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In this week's news from Japan Today: Another big Japanese company admits to falsifying data for its products; a woman in Osaka Prefecture is arrested for the murder of her father then her brother in a story right out of a mystery novel; the youngest ever Othello board game champ gets a big surprise on his flight home to Japan and an inspirational look back at Helen Keller’s 1937 visit to Japan — the first of many. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Data Shakeup — https://japantoday.com/category/business/Data-cheating-worries-spread-to-Tokyo-Skytree-Olympic-buildings Artful Daughter? — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Woman-arrested-for-killing-brother-to-be-charged-over-father's-death Othello Champ — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Youngest-Othello-world-champion-flown-home-by-man-whose-record-he-beat Bicycle Etiquette — https://japantoday.com/category/have-your-say/What-do-you-think-of-bicycling

In this week's news from Japan Today: Osaka severs sister city relationship with San Francisco; Kyoto starts taxing accommodations of visitors to the city; A Kumamoto city councilwoman is censured for a cough drop; a suicide’s collateral damage in Tokyo and Japanese yakuza members are living longer and healthier lives. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Discomfort Women — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Osaka-cuts-sister-city-ties-with-San-Francisco-over-'comfort-women'-statue Kyoto Tax — https://japantoday.com/category/national/kyoto-introduces-lodging-tax-on-tourists Kumamoto Cough Drop — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/kumamoto-councilwoman-who-took-baby-to-work-kicked-out-of-conference-for-using-cough-drop Suicide Damage — https://japantoday.com/category/national/woman-injures-pedestrian-in-suicide-leap-from-building-in-tokyo Goodfellas — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi

In this week's news from Japan Today: PM Abe and President Trump agree to talk trade; Nintendo shuts down a go-karting company using its character likenesses; a woman is arrested in Tokyo for hiding the remains of her dead infant in coin lockers; the great Kanto versus Kansai rivalry and Rugby World Cup players and fans are asked to cover their tattoos ahead of the tournament. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Japan-U.S. Trade — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Japan-U.S.-agree-to-start-talks-on-free-trade-deal No Go-Karting! — https://japantoday.com/category/business/Nintendo-wins-court-battle-over-Mario-go-karting Coin Locker Baby — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Woman-arrested-for-leaving-body-of-newborn-baby-in-coin-locker Kanto vs. Kansai — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/the-old-and-enduring-mutual-dislike-between-people-of-kansai-and-kanto Bad Tattoos — https://japant

In this week's news from Japan Today: A Japanese billionaire will be the first private citizen to travel around the moon with Space X; another policeman killed at a community police station; Shinzo Abe is set to become Japan’s longest serving prime minister; Japan’s least popular city and Japan Yesterday looks at that time U.S. president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant visited with Emperor Meiji. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Over the Moon — https://japantoday.com/category/national/SpaceX-says-Japanese-billionaire-Maezawa-will-be-1st-private-passenger-on-rocket-trip-around-the-moon Dead Cops — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/police-officer-in-koban-stabbed-to-death-in-sendai-attacker-shot-dead All Hail Abe! — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Abe-re-elected-LDP-leader-setting-stage-to-become-Japan's-longest-serving-PM Least Popular City — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifesty

In this week's news from Japan Today: Naomi Osaka is the first Japanese to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament but people seem obsessed with her nationality here; Japan — overwhelmed by natural disasters this summer — turns its attention to helping foreigners deal with emergencies; Prime Minister Abe and Vladimir Putin look to officially end WWII hostilities; how executioners get paid in Japan — and how much — and with Japan’s rise as a top travel destination so to the rise in “tourism pollution.” https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Osaka Grand Slam — https://japantoday.com/category/sports/U.S.-Open-champ-Naomi-Osaka-gets-hero's-welcome-in-Japan Helping Foreigners — https://japantoday.com/category/national/focus-quake-reveals-japan-woefully-unprepared-to-help-foreigners-in-disasters Abe Putin — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Putin-tells-Abe-he-hopes-for-peace-treaty-this-year Hangman Pay — https://japa

In this week's news from Japan Today: An earthquake rocked Hokkaido on Thursday killing 16, causing landslides and knocking out power across the island; a powerful typhoon slammed Japan’s west coast with heavy rain and winds over 200 kmh and wreaking havoc; the Japanese government acknowledges the first radiation death among Fukushima nuclear plant workers; a man who was under arrest for rape and robbery escaped and is on the loose in Osaka and a police officer was charged with indecency after riding the train with his zipper open. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Hokkaido Quake — https://japantoday.com/category/national/2-dead-at-least-32-missing-after-M6.7-quake-hits-Hokkaido Typhoon — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Typhoon-death-toll-reaches-9-thousands-being-transported-from-Kansai-airport Radiation Death — https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-acknowledges-first-radiation-death-among-fu

