Daily Japan Headlines: Tuesday, Sept 6, 2011
Photo Source: BBC.
BBC: Anish Kapoor designs mobile concert hall for Japan
Sculptor Anish Kapoor is designing a mobile concert hall to bring music and arts to the region of Japan hit by March’s earthquake and tsunami.
The hall, seating up to 700 spectators, will be a “pneumatic structure” so that it can be inflated quickly with air.
Commissioned by Switzerland’s Lucerne festival, the structure will be built in collaboration with the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.
A programme of events is scheduled to begin in spring next year.
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Wall Street Journal: Noda’s Supreme Club of Ex-Prime Ministers
What’s a former unpopular prime minister to do upon finding himself out of a job? In Japan, become a supreme adviser.
On Monday, Yoshihiko Noda, the latest prime minister to take over the country’s tangled reins of power, appointed his predecessors as “supreme advisers” to the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.
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ABC: Nobel Winner Urges Japan to Abandon Nuclear Power
“The new prime minister seems to think that nuclear power plants are necessary for Japan’s economy, and how to resume their operation is one of his key political agendas,” Oe said. “We must make a big decision to abolish all nuclear plants.”
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NPR: After Nuclear Mishap, Japan Debates Energy Future
Japan faces a dilemma: The country lacks natural resources and relies heavily on nuclear power. But in the wake of a nuclear accident in March, 70 percent of Japanese now say they want to phase out atomic energy.
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Time: Japanese Longevity — How Long Will It Last?
“If recent trends continue, other nations are likely to achieve lower rates of adult mortality than Japan,” said Professor Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle. He added that Japan’s universal health care system may not be sufficiently nimble enough to address mounting 21st-century health problems.
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Wall Street Journal: Tokyo Police Claim Yakuza Victory…At Festival
According to Tokyo police officials, no yakuza-affiliated people were able to participate in an annual autumn festival at the Kitazawa Hachiman shrine in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward for the first time.
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Independent: Japan’s Honda to recall 936,000 vehicles globally
Japan’s Honda Motor is recalling 936,000 cars worldwide, mostly its popular Fit subcompact, called Jazz overseas, due to defective power window switches, the company said Monday.
In the worst-case scenario, the switch could partially melt and its cover could catch fire, although no one has been injured because of the defect, a company spokeswoman said.
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ABC Australia: Matildas lose to Japan
Some heroic shot stopping by goalkeeper Lydia Williams was not enough to save the Matildas from a 1-0 loss to Japan in the third match of their Olympic qualification campaign in Jian, China.
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