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Famous talent stylist and company executive arrested for allegedly violating the Investment Law

2025-01-15 22:08:00
A company executive who worked as a stylist for a famous celebrity was arrested by the Aichi Prefectural Police Headquarters on suspicion of violating the Investment Law for allegedly illegally raising over 280 million yen under the pretext of investing in a celebrity goods sales business. It is believed that he raised a total of 1.7 billion yen using the same method, and the police are currently investigating the details.

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Fuji TV to investigate Nakai's report with outside lawyers

2025-01-15 21:55:00
Following a weekly magazine report alleging that Fuji Television employees were involved in a dispute between entertainer Nakai Masahiro and a woman, Fuji Television has revealed that it is currently investigating the matter with the help of an outside lawyer.

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Nankai Trough mega-earthquake probability raised to "around 80%" within the next 30 years

2025-01-15 21:35:00
The government's Earthquake Research Committee recalculated the probability of a major earthquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years as of January 1st, raising the previous estimate from "70% to 80%" to "around 80%." The committee said this was not affected by the Hyuga-Nada earthquake that occurred on the 13th of this month, and that this is because a lot of time has passed since the last major earthquake, and called for people to make preparations.

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Company executive arrested for possession of pen-shaped handgun and "homemade" anti-tank gun

2025-01-15 21:11:00
A 54-year-old company executive was arrested for possessing a lethal pen-type handgun at his home in Kobe. A 2-meter long "anti-tank gun" was also seized from the home, and the police are currently investigating the details of the incident, as the executive explained that he "made both himself."

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Nankai Trough mega-earthquake probability raised to "around 80%" within the next 30 years

2025-01-15 21:07:00
The government's Earthquake Research Committee recalculated the probability of a major earthquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years as of January 1st, raising the previous estimate from "70% to 80%" to "around 80%." The committee said this was not affected by the Hyuga-Nada earthquake that occurred on the 13th of this month, and that this is because a lot of time has passed since the last major earthquake, and called for people to make preparations.

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Fuji TV Nakai report investigated with outside lawyer

2025-01-15 19:49:00
Following a weekly magazine report alleging that Fuji Television employees were involved in a dispute between entertainer Nakai Masahiro and a woman, Fuji Television has revealed that it is currently investigating the matter with the help of an outside lawyer.

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Suspect arrested for taking secret photos at Hyogo beach using "see-through swimsuit camera"

2025-01-15 19:37:00
A 53-year-old suspect was arrested by police for taking surreptitious photos of eight female athletes at sporting events held at beaches in Hyogo Prefecture and elsewhere, using a camera equipped with a special filter that made their swimsuits transparent. The SD card that was seized contained more than 20,000 images of women, and police are currently investigating the matter in detail.

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This weekend is the Common University Entrance Examination. How to be in top physical condition for the exam.

2025-01-15 19:33:00
Amid the influenza epidemic, the "Common Test for University Admissions" will be held this weekend. Preparatory schools in Tokyo are urging test-takers to get plenty of sleep so they are in top physical condition for the exam.

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Arrested cash collector in robbery and assault case at "illegal part-time job" in Funabashi, Chiba

2025-01-15 19:17:00
One of the spate of robberies committed by unlicensed part-time workers last year involved an incident in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture in October. A 30-year-old suspect from Tokyo's Adachi Ward was arrested on suspicion of violating the Organized Crime Punishment Act and other charges for allegedly recovering cash stolen by the perpetrator.

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25-year-old defendant sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering grandparents and three others in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka

2025-01-15 19:14:00
In a trial of a 25-year-old defendant charged with murder for killing his grandparents and older brother at his home in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, three years ago, the Hamamatsu branch of the Shizuoka District Court rejected the defense's argument that the crime was committed by a different personality and found the defendant to be responsible for his actions.However, taking into consideration his unfortunate family environment, the court sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

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Nine years since the Nagano ski bus accident: Family members lay flowers at memorial near site

2025-01-15 19:03:00
January 15 marks nine years since the ski tour bus accident in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, in which 15 people, including university students, died. Family members and others visited a memorial near the scene and quietly joined hands to mourn the victims.

