“The huge influx suggests that the crisis has shaken up the spirit of a nation finally usually passive,” the Japan Times wrote about the biggest protest so far against nuclear power.On Monday, it was a holiday in Japan, gathered 60,000 people peacefully demonstrating at Tokyo's Meiji Park Sayonara-The-nuclear meeting they called their protest meeting, which later led a peaceful march through the district of Omotesando and Aoyama . Read the rest of this entry »

How simple the world from Fukushima was a Ministry of Education and Ministry of Economy published Besides reading shows for elementary students. Phrases such as “A nuclear power plant will even survive a major earthquake or a tsunami was” or “The nuclear power plants are built as solid and protected that even emerges in an earthquake no radioactive radiation” are following the events of Fukushima is not only wrong but also a mockery in the ears of those affected. Read the rest of this entry »

The 78-year-old Shintaro Ishihara is on Sunday the 4th Times been elected governor of Tokyo. The successful re-election to the conservative politicians clearly simple. Ishihara genosss thereby supporting the Liberal Democrats and the New Komeito. Equal to 10 candidates, he prevailed. Including such figures were known as the comedian and former governor of Miyazaki Prefecture, Hideo Higashikokubaru, but also the founder of restaurant chain Watami, Akira Koike. Read the rest of this entry »

“In China there are so many fakes, now they have even copied the Nobel Peace Prize» , the deputy said Twu Shiing-jer of the opposition party DPP over Taiwan's media. He described the peace prize and the prize money of 100,000 yuan as humiliating for Lien Chan.Also Twus Tsai Huang-liang colleague is sure: “Confucius – because he would still be alive – would have been annoyed to death. Read the rest of this entry »

officially kept under lock and video of the collision between a Chinese fishing boat and the Japanese patrol boat has appeared on the video platform YouTube. The shots are explosive and could worsen relations between the two countries further. The video shows how the Chinese fishing boat, otherwise, despite requests by the Japanese Coast Guard, is heading directly to the patrol boat and ramming it sideways. Read the rest of this entry »

The dispute over the Senkaku Islands between Japan and China continue to busy Tokyo government. Although nearly two weeks has passed since the conflict to an arrested by the Japanese Navy trawler captain in the waters of the islands, the Japanese Foreign Ministry has made in Chinese a statement to underscore its claim to the disputed territory between Taiwan and Okinawa. Read the rest of this entry »

Beijing has never reacted so sharply when it came to defending the territorial interests of the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands. The uninhabited island between Okinawa and Taiwan, controlled by Japan, but is claimed by China, has produced in recent weeks, an unusually nasty tone.At the highest ministerial level talks were called off and more difficult for the export of raw materials to Japan after a Chinese fishing boat captain was arrested by the Japanese navy in the waters of the Senkaku Islands. Read the rest of this entry »

On the South Island of Okinawa studied the Japanese government has long been a solution in the dispute over the location of an American military base. The outcome of the elections in the City Council of Nago on Sunday puts them even further into the distance.16 of the elected candidates supporting Mayor Susumu Alkynylamines, which rejects the decision taken by the U. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan's youth may not study abroad. Since 1999 the number of Japanese exchange students is going down. Last year there were just 80,000 young Japanese, who took the plunge overseas. Even the most popular destination, the U.S., compared to 1997 recorded a decline of 60 percent of Japanese exchange students. Read the rest of this entry »

Ichiro Ozawa candidate in the party's internal elections of 14 September against Prime Minister Naoto Kan. The equally influential as controversial former general secretary of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's Ozawa has a strong critic of Kan's government work.Kans predecessor Yukio Hatoyama was Ozawa on Thursday attributed his surprising support. Read the rest of this entry »