Japan News Articles April 18 - 24

• Abe visits quake-hit Kumamoto; service on key section of Kyushu bullet-train line resumes | The Japan Times

• Second Japan Cabinet minister visits Tokyo war shrine - Channel NewsAsia

• Making hay while the sun shines: Should Japan adopt daylight saving time in summer? | The Japan Times

• The changing values behind school uniforms | The Japan Times

• Why did Japan just build a stealth fighter jet? - CSMonitor.com

• A population-based analysis of increasing rates of suicide mortality in Japan and South Korea, 1985–2010 | BMC Public Health | Full Text

• Japan's dementia time bomb | The Japan Times

• 'Vagina artist' Rokudenashiko to marry British rock musician | The Japan Times

• Japan becomes fourth nation to test-fly homegrown stealth jet | The Japan Times

• Buddhist cafe gives Tokyo caffeinated enlightenment | The Japan Times

• A new documentary shows the surprising, circular journey of Japanese Brazilians | Public Radio International

• Japan may draw up disaster relief spending by June 1 - sources

• Japan's ''vagina artist'' meets her waterboy

• Kumamoto quakes are 0.3 percent seismic phenomenon：The Asahi Shimbun

• Watch: Japan’s Stealth Fighter Makes Its Maiden Flight | Foreign Policy

• GM to Shut Four Plants Temporarily After Japan Quakes - WSJ

• Quakes damage 10,000 homes, four municipal buildings：The Asahi Shimbun

• Stoffel Vandoorne weet zijn opdracht:

• Twitter sets sights on Japan - San Jose Mercury News

• Make Japan Democratic Again | Foreign Policy

• Hurdles cleared but disillusionment, homesickness prompt Filipino health workers to exit Japan | The Japan Times

• Food, diapers, and free wifi: Japan relies on 7-11 to lead earthquake relief efforts — Quartz

• Abe skips Yasukuni ceremony, sends offering as private citizen | The Japan Times

• 'Hometown donation' system emerges as effective way to help quake victims | The Japan Times

• How Japan’s Abe Is Making a Failure of Success - Bloomberg

• Japan eyes double-barrelled stimulus to ease yen strains | Reuters

• Preparing for the Big One | The Economist

• Between Consenting Adults: Japan’s Incongruous Celebrity Sex Scandals | Nippon.com

• 58 dead, 90,000 evacuated 1 week after Kumamoto earthquakes - The Mainichi

• Catholic Church sex abuse scandal hits Japan with allegations by ex-students of St. Mary's International school in Tokyo - CBS News

• Abe poses a grave danger | The Japan Times

• Luxury foreign cars find favor among Japan's rich | The Japan Times

• Japanese whisky at ¥100,000 a bottle driving rice farmers to the drink | The Japan Times

• Mitsubishi Motors admits employees falsified fuel-efficiency data | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• One Economist Suggests Tax to Make Japan Inc. Spend Their Cash - Bloomberg

• Japan's Abe makes offering at shrine to war dead, prompting China rebuke | Reuters

• Concerns raised over support services for disabled earthquake evacuees | The Japan Times

• Uncertain Future for Scenic Village Hit by Japan Earthquakes - ABC News

• Uncertain future for scenic Kumamoto village hit by earthquakes：The Asahi Shimbun

• EDITORIAL: Full-scale efforts needed to stem health problems at quake shelters：The Asahi Shimbun

• Beloved mascot Kumamon's absence since quakes spurs Japan Twitter traffic | The Japan Times

• Abe insider wages one-man campaign to challenge foreign media over reporting 'mistakes' | The Japan Times

• After quakes, Japan is expected to delay TPP approval | The Japan Times

• 'Economy-class syndrome' concerns grow as Kyushu quake toll rises to 47 | The Japan Times

• Cold rice balls, no flush toilets at quake-hit Japan shelter | Fox News

• Big role for Ospreys in flying supplies to quake-stricken S. Japan - News - Stripes

• Reporter’s Notebook: The Stunning Destruction in Japan After 2 Quakes - ABC News

• Liberté de la presse

• Japan earthquakes: Nuclear regulator refuses to shut down station on Kyushu Island

• Japan quake relief work continues amid aftershocks - BBC News

• Japan Today

• Japan PM sticks to script on sales tax plans after deadly quakes | Reuters

• Two Japan Earthquakes Leave Thousands in Shelters

• Stabilized amateur footage of the Kumamoto earthquake in Japan.

• Quakes put chill in south Japan's hot spring tourism boom | Reuters

• In-out distinction raises linguistic issues for Japan's long-term 'inside outsiders' | The Japan Times

• The Kumamoto quakes | The Japan Times

• Questions and answers: The Kumamoto earthquakes | The Japan Times

• Food in short supply, government response crippled in quake-hit Kumamoto | The Japan Times

• Embassies working to help non-Japanese quake survivors | The Japan Times

• Evacuee shelters overcrowded - The Japan News

• Natuurrampen kunnen positief economisch effect hebben - BNR Nieuwsradio

• Zoekactie en schade na aardbevingen Japan in beeld | NOS

• Is 'Abeggedon' approaching? | The Japan Times

• Two years after Japan signed Hague, children have been returned but old issues remain | The Japan Times

• Seismologists urge caution as epicenters move southwest：The Asahi Shimbun

• Hokkaido creates car stickers for foreign rent-a-car drivers - The Mainichi

• Food in short supply, offices crippled in quake-hit southwestern Japan - The Mainichi

• New Sense of Fragility in Japanese Town Struck Twice by Quakes - The New York Times

• The first test for six-year-olds starting school in Japan is walking to class on their own | | The Times & The Sunday Times

• Les haricots et la pauvreté cachée au Japon - International - LeVif.be

• US forces aid Japan quake rescue, aid; 42 dead, 10 missing

• Pictures reveal serious damage to Shinkansen in Kyushu：The Asahi Shimbun

• Meet the woman who makes fake fingers for Japan's reformed gangsters | World news | The Guardian

• Disruptions From Twin Quakes in Southern Japan Hit Economy - ABC News

• Japan earthquake: Toyota, Sony and Honda suspend production - BBC News

• Japan earthquake: 'Nearly 250,000 told to leave amid fear of tremors' - BBC News

• Why do so many earthquakes strike Japan? - CSMonitor.com

• Straten Japanse stad bedekt met mysterieus schuim na aardbeving - HLN.be

• Kumamoto quake info: where to go, how to help | The Japan Times

• Desperate race on to find Kyushu earthquake survivors; death toll at 42 | The Japan Times

• In pictures: After the Kumamoto quakes | The Japan Times

• The Latest: Number of People In Japan Quake Shelters Doubles - The New York Times

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