Japan News Articles May 13 - 18

• Two-thirds of Japanese fear going bust in retirement | The Japan Times

• China, Japan hold first high-level meet since December | South China Morning Post

• Kerknet | Nieuws

• Government sweetening the pot for storage of Fukushima radioactive waste - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• INTERVIEW/ Ken Endo: European experience offers insight for Japan's ties with neighbors - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• 'Japan is back' but small business isn't | The Japan Times

• Abe's Article 9 blitz alarms Asia | The Japan Times

• Cultured mind interpreting Japan and its people - Retail News | Service Industry News | The Irish Times - Fri, May 16, 2014

• Population fixes have anti-foreign bias, official says | The Japan Times

• Japan to become first country to put billboard ad on moon - Washington Times

• Tokyo Olympics to be a window on nation's technological advancements - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan's Foreign Car Sales Boom May Be Ending - Businessweek

• From NHK, an offer you can't refuse | The Japan Times

• Japan's 'anti-loneliness' cafe goes viral - CNN.com

• EDITORIAL: Collective self-defense a question of whether Japan can go to war - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Fast-food workers in Tokyo join global rally for wage hikes - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• BBC News - Japan's Sony forecasts losses until 2015 after PC exit

• BBC News - Japan PM Abe calls for new defence law interpretation

• Panel lists steps for bypassing Article 9 | The Japan Times

• Pacifism at a crossroads following panel's verdict | The Japan Times

• Au Japon, les Occidentaux n'ont jamais vendu autant de voitures depuis 1997 - Automobile - Challenges

• Is Japan betting big on casinos? - CNN.com

• Chicago Tribune - Japan's working poor left behind by Abenomics

• Chicago Tribune - Kennedy vows U.S. help to Japan for Fukushima nuclear clean-up

• Chicago Tribune - Post-Fukushima, Japan's favorite monster may never go home again

• Automotive-management.nl | EU autofabrikanten tegen vrije handel met Japan

• U.S. Ambassador Kennedy visits Fukushima nuclear plant - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Sony sinks to $1.3 billion quarterly loss on PC expenses - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Are Japanese Eating into Their Savings? - Real Time Economics - WSJ

• Public Works: High-Density Living in Japan’s “Share Houses” | cityscape | Torontoist

• Direct Matin

• Sony annonce près d’un milliard d’euros de pertes malgré les bonnes ventes de la PS4

• Abe panel's report says collective self-defense already covered by Article 9 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• VOX POPULI: Abe trying to reinterpret Constitution in total disregard of Diet, public - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Does Japan Have the Best World Cup Slogan? - Scene Asia - WSJ

• Zita Toyota vervangt robots door... mensen Nieuws Binnenland

• Tohoku cat, missing since 2011 disaster, reunited with owners - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Chicago Tribune - Taxing times for pachinko as Japan considers casino gamble

• Tokyo to ban sales of incest-themed comic books to minors | The Japan Times

• Abe to get Article 9 proposals Thursday | The Japan Times

• Japanse regering wil pacifistische grondwet herzien | MO*

• 3 jaar na tsunami keert Japanse kat terug naar huis

• Chinese student asks for cooked sushi at Sukibayashi Jiro, gets flamed by Chinese netizens | RocketNews24

• Japan should stabilise population fall at 100m, says govt panel - Channel NewsAsia

• Piketty on Japan: Wealth Gap Likely to Rise - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Journalist now stands by Nanjing book | The Japan Times

• Amid controversy, Japan weighs reinterpreting its pacifist Constitution (+video) - CSMonitor.com

• How Sony Is Turning into a Ghost in Japan and Around the World

• Japanese Anime Star Doraemon Finally Makes U.S. Debut - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• BBC News - Japan's Sharp returns to profit after restructuring

• On drinking, May and battling the blues | The Japan Times

• The Daily Item : In Japan, women abandon careers for life as hunters

• Japanese man first to be arrested for possessing 3D printed gun : PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times

• How a Single Tweet Could Land a Japanese Nuclear Activist in Jail | VICE News

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