Voice of American interviewed a senior government researcher who stated that up to 15% of Japanese children now live in poverty.

... and an ossified Japanese hospital system in a state of financial crisis.

Denying foreigners the right to vote in local elections -- child abduction in divorces -- Toyota's PR crisis -- proposed ban on Bluefin tuna

Will bankrupt JAL tie-up with Delta's Skyteam or American's Oneworld to meet the Open Skies criteria?