In this week's news from Japan Today: Five elderly patients died at a hospital in Gifu City when the air conditioner broke down, a newspaper reports JR West made workers sit in a tunnel as a bullet train passed by them for training, a new trend at Japan’s famous love hotels has customers stopping in for shorter than usual trysts, a son was arrested for not informing police his father had died then living with the corpse at his home and Conan O’Brien and the mayor of “Conan Town” in Tottori Prefecture have traded demands what the comedian calls “appropriation of his name” with a visit to Japan in the works. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Hospital Heat Deaths — https://japantoday.com/category/national/5-elderly-patients-die-in-Gifu-hospital-after-air-conditioning-breaks Trainsitting — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Bullet-train-staff-made-to-sit-by-tracks-as-safety-exercise Hotel Quickies — https://j

In this week's news from Japan Today: Japanese basketball players have to leave the Asian Games in Jakarta after getting caught with prostitutes, an elderly volunteer is setting an example in western Japan, Japan’S newest fighter pilot is a young women inspired by the movie “Top Gun,” man arrested at Narita airport for urinating on passenger mid-flight and that time in 1954 when Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio visited Japan on their honeymoon. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Blink! Community Workspace - https://blinkcommunity.com/ Basketball Disgrace — https://japantoday.com/category/sports/4-Japanese-basketball-players-sent-home-from-Asian-Games-after-night-with-prostitutes-in-hotel GaijinPot 2018 West Japan Aid - https://blog.gaijinpot.com/western-japan-floods-and-rain-disaster/ Super Volunteer — https://japantoday.com/category/national/%E2%80%98Super-volunteer%E2%80%99-who-found-missing-child-helping-res

In this week's news from Japan Today: Prestigious Tokyo Medical University admits to limiting acceptance of women, July was officially the hottest month on record in Japan, organizers are considering Daylight Savings Time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, after the execution of 13 members of the Aum cult the Japanese government will provide security to the current justice minister and her family and a mystery of “tentacular” proportions in Sapporo. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Blink! Community Workspace - https://blinkcommunity.com/ Medical University — https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-med-school-confirms-altering-scores-to-keep-out-women GaijinPot 2018 West Japan Aid - https://blog.gaijinpot.com/western-japan-floods-and-rain-disaster/ Heatwave Stats — https://japantoday.com/category/national/record-70-000-people-sent-to-hospitals-in-japan-due-to-heat-wave Daylight Savings — https://japantoday.

In this week's news from Japan Today: After the floods a heatwave scorches the nation, Japan and EU sign massive free trade agreement, a groper in Yokohama chases after his victim for a forcible kiss and our next installment of Japan Yesterday features Charlie Chaplin stumbling into a coup d’etat. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Japan Heatwave — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Death-toll-in-heat-wave-tops-30-more-than-10-000-taken-to-hospitals GaijinPot 2018 West Japan Aid - https://blog.gaijinpot.com/western-japan-floods-and-rain-disaster/ Japan-EU Free Trade Agreement — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Japan-EU-sign-massive-trade-deal-to-eliminate-nearly-all-tariffs Sons Says Stupid — https://japantoday.com/category/business/softbank's-son-says-japan-is-stupid-for-not-allowing-ride-sharing Forced Kiss — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Man-gropes-woman-chases-her-for-100-meters-to-f

In this week's news from Japan Today: Floods from torrential rain causes landslides and devastation in western Japan, a Tokyo man is arrested for groping women by pretending to be blind, a bunch of Kanazawa grapes sell for over 1 million yen and the heat is on for Olympic organizers to alleviate the effects of the extremely hot and humid Tokyo summer conditions on athletes and spectators. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: West Japan Flooding — https://japantoday.com/category/national/70-000-rescuers-continue-search-for-missing-people-as-flood-death-toll-passes-200 GaijinPot 2018 West Japan Aid - https://blog.gaijinpot.com/western-japan-floods-and-rain-disaster/ Blind Groper — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/fake-blind-man-arrested-for-groping-female-employee-at-tokyo-department-store Expensive Grapes — https://japantoday.com/category/national/bunch-of-premium-table-grapes-fetches-1.1-mil.-yen Olympic

In this week's news from Japan Today: Japan executes Aum Shinrikyo cult founder and six followers simultaneously without prior notice, Japanese soccer team bows out of World Cup but leaves locker room immaculate, a Nagoya ruling allows forcible cleanup of “garbage house,” think tank set up to look at flying cars to alleviate traffic problems plus a magazine reports on jobs that will be made redundant by AI. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Aum Executions — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Aum-cult-founder-Asahara-6-followers-hanged Clean Loss — https://japantoday.com/category/world-cup/soccer-social-media-users-laud-japan-for-spotless-locker-room Garbage House — https://japantoday.com/category/national/nagoya-court-orders-forcible-clean-up-of-%E2%80%98garbage-house%E2%80%99 GaijinPot Jobs - https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/index/index/lang/en Flying Cars — https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-to-s

In this week's news from Japan Today: Japan makes it through to the second round of the World Cup and video of Japanese fans cleaning up after the match go viral, a spate of fatal stabbings across the country this week, President Donald Trump claims to be regarded as a "world hero" in Japan, a member of the ruling LDP says that childless couples are "selfish" plus a new series on Japan Today — "Japan Yesterday" — takes a look at famous historical figures' first visits to the country . https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Clean Up Cup — https://japantoday.com/category/world-cup/Tidy-Japan-fans-make-us-proud-says-Yoshida Fatal Stabbings — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/2-dead-including-police-officer-after-man-attacks-Toyama-police-box Hero Trump —https://japantoday.com/category/quote-of-the-day/north-korea-was-firing-missiles-over-japan-like-it-was-the-4th-of-july-last-year.-look-at-all-the-things-we've-h

