Missing girl s mom sues Twitter in Japan for IDs of trolls over online harassment
April 21, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Tomoko Ogura displays a photo of her missing daughter Misaki at a press conference at the Ministry of Justice press club in Tokyo s Kasumigaseki district, on April 20, 2021. (Mainichi/Yohei Koide) TOKYO The mother of a girl who went missing on a family camping trip in September 2019 has filed suit at the Tokyo District Court demanding U.S. social media giant Twitter Inc. reveal the identities of users who slandered her online over her daughter s disappearance. I was wounded by the swords of people s words online, 38-year-old Tomoko Ogura told an April 20 news conference. I don t want anyone else to have to experience what I ve gone through. She added that, if Twitter reveals the information on her online attackers, then it will be possible to file damages lawsuits and criminal reports against them.
Last essay by late Japanese writer who lost classmates in Hiroshima A-bomb published
April 12, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Japanese nonfiction writer Chieko Seki is seen in photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2015. (Mainichi/Kimi Sorihashi) TOKYO The final work of Japanese nonfiction writer Chieko Seki, who lost most of her classmates in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, has been published following her death in February this year. The essay, Zoku: Hiroshima Taiwa Zuiso (Essays on Hiroshima dialogue: Part II), published in March by Nishida Shoten, is based on letters Seki exchanged with 90-year-old writer Shiro Nakayama, a long-time friend and A-bomb survivor. The 14-year-old Nakayama was in the middle of work demolishing buildings in Hiroshima, 1.5 kilometers away from the hypocenter, when the bomb was dropped.
21 Japan SDF members in Africa have coronavirus, 130 attended base party in March
April 9, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
The Ministry of Defense is seen in Tokyo s Shinjuku Ward. (Mainichi/Masahiro Ogawa) TOKYO A total of 21 Japan Self-Defense Force (SDF) personnel at a base of operations in Djibouti in East Africa have been confirmed infected with the coronavirus, the Ministry of Defense reported on April 7. The personnel, aged between their 20s and 40s, are in the region to support activities against piracy off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden. It emerged April 8 that at the end of March around 130 of the approximately 180 staff at the SDF base attended a sports event and a subsequent social gathering where alcohol was served.
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