Japan News Articles February 22 - 28

• Smartphone addiction spreads to younger set ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• Suicide Forest, Aokigahara, Japan’s most popular end-of-life destination

• Rocket tests have Japanese media wondering: How do you solve a problem like (North) Korea? | The Japan Times

• Japan shrinks, Tokyo explodes - IN SCHOOL - The Hindu

• Learning to embrace the halal industry | The Japan Times

• Behind the Scenes / Japan’s rare freedom to ‘freely’ dissolve Diet - The Japan News

• Does Tohoku's disaster tourism exploit or educate? | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Japan tourism: More than a revamp needed by traditional inns- Nikkei Asian Review

• A troubling low autopsy rate | The Japan Times

• Five years on, Greenpeace assessing marine contamination off Fukushima | The Japan Times

• What are Facebook’s five new “reactions” called in Japan? | RocketNews24

• The Guardian view on Japan’s shrinking population: who will look after the old? | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

• Japan opposition parties to merge with eye on July election | Reuters

• Japan has reasons to be scared | The Japan Times

• 3 ex-TEPCO execs to be indicted Mon. over Fukushima nuclear disaster - The Mainichi

• Drone delivers food to rural areas in Japan - CBBC Newsround

• Taiwan's Foxconn to delay $4.3bn takeover of Sharp - BBC News

• Japan's Sharp Accepts Takeover, Foxconn Not Ready to Sign - NYTimes.com

• Japan's Sharp 'accepts multi-billion-dollar bailout from Foxconn parent'

• Pilot in Sapporo plane evacuation disputes police account of engine problem | The Japan Times

• Tepco admits it should have declared meltdowns at Fukushima plant much earlier | The Japan Times

• Japan's 'suicide forest' where dozens choose to kill themselves every year - Mirror Online

• Japan's Sharp sees shares up on takeover reports - BBC News

• A 'major change' is making Japan a buy: JPMorgan expert

• Abe snubs Obama over Russia visit | The Japan Times

• De tentoonstelling ‘Fuji. Iconische berg in beeld’ wegens succes verlengd | leiden

• Tokyo sightseeing boats offer unique views, but missing foreign tourist tide | The Japan Times

• Japan Is a Disturbing Cautionary Tale for America and the World | TIME

• Japan Today

• Forced labor allegations, abuses continue to dog Japan's foreign trainee program | The Japan Times

• Amnesty slams Japan's contentious secrecy law, low acceptance of refugees | The Japan Times

• Airbnb faces headaches in booming Japanese market February 23

• Mount Fuji Through the Lens of Ōyama Yukio (Photos) | Nippon.com

• Wasteful spending in Tohoku | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Japan finmin won't rule out chance of more fiscal stimulus | Reuters

• Toshiba scraps smart glasses days before launch date | The Japan Times

• Mobster turned pastor preaches to ex-yakuza in Japan - CNN.com

• Wasteful spending in Tohoku | The Japan Times

• Japan's scandals, shaky economy erode Abe's support as polls loom | Reuters

• Shikoku, one of Japan’s smallest and most serene islands: An insider’s secret in the Inland Sea | Asia | Travel | The Independent

• These are the amazing things you can do in Japan on Cat Day - BBC News

• As residents and reactors age, Fukui's fortunes fade | The Japan Times

• Thousands surround Japan parliament in protest at US base plan - Channel NewsAsia

• Japan Today

• Bank of Japan's Kuroda blames 'excessive' risk aversion for market tumult

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Japan News Articles February 15 - 21

• Rethinking Japan's Deflation Trap: On the Failure to Reach Kuroda Haruhiko's 2% Inflation Target | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

• Five years later, thoughts of 3/11 continue to overwhelm survivors, survey finds | The Japan Times

• Japan’s ‘global education’: Learning English is not a magic wand – Asia Times

• 'Japan: The Precarious Future' is a sobering summary of looming disasters | The Japan Times

