Japan News for January 21, 2007
Some Japan-related news links this morning:
- Ken Y-N from What Japan Thinks has launchedThe Japan Blog Matsuri, a monthly blog carnival for topics relating to Japan! Check it out and submit your blog entries for the first matsuri!
- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun had demanded that the issue of Japanese abductees in North Korea be excluded from a chairman’s statement at the East Asia Summit held in the Philippines Monday, Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported Friday. At a separate sideline summit in the Philippines, Roh and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly engaged in an argument over whether to include the abduction issue in the agenda of the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program.
- Coca-Cola (Japan) Co. and some of its group companies announced Saturday that they would recall 134,000 bottles of soft drinks, after a piece of rubber was found inside a two-liter bottle of Aquarius sports drink.
- Otabe, a Minami Ward, Kyoto-based confectionary maker, announced Saturday it would recall products containing made at its plant in Wakasacho, Fukui Prefecture, as it used chocolate with expired use-by dates. The company will voluntarily recall the products sold at Universal Studios Japan in Konohana Ward, Osaka, and stores in Kyoto.
- More than 380 applicants who sat national examinations for university entrance Saturday had to take an English listening test twice due to problems with integrated circuit players they were provided with, the national university examination center said.
- Nearly seven out of 10 people approve of organ transplants involving donors under the age of 15 even though the procedure is forbidden by current law, according to the results of a Japanese government survey released Saturday.
