News in Japan - July

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Fukushima Watch: Lawmakers Rank the Safety of Japan’s 50 Reactors
Japan's atomic disaster due to "collusion:" panel report
Quake left 20-meter crack in Fuji

Massive anti-nuclear power rally held in Tokyo

Fukushima reopens first beach to swimming since nuclear disaster

Japan’s tsunami towns go green to create jobs, bypass nuclear

Japan reviews nuclear plant sites as faultline worries mount

Japan utility takes out 2 Fukushima nuke fuel rods

Radioactive strontium detected in 10 prefectures

Japan

Torrential rain in Kyushu spurs evacuation advisories

Average income of households in 2010 down to 1988 level

A Lost Deal for South Korea and Japan

Govt looks to buy Senkakus / Noda says talks with islands' owner have already begun In 1971, the Taiwanese and Chinese governments officially began to declare ownership of the islands after the U.N. issued a report about possible gas and oil reserves in the Senkaku area. 

Japan's battered men suffer abuse in silence

Japan agency says high chance El Nino to emerge this summer

Japanese town selling land for pocket change

50,000 flee as record rain in Japan kills 10

Japan's low-profile military steps up during flood rescue (+video)

Death toll at 27 in Japan floods

More couples seek to select child gender / 90 couples went to Thailand for diagnosis in '12

Japan best place to be a child, India ranking poor

Rain ends in Kyushu, Yamaguchi

Heatstroke patients doubled last week

Japan report finds Hong Kong women have overtaken Japanese as longest living
Volcano erupts in Japan, showers nearby Kagoshima City with rocks and ash

Netherlands

Hindrances due to bad weather (Dutch)

Other
More than half of female workers are employed on nonregular basis

Russian floods

Drought in USA, Drought Monitor USA

Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt