May 20, 2025 19:45:00

Headline news for May 20, 2025

Domino's Pizza will release the 'World Domino North and South America Edition' on Monday, May 26, 2025 as the second installment of the 'World Domino' quattro pizza series, which allows you to enjoy meat pizzas from four countries on one pizza. The lineup includes 'Canada Wild BBQ Deluxe,' 'Mexico Spicy Chorizo,' 'America Meat Party,' and 'Brazil Chiki Chiki Cheese,' and the price is 1,790 yen for a small takeaway.

Call it a day, meat pizzas from around the world. World Domino's North and South America Edition | Domino's Pizza
https://www.dominos.jp/topics/world-dominos

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GPT-4o's Chinese tokens are contaminated with porn and spam - GIGAZINE

Anthropic publishes reflections on existing policies to safely provide 'AI that poses catastrophic risks to humanity' - GIGAZINE

A USB flash memory capable of storing data for up to 200 years will be released, but the capacity is only 8KB - GIGAZINE

Internet's collective intelligence uncovers counterfeit 'Apple employee ID' put up for auction - GIGAZINE

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Parents sued their son and his wife for not giving them a grandchild, demanding either to give them a grandchild or pay them 80 million yen - GIGAZINE

Investor Y Combinator advises startup founders to prepare for the worst during a recession - GIGAZINE

Cryptocurrency Ethereum announces transition to mechanism to reduce power consumption by 99% - GIGAZINE

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The alchemy that 'you can make 900 yen every time you order a pizza from your own store' is born, what is the cause? - GIGAZINE

South Korean government aims to give up Windows and move to Linux - GIGAZINE

Why are 'Stradivarius' violins so valuable? - GIGAZINE

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I participated in an invitation flight of Skymark's specially designed 'Tigers Jet' - GIGAZINE

◆ Material (notes and other miscellaneous items)

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◆Science (science, learning, technology)
The inside of the national treasure 'Seven-branched sword' is almost uncorroded, 'miraculously in good condition' | NHK | Science

Romania's new president gets perfect scores twice in the International Mathematical Olympiad - it's crazy! 'What the heck is that? That's amazing!' 'IMO1988 is the Vieta Jumping episode, lol' - Togetter

◆ Society, politics, and economy (incidents, world news, business)
[Uncut lecture] 'I've never bought rice. Because I have a lot of supporters who give me rice' Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Eto (May 18, 2025) | TBS NEWS DIG - YouTube

'I've never bought rice before' is a mistake, I just bought it last week = Agriculture Minister Eto | Reuters

Secretary General of 'Japan Refuge' Arrested for Possession of Cocaine (Published on May 19, 2025) | NTV NEWS NNN

90% of job postings by Hello Work are unsuccessful, widening mismatch with job seekershttps ://t.co/u3k4FrUlda
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Tokyo to make basic household water charges free for four months this summer as a measure against heatstroke - Nikkei Shimbun

Tokyo to waive basic water charges this summer for 8 million households for four months: Yomiuri Shimbun

'Full-time staff are 'professional revolutionaries' so they don't get paid overtime even if they work 90 hours a month.' Former female members, aged 30 and 26, who were expelled after exposing the 'illegal overtime' of the Japanese Communist Party, make a public accusation by name | Daily Shincho

Organized cheating on TOEIC? Chinese Kyoto University graduate student arrested for intrusion into venue... Small microphone inside mask 'for reward purposes': Yomiuri Shimbun

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu prepares to intensify attacks to 'control the entire Gaza Strip' | NHK | Israel-Palestine

Body on JR Iiyama Line train was on the roof the day before it was discovered; may have crossed the Nagano-Niigata border three times | TBS NEWS DIG (Page 1)

Seven & i sells part of its Seven Bank shares to Itochu in a restructuring of convenience store finance - Nikkei Newspaper

Amended Entertainment Business Law passed and enacted in the House of Representatives to regulate malicious host clubs | NHK | Diet

Agriculture Minister Eto explains rice comment: 'There's so much to sell' is 'a Miyazaki dialect way of saying it' | Mainichi Shimbun

Measures against malicious hosts, amendments to the Entertainment and Amusement Act to regulate coercion of prostitution based on romantic feelings | Kyodo News

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Chinese Kyoto University student arrested for cheating on TOEIC exam | NHK | Incident

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Drugstore shoplifter: Orders for theft from Vietnam? Two suspects identified, arrest warrant issued | NHK | Incident

Readings for names on family registers to begin on the 26th, name screening for birth notifications etc. | NHK | Ministry of Justice

'No reasonable accommodations allowed': Tohoku University graduate student's dream of becoming a lawyer shattered, drops out | Mainichi Shimbun

Anxiety grows over manga 'predicting' major earthquake, foreign tourists cancel or postpone trips to Japan one after another (1/2) - CNN.co.jp

Tokyo Metropolitan Government solidifies policy to make basic water charges free for four months from this summer | NHK | Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Haier's production capacity is 10 times that of Japanese companies, expanding white goods with overwhelmingly low costs: Nikkei Business Online

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Trump takes the knife, US pharmaceutical powerhouse's life expectancy shrinks in 100 trillion yen market - Nikkei Newspaper

Company president arrested for selling 'mopeds' as electric-assist bicycles | NHK | Incident

Ukraine ceasefire agreement unreachable: US and Russian leaders hold phone call; Putin says 'top priority is to eliminate root causes' - Sankei News

'When I complained about power harassment by senior officials, they didn't even investigate and I was treated like a rebel,' two former female members, ages 30 and 26, who were expelled from the Japanese Communist Party, make their real-name allegations | Daily Shincho

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Doubts about doubling of disability pension withholding: Minister Fukuoka 'investigates the actual situation and makes it public' - Welfare Newspaper Web

[Breaking News] A man in his 30s armed with a knife barricaded himself in an apartment in Funabashi, Chiba... His mother and sister were taken hostage. A call was made to 110 reporting that 'he's barricaded himself in with a knife' #FNN Prime Online https://t.co/BaYiqqjoTY
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◆ Lifestyle (life, living, health)
My father became bedridden, and I had to pay 20,000 yen a month for nursing care, and the government paid 200,000 yen for nursing care and medical care... How nursing care insurance is ultimately saving the working generation - Togetter

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A story about how I told a kid who didn't like somen, 'I'll make you eat real somen,' like Shiro Yamaoka, and impressed him with Ibonoito made with 'normal procedures' - Togetter [Togetter]

Foreigners say, 'This was a trend that was popular among young people in Japan 10 years ago': Reactions from around the world @Reactions from overseas

Before the station construction started, I never thought it would be so full of holes lol pic.twitter.com/Fn8CKGuOeF
— Haga Forest Railway Revival Project (@Re_ntetsu68715) May 19, 2025

'When my colleague died, the pastor came running to pray with me. The monk didn't come until the evening.' Does this story help us understand the difference between Christianity and Buddhism in their views on life and death? - Togetter

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During my first year at the company, my boss told me that the company had a flexible working schedule and that there was no set time to come to work, so I came to work at 12 o'clock every day, but he got angry and said, 'Normally, you come to work between 9 and 9:30.' - Togetter

◆IT/Gadgets (Internet, software, hardware, mobile)
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'I can't set up my smart home appliances! Help me!' I helped someone and found the root cause. Haven't you been touching it by intuition from the beginning? → This seems to be common to various tone-deaf people - Togetter [Togetter]

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[Uotako] 4 things a software engineer learned after changing jobs to Honda - Honda Tech Blog

◆Anime, games, manga (subculture)
Pain OFF. - Nico Nico Douga