Yokohama Skyline

Kita-Kamakura

Jochi-ji




Tokei-ji


Engaku-ji



Yasujiro Ozu's grave. Engaku-ji, Kita-Kamakura.
On his tombstone, only one word: 無 (mu) 'nothingness'

Japan News Articles July 21 - July 27

• Safety net is for all taxpayers | The Japan Times

• A closer look at the Supreme Court's welfare benefits ruling | The Japan Times

• In the Wake of Fukushima: “Why I Left Tokyo”? Eastern Japan Contaminated with Radiation. “Metro Tokyo Should no Longer be Inhabited” | Global Research

• Japan Has Selfie Stands Installed In Popular Spots | Ubergizmo

• Is the DPJ Brand Worth Saving? | SNA Japan

• Japan volcanic island smouldering and growing

• Heimwee naar Japan - De Standaard

• Abe to shuffle Cabinet, LDP execs in early September | The Japan Times

• U.N. rights panel urges Japan to crack down on hate speech | The Japan Times

• AKB48: A Microcosm Of Dark Corporate Japan. Sexual exploitation of child labor is sooo cute. (Book review) : Japan Subculture Research Center

• Film Review: Philip Cox and Hikaru Toda’s ‘Love Hotel’ – A charming and humane look into Japan’s most private lives and spaces ‹ Nikkei Voice | The National Forum for Japanese Canadians

• Anger erupts over court denial of welfare to foreign permanent residents of Japan | South China Morning Post

• London provides model for Tokyo's own cycle revolution - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• GLOBE - Feature - NATIONALITY - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• NATIONALITY/ Japan: Those with dual nationality face a tough choice at 22 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Obokata injured while fleeing pack of NHK reporters, lawyer says | The Japan Times

• Japan's Dirty Secret: Pit Toilets

• Japanese monkeys' abnormal blood linked to Fukushima disaster – study | Environment | The Guardian

• The Future of Japan’s Dwindling Imperial Family | Nippon.com

• Goldman Sachs ziet Japan compleet de afgrond intuimelen - Beursnieuws - Moneytalk.be - Moneytalk.be - Alles voor de actieve belegger

• Japan sees huge increase in foreign visitors - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan’s War Atonement Not Enough, Ex-Foreign Minister Kono Says - Bloomberg

• Shisaku: Correction - Richard Katz Response To “Urban Harvest Tokyo”

• Shisaku: From The Places They Have Seen We Might Know Who They Are

• To appear or not to appear on Japanese TV . . . | The Japan Times

• ¥80 million earmarked to translate Japanese books into English to aid PR drive | The Japan Times

• Heat wave sweeps Japan; many areas log hottest day of summer | The Japan Times

• Japan Should Replace Managers to Prosper, Abe Adviser Says - Bloomberg

• What's With The Japanese Infatuation With Kawaii Culture?

• China meat scandal spreads to McDonald's in Japan - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Why 'Frozen' Was Such a Big Box-Office Hit in Japan

• These Are Japan’s Coolest New Trains | TIME

• Science and Sensationalism: Is Japan’s Fuji in a “Critical State” for an Eruption? | Science Blogs | WIRED

• Japanese lawmakers say war-renouncing Constitution deserves Nobel Peace Prize | The Japan Times

• Japan's public pension to get new digs, stay in Tokyo -sources | Reuters

• Japan’s Better Hafu | The Diplomat

• New ‘Yahoo Ending’ service lets users in Japan prepare for the inevitable - The Washington Post

• Are Pay Hikes the Way to Revive Japan’s Economy? | Nippon.com

• Increase in non-regular employment places burden on children - 毎日新聞

• Osaka zone a litmus test of foreign worker policy | The Japan Times

• Stigmatized workers quitting Tepco in droves | The Japan Times

• EDITORIAL: Council on state secrets law offers no answers to public concerns - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Stigmatized workers quitting Tepco in droves | The Japan Times

• BBC News - Japan: Sightseeing tour with samurai and ninja fights

• Japan's 'bullet train': Fast track to the future - Asia - Travel - The Independent

• Japan legt duizenden euro's bij op waterstofauto | Duurzaam Bedrijfsleven

• Few biting so far on special visa for workers | The Japan Times

• Extent of new Henoko site 'hidden from public' | The Japan Times

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Evening Sky

7:18pm

Minatomirai

Yokohama Night

People on the train

Beergarden Season

Japan News Articles July 14 - July 20

• Chubu Electric built 250 million yen slush fund to win over politicians - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Latin American Herald Tribune - Japan

• Nearly 400 children abandoned in Japan over 3 years: Kyodo survey | GlobalPost

• Article: Japan should honorably resign as host of 2020 Summer Olympics | OpEdNews

• Foreign visitor stays in Japan spiked 27% in 2013 | The Japan Times

• Politician Nonomura weeps and the world laughs | The Japan Times

• Rediscovering lost Tokyo | The Japan Times

• Rediscovering lost Tokyo | The Japan Times

• Ruling forces Ricoh to revoke transfer orders for 'banished' workers - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Welfare ruling stuns foreigners | The Japan Times

