OVER 1,000 STILL IN SHELTER 3 MONTHS AFTER M7.1 QUAKE HIT KUMAMOTO JAPAN

OVER 1,000 STILL IN SHELTER 3 MONTHS AFTER M7.1 QUAKE HIT KUMAMOTO JAPAN 

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KUMAMOTO

More than 1,000 people are still sheltering in evacuation centers, awaiting temporary housing three months after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture, damaging their homes.

The quake occurred at around 4:27 p.m. on July 28. As of Monday, the official death toll stood at 38 -- 36 from confirmed disaster-related causes and two suspected to be disaster-related.

The figure could rise if more deaths are recognized as disaster-related. According to a Kyodo News survey of municipalities conducted last week, 45 applications for such recognition have been filed by bereaved families.

Evacuation centers remain open at 21 locations in seven cities and towns. In Yatsushiro, 579 people, accounting for more than half of the evacuees, remain in shelters, followed by 263 in Uki, 155 in Hikawa and 65 in Uto.

The number of damaged homes stands at 82,223, including 2,585 that were completely destroyed.

Around 1,200 temporary housing units were in use as of Friday, but many people remain on waiting lists for such housing.

Yuka Miyazawa, 54, who is living in an evacuation center in Yatsushiro, had her apartment partially destroyed. She did not apply for temporary housing because only those whose homes were at least half-destroyed are eligible.

"I feel I've been left behind these past three months. I want people to pay more attention to those in need," she said.

Yoichi Yamaguchi, 74, who has been staying at an evacuation center in Yatsushiro, said, "I can't sleep well, and I just feel exhausted all the time."

His home was half-destroyed, and although he applied for temporary housing, he was not selected. "I don't know how many more months it will take before I can leave here."

Kumamoto Prefecture released a draft restoration and reconstruction plan Tuesday, outlining measures to help residents rebuild their lives, including providing temporary housing as quickly as possible.

Kumamoto Gov. Takashi Kimura said Tuesday at a meeting on reconstruction, "We must make this plan a ray of hope for the disaster-stricken areas."

The prefecture has drawn up a roadmap through fiscal 2028 for measures aimed at rebuilding people's lives and restoring social infrastructure.

For example, in light of challenges including extreme heat and water outages that took a month to resolve, the plan outlines measures such as revising evacuation shelter operation manuals, strengthening water and sewer systems, and providing physical and mental health care for disaster victims.

The plan also includes new tsunami countermeasures amid concerns that a fault segment extending offshore near the quake's epicenter did not rupture during the earthquake.

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DEAD FAWNS WITH BODY PARTS MISSING FOUND AT NARA TEMPELS - NARA JAPAN

DEAD FAWNS WITH BODY PARTS MISSING FOUND AT NARA TEMPELS - NARA JAPAN  

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NARA

Four dead fawns with missing body parts were found in recent months at famous temple sites in Nara Park, a popular tourist spot known as a habitat for over a thousand deer, the local government in western Japan said Friday.

An expert organization that was consulted by the Nara prefectural government said it appeared unlikely that other animals had eaten the carcasses. The local government shared information with police, given the possibility that the animals had been harmed by humans.

Nara Gov Makoto Yamashita said he would like to "bring attention" to the incidents and obtain more information from the public.

"While there is no firm evidence of criminal intent, the cases appear extremely unnatural," he said.

The carcasses were found on an approach to Kofukuji Temple and elsewhere on Aug 21 and Oct 1, and near Todaiji Temple's hall enshrining the Great Buddha statue on Aug 27 and Sept 17. The fawns were likely less than a month old.

The prefecture and temples have strengthened patrolling.

The deer in Nara are protected under the cultural properties protection law.

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MAN ARRESTED FOR USING SHOE WITH MINIATURE CAMERA TO FILM UP WOMEN'S SKIRT - FUKUOKA JAPAN

MAN ARRESTED FOR USING SHO
E WITH MINIATURE CAMERA TO FILM UP WOMEN'S SKIRT - FUKUOKA JAPAN

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FUKUOKA

Police in Fukuoka have arrested a 66-year-old man on suspicion of violating the law against illicit sexual photography by allegedly using a miniature camera attached to his shoe to film up a woman’s skirt.

