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AUSTRALIAN WOMAN ACCUSED OF DRUG SMUGGLING SAYS SHE WAS VICTIM OF ONLINE ROMANCE SCAM - CHIBA JAPAN

AUSTRALIAN WOMAN ACCUSED OF DRUG SMUGGLING SAYS SHE WAS VICTIM OF ONLINE ROMANCE SCAM - CHIBA JAPAN

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CHIBA

An Australian woman accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after her arrest, saying she is innocent and that she was tricked into carrying them as part of an online romance scam.

Donna Nelson from Perth, Australia, was arrested at Narita International Airport after customs officials found about 2 kilograms of stimulants, or phenylaminopropane, hidden in a double-bottom suitcase she was carrying.

Nelson, 58, said she received the suitcase from an acquaintance of a man she met on social media in 2020, and brought it from Laos to Tokyo as instructed. She was supposed to meet up with the man in Japan but he never showed up, according to prosecutors.

She was arrested on the spot and later charged with violating the stimulants control and customs laws. She has been in custody for nearly two years.

Nelson, in a brief statement at the Chiba District Court, said she did not know the drugs were hidden in the suitcase and that she was carrying them for a man she thought she loved. The man told her he was the Nigerian owner of a fashion business and paid for her trip to Japan via Laos, her lawyers said.

Prosecutors acknowledged the case is linked to a romance scam but accused Nelson of smuggling the drugs, claiming she knew the contents of the suitcase.

A verdict is expected on Dec 4.

Nelson entered the courtroom escorted by a pair of uniformed guards who removed her handcuffs and a rope around her waist as she took a seat to stand trial. She repeatedly looked toward her daughters who were seated in the audience.

It was an emotional moment for her and her family to see each other for the first time since her arrest.

One of Nelson’s daughters, Kristal Hilaire, said she wants the court to know her mother is a good person.

“She thought she was coming to Japan for her love story. She didn’t have any other intentions other than that. And that’s what we need everyone to know and hear at the court this week,” Hilaire said.

The daughter added that the family is “just trying to be strong because when mom locks her eyes with us, I want her to feel our strength and that she will feed off that.”

Nelson’s lawyer Rie Nishida said that customs officials' limited English-language ability might have led to mistranslations and the accusation that Nelson knew what she was carrying.

In Monday's trial, a customs official testified that his colleague was mainly asking questions to Nelson in English but ended up calling an interpreter and what she had said earlier was only summed up in Japanese during an interview that was not recorded.

Nishida asked the judges and a jury panel of citizens to carefully listen to Nelson, who she said was finally given a capable court interpreter, to make a fair judgement.

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MAN ARRESTED FOR BURYING MOTHER'S BODY IN NARA CEMETERY - NARA JAPAN

MAN ARRESTED FOR BURYING MOTHER'S BODY IN NARA CEMETERY - NARA JAPAN

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NARA

Police in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, on Tuesday arrested a 71-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the body of his mother in a cemetery.

The body was found partially buried at an unused part of the cemetery on Monday, Sankei Shimbun reported. A cemetery employee called 110 at around 2:30 p.m. and said he could see what looked like a human hand a foot sticking up out of the ground, Sankei Shimbun reported.

Police said the suspect, Ryuichi Kuarata, told them his mother, who was in her 90s, died earlier this month.

The plot where the body was found is owned by Kurata's family, which led to him coming under scrutiny. The woman was buried in a place without a gravestone. There were signs of digging but no shovels or other tools were found.

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ALLEGED JAPAN CRIME GROP LEADER ARRESTED AFTER PHILIPPINES DEPORTS HIM - TOKYO JAPAN

ALLEGED JAPAN CRIME GROP LEADER ARRESTED AFTER PHILIPPINES DEPORTS HIM - TOKYO JAPAN

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TOKYO

A man believed to be a leader of a Japanese crime syndicate based in the Philippines was deported from the country and arrested Tuesday during his flight back to Japan on suspicion of theft in Tokyo in collusion with others, investigative sources said.

Tomohiro Koyama, 50, seen as a chief of the "JP Dragon" gangster syndicate, is also suspected of being linked to another group that committed a series of burglaries in Japan, Japanese investigators said.

Koyama was arrested for allegedly conspiring to gain access to the cash card of a Tokyo woman in her 50s and withdrawing around 700,000 yen from her bank account in 2019, they said.

Koyama was apprehended by Philippine police in January over a local fraud case.

According to the investigators, Koyama communicated with Kiyoto Imamura, a man suspected of using the pseudonym Luffy who allegedly organized the series of burglaries in Japan in 2022 and 2023. A lawyer of Imamura is suspected of helping him to communicate with Koyama via a smartphone when Imamura was detained at a police station in Tokyo.

