Selected Japan News Articles 18 Sept. - 25 Sept

• 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)

• 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 (Reuters)

• We're living in a slow-motion 1930s (Mainichi)

• Feud between Suzuki Motor, Volkswagen heats up (Asahi)

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

• Japan will not turn inward after disaster: PM Yoshihiko Noda (Reuters)

• Plant hunters' legacy help Japan's threatened species (BBC)

• Typhoon revives deep anxiety in Japan (asianewsnet)

• 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)

• Radioactive ash from metropolitan area has nowhere to go (Asahi)

• 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

• 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)

• Evacuees return home to retrieve winter clothes (Asahi)

• Japan defence firm Mitsubishi Heavy in cyber attack (BBC)

• 1 million urged to flee as typhoon bears down on Japan (CNN)

• Dans la zone interdite de Fukushima, les animaux redeviennent sauvages ( Japon Information)

• 400,000 urged to evacuate as typhoon heads to Japan (AFP)

• Sugo! spreading rapidly (No-sword)

• Japan set to reduce nuclear reliance: minister (Reuters)

• Beginning of the end for skyscrapers in Japan? (BBC)

• 63,000 Bq/Kg of Radioactive Cesium from Rooftop of Apartment Bldg in Yokohama City (EX-SKF)

• Fukushima Pref. fireworks ditched over radiation fears (Yomiuri)

• Cigarette Prices Should Rise 75%, Japan's Health Minister Says (Bloomberg)

• Hold the cesium: Ways to reduce radiation in your diet (Japan Times)

• JK on the oversimplistic panacea of slogan "Ganbare Nippon/Tohoku" (Debito)

• Masses turn out to protest nuclear power (Japan Times)

• Thousands protest against nuclear power in Japan (Mail & Guardian)

• Bavarian opera spooked by radiation (Japan Times)

• Tokyo faced evacuation scenario: Kan (Japan Times)

• Radiation in Japan: Another Reason Not to Trust Your Goverment - Inferior Survey Meter (EX-SKF)

• Simulation shows core meltdown avoidable (Yomiuri)

• Respect for the Aged Day (Japan Real Time)

• Fleeing disaster in Japan, trio find home in Freeland (seattlepi.com)

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