Japan News Articles March 28 - April 3

• The scourge of binge drinking on youth | The Japan Times

• The drug problem that keeps getting older | The Japan Times

• Japan Today

• Donald Trump on potential war between Japan and North Korea: 'If they do, they do' - CNNPolitics.com

• Death by overwork on rise among Japan's vulnerable workers | Reuters

• Retailer bets on generational links to save Japanese craft industry | The Japan Times

• Japan's inescapable 'comfort women' problem | The Japan Times

• Job-hunting students may be in for a shock when they arrive at their new company | The Japan Times

• Japan to have record 1 million foreign workers this year | The Japan Times

• The Hypocrisy of the World's Crusade Against Japanese Whaling

• Kerry to visit Hiroshima for G-7 ministerial talks | The Japan Times

• Hon Hai seals deal with Sharp | The Japan Times

• Obama hits back at Trump for suggesting Japan acquire nuclear weapons to deal with North Korea

• Ex-Japan PM ‘regrets’ recommending nuclear technology to Erdoğan - ASIA

• American becomes Japan's first salaried foreign ninja | The Japan Times

• Les huîtres françaises viennent du Japon

• PLUS | Niet geregistreerd - De Standaard Mobile

• Japan Today

• Japan Today

• 910,000 new recruits mark first day at work across Japan | The Japan Times

• JR rail pass to be available in Japan, ending frustration for tardy tourists | The Japan Times

• Mammoth burger? Ghostbuster device? Japan enjoys a range of April fools | The Japan Times

• Japan business sentiment plunges to lowest in three years, may worsen | The Japan Times

• Plutonium from Japan to be disposed of underground in New Mexico | The Japan Times

• Alqohol: Quote proeft de betere fles (Hibiki Japanese Harmony) | Quote

• New book sheds light on North Korea's abduction programme | World news | The Guardian

• Mammoth burger? Ghostbuster device? Japan enjoys a range of April fools | The Japan Times

• Japan earthquake: Strong tremor hits off Mie and Wakayama prefecture - BNO News

• Japan business mood sours to three-year low, adds to doubt over 'Abenomics' | Reuters

• Japan Today

• Japan, South Korea hit back at Trump's nuclear comments - CNNPolitics.com

• Ryuichi Sakamoto offers his thoughts on politics, Japan and how his music will change 'post-cancer' | The Japan Times

• Japan′s Abe sticks to tax hike plans | Asia | DW.COM | 31.03.2016

• Cherry trees in full bloom in Tokyo, elsewhere across Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan’s lost black hole satellite is back online, still tumbling through space | ExtremeTech

• Japan's building a giant 'ice wall' to contain the Fukushima radiation - ScienceAlert

• How modularization felled Japan's electronics titans | The Japan Times

• Japan's power monopolies face major reform jolt

• HSBC doesn't believe Japan Prime Minister Abe wants a sales tax hike

• Onderzoek: met een Japans dieet wordt u veel ouder! | Quote

• Trump's idea of Japan, South Korea with nuclear weapons destabilizing, says White House - World - CBC News

• Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Just Reappeared and Nobody Knows What Happened to It 

• Welcome to Japan — Where homes are thrown away after one generation - Yahoo Finance

• Japan’s ‘New’ Opposition Party Is Not Actually New | The Diplomat

• Japanese Chefs Make Their Mark in Paris - NYTimes.com

• Sushi, cultuur en karaoke: Japan als vakantieland - BNR Nieuwsradio

• Japan's PM defends new security laws as protesters denounce them - Channel NewsAsia

• Les retraités japonais vont volontairement en prison pour une meilleur vie | www.directmatin.fr

• Nuclear issues involving North Korea, Japan on table at Washington summit | The Japan Times

• UPDATE 1-Japan's PM Abe aims to double tourist visits by 2020 to boost economy | Reuters

• 110,000 SDF rescuers planned for killer quake in Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan stocks dip as unemployment rate rises - BBC News

• Starbucks is giving Japan alcoholic “Frappuccinos” | RocketNews24

• Summit boost for Japan's 'women of the sea' - BBC News

• Snake Venom, Bee Toxin, Horse Oil, Snail Slime: Saving Face in Japan is Icky Fun | Japan Subculture Research Center

• Japan's Problem with Tattoos

• Japan's Abe Says No Plans to Postpone Consumption Tax Hike - ABC News

• Japan approves record-high budget, focusing on defense, economic recovery

• Security laws usher in new era for pacifist Japan | The Japan Times

• Japan defends new security laws as protesters denounce them - The Economic Times

• Japan to keep tax hike despite falling wages | Business | DW.COM | 29.03.2016

• Scientists attempt to regain contact with Japan's malfunctioning Hitomi satellite | Fox News

• Africanews | Japan’s Abe welcomes ‘iconic’ Mugabe

• The Woman Who Took Whisky to Japan: Remembering Rita Cowan Taketsuru | Nippon.com

• Tourists lacking a Japan Rail Pass will be in luck in fiscal 2016 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Is Japan's plan for more women in the workplace failing? - BBC News

• Kyu-shirataki Train Station in Hokkaido, Japan, Closes After Student Graduates - CityLab

• Analysis: Japan's Abe to dive back into diplomatic activities - Chicago Tribune

• Japan’s elderly turn to life of crime to ease cost of living

• Can anything rescue Japan from the abyss?

• Japan concerned at possible Russian base on disputed island chain | Reuters

• Japan and China: The Geo-Economic Dimension | The Diplomat

• Japanese man held after teenager 'kidnapped for two years' - BBC News

• Japan Has Set Up a Radar Station in the East China Sea | TIME

• The train station that stayed open for a single school girl finally closes down | RocketNews24

• Japan's Abe expected to delay sales tax rise, call snap election - again | Reuters

• Tokyo man, 23, nabbed in Ito after Saitama girl, 15, missing two years flees captivity, alerts cops | The Japan Times

• Democratic Party launches with vow to halt ruling coalition | The Japan Times

• New opposition party launched in Japan ahead of election | Business Standard News

• Magazine says pollen allergy being blown way out of proportion ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

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