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A pranking trend called "Shorinji racing" has been spreading in Japan through social media in recent months.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2026
Minors detained over ‘Shorinji racing’ pranks in Osaka and Hyogo
About 250 incidents tied to the social media-driven trend of pranking were reported in Osaka Prefecture in September and October, police said.
Movie posters for “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” during a premiere in Shanghai in 2025.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 9, 2026
Anime is winning over a new generation of fans
Anime viewing is surging among younger audiences, with 79% of teen fans surveyed saying they’re watching more than a year ago.
Participants at an event in Kitakyushu play the Rhythm for Life-Saving game, which teaches children about CPR and emergency response essentials.
COMMENTARY / World / OUR PLANET
Sep 27, 2026
Real sustainability means getting serious about youth leadership
For decades, youth have been told they are the future. But when it comes to sustainability practices, are we truly listening to what they have to say?
Eri Mametsuka, 33, attempted to take her own life when she was 16. She now speaks about suicide prevention and the pressures young people face.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 23, 2026
91AV原创 September surge in student suicides: What are the key drivers?
The increase in the number of young people deciding to take their own lives is particularly alarming given how adult suicide rates are in decline.
The EU's rules for social media platforms would include a ban on addictive features and push notifications while children sleep.
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Sep 18, 2026
Kids and social media: What would change under new EU law
The EU has been pushed to act after evidence has shown children’s physical and mental wellbeing are damaged by social media.
As the European Union considers how to protect and empower young people in a digital world, it must resist the impulse to rely solely on a social?media ban for minors.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2026
Social-media age bans won’t make children safer — but this will
A more effective strategy to protect young people would force tech firms to remove addictive features by holding them to product-liability standards—as with most other industries.
Meta policy bars children under 13 from using Facebook or Instagram and permits teenagers to use the platforms with some limits on content.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 1, 2026
Settlement requires Meta to check young users’ ages. How will that work?
The owner of Facebook and Instagram recently came to an $18 billion legal settlement with U.S. states that is aimed at curbing children’s use of social media.
Meta has agreed to pay a coalition of U.S. states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose limits on teen use of its apps in some states, according to a court filing on Wednesday ending a landmark trial in California.
WORLD
Aug 28, 2026
U.N. urges child-safe design across social media, after Meta settlement
The settlement resolved claims that Meta deliberately engineered its platforms to hook young users, misled the public about the risks and unlawfully collected data from children.
Meta Platforms' headquarters in Mountain View, California
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2026
Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm
Meta’s up to $18 billion settlement with nearly all U.S. states over social media harm to teenagers has opened a new front in a global government fight to protect children.
In a landmark deal with state attorneys general across the U.S., Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement design changes such as limiting the amount of time users under 18 can spend scrolling on its apps.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 27, 2026
Kids will be kids, and that’s the biggest risk with Meta’s new safeguards
Guardrails can only work as well as a company’s ability to accurately identify a user’s age, and young people around the world have repeatedly found ways to get past restrictions.
Witness Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, leaves the courthouse in Oakland, California, on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 26, 2026
Instagram head Mosseri denies encouraging suppression of child social media risks
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, is a central witness in a U.S. lawsuit over whether Meta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children.
New Zealand's bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users' ages, including by utilizing existing account information, facial technology and digital identity documents.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2026
New Zealand to introduce bill banning social media for children under 16
The bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users’ ages, including by utilizing existing account information and facial technology.
A 15-year-old girl who alleged that social media companies including Meta Platforms contributed to her social media addiction, depression and self-harm has dropped her claims.
BUSINESS
Aug 21, 2026
U.S. teen drops lawsuit against Meta, Google and Snap ahead of trial
The plaintiff, a 15-year-old girl from New Jersey, had alleged that tech giants contributed to her social media addiction, depression and self-harm.
Former Meta employee Arturo Béjar, who has emerged as a go-to whistleblower witness for states and personal injury attorneys suing Meta and other social media platforms.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 20, 2026
Ex-Meta staffer says daughter, 14, was prey on Instagram
Meta has denied wrongdoing, saying it has continuously improved tools to protect kids and calling the states’ proposed penalties “outlandish.”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify in a tech addiction trial in Los Angeles on Feb. 18. Meta is again defending itself in court over claims it caused young people to become addicted to social media, this time in the first bellwether federal trial, brought by states seeking roughly $200 billion in damages.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 19, 2026
Meta hooked children and misled public: prosecutors
A coalition of states is asking Meta be hit with $200 billion in penalties for making products addictive to children, in what many have called social media’s “big tobacco moment.”
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, looks on during the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis" in Washington on Jan. 31, 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 18, 2026
Meta stares down trillion-dollar threat as landmark social media trial begins
The attorneys general of 29 states are seeking not only massive financial penalties, but also court orders that could force Meta to change how it operates its platforms.
More people age 19 and younger in Japan are undergoing cosmetic surgery in recent years.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 12, 2026
More young people in Japan undergoing cosmetic surgery
The most popular procedure is double eyelid surgery, clinics say.
Data from NTT Docomo’s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 8, 2026
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
A sociology professor warns a blanket ban could push children toward less visible online spaces or encourage them to lie about their age, making exploitation harder to detect.
The Sapporo District Court on Friday handed down a life imprisonment to a 19-year-old man who led a fatal group assault.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 7, 2026
Teen sentenced to life in prison over leading role in fatal 2024 Hokkaido group assault
Prosecutors sought the sentence for Yuto Kawaguchi, 19, arguing he should bear the greatest responsibility for leading the assault on 20-year-old university student Tomoya Hase.
Attendees at a conference in Mumbai in September 2023. More than 30 U.S. states are suing Meta over allegations related to alleged harms to children and mental health.
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2026
Meta ordered to pay U.S. state $567 million over ‘public nuisance’ and child harm
Around three-quarters of the new $567 million fund is set to be used for mental health treatment, with the funds to be paid over five years.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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