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Japan

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February 2008
- Japan Launches Super Speed Internet Satellite
  
  Associated Press | Feb 23, 08 1:33 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Japan today launched a satellite that, if successful, will be able to sling information across Japan and remote parts of Southeast Asia at high speeds and low cost, the AP reports. The satellite, dubbed “Kizuna,” won’t be used commercially–instead, scientists will run about 100 experiments on it, including a test HDTV broadcast. But researchers hope it will help Japan build one of the most advanced networks on the planet, Reuters reports. More »
- Dreamliner Delays May Drive JAL Away
  
  Reuters | Feb 22, 08 7:23 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Japan Airlines may abandon its plan to stock up on Boeing Dreamliners because of tie-ups in production of the new 787, Reuters reports. The carrier, a loyal Boeing customer, planned to buy 55 Dreamliners, but the delivery date has slipped again, to early 2009. Now JAL is checking out the Airbus A350 XWB, which would allow it to offset fuel costs by flying more midsize planes. More »
- New Sexual Assault Charge Shocks Okinawa
  
  Reuters | Feb 21, 08 9:31 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The American military is investigating a second allegation of sexual assault against a woman on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Reuters reports that a soldier has been taken into custody, accused of sexual assault against a Filipina living on the island. The new allegation comes only a week after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl. More »
- US Troops Confined to Base in Japanese Uproar
  
  Associated Press | Feb 20, 08 6:44 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The US military has ordered 45,000 American troops, civilian employees and their families in Japan restricted to their military bases, homes and workplaces in a move to quell growing Japanese outrage at problem Marines. The orders, in place indefinitely, will effectively bar Marines nationwide and all military personnel on Okinawa from visiting local restaurants and nightclubs. More »
- 4 More US Marines Face Rape Charges in Japan
  
  Reuters | Feb 15, 08 5:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - US military authorities are charging four Marines with raping a young Japanese woman, just days after a Marine was arrested by Japanese authorities and charged with raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a separate case. The four men are accused of assaulting a 19-year-old woman in October after meeting her at an event hall in Hiroshima. More »
- Okinawa Rape Case Reignites Anti-US Ire
  
  Reuters | Feb 14, 08 4:21 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The arrest this week of a US Marine on charges of raping a 14-year-old girl on the Japanese island of Okinawa has stirred long-simmering resentment of the nearly 50,000 American troops stationed there, Reuters reports. “Considering that such vicious, atrocious incidents have never ceased to occur, we must question the way the US military enforces discipline,” reads a statement from Okinawa's assembly. More »
- Japanese Dolphin Cuisine: Cruelty or Culture?
  
  CNN | Feb 12, 08 10:35 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - One activist calls the Japanese city of Taiji "ground zero for the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth," but locals want him and his cohorts to mind their own business. Residents of Taiji have been eating dolphin meat for hundreds of years and say they have as much right to do so as Westerners have to eat beef, CNN reports. More »
- Japanese Fury Mounts Over US Marine Rape Case
  
  Reuters | Feb 12, 08 3:30 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Tensions continued to mount in Japan today in the aftermath of the arrest of a US Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Okinawa. "It is unforgivable," Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda told a parliamentary panel. "It has happened over and over again in the past and I take it as a grave case." The nation's foreign minister warned that it's "unthinkable that this would have no impact. Enough is enough." More »
- US Marine Busted in Rape of Okinawa Schoolgirl
  
  Reuters | Feb 11, 08 5:23 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - A US Marine has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Japanese schoolgirl in Okinawa, where resentment is already running high against American military presence, Reuters reports. The 38-year-old Marine allegedly raped the teen in a car yesterday, officials said. "This kind of crime cannot be forgiven, especially when you remember that the victim is a middle school student," said Okinawa's governor. "I feel extremely angry." More »
- Looking for a Real Recession? Try Japan
  
  Washington Post | Feb 2, 08 3:18 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - While economists squabble over a possible US recession, Japan has quietly slipped into one. The country’s postwar riches have all but vanished, the Washington Post reports, as its GDP tumbles from fourth to twentieth among the world’s countries and its share of the world’s economy dips from 18% in 1994 to below 10% in 2006. More »
- Whales Fall as Hunt Resumes
  
  Australia's News Network | Feb 1, 08 9:45 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Japanese whalers have resumed their hunt in Antarctic waters, killing at least five whales when protest ships pulled back to refuel, the Australian News Network reports. Witnesses reported seeing the whales harpooned in the Southern Ocean after ships from Greenpeace and another protest group withdrew. In Tokyo, the Australian foreign minister protested the resumed hunt. More »
January 2008
- Japan Sends Out Sushi Squad
  
