Japan News Articles January 19 - Jan 25

• Smoke signals: Can Tokyo ever go smoke-free? | The Japan Times

• It's OK to film people in public in Japan, if the conditions justify it | The Japan Times

• Latest video a wake-up call to oil-dependent Japanese | The Japan Times

• Five Fast Food Chains | Nippon.com

• ISIL offer to swap Japanese hostage for Iraqi woman - Al Jazeera English

• Japan Holds Out Hope for Journalist Held Hostage by Islamic State Following Release of ISIS Video - WSJ

• ISIS demanding release of convicted terrorist to save Japanese hostage - CNN.com

• Amsterdamse Titia Bergsma was de eerste westerse vrouw in Japan - AMSTERDAM - PAROOL

• Narita sightseeing tours to give travelers a taste of Japan between flights - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Tokyo introduces new easy-to-navigate, foreigner-friendly website - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Families, colleagues shocked by video of slain Japanese hostage - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Video Appears to Show Decapitated Body of a Japanese Hostage of ISIS - NYTimes.com

• Japan condemns apparent IS execution, demands hostage release

• ISIS Purportedly Beheads Japanese Hostage Haruna Yukawa - Atlantic Mobile

• Captive Kenji Goto reveals prisoner swap offer - News - NHK WORLD - English

• ISIS video: Is this Japanese beheading real or fake? - CSMonitor.com

• ISIS' Japanese hostages receive mixed sympathy at home - CNN.com

• Hebben IS-terroristen Japanse gijzelaar vermoord?

• Islamic State video claims one Japanese hostage beheaded; Islamists make new demand for release of second. - The Washington Post

• Japan checking IS 'hostage death' video - BBC News

• ISIS Butchers Kill A Japanese Hostage, Leave One Alive - The Daily Beast

• Obesity a growing problem among children in Fukushima - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• TEPCO to rely on cosmic beams to glimpse melted fuel inside Fukushima reactors - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Did Japan Botch ISIS Hostage Deal? - The Daily Beast

• Japan Awaits Hostages’ Fate After Islamic State Deadline Passes - Bloomberg

• Japan vows to 'never give up' search for Islamic State hostages - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Japanese PM’s ‘Triple Disaster’ Response to ISIS Ransom Demands · Global Voices

• Japan's silly response to ISIS propaganda did what the U.S. government couldn't

• Isil Kidnappings Trigger Debate Japan Global Role | Al Jazeera America

• Nobel Prize-winner Shuji Nakamura to Japan’s young people: “Get out of Japan” | RocketNews24

• In Japan, some blame the victims for Islamic State hostage crisis

• Why Japan Lacks Sympathy for the Hostages Held by ISIS | TIME

• Tourists tempted by paid, free Wi-Fi access campaigns | The Japan Times

• Fate of Japanese hostages unknown as ISIS deadline apparently passes - CNN.com

• Abe briefing paper rules out Japan strike on Islamic State

• Japan: No longer Asia's fastest-aging nation?

• Geschokt Japan ziet onthoofding tegemoet - NRC Handelsblad van vrijdag 23 januari 2015

• Journalists criticize Abe's response to Islamic State hostage crisis

• Did Japan Botch ISIS Hostage Deal? - The Daily Beast

• Japan captive's mother pleads for his release as Islamic State deadline nears

• Japan Fights ISIS with a barrage of Charlie Hebdo-like parody | Japan Subculture Research Center

• Japan and jihad: Sand storm | The Economist

• Isis Japanese hostages: Japan 'reiterates it will not pay ransom' as 72-hour $200m deadline to save two men draws closer - Middle East - World - The Independent

• PLUS | Niet geregistreerd - De Standaard Mobile

• Why record tourists to Japan won't matter much

• U.S. naval ship grounded off Japanese coast - CNN.com

• Self-censorship is biggest threat to free speech in Japan | The Japan Times

• On the Internet, opinion swings against hostages | The Japan Times

• Japan is trying to convince ISIL that its hostage death threats are misinformed – Quartz

• Hostage crisis reminds Japan it is a target: analysts - Yahoo News

• Japan Agonizes Over Ways to Free Islamic State Hostages - ABC News

• Japan: No word from ISIS on hostages as deadline draws nearer - CNN.com

• Sony spinoff applies Aibo intelligence to home electricity-measurement system - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Explaining the Japanese meme mocking ISIS (with images, tweets) · reportedly · Storify

