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Thursday May 17, 2012
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  • City official accused of forcing teen girls to send obscene photos - NewsOnJapan.com (Saturday, 28 April) - Under suspicion of violating the law against juvenile porno, Ochiai Koji, a staff member of Narashi city in Chiba Prefecture who works at an elementary school within the city, was arrested. He is also suspected of forcing a 15 year old girl in who lives in Kanagawa prefecture to take...
  • Manager arrested for forcing elementary students to recruit customers - NewsOnJapan.com (Saturday, 28 April) - The manager at a girls bar in Minami Osaka was arrested for forcing a 6th year elementary student to work for him. He was arrested for suspicion of violating the Labor standards act. (tbsnews)...
  • Yakuza boss arrested in Philippines - NewsOnJapan.com (Saturday, 28 April) - The boss of a yakuza gang and his wives were arrested for suspicions of operating a Philippine pub without a license. The 3 accused, Yakuza gang boss Ito Ukatsuhiko and his wives Maria Ito and Koldova Mercedes, were suspected of running a Philippine pub in the Adachi ward of Tokyo...
  • U.N. OKs Japan's claim to extend continental shelf in Pacific - NewsOnJapan.com (Saturday, 28 April) - The U.N. commission on seabed claims has adopted a recommendation allowing Japan to extend its continental shelf areas in the western Pacific, government officials said Saturday.The U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf has recognized around 310,000 square kilometers as part of Japan's continental shelf, equivalent to about...
  • High court OK's sale of drugs online - NewsOnJapan.com (Friday, 27 April) - The Tokyo High Court has ruled illegal a health ministry ordinance regulating online drug sales, abandoning an earlier ruling by the Tokyo District Court and recognizing two plaintiff companies' right to sell drugs on the Internet.One of the plaintiffs is kenko.com Inc., the nation's leading online drug retailer.(Yomiuri)...
  • Law to amend postal privatization enacted; share sales deadline removed - NewsOnJapan.com (Friday, 27 April) - The Diet on Friday enacted a bill to amend the law on privatizing the nation's postal services.The law previously required Japan Post Holdings Co. to sell all equity stakes in its two wholly owned financial units--Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance Co.--by the end of September 2017. (Yomiuri)...
  • Foreign buyers snap up land / Survey shows many people use Japanese names to hide acquisitions - NewsOnJapan.com (Friday, 27 April) - At least 1,100 hectares of mountain forest and other land have been acquired by foreigners, with Hokkaido providing the lion's share, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey.The survey discovered 63 land transactions involving foreign purchasers, but Japanese names were apparently used to disguise many of the deals, a subterfuge not...
  • Putting a number on Japan's happiness - NewsOnJapan.com (Friday, 27 April) - Last November, Japan got a visit from the King and Queen of Bhutan, a nation known for its index of gross national happiness, or GNH. Not to be outdone, Japan's Minister of National Strategy, Economic and Fiscal Policy, Motohisa Furukawa, announced soon after that Japan would develop its own GNH...
  • Japan sea sediments tell of past 'Tohoku quakes' - NewsOnJapan.com (Friday, 27 April) - Previous earthquakes that rivalled the March 2011 Tohoku tremor in size may be recorded in sediment samples just recovered from the seafloor off Japan.A German-led scientific cruise obtained the cores from 16 different locations, some of them at a water depth of 7.5km.(BBC)...
  • Government adopts safety plan for children - NewsOnJapan.com (Friday, 27 April) - The government on Friday adopted a basic policy on safety education at schools for the next five years, with the goal of minimizing harm to children in the event of natural disasters and other situations.(Yomiuri)...