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Part of the body on the lakeside Was attacked by a bear?

2023-05-15 23:20:00
On the afternoon of the 15th, part of the body of a person who was believed to have been attacked by a bear was found on the shores of Lake Shumarinai in Horokanai Town, Hokkaido. In the vicinity, a man in his 50s who had been visiting for fishing since the 14th has disappeared, and the police are confirming his identity.

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Over 90% of creators are worried about “AI infringing on rights” Survey by industry group

2023-05-15 22:15:00
As content created using AI is being created one after another, more than 90% of creators answered that they were "concerned about rights infringement by AI" in a questionnaire survey conducted by an industry group. I understand.

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Upper House Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Committee will not be held tomorrow

2023-05-15 22:07:00
Regarding the fact that the personnel information of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism was sent to the outside by e-mail before it was made public, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Committee of the House of Councilors said at a council meeting on the 15th that the ruling and opposition parties could not come to an agreement over the submission of the e-mail. The committee on the 16th for deliberation will not be held.

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Major injuries caused by nails in elementary school grounds Ministry of Education notifies schools of safety inspections

2023-05-15 21:17:00
Last month at an elementary school in Suginami-ku, Tokyo, a child was seriously injured by a nail protruding from the schoolyard, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology notified boards of education nationwide to ensure that safety inspections were conducted at each school. bottom.

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Part of the body on the lakeside Was attacked by a bear?

2023-05-15 20:58:00
On the afternoon of the 15th, part of the body of a person who was believed to have been attacked by a bear was found on the shores of Lake Shumarinai in Horokanai-cho, Hokkaido. In the vicinity, a man in his 50s who had been visiting for fishing since the 14th has disappeared, and the police are confirming his identity.

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A junior high school student drowns in a river in Ishikari, Hokkaido, and there is no awareness of rescue

2023-05-15 20:57:00
After 6:30 pm on the 15th, a male student in the second year of junior high school drowned in the Barado River in Ishikari City, Hokkaido, and was taken to the hospital, but he was unconscious. A friend who was with him explained, ``I was playing catch, and a boy went into the river to pick up the ball,'' so the police and others are investigating the details.

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Prime Minister's Speech Explosion Incident: Is Fertilizer, a Raw Material for Explosives, Purchased Online?

2023-05-15 20:52:00
Last month, in an incident in which an explosive was thrown near Prime Minister Kishida, who was visiting to support the election in Wakayama City, a 24-year-old suspect purchased fertilizer, which is a raw material for gunpowder, on the Internet from around November last year. Interviews with investigative officials revealed that it seems to have been.

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Megmilk Snow Brand 94 items including milk and cheese to raise prices after July

2023-05-15 20:46:00
Megmilk Snow Brand, a major dairy manufacturer, has announced that it will raise the price of milk and cheese from July onwards, as raw material prices continue to rise.

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Consumer Affairs Agency intends to accept electricity rate hikes of seven major companies on the premise of system reform

2023-05-15 20:44:00
The Consumer Affairs Agency, which had been discussing with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry about the electricity rate hikes that seven major electric power companies have applied to the government, intends to allow the rate hikes on the premise that the reform of the system surrounding electricity rates will be promoted. was reported to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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40% of people who believed misinformation tend to avoid "fact checks"

2023-05-15 20:30:00
An experiment conducted by the Nagoya Institute of Technology and others found that 40% of the people who believed in false information spread on social media tended to avoid fact-checking articles to verify and correct them. I was. People who believe in false information may not receive fact-checking articles.

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51 years since Okinawa was reverted to mainland Japan ``Overburdened bases have not changed yet''

2023-05-15 20:15:00
On the 15th, the 51st anniversary of Okinawa's reversion to the mainland, people involved in the reversion movement visited Cape Hedo, the northernmost tip of the main island of Okinawa, and asked tourists about the situation at that time and the burden of the base in front of the monument. I talked about the current situation.

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Large-scale traffic restrictions in the center of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Delivery and childbirth

2023-05-15 20:00:00
Trash cans will be made transparent, and lockers at stations will be banned. And for five days from the 18th of this month, large-scale traffic restrictions will be implemented mainly in Hiroshima city. There are companies that have changed their product delivery plans in response, and pregnant women who are worried that their delivery will overlap with traffic restrictions. Before the G7 Hiroshima Summit, which will start on the 19th, we interviewed the sites of the measures being taken in various places. *There is also a link to an article that summarizes the details of traffic regulations in the main text.

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A junior high school student drowns in a river in Ishikari, Hokkaido, and there is no awareness of rescue

2023-05-15 19:32:00
According to the fire department, around 6:40 pm on the 15th, there was a report that a friend was drowning in the river in Ishikari, Hokkaido, and a boy in the second year of junior high school was rescued, but he was unconscious. That's it. A friend who was with him said, ``I was playing catch, went to pick up the ball, and the boy went into the water,'' so the police and others are investigating the situation in detail.

