2024-07-19 22:31:00
On the evening of the 19th, two junior high school students were swept away while playing in a river in Sagamihara City. One of them managed to make it to shore safely, but the other is unconscious and in critical condition.
2024-07-19 21:57:00
The third game of the Gosei Tournament, one of the seven major Go titles, was held in Tokyo, and Iyama Yuta, the triple crown holder, defeated the challenger Shibano Toramaru, the Meijin, to win the Gosei Tournament for the fourth consecutive time. With this, he has now won 76 titles, including the seven major titles, tying the all-time record held by Cho Chihun, the Honorary Meijin.
2024-07-19 21:45:00
According to Russian state media, a Russian court on the 19th sentenced a journalist from the Wall Street Journal, a major American newspaper, who had been indicted and detained by authorities for espionage in Russia, to 16 years in prison. The journalist has completely denied the charges, and this could further deepen the conflict between the United States and Russia, whose relations have deteriorated due to the situation in Ukraine and other issues.
2024-07-19 21:12:00
Regarding a document by a former director accusing Hyogo Prefecture Governor Saito of power harassment, the prefectural assembly's "100-Article Committee" has decided to use as materials for deliberations a written statement and audio recordings believed to have been prepared by the former director before his death.
2024-07-19 20:53:00
Japan Airlines said that some services, such as booking flights on its website and app, were unavailable from around 2:00 p.m. on the 19th, but all services were restored around 7:00 p.m. It is unclear whether this system failure is related to the large-scale outages occurring worldwide, and the company is currently investigating the exact cause.
2024-07-19 20:27:00
Vietnam's top leader, General Secretary of the Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, passed away on the 19th at a hospital in the capital Hanoi. He was 80 years old.
2024-07-19 20:17:00
A resolution was submitted and passed by a majority vote recommending the resignation of Nakagawa Mikitaka, the mayor of Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture, who apologized last month for his response to a question at a city council meeting regarding the attraction of a new factory.
2024-07-19 19:34:00
George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, an American information security company, said in a social media post that they were "taking action for users affected by the flaw found in a Windows content update." They also said that the current outage has not affected users of products from Apple and other companies. They went on to say, "This is not a cyber attack or security issue. The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix has been deployed."
2024-07-19 19:07:00
At Universal Studios Japan (USJ) theme park in Osaka's Konohana Ward, a system failure has occurred that has rendered some restaurants and souvenir shops unable to use cash registers, making it impossible to process payments.
2024-07-19 18:34:00
Ezaki Glico will resume shipments of its flagship products, Pucchin Pudding and Cafe au Lait, from next month, after having suspended shipments due to a malfunction in the core system that manages distribution.
2024-07-19 18:28:00
During health checkups for female students at a junior high school in Kamisato Town, Saitama Prefecture, the examinations were conducted with the underwear removed, exposing the students' breasts. Following complaints from parents, the town's Board of Education decided to make improvements, citing "insufficient consideration for the students' privacy."
2024-07-19 17:57:00
Joint training between the Air Forces of Germany, Spain, and France and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force began on the 19th in Hokkaido and other areas.
2024-07-19 17:51:00
Six people, including those in the field of Tokiwazu Joruri, have been newly recognized as Living National Treasures, people who possess advanced skills in the fields of traditional performing arts and crafts.
2024-07-19 17:15:00
The Japan Coast Guard announced that crew members of five vessels, including a patrol boat belonging to the Sasebo Coast Guard Office in Nagasaki Prefecture, had been filling out false statements in their logbooks and other documents to fraudulently receive daily allowances for sailing. The daily allowance, which is about 1,000 yen per day paid to crew members during sailing, was discovered during an investigation triggered by a public interest whistleblower. The Japan Coast Guard will be investigating ships nationwide to see if there are other similar cases of fraud.
