In this week’s news from Japan Today: The Cuban ambassador to Japan banned from staying at a Hilton Hotel in Fukuoka; a Japanese lawmaker in charge of cybersecurity admits to not using a computer in 25 years; popular Korean boy band BTS has fallout from the wearing of an atomic bomb shirt; a movie stuntman was arrested for cutting a girls skirt on an escalator and a Tokyo man formally marries celebrity hologram.

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This weeks stories:
Cuban Ambassador Ban — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Cuban-ambassador-denied-room-at-Hilton-hotel-in-Fukuoka-due-to-U.S.-sanctions

Cyber Insecurity — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Japan’s-cyber-security-minister-admits-never-having-used-computer

BTS Bombs — https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/k-pop-group-bts’s-talent-agency-apologizes-over-a-bomb-shirtr

Skirt Stunt — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/action-movie-stuntman-arrested-for-cutting-high-school-girl%E2%80%99s-skirt

Hologram Wedding — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/crazy-in-love-the-japanese-man-‘married’-to-a-hologram

In this week’s news from Japan Today: U.S. President Donald Trump makes the news in Japan again for his treatment of a Japanese reporter; passengers will be banned from carrying knives aboard all trains in Japan starting next year; the CEO of SoftBank — one of Japan’s richest men — defends his company accepting Saudi money in the wake of the Kashoggi killing; a man who hasn’t left his house in 40 years has been arrested for abandoning the corpse of his mother plus we look at the 1934 visit to Japan by baseball legend Babe Ruth — the sultan of swat, the Great Bambino — in 1934 in our latest Japan Yesterday segment.

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This weeks stories:
Unfair Trade — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Trump-says-Japan-treats-U.S.-unfairly-on-trade-by-not-taking-more-American-cars

Knives Out — https://japantoday.com/category/national/passengers-to-be-banned-from-carrying-knives-onto-all-trains-in-april

Blood Money — https://japantoday.com/category/tech/SoftBank-CEO-Son-says-Saudi-fund-to-continue-despite-Khashoggi-murder

The Mummy — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/49-year-old-man-socially-withdrawn-for-40-years-arrested-for-abandoning-mother%E2%80%99s-corpse

Japan Yesterday — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/babe-ruth-the-sultan-of-swat-visits-japan

In this week’s news from Japan Today: A Japanese airline pilot was arrested for being 10 times over the legal limit for alcohol when he showed up for his flight to Tokyo; November in Japan means it’s time for “Warm Biz,” when the thermostat gets turned down and the sweaters get put on; the governor of Okinawa is headed to the U.S. with a message — get your military bases outta here!; the Japanese government is warning its citizens not to smoke weed in Canada where it’s legal plus a plethora of Paul McCartney in Japan news.

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This weeks stories:
JAL D.U.I. — https://japantoday.com/category/national/JAL-pilot-arrested-in-London-admits-being-almost-10-times-over-alcohol-limit

Warm Biz — https://japantoday.com/category/national/gov’t-kicks-off-warm-biz-energy-saving-campaign

Get Out! — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Okinawa-governor-plans-to-visit-U.S.-and-tell-Americans-to-stop-building-disputed-military-base

Up in Smoke — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Japan-2-other-Asian-nations-warn-citizens-not-to-use-marijuana-in-Canada

Beatlemania — https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/paul-mccartney-arrives-in-japan-for-four-concerts

https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/Japanese-superfans-lose-fight-for-Beatles-footage
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/New-video-for-Beatles’-‘Glass-Onion’-released-on-Apple-Music

In this week’s news from Japan Today: a freelance Japanese journalist is freed from three years in captivity in Syria; women not accepted to Tokyo Medical University due to their sex are now seeking redress; the U.S. State Department says Japan is still non-compliant with the Hague Convention on international child abductions; a 15-year-old was arrested for killing his grandfather, attempting to kill his grandmother and plotting to kill a student from his school plus Halloween in Japan — it’s not celebrated like it is in the West.

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This weeks stories:

Blogs of War — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Journalist-freed-from-Syria-returns-to-Japan-to-relief-and-criticism

Discrimination Compensation — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Women-demand-Tokyo-Medical-University-compensate-them-over-entry-test-rigging

Custody Battles — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Foreign-divorced-parents-fight-in-vain-for-child-custody-in-Japan

Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion Project — https://www.kizuna-cpr.org/

Making a Murderer — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/15-year-old-boy-who-killed-grandfather-wounded-grandmother-also-planned-to-kill-classmate

Fright Night — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/something-for-everyone-this-halloween

Have Your Say “Halloween in Japan” — https://japantoday.com/category/have-your-say/what-do-you-think-about-the-way-halloween-is-celebrated-in-japan

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.

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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-etiquette-in-Japan-

Japan Yesterday — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/helen-keller-brings-hope-and-light-to-japan

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.

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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/Yakuza-enjoying-benefits-of-healthier-living-and-longer-life

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.

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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://japantoday.com/category/rugby-world-cup-2019/rugby-world-rugby-advise-teams-to-cover-up-tattoos-at-japan-world-cup

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.

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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/lifestyle/what%E2%80%99s-japan%E2%80%99s-least-appealing-big-city-and-why-did-it-get-stuck-with-that-title

Japan Yesterday — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/american-president-ulysses-s-grant-talks-peace-in-meiji-era-japan

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.”

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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://japantoday.com/category/crime/cruel-yet-popular-punishment-japan’s-death-penalty

Tourism Pollution —
https://japantoday.com/category/quote-of-the-day/it%E2%80%99s-time-to-consider-placing-limits-on-the-number-of-people-who-enter-as-an-anti-crowding-measure.-to-maintain-our-pride-as-a-tourism-nation-harmonious-coexistence-with-local-residents-is-extremely-important.

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.

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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-fukushima-workers

The Fugitive — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/Big-reward-for-Osaka-fugitive-draws-yakuza-interest

Cop Junk — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-kept-body-of-father-at-home-because-he-didn%E2%80%99t-want-to-be-separated-from-him