• Japanese politician proposes giving newlyweds pierced condoms | GlobalPost

• Japan's Rotating Seats Solve Train Travel's Greatest Woe (VIDEO)

• Opinion war: China vs Japan - The Washington Post

• Japan's Line Messaging App Firm Files for US IPO: Report | NDTV Gadgets

• S. Korea, Japan to hold talks on wartime sex slavery next week | GlobalPost

• Supreme Court rules permanent residents ineligible for public assistance - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Survey finds widespread abuse against disabled workers - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Dutch children of wartime liaisons with Japanese search for their roots - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• ECC linked to Benesse data theft | The Japan Times

• Japan, Britain in joint missile study - Regional | The Star Online

• Japanese woman clings to hope that identical twin alive in North Korea | Reuters

• Ex-NHK staffers seek Momii's ouster | The Japan Times

• Foreign residents can't claim welfare benefits: Supreme Court | The Japan Times

• Japan police raid apartment of `crying politician`

• Identity Confusion: Is Japan Now a ‘Great Power’? - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Japan: Man dresses as schoolgirl to challenge social norms - Live5News.com | Charleston, SC | News, Weather, Sports

• Japan PM's policy shift risks dangerous path: Veteran politician Ozawa | Reuters

• Japan approves first weapons transfer after arms ban relaxed - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Yahoo launches online death-planning service | The Japan Times

• Ghosn promises self-parking cars, traffic-jam pilots by end of 2016 | The Japan Times

• Japan outlines rules on using secrecy law | The Japan Times

• Japan's Mt. Fuji Volcano In A

• Nissan CEO: Japan Female Bosses Goal Too Ambitious - ABC News

• Au Japon, des clients payés pour ne pas consommer de courant, Énergie - Environnement

• Japan’s Herbivores Seek Sovereign Not Romantic Bonds - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Mitsubishi Estate uncovers hot spring in Tokyo's Otemachi - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan complained over 'Tenko' BBC television series - Telegraph

• Is Shinzo Abe’s Notion of ‘Womenomics’ Just a Pipe Dream in Sexist Japan? | TIME

• Scholars say Cabinet decision opens, not ends, debate on collective self-defense - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Sendai nuclear plant gets first restart OK | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Break With Peace - NYTimes.com

• Dead in Japan? Yahoo Ending has everything you need | PCWorld

• NOS.nl

• PHOTO: ‘Sushi Socks’ prove a perfect fit for foreign tourists - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• China’s Changing Position on Japan’s History: The Abe Factor | The Diplomat

• NOS op 3 - Japan: hoera voor de penis, weg met de vagina

• China and Japan's 'war of words' - CNN.com

• For former death-row inmate, a daily routine of pacing, delusions - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Great Wall of Japan? Locals balk at tsunami-protection plan. - CSMonitor.com

• Abe looking at permanent law allowing dispatch of SDF overseas | The Japan Times

• BBC - Culture - Japan’s Shinkansen: Revolutionary design at 50

• Japan zet vaginakunstenares achter de tralies - Buitenland - TROUW

• Japan earthquake has raised pressure below Mount Fuji, says new study | World | The Guardian

• Saying goodbye to Tokyo's Hotel Okura - CNN.com

• The Illusion of “Rising Nationalism”: Internationalism and Xenophobia in Today’s Japan | Nippon.com

• 40% want wives kept out of workforce | The Japan Times

• In Japan, the 'collapse of the family' is old news | The Japan Times

• Okinawa reversion papers 'likely destroyed' | The Japan Times

• BBC News - Japan enters the era of smartphones and 'dumbwalking'

• TEPCO's rubble removal at Fukushima plant likely spread cesium to rice paddies - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Yokohama hotel's landmark sign to glow again for 1st time since 1973 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Rola changing DNA of Japanese pop culture ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

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Sunset July 16

6:41pm

Japan News Articles July 7 - July 13

• Fake Interview Subject for Bogus News Segments Might be a Real Job in Japan | Tokyo Desu

• 40% of Japanese want wives kept out of workforce, survey finds | The Japan Times

• Commuters used as guinea pigs | The Japan Times

• PHOTO: Typhoon leaves double rainbows as it departs Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Radio 1 - Japanners mogen niet dansen en daarom kneden ze deeg - 09:19 11-07-2014

• 'Eeuwig single in Tokio? It is the libido, stupid!' - Meindert Fennema - VK

• Japan's Pachinko Operators Mull Casino Alliance to Stem Decline - Businessweek

• Japanese electronics firms: Eclipsed by Apple | The Economist

• Ten Myths About Japan’s Collective Self-Defense Change | The Diplomat

• Groups scramble to save traditional architecture in Tokyo’s Yanaka district - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• The End of `Made in Japan'? - Bloomberg View

• Japon : brève alerte au tsunami après un séisme près de Fukushima

• Crying assemblyman resigns over shady use of taxpayer money - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Is vredesgrondwet Japan dood? - DeWereldMorgen.be

