Ongoing Events in Japan

f1esk said:
What's happened? Is there any confirmation from Japan on this information from Russian sources?
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It's confirmed, no mentioned cause yet, from here (16 April 2023 ) :


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5 bodies found in search for missing SDF helicopter​


Today 04:25 pm JST



TOKYO

Five bodies were found Sunday following a deep-sea dive in search of a Japan Self-Defense Forces helicopter that went missing earlier this month with 10 personnel aboard off the southern prefecture of Okinawa, the Ground Self-Defense Force said.

The SDF have been working to recover the bodies as quickly as possible to confirm whether they are those of the personnel a board the UH-60JA helicopter. A damaged part of the chopper that has also been located is expected to be retrieved by a private salvaging company.
The bodies were found around 8:30 a.m. by divers on the ocean floor at a depth of about 106 meters. The search will continue for the other five personnel that remain missing.
The helicopter is believed to have gone down after it disappeared from radar shortly after taking off from a base on Miyako Island on April 6.
The discovery came following a deep-sea search made through saturation diving, a technique that allows divers to work at great depths for long periods.

Attempts to deploy the technique were halted Friday due to equipment flaws and paused again Saturday against a backdrop of bad weather.
Those aboard the helicopter included Lt. Gen. Yuichi Sakamoto, the 55-year-old commander of the GSDF's 8th Division based in Kumamoto Prefecture.
The bodies were discovered 6 kilometers north of Irabu Island, which is connected by bridge to Miyako. The crash is believed to be an aviation accident although the exact cause remains unknown.
Neither of the two air traffic control centers in the area received a distress signal from the helicopter's emergency locator transmitter designed to automatically activate on impact.
The helicopter underwent a special inspection in late March after 50 flying hours and was taken for a one-hour flight to check its safety but no abnormalities were found at the time, according to the GSDF."
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And same source (JapanToday) gives some details about "Kishida's incident" :

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Kishida urges better security after pipe bomb incident​


Today 06:00 pm JST



TOKYO

Japan needs to increase security as Group of Seven officials visit, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Sunday, a day after an explosive was thrown at him during a campaign event.
Kishida escaped unharmed after the device, reportedly a pipe bomb, was thrown towards him as he campaigned in the city of Wakayama on Saturday.

A 24-year-old man was arrested, but has so far revealed nothing about his motives in the attack, which came as Japan hosts two G7 ministerial meetings.

"At a time when high-ranking officials from all over the world are visiting... Japan as a whole needs to maximize its efforts to ensure security and safety," Kishida told reporters on Sunday.
"It's unforgivable such a violent act was committed during an election campaign," he added.

He said he expected police to step up security measures in the wake of the incident, which came less than a year after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a gunman in the city of Nara.
His killing sent shockwaves through the country, and prompted an overhaul of security around public officials.
Kishida was about to deliver a speech at a fishing port in Wakayama when Saturday's incident occurred.
Footage from the scene showed a metal canister being thrown from within a small crowd behind him, and the prime minister turning before being surrounded and led away by security.
Security officials and civilians at the scene quickly detained a man, whom local media have named as 24-year-old Ryuji Kimura from Hyogo region, also in western Japan.

As Kimura was detained, a large blast sounded and white smoke filled the air, with people in the crowd screaming and running away.
A local fisherman who helped detain Kimura said he picked up a pipe-shaped object at the scene.
"I picked up this metal thing and wanted to hand it to a police officer. But he told me, 'Just put it down! Leave it there,'" he told national broadcaster NHK.
Local media reports said Kimura, who was arrested on suspicion of obstruction of business, has so far refused to speak to investigators, except to say he wants to see a lawyer.
Kishida resumed campaigning not long after the incident and insisted the lower house by-elections, scheduled for April 23, would not be affected.
Security at local campaign events can be relatively relaxed in Japan, a country with little violent crime and strict gun laws.
But the country bolstered security around politicians after the assassination of Abe, who was shot and killed while speaking at a campaign event in July 2022.
The attack against Kishida comes as G7 climate and energy ministers meet in the northern city of Sapporo and the bloc's foreign ministers gather in the resort town of Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture.
Japan will host the G7 leaders' summit in May in Hiroshima."
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This theater never ends. In Japan still 95 % wear masks and they don't question anything.
2000 people died after the injection and another 50 still under investigation. Still they recomend the vaccination for children.
Link On May 8th the 6th booster starts and again thousands will wait for their shots. It is like in the movie Cloud Atlas.
I never wanted to watch this movie again. It was so inhuman.
 
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“We aim to achieve a society in which everyone can shine in their own color,” Date Mayor Hiroyuki Suda said at a news conference on Nov. 30. “There is a certain number (of sexual minorities) in our society. Even if they had not requested it, we still want to establish the system and promote and deepen understanding of sexual diversity.”

Under the program scheduled to start on Jan. 4, the municipality will recognize sexual minority partnerships as equivalent to marriage in Japan.
 
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