· November, 2006

Stories about Japan from November, 2006

Japan: fake consultation meetings

Adamu from Mutantfrog reports on an investigation of recent scandal about the government's fake public consultation meetings on issue such as postal privatization and education reform.

30 November 2006

Japan: typical foreigner?

Debito blogs about a school ad: “E R English School needs a native speaker. Blonde hair blue or green eyes and brightly character.”

29 November 2006

Japan: cutting cedar trees

Multantfrog points to a news concerning Japan public policy makers recent action: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government started a project Monday to cut down 1.8 million cedar trees in the mountainous...

28 November 2006

Japan: fingerprinting foreigners

Joe in Multantfrog blogs about the newly introduced foreigner registration system in Japan, which requires foreigners to give the immigration a copy of their criminal / fingerprinted record.

28 November 2006

Japan: blogger survey

Kaishin in Japundit presents some data from a recent blogger survey: almost 70% of the people who took it responded that updating was too much of a trouble…

27 November 2006

Japan: miserable youth

JP in Japundit quotes from a report which reveals Japanese youth are the most miserable in the world.

23 November 2006

China: Put the E back in APEC

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum came to a harmonious enough end this Sunday with all twenty-one member nations agreeing to renew calls for North Korea to put an end...

19 November 2006

Japan: paper plane

JP on Japundit blogs a recent world record set up by elementary school students in Hiroshima: creating the world’s largest paper airplane and flying it.

17 November 2006

Japan and China: oil dispute

Citizen reporter, Hisane Masaki, at Ohmynews has an article on the development of oil dispute between Japan and China in East China Sea.

17 November 2006

Philippines: Toxic trade with Japan

Last September 9, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi signed the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement or JPEPA in Helsinki, Finland during the Association of Southeast...

16 November 2006

South Korea: university pressure on Dokdo

Robert Koehler at Marmot's Hole reports that a blogger has received pressure from university because of his blogging about Dokdo, an island with territorial controversy between Japan and South Korea.

16 November 2006

South Korea: war criminals cleared

Robert Koehler in Marmot's hole comments on the clearing of 83 Koreans (out of 148) conscripted by the Japanese military during the World War II of war crimes.

14 November 2006

Japan: lining up

Neomaxisme has an interesting post on Japan lines culture: ever since I first lived in Tokyo back in 1998, the concept of lines/queues has always been inextricably central to my...

14 November 2006

Japan: police can't marry non-Japanese?

Debito repasted another blog post from a German girl who has a Japanese policeman boyfriend: Policemen in Japan have to report their girlfriends when they become serious about their partnership....

13 November 2006

Japan: letter to youtube

Adamu wrote a letter to youtube hoping that the company can remove sexy videos of 12-year-old Japanese actress Saaya Irie.

10 November 2006