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Six people are confirmed to have died in the Aeon Mall explosion and collapse. The Prime Minister has said the overall death toll from the earthquake is currently at 30. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

There's currently a six day gap between application and display but the idea is to make it a same-day service. Countdown to an upload of Hitler, or some overseas sex offender....

There was a trial last week of a service where you can upload a photo of yourself and have it displayed on Q Front at Shibuya Scramble Crossing. Could officially start next March. www.shibukei.com/headline/200...

Real throwback seeing Mika Kano on TV tonight. Twenty or more years ago, the Kano sisters (叶姉妹 - not real sisters) were all over Japanese media as a pair of glam celebrities.

The SDF released footage from inside Aeon Mall in Kumamoto. It doesn't look much like a shopping centre anymore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzJN...

Two women in their twenties are confirmed dead at the Aeon Mall in Kumamoto. Four people were rescued overnight, and around 10 others are missing. At Nippon Paper Mill, nine are still unaccounted for. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

Aeon Mall in Kumamoto looking a bit of a mess. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvnW...

TV showing a lot of structural damage around Yatsushiro in Kumamoto following that earthquake. There has also been a constant pinging of alerts from the aftershocks.

The original editor has written about the new edition. It seems Saori Oguri redrew all the panels digitally, and added colour. The image below shows an old and new panel. note.com/kata_t/n/n94...

Just learned a remastered version of『ダーリンは外国人』was released last month The original came out in 2002, with a film in 2010. The typical image of 外国人 is arguably different now, so it'll be interesting to see if it finds a new audience. www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%80%E3...

Tsunami alert issued after magnitude 7.1 quake strikes Kumamoto www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07...

In a Shikoku high school baseball tournament, he pitched sixteen innings in the semi-final and, two days later, another 25 innings in the final, which his team lost. He went on to have a pro career, but that kind of excess at a young age made him injury-prone.

Former baseball pro and TV presenter Eiji Bando has died at 86. He was a fixture on television, until a tax evasion scandal in 2013 led broadcasters to give him a wide berth for a few year. www.sankei.com/article/2026...

The Tanashi branch made the transfer. The woman then went into her branch, and withdrew the money unchallenged, as she had already established the expectation it would arrive. The couple were never caught.

A man then phoned the Tanashi branch of the bank, claiming to be from the bank's computer centre. He said there were problems, and he needed them to make a test transfer of 35 million yen to a specified account, which would be returned half an hour later.

One of the first "online" bank swindles, back in 1981, had a similar pattern. In 1981, a woman walked into a branch of Heiwa Sogo Bank, opened an account under the name of Tanaka, and said she was expecting a transfer of 35 million yen.

Blog service Hatena has been swindled out of 1.18 billion yen. A group posing as the police called the firm's accountant, and got him to download a "money laundering monitoring" app. They then used it to raid Hatena's accounts. tokyonewsmedia.com/archives/25721

Asahi English report. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

An Australian man hiking in Iwate prefecture was attacked by a bear. He suffered bites and scratches to his face and abdomen but was able to seek help from a nearby road. The report says he is not in a critical condition. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

Best-selling author Keigo Higashino has died at 68. Following success in Japan, translations brought him popularity in Asia and the West. "The Devotion of Suspect X" introduced his Detective Galileo character to the Anglosphere in 2011. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...