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GMO believes North Korean hackers may be behind the attacks on it, a report says.
A journalist in France says the mass protests and the riots were separate things.
The tattooist who said '99% of people with tattoos are idiots' is retiring.
Prime Minister Takaichi's post about 'having older people work' drew a storm of criticism.
The website of the hacker group demanding a ransom from GMO has been taken down.
GMO has put a bounty of up to $1 million on information leading to whoever broke into one of its services.
A break-in at Rakuten Travel may have exposed data on up to 2.6 million people.
GMO's chief apologised: attackers had 'exploited the gap'.
Comedian Highheel Momoko fumed on the radio about a taxi driver.
Japan's Digital Minister told people to protect their own information, and criticism poured in.
Microsoft said a hacking group aligned with the Chinese state had used AI to attack hundreds of organisations worldwide.
PM Takaichi asked on X for PHP to be patched that night.
PM Takaichi's food tax-cut bill went into debate with no funding details.
A YouTuber couple say a fake-police scam took almost everything they had.
Japan floats a payment of about ¥30,000 a year for 20 million lower-paid workers.
PM Takaichi says Japan is considering gift vouchers and a revived "GoToEat" for restaurants hit by a tax cut.
Tokyo's Bunkyo ward mailed payment reminders in envelopes covered with "open it!", emoticons and 15 drawn eyes, then apologised.
A Vietnamese man has been arrested on suspicion of catching a deer with an illegal snare in the hills of Kasugai, Aichi.
Japan's economy is set to slip to sixth in the world next year, behind India and the UK.
Women in Japan in their 30s and 40s are doing less sport and losing fitness, and housework and childcare may be why.
Japan's prime minister skipped a G7 leaders' video call, and opposition leaders lined up to complain.
After a wave of personal-data leaks, Japan's government issued an urgent "request" to companies.
Japan's prime minister kept the farm minister in post with the words "just work, and pay it back with your work".
A hacker group told a Japanese broadcaster that Japan has one of the world's worst cyber security set-ups.
Hideaki Anno, the director of Evangelion, is making a new Space Battleship Yamato film.
A month after Japan cut the speed limit on residential streets to 30 km/h, a TV crew clocked 30 cars and found 4 within it.
Tokyo's Chiyoda ward will survey runners' bad manners around the Imperial Palace.
A city ordered the removal of a mosque built without permission.
An article reported that Japan had dropped out of China's top ten holiday destinations.
An article asked whether the criticism was prejudice against a former pop idol.
Excel is ending the forty-year rule that a cell holds one value.
Russia's foreign minister called Japan and Germany militarist and opposed their Security Council bids.
Foreign-founded companies in Japan halved in six months.
A food delivery rider was arrested for molesting a child who was home alone.
A Japanese weekly ran a story about a Japanese YouTuber living in Taiwan who spat night-market food out on camera, said he hated Taiwan, and then put "To the low-class people of Taiwan" on the thumbnail of his explanation video.
A Japanese tabloid put "people make too much fuss about tattoos these days" in its headline.
A YouTuber promised to save Japan's rice farmers, and eighteen months later the project had stalled.
A former pop star became a deputy minister, and the sports paper led with her jacket.
A father whose son was killed by a lorry at an unsignalled crossing says he still regrets not buying the helmet.
A woman held over cocaine put her tongue out and winked at the camera on her way to the prosecutors.
Mercari's share price fell about thirty per cent in a month.
Driverless taxis are to start carrying passengers in Tokyo in 2027.
Denny Tamaki, who lost the Okinawa governor election, said smears on social media had been left unchecked, and the campaign is preparing a criminal complaint.
Okinawa has elected a new governor: Genta Koja, a newcomer, defeated the incumbent Denny Tamaki, who was seeking a third term.
Japan's Ministry of Justice plans to start a trial next year in which sex offenders out on parole are given GPS devices to carry.
A Tokyo city bus driver, running empty, repeatedly honked and flashed his lights at a car, shouted an insult, and has been referred to prosecutors for road rage.
Cars keep crossing yellow centre lines to pass cyclists under Japan's new rule, so Tokyo police will repaint half of the city's yellow lines white.
A woman drove the wrong way down a Tokyo expressway to escape the police, was arrested in Shibuya for carrying a knife, and was released the same night.
A 25-year-old tailgated a car, ran the other driver down, dragged him, and told police he only meant to scare him.
A Russian military plane flew over the Northern Territories.
Thirty years of regret.