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What can be done to combat the molestation of students taking entrance exams? "Those around you should also take action to help."

2025-01-15 19:02:00
This weekend, the "University Entrance Examination" will be held. During the exam season, posts that encourage molestation are posted on social media, taking advantage of the psychology of students who feel that they cannot be late for the exam, and there are concerns about the possibility of molestation. What measures can be taken to prevent this? If you are a victim, how should you respond?

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Junior high school students create choral piece "Tomoshibi" in memory of Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Kobe

2025-01-15 18:53:00
It's been 30 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. In order to pass on the lessons and thoughts of the disaster to the next generation, junior high school students in Kobe City composed a chorus piece and performed it at a school recital on the 15th.

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Two university students arrested for unlicensed moped crash into bicycle, injuring other driver

2025-01-15 18:34:00
Two university students, both 22 years old, have been arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for driving a moped - a pedal-equipped two-wheeled vehicle propelled by an electric motor - without a license, causing a collision with a bicycle and serious injuries to the other vehicle.

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Chiba Prefecture Choshi poultry farm begins culling about 420,000 birds due to bird flu

2025-01-15 18:31:00
A highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was detected in dead chickens at a poultry farm in Choshi City, Chiba Prefecture, and the prefecture has begun disposing of approximately 420,000 chickens at the farm. In Choshi City, avian influenza infection was confirmed at another poultry farm on the 12th of this month, and measures to prevent the spread of infection are being implemented.

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US fund requests investigation into Fuji Media Holdings over Nakai case

2025-01-15 17:56:00
American investment fund Dalton Investments has revealed that it has sent a letter to Fuji Media Holdings, the owner of Fuji Television, requesting the establishment of a third-party committee, citing flaws in the company's corporate governance in its response to the scandal surrounding comedian Masahiro Nakai, whose involvement with a woman was reported in a weekly magazine.

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Okinawa: Accident involving three vehicles, including a light passenger car and a dump truck leaves two high school students in critical condition

2025-01-15 17:48:00
On the morning of the 15th, an accident involving three vehicles, a light passenger car, a dump truck, and a passenger car, occurred on a national highway in Ogimi Village, Okinawa Prefecture, leaving two 18-year-old high school students in the light passenger car in critical condition and unconscious.

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Caution: Contractors stir up fears over electrical panel inspections, resulting in expensive construction contracts

2025-01-15 17:47:00
The National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan is calling for caution, as there has been a sharp increase in complaints about how contractors who came to inspect distribution boards made people anxious, telling them "if you don't replace it immediately, there will be an electrical leak and a fire," and then led them to sign contracts for expensive construction work.

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Nine years since the Nagano ski bus accident: Family members lay flowers at memorial near site

2025-01-15 17:26:00
January 15 marks nine years since the ski tour bus accident in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, in which 15 people, including university students, died. Family members and others visited a memorial near the scene and quietly joined hands to mourn the victims.

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Day service shuttle vehicle and passenger car collide head-on, 1 dead, 3 injured, Kanagawa

2025-01-15 17:25:00
On the morning of the 15th, in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, a day service shuttle vehicle collided head-on with a passenger car, killing a 91-year-old service user and causing injuries to three other users, including fractures.

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[Details] Former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee arrested for attempting to avoid detection

2025-01-15 17:18:00
It has been revealed that a former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee who was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on the 14th for stealing gold bars from a customer's safe deposit box had tried to avoid detection by putting the spare key used to open the safe back into the envelope it was in and gluing it back in, and by disconnecting the system when safe deposit box users arrived to prevent them from entering the room.

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Tax incentives for increased education and training costs: Over 70% of cases are “excessive deductions” despite minimal effect on wage increases

2025-01-15 17:06:00
The Board of Audit investigated tax incentives for corporations that increased their employee training expenses, which were introduced as part of the "wage increase tax system," and found that while the effect of raising wages was very small, more than 70% of the targets received tax deductions that exceeded the additional expenses they incurred.

