#yomiurishimbun — Public Fediverse posts

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's support ratings remained high by historical standards despite a slight dip in some polls as the public weighed her handling of the impact of the war in Iran on Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/20/japan/politics/takaichi-ratings-stay-high-as-public-weighs-impact-of-iran-war/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanaetakaichi #surveys #iran #yomiurishimbun #asahishimbun #mainichishimbun #ann

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaiichi is considering dissolving the lower house, prompting a surge in long-term government bond yields amid rising fiscal deficit concerns.
#YonhapInfomax #Takaiichi #JapanGovernmentBonds #FiscalDeficit #LongTermYields #YomiuriShimbun #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=99549

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaiichi is considering dissolving the lower house, prompting a surge in long-term government bond yields amid rising fiscal deficit concerns.
#YonhapInfomax #Takaiichi #JapanGovernmentBonds #FiscalDeficit #LongTermYields #YomiuriShimbun #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=99549

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaiichi is considering dissolving the lower house, prompting a surge in long-term government bond yields amid rising fiscal deficit concerns.
#YonhapInfomax #Takaiichi #JapanGovernmentBonds #FiscalDeficit #LongTermYields #YomiuriShimbun #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=99549

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaiichi is considering dissolving the lower house, prompting a surge in long-term government bond yields amid rising fiscal deficit concerns.
#YonhapInfomax #Takaiichi #JapanGovernmentBonds #FiscalDeficit #LongTermYields #YomiuriShimbun #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=99549

Japan’s PM, women MPs, call for more toilets

Nearly 60 women lawmakers in Japan, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, have submitted a petition calling…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #ConstitutionalDemocraticParty #Dietbuilding #GlobalGenderGapReport #inequality #Japanese #Japanesenews #japanesepolitics #MargaretThatcher #news #SanaeTakaichi #secondworldwar #WorldEconomicForum #YasukazuHamada #YasukoKomiyama #YomiuriShimbun
https://www.alojapan.com/1436130/japans-pm-women-mps-call-for-more-toilets/

Japan’s PM, women MPs, call for more toilets

Nearly 60 women lawmakers in Japan, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, have submitted a petition calling…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #ConstitutionalDemocraticParty #Dietbuilding #GlobalGenderGapReport #inequality #Japanese #Japanesenews #japanesepolitics #MargaretThatcher #news #SanaeTakaichi #secondworldwar #WorldEconomicForum #YasukazuHamada #YasukoKomiyama #YomiuriShimbun
https://www.alojapan.com/1436130/japans-pm-women-mps-call-for-more-toilets/

https://www.alojapan.com/1436130/japans-pm-women-mps-call-for-more-toilets/ Japan’s PM, women MPs, call for more toilets #ConstitutionalDemocraticParty #DietBuilding #GlobalGenderGapReport #inequality #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JapanesePolitics #MargaretThatcher #news #SanaeTakaichi #SecondWorldWar #WorldEconomicForum #YasukazuHamada #YasukoKomiyama #YomiuriShimbun Nearly 60 women lawmakers in Japan, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, have submitted a petition calling for more toilets in the par

https://www.alojapan.com/1436130/japans-pm-women-mps-call-for-more-toilets/ Japan’s PM, women MPs, call for more toilets #ConstitutionalDemocraticParty #DietBuilding #GlobalGenderGapReport #inequality #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JapanesePolitics #MargaretThatcher #news #SanaeTakaichi #SecondWorldWar #WorldEconomicForum #YasukazuHamada #YasukoKomiyama #YomiuriShimbun Nearly 60 women lawmakers in Japan, including Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, have submitted a petition calling for more toilets in the par

https://www.europesays.com/it/217267/ Riunioni alle 3 del mattino e avvertimenti di Pechino: la premier Takaichi al centro della polemica #Akasaka #Cronaca #DalMondo #DalMondo #LeeJaeMyung #LiberalDemocraticParty #Mondo #Nagatacho #News #Notizie #SanaeTakaichi #taiwan #tokyo #trump #UltimeNotizie #UltimeNotizieDiMondo #UltimeNotizie #UltimeNotizieDiMondo #World #WorldNews #WorldNews #XiJinping #YomiuriShimbun

Why is Taiwan’s William Lai facing ‘extraordinary’ Japanese media backlash?

An unprecedented wave of criticism from Japan’…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #AsahiShimbun #beijing #ChenShui-bian #DemocraticProgressiveParty #DPP #Japanese #Japanesenews #JohnLimChuan-tiong #July26massrecall #KMT #Kuomintang #Laiadministration #news #SankeiShimbun #Taiwan #TaiwanStrait #WilliamLaiChing-te #YomiuriShimbun
https://www.alojapan.com/1345464/why-is-taiwans-william-lai-facing-extraordinary-japanese-media-backlash/

Why is Taiwan’s William Lai facing ‘extraordinary’ Japanese media backlash?

