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It has come to light that unauthorized access to the disaster-information distribution service “Arcadia” may have leaked the personal information — names, departments, phone numbers, and more — of all roughly 3,900 Tochigi Prefectural Police staff. The service was originally a mailing system for safety-confirmation checks during disasters, and it appears police employee data was registered on it as well. The thread ranged widely: worries about scam calls impersonating police using the leaked data, questions over why a safety-check system needed such detailed personal information in the first place, and a running battle of corrections over the difference between the ranks “Superintendent-General” and “Senior Commissioner.”

10/20 (Tue) 10:54 JST

Mainichi Shimbun

Regarding the case in which disaster-information distribution service provider Arcadia Co. (Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture) suffered unauthorized access, raising concerns about a possible leak of personal information, it was learned on the 20th, through an inquiry with the Tochigi Prefectural Police, that the personal information of all roughly 3,900 Tochigi Prefectural Police staff members who used the company’s service may have been leaked.

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here

57AnonymousOct 20, 2026 18:11

So this is where it all kicks off for Tochigi Police.

66AnonymousOct 20, 2026 18:16

Re: #57
Public security's the scary part.
Extremists and organized crime groups are gonna be gunning for them, seriously.

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Unauthorized Access] Personal Information of All Tochigi Prefectural Police Staff Possibly Leaked — Arcadia Unauthorized Access.”

A women-only study room on Kindai University’s Higashi-Osaka campus has drawn a wave of social media criticism calling it “discrimination against men,” after the university posted a video about it on X. The facility itself has existed for about nine years, since the new main building was built, but a 2026 renovation added new amenities — including a locker room — that are set up for women only, which fueled the backlash. The university, for its part, says that while the women-only study room has 107 seats, the Higashi-Osaka campus as a whole has roughly 4,800 study seats available, and that current students themselves haven’t raised any particular complaints. On 5ch, opinion split between “of course it’s needed as an anti-groping measure” and “the university is treating male students like potential criminals.”

Oct 20 (Tue), 8:40 AM JST

ENCOUNT

“Male Discrimination” Criticism Over Women-Only Study Room — How It Came to Be Installed

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here

*This article is composed as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “[University] The “Male Discrimination” Debate Over Kindai’s Women-Only Study Room — What Do the Students Themselves Actually Think? The University’s Surprising Answer.”

Edenred Japan, which provides employee benefits services, surveyed 600 people — 300 corporate representatives who employ part-time workers and 300 people currently working part-time — and found that over 80% of companies that raised hourly wages said there’s a limit to competing for hires on pay alone. Among part-time workers themselves, many said that even with higher hourly wages, they still don’t feel any more financial breathing room. On a 5ch thread, opinions clashed over how real these raises actually feel: some argued that wage gains are simply being wiped out by rising prices, others said minimum wage hikes are squeezing small restaurants, and still more debated how work patterns are shifting now that the “1.06 million yen wall” has been abolished.

In recent years, against a backdrop of minimum wage hikes and labor shortages, the environment surrounding hiring and retaining part-time and temp workers has grown increasingly difficult.

Edenred Japan, which operates the “Ticket Restaurant” meal subsidy benefit service, recently conducted a survey titled “Survey on the Actual Treatment of Part-Time Workers” targeting a total of 600 people — 300 corporate representatives who employ part-timers and 300 people currently working part-time — and has released the results.

Over 80% of companies that raised hourly wages say competing on “hourly pay alone” has hit its limit

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

*This article was compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “Even as hourly wages rise… Over 80% of part-timers say they still don’t feel any financial breathing room.”

A report drawing attention to the fact that the number of foreign residents in Japan has hit a record high of 4.28 million — driven in part by a growing wave of “education migration,” mostly from China — sparked a heated debate on 5channel’s Breaking News+ board. The story described families worn down by China’s brutal exam-prep culture (up at 6am, studying until midnight) increasingly choosing Japan’s more relaxed schools instead. Reactions split between posters acknowledging just how harsh Chinese education really is, comparisons to the grueling entrance-exam experiences of Japan’s “ice age” generation (those who graduated into the brutal 1990s–2000s job market), Japan’s dwindling Nobel Prize count, the large number of Chinese researchers at institutions like RIKEN, and concerns about how these students and researchers are actually obtaining study and work visas. The thread ranged from education philosophy all the way to worries about immigration control.

Last week, it came to light that the number of foreign residents living in Japan has reached a record high of 4.28 million.

One reason for relocating that’s been on the rise lately, especially among Chinese nationals, is “education.”

Amid a fierce exam-war environment where students sacrifice sleep to study starting from middle school — and still often fail their exams anyway — more and more people are reportedly seeking out Japan’s education system for being “relaxed.”

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

169AnonymousOct 21, 2026 04:28

Yeah, Japan really is falling apart, isn't it.

174AnonymousOct 21, 2026 04:34

Re: #172

In Japan, even bona fide national research institutes have tons of Chinese researchers working there.

(Being a national research institute, it's naturally on the opposite side from the Science Council of Japan, which has deep ties to the Japanese Communist Party.)

RIKEN, the institute that became famous because of Haruko Obokata, has 110 Chinese researchers on staff.

*This article is composed of excerpts and a summary from the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread ““There’s not much stress in Japan. In China I’d wake up at 6am… and study until midnight” — A middle schooler who moved to Japan from Beijing two years ago talks about “the appeal of Japanese education”.”