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I am often amazed at Suzuki Eito(@cult_and_fraud)'s bravery when it comes to reporting on the activities of the Unification Church. Here is a clip of him in Korea last week, reporting about a mass wedding at the UC HQ:
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NTV discusses the Japanese government's request that Time Magazine change its headline stating that Kishida wants to make Japan a "military power." They then show that Japan is, in fact, a military power (and soon to be #3 in defense spending).
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Most people in Tokyo were roused from their beds by earthquake alerts at 4:16AM today, but the Kabukicho entertainment district never sleeps. Here is some street footage of the moment the earthquake struck.
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A few months ago Nishida endorsed the 1979 book, "I'd like to apologize to the Japanese: A Jewish elder's confession" (日本人に謝りたい あるユダヤ人の懺悔), which introduces anti-Jewish conspiracy theories via a fake Jewish author named "Mordecai Mose." youtube.com/watch?v=caFT5U…
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Upper House lawmaker Nishida Shōji (LDP), one Japan's leading voices against LGBT rights, was asked to clarify his statements about "forces that seek to divide" Japanese society. He said It's the Marxists. His ideas about Marxism are fleshed out on his YouTube channel... twitter.com/tbsradio_news/…
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Meteors or space debris? Lots of videos taken in Okinawa tonight are showing something like this in the sky above.
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Japan's LDP has not really cut ties with the Unification Church: Tokushima city assembly member Mima Hideo, who openly identifies as a member of the UC, has been allowed back into the city's LDP faction and is serving as its vice president. https://t.co/6NyYUsZP9g
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Video: Japanese police struggle to restrain a suspect and ultimately decide to wrap him up in a blanket like a big burrito. This is a standard procedure to deal with violent/drunk suspects without resorting to the use of weapons.
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This video shows yesterday's robbery of a Rolex watch shop in Tokyo's Ginza district. It seems carrying out a robbery in broad daylight while witnessed filmed it was not a great idea: police have already arrested 4 suspects, with one still on the run.
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An "Orange Parade" was held in Tokyo today. Participants were calling for Japan legally recognize joint custody of children for divorced parents. A lot of the Ishin party social media accounts I follow were promoting this event.
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Today is day two of Super Comic City 30, a doujinshi convention in Tokyo where fans of various anime and manga series buy and sell fan fiction comics. Many of the works are BL manga, which cater to a primarily female audience. This is the line for the ladies' room! twitter.com/Md0ri_/status/…
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A video shot yesterday from the gate of the Enoshima Shrine shows some major crowding. https://t.co/1EZemo7WfZ
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Donald Trump has once again sent a message of praise to a Unification Church UPF event. Here is some footage filmed at a "Peace Summit" taking place this week in Korea. https://t.co/lPfCVZwqu4
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A Japanese journalist who has spent years trying to import American conservative culture war ideology to Japan goes on Fox News to denounce US Ambassador Rahm Emanuel's friendliness towards Japanese people who support LGBTQ rights.
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A video of Golden Week holiday horror at the Shinkansen ticket gate area of Tokyo Station.
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Moroi Nanako (Independent) recently ran a successful one-person campaign for the Toyohashi city assembly. She had no campaign office and no campaign staff. She also did not use a loudspeaker van because they are noisy and wake up babies/small children.
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Update: Yamamoto Miyuki tweeted yesterday that she was the "Asahara Shoko of the Reiwa Era" and would attack Funabashi station with Sarin nerve gas. She dared the police to stop her. Police then went to her house and arrested her. twitter.com/mrjeffu/status…
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Tokyo Pokémon card shop bans sales to adults so kids can enjoy the hobby: Hareruya 2 in Akihabara will not sell new Snow Hazard and Clay Burst packs to anyone over junior high school age, hoping it will block adult resellers and make the new cards more accessible to children.
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A BBC television report about a Japanese food store opening in Wales that aired on this day in 1983: "What about the idea that you eat raw fish all the time?"
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The Japanese government's Twitter account is promoting a contraption developed by researchers at Osaka University that can track moving "pests" and deliver death by laser beam.
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The Hemp Party's pro-marijuana legalization candidate did not win a seat in the Fujisawa city assembly election. When the ballots were counted on Sunday night, it turned out he received 420 votes. I'm not joking. That's actually how many votes he got. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Orzugul Babakhodjaeva (CDP) won a seat in Tokyo's Setagaya ward assembly election yesterday. She was born in Uzbekistan and later became a Japanese citizen. This is a historically significant case of an immigrant from Uzbekistan winning elected office in Japan. twitter.com/ninja_padrino/…
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Newly appointed ambassadors to Japan are given the option of either a car or horse carriage for their ride to the imperial palace to present their credentials to the Emperor. Most, including the new Australian ambassador, choose the carriage (because it's utterly magnificent). twitter.com/stephendziedzi…
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A 26 year-old YouTuber was just elected to the Hiratsuka city council. Shin runs a local Pokémon card shop and has a YouTube channel that reviews local restaurants. Instead of using his real full name, he officially ran as "Shin the Hiratsuka YouTuber" and received 3,827 votes.
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Eri Arfiya, a Georgetown graduate who speaks 7 languages and worked at the United Nations, was elected to Japan's House of Representatives today. She will be the first-ever Diet member of Uyghur ancestry. Here is a news report about her from 2022:
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