Selected Japan News Articles 13 Jan - 19 Jan

• Base opponent Inamine wins in Nago mayor election - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• All Nippon Airways uses crude racial humor in TV commercial | Japan Probe

• Japan to double tourists by 2020 | Bangkok Post: news

• Japan to ease permanent resident conditions for foreign professionals | ABS-CBN News

• More workers taking vacation | The Japan Times

• Hosokawa eyes no nukes by 2020 | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Response to Fukushima Should Worry Us All | Dissident Voice

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• Abe-Koizumi duel looms in Tokyo gubernatorial election - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan approves Tepco business plan - UPI.com

• Businessman missing in Tokyo is found alive in Yorkshire 'after running from Japanese mafia' | Mail Online

• Japanese rice vodka. Better than sake? - Weekend Sip - MarketWatch

• Quake-hit Kobe calls for vigilance 19 years on | The Japan Times

• Ditch reactors, don't focus on Olympics: Hosokawa quote | The Japan Times

• More Japanese opting to have ashes scattered at sea after death - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Volunteers Crowdsource Radiation Monitoring to Map Potential Risk on Every Street in Japan | Democracy Now!

• Protests Grow in Japan: "We Want to Bring Our Message to the World to Stop Nuclear Power Plants" | Democracy Now!

• Mayor of Town That Hosted Fukushima Nuclear Plant Says He Was Told: “No Accident Could Ever Happen” | Democracy Now!

• "We Want to Fight For This Cause": Nuclear Refugees from Fukushima Join Anti-Nuke Protests | Democracy Now!

• De prijs van Fukushima: Japanse vis is gedoemd (en sushi ook...)

• Japan and America: Surrounded by sharks | The Economist

• Lateline - 12/11/2010: Japanese holdouts fought for decades after WWII

• Fukushima Watch: In for the Long Haul - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• 'Iron-hearted' manager in charge of ending Fukushima nuclear crisis - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Eén - Iedereen beroemd - Japanse trommelaar | Eén

• Japan's Beer Drinkers Still Not Raising a Glass to Abenomics - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Japon: un membre de la secte Aum jugé

• New theory questions Hachiko's loyalty, says chicken tidbits the answer - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Taxi company under fire for refusing ride to anti-nuclear lawmaker - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Court: Police can gather personal information on Muslims - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan's Nuclear Hangover

• No refuge from booze in Tokyo, paradise for alcoholics in denial | The Japan Times

• No refuge from booze in Tokyo, paradise for alcoholics in denial | The Japan Times

• Tepco business plan, including July reactor restarts, gets official OK | The Japan Times

• BBC News - Japan's Toshiba to buy 60% stake in UK nuclear venture

• Dagblad De Limburger - Limburgs Dagblad

• Don't forget Tohoku in rejoicing over Tokyo Olympics, says Keene - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• 『極道』第一回：右翼 - Gokudo Ep.1: The Right-Wing Connection - YouTube

• BBC News - Japan's Suntory buys Jim Beam drinks group in $16bn deal

• Japan bezoeken low budget style (Column) door game over retry - InsideGamer

• Japan's Obama problem | The Japan Times

• Hosokawa to run, gets nuke foe Koizumi's nod | The Japan Times

• Japan Airlines says smoke seen coming from Boeing 787 battery

• Chicago Tribune - Japan self-defense ship, fishing boat collide; two in critical condition

• UPDATE 4-Japan Air grounds Boeing 787 after battery problem | Reuters

• Au Japon, un étudiant de 19 ans devient l’«homme chanceux de l’année» - Le Figaro Étudiant

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• Japan's Koizumi backs fellow ex-PM in opposing nuclear power | Reuters

• Former Prime Minister Hosokawa to run for Tokyo governor with Koizumi's backing - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan No Longer an Export Powerhouse - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Feestdag voor Japanse 20-jarigen - Foto - VK

• BBC News - Japan: Concern over dementia-related railway accidents

• Japon : le nouvel impérialisme | ARTE Journal | Monde | fr - ARTE

• Japanese Begin to Question Protections Given to Homegrown Rice - NYTimes.com

• Japon : ami à tout prix

• Abe leading Japan to a dead end - People's Daily Online

• 'Playful' and healthy, soybean snack resembles real thing - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Ex-Japan PM Mori to head Tokyo 2020 committee - Sportsnet.ca

• Teaching or brainwashing? | The Japan Times

• U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa | The Japan Times

• Happy Coming of Age Day - WSJ.com

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