Monday 7 September, Tokyo.
Kura Sushi cancelled its Chiikawa campaign over staff misconduct with the prizes.
An 18-year-old father was arrested for killing his two-month-old baby.
China's army posted a Ghibli-style AI cartoon attacking Japan.
Five high schoolers were arrested for a honey-trap robbery in Shibuya.
Japan has stopped telling employers to keep overtime under 45 hours a month.
A day at Tokyo Disney can now reach 100,000 yen for a family of four.
A salon charges you for being 15 minutes late, then keeps you waiting 30.
"Should the Imperial Palace run be banned?" I counted 3,570 comments — 90 percent agreement, and the page is written by the people who were told to get out of the way
Chilled crab ramen at a Tokyo festival left 76 people sick.
FamilyMart said hijabs are fine under its new uniform rules, and the internet caught fire.
From September 1, the speed limit on roughly 70 percent of Japan's roads drops from 60 to 30 km/h.
One illegally parked car stopped a Shibuya bus for 23 minutes.
From 2031 a camera will watch your eyes.
"He shines brightest now," said the headline.
Japan's Ministry of Justice put up a poster reading 'Rehabilitation?
Under a headline about 'smelly ojisan,' the most-read comment was an ojisan's laundry recipe.
Seven teenagers competed over how many minutes they could delay trains.
Russia protested Japan's protest.
The driver was arrested for attempted murder.
A Turkish driver was arrested for drifting on a Japanese public road.
Japan's PM stopped ten minutes' walk from Yasukuni Shrine and prayed from a parking lot.
"99% of my tattoo clients are idiots." The room agreed 7.3 to 1 — and added the missing words: in Japan.
Japan's most-read tech story today drew 16 comments.
The dancers show their faces.
He deleted the video.
The comments knew his hotel room number.
Japan's feeds laugh at "ojisan fashion".
Japan agreed 46 to 1 about a TV fee.
Japan bills its police cars for TV.
It was never about smoking.
A ¥5 billion hit.
Japan will surcharge your hay fever pills.
Rakuten is giving every shop an AI manager.
The story named no nationality.
He broke up the cat fight.
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Field notes
One comment thread per note, read to the bottom and counted.
GMO believes North Korean hackers may be behind the attacks on it, a report says.
A journalist in France says the mass protests and the riots were separate things.
The tattooist who said '99% of people with tattoos are idiots' is retiring.
Prime Minister Takaichi's post about 'having older people work' drew a storm of criticism.
The website of the hacker group demanding a ransom from GMO has been taken down.
GMO has put a bounty of up to $1 million on information leading to whoever broke into one of its services.
A break-in at Rakuten Travel may have exposed data on up to 2.6 million people.
GMO's chief apologised: attackers had 'exploited the gap'.
Comedian Highheel Momoko fumed on the radio about a taxi driver.
Japan's Digital Minister told people to protect their own information, and criticism poured in.
Microsoft said a hacking group aligned with the Chinese state had used AI to attack hundreds of organisations worldwide.
PM Takaichi asked on X for PHP to be patched that night.
PM Takaichi's food tax-cut bill went into debate with no funding details.
A YouTuber couple say a fake-police scam took almost everything they had.
Japan floats a payment of about ¥30,000 a year for 20 million lower-paid workers.
PM Takaichi says Japan is considering gift vouchers and a revived "GoToEat" for restaurants hit by a tax cut.
Tokyo's Bunkyo ward mailed payment reminders in envelopes covered with "open it!", emoticons and 15 drawn eyes, then apologised.
A Vietnamese man has been arrested on suspicion of catching a deer with an illegal snare in the hills of Kasugai, Aichi.
Japan's economy is set to slip to sixth in the world next year, behind India and the UK.
Women in Japan in their 30s and 40s are doing less sport and losing fitness, and housework and childcare may be why.
Japan's prime minister skipped a G7 leaders' video call, and opposition leaders lined up to complain.
After a wave of personal-data leaks, Japan's government issued an urgent "request" to companies.
Japan's prime minister kept the farm minister in post with the words "just work, and pay it back with your work".
A hacker group told a Japanese broadcaster that Japan has one of the world's worst cyber security set-ups.
Hideaki Anno, the director of Evangelion, is making a new Space Battleship Yamato film.
A month after Japan cut the speed limit on residential streets to 30 km/h, a TV crew clocked 30 cars and found 4 within it.
Tokyo's Chiyoda ward will survey runners' bad manners around the Imperial Palace.
