Stories about Japan from January, 2010
Japan: Coming-of-age Day
Nipponnews presents pictures of this year Coming-of-age Day.
Japan: PM Hatoyama Starts Using Twitter
Have something you want Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to know? You could try tweeting about it to @hatoyamayukio! All links in this post link to Japanese content unless otherwise noted. The Prime Minister started using Twitter during the new year holidays as a means to “bring politics to the...
Japan: National Film Industry and Avatar
The denmipapa blog is publishing a series of posts explaining the business side of the Japanese film industry. The fifth installment explores why the industry is not set up to release an ultra expensive 3D movie like Avatar. [JA]
Australia: Whaling War of Words
The whale hunt seems to be the forgotten war in the public relations hype that surrounds the collision of the Sea Shepherd’s Ady Gil with a Japanese whaler in the Southern Ocean. GV author Kevin Rennie gathers blog reactions from Australia
Japan: Witnessing a Tibetan sky burial
Blogger Huixing assisted to witnessed a Tibetan sky burial [en] in Litang. At his blog [ja] a sequence of pictures document the traditional funerary practice wherein a human corpse is exposed to birds of prey.
Japan: New finance minister
Observing Japan has an article introducing the new finance minster, Kan Naoto.
Japan: New Year customs
Lee from Tokyo Time posts photos of Japanese new year customs.