• Forty years after Zainichi labor case victory, is Japan turning back the clock? | The Japan Times

• Mount Fuji is 'brown hill,' A-Bomb Dome is 'depressing': Whiners dis Japan's wonders | The Japan Times

• Toyota crowned world's biggest automaker for third year | The Japan Times

• Tokyo in 'race against time' to free Islamic State hostages, Abe says | The Japan Times

• Islamic State likely gave hostage ultimatum knowing difficulty of meeting it | The Japan Times

• Japanese reporter's bid to save friend led to Islamic State abduction

• Ongepast? Japanners reageren met Photoshopgekte op gijzeling landgenoten door IS 

• Bizarre portraits of ISIS-held Japanese hostages emerge - NY Daily News

• IS hostage taking of Japanese shortens Abe trip | News | DW.DE | 21.01.2015

• Official: With time ticking on hostages, Japan wants to communicate with ISIS - CNN.com

• Vandaag: Japan in de ban van lot gegijzelden

• Out of Japan's Nuclear Disaster, New Indoor Farms Grow 100x More Food - The Good News Network

• Who Are the Japanese Hostages in Islamic State Video? - WSJ

• De klein joeng van de jihad: IS jaloers op aandacht voor al-Qaida en dat gaat twee Japanners de kop kosten

• Monetaire versoepeling lost Japans deflatieprobleem niet op - De Standaard Mobile

• Vrouw van Japanse gijzelaar ontving e-mails van IS | Islamitische Staat | de Volkskrant

• COMMENTARY: Islamic State seeks to portray Japan as a 'foe' - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Top chef Yoshihiro Narisawa takes his kitchen to go | The Japan Times

• Japan hopes duty-free zones will lure foreign visitors outside Tokyo, Osaka - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan Seeks to Contact Islamic State Over Hostages - WSJ

• Au Japon, des employés reçoivent un bonus s’ils viennent travailler avec leur chat | Metro

• Beware Of Japanese Balloon Bombs : NPR History Dept. : NPR

• Q&A: ISIS threat to Japan sheds light on harsh realities of kidnappings, ransom - CNN.com

• Abe Gets Thrust Into Hostage Crisis, Pushing Japan Into International Spotlight  - Bloomberg

• Japan PM Abe: threat to Japanese captives 'unacceptable' - Yahoo News

• Why Abe's third arrow flopped | The Japan Times

• Former pastor says hostage is a caring journalist | The Japan Times

• Latest hostage crisis involving Japanese evokes chilling memories | The Japan Times

• Islamic State threatens to kill two Japanese hostages | The Japan Times

• Five Maps of Tokyo | Nippon.com

• ISIS Pisses Off Pacifist Japan by Taking Hostages - The Daily Beast

• Japanse premier: 'Bedreiging IS onaanvaardbaar' - De Standaard

• Islamic State Group Threatens to Kill 2 Japanese Hostages - NYTimes.com

• Premier Japan: levens redden het belangrijkst | Buitenland | Telegraaf.nl

• From Homeless in Japan to Hostage in Syria: How Haruna Yukawa Ended Up in a Warzone

• Japan's Abe pledges support for Mideast countries battling IS | Reuters

• Video: Islamic State group threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages unless paid $200 million in 72 hours - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Defence in Japan: Up in arms | The Economist

• Japan's Fiscal Situation Is Not As Bad As Many Assume - Forbes

• Global uncertainty weighs on Japan business mood: Reuters Tankan

• Japan Wants to Be a Peace-Builder, But Keeps Irritating Its Neighbors - Yahoo Finance

• Bullying finds fertile ground in social media | The Japan Times

• Japan: Man sues women's university over rejection - BBC News

• Chances of new alliances clustered around Tokyo as Japan moves towards military normalization — RT Op-Edge

• Premier Japan ontvangt eerste Toyota Mirai | Autonieuws - AutoWeek.nl

• Four killed in Japan avalanches

• Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura is still angry at Japan | Science/AAAS | News

• Abstinence on rise as nearly half of Japanese report no sex | The Japan Times

• Japan opposition Democrats turn to familiar face to try to fix flagging fortunes | Reuters

