Daily Japan Headlines: Wednesday, Sept 21, 2011
Photo Source: Daily Mail.
Daily Mail: Five killed as Typhoon Roke batters tsunami-ravaged Japanese coast
A powerful typhoon is wreaking havoc across Japan having already killed at least five people as it approaches the country’s tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast and the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Typhoon Roke has already lashed Tokyo halting trains and stranding tens of thousands of commuters as it barreled northwards.
Police and local media reported that six people were dead or missing after being swept away by rivers swollen with rains from the typhoon.
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LA Times: Obama says US, Japan must promote economic growth
U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Japan and the United States need to continue to promote economic growth.
Obama made the comments at the beginning of a meeting with Japan’s new prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda.
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UPI: Japanese PM concerned about double-dip
“One worry I have is that there is an emerging concern that once a recovering economy might be moving back into another recession,” Noda said through an interpreter, stressing the concern was vital to the United States and Japan.
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Time: Japan Worries About China Nukes
“China wants to become a military superpower. To do that, it has to acquire a second-strike capability, and they are eager to grow that capability. That is the reason they want to control all of the South China Sea, “says Kawamura.
In recent years, China increasingly has sent its navy and armed patrol ships into surrounding waters to assert control over territory variously claimed by Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and others.
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NY Times: U.S. Expresses Concern About New Cyberattacks in Japan
The United States gave a stern warning on Wednesday over recent cyberattacks on Japan’s biggest defense contractors, the latest in a series of security breaches that have fueled concern about Tokyo’s ability to handle delicate information.
An online assault on defense contractors including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which builds F-15 fighter jets and other American-designed weapons for Japan’s Self-Defense Forces, began in August, but only came to light this week, prompting rebukes from Japanese officials over the timing of the disclosure.
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Washington Post: Japanese exports rise for 1st time in 6 months, sign of recovery from tsunami disruption
Japanese exports rose for the first time in six months, inching up 2.8 percent in August from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, a sign of recovery from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters.
Exports had declined for five straight months following that catastrophe, which led to a serious parts shortage for manufacturers in the automobile and electronics industries.
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Washington Post: Japanese town seeks a transplanted future
The town of Futaba is either a place without people or a group of people without a place. Japan’s nuclear disaster contaminated the town’s 20 square miles, leaving the land uninhabitable, perhaps for decades. The disaster also forced the evacuation of 7,000 people from the town, with many of them still living at an abandoned high school more than 100 miles from home.
For months, those people waited to hear about their chances of returning home. But now that a return to Futaba — on the doorstep of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant — seems almost inconceivable, town officials have recently posed a new scenario: They’d like to rebuild Futaba somewhere else.
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Independent: Japan theme park to host Gardening World Cup
A theme park in southern Japan is to host the second Gardening World Cup over one month from early October, with the organizers aiming to make the event an annual occasion that grows to rival the Chelsea Flower Show.
The first Gardening World Cup competition was staged in October 2010 at Huis Ten Bosch, a theme park based on the recreation of a Dutch village, on the southern island of Kyushu.
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Daily Mail: Japan 18 Tonga 31: Tongans turn on the power to revive World Cup hopes
Tonga claimed their first win of the World Cup as they condemned Pool A rivals Japan to a third-straight defeat in an entertaining match in Whangarei.
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