Fujisan Sept 28th Sunset

5:22pm. Mt Fuji & Oyama

Fujisan Sept 28th

6:54am


First snow visible on Mt. Fuji. according to news reports snow fell on 24th Sept, 6 days earlier than usual

Mount Fuji snow-capped earlier than normal (Asahi Shimbun)

Fujisan Sept 27th

5:24pm


5:26pm

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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Fujisan Sept 22nd

Fujisan after the typhoon. 6:14am

63,000 becquerels/kg cesium on rooftop

Time to clean my roof balcony

"63,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium from rooftop of apartment bldg in Yokohama". Link:

City http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/09/63000-bqkg-of-radioactive-cesium-from.html

Selected Japan News Articles 12 Sept. - 18 Sept

• Tepco scraps plan to hike power charges 10 to 15% (Japan Times)

• Japanese schoolgirl scare crow (JapanSugoi)

• Lonely youth take meals in toilets, and a new subculture springs up (Japan Today)

• Energy in Japan: Out with the old (The Economist)

• Historic China concert for Japanese pop band SMAP (BBC)

• Magnitude-6.6 quake shakes Japan (AP)

• Fighting for a radiation-free Japan (Al Jazeera)

• Instant noodles museum opens in Japan (BBC)

• TEPCO doles out money to greedy municipalities (Asahi)

• Nissin opens Cup Noodle museum in Yokohama (Asahi)

• Sunflowers next to useless for nuclear decontamination (Asahi)

• Series of quakes hit off Japan disaster zone (AFP)

• Contamination of Fukushima forests being studied (Japan Times)

• Beerschot verontschuldigt zich op Japanse ambassade (Voetbalkrant)

• Big swath of Fukushima tainted (Japan Times)

• Obama urged Kan to move faster on nuclear security (Japan Times)

• Japan's shame: The good bureaucrat (The Economist)

• Tests find excessive cesium at incinerators (Japan Times)

• Artist-designed rooms draw the curious to Yokohama (Asahi Shimbun)

• Hawaii sailor finds message in a bottle sent from Japan 5 years ago (CNN)

• Tokyo game show turns to cellphones, has new star (Forbes)

• OECD says Japanese teachers spend too much time on office work (Asahi)

• Fukushima clean-up may require removal of 100 million cubic meters of soil (Asahi)

• Second Fukushima plant unlikely to reopen: Japan minister (AFP)

• Fun is brewing in Yokohama (Japan Times)

• Japanese city recruiting young women to become geisha (Telegraph)

• Energy in Japan: Bright ideas needed (The Economist)

• Strong earthquake hits northeast Japan, no tsunami (AP)

• Japan's Sharp to stop sales of Galapagos tablets (AFP)

• Hospitals take some of the pain out of mourning (Asahi)

• Video: Nissan Leaf Makes Noise for Visually Impaired (Japan Real Time)

• Sunflowers ineffective in radiation decontamination (Majirox News)

• Noda's blog now available in English (Japan Today)

• DPJ's tightened grip on information raises eyebrows (Japan Times)

• N. Korean defectors to be sent to South (Japan Times)

• LDP slams Noda over ministers' miscues (Japan Times)

• Education spending lowest in OECD (Japan Times)

• #Radioactive Landfill: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Has Been Doing It Since May (EX-SKF)

• #Radiation in Japan: Tsukuba City's Idea of Voluntary "Decontamination" (EX-SKF)

• Tepco to raise power charges up to 15% for three years (Japan Times)

• Releasing 70,000 Psychiatric Patients Shows Japan Debt Task (Businessweek)

• Over-50 first-time marriages increasing (Japan Today)

• Ichigen koji (Ampontan)

• PM Noda's 'sincerity' does not ring true to the heart (Mainichi)

• Edano as Japan Trade Minister May Take Tough Stance on Tepco (Businessweek)

• Smartphones replacing cameras? Not so fast! (Japan Times)

• Fukushima cesium contamination widespread but less than Chernobyl (Asahi)

• The Fukushima Syndrome (ABC)

• Japan PM pledges fiscal reform, seeks opposition help (Reuters)

• Inside Japan's nuclear exclusion zone (BBC)

• Japan wil op termijn minder kernenergie (De Standaard)

• Japan Ends Energy-Saving Program Early (Japan Real Time)

• New Japan PM Noda in nuclear restart call (BBC)

• Possible North Korean defectors sail to Japan (CNN)

• Fukushima reactors now "stable," IAEA says (Reuters)

• A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Shisaku)

• Yakuza Banned From Festival Stalls (Japan Probe)