  AFP | Jan 30, 08 11:50 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Japan, worried that the globalization of sushi is embarrassing its national cuisine—think California rolls—is about to start certifying which of the estimated 25,000 Japanese restaurants around the world are authentic. Experts based in major cities, including London, Paris, and Los Angeles, will give eateries that pass muster a logo showing chopsticks holding a cherry petal and a rising-sun flag, reports AFP. More »
- 'Sushi Capital' Japan Isn't Sweating Tuna Scare
  
  Associated Press | Jan 27, 08 5:35 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - New Yorkers may be in the throes of a sushi scare after the Times reported on the dangerous mercury levels in tuna, but the Japanese aren't batting an eyelid. One official's biggest concern was that the controversy would ignite "groundless rumors" about a healthy food, AP reports. "We're not talking about eating 10 tuna sushi every day—in which case I might be a little worried," said one sushi lover. More »
- Asian Markets Rebound
  
  New York Times | Jan 23, 08 5:14 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Asian markets bounced back modestly this morning after two days of precipitous drops. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index jumped 10.72%, Japan's Nikkei average rose 2%, and the Topix index was up 2.5%. Sydney's index closed 4.4% higher, breaking a 12-day downturn, and India's Sensitive index saw its first gains in 8 days as traders expressed cautious optimism More »
- Nagasaki Mayor's Killer Confesses
  
  BBC | Jan 22, 08 1:54 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Japanese man accused of killing the mayor of Nagasaki last April has admitted to the crime, the BBC reports. "I apologize to Mayor Iccho Ito and his family from the bottom of my heart," Tetsuya Shiroo said today on the first day of his trial. An alleged gangster, Shiroo was apprehended immediately after shooting Ito last year as he campaigned for reelection. More »
- Asian Stocks Continue Plunge
  
  MarketWatch | Jan 22, 08 3:25 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Jitters over the US economy led to a major sell-off in Asian markets for the second straight day, with Australia's benchmark index closing down 7.1%—the biggest single-day loss in nearly 20 years. India's Sensex index skidded 10%, triggering a shutdown, but rallied to close down 4.6%. Japan's Nikkei and the broader Topix index finished 5.7% lower, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slumped 8.7% the day after global indexes suffered their biggest plunge since 9/11. More »
- Cell Phone Novels Take Japan by Storm
  
  New York Times | Jan 20, 08 3:51 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Japan’s literary world has been rocked by the ascendancy of cell phone novels: serial works written mainly by young women on their phone keypads. The New York Times reports five of 2007’s 10 bestsellers were cell phone novels reprinted as conventional books—despite the fact that the country’s cultural establishment has yet to accept the terse prose on familiar romantic themes as literature. More »
- Judge Bans Japanese Whalers in Aussie Waters
  
  Associated Press | Jan 15, 08 10:35 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - An Australian judge has banned hunting by Japanese whalers in a large section of their traditional grounds in Australian-claimed waters off Antarctica. The ruling came today just hours after crew members of a militant eco-ship boarded a Japanese whaling vessel in the Southern Ocean to deliver a protest note—then were "kidnapped" by the whalers and tied to a mast, the AP reports. More »
- Greenpeace Ship Scatters Japanese Whalers
  
  Sydney Morning Herald | Jan 14, 08 4:04 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Greenpeace pursuit of Japanese whaling ships continued yesterday after a ship operated by the environmental group earlier chased down and scattered a fleet of six Japanese whaling vessels in the waters off Antarctica. The Japanese fleet plans to hunt down 1,000 whales in what operators call a "scientific" expedition, but Greenpeace officials consider a thin cover for commercial whaling. More »
- Risky Showdown Looms as Eco-Ships Near Whalers
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jan 13, 08 6:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Fears of a deadly battle increased yesterday as a Greenpeace ship began to close in on a Japanese whaling fleet intending to kill 1,000 whales. Also steaming through the Southern Ocean off Antarctica was a far more militant "eco ship," planning to ram the whaling vessels. "We are not down here to protest—we're here to stop them," ominously warned a spokesman for Sea Shepherd International. More »

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Japan area: 377,800sq km (145,869sq mi) population: 126,925,843 capital (population): Tokyo (8,130,408) government: Constitutional monarchy ethnic groups: Japanese 99%, Chinese, Korean, Ainu languages: Japanese (official) religions: Shintoism 93%, Buddhism 74%, Christianity 1% (most Japanese consider ...

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