An unprecedented wave of criticism from Japan’…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #AsahiShimbun #beijing #ChenShui-bian #DemocraticProgressiveParty #DPP #Japanese #Japanesenews #JohnLimChuan-tiong #July26massrecall #KMT #Kuomintang #Laiadministration #news #SankeiShimbun #Taiwan #TaiwanStrait #WilliamLaiChing-te #YomiuriShimbun
https://www.alojapan.com/1345464/why-is-taiwans-william-lai-facing-extraordinary-japanese-media-backlash/

The Japan Times: Major Japan newspaper sues ‘free-riding’ AI firm Perplexity. “Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, one of the world’s biggest by circulation, is suing U.S.-based AI firm Perplexity for allegedly ‘free-riding’ on its content on its search engine.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/09/the-japan-times-major-japan-newspaper-sues-free-riding-ai-firm-perplexity/

Cybercriminals incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) to be more effective across their businesses functions. In most cases, the technology contributes to the actor's code development or augments their socially-engineered attacks. We provided a real example of this last year in September when we published about youtube account hijackers that use deepfake videos of Elon Musk for a crypto giveaway scam (https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/no-elon-musk-was-not-in-the-us-presidential-debate/). We recently saw similar techniques deployed by a threat actor that we track as Reckless Rabbit (https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/uncovering-actor-ttp-patterns-and-the-role-of-dns-in-investment-scams/). However, instead of youtube videos, they directly integrate deepfakes into their websites.

Reckless Rabbit began targeting Japanese-speaking users several months ago. They deliver fake web articles that promote non-existent investment programs. These are not your typical scam web pages. They've been enriched with deepfake AI-generated videos of high profile financial leaders including Elon Musk and Masayoshi Son. They also try to add legitimacy to the report by including artificially-drafted and positive reviews from fictitious netizens. Traditionally, the news content was mostly comprised of just text, static images, and links.

Prior to this change, they were predominantly targeting internet users in Eastern European countries. They continue to use dictionary-based Registered Domain Generation Algorithm (RDGA) domains and Facebook ads for navigating victims to fake news articles.

Reckless Rabbit employs a variety of article lures; below, we've highlighted domains specifically used in their Japanese investment scam campaigns. These sites employ deepfake videos embedded with Japanese captions. The articles impersonate one of Japan's major newspaper companies Yomiuri Shimbun and contain a registration button for the fake investment platform called "Finance Legend". After clicking it, the page redirects the victim to a contact webform. Based on the contents of the articles, presumably, the threat actor will follow up with the victim using the provided contact details and encourage them to make a deposit in exchange for a future return that is much greater than the investment.

bullpimpletruth[.]com
calmsixgenerous[.]com
chivenotepoisonwish[.]com
clarinetmonday[.]com
deeplyblowgrape[.]com
earlycoindadsummer[.]com
fertilerare[.]com
premiumsquarecircle[.]com
purplecombshop[.]com
surnamewinter[.]com

Attached to this message, we've included a screenshot of the fake news article lure, as well as a screen recording of our interaction with the scam website and deepfake video.

#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #scam #deepfake #ai #elonmusk #masayoshi #japan #yomiurishimbun #recklessrabbit #investment #rdga #ddga

Brief mention in “Yomiuri Shimbun” article in Japanese

I imagine most of my readers are not going to make much of this, but since I’m trying to capture everything here for posterity, note that I was mentioned briefly in an article in the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun last Saturday.

Notice my photo there in the lower right corner of the page. On the off chance that you read Japanese, you can click on the image above to see a high-resolution version on the off chance that you read Japanese.

Here’s a (machine) translation of the section of the article that mentions me:

In an executive order issued on January 20, the first day of his inauguration, Trump reorganized a White House department called the “US Digital Service,” which was responsible for managing the federal government’s IT systems, to create DOGE.

The true nature of this organization remains shrouded in secrecy. When the staff were hired, they were exempted by the President from background checks and drug tests that intelligence agencies use to check whether they are foreign spies. Details of the staff are not made public, which has been criticized as a lack of accountability to the public and Congress.

“DOGE staff were given special badges that allowed them to enter any government building. They were based in a room in a building adjacent to the White House, but no one knew what they were doing.” Jonathan Kamens (55) (pictured), who was fired from US Digital Services in February, reveals the strangeness of the organization.

When US media tracked them down, they found that most DOGE staff are in their teens to 30s. Some are said to have a history of being inclined toward white supremacy. “They were exempt from background checks because they are the kind of people who would not pass a rigorous test. It is very worrying that such people have access to a highly confidential system,” Kamens points out.

The article is online here, but it’s behind a paywall.

#DOGE #USDS #YomiuriShimbun

Tsuneo Watanabe, the representative director and editor-in-chief of the Yomiuri Shimbun Group, died on Thursday at a hospital in Tokyo, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/19/japan/japan-tsuneo-watanabe-obituary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #obituary #tsuneowatanabe #yomiurishimbun #yomiurigiants #baseball

The Yomiuri Shimbun is introducing a new stock index in March and aims to make it a benchmark for the Japanese market, the company announced Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/28/markets/yomiuri-333-index/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #tse #stocks #investments #tse #nikkei #yomiurishimbun

Japanese Real Estate Firm SUUMO Confirms Data Breach Incident https://thecyberexpress.com/japanese-real-estate-suumo-data-breach/ #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #TheCyberExpress #YomiuriShimbun #FirewallDaily #databreach #Recruit #Japan #SUUMO

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