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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