According to police, Ryuichi Matsuo, a public high school teacher, is accused of attempting to film a 53-year-old woman’s underwear by positioning a small camera attached to his shoe underneath her skirt while on a platform at Nishitetsu Fukuoka Station in Tenjin at around 6 p.m. on Thursday, TBS reported.

A station employee spotted him and contacted the police.

Police said Matsuo has denied the allegation and quoted him as saying, "My intention was to capture scenery from a different perspective. I did not attach the camera for the purpose of filming up women's skirts.”

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MAN ARRESTED OVER ROBBERY - MURDER OF BAR OWNER IN KAGOSHIMA PREFECTURE - KAGOSHIMA JAPAN

MAN ARRESTED OVER ROBBERY - MURDER OF BAR OWNER IN KAGOSHIMA PREFECTURE - KAGOSHIMA JAPAN 

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KAGOSHIMA

Police in Kanoya City, Kagoshima Prefecture, have arrested a 59-year-old man on suspicion of robbing and killing a 49-year-old woman who ran a snack bar in July.

According to police, Takaaki Higo, a restaurant owner who was arrested on Friday, is accused of breaking into the home of Satsuki Osumi in the early hours of July 28, NTV reported. He is suspected of asphyxiating her and then stealing cash.

Police identified Higo by analyzing footage from security cameras installed near the victim's home. Police said Higo has denied the allegation and quoted him as saying,"It is true that I met with her, but I did not kill her, nor did I steal anything."

While it is known that Higo and Osumi were acquainted, the exact nature of their relationship remains unclear, and the police are continuing their investigation.

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FOREIGN VISITOR'S SPENDING IN JAPAN HITS RECORD YEN 7 TRILLION IN JANUARY - SEPTEMBER 2026 - TOKYO JAPAN

FOREIGN VISITOR'S SPENDING IN JAPAN HITS RECORD YEN 7 TRILLION IN JANUARY - SEPTEMBER 2026 - TOKYO JAPAN

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TOKYO

Spending by foreign visitors to Japan hit a record 7.06 trillion yen in the nine months through September, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday.

The spending, which includes shopping and accommodation costs, rose 1.9 percent from the same period a year earlier.

Spending from July through September increased 3.2 percent from a year earlier to 2.2 trillion yen. By country and region, Taiwan topped the list with 382 billion yen, followed by China with 358 billion yen.

For the three months through September, average spending per visitor was 233,677 yen, up 6.1 percent.

The number of foreign visitors during the nine months, meanwhile, fell 2.9 percent to 30.73 million, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.

It was the first decline for the January-September period since 2021, during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Visitors from China dropped 55.5 percent amid strained relations with Japan following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks in November suggesting that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could prompt a response by the Self-Defense Forces in support of the United States.

South Korea topped the list with 8.3 million visitors, up 21.6 percent during the three quarters from January, followed by Taiwan with 6 million, up 19.1 percent, China with 3.3 million, the United States with 2.5 million, up 5.2 percent, and Hong Kong with 2 million, up 7.7 percent.

The September total alone was 3.1 million, down 5.0 percent from a year earlier. Visitors from China fell by 44.5 percent to 430,800, marking the 10th consecutive month of year-on-year decline.

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MORE DATA BREACHES REPORTED BY PREFECTURAL POLICE FORCES, COMPANIES - TOKYO JAPAN

MORE DATA BREACHES REPORTED BY PREFECTURAL POLICE FORCES, COMPANIES - TOKYO JAPAN

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TOKYO

The personal information of officers and other employees at 22 prefectural police forces in Japan may have leaked following a recent data breach at disaster information services firm Arcadia Inc, National Police Agency officials said Wednesday.

The possible leak affecting nearly half of the country's 47 prefectural police forces comes amid a string of similar incidents at Japanese companies in various industries.

The potentially exposed data include about 125,000 records such as names and email addresses of police officers and other employees at 20 prefectural police forces.

Among the police forces, Kyoto and Fukuoka police as well as those in Shimane and Yamaguchi suffered leaks of about 16,000 email addresses of residents registered for security alert services.

No investigative information was leaked, the agency said.

Meanwhile, IwaiCosmo Securities Co said the same day a cyberattack on a contracted company's computer system, which processes the Osaka-based brokerage firm's trading orders, resulted in the execution of unauthorized orders in seven customer accounts.

The attack on Oct 14 targeted the system run and maintained by Trade Works Co, based in Tokyo, but did not involve account hijacking.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said in a press conference that the Financial Services Agency has requested IwaiCosmo to analyze the break-in and formulate preventive measures.