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MOUNT FUJI TRAM IDEA DERAILED BY ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS - KOFU JAPAN

MOUNT FUJI TRAM IDEA DERAILED BY ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS - KOFU JAPAN

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KOFU

The Yamanashi prefectural government said Monday it has given up its proposal to build a light rail connection to the fifth station on Mount Fuji amid public concerns over its environmental impact and is now considering introducing a rubber-tired tram.

The central Japan prefecture had explored the possibility of connecting the foot of the country's tallest peak to the intermediate station with a light rail system to deal with the large influx of summer tourists and reduce vehicle emissions.

Yamanashi Gov Kotaro Nagasaki told a press conference that the local government is now eyeing rubber-tired trams with sensors to enable them to follow white lines or magnetic markers to be placed on the existing roads, eliminating the need to build a rail line.

The hydrogen-powered trams are expected to have two couplings and a capacity of up to 120 passengers. Use of private cars on the road to the intermediate station will be regulated, thus reducing the number of visitors, he said.

Visitors can currently drive to the 5th station, the starting point of a popular climbing trail that begins at an altitude of about 2,300 meters, using the Fuji Subaru Line road. The proposal had involved building a double-track line along the toll road and operating two-car trains.

The light rail concept was promised by the Yamanashi governor in the 2019 gubernatorial election, in which he was elected for the first time.

A citizens' group opposing the idea submitted about 70,000 signatures to the governor this month demanding that he withdraw it. They expressed concerns about potential environmental destruction and avalanche damage caused by the development.

Mount Fuji, Japan's iconic 3,776-meter mountain peak and a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, attracts many climbers and tourists from home and abroad. But the rising popularity of the mountain, which straddles Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, has led to challenges including "overtourism" and "bullet climbing," or the attempt to reach the summit for sunrise and return without sleeping mid-climb.

This summer, those climbing the mountain from the Yamanashi side were charged an entrance fee for the first time, with a gate located at the 5th station collecting 2,000 yen per person. Such fees were not collected on the Shizuoka side during the climbing season.

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JAPAN REACHES ITS LOWEST-EVER RANKING ON EDUCATION FIST'S 2024 ENGLISH PROFIENCY INDEX - TOKYO JAPAN

JAPAN REACHES ITS LOWEST-EVER RANKING ON EDUCATION FIST'S 2024 ENGLISH PROFIENCY INDEX - TOKYO JAPAN

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TOKYO

Every year since 2011, Switzerland-based international education company Education First (EF) has released an English Proficiency Index (EPI), the largest of its kind throughout the world. EF’s recently released 2024 EPI compiles the testing results of 2.1 million people from 116 countries and regions for which English is not considered the mother tongue. Exams were scored out of 800 points and the average score among all test takers this year was 477 points. Countries and regions were then grouped into five proficiency bands that indicate relative English ability: Very high proficiency, High proficiency, Moderate proficiency, Low proficiency, and Very low proficiency.

So where did Japan rank on the list? This year’s global ranking puts Japan at 92 (average score: 454 points), which is at the very bottom of the Low proficiency band. This placement is worse than its ranking last year at 87 and continues the trend of a steady decline for the country since the EF EPI began. In addition, when the Japanese testing data was further broken down by age, test takers aged 18-25 performed significantly lower than those aged 26 and up, many of whom may need to use English more at work.

For reference, the Netherlands scored first place out of all 116 countries and regions on the 2024 EF EPI. The top Asia scorer was Singapore at 3 (Very high proficiency), followed by the Philippines at 22 and Malaysia at 26 (High proficiency). Japan’s East Asian neighbors, South Korea and China, scored at 50 (Moderate proficiency) and at 91 (Low proficiency) respectively. The only countries in East or Southeast Asia that scored lower than Japan were Myanmar at 93, Thailand at 106, and Cambodia at 111 (all Very low proficiency).

Note, however, that neither Laos nor North Korea were included in the EPI because they did not meet the minimum number of 400 required test takers per country or region. The full EPI results as well as EF’s strategy recommendations to improve English proficiency in a variety of settings can be viewed on its website.

In response to Japan’s relatively low placement, a representative from EF’s Japanese subsidiary offered the following remarks: “It’s not that Japan’s English ability is declining, but rather that Japan is not keeping pace with the progress made in other countries.”

As someone who has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in the U.S. and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Japan, I have observed some of the unique challenges that English language education faces in Japan. General factors that my colleagues and I, both native English speakers as well as Japanese teachers of English, often cite include: a heavy emphasis on grammar for test taking as opposed to oral communication, instructors not meeting language proficiency benchmarks due to the myriad of responsibilities on teachers’ plates, and a decrease in motivation – especially as a result of the pandemic –resulting in Japanese students simply not feeling that English is all that necessary to live and work in Japan.

Consequently, perhaps the government of Japan should focus next on promoting those strategies that seem to result in higher language-learning motivation – for instance, by calling on virtual YouTuber Ellen-sensei for the kids or by holding language classes at English-speaking-only bars for adults.

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