In this week's news from Japan Today: After this week's magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Osaka wreaked havoc xenophobic rumors spread like wildfire across social media in Japan, President Trump made a disparaging remark to PM Abe at the G7 summit in Canada about Mexican immigrants, another horrific murder of a child at the hands of the parents, an official with Kobe city government is punished for going to lunch three minutes early plus orderly chaos across Japan after celebrations over the country's 2-1 win over Colombia in its first World Cup match in Russia. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: After the Quake — https://japantoday.com/category/national/osaka-gov't-warns-of-baseless-rumors-on-social-media-after-quake Mexican Whine — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/trump-threatened-to-send-25-million-mexicans-to-japan-report Horrific Parents —https://japantoday.com/category/crime/4-year-old-boy-dies-after-

In this week's news from Japan Today: Prime Minister Abe looks to his own summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, Japan officially lowers the age of adulthood, a heinous murder borne of the "dark web," return of the living dead plus if you're not into politics she may not be that into you says a Japanese think tank. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Kim Possible — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Japan-aiming-for-Abe-Kim-summit-in-Russia-in-Sept Adults Only — https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-enacts-law-to-lower-adulthood-age-to-18 Dark Web — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Suspects-in-abduction-murder-of-nurse-met-on-internet-dark-site GaijinPot Jobs - https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/index/index/lang/en Return of the Living Dead — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Man-presumed-dead-returns-home-a-year-after-family-cremated-wrong-body Down Vote — https://japantoday.com/cat

In this week's episode: Prime Minister Abe and President Trump deal on trade and Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea, a young child dies from abuse by her parents even though she left heartbreaking notes begging them to stop, the mystery surrounding the death of Japan's self-proclaimed "Don Juan," the man who wasn't dead plus a new poll reveals how many Japanese men and women are having sex at the office all from Japan Today this week. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Bosom Buddies — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Abe-promises-Trump-new-Japanese-investment Death of a Child — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Fatally-abused-5-year-old-girl-wrote-notes-pleading-with-her-mother-stepfather-to-stop-beating-her What Happened to Japan's Don Juan? — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/murder-suspected-in-death-of-rich-man-dubbed-japanese-don-juan GaijinPot Jobs - https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/inde

In this week's episode: Japanese politicians keep putting their feet in their mouths this time over motherhood and raising children, Japan continues to hunt and kill whales for “research purposes” (whatever that means) and their catch this year yields some horrific information, the Japanese government is opening the doors for more foreign workers to enter the country but there’s a catch — actually, a few of them — we tell you what they are, she rented a room in a couple’s home until she could get another place but she ended up abused and tortured — J-horror at it’s finest hits the news in Japan yet again plus the major influx of athletes and tourists for the upcoming Rugby World Cup and Tokyo Olympics have one company hoping it will help “prop up” their sales so we get “down to business” with that story all on Japan Today this week. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Putting Their Foot in It — https://japantoday.

In this week's episode: Dirty tricks on the gridiron when a late tackle leaves a university quarterback injured and an opposing player and coach facing tough questions, President Donald Trump pours cold water on his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump threatens to impose huge tariffs on Japanese vehicles imported to the U.S. Sending shock waves through the industry, Platforms like Airbnb are looking to get a boost from new short-term rental laws coming in to effect in Japan this June, but excess regulations could put the squeeze on operators plus a man in Fukuoka Prefecture has been nabbed for stealing crime prevention whistles from children all on Japan Today this week. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Playing Dirty — https://japantoday.com/category/sports/update1-american-football-former-coach-denies-ordering-flagrant-foul The Breakup — https://japantoday.com/category/world/Trump-cancels-summi

In this week's episode: Japan's deputy prime minister puts his foot in his mouth — again; an update on last week's horrific murder of a 7-year-old girl in Niigata as police arrest a suspect; an elderly woman in Hyogo Prefecture discovers someone has been living in an upstairs room of her house for almost 5 months; women in Japan reveal their worst dating experiences and it seems the men need to up their game plus Japan’s trains are renowned for their punctuality, but JR West has apologized for a train that left slightly early and more news from Japan Today. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Foot in mouth — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/aso-touches-on-potential-trip-by-n.-korean-leader-to-landmark-summit Child killer caught — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/associates-shocked-at-arrest-of-suspect-in-7-yr-old's-murder Unwanted house guest — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-arrested-for-

In this week's episode: The horrific murder of a small child found on the railroad tracks in Niigata City; Japan, China and South Korea meet to discuss ending Kim Jong Un's nuclear program; PM Abe's strange dessert in Jerusalem; Japanese finance ministry officials get trained on what sexual harassment is; the number of children in Japan is at an all-time low and more news from Japan Today. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2