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Japan may soon fit stalkers with GPS ankle monitoring devices that would alert their victims when the offender draws near. The proposed amendment to the Stalker Regulation Act follows the heinous murder of a woman at a Pokémon Center in Tokyo earlier this year.
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Japan may soon fit stalkers with GPS ankle monitoring devices that would alert their victims when the offender draws near. The proposed amendment to the Stalker Regulation Act follows the heinous murder of a woman at a Pokémon Center in Tokyo earlier this year.

unseen-japan.com
u/jjrs — 24 hours ago
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Japan is suffering "brain drain" when competing for researchers. Since the treatment of researchers is inferior to the US, Europe, and China, they have focused on young researchers with relatively low salaries. However, the success rate remains at about 50%.

news.yahoo.co.jp
u/jjrs — 1 day ago
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"If Trump and Xi Jinping make a deal, Japan will suffer a fatal blow."- For the island nation, sea lanes are the arteries that carry the nation's lifeblood. Allowing access to them to be controlled by a secret deal between the US and China would be tantamount to abandoning national sovereignty".

president.jp
u/jjrs — 24 hours ago
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「国旗を傷つけたら拘禁2年」高市総理“悲願法案”に自民党内からも「意味がない」の声…水面下でしらけムードが広がる理由 ― 国旗損壊罪を急ぐ理由

shueisha.online
u/AlternativePost_02 — 1 day ago
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《自動車パーツの受注が20分の1に…》ナフサ・ショックで塗装工場社長が悲鳴「材料がないと仕事ができない」「覚悟はしていたが、想像と桁が違う」― 平時の流通とは程遠い

news-postseven.com
u/AlternativePost_02 — 1 day ago
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A Chinese tourist in Japan filmed themselves feeding a deer food contaminated with feces.

u/Disillusion0707 — 1 day ago
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Man breaks into learning center for foreign children in Fukuoka city and yells at them, ""Go back to your country. This is Japan."

nishinippon.co.jp
u/jjrs — 1 day ago
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China's Foreign Ministry calls the stabbing of Japanese nationals in Shanghai an "individual incident"; avoids specific response on whether Japanese were targeted

sankei.com
u/jjrs — 24 hours ago
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Takaichi's government accused Calbee of a "publicity stunt" when they announced they would switch to black-and-white packages due to Naphtha shortages, saying "the media coverage will make other companies anxious". There's a large gap between government perception of supply and reality

asahi.com
u/jjrs — 1 day ago
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Why did Japan lose to China in the robotics sector? Rather than designing human robots top-down, China leveraged what it learned from the manufacture of drones and EVs- lightweighting, batteries, high-speed motor control, vehicle control and stabilization algorithms, and mass production processes

president.jp
u/jjrs — 1 day ago
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The numbers of Korean man/Japanese woman couples are exploding. Japanese women don't expect an expensive Korean wedding, and they are attracted to "the gentle and considerate nature of Japanese women and their relatively low aversion to traditional gender roles".

gendai.media
u/jjrs — 2 days ago
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"Japan's long-term interest rates could reach 3% sooner than expected. Takaichi appears to be underestimating the impact of a sharp rise in long-term rates. If this continues, it will pose a significant risk to the Japanese economy".

news.yahoo.co.jp
u/jjrs — 1 day ago
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Kentaro Kitagawa, the chief prosecutor of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, is on trial for rape of a female prosecutor who was his subordinate at the time. He changed his plea to not guilty even after confession. Some are speculating it is to shorten prison time with people he put away

dailyshincho.jp
u/jjrs — 1 day ago