Japan This Week: 13 September 2009

今週の日本

Day Out: Near Tokyo, a City Shows Its Age, Proudly

New York Times

Health Care in Japan: Low-Cost, for Now

Washington Post

Could you pass your Yakuza GCSE?

Guardian

Japan continues to execute mentally ill prisoners

Amnesty International

Suntory aims to leap beyond Japan with Orangina

Times on Line

Hatoyama firm: MSDF tour to end

Japan Times

A Tokyo, la nouvelle majorité veut rééquilibrer ses relations avec Washington

Le Monde

Japan's space freighter in orbit

BBC

Ichiro's 2,000th US major league hit excites Japan

Yahoo Sports

Last week's Japan news


Japan Statistics

The US is no longer the world's most competitive economy, according to the World Economic Forum.

The top spot this year went to Switzerland.

3. Singapore
4. Sweden
5. Denmark
6. Finland
7. Germany
8. Japan
9. Canada
10. The Netherlands

13. United Kingdom

29. China

Source: Daily Yomiuri


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