• Opposition parties agree to join forces against LDP - The Japan News

• Japan's Sharp to vote on rival takeover bids on Thursday: sources | Reuters

• Cheap yen and airfare spark foreign tourism boom in Japan

• Japan Today

• Peeling back the layers of money politics | The Japan Times

• Japan Launches Observatory To Study Black Holes And Dying Stars | TechCrunch

• Japan Today

• The good life meets poor growth – the paradox of Japan | afr.com

• Anchors away | The Economist

• Olympus settles with whistleblower over 'abuse of authority' | The Japan Times

• Japan's Shinzo Abe rebukes MPs after Obama 'slave' remark - BBC News

• Japan: Abenomics? How About Kurodanomics? - Bloomberg Business

• Japan exhausted growth options, needs structural reforms: OECD

• Airbnb Faces Major Threat in Japan, Its Fastest-Growing Market - Bloomberg Business

• Panasonic Just Took A Major Step Forward On Gay Rights

• Famed educator says Steve Jobs, Bill Gates would have been ruined by Japanese education system | RocketNews24

• Sex, Graft, Slaves and Radiation: Abe Hit by Slew of Scandals - Bloomberg Business

• LDP reactivates Constitution revision panel | The Japan Times

• In a first, Tepco told to compensate couple for damage stemming from voluntary Fukushima evacuation | The Japan Times

• Twitter Has More Users Than Facebook — in Japan - Digits - WSJ

• Japan’s vanishing golf courses sum up Abenomics - FT.com

• Fanny Lecluyse opgetogen na geslaagde stage in... Japan - De Standaard

• In a rare move, Japan's Panasonic gives corporate blessing to same-sex marriages | Reuters

• U.S.-Japan deal allows daytime flights from Haneda airport

• Japan's exports fall for fourth consecutive month - BBC News

• More Japanese are early birds, fewer read newspapers: survey | The Japan Times

• 5 cultural tips for taking photos in Japan | RocketNews24

• Japanese lawmaker calls Obama descendant of black slaves | The Japan Times

• Polls show Abe is riding out storm of bad news | The Japan Times

• Japan lanceert succevol astronomiesatelliet | Metro

• Lawson's Geek: My Love Affair With Japan's Convenience Stores

• 25% of Japan's disabled have trouble making ends meet | The Japan Times

• Fired Kawasaki caregiver admits throwing three elderly patients to their deaths | The Japan Times

• Actor Stabbed to Death With Sword at Japanese Play Rehearsal - ABC News

• Japan's economy contracts in fourth quarter - BBC News

• Japanese TV anchors lose their jobs amid claims of political pressure | World news | The Guardian

• Big in Japan: Higher Profits, Not Wages - WSJ

• Japan governors urge Tokyo audience to up sticks and move to the countryside | The Japan Times

• Clinton emails show U.S. tried to heal Tokyo-Beijing rift over Senkakus | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Japan's economy contracts in latest setback for Abe policies - US News

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Sunset from the roof

Morning Fujisan view from the roof

Japan News Articles February 7 - 14

• What Sumo Wrestling Tells Us About Japan's Economy - Forbes

• Japanese minimalism: What Japan can teach us about living simply

• In Japan, women fight for their Valentines

• Teens stepping up to the plate | The Japan Times

• Japan is losing its drive to get behind the wheel | The Japan Times

• Police to deploy drones for Tokyo Marathon | The Japan Times

• Taking aim at alcohol abuse | The Japan Times

• One slip can sink a salaryman's career | The Japan Times

• Give me chocolate: Japan's growing obsession with the 'food of the gods' | The Japan Times

• Why Kuroda’s ‘Bazooka’ May Be Out of Ammunition - WSJ

• Japan Today

• Japan Today

• Should Japan's major newspapers be given a red card for sponsoring the Olympics? | The Japan Times

• Sin City - Culture / Next

• North Korea Cancels Investigation Into Abductions of Japanese Citizens - NYTimes.com

• Hiking in Japan: 15 awe-inspiring trails

• Love and Libido: Inside One of Japan's Condom Factories - Bloomberg Business

• Abenomics on ropes as reform arrow, BOJ 'bazooka' misfire | The Japan Times

• Sharp elbows | The Economist

• Japanse beurs sluit rampweek af met nieuw monsterverlies - Het Nieuwsblad Mobile

• Industry, scholars lambast communications minister for comments on silencing broadcasters - The Mainichi

• Japanese shares plunge amid global economic worries - BBC News

• Werkt 'Abenomics' nog wel? | Fondsnieuws

• Vader van sumoworstelaar weent tranen met tuiten en daar heeft hij alle reden toe - HLN.be

