Jeff W. Richards

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

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 .

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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-had-there’s-been-no-missiles-fired-there’s-been-no-rockets-fired.-japan-thinks-i’m-like-a-world-hero-over-there.

GaijinPot Jobs – https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/index/index/lang/en

Childless Selfish — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/not-having-children-is-selfish-ldp-heavyweight-nikai

Japan Yesterday — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/when-albert-einstein-formulated-his-japanese-cultural-equation

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.

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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-being-locked-inside-TV-stand-drawer-by-father

GaijinPot Jobs – https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/index/index/lang/en

Lunch Break — https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-worker’s-pay-docked-for-taking-lunch-3-mins-early

Cup Runneth Over — https://japantoday.com/category/world-cup/boozy-japan-fans-go-wild-after-shock-world-cup-win

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.

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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/category/features/lifestyle/five-reasons-your-partner%E2%80%99s-political-apathy-means-you%E2%80%99d-be-better-off-without-them

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.
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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/index/index/lang/en

The Man Who Wasn’t Dead — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Osaka-emergency-personnel-mistakenly-pronounce-man-dead

Sex in the Office — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/over-75-percent-of-japanese-women-say-they%E2%80%99ve-slept-with-a-male-coworker-survey