Japan News Articles. July 13 - 19

• Japan's Mitsubishi to make prisoners of war apology - BBC News

• Japanese fishing boat, crew seized by Russian authorities over excess salmon haul - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Cabinet approval rating nose-dives after ruling camp rams through security bills | The Japan Times

• Is this the solution to Japan’s glut of empty homes? - FT.com

• Japan′s ′maid cafes′ - A cover for the child sex industry | Asia | DW.COM | 17.07.2015

• China defense minister says Japan bill will 'complicate' region | Reuters

• Little Thailand: Beachside beer and spicy food an hour from Tokyo | The Japan Times

• Head Tokyo Olympics organizer claims he 'hated' stadium design from the start | The Japan Times

• Thousands urged to flee as Typhoon Nangka hits Japan - BBC News

• Japan is woedend: premier Abe schaft het pacifisme af - NRC Handelsblad van donderdag 16 juli 2015

• Japan’s Elderly Now Commit More Crime Than Its Teenagers | TIME

• Japan scraps Zaha Hadid's Tokyo Olympic stadium design | World news | The Guardian

• Scholars demand Abe admit wartime wrongdoing in 70th anniversary statement - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• US defense budget already counting on Japan self-defense plan - Pacific - Stripes

• Exclusive: Toshiba faces $3 billion in charges over accounting scandal - sources

• Emperor and empress visit Fukushima, console evacuees - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• What Japan′s defense policy revision means | Asia | DW.COM | 16.07.2015

• NPO Radio 1 - Japan's leger mag buiten grenzen opereren

• Japan's Abe sees progress on military expansion plans

• Parody of LDP security bills video goes viral ahead of Diet vote | The Japan Times

• The Brazilians winning in Japan - BBC News

• Why Are so Many of the World's Oldest Businesses in Japan?

• Wrong way to pass security bills | The Japan Times

• The Abe administration's arrogance of power moment | The Japan Times

• Lower House passes security bills amid protests | The Japan Times

• Japans leger mag ook buiten grenzen opereren | Buitenland | de Volkskrant

• Japan, China Expand Aid to Asia in Fight for Influence - Bloomberg Business

• Japan has started turning abandoned golf courses into solar power plants | Business Insider

• 70 years on, Japanese firm to apologize to US WWII veterans

• Despite Protests, Japan’s Ruling Coaltion Rams Through Controversial War Powers Legislation · Global Voices

• Amid protests, Japan's legislature pushes ahead with military bills - LA Times

• Krachtige tyfoon bedreigt Japan | Buitenland | De Morgen

• Japan opent de weg naar buitenlandse militaire operaties

• Le Japon se déchire sur un projet de loi pour renforcer les armées

• INSIGHT: Abe never faltered in his crusade for new security legislation at all costs - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan stemt in met sterkere rol leger - militaire inzet in buitenland toegestaan - nrc.nl

• Are These the Last Days of Japan’s Prime Minister Abe? - The Daily Beast

• Protests as Japan paves way for self-defence law change - BBC News

• Japan finally bans possession of child porn - Telegraph

• Robots do check-in and check-out at cost-cutting Japan hotel - US News

• Abe to push Japan security bills through lower house, despite protests

• Government changes its tune on Olympic stadium design amid soaring costs | The Japan Times

• Amid angry scenes, ruling parties force security bills through Lower House committee | The Japan Times

• Japan wordt iets minder pacifistisch - De Standaard

• Alpaca als getuige op je bruiloft: in Japan kan het | metronieuws.nl

• Japan’s Plutonium Stockpile Creates a Nuclear Headache - WSJ

• Japan's Central Bank Trims Growth Forecast - The New York Times

• Protests Rage in Tokyo as Abe’s Security Bills Head to Vote - Bloomberg Business

• Japan's Abe pushes security bills in summer of discontent

• Group of experts demands new security legislation be killed - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• VOX POPULI: Abe regime connives to pull off brazen 'coup d'etat' without use of a gun - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan cinema legend Miyazaki joins protests against move to widen military role

• A boom in foreign tourism boosts Japan's economy

• Nintendo President Satoru Iwata dies after leading Japan game company through success, woes | Fox Business

• Japan’s ‘Walt Disney’ Decries Abe’s Plan to Expand Military Role - Bloomberg Business

• Satoru Iwata, le PDG de Nintendo, est mort

• Failing on Inflation, Japan Fudges the Numbers - Bloomberg View

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