Headline news for November 27, 2024



' Chicken Shio Ramen ,' supervised by the popular ramen shop ' Wakai ' in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, will be sold at the conveyor belt sushi chain Sushiro from Wednesday, November 27, 2024. The soup, which is based on chicken bones and has a hint of dried sardines, is light yet has the flavor of chicken and seafood. Prices vary by store, starting from 460 yen including tax.

Chicken salt ramen supervised by 'Wakai' | Recommended list | Akindo Sushiro Co., Ltd.
https://www.akindo-sushiro.co.jp/campaign/detail.php?id=3825

By the way, we published the following article on the same day in the same month in the past.

A PS5 purchased from Amazon was delivered to the front door but was lost - GIGAZINE

Why do cats meow to humans? - GIGAZINE

Chinese scientists announce that 'genotypic editing has led to the birth of HIV-resistant twin girls', but there are strong doubts about the ethics and content - GIGAZINE

A squirrel gets drunk after eating fermented pears, and it's so cute that it's a hot topic - GIGAZINE

Mass culling of minks leads to zombie-like emergence from graves - GIGAZINE

What is the history and secrets of 'McDonald's French Fries' and the recipe for the original McDonald's French Fries that you can make yourself? - GIGAZINE

Multiple reports of 'bulges on the back and gaps on the top' appear on Nintendo Switch - GIGAZINE

◆ Material (notes and other miscellaneous items)













Algerian man learns Japanese for 6 years, can now laugh at inappropriate jokes in Japanese → 'I'm really proud' - Togetter






















◆Science (science, learning, technology)
Fusion power generation ITER Organization head reports start of operation postponed by nine years to 2034 | NHK | Environment




◆ Society, politics, and economy (incidents, world news, business)
North Korea's currency crashes to a quarter of what it was at the start of the year, internal documents ordered 'struggle' obtained | Mainichi Shimbun

French foreign minister says there are no 'red lines' on Ukraine aid - BBC News

Marumiya Foods recalls its 'Kamameshi base' due to insect contamination | NHK | Health

Governor Saito denies violating the Public Offices Election Act, paid PR company about 700,000 yen for poster production, 'Social media management is handled by Saito's office' | NHK | Hyogo Prefecture

Governor Saito: 'I recognize that there are no facts that would violate the Public Offices Election Act' Interviewed regarding PR company bribery allegations [15 minutes uncut, full release] - YouTube


Hyogo Governor Saito 'paid 700,000 yen to PR company during election' - denies illegality [Hyogo Prefecture]: Asahi Shimbun Digital

Governor Saito denies violation of election law over social media management by Nishinomiya PR company | Society | Kobe Shimbun NEXT

Will Governor Saito Motohiko be able to clear up the 'suspicion' that he violated the Public Offices Election Law? Lawyer points out 'three possible excuses' and problems | ENCOUNT

[Exclusive] Hyogo Prefectural Governor Election: PR company president in the spotlight: '150,000 yen in compensation from prefecture in the past' Governor Saito: 'I believe there is no evidence that this violates the law' | MBS News

Hyogo Governor Saito reveals details of payments to PR company supporting him in gubernatorial election | NHK | Hyogo Prefecture

Live broadcast from Hyogo Governor Saito's campaign car: Witness the social media strategy of the female president of the PR company that has come under scrutiny for violating the Public Offices Election Act | AERA dot.

Distrust in the mass media in the Hyogo gubernatorial election: 'voluntary restraint to avoid risk' as the background | Mainichi Shimbun

Governor Saito's explanation that 'SNS management is volunteer work' falls flat, will the outcome be the same as Tokyo Governor Inose's 50 million yen scandal? (Nobuo Gohara) - Expert - Yahoo!News

'Suicide sales' is power harassment, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will clarify it in the prevention law guidelines... urging companies to take measures: Yomiuri Shimbun

Philippine Vice President: 'If I am killed, I will kill the president and his wife' | NHK | Philippines

Trump's tough stance on China puts Japan on guard, fears of losing semiconductor market Trump 2.0: Big business shift - Nikkei Shimbun

[Breaking News] Takaichi considers strengthening wiretapping to combat illegal part-time work | 47NEWS

Kabukicho host club suspended for unfair collection of accounts receivable | Kyodo News

Kanagawa Yokosuka 84-year-old husband arrested for murdering 81-year-old wife at home; wife certified as needing nursing care, 'I'm forgetting things more often and I'm pessimistic about my future' | NHK | Incident

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare proposes raising basic pension by 30% to utilize financial resources of employee pension - Nikkei Shimbun

Half of the refugee applicants in Kawaguchi do not go to high school. Successful Kurds in Turkey say their compatriots 'just complain without making an effort.' 'Immigrants' and Japanese: The real reason Kurds head to Kawaguchi ② - Sankei News

Three political parties set up investigative team to investigate Okinawa's Washington office's 'false application' issue - Sankei News

Northvolt bankruptcy pushes Chinese companies away, Europe's battery strategy goes awry | Reuters

Is long-term hospitalization in psychiatric hospitals necessary? 'Freedom is the cure' - Changes to the legal system: Asahi Shimbun Digital

