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AIDS spreading via dating sites: fact or fiction?
Kuchikomi › 05:49 PM JST - 8th May
The rumor mill had it that HIV, the AIDS virus, was spreading among users of “deaikei” (encounter) websites. These specialize in bringing strangers together as…
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Few authorities know how to deal with rape victims in Japan
Kuchikomi › 07:52 PM JST - 2nd May
A 13-year-old Tokyo girl left alone at home one night ventures out and is raped by a man she doesn’t know. Yomiuri Weekly (May 4)…
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Family restaurants face uncertain future
Kuchikomi › 07:00 AM JST - 29th April
There’s nothing quite like them, those “oases of the night” known in Japanese as “famiresu.” Clean, well-lit and open 24/7, the family restaurant is the…
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Pram safety aboard trains a growing problem
Kuchikomi › 06:37 AM JST - 24th April
From the end of March, JR East Japan and a consortium of railway companies in the Kanto and Kansai regions launched a joint campaign appealing…
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Briquettes are out, hydrogen sulfide in as latest suicide method
Kuchikomi › 12:00 PM JST - 20th April
“Generating poison gas. Don’t open.” Such was the notice on the bathroom door, posted on March 27 by a 27-year-old Kobe man testing a new…
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Young women lax on security at home
Kuchikomi › 01:57 PM JST - 16th April
The recent arrest of 28-year-old Toshiya Tsuji, accused of committing at least two break-in rapes in Saitama Prefecture, has shed light on the low awareness…
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OLs licking their lips at young fresh-faced new hires
Kuchikomi › 07:00 AM JST - 11th April
“If there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to ask me,” smiles the veteran OL to the new company recruit. "Anything at all." It’s that…
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Vehicle rip-offs change with the times
Kuchikomi › 02:35 PM JST - 8th April
“The other day, I ran into a friend. He told me two men had approached him in broad daylight. One sprayed some kind of tear…
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Laugh meter could prevent murder in the family
Kuchikomi › 04:04 PM JST - 4th April
Laughter is no joke to Kansai University Prof Yoji Kimura. He studies it, measures it, seeks to develop its health-giving potential. He is the inventor…
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Fraudsters running scams ahead of digital TV switchover
Kuchikomi › 01:03 PM JST - 30th March
“We mailed you three explanatory flyers about the new terrestrial digital broadcasting system. Did you receive them?” the man asked. “Unless you have the work…
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Geek-hunting turning Akihabara into dangerous place
Kuchikomi › 07:14 AM JST - 24th March
“I was waiting for a friend at the Electric Town entrance at Akihabara Station,” Shukan Gendai (March 29) hears from a 27-year-old woman. “Suddenly an…
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No goodies for Miura, says Saipan jailer
Kuchikomi › 04:07 PM JST - 18th March
Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura, 60, currently jailed in Saipan, awaiting possible extradition to Los Angeles, received a small disappointment this week when attorney William Fitzgerald,…
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Premature death rate high for Mainichi employees
Kuchikomi › 01:58 PM JST - 18th March
Journalists working in war zones and dictatorships put their lives on the line. In Japan, at peace and nominally democratic, the stakes are rather lower.…
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Shinjuku cops roust 'otaku' to boost sagging arrest stats
Kuchikomi › 01:59 PM JST - 10th March
“The places you’re most like to get stopped and questioned are by the east exit of Shinjuku Station, around the Sakuraya Hobby-kan, or at the…
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Five years on, Roppongi Hills hollowing out
Kuchikomi › 01:59 PM JST - 10th March
“Over the weekend, I dropped in on Roppongi Hills and found myself in for a surprise,” writes a reporter for evening tabloid Nikkan Gendai (Feb…
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China's economic boom mean iPods and leather jackets for Tokyo's homeless
Kuchikomi › 09:11 AM JST - 10th March
It’s a good time to be homeless in Japan, Tokyo Sports (Feb 27) finds. Why? Because of this summer’s Beijing Olympics. What’s the connection? The…
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Is a China-free diet possible in Japan?
Kuchikomi › 01:58 PM JST - 1st March
Japan’s single biggest news story since the beginning of February has been the ongoing revelations of pesticide-laced frozen gyoza (dumplings) from China and the repercussions…
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