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- If Xbox Leadership Rewards Success The Same As Failure, Why Trust Them? Forbes
- Microsoft guts four studios to focus on priority games aka Bethesda games Tom’s Hardware
- After posting daily updates for 7 years, Prey fan account that was counting the days until a sequel reacts to studio closure: “It’s over” Gamesradar
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Tag Archives: Japanese
Japanese Police Arrest 36-Year-Old Man on Suspicion of Tampering With Pokémon Violet Save Data – IGN
- Japanese Police Arrest 36-Year-Old Man on Suspicion of Tampering With Pokémon Violet Save Data IGN
- Japanese cops bust interior decorator that moonlighted selling hacked Pokémon: ‘I did it to make a living’ PC Gamer
- Pokemon hacker could face five years in prison for selling manipulated Scarlet and Violet save data in Japan Gamesradar
- Kyoto man held over modified Pokemon video game characters | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis 朝日新聞デジタル
- Japan: Pokemon hacker arrested & faces potential prison time for selling manipulated save data My Nintendo News
Japanese Pop Mogul Abused Hundreds of Boys, Investigation Finds – Rolling Stone
- Japanese Pop Mogul Abused Hundreds of Boys, Investigation Finds Rolling Stone
- Founder of talent agency for boy bands sexually assaulted hundreds of teens: investigation PennLive
- Johnny Kitagawa: Investigators demand resignation of top J-pop talent agency boss after her uncle’s abuse revealed The Independent
- Japan talent agent Johnny Kitagawa sexually assaulted hundreds of teens: report South China Morning Post
- Niece of J-Pop mogul Johnny Kitagawa should resign over abuse allegations, panel says The Guardian
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Move over Diablo 4 and Valorant, Street Fighter 6 absolutely dominates Twitch viewership thanks to Japanese VTuber tournament – EventHubs
- Move over Diablo 4 and Valorant, Street Fighter 6 absolutely dominates Twitch viewership thanks to Japanese VTuber tournament EventHubs
- Capcom Cup champ stomps Juri swarm to win Street Fighter 6’s first Major Dot Esports
- Street Fighter 6 Data Reveals Two Characters You Should Never Use ComicBook.com
- Wrong Super leads to most intense Street Fighter 6 set at CEO 2023 between Justin Wong and Phenom EventHubs
- All characters saw some representation in the top 64 at CEO 2023’s Street Fighter 6 tournament but Juri was the most popular EventHubs
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Warren Buffett explains why he bought 5 Japanese trading houses: I was ‘confounded’ by the opportunity – CNBC
- Warren Buffett explains why he bought 5 Japanese trading houses: I was ‘confounded’ by the opportunity CNBC
- Buffett’s Japanese stock purchases could indicate a bigger plan, says Mobius Capital’s Mark Mobius CNBC Television
- Warren Buffett has his eyes on this one country when it comes to his future investments—and he already owns 6% of its top 5 companies Yahoo Finance
- Warren Buffett gives reason for surprise sale of stake in Taiwan’s TSMC CNN
- LIVE: Warren Buffett on Japanese bets, Berkshire Hathaway outlook Markets Insider
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Yale professor who said elderly Japanese should commit ‘mass suicide’ walks back comments – KOMO News
- Yale professor who said elderly Japanese should commit ‘mass suicide’ walks back comments KOMO News
- Yale academic suggests mass suicide for Japan’s old people: NYT Business Insider
- Yale professor under fire for suggesting elderly Japanese residents should kill themselves New York Post
- Yale professor suggests ‘mass suicide’ to solve Japan’s aging population: ‘I’d like a second opinion’ Fox News
- Yale professor tells Japanese senior citizens to ‘kill themselves’ to deal with country’s aging population Firstpost
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Viral video of Japanese student licking conveyer belt sushi prompts legal action
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A restaurant in Japan says it will take legal action against a student who was videoed licking his fingers and then touching its conveyor belt sushi.
The Instagram Stories video, which is no longer available for viewing, shows a young student directly licking a soy sauce bottle and a cup before placing it back. Anxiously looking around, the boy continues by sucking on his finger and using it to touch sushi circling on the conveyor belts.
