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ALPHINE SIGHTSEEING ROUTE SHOWCASING GIANT SNOW WALLS OPENS IN TOYAMA - NAGANO

ALPHINE SIGHTSEEING ROUTE SHOWCASING GIANT SNOW WALLS OPENS IN TOYAMA  - NAGANO

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TOYAMA

A sightseeing route that runs through the Tateyama mountain range featuring tall snow walls opened Monday for this year's tourist season.

The Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, typically closed during winter, connects the town of Tateyama in Toyama Prefecture and the city of Omachi in Nagano Prefecture in the Northern Alps via bus and cable car. The route is open until the end of November.

This year, the snow walls created by snow removal work reached 14 meters. The 500-meter pathway, named "Yuki no Otani," is located near the Murodo plateau at an altitude of 2,450 meters.

Takeshi Nishizawa, a 62-year-old company employee from Ibaraki Prefecture, who visited the snow corridor with his wife for the first time, was impressed.

"The snow walls are higher than I imagined. I've seen pictures before, but seeing them in person is truly moving," he said.

This year will mark the end of a 3.7-kilometer trolley bus service that runs inside a tunnel piercing through part of the mountain range.

The trolley bus service, the only one of its kind in Japan, is scheduled to end on November 30.

An official of the operating company said, "We hope visitors will enjoy the final journeys of the trolley bus as much as they have cherished their past experiences here."

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Sakura Muncul Lagi (Cherry Blossoms Japan)

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DROPS NEW SELF-DEFENSE FORCE (SDF) TRAINING SITE PLAN IN OKINAWA, JAPAN

DROPS NEW SELF-DEFENSE FORCE (SDF) TRAINING SITE PLAN IN OKINAWA, JAPAN

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TOKYO

The Japanese Defense Ministry said Thursday it will give up on building a new training site for the Ground Self-Defense Force at the currently planned location in Okinawa Prefecture, citing concerns of nearby residents.

The new training site had been planned at a former golf course in Uruma as the ministry seeks to upgrade the GSDF brigade based in the southern island prefecture to a larger unit as part of efforts to strengthen Japan's defense capabilities in its southwest remote islands amid China's maritime assertiveness.

However, the proposal has faced opposition from Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki, Uruma Mayor Masato Nakamura, and nearby residents who have feared the adverse impact on their living environment. The former golf field is located adjacent to a residential area.

Defense Minister Minoru Kihara told reporters in Tokyo that the ministry found that the current candidate site is "impossible" to fully satisfy the conditions for conducting GSDF exercises while also not disrupting the lives of the residents.

The ministry has earmarked the costs for purchasing the vacated golf course in the fiscal 2024 budget and has slated construction to start in fiscal 2026. The GSDF's upgrade of the 15th Brigade to what is known as a division is expected to take place by March 2028.

On an alternative site, Kihara said the ministry plans to "swiftly come up with an appropriate conclusion." According to government sources, the ministry aims to secure another place within Okinawa Prefecture.

Okinawa Prefecture hosts the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan, and anti-base sentiment runs deep due to noise, pollution and crimes committed by American service members.

Japan has been beefing up its defense posture over a chain of islands stretching from the southwestern main island of Kyushu toward Taiwan amid tensions with China, including over the Senkaku Islands, a group of Tokyo-controlled uninhabited islets in the East China Sea that Beijing claims.

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JUDGE ORDERS EX-INTERPRETER FOR SHOHEI OHTANI TO GET GAMBLING ADDICTION TREATMENT

JUDGE ORDERS EX-INTERPRETER FOR SHOHEI OHTANI TO GET GAMBLING ADDICTION TREATMENT

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LOS ANGELES

The former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani agreed on Friday to undergo court-ordered gambling addiction treatment after federal prosecutors accused him of stealing $16 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts.

Ippei Mizuhara 's initial appearance in federal court marked the first time the interpreter has been seen in public since the scandal exploded last month.

Fom the field at Dodgers Stadium hours after Friday's proceeding, Ohtani said he was “very grateful” for the investigation and would focus on baseball going forward.

Mizuhara exploited his personal and professional relationship with Ohtani to plunder millions from the two-way player’s account for years, at times impersonating Ohtani to bankers, prosecutors said.

He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted of one count of bank fraud.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria A. Audero ordered Mizuhara to seek the treatment as a condition of his bond in the sports betting case. Michael G. Freedman, the interpreter's attorney, said his client had planned to do so anyway.

While he is best known as Ohtani’s voice in ballparks across the country, Mizuhara only spoke on Friday to answer the judge’s questions, saying “yes” when Audero asked if he understood several parts of the case.

Mizuhara hopes to “reach an agreement with the government to resolve this case as quickly as possible so that he can take responsibility," Freedman said in a statement issued after the hearing ended.

He added that his client “wishes to apologize to Mr. Ohtani, the Dodgers, Major League Baseball, and his family.”

A criminal complaint filed Thursday detailed the alleged scheme through evidence that included text messages, financial records and recordings of phone calls. Mizuhara’s winning bets totaled over $142 million, which he deposited in his own bank account and not Ohtani’s. But his losing bets were around $183 million, a net loss of nearly $41 million. He did not wager on baseball.

Other bond conditions stipulate Mizuhara cannot gamble, either electronically or in-person, go inside any gambling establishments or associate with any known bookmakers.

