[Link] A Loophole in Japan’s Weed Laws Is Getting Tens of Thousands High

Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com

The straw-colored drug, sold in sleek vape cases, looks strikingly similar to the cannabis oil Hiro has tried abroad. When it’s smoked, he said the difference is even harder to tell. 

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[Link] Police Arrest Man For Uploading ‘Parasite’ Movie Edit to YouTube

Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com

Police in Japan have just arrested another man for posting 10-movie summaries to YouTube including the hit Korean drama 'Parasite'.

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[Link] Man Arrested for Unblurring Japanese Porn With AI in First Deepfake Case

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Japanese police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man for using artificial intelligence to effectively unblur pixelated porn videos, in the first criminal case in the country involving the exploitative use of the powerful technology.

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[Link] ‘You’ll Regret This For the Rest of Your Life’: Yakuza Boss Told Judge After Death Sentence

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of one of Japan’s most dangerous crime groups, Kudo-kai, was convicted for the attacks, including the killing of a fishermen’s union chief, carried out between 1998 and 2014. His second-in-command, 65-year-old Fumio Tanoue, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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