At the end of the 48-second clip, the student can be seen smiling and giving a thumbs up. The video was reportedly viewed over 22 million times.
Although the original video has been taken down, Twitter users re-uploaded the viral video.
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One Twitter user also re-uploaded the clip alongside other videos of people doing similar acts on Sunday, such as eating sushi off of the conveyor belt and touching the food with their used utensils. The tweet quickly reached 1,233 retweets and 2,305 likes as of this writing.
The converter belt sushi restaurant was revealed to be an Akindo Sushiro location in Japan’s Gifu prefecture.
In response, Food & Life Companies Ltd., the restaurant chain’s parent firm, declared on Monday that they will take action, from both criminal and civil perspectives, with the help of the police, according to the Mainichi Shimbun. An official complaint was filed on Tuesday.
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“We have implemented thorough disinfection and disposal of soy sauce bottles in the store where the incident apparently occurred,” the company told the Mainichi. “We’d like to consult with police after conducting a thorough internal investigation. We consider the incident a serious matter causing anxiety among our customers. We hope that those involved in the case will take full responsibility for their actions.
In light of the case, the student in the video and their guardian have come forward to directly apologize to the company, Kyodo reports.
The apology — as well as the student’s school photo and the viral video — was uploaded onto Twitter by user @AmotoPowerrrrr on Tuesday.
The tweet has been retweeted 4,310 times and has 11,000 likes as of this writing.
Despite the apology, the company will “continue to respond strictly in both a civil and criminal capacity.”
Japanese yen weakens as Bank of Japan makes no changes to yield curve range
Morning commuters in front of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. The Bank of Japan made no changes to its yield curve control policy on Wednesday.
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The Japanese currency weakened against the U.S. dollar after the Bank of Japan surprised markets by keeping its yield curve tolerance band unchanged.
The Japanese yen weakened 2.6% against the U.S. dollar after the decision was announced and last stood at 131.47, hovering at its strongest levels since June, 2022.
“Japan’s economy is projected to continue growing at a pace above its potential growth rate,” the Bank of Japan said in a statement. The central bank left its interest rate unchanged at an ultra-dovish -0.1% – in line with expectations and maintaining the same rate it’s kept since 2016.
The decision to make no changes to its monetary policies comes after the central bank caught global markets off guard in its previous meeting by widening its tolerance range for the yield on its 10-year government bond from 25 basis points to 50 basis points in December.
Since the move last month, 10-year JGB yields have exceeded the upper ceiling several times.
The yield on the 10-year JGB exceeded the upper ceiling of its band for a fifth straight session on Wednesday morning before dropping to 0.385%.
‘Knee-jerk’ reaction
Nomura head of FX strategy Yujiro Goto said while the move would be a disappointing one for traders bullish on the Japanese yen, the weakening of the currency may be temporary.
“I think the initial reaction [for the yen reaching] 130 to 131, or potentially 132 is a knee-jerk reaction after the ‘no change’ today,” he said on CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”
“In the medium term, over the next 2-3 months, I think the trend for the yen should be still on the downside towards 125, even after the disappointment today,” he said,
Goto said the currency will strengthen on hopes of a policy shift in the near-term future, highlighting the nearing end of BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s term.
“Markets should keep expecting [the BOJ] to tweak or change [its] monetary policy after some point, especially after Kuroda’s retirement,” he said.
Shigeto Nagai of Oxford Economics said the BOJ’s move to widen its band “fueled” expectations for more changes ahead.
“Today, the BOJ really wanted to calm down that speculation and anticipation for normalization,” he said, adding the central bank will continue to be pressed for change.
More pressure ahead
As inflation continues to rise in Japan, the central bank will face further pressure ahead of its leadership change.
“Inflation in Japan is doing something that it hasn’t done for 40 years,” Viraj Patel of Vanda Research said in a tweet, adding that the Bank of Japan risks “falling into” the same trap as the U.S. Federal Reserve in labeling inflation as “transitory.”
The Bank of Japan used wording that was similar to the Fed’s description of inflation before the U.S. central bank began continuously hiking rates to tame rising prices, describing it as “pass-through.”
