Interesting news and stories translated into English from Japan and the Japanese-language internet.
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Japan Pensions Service reveals a massive information leak in which files of over a million pension holders were hacked; netizens unimpressed with cyber security.1 -
Yahoo! News reports that a US resident is currently wanted by Japanese police for vandalising shrines throughout Japan; netizens are convinced the man is a Korean. -
A recent mixi News article suggests 4 reasons long-term boyfriends don't propose to their girlfriends; mixi netizens say if he liked it, he'd have put a ring on it.
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A Tokyo judge rules that a 7-year affair between a man and a 'club mamma' was indirect prostitution and therefore not adultery; 2ch netizens extremely confused. -
Two high-speed trains narrowly avoid collision on a rail track in Kyushu following a schedule mix-up due to an earlier emergency stop; 2ch netizens respond. -
A woman is arrested at a convenience store in Ishinomaki after walking out with 45,000 yen [approx. $370] in change instead of 3,000 yen [around $25]; 2ch responds. -
Yahoo! Japan reports on arrest of a 43 year old man who posted threats to the safety of Princess Kako on Internet message board 2ch; netizens suspect he's Korean. -
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An article from a small Korean online newspaper goes viral after the author blasts Japan and suggests Princess Kako be sent to be a Comfort Woman; reactions. -
Abe Shinzo's cabinet adopt a bill that would authorize the right to collective self-defense in Japan, voiding Article 9 of the constitution; responses from Yahoo!. -
Doraemon voice actress Oyama Nobuyo, who has voiced Doraemon since the 1970s, reveals that she has been diagnosed with dementia; 2ch.net netizens sympathetic. -
Recent statistics reveal Japan is the only nation of the G7 countries in which suicide is the leading cause of death for those aged 15 -34; responses from 2ch.net. -
Yahoo! reports that a man was arrested for throwing coffee on teenage girls, claiming it give him a 'sense of accomplishment'; netizens say he has a weird fetish. -
Belarus announces plans for an anti-NEET law to get young people into work, triggering an online debate in Japan over NEET and hikikomori; responses from 2ch.net. -
A 35 year old man is arrested after entering a woman's unlocked apartment in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, and raping her as she slept; Yahoo! netizens shocked and outraged. -
Teenage girl asks other netizens on popular Q&A site Oshiete! Goo why Japanese girls are so thin, prompting a strong online response; reactions from mixi netizens. -
Two Korean women's groups announce their plan to nominate the 53 surviving former comfort women for the Nobel Peace Prize; reactions from Yahoo! Japan and 2ch.net. -
Yahoo! Japan reports that an 83 year old man is to be prosecuted for tying a cat to his car and dragging it for 4km before abandoning its corpse; netizens shocked.
