Hundreds of divers go to the Yamuna River in New Delhi to hunt for coins, trinkets, discarded bottles and shards of metal and wood that can be sold in the capital's booming scrap market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/17/asia-pacific/society/india-river-divers-health-treasures/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #india #rivers
A cockpit voice recording of doomed Air India Flight 171 indicates that it was the younger co-pilot who asked his more experienced colleague why he turned off the plane’s fuel-supply switches, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/17/asia-pacific/society/air-india-captain-fuel-switches/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #airindia #india #airlines
Powerful airstrikes shook Damascus on Wednesday, as Israel targeted the Syrian Defense Ministry vowing to destroy Syrian government forces attacking Druze communities in southern Syria and demanding they withdraw. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/society/israel-strikes-damascus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #israel #syria #lebanon #damascus #middleeast
Last month's deadly Air India crash and a recently released Australian report on the midair breakup of a helicopter in 2023 have renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over use of cockpit video cameras. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/society/air-india-cockpit-video-recorders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #airindia #airlines #aviation #airaccidents #india
The government has appointed Gen. Hiroaki Uchikura as the next chief of staff of the Defense Ministry's Joint Staff — a key post that will work closely with the Self-Defense Force’s new Joint Operations Command. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/japan/society/japan-sdf-chief-of-staff/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #defense #defenseministry #china #sdf
Five EU countries including France will test an app aimed at preventing children from accessing harmful content online by checking the age of users, the European Commission said Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/world/society/eu-age-app-children-online/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #socialmedia #apps #australia #europe #eu #denmark #france #greece #italy #spain #bigtech #instagram #facebook #snapchat #tiktok
Content creators, often based in South Asia, are churning out AI-generated posts for money, targeting Westerners' emotional reactions to the Holocaust. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/world/society/holocaust-ai-fakes-alarm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #holocaust #ai #deepfakes #socialmedia #misinformation #wwii #genocide
Sicily's regional council passed a law requiring all public hospitals to create dedicated abortion wards, though more than 80% of gynecologists there refuse to perform them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/world/society/italy-abortion-taboos-sicily/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #italy #abortion #sicily #women039sissues
Emperor Emeritus Akihito was admitted to the University of Tokyo Hospital on Monday afternoon to begin taking a new oral treatment for his heart, dosage of which will be decided after he undergoes an electrocardiogram. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/japan/society/japan-emperor-emeritus-hospitalized/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #emperorakihito#imperialfamily #health
mkb
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE
Granting that the banality of evil, as an explanation, has itself become banal, it was hard to know what else to make of all this. The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people…
#ICE#Jobs#Applicants#Stories#Common#Culture#Evil#Banal#Society#USA#Fascism#Normalize
Before the war in Ukraine, the Tupkalenko brothers played with miniature cars at home, like many boys their age. Today, plastic guns are the favored toys. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/world/society/ukraine-war-childhood-scars/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #russiaukrainewar #children #mentalhealth
A total of 10,048 people were taken to hospital with heatstroke in Japan in the week through July 6, more than twice the number a week earlier, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said in a preliminary report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/japan/society/heatstroke-hospital/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #hospitals #heatstroke#airconditioners
When children with disabilities in Japan graduate from special education high schools, the support services they have relied on are abruptly discontinued, leaving their parents in a difficult position. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/japan/society/special-education-children-after-graduation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #disability #specialeducation #jobs #children #parenthood
Tim Chambers
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Whether on approves or disapproves of swearing, curse words are everywhere, and now more than ever. New research reveals the most common vulgarity, and which countries curse the most. And I ask a linguist: Why are we hearing and seeing more swearing now, online and even among politicians on camera, as happened recently when the US president dropped an F-bomb on TV?
https://medium.com/wise-well/the-art-and-science-of-swearing-5fadb0b6c979
The Environment Ministry has announced guidelines that list conditions and procedures for allowing the shooting of bears and other wild animals in urban areas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/japan/society/bear-shooting-guidelines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #environmentministry #animals #bears
"The number of children born ... worldwide has reached the lowest point ever recorded"
Not so long ago, overpopulation was a very real concern.
The pendulum swings.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/nx-s1-5388357/birth-rate-fertility-replacement-pronatalist-politics
#Society
Yoshiomi Tamai, the founder and longtime president of the Ashinaga Foundation, which has supported over 110,000 orphaned students, has died. He was 90. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/japan/society/ashinaga-president-yoshiomi-tamai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #children #ashinaga #parenthood
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Pride organizers in late February not to bother preparing for the parade, with parliament then passing a bill banning such events. The organizers decided to rebel. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/society/budapest-pride-organizers-orban/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #budapest #viktororban #lgbtq #europe #eu #discrimination