Daily Japan Headlines: Friday, Sept 23, 2011
Washington Post: Japanese Mobile Carrier SoftBank To Lose iPhone Monopoly To KDDI
Nikkei Business Online claims it has learned that KDDI au, Japan’s second biggest mobile carrier with 33 million customers, will provide the iPhone 5 starting next year. If the rumored roll-out of the phone next month will become reality in Japan, too, this means that SoftBank has a few months before its closest competitor can start tapping into their most important segment.
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BBC Video: Earthquake building testing in Japan
Since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March, sales of high-rise apartments in Japan have plummeted. Some renters have even moved to lower apartments.
The BBC’s Roland Buerk visited the Kajima Corporation’s test facility – which simulates the effect of earthquakes on the country’s buildings – and spoke to engineer Jun Tagami.
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ABC News: PM Says Japan Will Not Turn Inward After Disaster
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says Japan will step up its contributions to the international community rather than “turn inward” after the devastating quake and tsunami that struck in March.
Noda told a news conference Friday that Japan could take the lead in improving nuclear safety around the world by quickly and accurately sharing the results of power plant accident triggered by the disaster.
Noda also promised to provide humanitarian aid for South Sudan and the Horn of Africa and to support democratization in the Middle East and North Africa.
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LA Times: Japan’s Noda to seek more stable ties with China
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Friday he would work to stabilize and depen ties with China that have been roiled by disputes over territory and wartime history.
“From a very broad perspective, we shall strive to promote relations (so) that they will stabilize and we need to further deepen mutually beneficial relations based on strategic interest,” he told a news conference.
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UPI: Japan announces launch of spy satellite
Japan says it has launched a spy satellite into orbit, the fourth since North Korea launched a missile over the Japanese island of Honshu.
The new satellite is intended to replace one of the original three that is approaching the end of its projected lifespan.
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Bloomberg Video: JPMorgan’s Koll on Japan Economy, Currency Markets
Jesper Koll, head of equity research at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Japan, talks about the outlook for Japan’s economy and global currency markets. Koll speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television’s “Surveillance Midday.”
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UPI: Japanese mourners get lookalike dolls
A Japanese non-profit is giving away lookalike dolls to families who lost loved ones in the March 11 earthquake and subsequent disasters.
Tamezou Club of Saitama City said it is donating 1,000 of the custom-made dolls, which have hairstyles, expressions and other characteristics designed to resemble lost loved ones, to families in northeastern Japan where thousands were killed in the March disaster, which included the earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown
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Washington Post: 151-nation meeting endorses post-Fukushima nuclear safety plan
Members of the 151-nation International Atomic Energy Agency have endorsed a post-Fukushima nuclear safety plan but the IAEA chief says it will only be as good as the will of individual countries to enact it.
“It is time for action,” says IAEA head Yukiya Amano, asking nations for “sustained commitment and full involvement.”
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