Japan News Articles July 14 - July 20

• Chubu Electric built 250 million yen slush fund to win over politicians - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Latin American Herald Tribune - Japan

• Nearly 400 children abandoned in Japan over 3 years: Kyodo survey | GlobalPost

• Article: Japan should honorably resign as host of 2020 Summer Olympics | OpEdNews

• Foreign visitor stays in Japan spiked 27% in 2013 | The Japan Times

• Politician Nonomura weeps and the world laughs | The Japan Times

• Rediscovering lost Tokyo | The Japan Times

• Rediscovering lost Tokyo | The Japan Times

• Ruling forces Ricoh to revoke transfer orders for 'banished' workers - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Welfare ruling stuns foreigners | The Japan Times

• Japanese politician proposes giving newlyweds pierced condoms | GlobalPost

• Japan's Rotating Seats Solve Train Travel's Greatest Woe (VIDEO)

• Opinion war: China vs Japan - The Washington Post

• Japan's Line Messaging App Firm Files for US IPO: Report | NDTV Gadgets

• S. Korea, Japan to hold talks on wartime sex slavery next week | GlobalPost

• Supreme Court rules permanent residents ineligible for public assistance - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Survey finds widespread abuse against disabled workers - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Dutch children of wartime liaisons with Japanese search for their roots - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• ECC linked to Benesse data theft | The Japan Times

• Japan, Britain in joint missile study - Regional | The Star Online

• Japanese woman clings to hope that identical twin alive in North Korea | Reuters

• Ex-NHK staffers seek Momii's ouster | The Japan Times

• Foreign residents can't claim welfare benefits: Supreme Court | The Japan Times

• Japan police raid apartment of `crying politician`

• Identity Confusion: Is Japan Now a ‘Great Power’? - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Japan: Man dresses as schoolgirl to challenge social norms - Live5News.com | Charleston, SC | News, Weather, Sports

• Japan PM's policy shift risks dangerous path: Veteran politician Ozawa | Reuters

• Japan approves first weapons transfer after arms ban relaxed - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Yahoo launches online death-planning service | The Japan Times

• Ghosn promises self-parking cars, traffic-jam pilots by end of 2016 | The Japan Times

• Japan outlines rules on using secrecy law | The Japan Times

• Japan's Mt. Fuji Volcano In A

• Nissan CEO: Japan Female Bosses Goal Too Ambitious - ABC News

• Au Japon, des clients payés pour ne pas consommer de courant, Énergie - Environnement

• Japan’s Herbivores Seek Sovereign Not Romantic Bonds - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Mitsubishi Estate uncovers hot spring in Tokyo's Otemachi - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan complained over 'Tenko' BBC television series - Telegraph

• Is Shinzo Abe’s Notion of ‘Womenomics’ Just a Pipe Dream in Sexist Japan? | TIME

• Scholars say Cabinet decision opens, not ends, debate on collective self-defense - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Sendai nuclear plant gets first restart OK | The Japan Times

• Japan’s Break With Peace - NYTimes.com

• Dead in Japan? Yahoo Ending has everything you need | PCWorld

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• PHOTO: ‘Sushi Socks’ prove a perfect fit for foreign tourists - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• China’s Changing Position on Japan’s History: The Abe Factor | The Diplomat

• NOS op 3 - Japan: hoera voor de penis, weg met de vagina

• China and Japan's 'war of words' - CNN.com

• For former death-row inmate, a daily routine of pacing, delusions - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Great Wall of Japan? Locals balk at tsunami-protection plan. - CSMonitor.com

• Abe looking at permanent law allowing dispatch of SDF overseas | The Japan Times

• BBC - Culture - Japan’s Shinkansen: Revolutionary design at 50

• Japan zet vaginakunstenares achter de tralies - Buitenland - TROUW

• Japan earthquake has raised pressure below Mount Fuji, says new study | World | The Guardian

• Saying goodbye to Tokyo's Hotel Okura - CNN.com

• The Illusion of “Rising Nationalism”: Internationalism and Xenophobia in Today’s Japan | Nippon.com

• 40% want wives kept out of workforce | The Japan Times

• In Japan, the 'collapse of the family' is old news | The Japan Times

• Okinawa reversion papers 'likely destroyed' | The Japan Times

• BBC News - Japan enters the era of smartphones and 'dumbwalking'

• TEPCO's rubble removal at Fukushima plant likely spread cesium to rice paddies - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Yokohama hotel's landmark sign to glow again for 1st time since 1973 - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Rola changing DNA of Japanese pop culture ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

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