Daily Japan Headlines: Saturday, Jul 16, 2011
Photo Source: Sydney Morning Herald.
Sydney Morning Herald: Hello kitty
Customers have one hour of “cat time” to enjoy. Various beverages are available, as well as cake and a limited number of cat treats. Cat toys can be hired in 10-minute blocks from ¥210.
Cat cafes have found a niche in Japan, where tiny apartments are common and pets are often forbidden by landlords.
Cat Time is one of many pet rental options in Japan. Tokyo has more than 100 such businesses leasing animals from one hour to a week.
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CNN: Japan announces bid for 2020 Olympic Games
Ishihara said that the Olympic Games would help Japan recover from the deadly March 11 earthquake and tsunami and make it a better country, the public broadcaster NHK reported.
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Washington Times: Japan adds beef to the contaminated menu
A growing scandal over radioactive meat shipped and consumed across the country is threatening to revive global concerns about the safety of food from Japan.
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Wall Street Journal: Japan’s Kan Visits Fukushima
The one-day trip came amid growing calls from evacuees seeking an early return to their homes, as it becomes increasingly clear to many that rebuilding their community provides better prospects than living off meager public assistance.
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UPI: Japanese doubt Kan’s nuclear phaseout
Kan said at a news conference Wednesday the Fukushima disaster convinced him the risks of nuclear power are too great, but he gave no timetable or details for ending it, The Asahi Shimbun reports.
“A prime minister usually has a number of discussions before he gives a news conference over such an idea, but we had none,” said a senior official at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy.
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LA Times: Finding his lost family is Japanese man’s mission
Oikawa is searching for the bodies of his wife and baby daughter, who disappeared March 11 when the earthquake-triggered tsunami washed across this rural landscape, pulling houses from their foundations and dragging residents to their deaths.
The disaster hit this farm and fishing community of 160,000 hard. Of 8,000 people still missing across northeastern Japan, 2,770 are from Ishinomaki; it also has the highest confirmed death toll, 3,100.
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ABC Australia Audio: Claims Japan consulate helps abduct children
Parents whose kids were taken their without their consent say the Australian Government’s failing to prevent future abductions. They say Japanese consulates are freely issuing new passports to parents who want to abduct children.
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San Jose Mercury News: Mercury News interview: John Roos, United States Ambassador to Japan
During the first year I was in Japan people were expressing concern about the relationship, due to a long-standing issue with one of our military bases in Okinawa. In my view, those concerns were widely overblown. The relationship is deep and broad. I believe Japan’s crisis further demonstrated the strength of our relationship. Through Operation Tomodachi, we had over 20,000 troops providing several tons of food and water. We helped make operational a critically important airport in the disaster area. We provided search and rescue teams, which worked hand in hand with the Japanese. The Japanese people have been deeply grateful to the United States for our assistance.
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The model turned actress was there to promote Transformers: Dark Of The Moon and impressed journalists by greeting them in Japanese.
She said: ‘Ohayoo gozaimasu, Rosie desu’, which means good morning, I am Rosie.
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ABC Australia Video: 10yo is Japan’s youngest sake expert
Meet 10-year-old Kogoma Niikura, Japan’s youngest ever certified expert on Japanese rice wine.
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