Daily Japan Headlines: Wednesday, Aug 10, 2011
Photo Source: Daily Mail.
Daily Mail: ‘Phenomenal’ Miyaichi heading straight for Arsenal first team after work permit granted
Arsenal are ready to throw Japanese teenager Ryo Miyaichi straight into first-team action after he was granted a work permit on the grounds of being an ‘exceptional talent’.
The 18-year-old midfielder joined Arsenal in January and was loaned to Dutch side Feyenoord as he was unable to obtain the necessary paperwork having not represented Japan’s senior side.
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Bloomberg: Japan’s Rice Crop Tested for Contamination From Fukushima Plant
Farmers growing half of Japan’s rice crop are awaiting the results of tests to see if their produce has been contaminated by radiation from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s wrecked Fukushima atomic plant. Rice, used in almost all Japanese meals and the key ingredient in sake, is being tested before the harvest starts this month. Radiation exceeding safety levels was found in produce including spinach, tea and beef.
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LA Times: Japan’s unpopular PM signals he’s ready to quit
Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan signalled on Wednesday he is ready to resign in the coming weeks after parliament made headway on key legislation, setting the stage for Japan’s sixth prime minister in five years.
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Yomiuri: Post-Kan DPJ preparations gathering pace
Groups of Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers are stepping up efforts to position their favored members as candidates to succeed Prime Minister Naoto Kan, whose resignation is all but certain as a result of the latest legislative deal between the DPJ and its two main opposition parties.
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LA Times: Possible successors to Japan PM Kan
Key facts about possible successors to Kan, who took office in June 2010.
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ABC Australia Audio: Lessons learned on Japan’s road to recovery
Five months after the tsunami struck Japan, 20,631 people are confirmed dead or missing and more than 100,000 Japanese people are still living in evacuation centres or without homes.
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Guardian: From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan’s atomic tragedies
In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr) at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor’s discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co, although that number is simply as high as the Geiger counters go.
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Wall Street Journal: Cheers, Japanese Beers
Overall beer shipments for Japan’s five top brewers in July edged up 0.4% from the same month last year to 47.37 million cases. After declines of 11% in June and 8.6% in May, that meant sales showed the first on-year gain in three months, after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged plants and production, according to data from the breweries.
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UPI: Japan’s TEPCO reports loss of $7.4 billion
In the wake of the March Fukushima nuclear catastrophe Tokyo Electric Power Co. has reported an operating loss of $7.4 billion.
TEPCO President Toshio Nishizawa has cautioned that the company expects further losses to be incurred over restoration and compensation costs at the crippled power facility.
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Fox News Latino: Japan extends unbeaten run to 13 matches
Japan extended its unbeaten run under coach Alberto Zaccheroni to 13 straight matches by beating South Korea 3-0 Wednesday in a friendly.
Shinji Kagawa scored two goals for the Japanese, first in the 35th minute and then in the 53rd. It was the Borussia Dortmund striker’s first match for Japan since breaking a bone in his right foot in January at the Asian Cup in Qatar.
Keisuke Honda also scored for Japan, making it 2-0 in the 51st.
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