“The year-on-year rate of increase in the consumer price index is likely to be relatively high in the short run due to the effects of a pass-through to consumer prices of cost increases led by a rise in import prices,” the central bank said in its latest statement.
The Bank of Japan revised its forecasts for 2023’s core inflation nationwide from 2.9% to 3%. Nationwide inflation data is expected Friday.
Russia’s Medvedev says Japanese PM should disembowel himself | Russia-Ukraine war News
Former president once seen as a reformer has reinvented himself as an arch-hawk since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself.
It was the latest in a long line of shocking and provocative statements from Medvedev, who was once seen as a Western-leaning reformer but has reinvented himself as an arch-hawk since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
Speaking at a news conference in Washington on Saturday, a day after a summit with US President Joe Biden on Friday, Kishida made no mention of Medvedev’s comment and was not asked about it.
Japanese officials travelling with Kishida did not immediately respond to requests for comment and in Japan, no one was immediately available for comment on the remarks at either the prime minister’s official residence or the foreign ministry outside normal working hours.
Medvedev is a prominent ally of President Vladimir Putin who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and of a body overseeing the defence industry.
He was responding to a meeting on Friday between Kishida and Biden, after which the two leaders issued a joint statement saying, “We state unequivocally that any use of a nuclear weapon by Russia in Ukraine would be an act of hostility against humanity and unjustifiable in any way.”
On Saturday, Kishida said the G7 summit of major industrialised nations in Hiroshima in May should demonstrate a strong will to uphold international order and rule of law after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Medvedev said the nuclear statement showed “paranoia” towards Russia and “betrayed the memory of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who were burned in the nuclear fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” – a reference to the atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Japan before its surrender at the end of World War II.
Rather than demanding US repentance for this, Kishida had shown he was “just a service attendant for the Americans”.
He said such shame could only be washed away by committing “seppuku” – a form of suicide by disembowelment, also known as “hara-kiri” – at a meeting of the Japanese cabinet after Kishida’s return.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Medvedev has warned repeatedly that Western meddling in the crisis could lead to nuclear war, and has referred to Ukrainians as “cockroaches” in language Kyiv says is openly genocidal.
Putin has said that the risk of a nuclear war is rising but insisted Russia has not “gone mad” and that it sees its own nuclear arsenal as a purely defensive deterrent.
Medvedev says Japanese PM should disembowel himself
Jan 14 (Reuters) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself.
It was the latest in a long line of shocking and provocative statements from Medvedev, who was once seen as a Western-leaning reformer but has reinvented himself as an arch-hawk since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
Speaking at a news conference in Washington on Saturday, a day after a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, Kishida made no mention of Medvedev’s comment and was not asked about it.
Japanese officials travelling with Kishida did not immediately respond to requests for comment and in Japan, no one was immediately available for comment on the remarks at either the prime minister’s official residence or the foreign ministry outside normal working hours.
Medvedev is a prominent ally of President Vladimir Putin who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and of a body overseeing the defence industry.
He was responding to a meeting on Friday between Kishida and Biden, after which the two leaders issued a joint statement saying: “We state unequivocally that any use of a nuclear weapon by Russia in Ukraine would be an act of hostility against humanity and unjustifiable in any way.”
On Saturday, Kishida said the G7 summit of major industrialized nations in Hiroshima in May should demonstrate a strong will to uphold international order and rule of law after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Medvedev said the nuclear statement showed “paranoia” towards Russia and “betrayed the memory of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who were burned in the nuclear fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” – a reference to the atomic bombs that the United States dropped on Japan to force its surrender at the end of World War Two.
Rather than demanding U.S. repentance for this, Kishida had shown he was “just a service attendant for the Americans”.
He said such shame could only be washed away by committing seppuku – a form of suicide by disembowelment, also known as hara-kiri – at a meeting of the Japanese cabinet after Kishida’s return.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Medvedev has warned repeatedly that Western meddling in the crisis could lead to nuclear war, and has referred to Ukrainians as “cockroaches” in language Kyiv says is openly genocidal.
Putin has said that the risk of a nuclear war is rising but insisted Russia has not “gone mad” and that it sees its own nuclear arsenal as a purely defensive deterrent.
Reporting by Reuters
Editing by Frances Kerry and Diane Craft
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