Microsoft Japan raided over suspected violation of anti-monopoly law, source says

Drama: Oshin (JP, 1983-1984)
Animation: Shaun the Sheep (UK, 2007-present)
Kids: ETV 0655&2355 (JP, 2010-present)
Special program: TV’s TV (JP, 1987)
Of these, the one I particularly recommend is “TV’s TV.”
This is a program in which 100 TV channels each contain small video content, which is randomly introduced within a single TV program, an idea that was around 20 years ahead of YouTube.
There’s also an anecdote that Satoshi Tajiri, who would later create Pokémon, was involved in the production of this program.
Johnny Kitagawa’s child sexual abuse was confirmed in a trial over gossip magazine reports.
Johnny & Associates, which continued to have him involved with minors for over 15 years, engaged in organized child sexual exploitation and should be defined as a mafia.
Therefore, all organizations that did business with the company, including ISPs, universities, UMG, and Nintendo, should be defined as affiliated with the mafia.

L→R. Travis Japan / Machu, Shime, Shizu, Chaka, Noel, Umi, Genta, Michelle Jubelirer, Sir Lucian Grainge. September 28, Santa Monica, California. Making their worldwide debut on October 28th SANTA MONICA and TOKYO – September 28, 2022 – Capitol Music Group (CMG), a division of Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment today announced that popular boy band, Travis Japan, from Johnny & Associates – Japan’s leading talent management agency, have signed with CMG, and will make their international debut on October 28 with a worldwide release on Capitol Records. Travis Japan was originally formed when Travis ... more
The only independent search engines that support my native Japanese are Google, Bing, Brave, and Yep.
Of these, I generally search using Brave, and if I’m not satisfied with the results, I search again using DuckDuckGo.
I don’t use Yep because of its strict bot restrictions.
Also, on the rare occasions when I need to do an exact match or a search using site:, for some reason, Brave and DuckDuckGo are useless, so I reluctantly use Google, which is a shame.
As someone living in Japan, I do not recommend QWant, which is recommended in this comment section.
As I’ve commented before, this is because the service geoblocks countries that have non-Western languages as their official languages.
Microsoft Japan raided over suspected violation of anti-monopoly law, source says
Microsoft Japan raided over suspected violation of anti-monopoly law, source says
> Japan’s Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan’s offices on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether it improperly restricted customers of its Azure platform from using rival cloud services, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

TIL Children’s eyewitness testimony can be as accurate as adults’ or more so – if interviewers follow these guidelines

> adults more prone to spontaneous false memories [https://www.in-mind.org/article/children-are-poor-witnesses-or-are-they] than children are. However, children are still more vulnerable to externally induced false memories, like those that stem from leading questions or learning new information after the event. > The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [https://www.nichd.nih.gov/] provides one evidence-based protocol [https://nichdprotocol.com/] investigators can follow when working with young witnesses. The author wrote a book about this subject in 2022: Are Children Reliable Witnesses? | Springer Nature Link [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-10382-7]