• Intimidation via the Broadcast Law | The Japan Times

• In Japan the guys get chocolate on Valentine’s Day | WLBZ2.com

• Seven great Japan walks

• Japan Today

• Japan 'paternity leave' lawmaker quits amid affair scandal - BBC News

• Mobile Web - Weather News - A look at Japan's complex relationship with North Korea

• Japan and its birth rate: the beginning of the end or just a new beginning? | The Japan Times

• Chinese tourists take home glowing views of Japan | The Japan Times

• Swarms of Chinese tourists make it tough for the Japanese to vacation at home - Quartz

• Japan enforces new guidelines for human pyramids in schools - UPI.com

• Introducing the complex refugee experience to Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• How Japan’s ‘Abenomics’ Reached an Impasse - WSJ

• Japan imposes sanctions on North Korea after satellite launch | Reuters

• Mask Culture in Japan | Nippon.com

• Japan's environment minister denies mocking radiation fears of Fukushima residents | The Japan Times

• Japanse ex-maffialeden staan in de rij voor een pink - NRC

• Japan stocks tumble into bear market territory - BBC News

• «Tokyo Vice» : Souvenirs d’un journaliste américain au Japon entre policiers et yakuzas

• Japan's Aso warns against yen rise, describes moves as 'rough' | Reuters

• Japan and the whale - BBC News

• External radiation doses in Fukushima comparable to those of Europe: study | The Japan Times

• Tourists celebrating Lunar New Year holiday with shopping spree in Japan | The Japan Times

• Glass ceiling yet to be broken in Japan politics | The Japan Times

• Fresh Japanese Sanctions Against North Korea Imminent

• Downfall of Japanese TV’s girl next door highlights wider industry sexism | World news | The Guardian

• A middle-aged boy band illustrates what’s wrong with Japan’s corporate culture - Quartz

• U.N. rapporteur urges Japan to consider law banning hate speech | The Japan Times

• For Tokyo, Olympic pride – but at what cost to Japan’s economy? - The Globe and Mail

• All-you-can-eat restaurants just what customers ordered in Yokohama Chinatown - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Fujisan from the roof

Japan News Articles February 1 - 6

• Exploitative enterprises continue to menace society | The Japan Times

• In Niigata, a lesson on the history of skiing in Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan did not try to shoot down North Korean rocket: NHK | Reuters

• Japan to Take Measures Against N Korea Rocket Launch Without Hesitation / Sputnik International

• ONE MILE high skyscraper to be built in Japan's Next Tokyo | Daily Mail Online

• North Korea fires long-range rocket that passes over Japanese island | WNCN

• Photos show the serene and timeless beauty of feudal Japan in 1908 | Daily Mail Online

• Sharp, Toshiba... L’interminable déclin des géants de l'industrie japonaise - Challenges.fr

• Japan Today

• Japanese volcano erupts, nearby nuclear plant unaffected - Yahoo News

• The Yakuza Are Running Japan’s Hollywood - The Daily Beast

• Vakantiesalon Brussel zet Japan in de kijker - Reizen - KnackWeekend Mobile

• Oud-trainer Flipper door Japan uitgezet naar VS - AD.nl

• Au Japon, les vins chiliens détrônent pour la première fois les crus français

• Japanese talk show enters 41st year; host Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, 82, refuses to slow down | The Japan Times

• Tokyo explains alert systems to be used if North Korea fires missile | The Japan Times

• Japan ligt even in Brussel - De Standaard Mobile

• Japans Sharp gaat voor Taiwanees aanbod - NRC Q

• Unbroken: Angelina Jolie war film accused of being ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Japanese’ | News | Culture | The Independent

• The 51 Busiest Train Stations in the World– All but 6 Located in Japan | RocketNews24

• Japan's epic samurai dramas are in a tight spot | The Japan Times

• Japan spends millions building structures on uninhabited rocks 1,740 km from Tokyo to mark its territory | South China Morning Post

• Horrified cabbies pick up 'GHOST PASSENGERS' in area devastated by 2011 Japan tsunami - Mirror Online