Fire breaks out in Susukino building in Sapporo, injuring four people, one man unconscious; police are investigating possibility of arson or other crime | NHK | Hokkaido

Former teacher accused of mailing cash to 14 people to vote for 'proportional voting for the Communist Party': Asahi Shimbun Digital

General account settlement not approved for the first time since Okinawa's return to Japan - Okinawa Prefectural Assembly visits Washington office | Okinawa Times Plus

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare considers lifting ban on purchase of ED drugs without prescription - Nikkei Newspaper

Russian soldier deserter reveals wartime secrets about guarding nuclear weapons base to BBC - BBC News

Taste testing to select the highest quality nori canceled due to lack of nori that met standards | NHK Saga Prefecture News

New nuclear power plant construction to be requested from Prime Minister Ishiba under Basic Energy Plan - Democratic Party for the People: Jiji.com

Conservative Party's influence on Nagoya city government: New mayor succeeds Takashi Kawamura [Aichi Prefecture]: Asahi Shimbun Digital

Non-regular employees go to work even during typhoons, while regular employees wait at home... Is there a 'life-threatening disparity' among public servants nationwide? The people involved have launched an investigation: Tokyo Shimbun Digital

Musk calls manned fighter jets 'outdated' and proposes replacing them with unmanned aircraft - 3 photos International News: AFPBB News

Requirements for specific dependent deductions to be relaxed...Considerations of raising the 'another 1.03 million yen barrier' for student annual income: Yomiuri Shimbun

[Exclusive] Government and ruling party review 'income barrier' to consider abolishing or reducing basic deductions for annual incomes of over 24 million yen - Sankei News

Israel and Lebanon agree to ceasefire, President Biden announces in speech, focus on whether Israel and Hezbollah will maintain ceasefire | NHK | Israel-Palestine

JOC to levy additional tax of approximately 2 billion yen, turning profitable business into public service exempt from tax | NHK | Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics

22-year-old man suspected of sexually assaulting 13-year-old junior high school girl: 'She said she was 18' | 47NEWS

Kokumin's Tamaki says 'Stop the conspiracy theories' to 'put out the fire' against criticism of the Ministry of Finance spreading on social media | Mainichi Shimbun

Tokyo District Court rejects claim by 'Himasora Akane'; Colabo CEO Nito Yumeno found to have discriminatory attitudes | Weekly Friday Online

Kyodo News' false report 'affects Japan-Korea relations': President apologizes to Ministry of Foreign Affairs | NHK | Japan-Korea relations

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare requires all pharmaceutical companies to appoint a 'person in charge' to prevent shortages in response to supply concerns [Evening Scoop] - Nihon Keizai Shimbun

Toyota to postpone production of next-generation EV to mid-2027 to secure development time | NHK | EV (electric vehicle)

Mass shoplifting at drugstores: products brought into Vietnam? Searching domestic bases: what was the method? | NHK | Incident

Tokyo District Court orders ringleaders of '5.5 billion yen fraud' land fraudsters to pay 1 billion yen in damages | NHK | Incident

Tokyo District Court orders Sekisui House to pay 1 billion yen in damages to 'land fraudster' | Mainichi Shimbun

[Breaking News] JR East announces plans to abolish the Chiba-Kururi Line terminal section, passenger numbers down 90% since 1987, worst profit margin in JR East area (published on November 27, 2024) | NTV NEWS NNN

Harumi Flag Key Box Unauthorized Installation? Real Estate Company President Filed Cases | NHK | Real Estate

Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee who looks like a famous actress steals 1 billion yen from a safe deposit box | Weekly Bunshun Online Edition

NHK Party's Takashi Tachibana to run in December's Izumiotsu mayoral election: 'There is a movement to completely ignore Tachibana' | Tokyo Sports WEB

◆ Lifestyle (life, living, health)
Regarding 'How to gently tell a client who seems to be suffering from paranoia that they should see a psychiatrist,' a veteran brain surgeon's response to a patient was kind and smart - Togetter

The unevenness of the top of paperback books was intentional. Despite complaints that the product is defective, what is the reason behind the commitment to using the high-level bookbinding technique 'top uncut'? | TBS NEWS DIG

About half of new graduates from the University of Tokyo or Tokyo Institute of Technology will be told something like, 'Your tone is harsh and unpleasant to others, so fix it.' → Society is not a place for people to fight over common sense - Togetter




A third grade elementary school girl who passed the national qualification for second-class electrician at the age of 8 is a hot topic → 'I thought she had a skills test, but I can't believe she can even hold a pair of crimping pliers...' - Togetter [Togetter]







I didn't have the confidence to lie in the interview, so I honestly said something like 'I was a recluse for 8 years. I was scared to go out into society, and I'm still scared, but I'll do my best' and I was hired - Togetter [Togetter]

A patient with severe PMS and menstrual cramps says, 'I'm glad I came to see you, because they kept blaming it on hormones' - But that's what's to blame!? - Togetter

I received an anonymous call from an elderly man claiming to be from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 2 and asked to confirm my name by using my maiden name... → It seems that calls about special fraud like this are on the rise - Togetter

