Japan Tour: Japan News This Week 21 January 2018

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Japan Balks at Calls for New Apology to South Korea Over ‘Comfort Women’
New York Times

Japan warns over North Korean 'charm offensive'
BBC

3 hibakusha recognized as having A-bomb diseases by Osaka High Court
The Mainichi

'Dementia towns': how Japan is evolving for its ageing population
Guardian

Decoding Softbank’s mercurial chief, Masayoshi Son
Asia Times

U.S. Military Base Construction at Henoko-Oura Bay and the Okinawan Governor’s Strategy to Stop It
Japan Focus

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Statistics

In a 2011 poll of approximately 300 Japanese married couples yet to have children, 70% answered they loved their partner. There was no statistical difference in replies of the wives or husbands.

When a child was born and became two years old, the same question was asked of the same couples. It elicited very different results. 50% of husbands said they were in love with their wives. Just 30% of wives, though, answered that they loved their husbands.

Source: Asahi Shinbun, January 16, page 2

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