• Masako du Japon est-elle (enfin) guérie ? - Gala

• Japanners zijn fan van Sint-Martens-Latem - De Standaard

• Japan's Experiment With Rates of Less Than Zero - Bloomberg View

• Time for Japan's academia and media to wake up | The Japan Times

• Hier komt de monetaire kamikaze - De Standaard

• Sony Moves Its PlayStation Operations Westward But That Doesn't Mean Japan Is Finished - Forbes

• Japan Deploys Patriot Missiles in Downtown Tokyo

• Boeddhistische monniken op Amazon veroorzaken ophef in Japan | Metro

• Japan's stocks trade sharply higher on Monday - BBC News

• Yamazaki single malt: Japan takes the crown as world’s best whisky-maker | Voices | The Independent

• Clinton e-mail: U.S. asked Japan to talk with China before buying Senkakus - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

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Mini-hike. Takatoriyama (139m)

Cape Tsurugisaki, Miura Hanto

Japan News Articles January 25 - 31

• Bringing Japanese folk dance into focus | The Japan Times

• Work-life balance in Japan leans in one direction | The Japan Times

• U.S. urged Japan to consult with China before 2012 Senkakus purchase | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Nouvelle relance de réacteurs nucléaires au Japon

• Labor shortage fuels record influx of foreign workers in Japan - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Monks Delivered Via Amazon as Role of Japanese Temples Fade - ABC News

• Foreign population in Japan jumps to record high | The Japan Times

• The future of rice farming in Japan | The Japan Times

• Bank of Japan's negative rates are 'economic kamikaze': Boockvar

• Japan schakelt derde kernreactor aan | Metro

• Great Buddha of Kamakura under wraps as restoration workers climb statue - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan puts military on alert for possible North Korean missile test | Reuters

• Japan Today

• Don’t Expect an Improvement in Russia-Japan Relations Soon | The Diplomat

• Akira Amari, Japan’s Economic Revitalization Minister, Resigns Amid Scandal - NYTimes.com

• Corruptieschandaal nekt Japanse minister van Economie - De Standaard Mobile

• Japan's pilgrim of peace visits the Philippines - CNN.com

• Embattled economy minister Amari resigns over graft claims | The Japan Times

• The world's largest floating solar power plant is being built in Japan - ScienceAlert

• Community | The Japan Times

• Zero fighter takes first flight over Japan since WWII | The Japan Times

• In Philippines visit, Emperor asks youth to keep memories of World War II alive | The Japan Times

• Can Japan Afford to Increase Sales Tax? - Bloomberg Business

• Bank of Japan’s Big Problem? Abenomics

• Japan Will Not Join War Against ISIS For ‘Foreseeable Future’ | TIME

• Yahoo Japan Defends Online Ivory Sales as Criticism Grows - ABC News

• Asahi readers weigh in on 'do as the Romans do' in Japan for foreign residents - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan emperor visits Philippines, a former WWII | Fox News

• The fate of a dolphin activist in Japan's flawed democracy | The Japan Times

• Dolphin activist Ric O'Barry says he's a political prisoner of Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan studying disposal of highly radioactive waste under seabed | The Japan Times

• Japan and trains: The love affair

• Extreme Snowfall Leads to 8 Deaths and Injures 610 in Japan | TIME

• Ford pulls out of Japan and Indonesia - BBC News

• Japan′s Abe sets sight on supermajority | Asia | DW.COM | 25.01.2016

• Zo smaken Japanse chocoladefrietjes - Culinair - KnackWeekend Mobile

• Japan without ambition | The Japan Times

• Ford ziet het niet meer zitten in Japan | Telegraaf.nl

• Haunting questions of youth activism in Japan « Beacon Reports

• Russia, Japan and North Korea’s Nuclear Test | The Diplomat

• Nikkei ends above 17,000 on monetary easing hopes | The Japan Times

• De grote dromen van Japanse mannen - NRC

• Survey: Discrimination encountered by 42% of foreign residents in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Pop stars go out of tune in corporate Japan - FT.com

• Japan Today

• Japan's decade-long wait for sumo champion comes to an end | World news | The Guardian

• In Japan, cats are all the rage -- at dogs' expense - Chicago Tribune

• Japanese government to crack down on 'soggy, flavourless' sushi in UK restaurants - Telegraph

• Japan Today

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