January 1, 2018
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Business, Crime, Human Interest, Political
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It was a spring Friday night when one of Japan’s best-known television journalists invited Shiori Ito out for a drink. Her internship at a news service in Tokyo was ending, and she had inquired about another internship with his network.
They met at a bar in central Tokyo for grilled chicken and beer, then went to dinner. The last thing she remembers, she later told the police, was feeling dizzy and excusing herself to go to the restroom, where she passed out.
By the end of the night, she alleged, he had taken her back to his hotel room and raped her while she was unconscious.
The journalist, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, the Washington bureau chief of the Tokyo Broadcasting System at the time and a biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, denied the charge and, after a two-month investigation, prosecutors dropped the case.
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/world/asia/japan-rape.html?referer=
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March 6, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, sports
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New Year’s night, a sparkling “2017” is brightly lit atop the Tokyo Tower, and the possibilities ringing in are endless. Proof? Inside apartments on the city’s flat screens, a Japanese League champion and heartthrob is squatting behind a makeshift home plate in a studio attempting to receive his own pitches.
“Best baseball player in the world,” one high-ranking official with a major league club flatly has declared back in the United States.
“He’s…wow!” one veteran scout with a National League club exclaimed.
“All the stories you hear are real as far as the batting practice power and his ability to throw 100 mph,” the international scouting director of another major league club said. “All the stories.”
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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2695575-shohei-ohtani-the-best-baseball-player-in-the-world-isnt-in-mlbyet
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April 7, 2016
Mohenjo
Technical
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People have wept, nearly puked and now they may shit their pants for the sake of virtual reality.
Gaming company Bandai Namco is opening up a virtual reality arcade center in Tokyo from April through October, according to VR Scout. It’s hoping to lure in human guinea pigs to test out the HTC Vive virtual reality system and Bandai Namco games, one of which looks especially terrifying.
In a teaser video for one of the HTC Vive experiences, Fear of Heights Show, users have to rescue a cat on a wooden plank 60 stories above the ground. The promo video itself may be dramatized, but the premise definitely has pants-shitting potential.
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http://mic.com/articles/139472/this-ridiculous-vr-experiment-might-make-you-poop-your-pants-in-terror#.ovSXiwquw
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December 9, 2012
Mohenjo
Human Interest
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A 7.3-magnitude quake has struck off Japan’s eastern coast, triggering a small tsunami and sparking evacuations.
A one-metre wave hit Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture and many people heeded calls to move to higher ground before all alerts were later lifted.
The quake epicentre was about 245km (150 miles) south-east of Kamiashi at a depth of about 36km, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Miyagi was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
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The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes said he felt his building shake “violently”
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20638696
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Shiori Ito told the police she had been raped by Noriyuki Yamaguchi, then the Washington bureau chief for the Tokyo Broadcasting System and a biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.CreditJeremie Souteyrat for The New York Times
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