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Nobel laureates invite Obama to Hiroshima
Kyodo News
Five Nobel Peace Prize winners issue a letter asking fellow recipient U.S. President Barack Obama to attend the Nov. 12-14 World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Hiroshima.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821a1.html - [NATIONAL NEWS]
Maehara raps coast guard for withholding crash details
Kyodo News
Transport minister Seiji Maehara blasts the Japan Coast Guard for what could be taken as a coverup attempt in its handling of Wednesday's helicopter crash in the Seto Inland Sea off Kagawa Prefecture.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821a2.html - [NATIONAL NEWS]
Okada off for talks with India, Thailand
Kyodo News
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821a3.html - [NATIONAL NEWS]
Kin of deceased Korean hibakusha to sue over benefits
Kyodo News
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821a4.html - [NATIONAL NEWS]
GSDF helicopter unit ordered to Pakistan
Kyodo News
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821a6.html - [NATIONAL NEWS]
Pro-DPJ Mataichi seeks to quit No. 2 post at SDP
Kyodo News
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821a7.html - [NATIONAL NEWS]
Cabinet split on Ozawa factor in DPJ race
Kyodo News
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821b1.html - [NATIONAL NEWS]
Liberty replica is removed for marring Hakodate's cityscape
Kyodo News
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821b2.html - [NATIONAL NEWS]
Arms export ban a risk to security: Keidanren
Bloomberg
Japan's arms export ban and shrinking defense budget pose a potential security risk after dozens of companies quit weapons production, the nation's biggest business lobby said.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20100821n1.html - [OPINION]
China's cautionary tale
By GWYNNE DYER
Will the 21st century belong to China? For a while, perhaps — but only in the sense that it was said to belong to Japan in the 1980s. Looking back now, that seems ridiculous, but at the time best-selling books were predicting that Americans, not to mention the rest of the planet, would be reduced to virtual serfdom by the relentless high-speed growth of the Japanese economy. Then it stopped growing.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/eo20100821gd.html
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