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The environment ministry says that ¥11.5 billion worth of “eco points” from the government’s recent energy-saving promotion are set to expire next March without being redeemed.Authorities are investigating the president of a used-car company over suspicions that he bilked 2,500 investors out of ¥1.3 billion “on the pretext of helping victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and poverty-stricken African people.”
Police in Okayama and Yokohama busted three Chinese man and one woman for smuggling 3kg of stimulants into Japan aboard a cargo ship last month. The drugs have a street value of ¥230 million.
It was announced that Japan will provide $2.9 million of additional funding to support the UN-backed trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia. By the end of the year, the tribunal will have spent nearly $150 million.
Sentence of the Week: “A ‘veteran’ pickpocket has told police he’s lost his touch and he’s going straight after he was caught lifting a person’s wallet on a bus [in Fukuoka] by another passenger.” (via The Mainichi Daily News)
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Percent of Japanese who believe politics has “deteriorated recently,” according to a newspaper survey67
Percent who believed so in 2008¥23.5 billion
Annual losses suffered by Japan’s film industry because of piracy, according to the Japan and International Motion Picture Copyright Association3.5 billion
Boxes of tissues that Daio Paper Corp would have to sell to recoup gambling losses allegedly incurred by former chairman Mototaka Ikawa
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Scientists at the University of Tokyo have found that the frequency of earthquakes near many of Japan’s most active faults has increased 10-fold since March 11.Meanwhile, the government’s Earthquake Research Committee has concluded that “multiple-quake events with subsequent large-scale tsunami” have occurred five times since the 4th century BCE-not once every 1,000 years, as previously thought.
Perhaps in response, the TMG is set to issue an ordinance calling for companies to stockpile three days’ worth of emergency supplies for each employee.
The Cabinet Office estimates that 3.52 million Tokyoites were unable to return to their homes following the March 11 quake.
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China film stirs passions anew before Japan PM visit
REUTERS
When Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda arrives in China on Dec. 25, a new blockbuster movie will ensure that the foremost image of the Japanese in many Chinese people’s minds will once again be of the country’s brutal wartime misdeeds.The story of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, around which Zhang Yimou’s “The Flowers of War” is set, is taught from a young age in China, and countless television serials, documentaries and books ensure the topic is never out of the public eye for long.
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