The brokerage said the affected accounts have been restored to their state before the unauthorized orders.

The cyberattack, believed to be carried out with the use of artificial intelligence, also resulted in the exposure of 4,975 customers' names and email addresses, but transaction passwords were not stolen, it said.

Earlier in the day, Recruit Co revealed a possible leak of personal information involving 3.7 million accounts for its Carsensor used car information service.

The potential leak includes names and addresses, including those of used car dealership representatives, but not credit card payment information. No misuse has been confirmed so far.

Recruit detected suspicious external access to its systems on Saturday and determined the number of potentially leaked personal records on Tuesday.

The incident led to suspensions of used car information services of Nissan Motor Co., Mitsubishi Motors Corp and Mazda Motor Corp relying on Recruit's system.

Aeon Co. said Wednesday it has detected external unauthorized access to some websites operated by group companies, leaving 13 unavailable during security-related system maintenance.

The Japanese retail giant said systems related to business operations and e-commerce sites have not been affected, and it is investigating whether any personal information has been leaked.

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JAPAN SENDS SENIOR DIPLOMAT TO RUSSIA OVER DETAINED JOURNALIST - TOKYO JAPAN

JAPAN SENDS SENIOR DIPLOMAT TO RUSSIA OVER DETAINED JOURNALIST - TOKYO JAPAN

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TOKYO

Japan sent a senior diplomat to Moscow this week to discuss the release of a journalist detained by Russia on spying accusations, Tokyo said on Wednesday.

Russian authorities said last week that a Japanese national had been arrested on its far eastern island of Sakhalin, near a disputed cluster of islands.

The individual was later identified as Yuki Imai from the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, who faces accusations of "conducting espionage activities on Russian territory".

Japan denies the allegations, but has not yet been able to secure Imai's release.

Kimitake Nakamura, Japan's top diplomat for Europe, met Lyudmila Vorobyova, the head of the department at the Russian foreign ministry dealing with much of East Asia, on Tuesday, according to the Japanese foreign ministry.

"We lodged a request... that calls for the earliest possible realisation of consular access to the Japanese national detained in Russia, as well as the individual's immediate release," Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told a regular media briefing on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has denied that Japan conducts spying activities in Russia, while Imai's newspaper has stressed its independence from the government.

Tokyo has also summoned Russian Ambassador Nikolay Nozdrev to lodge a protest, while the foreign ministry has urged Moscow to give him "fair and impartial treatment".

Russia has arrested several citizens of what it calls "unfriendly" countries in recent years, accusing them of working for Western intelligence services.

Kihara said the meeting was held also to discuss tense bilateral relations.

The countries have a decades-old dispute over the status of a string of islands in the Pacific Ocean, off the northeast coast of Japan and to the southwest of Sakhalin.

Japan has also placed sanctions on Russia over its aggression in Ukraine.

"Japan–Russia relations are in a difficult state," Kihara said without elaborating further.

"Precisely for that reason, it is necessary for the diplomatic authorities to engage in exchanges on the various issues," he said.

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WOMAN HAS BOTH LEGS AMPUTATED AFTER BEING HIT BY CAR IN TOKYO JAPAN

WOMAN HAS BOTH LEGS AMPUTATED AFTER BEING HIT BY CAR IN TOKYO JAPAN 

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TOKYO

A woman in her 30s had both her legs amputated after she was struck by a car and pinned against a small truck in Tokyo on Sunday.

The accident occurred at around 9 a.m. in the Sangenjaya area of ​​Setagaya Ward, TV Asahi reported. According to police and witnesses, the car hit the woman while she was unloading items from the truck.

The woman was pinned between the truck and car. She was taken to hospital, where she remains unconscious and in critical condition after undergoing surgery in which her legs were amputated.

The incident occurred on National Route 246, approximately 300 meters from Sangenjaya Station on the Tokyu Denentoshi Line.

Police arrested the driver of the car — a man in his 40s — at the scene on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in injury.

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PAY GAP STOKES FEARS OF CHILDCARE WORKER DRAIN TO BIG CITIES - CHIBA JAPAN

PAY GAP STOKES FEARS OF CHILDCARE WORKER DRAIN TO BIG CITIES - CHIBA JAPAN 

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CHIBA

Municipalities neighboring major cities such as Tokyo and Osaka are increasingly concerned about losing childcare workers to better-paying jobs in the metropolises, prompting them to offer wage supplements and seek national action to narrow the gap.

