Pillow Talk Japan

Yay! PSN coming back soon-ish, so change your passwords

No one ever thought it would take this long, but it did. The PlayStation Network is on the road to recovery, after nearly a month of downtime following a catastrophic hacking attack that saw the perpetrators make off with untold amounts of potentially sensitive personal information. Now, things seem to be turning for the better, [...]

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Japan to review death penalty

Japan’s justice minister, a foe of capital punishment, has announced a review of the death penalty after witnessing the first executions since her centre-left government took power in 2009. The two male convicts hanged on Wednesday were Kazuo Shinozawa, 59, who killed six people by setting fire to a jewellery store, and Hidenori Ogata, 33, [...]

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Japan hangs 2 death row inmates, 1st execution in 1 year

Japan hanged two death row inmates in the first execution under the Democratic Party of Japan government launched last September, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba told a press conference Wednesday. The two are Kazuo Shinozawa, who was accused of murder in 2000 involving six female clerks at a jewelry store in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, and Hidenori [...]

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Beekeepers add buzz to Japan urban jungle

Tokyo’s Ginza district is usually abuzz with shoppers and office workers, but high above its skyscrapers nature-lovers have created a home for real busy bees — the ones that make honey. It’s part of a project to bring a slice of natural life back to the centre of the world’s largest urban sprawl, a cityscape [...]

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