Japan News Articles March 9 - 15

• Abe mum on Fukushima at U.N. disaster risk confab | The Japan Times

• Japanese scientists succeed in transmitting wireless energy | National Monitor

• China says Japan ties face test, opportunity this year - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Shisaku: Yes, An Expletive Is Appropriate Here

• Japan's Disposable Workers: Net Cafe Refugees on Vimeo

• Abenomics and the Japanese Economy - Council on Foreign Relations

• Modernising farming in Japan: Root and branch | The Economist

• Dark side of Japan revealed in film about Internet cafe living

• Highly Radioactive Contamination Found in Shipment of Tea From Japan | The Daily Meal

• Failing to rebuild communities in Tohoku | The Japan Times

• Cult attraction: Aum Shinrikyo's power of persuasion | The Japan Times

• Hokuriku Shinkansen Line opens for service, linking Tokyo and Kanazawa | The Japan Times

• Tokyo By Bike - Cycling News & Information from Japan: Kanazawa, its better by bike.

• Failing to rebuild communities in Tohoku | The Japan Times

• Of birds and bugs: journalism in Tokyo and Osaka | The Japan Times

• Hordes of foreign technical trainees go into hiding to escape debt, other problems - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Fukushima city offers last look in effort to return unclaimed items from 2011 disaster - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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• It's Time for Japan to Punish Tepco

• Japan: Speed-dating plan to boost dwindling birth rate - BBC News

• 'Iron Chef' of 1600s Japan took place in a brothel | The University of Kansas

• Toyota signs up as Olympic sponsor in record deal - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan Still Far From Done Cheapening Yen, Survey Suggests - Bloomberg Business

• Japan understands threat of natural disasters | The Japan Times

• The Face of Japan Is Changing, But Some Aren't Ready 

• Kanazawa, Japan: The bullet train is opening up the country's Edo heritage - Asia - Travel - The Independent

• Japan’s Underemployed are Forced to Live in Internet Cafes

• Japan's Nikkei closes at 15-year high - BBC News

• New coach Halilhodzic vows to rebuild Japan, asks for time

• It's time to punish Tepco | The Japan Times

• Japanese scientists make breakthrough in wireless energy transmission | The Japan Times

• Nikkei closes at 15-year high, but many analysts remain skeptical | The Japan Times

• Japan, France sign defense pact to spur cooperation, joint development

• Eriana Miyamoto crowned Miss Universe Japan - UPI.com

• Japan Eyes Matchmaking, Paternity Leave to Lift Birth Rate | TIME

• France and Japan sign arms pact | News | DW.DE | 13.03.2015

• Google Street View takes you inside Japan's newest high-speed rail

• Customs clearance lines at Narita's Terminal 2 draw fire | The Japan Times

• Delivery of radioactive soil to interim storage begins in Fukushima | The Japan Times

• Apple seeks to broaden R&D prowess with land purchase in Yokohama - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• French minister says Japan should follow example of Europe's postwar reconciliation - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japanese Banks to Link More ATMs to Global Grid - WSJ

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Fukushima cleanup takes step forward on 4th anniversary of first explosion - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japanese Coastal Town Still Struggling to Rebuild From 2011 Tsunami - NYTimes.com

• Japanese stocks are on fire. But why? March 12

• How Ricoh Returned 90,000 Photos to Victims of the 2011 Tsunami in Japan

• Japan Has Plenty of Jobs, but Workers Still Struggle - WSJ

• An Opportunity for Japan-Korea Ties? | The Diplomat

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• Japan’s asylum laws: No entry | The Economist

• Haruno Yoshida: breaking the mould for Japan’s working women - FT.com

• Microsoft co-founder plans to live-stream tour of sunken Japanese battleship - CNN.com

• Some of Japan's 'nuclear refugees' can finally go home — but they don't want to | Public Radio International

• Google Street View captures reconstruction efforts of Japan earthquake, 4 years after | VentureBeat | OffBeat | by Paul Sawers

• Japan marks anniversary of devastating 2011 tsunami - BBC News

• 4 Years After Japan's Devastating Tsunami, Life Is Returning To The Sea

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• Nobel winner says Japan should follow Germany's lead and abandon nuclear energy - Telegraph

• Reflections on the Earthquake in Japan, 4 Years Later | TIME

• Japan’s Nuclear Reactors Remain Offline 4 Years After Fukushima Meltdown

• Number of suicides drops by 6.8% to 25,427 in 2014 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• 5,000 apply for refugee status, 11 approved in 2014 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Koizumi blasts Abe's nuclear policy, remark about Fukushima crisis - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Alive in memory: A father’s journey of healing and life - The Japan News

• New genetic evidence resolves origins of modern Japanese | EurekAlert! Science News

• YaleNews | Book: Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace

• Japanese women at a crossroads - BBC News

• Tohoku slowly on the mend | The Japan Times

• Abe's new policy on foreign aid risks playing with fire | The Japan Times

• 4 jaar na Fukushima: waarheen met 30 miljoen ton radioactief afval? - Planet Earth, Ecologie - Knack Mobile

• Radioactive Leaks Remain a Problem on the Fourth Anniversary of Japan's Fukushima Meltdown | VICE News

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: NTT Docomo to offer foreign language quake, tsunami alert service - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Deserted Fukushima town to remove pro-nuclear signs | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Education Minister and the Schools for Scandal - The Daily Beast

• Japan’s not so golden oldies tighten their purse strings

• The unseen casualties of Japan’s lost decades suffer in silence - FT.com

• In Japan, Abe's robot panel aims to give drone industry an edge

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• Merkel in Japan: wees eerlijk over oorlogsverleden | NOS

• Statement adviser to Abe: Acknowledge Japan waged 'war of aggression' | The Japan Times

• Operation Meetinghouse. The Most Devastating Bombing Raid In History. | Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Ex-panel chief says Japan still hasn't learned lessons from Fukushima crisis - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Avoiding the subject isn't such a bad idea in Japanese | The Japan Times

• Some Tohoku disaster areas on fast track to rebuilding while others stuck in slow lane | The Japan Times

• AP News : Tokyo remembers devastating, overlooked WWII firebombings

• Fuji TV removes blackface segment after outcry | The Japan Times

• Tokyo fire bombing 70th anniversary: Survivors beg Japan to remember the forgotten 100,000 - Asia - World - The Independent

• FCCJ - Inching Back to Life

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Raw voices from Fukushima's aftermath heard in Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Deadly wartime firebombings of Tokyo and other Japanese cities largely ignored - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Mort du mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi

• ‘Do mention the war,’ Merkel urges Japanese | World news | The Guardian

• Hachiko finally reunited with owner in statue erected at University of Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• FOUR YEARS AFTER: Population shrinks by 92,000 in 39 disaster-hit municipalities - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Merkel calls on Japan to reduce tensions with Asian neighbors - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Visiting Merkel reminds Japan to face wartime past

• Japanse economie groeit minder dan gedacht - Beursduivel.nl

• In a Test of Wills, Japanese Fighter Pilots Confront Chinese - NYTimes.com

• BBC News - Five killed in stabbing at house in Sumoto, Japan

• Japan Gets a Look at Its Future Population Drain in Fukushima Today - Bloomberg Business

• Record 30% of Japanese want SDF beefed up: Cabinet survey | The Japan Times

• Abe calls for swift security legislation at LDP convention | The Japan Times

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