• Japan's Abe could ease doubts by apologizing over World War Two: ex-PM Fukuda | Reuters

• Kerknet | Nieuws

• Okada defeats Hosono to win DPJ presidential election | The Japan Times

• 5 places in Japan to visit in 2015 | RocketNews24

• 560,000 applicants sit annual two-day unified college entrance exam | The Japan Times

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Japan News Articles January 12 - Jan 18

• Toyota delivers 1st Mirai fuel-cell sedan for prime minister's official car - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Okada edges Hosono in run-off, will lead opposition DPJ for second time - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• What’s Japan’s Problem With Vaginas? - The Daily Beast

• Home away from home: the plight of refugees in Japan | The Japan Times

• Les âmes errantes des soldats nippons morts pendant la guerre du Pacifique

• Japan's funeral industry booms with high-tech solutions for ageing population - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

• Washoku vying with fast food | The Japan Times

• Now what after coming of age? | The Japan Times

• Japan's final sarin gas trial unlikely to bring closure - Telegraph

• Verwoestende aardbeving Kobe herdacht | NOS

• Le Japon veut faire réviser un manuel d'histoire américain trop «polémique» - 20minutes.fr

• The Shape of Japan to Come - NYTimes.com

• The Disappearing Ama: Japan's Tough, Topless, Free-Diving Mermaids

• Japan Marks 20th Anniversary of Kobe Earthquake - WSJ

• Mark Gatiss journeys through Japan | Travel | The Guardian

• Conservative Abe's secrecy law doesn't hold a candle to Seoul's press suppression | The Japan Times

• Analysis: Why Cheap Oil Helps Japan’s Industries More Than Consumers - WSJ

• Toyota's waterstofauto Mirai verkoopt beter dan verwacht | Toyota | Telegraaf.nl

• Taiwanese couple publish guide to Shinkansen 'ekiben' lunchboxes - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Autozine - Automuseum: Nissan Motor Museum

• Japan’s ‘Vagina Kayak’ Artist Fights Back Against Obscenity Charges—And Misogyny - The Daily Beast

• Why is Japan such an unpopular tourist destination? | RocketNews24

• Japan lobbied for Taiwan to keep U.N. seat in 1971: declassified documents | The Japan Times

• Japan Eases Laws, Boosts Incentives For Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars

• UPDATE 3-Japan machinery orders heighten doubts over pace of economic recovery

• Le Pen urges Japan to avoid making same mistakes as France ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• Chinese shares jump on more stimulus hopes - BBC News

• Election loss fails to keep gay politician from campaigning for sexual minorities - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Former PM Yukio Hatoyama Makes Musical Debut - WSJ

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• Japan’s First Steps Into the World of Arms Exports | The Diplomat

• Japan's resurgent military - explained in 60 seconds - BBC News

• Japan approves biggest ever defence budget amid Asia tensions - Yahoo News

• BBC News - China media cautiously optimistic over Japan ties

• Residences left empty posing problems across the nation | The Japan Times

• BBC News - Japan approves record 4.98 trillion yen defence budget

• Special Report: Daihatsu dismantling 'Toyota Way' as market changes

• Thousands of Japanese women celebrate the country's annual coming of age day | Daily Mail Online

• For Japan, a Difficult Art of Saying It’s Sorry - WSJ

• Het Aokigahara bos; het zelfmoordbos van Japan | Paranormaal

• Japan Worst, Norway Best for Women on Corporate Boards - Bloomberg

• Who Will Lead Japan’s Opposition? | The Diplomat

• Japan Inc. Isn't Very Japanese Any Longer - Bloomberg View

• Japan Cabinet OKs Record Military Budget With Eye on China - ABC News

• Miyagi driving school ordered to pay damages over 3/11 tsunami deaths | The Japan Times

• Why Japanese don’t use LinkedIn | James Riney

• Japan’s sexual apathy is endangering the global economy - The Washington Post

• The Burden of Inheritance: An Already High Tax Expands Its Reach | Nippon.com

• What's the secret to Japan's slender population? Serious 'eating education' | CBCNews.ca Mobile

• Age of Maturity: Facts About Japan’s Newest Adults on Coming of Age Day - WSJ

• Defence and military manufacture makes a comeback as Japan struggles with its wartime legacy - Asia - World - The Independent

