Japan This Week: 5 October 2008

今週の日本

Fire at Video Store Kills 15 in Japan.

NY Times

MUFG, Morgan Stanley eye merger of securities arms.

Asahi

Sadako Ogata, 81, Japan's outspoken force for the world's poor.

Washington Post

Dolphins on a diet

Guardian

Asa testifies, denies match-fixing claims.

Japan Times

Japan to bid for 2015 (Rugby) World Cup

BBC

Del Potro ousts Ferrer at Japan Open.

Yahoo! Sports


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Japan Statistics

Every day in Japan about 60,900 people spend the night in an Internet cafe or a manga cafe.

Source: Health, Labor, and Welfare Ministry

Nobel Prize Winners by Country (top 10):

USA: 224
UK: 75
Germany: 67
France: 27
Sweden: 16
Switzerland: 15
Former Soviet Union: 13
Holland: 13
Japan: 9
Denmark: 9

Source: Asahi Shinbun


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