Japan Today.

by Paschen | February 23, 2009 at 07:47 pm

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Japan Today. Is a round up of Japan's top 10 or so news events.

Via, Uwe Paschen.

Well as the World is still in a recession going towards a depression the Asian Market did follow Wall-Streed and tubled. Japan’s Nikkey has lost 15.8%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng 11.6% as the Down Jones average is down 14.9%.

http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/02/20092204215859594.html

Russia and Japan yet again do discuss the row over the Islands that Russia has seized from Japan after WWII, Well at least they are talking and surprisingly Japan has not yet given up.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/02/2009218142752996115.html

Toyota, that did for the first time in its history showed a loss at the end of last Year, is still in trouble and will implement a new production freeze of 11 domestic plants. Sales have plunged has never before in its 77 year history. Now warning of an operating loss of up to $5 billions.

http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/02/20092206949329787.html

Honda is struggling as well, however, not with sales or loses but rather to find a buyer for its F1 Team. In bad times the Luxuries have to go not only at Honda and maybe why no buyer can be fund. Honda does also replace its president with Takanobu Ito an expert in US markets, I have my doubts though that this will help, until the US have replaced all their Wall-Street people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7905235.stm

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20090224a1.html

Japan’s PM Taro Aso whose approval rating has plumed down to 11% now will be visiting B. Obama in the White House on Feb. 24 2009 meaning today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7906999.stm

On a brighter note Japanese film Okuribito has won an Oscar for best Foreign languish film to the surprise of all here in Japan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7905303.stm

SFCG a major Japanese firm even the largest publicly traded Japanese firm has filed for Bankruptcy Protection, faced with the fall out of the US economy…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7905049.stm

Meanwhile the U.N. does praise Asia for its action against Poverty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7905174.stm

A growing Dilemma is the number of emergency cases being refused at Tokyo’s Hospitals. Now at over 8%.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090224a4.html

The Whale war is still going on though as well and it looks as if Japan is winning lately against the Sea Shepherd. Any how the Australian Police had a firm talk with them.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/02/whale-war.html

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Laughing-Samurai (not verified)

at 20:57 on February 23rd, 2009

Paschen the photo does not relate to anything you mention in this post, and I just checked because I thought there was another powerful earthquake because the photo appeared on the front page, but there wasn't.

Please only use earthquake photo's when there is an earthquake. Thanks

Paschen

at 23:03 on February 23rd, 2009

I am aware and will correct it once I fund a more appropriate one as time permits. Thank you Zichi for the comments as always. It is the map of Japan btw.

Lauhing-Samurai (not verified)

at 21:39 on February 23rd, 2009

Paschen I'm sorry to say this post isn't up to your original standard and isn't much more than a link-list. I think if someone else had posted this you would have flagged it? One-point-advice, stay with your original writing.

Paschen

at 22:42 on February 23rd, 2009

I appreciate you critic as always. Maybe you should be posting rather then commenting after all we need Japan and South East Asia covered. Since I do not have the time to cover every event in depth and yet want to see them exposed here on NP I do it this way for now and in greater detail as I usually do as time permits.

Laughing-Samurai (not verified)

at 00:19 on February 24th, 2009

Paschen, you could still do that by a sort of "story post" which both includes the story and the links, two or three paragraphs. Sorry, I'm dun posting on NP, please be happy ith the odd comment and recommendation. Thank you.

Paschen

at 05:07 on February 24th, 2009

I am happy Zichi, BTW, Each news even does have a short paragraph as you may have noticed your self. You do not have to like it your self. I can post it in the Forum and here and at least here some may pick up on it since not every one does navigate several News Sites to read the news, most according to statistics navigate one single site and if they do not find what they are looking for or what may interest them, then they leave and never come back. Unlike a few that can not leave the site yet like to see its demise for what ever reason that may be is actually be on me.

Laughing-Samurai (not verified)

at 08:26 on February 24th, 2009

Paschen, I take offense with your last sentence. Just because I don't have a NP account don't mean I want to see the demise of this site. If I wanted to do that, I certainly would not reveal who I was.

I still read posts and try to make useful comments when I feel like it. There are still NP members who communicate frequently with me via email, which is another reason I visit the site. There are others who share Twitter accounts. I subscribe to several RSS Feeds, including yours.

I would have thought that the "reader section" of NP are important because these will be the people who will help produce ad revenue. Probably about 50% of people who read NP posts aren't members.

I have quite a list of news sites which I visit on an almost daily basis but mainly via Feeds, including NP, Current News, Digital Journal, Mettacara (were I'm an editor),OhMyNews, and others.