Mizuhara was released after the hearing on an unsecured $25,000 bond, colloquially known as a signature bond, meaning he did not have to put up any cash or collateral to be freed. If he violates the bond conditions, he will be on the hook for $25,000.

The judge noted his family ties and longtime residency in the Los Angeles area and self-surrender Friday morning when she approved the bond. She also mentioned that he did not have a criminal record.

While Ohtani's name was never mentioned during the hearing, his presence loomed large over the roughly 10-minute proceeding inside a courtroom packed with press, much of it Japanese media. The judge and prosecutor only briefly referenced the baseball star as “the victim.”

But hours later, Ohtani spoke to the Los Angeles Times ahead of the team’s game against the San Diego Padres about the controversy, saying he very grateful for the Department of Justice’s investigation.”

“For me personally, this marks a break from this, and I’d like to focus on baseball,” he told the newspaper through a new interpreter.

There was no evidence that Ohtani was involved in or aware of Mizuhara’s gambling, and the player is cooperating with investigators, authorities said.

MLB rules prohibit players and team employees from wagering on baseball, even legally. MLB also bans betting on other sports with illegal or offshore bookmakers.

The Los Angeles Times and ESPN broke the news of the prosecution last month, prompting the Dodgers to fire the interpreter and Major League Baseball to open its own investigation.

On Friday before the Padres game, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he was happy Ohtani has not been implicated in the case and everyone can move forward. He has not seen the investigation affect Ohtani or anyone else on the Dodgers, he added.

“He’s handled it with flying colors. He’s done a great job of just focusing on playing baseball and not letting it be a distraction for him,” Roberts said. “Our guys, as well, have handled it really well as far as that noise and not letting it affect play.

“I think for us, we’ve already moved past it, to be quite honest with you. He addressed us earlier, we felt good about it and supported him. Nothing has changed," Roberts said.

Ohtani proved Roberts to be correct during his first at-bat on Friday when he homered to center field.

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FY2022 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS HIT RECORD LOW - JAPAN

FY2022 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS HIT RECORD LOW - JAPAN  

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TOKYOJapan's greenhouse gas emissions fell to a record low in fiscal 2022 on the back of reduced steel production and energy-saving efforts by households, government data showed Friday.

National emissions in the year through March 2023 totaled 1.14 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, down 2.5 percent from fiscal 2021 and the lowest level since comparable data became available in fiscal 1990.

The decline came after emissions increased in fiscal 2021 for the first time in eight years, reflecting rising energy consumption amid a pickup in economic activity following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Environment Ministry.

When greenhouse gas absorption by forests is subtracted from total emissions, the figure amounted to 1.09 billion tons, a decrease of 22.9 percent from the level in fiscal 2013, which Japan uses as a base year.

But emissions remained far from the government's target of a 46 percent reduction by fiscal 2030.

"The entire government will work to promote measures," Environment Minister Shintaro Ito told a news conference, while admitting it will not be easy to attain the target.

In fiscal 2022, the industrial sector cut energy-related CO2 emissions by 5.3 percent from the previous year, while such emissions climbed 3.9 percent in the transportation sector, due likely to increased tourism amid the economic recovery following the pandemic.

Household emissions fell 1.4 percent on the back of lower heating demand amid warmer temperatures compared with the previous year.

The government calculated emissions absorption by coastal seaweed and seagrass for the first time at 350,000 tons, but it did not include the data as the validity of its calculation method had not been examined by a United Nations agency.

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PILOT SPOKE TO PARENTS AN HOUR BEFORE THE ACCIDENT : MALAYSIA HELICOPTER CRASH

PILOT SPOKE TO PARENTS AN HOUR BEFORE THE ACCIDENT : MALAYSIA HELICOPTER CRASH

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GEORGE TOWN – The parents of Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) Commander Firdaus Ramli had just chatted with him over the phone barely an hour before his tragic death on April 23.

The sister of Mr Firdaus, Ms Alya Ramli, 27, said: “This cannot have happened. I can’t believe my brother is gone. Just (in the morning on April 23), I heard my parents talking to him over the phone.

“About an hour later, we got the distressing news about his death.”

Mr Firdaus, 44, was the pilot of one of the helicopters which crashed in Lumut, Perak.

Ms Alya said her brother would always call their parents before he went off on a flight or mission.

The family got together recently during Hari Raya when they went to Lumut to celebrate the occasion with him.

“That was the last time I saw him,” she said in between being in tears at their residence in Pantai Jerejak, Penang.

About a dozen reporters went to the double-storey house, which was quiet with all its doors shut except when a relative emerged to collect food from a delivery man.

Ms Alya, who came out to speak to reporters briefly, declined to have her picture taken. She said that news of her brother’s death was relayed by his wife, who is based in Sabah, at about 10am then.

“My parents have left for the RMN base in Lumut to obtain more information and complete the process of bringing my brother’s remains home,” she said.

One of Mr Firdaus’ relatives, who wanted to be known only as Ms Syahirah, said the deceased had been with the navy for over 20 years.

“He was based in Kota Kinabalu since two years ago,” she said.

Mr Firdaus was among 10 crew members who died after two naval helicopters collided during training at the navy base stadium in Lumut.

It is understood that he was the pilot of the HOM M503-3 helicopter with seven crew members on board.

The aircraft belonged to Squadron 503 which is based in Kota Kinabalu. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK.

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