About 60 percent of childcare workers who responded to a Chiba Prefecture survey released in March said they wanted to work in Tokyo. Among those, almost 70 percent cited pay and benefits as reasons.

Respondents also expressed frustration with their pay. "The pay does not match the workload at all," one said, while another said, "We are entrusted with children's lives. I want the pay scale raised further."

Part of the pay gap reflects the national funding system for childcare services, under which wage supplements to basic salaries vary by region. For example, the rate for Tokyo's 23 wards is 20 percent, higher than the maximum of 16 percent in neighboring Chiba Prefecture.

In an effort to prevent childcare workers from leaving for other cities, Chiba's Funabashi, where the supplement rate is 12 percent, offers its own top-up allowance of more than 500,000 yen ($3,200) a year as an additional incentive.

"We need 1.5 billion yen a year for the program. That's a lot of money, but we are scraping together the funds to secure staff," a city official said.

Competition for personnel has also intensified. The nationwide job availability ratio for childcare workers stood at 3.88 in January, meaning there were 388 jobs available for every 100 job seekers. That was well above the average ratio of 1.27 across all occupations.

MotherPlanet Co., which operates nurseries in the Chiba cities of Kashiwa and Nagareyama, has begun offering local university students up to 20,000 yen a month if they intend to work at its facilities after graduating.

"Childcare is all about people," said company president Atsuhiro Yabumoto, 49. "Improving pay and working conditions in turn leads to better quality of care."

Meanwhile in Nara Prefecture, about 48 percent of childcare training school graduates in fiscal 2023 found jobs outside the prefecture. Officials believe many went to neighboring Osaka.

After Nara Prefecture began offering workers an extra 10,000 yen a month in fiscal 2024, the rate dropped to 42 percent. But a prefectural official lamented, "There is only so much local governments can do."

In July this year, the five prefectures of Chiba, Saitama, Nara, Wakayama and Saga took the issue to the national level, calling on the Children and Families Agency to improve pay and working conditions and address regional disparities.

The agency has since launched a nationwide survey of local governments and plans to table its proposed changes by around December.

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GOVENMENT MULLS AVERAGE YEN 30,000 YEARLY PAYMENTS FOR 20 MILLION WORKERS - TOKYO JAPAN

GOVENMENT MULLS AVERAGE YEN 30,000 YEARLY PAYMENTS FOR 20 MILLION WORKERS - TOKYO JAPAN 

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TOKYO

The Japanese government has presented ruling and opposition parties with a tentative proposal to give some 20 million workers on average around 30,000 yen annually in fiscal 2027 and 2028, a source familiar with the matter said.

The figures were offered as a reference for an income-linked benefit program targeting lower income workers burdened by taxes and social insurance premiums. The upper income limit for eligibility could be set in the 3 million yen range.

The government plans to reduce the consumption tax on food and beverages from 8 percent to 1 percent for two years from April 2027. The payments would total about 600 billion yen annually, equivalent to revenue from the remaining 1 percent consumption tax.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said at a parliamentary session on Wednesday that around 20 million people out of a population of about 120 million could qualify for the payments, stressing that the figure was only a reference.

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TWO MOTORCYCLE RIDERS KILLED IN HEAD - ON COLLISION IN SAGA PREFECTURE - SAGA JAPAN

TWO MOTORCYCLE RIDERS KILLED IN HEAD - ON COLLISION IN SAGA PREFECTURE - SAGA JAPAN 

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SAGA

Two men riding motorcycles were killed in a head-on collision in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, on Sunday.

According to police, the accident occurred at around 10:30 a.m. on a national highway, Kyushu Broadcasting Corp reported. One of the riders, 38-year-old Makoto Yasutake — a resident of Kasuga City, Fukuoka Prefecture — sustained severe injuries, and died 90 minutes later. The rider of a larger motorcycle, 63-year-old Yasunari Abe — a company employee from Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture — died about six hours after the crash.

Police said the accident took place on a gentle curve with one lane in each direction. A stretch of the road approximately 200 meters long was temporarily closed to traffic after the accident.

The police are investigating the detailed circumstances surrounding the accident to determine which motorbike crossed over the center line into the path of the oncoming bike.

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