In this week’s news from Japan Today: A Tokyo court rejected Carlos Ghosn’s continued detention then prosecutors had him rearrested the next day; Japan will pull out of the International Whaling Commission; a man has been arrested for killing and dismembering his mother; Vladimir Putin has the top selling celebrity calendar in Japan, JR East asks riders to stop walking on the escalators plus a look at readers’ picks of the top news stories in Japan for 2018.

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This weeks stories:

All Ghosn — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Prosecutors-appeal-after-court-decides-against-extending-detention-of-Ghosn-Kelly

Whaling — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japan-to-pull-out-of-IWC-to-resume-commercial-whaling

Dismembering Mother — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-indicted-for-dismembering-mothers-body

Putin Pinup — https://japantoday.com/category/national/putin-calendar-sales-surpassing-those-of-japanese-stars-in-japan

Escalator Freeze — https://japantoday.com/category/national/JR-East-encouraging-commuters-to-stop-walking-on-escalators

2018 Top Stories — https://japantoday.com/category/have-your-say/what-do-you-think-were-the-biggest-international-and-domestic-(japan-if-you-live-in-japan)-news-stories-of-the-year?

In this week’s news from Japan Today: Tokyo prosecutors formally charged ousted Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn for financial misconduct and extended his detention until Dec 20; Japan’s ruling and opposition parties brawled in the Diet over the passing of a controversial bill; the kanji for disaster has been chosen as the character best representing Japan in 2018; a man was arrested for stabbing a woman in the back at a Tokyo train station plus a look at American women’s rights and birth control advocate Margaret Sanger’s 1922 visit to Japan.

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This week’s stories:

Still Ghosn — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Ghosn-Kelly-formally-charged-over-financial-misconduct-Nissan-also-indicted

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Nissan-Ghosn-clash-over-Rio-apartment-filled-with-art-cash

Brawliticians — https://japantoday.com/category/national/As-Japan-OKs-law-to-let-more-foreigners-in-tiny-rural-town-wants-to-go-further

Kanji of the Year — https://japantoday.com/category/national/(disaster)-chosen-as-kanji-character-best-representing-2018

Backstabber — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-arrested-for-stabbing-woman-near-train-station-in-tokyo

Dangerous Thoughts — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/Birth-control-advocate-Margaret-Sanger-brings-‘dangerous-thoughts’-to-Japan-in-1922

In this week’s news from Japan Today: 5 U.S. airmen are missing after two military planes collided midair of the coast of Japan; the shock arrest of Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has put the spotlight on Japan’s criminal justice system; a man is on trial in Yokohama for “road rage” after his actions led to the death of two people and seriously injured their two daughters; four men have been arrested for overturning a truck near Shibuya Crossing during the Halloween craziness and animal crimes in the headlines.

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This weeks stories:

Missing Airmen — https://japantoday.com/category/national/search-continues-for-5-missing-u.s.-marines-off-japan-coast

Law & Order — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/ghosn-arrest-puts-japan’s-justice-system-in-the-dock

Road Rage — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Man-pleads-not-guilty-over-death-of-husband-wife-in-road-rage-accident

Turning Trucks — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/4-men-arrested-for-allegedly-overturning-truck-during-halloween-event

Police Fight — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Police-called-in-to-break-up-drunken-brawl-by-other-officers

Animal Crimes — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Pet-black-bear-kills-caretaker

https://japantoday.com/category/national/wild-boar-bites-off-woman’s-finger-in-western-japan-city

In this week’s news from Japan Today: The arrest of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn dominates the news; the Japanese ruling party ushered in a bill proposing two new statuses of visa that could allow up to 345,000 blue-collar workers in to help a labor shortage; the U.S. State of Kansas will stop issuing license plates with letters making up an offensive term for the Japanese; a woman was arrested for leaving her elderly father — who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease — at a freeway rest stop and a new trend in “compensated dating” for young men is grabbing tabloid headlines.

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This weeks stories:
Ghosn Daddy Ghosn — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Japanese-prosecutors-say-they-will-detain-Ghosn-as-long-as-needed

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Ghosn-allegedly-shifted-personal-investment-loss-of-%C2%A51.7-bil-to-Nissan

Foreign Labor — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/update4-ruling-bloc-pushes-bill-to-expand-foreign-labor-through-lower-house

Vanity Plates — https://japantoday.com/category/national/kansas-stops-issuing-license-plates-with-offensive-term-for-japanese

Daddy Day Care — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/woman-arrested-for-leaving-father-with-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-at-expressway-parking-area

Japanese Gigolo — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/rise-of-the-‘mama-katsu’%E2%80%93-women-handing-out-favors-to-young-men-they-meet-on-sns

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