2024-07-19 17:14:00
According to Reuters and other news agencies, system malfunctions occurred at airports in Australia and Europe on the 19th. Reuters quoted a spokesperson at Sydney Airport in Australia as saying, "A technical malfunction occurring worldwide is affecting the operations of several airlines. Flights are able to take off and land, but there is a possibility of delays later." Berlin Airport also announced on social media that "Due to a technical malfunction, there are expected to be delays to check-in."
2024-07-19 17:09:00
As part of its important announcement, the AP sent an email to customers stating, "We are currently experiencing intermittent service issues that may affect the viewing of available content. We are currently investigating the cause and will provide updates when the issue has been resolved or a fix is available."
2024-07-19 17:00:00
According to the police and fire department, at around 1:30 pm on the 19th, a car crash occurred in Makkari Village, Hokkaido, and 11 people, including five children, were injured and taken to the hospital. All of them are conscious. The police and fire department are currently investigating the details of the incident.
2024-07-19 16:07:00
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has announced disciplinary action against its management following a scandal involving the unauthorized sharing of nonpublic information about client companies by its subsidiary banks and securities firms.
2024-07-19 15:21:00
In response to issues such as the format of election posters, Prime Minister Kishida and Komeito leader Yamaguchi have agreed that the two parties will decide on the direction of revisions to the Public Offices Election Act before the LDP presidential election, which will be held at the end of September.
2024-07-19 15:15:00
NHK obtained footage of the landslide that occurred in Matsuyama City on the 12th of this month, taken by a drone by the prefecture several hours after the incident. Muddy water was seen flowing along the valley, and experts have pointed out that it is highly likely that a "mudslide" occurred, in which soil containing a large amount of rainwater flows down the valley at once, increasing its destructive power.
2024-07-19 14:58:00
In preparation for the revision of the Public Offices Election Act, the LDP and Komeito Party officials confirmed their intention to establish regulations for election posters to maintain a certain level of dignity. However, they shared the view that legal revision is not necessarily necessary, as current laws are sufficient to deal with acts of disruption during election campaigns.
2024-07-19 14:34:00
At around 2:27pm today, an earthquake with a seismic intensity of 4 was observed in Iwate Prefecture. There is no need to worry about a tsunami caused by this earthquake. Seismic intensity of 4 was observed in Ninohe City, Iwate Prefecture, and seismic intensity of 2 and 1 was observed in Iwate Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture, Akita Prefecture, and Hokkaido. According to observations by the Japan Meteorological Agency, the epicenter was in the northern inland part of Iwate Prefecture, the depth of the epicenter was 10km, and the magnitude, which indicates the scale of the earthquake, is estimated to be 4.0.
2024-07-19 14:32:00
As the number of foreign tourists visiting Japan continues to reach an all-time high, Prime Minister Kishida has instructed relevant cabinet ministers to strengthen efforts to attract more tourists to regional areas in order to further increase the number of tourists.
2024-07-19 14:25:00
The Japan Gymnastics Association has announced that 19-year-old Shoko Miyata, the star of Japan's women's team, will withdraw from competing in the Paris Olympics after it was discovered that she had been smoking and drinking alcohol.
2024-07-19 14:17:00
Constitutional Democratic Party leader Izumi indicated his intention to exchange opinions with opposition party leaders from next week onward about how to cooperate in the next House of Representatives elections in order to bring about a change of government.
2024-07-19 13:55:00
On the night of the 18th, a man was attacked by a bear on a hiking trail in Minobu Town, Yamanashi Prefecture, and suffered minor injuries to his forehead and lower back. This is the first time that someone has been attacked and injured by a bear in Yamanashi Prefecture this year, and the prefecture and police are calling for caution.
2024-07-19 13:39:00
Regarding the first joint search and rescue training conducted by the coast guards of Japan and Taiwan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi explained that it was not conducted with third countries such as China in mind, and expressed Japan's intention to continue deepening cooperation with Taiwan.
2024-07-19 13:08:00
Three years ago, a cargo ship collided with a tanker off the coast of Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, resulting in the deaths of three people. A cargo ship navigator had been charged with professional negligence resulting in death and injury, among other charges, but had maintained his innocence. However, by the 19th, the Supreme Court decided to reject an appeal by the defense, meaning that the guilty verdict with a suspended sentence will now be finalized.
