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☆ A government employee bought a wildly expensive sex doll to promote kimonos to tourists. Now the scandal's blowing up.
  + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Read previewAuditors have rapped the Tokushima Prefectural Government for purchasing an "extremely expensive" sex doll to promote the city's tourism. The exhibition was meant to promote the prefecture's traditional indigo-dyeing art, so the doll was clad in an indigo-dyed summer kimono, per the Mainichi. Officials initially used a pair of cheaper mannequins — not the sex doll — at the exhibition in June 2017. AdvertisementBut in July, an unnamed male official decided to replace the mannequins with the sex doll. The auditors dismissed the prefecture's claims that the sex doll was more effective at drawing tourists than the mannequins.
Persons: —, he'd, Masazumi Gotoda Organizations: Service, Tokushima Prefectural Government, Business, Tokushima Awaodori Airport, Mainichi Shimbun, Mainichi . Officials, Mainichi, COVID, Yahoo Japan Locations: Tokushima Prefectural, Tokushima, Noto
☆ A Japanese city is installing robots in classrooms so kids who are worried about attending school can tune in remotely
  + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Officials in a Japanese city are banking on robots to boost the confidence of absent pupils. The self-propelling robots will connect to pupils at home, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported. The plan aims to help home-based pupils feel more included and eventually return to school. The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported that the initiative was due to involve two meter-high robots, which would be fitted with microphones and a camera to allow for two-way communication. Some schools in the US have also introduced robots on school campuses.
Organizations: Mainichi Shimbun, Service, Asahi Shimbun, Street Locations: Wall, Silicon, Kumamoto, Southwest Japan, Japan, New Mexico
☆ Support for Japan PM Kishida's cabinet slumps, Mainichi Shimbun poll shows
  + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
TOKYO, June 19 (Reuters) - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet slid 12 percentage points to 33%, coming off a peak during a Group of Seven leaders summit in Hiroshima, the Mainichi Shimbun reported on Sunday, citing its own poll. The disapproval rate rose to 58% from 46% in the previous survey in late May, after a scandal involving Kishida's eldest son and a series of technical problems with the national identity card system, according to Mainichi, which conducted the poll over the weekend. Approval for the Kishida government had been on the upswing in the run up to the G7, reaching the highest level last month since August 2022, Mainichi said. Some had speculated Kishida would call a snap election in advance of the party leadership race next year. A separate poll conducted by the Kyodo news agency showed on Sunday that support for Kishida's cabinet sank to 40.8% from 47% in May.
Persons: Fumio, Rocky Swift, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Japanese, Seven, Mainichi Shimbun, Mainichi, Kyodo, Thomson Locations: TOKYO, Hiroshima
☆ Leaders gather funeral of former prime minister Shinzo Abe
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Arata Yamamoto | Rhoda Kwan | Arata Yamamoto Has Been A Nbc News Producer In Tokyo Since | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
TOKYO — Even as world leaders gathered in Tokyo for the funeral of assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, there were protests against the lavish proceedings. But the state funeral for Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, who was shot and killed while campaigning in Nara on July 8, takes place in a country deeply divided over the former leader’s legacy. In that sense, I would like to once again offer my sincere condolences to former Prime Minister Abe, who was killed by a bullet,” its leader Kenta Izumi said Tuesday. The decision on whether to hold a state funeral is usually subject to parliamentary deliberation, which was not the case for Abe's service. Around 800 people protested the state funeral at a major train station on Monday evening, according to broadcaster NTV.
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