A 43-year-old man Fukuoka who repeatedly committed sexual crimes against an 8-year-old girl he didn’t know threatened to kill her if she told anyone. The court ruled that he should be given a prison sentence. Prosecution asked for 3 years in jail, court gave him 2 and a half. https://www.byteseu.com/2392933/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
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The market capital of Masayoshi Son’s company Softbank has surpassed Toyota. But what does he really contribute to Japan? He uses every trick in the book to avoid paying taxes https://www.byteseu.com/2385979/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Japan’s netizens are furious at high prices at the popular curry chain Coco Ichibanya, which was once considered an affordable family restaurant for the nation’s middle class. It’s new unaffordability symbolizes another everyday pleasure in Japan falling out of reach of the middle class https://www.byteseu.com/2384126/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
“I’ve never seen such meager meals…” Tiny beds, mixed-gender rooms, and even the wrong national anthem… Disorganized management for the 2026 Nagoya Asian Games draws widespread criticism about Japan from overseas. https://www.byteseu.com/2384718/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Japanese surgeon removes healthy brain tissue, leaving woman on ventilator https://www.byteseu.com/2385021/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
68-year-old Tokyo man walks into a police station and casually confesses to murdering a long lost woman after the statute of limitations expires. Then he hides his assets in his wife’s name and successfully evades paying the victim’s family ¥42 million after their lawsuit https://www.byteseu.com/2385314/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Indian delegates to Nagoya Asian Games file formal protest after organizers tell them, “there are no lodgings, so deal with it yourselves”. They wound up checking into a hotel https://www.byteseu.com/2385659/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Takaichi continues to push government spending that pushes up Japan’s debt and weakens the yen to win short-term favor with voters. Who are her economic advisors? Gendai suggests that answer is noone- unlike previous PM’s, she makes decisions unilaterally without any expert advice https://www.byteseu.com/2386303/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Over 1.6 million in Japan urged to evacuate as Typhoon Dujuan nears Tokyo https://www.byteseu.com/2386648/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
A US military paper has been leaked proposing dissolving the US-Japan security alliance, and making Japan responsible for its own defense against China by 2035 https://www.byteseu.com/2386964/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
China has now caught up to Japan even in cameras, their biggest specialty. Where does Japan still have an edge over manufacturers in China and South Korea? https://www.byteseu.com/2387275/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
For Foreign men, Japanese women have become “bargains”- “Not long ago, Japanese men would go to Southeast Asia and other places to buy sex, but now that situation has reversed. For Japanese men ¥20-30,000 ($127-190) is a lot, but for foreigners paying street walkers in dollars, it’s a great price” https://www.byteseu.com/2387594/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
22-year-old Kagoshima farm worker found dead with a 300kg pig on top of him, authorities are trying to establish the cause of death https://www.byteseu.com/2387880/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Japan relies on third-party, non-profit “supervisory companies” to regulate foreign technical trainee workers. Due to a loophole in the law, these companies are being bought and sold by private companies, suggesting private interests control the regulators of foreign workers https://www.byteseu.com/2388178/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Mysterious bulk orders of books are sprouting up across Japan, with literal tons of them being shipped to US. There is speculation they are being used to train AI models. https://www.byteseu.com/2388511/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Nagoya city elementary schools will cancel class photos for fear the images could be used in AI “deepfakes” https://www.byteseu.com/2388832/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Grad student sues Nara Women’s University for not awarding her PhD despite passing thesis defense- “According to the university, there are no regulations regarding the disclosure of reasons for non-awarding”. https://www.byteseu.com/2389129/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Japan’s Diet politicians say the 20 million yen they earn per year is not as good as it sounds- “that money isn’t net income, it’s ‘revenue'” https://www.byteseu.com/2389464/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
NEC introduces new department where all 17 roles are filled by AI https://www.byteseu.com/2389763/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
A female foreign lecturer at Chuo University breaks down why Japan has become sexless: “a major factor is women are economically independent, allowing them to say ‘no’ to unwanted sexual acts. Until now they couldn’t refuse men who were economically superior. That power balance is breaking down.” https://www.byteseu.com/2390063/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Nagoya Asian Games organizers: “we are not to blame for the poor meals”, make no mention of any other, self-inflicted mistakes https://www.byteseu.com/2390373/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Around 900 school gyms in Japan still don’t have air conditioning, a problem that is being increasingly noticed now that they are frequently being used as evacuation shelters during natural disasters in the summer. https://www.byteseu.com/2390662/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Officially, Japan and Mexico will have the same birth rate as of 2025. https://www.byteseu.com/2390957/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Nagoya Asian Games organizers blame “private company” for playing North Korean anthem at South Korean game, blame foreign teams’ “late requests” on no-show buses to venue https://www.byteseu.com/2391306/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
Japanese press begins to worry the Nagoya Asian Games debacle could hurt country’s reputation- “The organizing committee has abandoned all responsibility….it could hurt Japan’s credibility and impactbids on events like the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup.” https://www.byteseu.com/2391618/ #Japan #JapanNews #JapaneseCurrentEventsAndPolitics #JapanesePolitics #News