2024-07-19 12:49:00
In a case where a mother and her common-law husband were arrested for assaulting and killing a first-grade elementary school girl in an apartment in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, it was learned from an investigator that the girl had bruises all over her body that were believed to have been caused by a long-term assault. Police are investigating whether the girl had been subjected to daily abuse.
2024-07-19 12:33:00
In September of last year, a three-year-old girl was left behind on a school bus at a certified child care center in Makinohara City, Shizuoka Prefecture, and died of severe heat stroke. The then-director of the center was charged with professional negligence resulting in death. Neither the defendant nor the prosecution appealed by the deadline, and the former director was sentenced to one year and four months in prison.
2024-07-19 12:18:00
The Republican National Convention, the opposition party in the run-up to the US presidential election, is now in its final day, and former President Trump, who has been nominated as the party's presidential candidate, has begun his speech. Trump accepted the nomination, emphasizing his intention to be a president who serves all Americans. (We will update the content of the speech as it progresses.)
2024-07-19 12:11:00
Due to the influence of the front, the atmospheric conditions in western and eastern Japan are extremely unstable, and very heavy rain is falling in Kyushu. The unstable atmospheric conditions are expected to continue until around noon on the 20th, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for caution against strong gusts of wind such as lightning and tornadoes, and localized heavy rain.
2024-07-19 11:58:00
According to a report from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii to the Japan Meteorological Agency, a large earthquake of magnitude 7.4 occurred at around 10:51 a.m. on the 19th, Japan time, with its epicenter in northern Chile. The epicenter was estimated to be 170 km deep. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, this earthquake will have no impact on Japan.
2024-07-19 11:57:00
The Cabinet Office has released its latest forecast for the growth rate of the Japanese economy for this fiscal year and fiscal 2024, lowering its previous forecast by 0.4 percentage points to around 0.9% in real terms, excluding price fluctuations, due to the expected decline in personal consumption due to higher prices caused by the weak yen.
2024-07-19 11:50:00
A week ago, on the 12th of this month, a landslide occurred on the mountain where Matsuyama Castle is located in Matsuyama City, killing three people, but interviews with the city and others have revealed that several-meter-wide cracks had formed on the road near the summit six years ago after the heavy rains that hit Western Japan. The city has previously explained that the cracks caused by rain were first spotted last summer, but Matsuyama City has said that the cracks from six years ago were "minor, and we judged at the time that there was no risk of them leading to a landslide."
2024-07-19 11:12:00
An exhibition of photographs taken by Paul McCartney, a member of The Beatles, the legendary British rock band that swept the world in the 1960s, and other members of the band, opened in Tokyo on the 19th.
2024-07-19 11:03:00
On the night of the 18th, an explosion occurred in a room in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture. The resident of the room, a man in his 40s, explained that he had opened the gas valve in an attempt to commit suicide, but gave up. After ventilating the room, he tried to smoke a cigarette, and the explosion occurred. Six people have been injured in the explosion, and the police are currently investigating the circumstances of the incident.
2024-07-19 10:34:00
According to McDonald's Japan, a major hamburger chain, a system failure has occurred, causing some stores to close. The company is rushing to confirm the cause of the failure and the extent to which the impact of the system failures has spread, following a similar incident in March of this year when a number of stores were forced to close due to a system failure.
2024-07-19 10:26:00
As U.S.-Russian relations deteriorate over the situation in Ukraine, a Russian court on the 18th sentenced an American rock musician who was detained by Russian authorities on suspicion of involvement in drug trafficking to 13 years in prison, and attention is focused on how the U.S. will respond.
2024-07-19 10:22:00
According to the police and fire department, at around 9:30 a.m. on the 19th, an employee at a biomass power plant in Shinko Chuo 2-chome, Ishikari City, Hokkaido, reported that "an explosion occurred at the facility and smoke was visible." According to the police, one person suffered burns to their hands and was taken to the hospital. They are conscious. The fire department is currently working to extinguish the fire.