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LGBT bill Rejected by the LDP's amendment proposal

2023-05-15 19:17:00
At a board meeting of a non-partisan federation of parliamentarians regarding legislative legislation to promote understanding of LGBT people, the Liberal Democratic Party asked for their understanding of the revision of the wording on discrimination, while the Constitutional Democratic Party and others said, " The contents are going backwards," and argued that the parliamentary union should discuss it again.

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Prime Minister's Speech Explosion Incident: Is Fertilizer, a Raw Material for Explosives, Purchased Online?

2023-05-15 18:34:00
Last month, in an incident in which an explosive was thrown near Prime Minister Kishida, who was visiting to support the election in Wakayama City, a 24-year-old suspect purchased fertilizer, which is a raw material for gunpowder, on the Internet from around November last year. Interviews with investigative officials revealed that it seems to have been.

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Murder of three people at a nursing home in Kawasaki City Confirmed death penalty for former employee

2023-05-15 18:25:00
In 2014, the defendant, a former employee of a nursing home in Kawasaki, who was sentenced to death in the first and second trials for killing three elderly residents by falling from the balcony, filed an appeal by the 15th. was withdrawn and the death penalty was affirmed.

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Setsuko Thurlow gives a lecture at her alma mater, Hiroshima

2023-05-15 18:20:00
Ms. Setsuko Thurlow, an A-bomb survivor living in Canada who has long advocated the abolition of nuclear weapons, gave a lecture at her alma mater in Hiroshima. I want it," he appealed to the students.

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I tried to call the PC "support fraud" The whole picture of the 72-minute call

2023-05-15 18:19:00
"Your computer has been infected with a virus." "It will be your responsibility. You will be fined 5 million.” A man threatens me in unnatural Japanese. This is a series of digital crimes called “support fraud” that continue to cause damage. This is a trick that tricks victims into calling them by lying that they have been infected with a virus, and defrauding them of money by saying "support fees". I tried to call the "support window" for an interview. What is their "support" as seen from the 72-minute call... *This is done in the presence of an expert. Please do not imitate. (Yohei Fukuda, an interview team who can't be fooled by digital)

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Unknown fisherman was attacked by a bear or had sightings with boots in his mouth

2023-05-15 18:11:00
On the 14th, a man who was visiting Lake Shumarinai for fishing in Horokanai Town, Hokkaido went missing, and on the afternoon of the 15th, a part of a human body was found by the lake. A bear with boots in its mouth was witnessed nearby, and police are investigating the possibility that the man was attacked by a bear.

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Continuous arson in Chiba Urayasu or "oil cans" found at the scene

2023-05-15 18:03:00
At the beginning of this month, there was a series of suspicious fires burning motorcycles and bicycles in an apartment in Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture. At each of the three sites, what appeared to be oil cans were found, and the police are proceeding with the investigation as a series of arson cases.

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Emperor Emeritus and his wife to see Empress Shoken's "Taireifuku" in Kyoto

2023-05-15 17:58:00
During their visit to Kyoto, the retired emperor and his wife visited a temple associated with the imperial family to see the "taireifuku," a dress said to have been worn by Empress Dowager Shoken, wife of Emperor Meiji.

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Psychiatric hospital for patient assault New assistant nurse in 40s sent documents Metropolitan Police Department

2023-05-15 17:32:00
At a psychiatric hospital in Hachioji, Tokyo, where a nurse assaulted an inpatient, a new assistant nurse in her 40s who worked at the hospital was sent documents on suspicion of assaulting a patient.

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Interview necessary for receiving unemployment benefits to expand online Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

2023-05-15 17:22:00
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to make interviews at Hello Work, which are necessary for those who have lost their jobs to receive unemployment benefits, online for those who are raising children after this summer in order to increase convenience. I was.

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Unknown fisherman was attacked by a bear or had a shoe in his mouth

2023-05-15 16:53:00
According to police, a man who was fishing at Lake Shumarinai in Horokanai Town, Hokkaido went missing on the 14th, and on the afternoon of the 15th, a part of his body was found near the place where he got off the ferry. about it. In the vicinity, on the 14th, a bear was witnessed wearing boots, and hunters and firefighters who went to exterminate it confirmed part of the human body. Police are investigating the possibility that the man was attacked by a bear based on the circumstances in which he was found.

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About 40% of psychiatric hospital welfare patients wish to be discharged from the patient assault case

2023-05-15 16:49:00
At a psychiatric hospital in Hachioji, Tokyo, after a nurse assaulted a patient, the local government in charge confirmed the intentions of hospitalized patients who were receiving public assistance. It turns out that nearly half of them want to leave the hospital. On the other hand, discharge from the hospital has not progressed, and experts point out that the background is the lack of support for living in the community.

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Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa "Airlock" training, etc. open to the public Tsukuba, Ibaraki

2023-05-15 16:19:00
Part of the training of astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay on the International Space Station for a long time after this summer, was shown to the press in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry official indecent trial First trial

2023-05-15 15:49:00
An official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry was accused of quasi-forced indecency for giving a female acquaintance a drink mixed with sleeping pills and committing an obscene act, and the defendant was indicted. admitted. In addition, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has dismissed the defendant's staff as of the 15th.

