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Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–Cases involving artificial intelligence-generated sexual deepfakes targeting children more than doubled in number in Japan in the first half of 2026, the National Police Agency said Monday. Police handled 123 such cases in the six months, exceeding both

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–A third-party panel of Shogakukan Inc. said Monday that the Japanese publisher has encouraged human rights violations by hiring a male manga artist who had committed sexual misconduct as an author for a new series under a different

Silicon Valley, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–A U.S. federal district court in Texas has ordered two units of Kioxia Holdings Corp. to pay about 229 million dollars in damages for infringing on a patent held by U.S. satellite communications company Viasat Inc. The

Hikawa, Kumamoto Pref., Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–More than 8,000 people remain at evacuation shelters in Kumamoto Prefecture as of Tuesday, a week after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that damaged over 12,000 residential buildings in the southwestern Japan prefecture. Daytime temperatures exceed 35 degrees

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products and food items grew 10.9 pct from a year earlier to 897.7 billion yen in January-June, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. The export value marked a record high for the

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–A panel of experts at Japan’s land ministry has called on the government to establish nationwide rules to track large-scale groundwater extraction to prevent declines in groundwater levels and land subsidence, the ministry said Tuesday. Specifically, the proposal

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–Ukraine’s relations with Japan are still at a level short of its high expectations prompted by major political changes in the Asian country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Making the remark at a meeting with Ukrainian ambassadors in

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s government decided Tuesday to use 24,225 million yen out of the reserve funds under its fiscal 2026 budget to support areas afflicted by a major earthquake that struck the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto a week ago. The

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s Immigration Services Agency on Tuesday released a draft revision to its guidelines on permanent residency permits mandating applicants to maintain an income exceeding the average for Japanese households. The revised guidelines would stipulate for the first time

Tokyo, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)–People need to doubt social media posts and check primary information from administrative organizations after disasters because false information tends to spread following them, Reo Kimura, professor of disaster psychology at the University of Hyogo in Kobe, said.