• In Japan vang je in een restaurant gewoon je eigen maaltijd (nrc.nl)

• Six months on: Japan tsunami survivor's story (BBC)

• Japan wil schoner energiebeleid, maar ook reactoren weer opstarten (nrc.nl)

• Key LDP official calls 9/11 'historical inevitability' (Asahi)

• The loneliness - or otherwise - of the long-distance foreigner (Japan Times)

• 3/11: no excuse for skipping your re-entry visa (Japan Times)

• Hosono to reshape nuclear policy (Japan Times)

• Nation could get 43% of power from renewable energy by '20, report says (Japan Times)

• Noda taps Edano for trade minister (Japan Times)

• Not all ministerial gaffes are equal in Japan (Reuters)

• Tokyo's Foreign Population Drops After March 11th Disaster (Japan Probe)

• Suzuki cuts ties with Volkswagen (AP)

• Japan quake: Mother uses digger in search for daughter (BBC)

• Yukio Edano to Become the New Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (EX-SKF)

• Yokohama's Solution of Ever-Increasing Radioactive Ashes from Sewer Sludge: Dump In the Ocean as Landfill (EX-SKF)

• After Fukushima, mother fights to get her life back (Reuters)

• Japan's tsunami debris drifting in Pacific ( Australia Network)

• Japan quake: Images of then and now (BBC)

• Photos: Six mois de catastrophe nucléaire au Japon (Le Monde)

• TEPCO finishes frame of cover for crippled reactor (Asahi)

• Japan city on border of nuclear no-go zone fights for survival (Reuters)

• Gekte in VS rondom Murakami (nrc.nl)

• Stronger yen pushing even small businesses abroad (Asahi)

• Death industry reaps grim profit as Japan dies (Reuters)

• Effect of contaminated soil on food chain sparks fears (Japan Times)

• Fukushima six months on: Japanese mark moment earthquake struck (The Guardian)

• Health care in Japan: Not all smiles (The Economist)

• Plugging leaks will end crisis, not cold shutdown: analysts (Japan Times)

• Japan marks six month since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (Nippon Sekai)

• High levels of radiation detected in remote areas (Nippon Sekai)

• NHK Special - World's Most Extensive Liquefaction (Nippon Sekai)

• Japan - Six Months On (Nippon Sekai)

• Japan marks 6-month anniversary of quake (CBC News)

• Kōyō: Japan's autumn explosion of vibrant colors (msbc)

• Sirenes bij herdenking tsunami Japan (Stentor)

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Early Morning - 18 Sept

4:43am - 6:31am

Fujisan Sept 18th

7:24am


9:28am

Evening Sky - Sept 16

From 5:08pm to 6:48pm

Sunrise, Sunset - 15 Sept

From 4:34am to 6:13am




From 5:28pm to 6:50pm

Sunset in Yokohama - Sept 13th

5:29pm - 6:47pm

Crowded streets - problem solved

Crowded streets - problem solved

Setting Moon, Early Morning - Sept 13

From 4:19am tot 6:09am

Harvest Moon

Today is 中秋の名月 - Harvest Moon


10:29pm - Sept 12th

Fujisan at sunset - Sept 12

5:48pm

Early Morning - 12 Sept

4:46am - 6:24am


I woke up a little bit too late for the setting moon disappearing behind Mt. Fuji. 4:46am - 6:24am. The little dots at the end of the time-lapse are pigeons from the local pigeon fancier flying around every morning in endless in circles - Canon Powershot S90, interval via CHDK firmware, 800 pictures, 5 sec interval, AV priority, f/5.6, 100 ISO

Fujisan Sept 12th

7:51am

Selected Japan News Articles 5 Sept. - 11 Sept

• Japan's Trade Minister Yoshio Hachiro Resigns in 8 Days (EX-SKF)

• President Obama's Special 9-11 Message Only for Yomiuri Shinbun (EX-SKF)

• Six Months: Living with Radiation (Japan Real Time)

• Post-tsunami Japan sticking with nuclear power (AP)

• Six months on, few signs of recovery (Japan Times)

• Niets is gevaarlijk in Japan, behalve de berg (De Groene Amsterdammer)

• Japan to mark six months since March earthquake (AFP)

• A third of Fukushima residents would move if they could (Asahi)

• Economy minister Hachiro resigns over joke about radiation (Asahi)

• Japan trade minister Hachiro quits over nuclear gaffe (BBC)

• Japan trade minister says he's resigning after remark seen as insensitive to nuclear crisis (AP)

• Japan's Trade Minister Jokes About Radiation (Japan Probe)

• Six months later: The Fukushima nuclear disaster in retrospect (Mainichi)

• Analysis: New Japan PM a bureaucrats' puppet or puppet master? (Reuters)

• Fukushima disaster: it's not over yet (The Guardian)

• Radiation expert says outcome of nuke crisis hard to predict, warns of further dangers (Mainichi)

  Cold shutdown entails bringing the temperature of sound nuclear fuel in pressure vessels below 100 degrees Celsius. It would be one thing to aim for this in April, when the government had yet to confirm that a meltdown had indeed taken place. But what is the point of "aiming for cold shutdown" now, when we know that fuel is no longer sound?

