since March earthquake (AFP)

• A third of Fukushima residents would move if they could (Asahi)

• Economy minister Hachiro resigns over joke about radiation (Asahi)

• Japan trade minister Hachiro quits over nuclear gaffe (BBC)

• Japan trade minister says he's resigning after remark seen as insensitive to nuclear crisis (AP)

• Japan's Trade Minister Jokes About Radiation (Japan Probe)

• Six months later: The Fukushima nuclear disaster in retrospect (Mainichi)

• Analysis: New Japan PM a bureaucrats' puppet or puppet master? (Reuters)

• Fukushima disaster: it's not over yet (The Guardian)

• Radiation expert says outcome of nuke crisis hard to predict, warns of further dangers (Mainichi)

  Cold shutdown entails bringing the temperature of sound nuclear fuel in pressure vessels below 100 degrees Celsius. It would be one thing to aim for this in April, when the government had yet to confirm that a meltdown had indeed taken place. But what is the point of "aiming for cold shutdown" now, when we know that fuel is no longer sound?

• Japanse modestudenten stellen tentoon in Antwerpen (De Standaard)

• Japan minister slammed for gaffe over nuke crisis (AP)

• Fukushima store plan abandoned because of protests (Asahi)

• EU to maintain safety checks on food from Japan (AFP)

• Radiation, power fears lead to population decrease in Tokyo (Asahi)

• Ontsmetten Fukushima kost Japan 2,84 miljard dollar (De Morgen)

• Beerschot AC moet verontschuldigingen aanbieden aan Japan en Kawashima (Nieuwsblad)

• Ocean Contamination 3 Times As Much As TEPCO Announced (EX-SKF)

• Here's the Man Who Pointed Finger at TEPCO's Fuku (EX-SKF)

• TEPCO's Extreme Blackout (EX-SKF)

• Gov't to lift restrictions on power use in and around Tokyo (Japan Today)

• Get your Japanese with Nihongo-busting iPhone app (Japan Today)

• Maehara urges looser rules of engagement for SDF (Asahi)

• Study: Some Fukushima residents exposed to alarming radiation levels (Asahi)

• Japan's nuclear priorities seen shifting (MarketWatch)

• Il y a de la rétention d'informations à Fukushima (Le Point)

• Coca-Cola lanceert ecologische automaten in Japan (De Morgen)

• Japan Official Ordered Fake Nuclear E-Mails, Investigators Say (NYTimes)

• Health care in Japan: Not all smiles (The Economist)

• Japanner Takashi Miyazawa wint Izegem Koerse (Nieuwsblad)

• Yakuza attacks on businesses more than double (Asahi)

• Captain's toilet break causes 'serious incident' on domestic flight (Majirox News)

• Fukushima logs suspect in mushroom radiation contamination (Asahi)

• Fukushima plant was scary 32 years ago, says manga author (Asahi)

• Outside looking in: Giant 'snow' wall now a big hit with Taiwanese (Asahi)

• Outside looking in: Rural Japan says thank you for 'hanryu' (Asahi)

• Sushi lijdt nog altijd onder angst voor straling (HLN)

• Six Months Later: Noda's New World (Japan Real Time)

• Fukushima Crisis Is Still Hazy (Scientific American)

• Captain’s toilet break causes ‘serious incident’ on domestic flight | Majirox News

• In Fukushima, students face up to realities of nuclear disaster (Asahi)

• Honne versus Tatemae: Feelings versus Façade (Louise van Alenburg)

• ANA plane makes steep dive over Shizuoka (Japan Today)

• 'Himizu': love and madness in post-tsunami Japan (AFP)

• FOTOSPECIAL. Puin geruimd na tsunami in Japan (De Standaard)

• New Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima nuclear plant (BBC)

• Japan's new PM in crisis-hit Fukushima (AFP)

• Graphing the Noda Administration (Shisaku)

• Alarm Clock App Embarrasses Snoozers (Japan Trends)

• Naoto Kan vreesde evacuatie Tokyo door Fukushima crisis (De Aziatische Tijger)

• True glimpses of the underworld (Japan Times)

• David Boilley of ACRO (The Zone)

• Japan to decrease nuclear power? (UPI)

• De retour de Fukushima, où le silence et les mensonges tuent (Rue89)

• Real situation of Fukushima now that Japanese medias hiding behind (ZDF Germany)

• Former PM says he feared for Japan's survival early in nuclear crisis (Canadian Press)

• Rescuers continue search for typhoon survivors (BBC)

• Fukushima brengt uitbuiting in kerncentrales aan het licht (Volkskrant)

• Radioactief afval overspoelt Japanse waterzuiveringsstations (De Morgen)

• Why Japan's Typhoon Talas Was So Deadly (LiveScience)

• After Nuclear Mishap, Japan Debates Energy Future (NPR)

• Beerschot: ''Fukushima' wel, 'Stijnen homo' niet bestraft' (De Standaard)

• 'Sexlessness' wrecks marriages, threatens nation's future (Japan Times)

• Toyota unveils new model for Japan: a boat (Reuters)

• Radioactive waste swamps Japan sewage plants (AlJazeera)

• Tokyo Police Claim Yakuza Victory…At Festival (Japan Real Time)

• Noda's hair-raising expense: 1,000 yen for a cut (Asahi)

• Radioactief afval overspoelt Japanse waterzuiveringsstations (DeWereldMorgen)

• Outside looking in: Australian 'mates' putting out the word on white slopes of Hakuba (Asahi)

• French offered to take Fukushima fuel, Kan says (Asahi)

• Kan: I couldn't let TEPCO withdraw from Fukushima disaster (Asahi)

• AEX opent licht lager – laagste stand Japanse beurs in twee jaar (nrc.nl)

• Japan's Typhoon Talas leaves dozens dead - video (Guardian)

• Fukushima's Long Link to a Dark Nuclear Past (NYTimes)

• Radiation in Food: Radish Boya to Set Its Own Cesium Standard (EX-SKF)

• Floods and mudslides after Talas typhoon hit Japan (BBC)

• Bijna miljoen Honda's moeten terug (Spitsnieuws)

• Official: Japanese nuclear plant stabilization ahead of schedule (CNN)

• No. 3 reactor cooling down: Tepco (The Japan Times)

• Thousands left stranded after Japan's most deadly typhoon in seven years (The National)

• De vrouw achter het symbolische beeld uit Japan (nrc)

• Former PMs Naoto Kan, Yukio Hatoyama Join Ranks Japan 'Senior Advisers' to Yoshihiko Noda - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Kunihiko Takeda: "A Girl Doesn't Talk" (EX-SKF)

• Radioactive Produce: National Government Told Fukushima Farmers to Farm as Usual (EX-SKF)

• Return to Tohoku - The Road to Recovery (Japan Probe)

• Evacuated town's officials call for early start to decontamination (Asahi)

• Witness to disaster: Six months on from Japan's tsunami (CNN)

• Hosono: "We All Have to Share the Pain of Fukushima" (Ex-SKF)

• Typhoon Talas: Japan searches for missing dozens (BBC)

• Outside looking in: Michelin's 3-star rating luring French tourists to sacred mountain (Asahi)

• Japanese Like New Leader-So Far (WSJ)

• Picture Japan: Typhoon Talas Leaves Grim Trail (Japan Real Time)

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