• Japan: waarom Fujitsu sla teelt in Fukushima

• Alle artikels | MO*

• Japan Rethinks Its Pacifist Constitution, Alarming Its Neighbors

• Noord-Korea: meer ontvoerde Japanners in leven

• Ministry panel backpedals on promise to revamp justice system | The Japan Times

• Chicago Tribune - Cute Japan pop star recruits soldiers as Abe boosts military

• The Yoshida Testimony - Reality of the ‘Fukushima 50’- The Asahi Shimbun Digital

• The Yoshida Testimony - The Asahi Shimbun Digital

• Hoe Japan opnieuw een militaire macht werd - Veerle De Vos

• Le Monde.fr - Actualité à la Une

• Shinzo Abe seeks relief in Australia from tension with closer neighbours | World news | theguardian.com

• Will Japan's youth go to war because a pretty girl told them to? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

• Will Japan's Democracy Survive Abe? - Bloomberg View

• Will Japan survive Abe assault? - International | IOL Business | IOL.co.za

• Academic Scandal Shakes Japan - NYTimes.com

• Japan 'set for first arms export' under new rules - Yahoo News

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Sunset - July 13

6:58pm

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Mayuko!

Sunset - July 12

Snoopy

My daughter has spent her pocket money

Sunset - July 8

6:35pm

Frietjes, een Duvelke

Belgian Beer Weekend

Japan News Articles June 30 - July 6

• Fiery Shinjuku protest goes global without NHK | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Disaster Diplomacy: Pragmatism, Peace, and Activism

• Japan’s security: Clear and present dangers | The Economist

• Le volcan du mont Fuji dans un « état critique » après Fukushima

• Elderly relatives of Japanese abducted by North Korea see probe as last chance to rescue them

• Economic sanctions against North Korea partially lifted | The Japan Times

• Japan kan een nieuwe brandhaard van een wereldwijde crisis worden - Beursnieuws - Moneytalk.be - Moneytalk.be

• How Japan’s most promising young stem-cell scientist duped the scientific journal Nature — and destroyed her career - The Washington Post

• MAJOR SECURITY SHIFT: Scholars blast constitutional reinterpretation as attack on democracy - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• INTERVIEW/ Akira Iriye: Transcending the logic of power - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Abe and the Fourth Estate - NYTimes.com

• Sexist jeers in politics turn spotlight on workplace sexual harassment - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• High stakes as Japan's Abe eases sanctions over N. Korea abductions - CSMonitor.com

• Bringing Doraemon to North America: The Challenges of Translating a Classic Manga | Nippon.com

• Hokkaido politician upbraided for tweets about protester who set himself on fire | The Japan Times

• Video of Japan politician weeping goes viral - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Abe and the Fourth Estate - NYTimes.com

• Kennedy offers encouraging words to Shiomura - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Complexes continue to color Japan's ambivalent ties to the outside world | The Japan Times

• How Japan might use its military in the future | The Japan Times

• BBC News - From boats to bikes: Japan's last craftsmen families

• BBC News - What Japan's military shift means

• The Sexist Abuse That Threatens to Shake the Nation | Nippon.com

• NHK Ignores Tokyo Self-Immolation | The Diplomat

• Radio 1 - Japan weer een militaire macht om rekening mee te houden - 14:28 01-07-2014

• How Japan Can Use Its Military After Policy Change - ABC News

• Jean-Georges Tokyo: New York super-chef adds Japan to his list of global outlets | The Japan Times

• Abe wins battle to broaden defense policy | The Japan Times

• Oude Arcade hal gevonden in Japans flatgebouw - Apparata

• Mitsubishi Estate expands free Wi-Fi service to Yokohama's Landmark Tower - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• The Stories of 12 Japanese Abducted by North Korea - ABC News

• Ergste nachtmerrie Shinzo Abe wordt bewaarheid - Beursnieuws - Moneytalk.be - Moneytalk.be

• Japan-NK hold talks despite missile launch | The Kansas City Star

• Poor Corporate Governance Fueled Sony’s Meltdown | Nippon.com

• The Turnabout of Japan’s Security Policy: Toward “Proactive Pacifism” | Nippon.com

• Keeping Mount Fuji at the Peak of Beauty | Nippon.com

• Self-immolation fails to slow Article 9 assault amid media silence | The Japan Times

• Thousands get behind Article 9 in last-ditch rally at prime minister's office | The Japan Times

• Japan on verge of legalizing war as Komeito bends | The Japan Times

• Man saved from Nazis by 'Japan's Schindler' returns on journey of homage | Reuters

• Japan's political leadership helped save country from worst-case Fukushima disaster

• Japanese government plans to remove SIM locks for phones - CNET

• Tsunami-proof 'Great Wall of Japan' divides villagers | World news | The Guardian

• abe wil wet over oorlogsvoering aanpassen (NOS)

• Pensioners to get less as they get older | The Japan Times

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