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Japan's second-best supercomputer installed at University of Tokyo to study earthquake mechanisms, etc. in Chiba

2025-01-15 16:42:00
Miyabi, an academic supercomputer with the second highest performance in Japan, has been installed on the University of Tokyo campus in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture. It is expected to be used for a wide range of purposes, including research into the mechanisms of earthquakes.

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Actor from "Anne of Green Gables" calls for tax return filing using smartphones

2025-01-15 16:38:00
Ahead of the start of tax return submissions next month, actors starring in the Shiki Theatre Company's musical "Anne of Green Gables" tried out the gift tax return process, which can now be completed via smartphone starting this year, and urged people to take advantage of it.

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Osaka Habikino: Car driven by elderly woman runs out of control in parking lot, 6 people injured

2025-01-15 15:34:00
Around noon on the 15th, a minicar driven by an elderly woman collided with two other cars in the parking lot of a mass retailer in Habikino City, Osaka, leaving six people slightly injured and taken to the hospital. The woman is said to have "mistaken in driving and pressed the accelerator too hard," and the police are currently investigating the details of the incident.

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Former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee arrested on suspicion of theft - attempt to avoid detection?

2025-01-15 15:30:00
It has been revealed that a former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee who was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on the 14th for stealing gold bars from a customer's safe deposit box had tried to avoid detection by putting the spare key used to open the safe back into the envelope it was in and gluing it back in, and by disconnecting the system when safe deposit box users arrived to prevent them from entering the room.

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Okinawa: Accident involving three vehicles, including a light passenger car and a dump truck leaves two unconscious

2025-01-15 14:21:00
On the morning of the 15th, an accident involving three vehicles, a light passenger vehicle, a dump truck, and a passenger car, occurred on a national highway in Ogimi Village, Okinawa Prefecture, leaving two teenage boys in the light passenger vehicle in critical condition and unconscious.

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Osaka Habikino A car goes out of control in a mass retailer parking lot, 6 people injured

2025-01-15 14:15:00
On the 15th, a car went out of control in the parking lot of a mass retailer in Habikino City, Osaka, leaving six people with minor injuries and taken to the hospital.

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US fund requests investigation into Fuji Media Holdings over Nakai case

2025-01-15 13:05:00
American investment fund Dalton Investments has revealed that it has sent a letter to Fuji Media Holdings, the owner of Fuji Television, requesting the establishment of a third-party committee, citing flaws in the company's corporate governance in its response to the scandal surrounding comedian Masahiro Nakai, whose involvement with a woman was reported in a weekly magazine.

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Former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee arrested on suspicion of theft - attempt to avoid detection?

2025-01-15 12:05:00
It has been revealed that a former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee who was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on the 14th for stealing gold bars from a customer's safe deposit box had tried to avoid detection by putting the spare key used to open the safe back into the envelope it was in and gluing it back in, and by disconnecting the system when safe deposit box users arrived to prevent them from entering the room.

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Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office special investigation unit to investigate LDP accounting official in Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

2025-01-15 11:57:00
In an interview with a related person, it was learned that the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Division is in the final stages of investigation to bring charges against the accounting staff who prepared the income and expenditure report on suspicion of violating the Political Funds Control Law in relation to the issue of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Liberal Democratic Party's political fundraising party, where the members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly raised more than the sales quota, and did not report the amount in the political fund income and expenditure report. The amount of the unreported amount is said to be about 30 million yen, so the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Liberal Democratic Party has decided to correct the income and expenditure report in the future.

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Nine years since the Nagano ski bus accident: Family members lay flowers at memorial near site

2025-01-15 11:53:00
On the 15th, it will be nine years since the bus accident on a ski tour in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, in which 15 people, including university students, died. Families of the deceased have visited the memorial near the scene and are quietly praying.

