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In this week's news from Japan Today: Carlos Ghosn made his first public court appearance since being detained by Japanese courts last November; a weekly tabloid’s ranking of the top universities in Japan for guys to pick up girls blows up; a Japanese politician bemoans what will happen if the whole country “goes gay;” a man was arrested for climbing up to a stranger’s third-floor apartment in Mie Prefecture completely naked plus Justin Trudeau calls Shinzo Abe directly to talk about… whaling. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Ghosn Fever — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Judge-says-Ghosn-being-detained-due-to-flight-risk-and-possibility-he-may-conceal-evidence Easy College Sex Ranking — https://japantoday.com/category/national/japanese-student-rejects-apology-over-university-sex-listing LDPTQ — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japanese-lawmaker-under-fire-for-lgbt-comment Naked in Mie — https:/

In this week's news from Japan Today: A Tokyo court rejected Carlos Ghosn’s continued detention then prosecutors had him rearrested the next day; Japan will pull out of the International Whaling Commission; a man has been arrested for killing and dismembering his mother; Vladimir Putin has the top selling celebrity calendar in Japan, JR East asks riders to stop walking on the escalators plus a look at readers’ picks of the top news stories in Japan for 2018. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 GaijinPot Store: https://store.gaijinpot.com/ This weeks stories: All Ghosn — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Prosecutors-appeal-after-court-decides-against-extending-detention-of-Ghosn-Kelly Whaling — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japan-to-pull-out-of-IWC-to-resume-commercial-whaling Dismembering Mother — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-indicted-for-dismembering-mothers-body Putin Pinup — https://japantoday.com/c

In this week's news from Japan Today: Tokyo prosecutors formally charged ousted Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn for financial misconduct and extended his detention until Dec 20; Japan’s ruling and opposition parties brawled in the Diet over the passing of a controversial bill; the kanji for disaster has been chosen as the character best representing Japan in 2018; a man was arrested for stabbing a woman in the back at a Tokyo train station plus a look at American women's rights and birth control advocate Margaret Sanger’s 1922 visit to Japan. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 Cool Things from Japan at the GaijinPot Store: https://store.gaijinpot.com/ This week's stories: Still Ghosn — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Ghosn-Kelly-formally-charged-over-financial-misconduct-Nissan-also-indicted https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Nissan-Ghosn-clash-over-Rio-apartment-filled-with-art-cash Brawliticians — https://japantoday

In this week's news from Japan Today: 5 U.S. airmen are missing after two military planes collided midair of the coast of Japan; the shock arrest of Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn has put the spotlight on Japan’s criminal justice system; a man is on trial in Yokohama for “road rage” after his actions led to the death of two people and seriously injured their two daughters; four men have been arrested for overturning a truck near Shibuya Crossing during the Halloween craziness and animal crimes in the headlines. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Missing Airmen — https://japantoday.com/category/national/search-continues-for-5-missing-u.s.-marines-off-japan-coast Law & Order — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/ghosn-arrest-puts-japan's-justice-system-in-the-dock Road Rage — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Man-pleads-not-guilty-over-death-of-husband-wife-in-road-rage-accident Turning Trucks — https://japa

In this week's news from Japan Today: The arrest of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn dominates the news; the Japanese ruling party ushered in a bill proposing two new statuses of visa that could allow up to 345,000 blue-collar workers in to help a labor shortage; the U.S. State of Kansas will stop issuing license plates with letters making up an offensive term for the Japanese; a woman was arrested for leaving her elderly father — who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease — at a freeway rest stop and a new trend in “compensated dating” for young men is grabbing tabloid headlines. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Ghosn Daddy Ghosn — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Japanese-prosecutors-say-they-will-detain-Ghosn-as-long-as-needed https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Ghosn-allegedly-shifted-personal-investment-loss-of-%C2%A51.7-bil-to-Nissan Foreign Labor — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/update4-ru