• Ending worker exploitation | The Japan Times

• Foreign female dean opens doors for Japan’s working women | The Japan Times

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Japan News Articles January 5 - 11

• BBC News - The Scottish mother of Japanese whisky

• The people's Emperor speaks truth to power | The Japan Times

• Japan eyes new law to aid non-U.S. forces in international conflicts | The Japan Times

• In Japan, ‘meddlesome’ guides seek confused tourists

• Young adults may be going nowhere after Coming-of-Age Day | The Japan Times

• Big in Japan: 'mollige' meisjes veroveren harten en respect - Radar - KnackWeekend Mobile

• Japanese publisher sued after disputing WWII sex slave story - AP News 1/9/2015 4:54 AM

• Why Did Japanese People Stop Performing Seppuku?

• Weak yen spurs Japan electronics firms to bring production home

• Textbook publisher to delete, dilute 'comfort women' passages | The Japan Times

• Canon to Return Camera Production to Japan as Yen Value Tumbles

• Recession hurts Japan’s fight to change suicide culture

• Japan: In the air | The Economist

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• PLUS | Niet geregistreerd - De Standaard Mobile

• A New Kind of Buddhist Altar for a Changing Japan | WIRED

• Japan announces new laws to force workers to go on holiday - Telegraph

• Japanese messaging app Line has launched a taxi service in Tokyo | The Verge

• Fact check: how does Japan compare with other whaling nations? | ABC Radio Australia

• Japan’s Fight to Change Suicide Culture Hurt by Latest Recession - Bloomberg

• Japanese People Feel Their Lives Are Worse Off - WSJ

• BBC Radio Explores Lolicon in Japan - Interest - Anime News Network

• Former Japan Party Chief Seeks Comeback to Fight Abe ‘Arrogance’ - Bloomberg

• McDonald's Japan apologizes for food safety scandal | ABS-CBN News

• Vergeten verdrag geeft Japanners recht op werk in Nederland | Economie | de Volkskrant

• DPJ leadership campaign begins, with three candidates running | The Japan Times

• Japan’s birth rate problem is way worse than anyone imagined - The Washington Post

• In ageing Japanese village, dolls take place of dwindling population | World news | The Guardian

• Surprise Sides: Tooth, Plastic in McDonald's Meals in Japan - ABC News

• Another crisis for McDonald's Japan after plastic found in McNuggets January 07

• Key Events to Watch in Japan 2015 - WSJ

• The biggest terrorism threat in Japan | The Japan Times

• Why hasn't Japan banned child-porn comics? - BBC News

• Yokozuna Kakuryu announces engagement to 23-year-old Mongolian | The Japan Times

• Toyota makes fuel cell patents free for other manufacturers to use | The Japan Times

• Kissinger: Japan must be thoughtful in a new world - Pacific - Stripes

• Forced to leave their harpoons at home, Japan's whalers will take 'skin samples' | smh.com.au

• Activists slam Japan's ‘non-lethal whaling program’ as ships prepare for Antarctic — RT News

• McDonald’s Japan in new food scare after vinyl found in chicken nugget | Business | The Guardian

• Remorse Without Apology: Shinzo Abe and the Second World War | The Diplomat

• Japanese prime minister says he will express remorse for World War II

• Abe says to stick to Japan apology in new WWII statement | Daily Mail Online

• Japan confirms 2014 was Earth's warmest year

• Clarkson on: Japanese cars - BBC Top Gear

• Learn first aid before eating rice cakes, say Japanese authorities, as nine people choke to death on the festive foodstuff - Weird News - News - The Independent

• Column Kees de Kort | Japanners maken geen baby's meer - BNR Nieuwsradio

• Luxury isn’t created equal in recession-hit Japan

• Kissinger interview: Japan must be thoughtful in a new world - Chicago Tribune

• Patriotic few battle addiction to peace | The Japan Times

• Olympic Stadium in Tokyo Is Dogged by Controversy - NYTimes.com

• Abe to follow Murayama statement on historical recognition - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Survey reveals 55% of women in Japan wouldn’t marry a divorced man ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

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Japan News Articles December 29 - January 4

• Japan to keep pushing North Korea to advance abduction issue | The Japan Times

• Scientists make strides in tsunami warning | The Japan Times

• Talking tanuki — or whatever you call them | The Japan Times

• Japan's patisserie chefs lead the world in all things sweet - News - Food and Drink - The Independent

