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Man extorted ¥10 million from friend over 8 years using phantom ‘violent sempai’ 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my Tumblr profile pinned post) Suspect said, 'I had no income and was struggling to make a living' The post Man extorted ¥10 million from friend over 8 years using phantom ‘violent sempai’ appeared first on TokyoReporter.

Lenders seek $700 million after Japanese payments firm’s collapse 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) The financial failure of Osaka-based Zentoshin has left 63 creditors with claims totaling ¥115.16 billion ($709 million).

Seven & I raises profit outlook, bolstering turnaround hopes 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) Operating profit will be ¥425 billion ($2.6 billion) for the year through February 2027, compared with Seven & I Holdings' prior forecast for ¥405 billion.

Fujimori legacy shows limits of Trump’s push against China in Peru 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) Keiko Fujimori will have to navigate her father's legacy as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to reassert U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

Scandal-hit Osaka payment processor goes bankrupt with ¥125 billion debt 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my Tumblr profile pinned post) Collapse of Zentoshin marks the largest bankruptcy of the fiscal year The post Scandal-hit Osaka payment processor goes bankrupt with ¥125 billion debt appeared first on TokyoReporter.

Nearly 150 Japanese academics oppose bill banning national flag desecration 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) The legislation faces significant pushback among opposition parties who say it violates a constitutional right to freedom of expression.

18-year-old man arrested over 2025 cyberattack on internet cafe operator 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) The man allegedly sent over 7.24 million fraudulent commands in the three days from Jan. 18 last year in an attempt to obtain membership information.

The U.K. riots where online rage triggered real-world chaos 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) The country has experienced three summers in a row of racially motivated protests and marches, along with a backbeat of attacks on migrants and ethnic minorities.

AI-related copyright losses cost celebrities up to ¥4.5 billion, study says 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) Over 43,000 AI-generated images and videos that used celebrities' likenesses without their consent were created over a two-month period last year.

World’s first fully sealed vertical-farming facility opens in Tokyo 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) At Plantx's facility, light, air and water are controlled in each unit allowing the system to tailor the nutritional values and sugar content of agricultural products.

City in Osaka Prefecture to tax vacant houses from fiscal 2029 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) Annual revenue from the tax is estimated to reach ¥139 million, which will be used for measures against crimes and natural disasters.

Yields hit three-decade highs as BOJ behind-the-curve narrative debated 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) Some analysts argue that the central bank is not being overtaken by the market even as the 10-year yield crosses 2.9%.

Flights and ferries canceled as Typhoon Bavi barrels toward remote islands 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) The very powerful typhoon was located over the sea east of the northern Philippines on Thursday afternoon and is expected to make landfall in China on Sunday.

Japan names lineup for clash against Ireland as Eddie Jones returns from ban 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) Jones returns after serving a four-match ban imposed by the Japan Rugby Football Union for abusing match officials on a tour of Australia earlier this year.

Cambodia wants to bring back tigers, but should it? 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) The plan would see India send several of its more than 3,600 tigers to southwestern Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, a protected expanse of lush rainforest.

‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging 📢Share your social posts everywhere — automatically! Upload videos via URL, schedule with first comment, recycle evergreen content & let AI handle your posting. (website link on my most recent post on Tumblr profile) Kabuki, one of Japan's oldest performing art forms, and Studio Ghibli seek modern resonance in an everchanging landscape for arts.