Japan News This Week 27 February 2011

今週の日本

Ruling Party In Japan Suspends Kingmaker

New York Times

Why Japan has a problem with prime ministers

Christian Science Monitor

Naoto Kan in Japanese budget impasse

BBC

Japan unearths site linked to human experiments

Guardian

Search ends for trapped Japanese

Japan Times

"En Twitter una novedad dura tres días"

El Pais

日本2010年太阳能电池国内市场出货量猛增

Caijing

Waiting for the Dam to Break: WikiLeaks and Japan

Japan Focus

Japan’s Ando wins ladies title at Four Continents

Yahoo Sports

Last Week's News

Statistics

The cases of sexual abuse committed by teachers in public schools has increased by 40% in the last ten years.

In the 2009 school year, 138 teachers were punished for "inappropriate sexual contact wit their students or minors."

Source: Yomiuri Shinbun

Japan's 2010 Oil imports, by country and percentage:

Saudi Arabia: 28.8%
UAE: 20.4%
Qatar: 11.8%
Iran: 9.6%
Russia: 7.1%
Kuwait: 7.1%
Oman: 3.3%
Iraq: 3.2%
Yemen: 2.3%
Indonesia: 2.3%
Other: 4.1%

Source: Asahi Shinbun


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