In this week's news from Japan Today: The Cuban ambassador to Japan banned from staying at a Hilton Hotel in Fukuoka; a Japanese lawmaker in charge of cybersecurity admits to not using a computer in 25 years; popular Korean boy band BTS has fallout from the wearing of an atomic bomb shirt; a movie stuntman was arrested for cutting a girls skirt on an escalator and a Tokyo man formally marries celebrity hologram. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Cuban Ambassador Ban — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Cuban-ambassador-denied-room-at-Hilton-hotel-in-Fukuoka-due-to-U.S.-sanctions Cyber Insecurity — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Japan's-cyber-security-minister-admits-never-having-used-computer BTS Bombs — https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/k-pop-group-bts's-talent-agency-apologizes-over-a-bomb-shirtr Skirt Stunt — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/action-movie-stuntman-arrested-f

In this week's news from Japan Today: U.S. President Donald Trump makes the news in Japan again for his treatment of a Japanese reporter; passengers will be banned from carrying knives aboard all trains in Japan starting next year; the CEO of SoftBank — one of Japan’s richest men — defends his company accepting Saudi money in the wake of the Kashoggi killing; a man who hasn’t left his house in 40 years has been arrested for abandoning the corpse of his mother plus we look at the 1934 visit to Japan by baseball legend Babe Ruth — the sultan of swat, the Great Bambino — in 1934 in our latest Japan Yesterday segment. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Unfair Trade — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Trump-says-Japan-treats-U.S.-unfairly-on-trade-by-not-taking-more-American-cars Knives Out — https://japantoday.com/category/national/passengers-to-be-banned-from-carrying-knives-onto-all-trains-in-april Blood Mo

In this week's news from Japan Today: A Japanese airline pilot was arrested for being 10 times over the legal limit for alcohol when he showed up for his flight to Tokyo; November in Japan means it’s time for “Warm Biz,” when the thermostat gets turned down and the sweaters get put on; the governor of Okinawa is headed to the U.S. with a message — get your military bases outta here!; the Japanese government is warning its citizens not to smoke weed in Canada where it’s legal plus a plethora of Paul McCartney in Japan news. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: JAL D.U.I. — https://japantoday.com/category/national/JAL-pilot-arrested-in-London-admits-being-almost-10-times-over-alcohol-limit Warm Biz — https://japantoday.com/category/national/gov't-kicks-off-warm-biz-energy-saving-campaign Get Out! — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Okinawa-governor-plans-to-visit-U.S.-and-tell-Americans-to-stop-building-dispu

In this week's news from Japan Today: a freelance Japanese journalist is freed from three years in captivity in Syria; women not accepted to Tokyo Medical University due to their sex are now seeking redress; the U.S. State Department says Japan is still non-compliant with the Hague Convention on international child abductions; a 15-year-old was arrested for killing his grandfather, attempting to kill his grandmother and plotting to kill a student from his school plus Halloween in Japan — it’s not celebrated like it is in the West. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Blogs of War — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Journalist-freed-from-Syria-returns-to-Japan-to-relief-and-criticism Discrimination Compensation — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Women-demand-Tokyo-Medical-University-compensate-them-over-entry-test-rigging Custody Battles — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Foreign-divorced-pa

In this week's news from Japan Today: Another big Japanese company admits to falsifying data for its products; a woman in Osaka Prefecture is arrested for the murder of her father then her brother in a story right out of a mystery novel; the youngest ever Othello board game champ gets a big surprise on his flight home to Japan and an inspirational look back at Helen Keller’s 1937 visit to Japan — the first of many. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Data Shakeup — https://japantoday.com/category/business/Data-cheating-worries-spread-to-Tokyo-Skytree-Olympic-buildings Artful Daughter? — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Woman-arrested-for-killing-brother-to-be-charged-over-father's-death Othello Champ — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Youngest-Othello-world-champion-flown-home-by-man-whose-record-he-beat Bicycle Etiquette — https://japantoday.com/category/have-your-say/What-do-you-think-of-bicycling

