r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 Under a new law in Japan, it is a crime for a suspect held by the police to refuse to give them their cell phone password. The first person to be charged with the law is a foreigner

asahi.com

1.8k Upvotes

263 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

Japan struggles to attract foreign nurses amid staff shortages due to low pay and tough language requirements. Only 8.5% passed the nursing exam last year- “Filipino nurses speak English, so as the yen weakens they go to Europe or the US...even some Japanese nurses want to go to Europe now"

asia.nikkei.com

1.3k Upvotes

94 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

Japan steps up measures to stop Halloween gatherings- In addition to Shibuyas "Goodbye Bad Halloween" campaign, Nagoya and Fukuoka will shut down parks and other areas where cosplayers traditionally meet

japantoday.com

504 Upvotes

77 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 Japan Conservative Party member Kitamura proposes "suspending immigration from certain areas if crime rates are high", citing the French riots.

news.yahoo.co.jp

235 Upvotes

108 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 Japan is making it harder to get student visas, acceptance rate drops from 77% to 65. Acceptance for students from Bangladesh drops from 58% to 3%, for Sri Lanka, 51% to 3%

nationaljobcouncil.com

213 Upvotes

26 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 22h ago

日本語 Japanese consumers tend to avoid food made with ingredients sourced from China due to the country's lax health standards, but an investigation shows Chinese ingredients show up in menu items at several popular chains, including Starbucks, McDonald's, Torikizoku, Isomaru Suisan and Unagi no Senose.

dailyshincho.jp

141 Upvotes

24 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 22h ago

10 years after son killed by car, Japan father fights smartphone use while driving - The Mainichi

mainichi.jp

119 Upvotes

14 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

A Japanese man found 22 million yen ($146,000) on his way home from the hospital on the day he was told he had just two months to live. He spent most of it and was later arrested. In court, he said it felt like “a gift from God.”

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112 Upvotes

42 comments

r/japannews • u/Tokyometal • 16h ago

Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned

theregister.com

53 Upvotes

8 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 JAL reports cyberattack leak of info for 92,000 customers, including passport numbers

news.livedoor.com

40 Upvotes

10 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 13 Mostly Eldely Tokyo Residents Angry Over City's Smartphone-Required Points Benefit, Sue Prefecture Saying "It's Digital Authoritarianism"

news.livedoor.com

33 Upvotes

10 comments

r/japannews • u/BigPapaSlut • 18h ago

日本語 A 33-year-old woman who claims to be an employee of a sex shop is involved in the incident of defrauding 200 million yen of crypto assets from a man in his 70s

news.yahoo.co.jp

27 Upvotes

6 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 22h ago

Japan's new justice minister eager to legalize sole use of maiden names

japantimes.co.jp

27 Upvotes

3 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 Yokohama Doctor arrested for defamation of his former nurse- was so angry she quit he sent a fax to her new hospital falsely accusing her of stealing his clinic's funds and giving drugs to other employees

news.livedoor.com

21 Upvotes

1 comment

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

Some pro-democracy activists from Hong Kong have faced needless uncertainties from Japanese immigration officials while trying to enter the country after completing their prison sentences, detained for hours for questioning or refused entry

japantoday.com

17 Upvotes

2 comments

r/japannews • u/Miao_Yin8964 • 9h ago

US, Japan defense chiefs agree to bolster first island chain defenses against China

biz.heraldcorp.com

14 Upvotes

35 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 22h ago

日本語 A woman was killed in Kanagawa prefecture after driving her car on the Odakyu train tracks for 400 meters

newsdig.tbs.co.jp

13 Upvotes

2 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 Halloween has spread in popularity in Japan over the last 10 years as another opportunity for cosplay, but a problem is emerging- creeps who use their costumes as disguises allowing them to grope young girls in the crowds with impunity

dailyshincho.jp

11 Upvotes

4 comments

r/japannews • u/diacewrb • 12h ago

Purported data of GMO clients leaked after ransom denied

asahi.com

10 Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 21h ago

日本語 Japan's Zensho Holdings (Operator of Sukiya and Hama Sushi) plans rapid expansion of its Saizeriya competitor "Olive Hill" from 60 stores to 500

business.nikkei.com

10 Upvotes

4 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 22h ago

Security concerns were flagged within Japanese FX trading firm GMO before breach- CEO says they were warned by in-house white-hat hackers of "issues that needed improvement", but that its response was "inadequate in both depth and speed"

japantoday.com

11 Upvotes

0 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 Kitakyushu school board recalls 74,000 Hewlett-Packard student tablets after child suffers burning finger

news.livedoor.com

8 Upvotes

5 comments

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 22h ago

Japan has increasing numbers of vacant homes as elderly die off. An Osaka prefecture city is working to "proactively" put them back on the market by finding houses that seem to be abandoned, tracking down the owners or heirs and connecting them to real estate companies

mainichi.jp

10 Upvotes

2 comments

r/japannews • u/Prestigious_Net_8356 • 15h ago

Son of former SFCG boss Kenshi Oshima assassinated in Laos street shooting

tokyoreporter.com

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/japannews • u/jjrs • 11h ago

日本語 Japan Self-Defense Force Officer faces disciplinary action for threatening 12-year-old boy into giving him ¥300,000

asahi.com

7 Upvotes

1 comment

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