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Education service provider Benesse Corp. said personal data on 22.6 million customers were stored on a smartphone owned by a Tokyo systems engineer under arrest on suspicion of stealing and illegal copying customer data.

While announcing the figure Monday, Benesse also said the stolen information also includes customer data on its group firms’ online-shopping website Benesse Life Smile Shop and message board website Benesse Women’s Park.

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Western powers on Monday ratcheted up the pressure Moscow over the Malaysian plane disaster, as a train loaded with some 280 bodies was finally allowed to leave a rebel-held station four days after the jet crashed in strife-torn east Ukraine.

U.S. President Barack Obama insisted that Moscow force pro-Russian insurgents controlling parts of east Ukraine to cooperate with an international probe into the disaster, and said chaos at the impact site was an “insult” to families of the victims.

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A man under arrest for kidnapping and confining an 11-year-old girl in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, had remodeled his home with an additional lock and soundproof walls to confine the girl for a long term, investigative sources said Monday.

With a well-meditated plan, Takeshi Fujiwara, 49, a self-proclaimed illustrator from the city of Okayama, wanted to “raise the girl as I wish,” the suspect was quoted as telling the investigators.

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The Abe administration is examining whether it is possible to allow a high-ranking officer of the Self-Defense Forces to take command over international troops in a U.N. peacekeeping operation, a source said Monday.

The move follows the Cabinet decision July 1 to reinterpret the pacifist Constitution to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense, giving the government more leeway to order the SDF to take a bigger, more proactive role in global security.

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South Korean police believe they have found the body of a fugitive businessman who owned the Sewol ferry that sank in April killing hundreds, a report said Tuesday.

A massive manhunt had been launched for billionaire Yoo Byung-eun, the 73-year-old owner of ferry operator Chonghaejin Marine Co, who went on the run shortly after the vessel sank, killing over 300, most of them schoolchildren.

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Desperate to reinvigorate the long-stalled economy, the government has spent the past two years cozying up to highly skilled foreign workers through a batch of visa perks. There’s just one problem: few have been wooed.

Hoping to change that, the government passed a bill through the Diet in June to revise the Immigration Law, giving skilled foreigners a new visa status that allows them to stay indefinitely and with a broadened roster of privileges.

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to continue dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, taking a softer line with Moscow than some Western powers after the shooting down of a passenger jet over Ukraine.

Abe has worked to improve Japan’s relations with resource-rich Russia, a centerpiece of his foreign policy.

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The Japanese government has “hidden from the public” that a controversial U.S. military base relocation within Okinawa is planned in an area larger than disclosed, a newly obtained U.S. briefing document shows.

The central government aims to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from a residential area in Ginowan to the less populated Henoko district in Nago, both on Okinawa Island. It was recently revealed that the replacement facilities will be built not only in the coastal area as publicized, but inland as well.

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A long-sought immigration system that will provide Japanese working families, and working women in particular, with much-needed help and create a more multiethnic Japan, or an ill-considered political sop to female voters that will lead to discrimination and human rights abuses?

That’s the question being asked in Osaka and elsewhere as the prefecture begins discussions with the central government on setting itself up as a specially designated zone to accept foreign domestic laborers.

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The Okayama Prefectural Police department took a missing 11-year-old girl into protective custody on Saturday after finding her at the home of a 49-year-old man in the city of Okayama.

The police arrested the man, Takeshi Fujiwara, on charges of confining the girl, Sakura Moriyama. According to police sources, Fujiwara, who described himself as an illustrator, has admitted to the charges.

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The mother of Sakura Moriyama, a missing girl from Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture, contacted police twice before the 11-year-old disappeared on Monday, fearing her daughter might have been falling prey to a stalker, investigative sources said on Thursday.

According to police, Sakura’s mother reported that her daughter had been followed by a silver car near their house before her disappearance.

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When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe showed up last Sunday for the 19th International Conference for Women in Business, Kaori Sasaki — who has been organizing the gathering to empower women since 1996 — finally felt that society was changing.

When Sasaki launched the project almost two decades ago, companies scoffed at her, saying a meetup for female professionals was for losers, she recalls.

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Government secrets will be kept to a minimum and disclosed as quickly as possible, the Abe administration vowed Thursday in an outline of new rules for designating and disclosing “special secrets” under the controversial secrecy law.

The law caused a public uproar amid fears that it will undermine the public’s right to know in a nation where the press is controlled by a “kisha club” system and disclosure is already hard to come by.

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A Tokyo systems engineer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of illegal copying for allegedly stealing data on millions of customers from the computer servers of education service provider Benesse Corp.

The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Masaomi Matsuzaki, 39, on suspicion of downloading and copying the personal data of some 10.19 million Benesse customers onto his smartphone from the Tokyo branch of affiliate Synform Co. on June 17.

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The impending reactivation of reactors shut down following the 2011 nuclear crisis has raised a difficult question: Who will take responsibility for the decision?

On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority effectively finished screening the two reactors at the Sendai plant in Kyushu, certifying they meet the new safety standards adopted after the Fukushima meltdowns.

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday his administration will consider creating a permanent law allowing dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces overseas, a comment that could lead to a further rift between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, New Komeito.

The move would allow the government to send the SDF on overseas missions by bypassing Diet debate and without having to re-enact special legislation each time.

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Two U.S. military KC-130 air refueling tankers arrived Tuesday at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture in the first transfer under a bilateral agreement to reduce the burden on Okinawa of hosting U.S. bases.

The long-delayed transfer will bring a total of 15 KC-130s to Iwakuni by the end of August, along with approximately 870 U.S. military personnel and their family members, according to the Iwakuni air station. It is the first time U.S. units have been moved from Okinawa to another area in Japan.

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The arrest of a Tokyo artist on obscenity charges for distributing data that allowed recipients to make 3-D prints of her vagina has sparked protests over what supporters say is an attack on free expression.

Megumi Igarashi, 42, who calls herself Rokudenashi-ko (“a no-good girl”), had been trying to raise funds online to pay for the construction of a kayak, using a 3-D printer, modeled on the shape of her genitals.

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A man who has admitted involvement in the massive leaks of Benesse Corp. customers’ personal information has also told police that he sold the illegally obtained data to a name-list broker for millions of yen that he used for gambling, sources said Tuesday.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is questioning the broker while checking the sold data against the original information stored on Benesse’s database.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a Philippines-born immigration activist who has lived and in the U.S. illegally since he was a child, was released by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Tuesday after they detailed him at a Texas airport.

Border Patrol spokesman Omar Zamora said Vargas was stopped going through security at the airport in McAllen, just across from the Mexico border. A spokeswoman for Define American, Vargas’ advocacy group, confirmed his release Tuesday afternoon.

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