• Japanse modestudenten stellen tentoon in Antwerpen (De Standaard)

• Japan minister slammed for gaffe over nuke crisis (AP)

• Fukushima store plan abandoned because of protests (Asahi)

• EU to maintain safety checks on food from Japan (AFP)

• Radiation, power fears lead to population decrease in Tokyo (Asahi)

• Ontsmetten Fukushima kost Japan 2,84 miljard dollar (De Morgen)

• Beerschot AC moet verontschuldigingen aanbieden aan Japan en Kawashima (Nieuwsblad)

• Ocean Contamination 3 Times As Much As TEPCO Announced (EX-SKF)

• Here's the Man Who Pointed Finger at TEPCO's Fuku (EX-SKF)

• TEPCO's Extreme Blackout (EX-SKF)

• Gov't to lift restrictions on power use in and around Tokyo (Japan Today)

• Get your Japanese with Nihongo-busting iPhone app (Japan Today)

• Maehara urges looser rules of engagement for SDF (Asahi)

• Study: Some Fukushima residents exposed to alarming radiation levels (Asahi)

• Japan's nuclear priorities seen shifting (MarketWatch)

• Il y a de la rétention d'informations à Fukushima (Le Point)

• Coca-Cola lanceert ecologische automaten in Japan (De Morgen)

• Japan Official Ordered Fake Nuclear E-Mails, Investigators Say (NYTimes)

• Health care in Japan: Not all smiles (The Economist)

• Japanner Takashi Miyazawa wint Izegem Koerse (Nieuwsblad)

• Yakuza attacks on businesses more than double (Asahi)

• Captain's toilet break causes 'serious incident' on domestic flight (Majirox News)

• Fukushima logs suspect in mushroom radiation contamination (Asahi)

• Fukushima plant was scary 32 years ago, says manga author (Asahi)

• Outside looking in: Giant 'snow' wall now a big hit with Taiwanese (Asahi)

• Outside looking in: Rural Japan says thank you for 'hanryu' (Asahi)

• Sushi lijdt nog altijd onder angst voor straling (HLN)

• Six Months Later: Noda's New World (Japan Real Time)

• Fukushima Crisis Is Still Hazy (Scientific American)

• Captain’s toilet break causes ‘serious incident’ on domestic flight | Majirox News

• In Fukushima, students face up to realities of nuclear disaster (Asahi)

• Honne versus Tatemae: Feelings versus Façade (Louise van Alenburg)

• ANA plane makes steep dive over Shizuoka (Japan Today)

• 'Himizu': love and madness in post-tsunami Japan (AFP)

• FOTOSPECIAL. Puin geruimd na tsunami in Japan (De Standaard)

• New Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima nuclear plant (BBC)

• Japan's new PM in crisis-hit Fukushima (AFP)

• Graphing the Noda Administration (Shisaku)

• Alarm Clock App Embarrasses Snoozers (Japan Trends)

• Naoto Kan vreesde evacuatie Tokyo door Fukushima crisis (De Aziatische Tijger)

• True glimpses of the underworld (Japan Times)

• David Boilley of ACRO (The Zone)

• Japan to decrease nuclear power? (UPI)

• De retour de Fukushima, où le silence et les mensonges tuent (Rue89)

• Real situation of Fukushima now that Japanese medias hiding behind (ZDF Germany)

• Former PM says he feared for Japan's survival early in nuclear crisis (Canadian Press)

• Rescuers continue search for typhoon survivors (BBC)

• Fukushima brengt uitbuiting in kerncentrales aan het licht (Volkskrant)

• Radioactief afval overspoelt Japanse waterzuiveringsstations (De Morgen)

• Why Japan's Typhoon Talas Was So Deadly (LiveScience)

• After Nuclear Mishap, Japan Debates Energy Future (NPR)

• Beerschot: ''Fukushima' wel, 'Stijnen homo' niet bestraft' (De Standaard)