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Memorial Festival Fukuoka

2023-05-15 15:42:00
Mizuko Yosai was held on the 14th at the site of a resort facility in Chikushino City, Fukuoka Prefecture, where women who became pregnant due to illegal violence when they withdrew from former Manchuria after the war underwent abortions.

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Continuous arson in an apartment in Urayasu, Chiba Fire that burns one motorcycle

2023-05-15 13:48:00
In May, there was a series of suspicious fires burning motorcycles and bicycles in an apartment in Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture. Police are investigating the incident as a series of arson cases, as there was no fire at the scene.

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Agency for Cultural Affairs begins full-scale operations today in Kyoto

2023-05-15 13:30:00
The Agency for Cultural Affairs began full-scale operations on the 15th in Kyoto, where it was relocated.

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Ishikawa Prefecture Governor Hase Requests Prime Minister Kishida to Early Designate a “Extremely Severe Disaster”

2023-05-15 13:29:00
After an earthquake with a seismic intensity of upper 6 in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture, Governor Hase of Ishikawa Prefecture reported the damage situation to Prime Minister Kishida and requested an early designation as a "extremely severe disaster." Prime Minister Kishida has indicated that he will hurry to calculate the amount of damage in order to decide whether to designate it.

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"Suspicious red item in bag" on JR Yokohama station platform, contents are strawberry jam

2023-05-15 12:18:00
On the morning of the 15th, a plastic bag containing something like a red liquid was found on the platform of JR Yokohama Station, and was reported to the police as a suspicious item. As a result of the investigation, it was confirmed that it was a jam, but with the G7 Hiroshima Summit approaching and the security around the station being strengthened, there was an uproar at the scene.

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Trouble with part of Japan Airlines boarding system confirmed full recovery

2023-05-15 11:54:00
There was a problem with part of the boarding system of Japan Airlines, and from the morning of the 15th, it took a long time to pass through the security checkpoints at airports nationwide, causing congestion. about it.

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Trains stop at JR Chuo and Sobu lines

2023-05-15 11:47:00
Local trains on the JR Chuo and Sobu lines were suspended on the inbound and outbound lines between Mitaka and Chiba stations due to an accident that caused an injury at Shinjuku station, but they resumed operation around 11:24 am. bottom.

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JR Chuo/Sobu Line local train Suspension of operation between Mitaka and Chiba

2023-05-15 11:07:00
Local trains on the JR Chuo and Sobu lines have been suspended on the inbound and outbound lines between Mitaka and Chiba stations due to an accident at Shinjuku station at around 10:23 am.

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Trouble with part of Japan Airlines boarding system restored at most airports

2023-05-15 11:01:00
Some troubles occurred in Japan Airlines' boarding system, and from the morning of the 15th, it took a long time to pass through the security checkpoint at airports nationwide, causing congestion, but most airports have been restored.

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Trouble with part of the Japan Airlines boarding system Flight delays are gradually recovering

2023-05-15 10:07:00
Some troubles occurred in Japan Airlines' boarding system, and from the morning of the 15th, it took longer than usual to pass through security checkpoints at airports nationwide, and some flights were delayed.

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Trouble with part of Japan Airlines boarding system Time to pass security checkpoint

2023-05-15 08:49:00
Some troubles occurred in Japan Airlines' boarding system, and from the morning of the 15th, it took longer than usual to pass through security checkpoints at airports nationwide.

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51 years after Okinawa's reversion to mainland Japan, security burden grows even heavier

2023-05-15 06:12:00
In 15 days, it will be 51 years since Okinawa returned to the mainland. With 70% of the U.S. military facilities in Japan concentrated in Okinawa, the deployment and strengthening of new units of the Self-Defense Forces are also being planned, and the burden of Japan's security is placing an even heavier burden on Okinawa.

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Nurse arrested at psychiatric hospital Tokyo surveys patient's intention to discharge or transfer

2023-05-15 05:40:00
In response to an incident in which a nurse assaulted a patient at a psychiatric hospital in Hachioji, Tokyo, the Tokyo metropolitan government and outside experts will confirm the patient's wishes for discharge or transfer to another hospital. I know you've started investigating.

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3 people injured in Nagoya accident 19-year-old man arrested suspected of accident due to drunk driving

2023-05-15 05:16:00
On the 14th, a car carrying five 19-year-old men and women collided with a bridge railing in Nagoya, killing three people. He was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

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A series of earthquakes in the waters near Hachijojima.

2023-05-15 04:25:00
Since the evening of the 14th, there have been a series of earthquakes centered in the sea near Hachijojima, including a seismic intensity 3 tremor observed on Kozushima in the Izu Islands. There may be some changes in the tide level due to previous earthquakes, but there is no need to worry about damage from the tsunami. The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling for attention to future seismic activity.

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West Japan atmospheric instability Beware of lightning strikes, tornadoes, and heavy rain overnight

2023-05-15 00:35:00
Due to the effects of low pressure and moist air, the atmospheric conditions in western Japan have become extremely unstable. I urge you to pay attention to

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