The emergence of “ #Tokuryu ” or “anonymous and fluid gang groups” leveraging crime assistants for murders, thefts, or frauds via “dark” Internet sites poses a significant challenge for Japanese law enforcement in ensuring civil safety.

#トクリュウ nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…

Sankei has a gallery on the theme of overseas visitors paying for experiences, rather than shopping (〝モノ〟から〝コト〟へ　変わるインバウンド需要) sankei.com/article/202405…

Inside this week’s issue of The New Yorker: nyer.cm/onCDpeW

Pokemon promoting tourism in Haneda Airport

The solution to shortage of translators is not machine translation. It’s paying translators what they are worth so it becomes an attractive and viable career path for more people.

#OpenAccess Chiara Fusari University of Zurich uses life history analysis to trace how #buraku discrimination, poverty and gender have impacted buraku women's life experiences & how grassroots literacy movements contribute to empowerment Japan Social Science Research Taylor & Francis Group Japan doi.org/10.1080/186927…

This is going to be titanically bad stuff

Bar a few honourable exceptions, if you want accurate information during a breaking news event these days, you should avoid or be highly suspicious of most self-proclaimed 'osint' or 'intel' accounts. Posting unverified and unsourced videos from Telegram isn't osint work.

According to this NTV news report, approximately 85,000 people experienced travel delays on Sunday because of the suspicious bag incident at Kyoto Station. youtube.com/watch?v=EXrX7K…

A Japanese consulting client I worked with starting in mid-2019 as a technical program manager was a bit frustrated with my consensus-building approach when dealing with an outsourcing vendor. A new PM pulled me aside and said 'you can just decide.' They wanted a hardass.

More accessible #contraception could be key to tackling Japan’s demographic crisis, global head of IPPF Global told us.

“If women feel confident that they can have a child when they want it, then they will have it. If they don’t, they won’t.”

For Nikkei Asia

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'Nery has crumbled!'
Naoya 'the Monster' Inoue successfully defended his super-bantamweight titles against challenger Luis Nery tonight at the Tokyo Dome. Quite a dramatic fight on the last night of Japan's Golden Week holiday.

Japan, China, S. Korea Arranging Summit for May 26-27
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨

SFT unfurled a giant banner on an overpass above Xi’s motorcade as he was arriving in Paris. In China, Xi may be able to ignore the plight of Tibetans, but in France we are going to expose his lies and guarantee that Xi cannot forget us.

#FreeTibet #TibetLibre

Video: A 'No War March' was held in Tokyo today, with some demonstrators waving Palestinian flags and others holding general anti-war and anti-nuclear signs.

According to this ANN report there has also been a significant increase in emergency calls for ambulances, so behavior like this wastes the time of rescue workers who are working hard to respond to every call as soon as possible. youtube.com/watch?v=86Pi-E…

The Okayama Fire Department has shared this video telling people to please stop taking photos and videos for social media inside ambulances. Rescue can't do their jobs properly when people are trying to take ambulance selfies for Instagram or Twitter.

According to an Asahi Shimbun article, this is not the first time that the shrine has made changes to the festival because of complaints about animal abuse. It sounds like it was much worse prior to 2011. asahi.com/ajw/articles/1…