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

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.

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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://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/’fast-foodization’-of-love-hotels

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

Conan Town — https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/mayor-of-japan%E2%80%99s-conan-town-to-conan-o%E2%80%99brien-if-you-want-the-money-come-visit

https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/conan-o%E2%80%99brien-announces-trip-to-tottori-prefecture%E2%80%99s-conan-town

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.

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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-residents-in-flood-struck-area

Miss Top Gun — https://japantoday.com/category/national/breaking-barriers-japan-gets-first-woman-fighter-pilot

The Urinator — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/American-man-arrested-for-urinating-on-another-passenger-on-flight-to-Japan

Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/Mrs-and-Mr-Marilyn-Monroe-honeymoon-in-Japan

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.

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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.com/category/sports/olympics-tokyo-2020-chief-asks-abe-to-consider-daylight-savings

Justice Minister — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/justice-minister-family-to-get-police-protection-for-life-after-aum-executions

Octopus Mystery — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Police-looking-for-suspect-who-threw-octopus-at-condo-over-and-over-for-one-hour

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.

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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-forcibly-kiss-her

Charlie Chaplin — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/charlie-chaplin-tramps-his-way-past-a-japanese-coup-d%E2%80%99etat

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.

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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 Heat — https://japantoday.com/category/sports/heat-is-on-tokyo-2020-organizers-to-combat-high-temperatures

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.

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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-start-discussions-on-flying-cars-eyes-new-entry

AI Scabs — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/what-jobs-will-ai-do-within-20-years-almost-everything-it-seems