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•Alkonis' wife told the court that the accident would have been avoided if he had pulled over the car and not continued driving. 
Transgender rights advocates were planning a protest in front of Kadokawa's corporate HQ in Tokyo tomorrow at 6pm (it has now been cancelled). There was also a very big online backlash against their Twitter thread promoting the book. 
Johnny has faced intense online hate due to viral videos on Twitter of his extreme rudeness. Millions have watched the videos in the last two weeks. Hashimoto seems to have been asked to help defuse the situation. 
The police were eventually called and are questioning both of them. The police are telling him that the both of them are going to be taken to the police station.
Numerous polls have found a large majority of Japanese are in favor of dropping the ban on same-sex marriage. For example, this May 2023 JNN poll found that 63% favored legalizing same-sex marriage: newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/463…
The real estate company has put up bright lights Christmas lights in parts of the plot that are already vacant, and holds loud parties at night, allegedly to prevent tenants from sleeping. One tenant committed suicide, and her son says it was because of the harassment.
ANN reports that a dispute with the landlord over rent payments led to an agreement in 2017 that the school would leave the building. They didn't leave, and the landlord got a court order in 2023. Parents claim the school didn't tell them about the issue. 
The article states that about 1 in 5 massage parlors have had to deal with robberies in recent years. Police and the yakuza will not help them. The vigilante groups operate in busy nightlife areas where they can show up at a massage parlor within minutes. friday.kodansha.co.jp/article/312433…
Not all fictosexuals are men. A 2017 survey found that 17.1% of female university students have had romantic feelings towards a fictional character, vs. 14.4% of male students. 
I'm not sure how it is these days, but about 5 years ago I met some undergrad art students who were paid slightly higher than minimum wage to spend hours with scissors, markers, and glue making displays like this for a Japanese TV channel.
Several of the Diet's most outspoken opponents of LGBT rights are in the Abe faction. The faction also contains hawkish lawmakers who favor increased defense spending but want to avoid tax increases.
A few months ago Nishida endorsed the 1979 book, "I'd like to apologize to the Japanese: A Jewish elder's confession" (日本人に謝りたい あるユダヤ人の懺悔), which introduces anti-Jewish conspiracy theories via a fake Jewish author named "Mordecai Mose."
The report then segways into scaring people about the harm marijuana supposedly inflicts on society. They interview someone from a "rest home" where people receiving "Marijuana addiction treatment" has increased 2X to 4X since the decriminalization. 