Selected Japan News Articles 12 Sept. - 18 Sept

• Tepco scraps plan to hike power charges 10 to 15% (Japan Times)

• Japanese schoolgirl scare crow (JapanSugoi)

• Lonely youth take meals in toilets, and a new subculture springs up (Japan Today)

• Energy in Japan: Out with the old (The Economist)

• Historic China concert for Japanese pop band SMAP (BBC)

• Magnitude-6.6 quake shakes Japan (AP)

• Fighting for a radiation-free Japan (Al Jazeera)

• Instant noodles museum opens in Japan (BBC)

• TEPCO doles out money to greedy municipalities (Asahi)

• Nissin opens Cup Noodle museum in Yokohama (Asahi)

• Sunflowers next to useless for nuclear decontamination (Asahi)

• Series of quakes hit off Japan disaster zone (AFP)

• Contamination of Fukushima forests being studied (Japan Times)

• Beerschot verontschuldigt zich op Japanse ambassade (Voetbalkrant)

• Big swath of Fukushima tainted (Japan Times)

• Obama urged Kan to move faster on nuclear security (Japan Times)

• Japan's shame: The good bureaucrat (The Economist)

• Tests find excessive cesium at incinerators (Japan Times)

• Artist-designed rooms draw the curious to Yokohama (Asahi Shimbun)

• Hawaii sailor finds message in a bottle sent from Japan 5 years ago (CNN)

• Tokyo game show turns to cellphones, has new star (Forbes)

• OECD says Japanese teachers spend too much time on office work (Asahi)

• Fukushima clean-up may require removal of 100 million cubic meters of soil (Asahi)

• Second Fukushima plant unlikely to reopen: Japan minister (AFP)

• Fun is brewing in Yokohama (Japan Times)

• Japanese city recruiting young women to become geisha (Telegraph)

• Energy in Japan: Bright ideas needed (The Economist)

• Strong earthquake hits northeast Japan, no tsunami (AP)

• Japan's Sharp to stop sales of Galapagos tablets (AFP)

• Hospitals take some of the pain out of mourning (Asahi)

• Video: Nissan Leaf Makes Noise for Visually Impaired (Japan Real Time)

• Sunflowers ineffective in radiation decontamination (Majirox News)

• Noda's blog now available in English (Japan Today)

• DPJ's tightened grip on information raises eyebrows (Japan Times)

• N. Korean defectors to be sent to South (Japan Times)

• LDP slams Noda over ministers' miscues (Japan Times)

• Education spending lowest in OECD (Japan Times)

• #Radioactive Landfill: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Has Been Doing It Since May (EX-SKF)

• #Radiation in Japan: Tsukuba City's Idea of Voluntary "Decontamination" (EX-SKF)

• Tepco to raise power charges up to 15% for three years (Japan Times)

• Releasing 70,000 Psychiatric Patients Shows Japan Debt Task (Businessweek)

• Over-50 first-time marriages increasing (Japan Today)

• Ichigen koji (Ampontan)

• PM Noda's 'sincerity' does not ring true to the heart (Mainichi)

• Edano as Japan Trade Minister May Take Tough Stance on Tepco (Businessweek)

• Smartphones replacing cameras? Not so fast! (Japan Times)

• Fukushima cesium contamination widespread but less than Chernobyl (Asahi)

• The Fukushima Syndrome (ABC)

• Japan PM pledges fiscal reform, seeks opposition help (Reuters)

• Inside Japan's nuclear exclusion zone (BBC)

• Japan wil op termijn minder kernenergie (De Standaard)

• Japan Ends Energy-Saving Program Early (Japan Real Time)

• New Japan PM Noda in nuclear restart call (BBC)

• Possible North Korean defectors sail to Japan (CNN)

• Fukushima reactors now "stable," IAEA says (Reuters)

• A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Shisaku)

• Yakuza Banned From Festival Stalls (Japan Probe)

• In Japan vang je in een restaurant gewoon je eigen maaltijd (nrc.nl)

• Six months on: Japan tsunami survivor's story (BBC)

• Japan wil schoner energiebeleid, maar ook reactoren weer opstarten (nrc.nl)

• Key LDP official calls 9/11 'historical inevitability' (Asahi)

• The loneliness - or otherwise - of the long-distance foreigner (Japan Times)

• 3/11: no excuse for skipping your re-entry visa (Japan Times)

• Hosono to reshape nuclear policy (Japan Times)

• Nation could get 43% of power from renewable energy by '20, report says (Japan Times)

• Noda taps Edano for trade minister (Japan Times)

• Not all ministerial gaffes are equal in Japan (Reuters)

• Tokyo's Foreign Population Drops After March 11th Disaster (Japan Probe)

• Suzuki cuts ties with Volkswagen (AP)

• Japan quake: Mother uses digger in search for daughter (BBC)

• Yukio Edano to Become the New Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (EX-SKF)

• Yokohama's Solution of Ever-Increasing Radioactive Ashes from Sewer Sludge: Dump In the Ocean as Landfill (EX-SKF)

• After Fukushima, mother fights to get her life back (Reuters)

• Japan's tsunami debris drifting in Pacific ( Australia Network)

• Japan quake: Images of then and now (BBC)

• Photos: Six mois de catastrophe nucléaire au Japon (Le Monde)

• TEPCO finishes frame of cover for crippled reactor (Asahi)

• Japan city on border of nuclear no-go zone fights for survival (Reuters)

• Gekte in VS rondom Murakami (nrc.nl)

• Stronger yen pushing even small businesses abroad (Asahi)

• Death industry reaps grim profit as Japan dies (Reuters)

• Effect of contaminated soil on food chain sparks fears (Japan Times)

• Fukushima six months on: Japanese mark moment earthquake struck (The Guardian)

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

• Plugging leaks will end crisis, not cold shutdown: analysts (Japan Times)

• Japan marks six month since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (Nippon Sekai)

• High levels of radiation detected in remote areas (Nippon Sekai)

• NHK Special - World's Most Extensive Liquefaction (Nippon Sekai)

• Japan - Six Months On (Nippon Sekai)

• Japan marks 6-month anniversary of quake (CBC News)

• Kōyō: Japan's autumn explosion of vibrant colors (msbc)

• Sirenes bij herdenking tsunami Japan (Stentor)

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