A city ordered the removal of a mosque built without permission.
An article reported that Japan had dropped out of China's top ten holiday destinations.
An article asked whether the criticism was prejudice against a former pop idol.
Excel is ending the forty-year rule that a cell holds one value.
Russia's foreign minister called Japan and Germany militarist and opposed their Security Council bids.
Foreign-founded companies in Japan halved in six months.
A food delivery rider was arrested for molesting a child who was home alone.
A Japanese weekly ran a story about a Japanese YouTuber living in Taiwan who spat night-market food out on camera, said he hated Taiwan, and then put "To the low-class people of Taiwan" on the thumbnail of his explanation video.
A Japanese tabloid put "people make too much fuss about tattoos these days" in its headline.
A YouTuber promised to save Japan's rice farmers, and eighteen months later the project had stalled.
A former pop star became a deputy minister, and the sports paper led with her jacket.
A father whose son was killed by a lorry at an unsignalled crossing says he still regrets not buying the helmet.
A woman held over cocaine put her tongue out and winked at the camera on her way to the prosecutors.
Mercari's share price fell about thirty per cent in a month.
Driverless taxis are to start carrying passengers in Tokyo in 2027.
Denny Tamaki, who lost the Okinawa governor election, said smears on social media had been left unchecked, and the campaign is preparing a criminal complaint.
Okinawa has elected a new governor: Genta Koja, a newcomer, defeated the incumbent Denny Tamaki, who was seeking a third term.
Japan's Ministry of Justice plans to start a trial next year in which sex offenders out on parole are given GPS devices to carry.
A Tokyo city bus driver, running empty, repeatedly honked and flashed his lights at a car, shouted an insult, and has been referred to prosecutors for road rage.
Cars keep crossing yellow centre lines to pass cyclists under Japan's new rule, so Tokyo police will repaint half of the city's yellow lines white.
A woman drove the wrong way down a Tokyo expressway to escape the police, was arrested in Shibuya for carrying a knife, and was released the same night.
A 25-year-old tailgated a car, ran the other driver down, dragged him, and told police he only meant to scare him.
A Russian military plane flew over the Northern Territories.
Thirty years of regret.
Monday 7 September, Tokyo.
Kura Sushi cancelled its Chiikawa campaign over staff misconduct with the prizes.
An 18-year-old father was arrested for killing his two-month-old baby.
China's army posted a Ghibli-style AI cartoon attacking Japan.
Five high schoolers were arrested for a honey-trap robbery in Shibuya.
Japan has stopped telling employers to keep overtime under 45 hours a month.
A day at Tokyo Disney can now reach 100,000 yen for a family of four.
A salon charges you for being 15 minutes late, then keeps you waiting 30.
"Should the Imperial Palace run be banned?" I counted 3,570 comments — 90 percent agreement, and the page is written by the people who were told to get out of the way
Chilled crab ramen at a Tokyo festival left 76 people sick.
FamilyMart said hijabs are fine under its new uniform rules, and the internet caught fire.
From September 1, the speed limit on roughly 70 percent of Japan's roads drops from 60 to 30 km/h.
One illegally parked car stopped a Shibuya bus for 23 minutes.
From 2031 a camera will watch your eyes.
"He shines brightest now," said the headline.
Japan's Ministry of Justice put up a poster reading 'Rehabilitation?
Under a headline about 'smelly ojisan,' the most-read comment was an ojisan's laundry recipe.
Seven teenagers competed over how many minutes they could delay trains.
Russia protested Japan's protest.
The driver was arrested for attempted murder.
A Turkish driver was arrested for drifting on a Japanese public road.
Japan's PM stopped ten minutes' walk from Yasukuni Shrine and prayed from a parking lot.
"99% of my tattoo clients are idiots." The room agreed 7.3 to 1 — and added the missing words: in Japan.
Japan's most-read tech story today drew 16 comments.
The dancers show their faces.
He deleted the video.
The comments knew his hotel room number.
Japan's feeds laugh at "ojisan fashion".
Japan agreed 46 to 1 about a TV fee.
Japan bills its police cars for TV.
It was never about smoking.
A ¥5 billion hit.
Japan will surcharge your hay fever pills.
Rakuten is giving every shop an AI manager.
The story named no nationality.
He broke up the cat fight.
COVID in a Kumamoto Shelter: Why Disaster-Prone Japan Still Sleeps on Gym Floors
"Where's the funding?" — 7,805 Japanese comments ask why that is their problem