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Former Tokyo Women's Medical University president to return 50 million yen to Adachi Ward hospital construction project

2025-01-15 11:45:00
It has been learned from investigators that the former chairman of Tokyo Women's Medical University, who was arrested in connection with a breach of trust case involving the construction of facilities on the university's campus, for having the university pay illegal fees to an architect, is also suspected of having had the same architect pay large fees in connection with the construction of a hospital in Adachi Ward, and of having funneled approximately 50 million yen of this money back to himself.

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Gifu Mino Elementary School Flower Bed Deer Head Buried by Someone

2025-01-15 11:39:00
On January 9th, a deer head was found in the soil of a flower bed at an elementary school in Mino City, Gifu Prefecture, and police are investigating, believing that someone buried it.

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Former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee arrested on suspicion of stealing gold bars from a safe deposit box

2025-01-15 10:15:00
In a case where over 1 billion yen worth of customer money and valuables were stolen from a Mitsubishi UFJ Bank safe deposit box, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 46-year-old former assistant branch manager on suspicion of stealing approximately 20 kilograms of gold bars, worth 260 million yen. The Metropolitan Police Department is currently investigating the details of the incident, as the suspect had suffered large losses in FX trading and horse racing, and owed money to a consumer finance company.

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More than half of the experiences and lessons learned from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake are not being shared

2025-01-15 07:12:00
On the 17th, it will be 30 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which killed more than 6,400 people. NHK conducted a survey of people living in areas that were hit hardest by the disaster, asking them if they had ever told anyone about the lessons learned from the disaster. More than half of those who experienced the disaster said "no." Experts point out that "it is even more important to create a place where governments, local communities, and others can easily talk about the disaster."

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Did the former president of Tokyo Women's Medical University pass a bill that presented false assumptions?

2025-01-15 06:18:00
In a case where the former president of Tokyo Women's Medical University was arrested on suspicion of breach of trust for having the university pay illegal fees to an architect and causing damage, it was revealed through interviews with people involved in the investigation that when the former president was passing a consultation within the university regarding the payment of fees, he presented a false simulation in which he explained that "if we outsource to another company, we will need to pay twice as much," and obtained approval. The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the case, believing that the work for which the fees were paid was not actually actual, and that the aim was to make the consultation look like it was.

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Suspect in murder of junior high school student suspected of attacking after "eye contact"

2025-01-15 06:13:00
In the case of the murder of two junior high school students at a fast food restaurant in Kitakyushu, a 43-year-old suspect said to police during questioning that he had made eye contact with the students just before the incident, according to an interview with a person involved in the investigation. Police are investigating the possibility that the suspect unilaterally felt that their eyes had met and attacked the two students.

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Man dies in Kobe residence; resident reports "I hit my friend"; search ongoing for whereabouts

2025-01-15 05:29:00
On the 14th, a man in his 50s was found dead in a house in Nagata Ward, Kobe City. It is believed that another person lived in the house, and after contacting an acquaintance to say that he had "hit a friend," he went missing. The police are investigating the possibility that this person knows something about the incident.

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Former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee arrested on suspicion of stealing gold bars from a safe deposit box

2025-01-15 05:16:00
In a case where over 1 billion yen worth of customer money and valuables were stolen from a Mitsubishi UFJ Bank safe deposit box, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 46-year-old former assistant branch manager on suspicion of stealing approximately 20 kilograms of gold bars, worth 260 million yen. The Metropolitan Police Department is currently investigating the details of the incident, as the suspect had suffered large losses in FX trading and horse racing, and owed money to a consumer finance company.

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NHK poll divides opinions on future nuclear power ratio

2025-01-15 05:02:00
In an NHK opinion poll asking people what they thought the proportion of nuclear power generation should be in the future, responses were divided: "It should be increased" (21%), "It's fine the way it is now" (30%), and "It should be decreased" (31%).

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[Earthquake Alert] Miyazaki City experiences magnitude 4 earthquake, no risk of tsunami

2025-01-15 02:34:00
At around 2:12 a.m. on the 15th, an earthquake measuring magnitude 4 was observed in Miyazaki Prefecture. There is no need to worry about a tsunami caused by this earthquake.

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