In this week's news from Japan Today: Osaka severs sister city relationship with San Francisco; Kyoto starts taxing accommodations of visitors to the city; A Kumamoto city councilwoman is censured for a cough drop; a suicide’s collateral damage in Tokyo and Japanese yakuza members are living longer and healthier lives. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Discomfort Women — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Osaka-cuts-sister-city-ties-with-San-Francisco-over-'comfort-women'-statue Kyoto Tax — https://japantoday.com/category/national/kyoto-introduces-lodging-tax-on-tourists Kumamoto Cough Drop — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/kumamoto-councilwoman-who-took-baby-to-work-kicked-out-of-conference-for-using-cough-drop Suicide Damage — https://japantoday.com/category/national/woman-injures-pedestrian-in-suicide-leap-from-building-in-tokyo Goodfellas — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi

In this week's news from Japan Today: PM Abe and President Trump agree to talk trade; Nintendo shuts down a go-karting company using its character likenesses; a woman is arrested in Tokyo for hiding the remains of her dead infant in coin lockers; the great Kanto versus Kansai rivalry and Rugby World Cup players and fans are asked to cover their tattoos ahead of the tournament. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Japan-U.S. Trade — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Japan-U.S.-agree-to-start-talks-on-free-trade-deal No Go-Karting! — https://japantoday.com/category/business/Nintendo-wins-court-battle-over-Mario-go-karting Coin Locker Baby — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Woman-arrested-for-leaving-body-of-newborn-baby-in-coin-locker Kanto vs. Kansai — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/the-old-and-enduring-mutual-dislike-between-people-of-kansai-and-kanto Bad Tattoos — https://japant

In this week's news from Japan Today: A Japanese billionaire will be the first private citizen to travel around the moon with Space X; another policeman killed at a community police station; Shinzo Abe is set to become Japan’s longest serving prime minister; Japan’s least popular city and Japan Yesterday looks at that time U.S. president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant visited with Emperor Meiji. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Over the Moon — https://japantoday.com/category/national/SpaceX-says-Japanese-billionaire-Maezawa-will-be-1st-private-passenger-on-rocket-trip-around-the-moon Dead Cops — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/police-officer-in-koban-stabbed-to-death-in-sendai-attacker-shot-dead All Hail Abe! — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Abe-re-elected-LDP-leader-setting-stage-to-become-Japan's-longest-serving-PM Least Popular City — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifesty

In this week's news from Japan Today: Naomi Osaka is the first Japanese to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament but people seem obsessed with her nationality here; Japan — overwhelmed by natural disasters this summer — turns its attention to helping foreigners deal with emergencies; Prime Minister Abe and Vladimir Putin look to officially end WWII hostilities; how executioners get paid in Japan — and how much — and with Japan’s rise as a top travel destination so to the rise in “tourism pollution.” https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Osaka Grand Slam — https://japantoday.com/category/sports/U.S.-Open-champ-Naomi-Osaka-gets-hero's-welcome-in-Japan Helping Foreigners — https://japantoday.com/category/national/focus-quake-reveals-japan-woefully-unprepared-to-help-foreigners-in-disasters Abe Putin — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Putin-tells-Abe-he-hopes-for-peace-treaty-this-year Hangman Pay — https://japa

In this week's news from Japan Today: An earthquake rocked Hokkaido on Thursday killing 16, causing landslides and knocking out power across the island; a powerful typhoon slammed Japan’s west coast with heavy rain and winds over 200 kmh and wreaking havoc; the Japanese government acknowledges the first radiation death among Fukushima nuclear plant workers; a man who was under arrest for rape and robbery escaped and is on the loose in Osaka and a police officer was charged with indecency after riding the train with his zipper open. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 This weeks stories: Hokkaido Quake — https://japantoday.com/category/national/2-dead-at-least-32-missing-after-M6.7-quake-hits-Hokkaido Typhoon — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Typhoon-death-toll-reaches-9-thousands-being-transported-from-Kansai-airport Radiation Death — https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-acknowledges-first-radiation-death-among-fu

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. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 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://j

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. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 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-res

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. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 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.

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. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 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-f

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. https://japantoday.com/ Rate and review us: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/podcast/japan-today/id517133982?mt=2 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