Japan News This Week 18 November 2012

今週の日本

Japan PM Yoshihiko Noda set for general election

BBC

Lifelong Scholar of the Japanese Becomes One of Them

New York Times

デモ中止にも雨ニモ負けず「反原発」の声ひびく〜国会大包囲

Our Planet

Fukushima's food champion fends off taint of nuclear disaster

Guardian

North Korea agrees to continue talks on abductees

Japan Times

日本拟明年从印度购买稀土 年进口量约4100吨　

Caijing

What is Required for a New Society and Politics: The Potential of Japanese Civil Society

Japan Focus


Last Week's Japan News

Statistics

Top 10 countries and territories in terms of sending students to US colleges and universities:

1. China (194,029)
2. India (100,270)
3. South Korea (72,295)
4. Saudi Arabia (34,139)
5. Canada (26,821)
6. Taiwan (23,250)
7. Japan (19,966)
8. Vietnam (15,572)
9. Mexico (13,893)
10. Turkey (11,973)

In 1997, Japan was the number one exporter of students with 47,000.

Source: Yomiuri Shinbun

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