• 'Sexlessness' wrecks marriages, threatens nation's future (Japan Times)

• Toyota unveils new model for Japan: a boat (Reuters)

• Radioactive waste swamps Japan sewage plants (AlJazeera)

• Tokyo Police Claim Yakuza Victory…At Festival (Japan Real Time)

• Noda's hair-raising expense: 1,000 yen for a cut (Asahi)

• Radioactief afval overspoelt Japanse waterzuiveringsstations (DeWereldMorgen)

• Outside looking in: Australian 'mates' putting out the word on white slopes of Hakuba (Asahi)

• French offered to take Fukushima fuel, Kan says (Asahi)

• Kan: I couldn't let TEPCO withdraw from Fukushima disaster (Asahi)

• AEX opent licht lager – laagste stand Japanse beurs in twee jaar (nrc.nl)

• Japan's Typhoon Talas leaves dozens dead - video (Guardian)

• Fukushima's Long Link to a Dark Nuclear Past (NYTimes)

• Radiation in Food: Radish Boya to Set Its Own Cesium Standard (EX-SKF)

• Floods and mudslides after Talas typhoon hit Japan (BBC)

• Bijna miljoen Honda's moeten terug (Spitsnieuws)

• Official: Japanese nuclear plant stabilization ahead of schedule (CNN)

• No. 3 reactor cooling down: Tepco (The Japan Times)

• Thousands left stranded after Japan's most deadly typhoon in seven years (The National)

• De vrouw achter het symbolische beeld uit Japan (nrc)

• Former PMs Naoto Kan, Yukio Hatoyama Join Ranks Japan 'Senior Advisers' to Yoshihiko Noda - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Kunihiko Takeda: "A Girl Doesn't Talk" (EX-SKF)

• Radioactive Produce: National Government Told Fukushima Farmers to Farm as Usual (EX-SKF)

• Return to Tohoku - The Road to Recovery (Japan Probe)

• Evacuated town's officials call for early start to decontamination (Asahi)

• Witness to disaster: Six months on from Japan's tsunami (CNN)

• Hosono: "We All Have to Share the Pain of Fukushima" (Ex-SKF)

• Typhoon Talas: Japan searches for missing dozens (BBC)

• Outside looking in: Michelin's 3-star rating luring French tourists to sacred mountain (Asahi)

• Japanese Like New Leader-So Far (WSJ)

• Picture Japan: Typhoon Talas Leaves Grim Trail (Japan Real Time)

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See also japannieuwsbrief.blogspot.com for daily selection

Sunset in Yokohama - Sept 9th

Sunset in Yokohama. Time-lapse from 5:28pm to 6:42pm

Sunset - Sept 8th

Sunset in Yokohama. Time-lapse from 5:32pm to 6:54pm

What the Jap. media is hiding

More bad news from Fukushima. "These vegetables are nuclear waste, not food anymore" (via the German ZDF)

The Moon

11:03pm

Mt. Fuji - Sept 7th

Finally, Mt. Fuji visible again. 6:03pm

Evening Walk in Minato Mirai

11 photos

Interview Kan

That's the problem with Japan: 'social pressure to conform to majority views' (interview Kan page 3)

Kan: I couldn't let TEPCO withdraw from Fukushima disaster - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

Naoto Kan was told by his industry minister at 3 a.m., four days after the start of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, that the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., was proposing to withdraw from the stricken facility.

Sunset - Sept 6th

Sunset in Yokohama. Time-lapse from 5:32pm to 6:54pm

Early Morning - 6 Sept

From 4:47am to 6:08am

Wereldnet 1 september

Wereldnet - Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, donderdag 1 september 2011
Correspondenten in Madagaskar en Japan. Over Japan: 1. Nieuwe premier, 2. 'Setsuden' energiebesparing en 3. Meer jongeren willen trouwen na ramp
Audio:
http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/radioshow/meisjesnaam-voor-de-premier

Het stukje over energiebesparing hier:
http://www.rnw.nl/nederlands/radioshow/het-licht-gaat-uit-de-stad

Hosono Go Away!

Goshi Hosono, the environment minister, wants final disposal of the nuclear waste outside Fukushima Prefecture. All over the country. "The whole nation has to share the burden", he said on NHK this evening. Lamentable, appalling. What a stupid idea.

Creepy Guy at Daiichi

Creepy guy at Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant




More about this:
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/08/31/workers-eerie-show-on-fukushima-daiichi-webcam/

Update 2011 Sept 9th:
Mystery solved. It was a worker protesting the harsh working conditions. Link:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/09/heres-man-who-pointed-finger-at-tepcos.html