Japan's Word of the Year

"偽” (fake) is voted as the word of the year in Japan. Considering a series of food mislabeling incidents, scores of stores faking high-end local produce brand with cheap imports, and loss in pension funds and misuse in political donations, it demonstrates a credibility crisis is worsening in Japan.

As China is soon to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest CO2 emission country, Japan is focusing on if China is going to sign on Kyoto treaty on CO2 emission limit. In Indonesia, UN global summit on climate, Chinese has said it will refuse to follow standard of Industrial countries.

Shanghai's newly opened foreign language TV station will start broadcasting Japanese News.


Japanese steel maker Kobe Steel will set up a factory in China to make steel reels


A new flight from Haneda, a closer airport than currelty in use Narita, to Beijing is under consideration.