Japan News Articles July 28 - August 3

• Wish for 'Prince Charming' draws women to Kyoto's Imamiyajinja shrine - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Scientist predicts another major earthquake in Japan by 2017 ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

• Whale Watching in Japan: How Fast is Japan Turning the Page on Whaling and Dolphin Hunting? | One Green Planet

• Japan to reduce unsafe abandoned houses by cutting tax breaks | The Japan Times

• Japanese leader Abe wants more women to work. So he's got big plans for day care. | Reading Eagle - AP

• Rice fields abandoned across Japan as young move to cities - World - The Boston Globe

• How Airbus May Put a Japanese Budget Airline Out of Business - Businessweek

• Japan Invades Hawaii - NYTimes.com

• Setting a living wage | The Japan Times

• Japan names five more islets for addition to Senkaku chain | The Japan Times

• Politie van Osaka veegde duizenden misdrijven onder de mat om imago stad op te poetsen - Buitenland - De Morgen

• Deze man bleef als enige bij de kerncentrale van Fukushima wonen - Buitenland - De Morgen

• Fireworks by “Hanabishi” Masters Blossom in the Night Sky | Nippon.com

• Japan’s Unhappy, Overworked Young People in 3 Charts - WSJ

• To improve Osaka's reputation, police conceal 81,000 crimes - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Yokohama Triennale 2014: Remembering the forgotten | The Japan Times

• Abe undermining rule of law | The Japan Times

• 35% of Japan's reconstruction budget for tsunami areas going unused | The Japan Times

• INTERVIEW: Anthropologist says Tohoku region must gain independence from Tokyo - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Hague child abduction treaty applied for 1st time to Japanese child at British court - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• The Wind-Up Bean Chronicle: Living as a Vegetarian in Japan | Nippon.com

• Weinig beenruimte op het vliegtuig? Wacht tot je deze sumoworstelaars ziet - opmerkelijk - De Morgen

• The Daily Item : “The Japanese were beaten before we even dropped the bomb”

• Sony's fall could be great news for Abenomics | The Japan Times

• Aiming for more women managers | The Japan Times

• Abandoned tombstones piling up across Japan in shadow of rapidly aging population - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Last U.S. crew member of Hiroshima bomber dies - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan's Policy of Denial on Religious Freedom | Aaron Rhodes

• 'Toyota noemt waterstofauto toekomst' | Toyota | Telegraaf.nl

• Abe's flawed contingency plan | The Japan Times

• Japan wraps up Pacific whale hunt - Khaleej Times

• Kerknieuws.nl: Scorcese verfilmt boek over vervolgde christenen Japan

• Japanse onthoofdt vriendin voor de kick | VTM NIEUWS

• Japan Inflation Abenomics Update - Business Insider

• BBC News - Japanese schoolgirl 'confesses' to killing classmate

• Japan Heat Persists After Hottest Day of 2014 Leaves 11 Dead - Bloomberg

• Japan’s Midnight Hours Thwart Abe’s Plans for More Working Moms - Bloomberg

• Into the Tumult – An Extract from Deep Kyoto Walks by Pico Iyer on BBC Travel! | deep kyoto

• Abenomics vs. inflation monster

• Shisaku: That Real Wages Falling Means Abenomics Is Failing Thing

• A closer look at the Supreme Court's welfare benefits ruling | The Japan Times

• The Japan-China Confrontation Over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands – Between “shelving” and “dispute escalation” :: JapanFocus

• Kansai Electric Power official reveals 18 years of secret payments to prime ministers - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

• Japan’s Defense Ministry Broadens Arms-Export Ambitions - Japan Real Time - WSJ

• Ben Thomas photographs Tokyo with tilt-shift technology in his book, Tiny Tokyo.

• The End of Japan's Inflation Affair - WSJ

• Making Abenomics Work - Bloomberg View

• Japan's 'Moe' obsession: the purest form of love, or creepy fetishization of young girls? | The Japan Times

• Japan has laws to give deceased pets a proper send-off - Features | The Star Online

• Japan to promote night schools to handle rise in foreigners | The Japan Times

• Japan schoolgirl, 15, arrested for murdering, dismembering classmate

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