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• Clothing industry to put tag on 'genuine' Japan-made items | The Japan Times

• Abe faces critical year for diplomacy - The Japan News

• New Year’s Snack Kills Nine in Japan | The Daily Meal

• Survey reveals 55 percent of women in Japan wouldn’t marry a divorced man | RocketNews24

• Emperor: Japan must learn from World War II calamity starting with 1931 China incident - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan PM Abe pledges reforms to boost economy - Channel NewsAsia

• Year-End Cosplay in Japan: The Cute, the Sexy, the Weird

• All eyes on Abe for war's 70th anniversary | The Japan Times

• Komeito chief wants tax breaks by autumn, urges remorse on war anniversary | The Japan Times

• As Abe pulls to the right, few go with him | The Japan Times

• What's in Apple's Japanese 'Lucky Bags'

• Mochi deaths: Traditional New Year's food proves deadly again in Japan - CBS News

• Decluttering: From Japan, the joy of minimalism at home

• A watershed year for Japan | The Japan Times

• Activities to ring in year of the sheep | The Japan Times

• Japan: An Economy in Need of a Crisis? - Fair Observer

• Heavy snow blankets wide area of Japan | The Japan Times

• Emperor asks nation to learn from history in New Year statement | The Japan Times

• Concern as Japan's 2014 birth rate falls to record low - BBC News

• To Rescue Economy, Japan Turns to Supermom - NYTimes.com

• Donald Keene reflects on 70-year Japan experience | The Japan Times

• Abe's goal of constitutional reform faces many challenges | The Japan Times

• Is immigration a solution for Japan’s plummeting population? | East Asia Forum

• ‘Unbroken’ tells half of Japan’s war story - Opinion - Stripes

• Is this the key to unlocking Japan's working potential? | ABS-CBN News

• Japan newborn babies in 2014 fewest on record: government - Yahoo News

• Under-eye blush, pale skin and worried brows is latest look in Japan | Daily Mail Online

• Japanese Bitcoin Heist ‘An Inside Job,’ Not Hackers Alone - The Daily Beast

• Japan’s economy: Pump-priming | The Economist

• Abenomics: Deepening Japan's Economic Decline | Seeking Alpha

• Japan: Family tends to Briton's grave for 143 years - BBC News

• A great year for the far right | The Japan Times

• Insects crawl onto our dinner plates — that's a good thing | The Japan Times

• Japan orders slaughter of 37,000 chickens in bird flu outbreak | Daily Mail Online

• Ruling bloc OKs tax reform plan favoring wealthy Japanese | The Japan Times

• Japanse vrouwen beleven huwelijksdag in hun eentje - De Standaard Mobile

• 'Unbroken': Let Japanese audience see Jolie film, learn truth about POW treatment | Fox News

• Japan’s Growing Anti-Korea Sentiment | The Diplomat

• STROLLING AROUND TSUKIJI MARKET: New challenges, opportunities to come from inner market relocation - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• “Ōmisoka”: Ringing Out the Year in Japan | Nippon.com

• To shine or to die: the messy world of romanized Japanese | The Japan Times

• Lady Gaga gaat Japan bestoken met selfies - De Standaard

• Japanese family watching over grave of Briton for 143 years finally learns who is buried there - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• The 94% Plunge That Shows Abenomics Losing Global Investors - Bloomberg

• Learning to love robots | The Japan Times

• LDP Hegemony and the Future of Japanese Foreign Policy | The Diplomat

• What Would Douglas MacArthur Think of Japan’s Moves Toward Constitutional Revision? - theTrumpet.com

• Apple's 'Lucky Bag' Sale Starts in Japan on January 2 | TechnoBuffalo

• Abe vows radical review of all welfare outlays | The Japan Times

• Japanese firms to spurn PM's call for higher wages next year: survey

• As dementia spreads, bank tellers become care givers in Japan - Chicago Tribune

• » The Year 2014 in Japan:: Néojaponisme » Blog Archive

• 2015: Make or break year for 'Abenomics'? | The Japan Times

• Japan, China officials unite on environmental measures as ties warm | The Japan Times

• BBC News - Japan’s savings rate turns negative for first time

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