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INFORMATION LEAK

Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2015
National health insurance info on 100,000 people leaked
Lists of personal information related to around 103,000 people, including public health insurance card numbers, are leaked and sold.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2015
Ex-professor apologizes in court for leaking bar exam questions
A former Meiji University law school professor offered an apology in his first court hearing Thursday as he admitted to a charge of leaking bar exam questions to a former female student earlier this year.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2015
Defense personnel data feared leaked after cyberattack on hotel
Data about defense personnel may have been leaked after a cyberattack in May compromised computers at a Tokyo hotel mainly used by Defense Ministry officials and Self-Defense Forces personnel, sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 22, 2015
Waseda University finds data leak six months after cyberattacks
Waseda University said Monday it took about half a year before it discovered personal data on roughly 3,300 officials and students had leaked via cyberattacks.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 13, 2014
Sony hack reveals health information on employees, children, spouses
Documents stolen by hackers include detailed health information on more than 36 Sony employees, children and spouses, showing how easily private data can become public.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 31, 2013
Leak gives Tokyo police black eye
Three years after someone leaked documents on its counterterrorism investigations onto the Internet, Tokyo police have reached a dead end in their efforts to find the culprit while some Muslim residents who served as informants continue to live in fear with their identities exposed.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 29, 2013
Case over online leak of anti-terror info gets dropped
Tokyo police on Tuesday dropped their case over a 2010 leak that included sensitive details about their anti-terrorism efforts because the statute of limitations for filing charges expired.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 4, 2013
Prosecution clerk who leaked info to yakuza gets suspended prison term
A former employee of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office was sentenced to a suspended one-year prison term Friday for leaking sensitive investigative information to yakuza.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2013
Assistant to Shizuoka prosecutors nabbed in mob-linked info leak
Police arrested an assistant of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor's Office Wednesday for allegedly leaking investigation information to her yakuza-linked friend.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Japan's former PM Aso meets Trump for talks on security and economy
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Taro Aso, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, in New York on Tuesday. The Japanese government’s top spokesman on Wednesday played down the meeting as one conducted "in the capacity of one lawmaker" and “without the government’s involvement.”
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.

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