Selected Japan News Articles 26 Sept - 2 Oct

• Japanese Enka Music in Ethiopia (Japan Probe)

• Japan PM support falls in first month to 55 pc (Reuters)

• Adultery in Japan Danny Choo)

• Majority of N-crisis evacuee households report health, financial woes (Yomiuri)

• Japan's leaders still don't get it - but whither that 'heretical' 1960s spirit? (Japan Times)

• Press miss the point at antinuke demo (Japan Times)

• Bikes keep the wheels of progress rolling (Japan Times)

• NISA, energy agency tried to skew public opinion (Asahi)

• Mount Fuji’s Mystery Pond (Japan Probe)

• Ministry maps strontium, plutonium fallout (Asahi)

• Radioactive Ekiden (ex-SKF)

• Anti-Yakuza Laws Go Into Effect (Japan Subculture Research Center)

• Tokyo, Okinawa usher in antigang legislation (Japan Times)

• Cesium fallout map illustrates Kanto levels (Japan Times)

• Panel queries TEPCO rates / Customers pay price for flawed accounting, wasteful spending (Yomiuri)

• Prof. Yukio Hayakawa: Radiation Contamination Route Map (EX-SKF)

• Korean Soccer Fans Celebrate Japanese Earthquake (Japan Probe)

• Hiking - Japan's New Extreme Sport (Shisaku)

• Plutonium traces found in Iitate soil (Japan Times)

• Cesium fallout map illustrates Kanto levels (Japan Times)

• Plutonium detected 45 kilometers from nuke plant(Pu-239) (InvestmentWatch)

• 'Noah' ready for Japan's next tsunami (msnbc.com)

• Tentoonstelling in Japan afgelast uit angst voor straling (HLN)

• Japan Reopens Areas Near Fukushima Daiichi Plant (NYTimes)

• Tepco Faces 'Zombie' Future as Fukushima Damage Claims Mount (BusinessWeek)

• Single females mean big bucks to Japan tourism (Japan Today)

• After a half-century in Hiroo, National Azabu to close Oct 31 (Japan Today)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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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