2024-07-19 08:49:00
The Consumer Price Index for June, which looks at the price movements of goods and services consumed at home and excludes fresh food, which is highly volatile due to weather, rose 2.6% from the same month last year, up 0.1 percentage point from 2.5% in May.
2024-07-19 08:47:00
As pressure grows for U.S. President Biden to withdraw from the election campaign, U.S. media reported that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Party heavyweight, expressed the view that Biden may soon be persuaded to decide to withdraw.
2024-07-19 08:34:00
A police officer who responded to a report of a man with a knife in central Paris, France, was stabbed in the neck by the man and seriously injured. The man was shot by another police officer and later died. Police said they did not believe the incident was related to terrorism, but the scene was temporarily in chaos ahead of the Olympic Games, which were about to begin.
2024-07-19 08:02:00
It has been decided that next season's opening game of the major league baseball season, between the Dodgers and Cubs, will be held at the Tokyo Dome in March 2025, meaning that four Japanese players, including Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, are expected to be in Tokyo for the opening game.
2024-07-19 07:08:00
The first group of Japanese athletes competing in the Paris Olympics has arrived in France, and table tennis player Tomokazu Harimoto expressed his enthusiasm, saying, "I want to do my best to win as many medals as possible."
2024-07-19 07:05:00
North Korea announced on the 19th through the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers' Party of Korea, that General Secretary Kim Jong Un met with a Russian military delegation led by the Deputy Defense Minister on the 18th.
2024-07-19 06:43:00
Regarding the fraudulent receipt of diving allowances discovered in the Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Ministry of Defense has revealed that the amount may be approximately 53 million yen in total, an increase of more than 10 million yen from the amount announced last week.
2024-07-19 06:40:00
Due to the influence of the front, atmospheric conditions are expected to become extremely unstable in western and eastern Japan around noon on the 20th, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is urging people to be on the lookout for lightning strikes, strong gusts of wind such as tornadoes, and localized heavy rain.
2024-07-19 06:36:00
As pressure grows for U.S. President Biden to withdraw from the election race, U.S. media has reported that former President Obama has said that Biden's chances of winning have become extremely low, putting Biden in an even more difficult position.
2024-07-19 06:32:00
In New York financial markets on the 18th, the interest rate differential between Japan and the US came into focus in response to a rise in US long-term interest rates, causing the yen to weaken temporarily to the mid-157 yen range against the dollar, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall sharply by more than 500 dollars.
2024-07-19 06:15:00
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, attending a summit of European leaders, reiterated his call for countries to allow attacks on Russian military facilities using weapons provided by their countries in response to Russia's continuing aggression.
2024-07-19 06:09:00
Regarding the Constitutional Democratic Party's leadership election, the party's executive is making arrangements to hold the election in late September, close to the LDP presidential election, in order to highlight policy discussions in opposition to the LDP, which will be held by the end of September.
2024-07-19 06:08:00
In a case in which a mother and her common-law husband were arrested for assaulting and killing a first-grade elementary school girl in an apartment in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, the girl was placed in "temporary protection" by a child consultation center twice, but the incident occurred despite the fact that the girl was placed in "temporary protection" by the child consultation center. As such, Aichi Prefecture has decided to set up a third-party committee to investigate the response at the time.
2024-07-19 05:52:00
"We don't have enough full-time doctors" is a heartfelt complaint coming from medical institutions all over the country. However, even with subsidies, doctors are not coming as often as they would like. So, how about starting with "workation"? Such efforts are now beginning to spread.
2024-07-19 05:22:00
The Republican National Convention for the US presidential election is in its final day, and former President Trump, who was officially nominated as the party's presidential candidate, will deliver a speech. Since Trump himself has significantly rewritten his speech after the shooting, there is a lot of interest in the content of the speech.