I'm a pharmacist, and recently when I searched, the AI-generated summaries that came up sometimes had different instructions for using medicines than the correct ones, and I thought this was really scary - Togetter

Rich Americans donate to charities for family members before they die, effectively making inheritance tax-free - Togetter

If you want to get off a packed bus in London, England, you can shout 'Fried tofu!' and it will be understood 100%. I tried it with Google Translate and it got through - Togetter

When I was drinking with some Tokyo University students who said, 'We're in the engineering field, so we don't have enough knowledge of the humanities ☺💦,' they started talking about Mill, Foucault, and if you trace it back to Aquinas... I screamed, 'Culture!!' and collapsed with my eyes rolled up - Togetter

For individually packaged cocoa and other drinks that you dissolve in hot water, it says to dissolve one packet in 130ml, but is that amount enough for everyone? → Many people 'ruthlessly use two packets' - Togetter







There is one thing you really shouldn't use when staying at a hotel. It's the kettle in the room. Apparently there are people who put their socks in it to disinfect it with boiling water - Togetter

'Sesame mackerel culture' Anisakis food poisoning increases in Fukuoka Prefecture... Anisakis has been detected in mackerel from the Sea of Japan, a change in the marine environment?: Local news: Yomiuri Shimbun







◆IT/Gadgets (Internet, software, hardware, mobile)
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26-year-old president who 'inflated with AI' and 'wrote it with smears' reprinted word-of-mouth without permission: Asahi Shimbun Digital

iCloud+ price increase: 2TB from 1,300 yen to 1,500 yen etc. - ITmedia NEWS

Strengthening customer support system and new compensation policy | Mercari Biyori [Official website]

ChatGPT to raise prices '10% of consumption tax will be imposed' from January, says OpenAI - ITmedia AI+

Regarding inappropriate posts made by theater personnel on personal accounts of X (formerly Twitter) | New National Theatre

[Katsuyuki Okawara's 'The PC Industry is Running Wild'] PC shipments up 50%! What's happening in 2024? - PC Watch

Let's enjoy looking at Yahoo! Answers from 20 years ago! [We are people from the future] - YouTube


After touch comes 'token' Visa's increasingly sophisticated payment service - Impress Watch

Refusal to allow adults to enter the site is to protect the brand



Pyxel is an amazing tool for writing retro games in Python | Shirai Hakase (AI researcher/Hacker author)

Fukuoka District Court orders company that runs 'X' to delete tweets from arrest 10 years ago [Fukuoka Prefecture]: Asahi Shimbun Digital

From Claude of Anthropic! AI assistants are now in an era where everything can be connected. New technology MCP opens up new possibilities | Kyutaro

The Free BGM Association begins offering its 'Free BGM Database' free of charge to non-business users | Press release from the Free BGM Association

freee Developers Advent Calendar 2024 is starting! - freee Developers Hub

◆Anime, games, manga (subculture)
Takuya Nagase, 9th Dan, challenges the Osho title: 'I'm not 'Sasaki' or 'Yuki' but 'Nagase, Nagase'' [74th Osho League Playoffs] - Photo by Arata Kitano - YouTube


Kotonoha Akane and Yuzuki Yukari missed the last 1/2 [1/8192] - Nico Nico Douga









TV anime 'The Summer When Light Died' teaser PV [Broadcast and distribution begins in the summer of 2025] - YouTube





[Dengeki Exclusive] SIE's Shuhei Yoshida to retire in 2025. Part 1 of an interview looking back on his 31 years with 'PlayStation' - Dengeki Online

Shuhei Yoshida and the 31-year history of PlayStation® – PlayStation.Blog English

Persona 4 The Golden Melody Clock - YouTube


'Sonic x Shadow Generations' Message Trailer-YouTube


Farming Simulator 25 Animal Trailer - YouTube


Sega Mega Drive for Nintendo Switch Online additional titles [November 27, 2024] - YouTube


'Moons of Darsalon' release date announcement trailer - YouTube








◆Sports, entertainment, music, movies (entertainment)
World Rally Championship organizers fined for unauthorized vehicle entry | NHK | Gifu Prefecture

Transgender women's volleyball player at a US university causes controversy after spiking at 128km/h, leading to a string of withdrawals from opposing teams - Sankei News

Harry Potter sword to be recalled for allegedly violating the Sword and Firearms Act | NHK | Tokyo

First release of 'Lilo & Stitch' special trailer [That 'Stitch' turns live-action and hits movie theaters!?] | Early summer 2025 theater release! - YouTube


'Squid Game' Season 2 Trailer - Netflix - YouTube


The 'Gryffindor Sword' sold at the Harry Potter experience facility is being recalled due to possible violation of the Sword and Firearms Act → '86cm long, stainless steel' - Togetter [Togatter]

[My Best Race] Junko Hosoe [Special Interview] - YouTube





◆New products (clothing, food, shelter)
[Announcement] A luxurious 'exquisite chicken and egg bento' made with rare chicken fatty tuna, perfect for the New Year holidays, is now available!

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