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I expect he could still be found. That's what makes it google-fu after all.

We know for sure that the keywords on his name / address have been de-linked from any results related to his arrest. (A name we don't know anyway, so we can't use it to search.)

It also possible that any pages containing his name related to the arrest have been removed from the index entirely, so that they can't be found with *any* keywords... I'm not sure if Google goes that far?!

We do know which court and which judge for this ruling. We know approximately when the original crime took place (looks like3-4 years ago). We know roughly the crime committed (related to child porn and prositution) and that he was fined 500,000 yen. Odds are we can search the court records / arrest records based on that criteria and find him. (Might have to speak Japanese though.) ...

http://www.delcotimes.com/arti...

Posted May 2013, relating to an incident that had happen several months prior.

"In the Adachi case, three men were arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of violating the law prohibiting child prostitution and child pornography. All three had their sentences finalized, with each given a 500,000 yen fine."

From there...

http://japandailypress.com/you...

Same case:

"Last December, a young, nude girl appeared on some screens and said she was being held against her will in a condominium building in Adachi Ward, Tokyo and asked for help. [... ] The recent arrest of three men in Tokyo for running an illegal live chat room that promoted child prostitution and illegal imagery gave insights on how they prey on young girls and how little they had to spend to set it up."

I think from here we can start looking at arrest records / court records in Tokyo... assuming they are public.

Get the names of the 3 men, and find out if they've been expunged from Google, and/or try to link them to this current right-to-be-forgotton case via court records.

I'm not going to bother trying, For starters I don't speak Japanese; which I'd expect all official records to be in. But I think its doable.

The number of Japanese who oppose nuclear power is now in excess of 80%.

It's hard to know without a link, but are you referring to the March 2014 NHK poll where the 80% actually represents those asked if Japan should 'scrap some or all plants', not necessarily abandon nuclear power? Where 37% are 'very concerned' that another Fukushima may happen, but the majority are 50% 'slightly concerned' or 14% 'not concerned'? And when asked whether plants should be restarted, 44% (presumably those 'very concerned' and a few more) said NO, 11% said plants should 'go on-line soon'... and the most astounding figure of all: 44% are 'undecided'.

Let me pause for a moment in earnest admiration of the Japanese people. In the USA it seems we hardly ever admit to being 'undecided' on any hot issue, even in anonymous polls. It's always this-or-that. Or better go with this because we dislike people who like that. Or something like that. To have 44% of Japanese polled choose 'undecided' to me means two things: the issue is in a state of flux, surely... but more impressively, these people must be weighing more than one important factor in their deliberation. Good for them. I honestly hope that in the end they do not follow Germany's knee-jerk lead of economic austerity via energy poverty.

I'm sorry you think I should be ashamed for thinking that the world press should be ashamed of itself. A good resource for tallying shame is Hiroshima Syndrome run by nuke industry veteran Leslie Corrice. Not only has he covered the accident from its first days, he has consistently called out disinformation and unwarranted speculation in the press (Japanese and other) with a fine attention to detail. Also, like any journalist should and usually doesn't, he segregates his editorial opinions from the news. And some of those are eye-opening.

It is widely accepted that Japan could construct nuclear weapons in a matter of a few months at most, and maintains that capability for defence. It allows Japan to remain a non-nuclear state while still giving it the option to acquire nuclear weapons quickly if the situation escalates. Wikipedia has some information for you: Japanese nuclear weapon program: De_facto_nuclear_state

WOW. What a sorry-ass Wikipedia page that is. It really pisses me off. Someone created a page that chronicles the budding nuclear weapons program of the Empire of Japan under Emperor Hirohito while the country was at war. After which there was no real continuity, government or military or otherwise.

To which someone has added a suggestively worded postscript (was that you, Donald Rumsfeld?) that implies that an internationally vetted atoms-for-peace fuel reprocessing program and some HEU for research purposes is practically a dastardly "screwdriver's turn away" from nuclear weapons. The irony of this WikiPropaganda burns, for the construction of at least one reprocessing facility is one of the broken promises my own government had made to the nuclear power industry. I'm glad we did not build one now, or we'd have a footnote like that too.

Let us waste no time here. We must invade Japan and confiscate the screwdrivers.

The main problem with Mt. Gox was not that the code was a mess. It was a lack of basic financial controls. Mt. Gox lacked a chief financial officer, a controller, inside auditors, outside auditors, a board of directors, an audit committee, and a compliance officer. Yet they were doing a billion dollars of transactions a year. It's not even clear that they have a general ledger listing all transactions. Lack of financial controls is usually considered an indicator of fraud. I've been making this point on bitcointalk for the last year. None of the "Bitcoin exchanges" have proper financial controls. None have an outside auditor and published audits. Yet they're handling far too much money to operate that way.

As for "The National Police Agency seems to lack the ability to analyze the bitcoin trading history of Mt. Gox", that seems to be correct. One would think that the Japanese National Police Agency would have a cyber-crime division, but they don't. In 2013, they were trying to beef up their capabilities in the computer area. This is embarassing for a developed country. Today, any sizable financial mess involves computers, and Tokyo is a major financial center. Untangling any business collapse requires computer forensics and forensic accountants.

The Tokyo police have a backup option - putting Mark Karpeles through one of their standard 23-day interrogation sessions. That's probably going to happen at some point.

Mt. Gox didn't have that high a transaction rate. They only did two or three money transactions a minute on average. They had a lot of traffic from people querying their site for market info, but that's all read-only traffic, and they had nginx and Amazon AWS to help with that.

Their use of PHP wasn't the real problem. From the leaked code, a big part of the problem seems to have been that the front-end system that talked to web users also handled the money. Banks have a separation between the front-end web system and the money system, with standard-format transaction items flowing between them. All those transaction items are logged, often by a third system that just does logging. This allows auditing. It's separation of function that's important, not the language. As far as anyone can tell, Mt. Gox had nobody on staff who understood this.

This all screams "inside job". If you're running a business that handles a lot of money and you lack financial controls, you're scared that someone will rip you off. Unless you're the one doing the ripping off.

All Japanese nuclear reactors were closed down after the tsunami, and only two, a long way from Fukushima, have restarted

They haven't actually restarted yet, fwiw. The operator has applied for permission to restart them, and after some controversy, the government has decided in principle to consider the request, so the relevant agency has started a safety assessment. Even if approved, they are unlikely to restart before 2016.

All Japanese nuclear reactors were closed down after the tsunami, and only two, a long way from Fukushima, have restarted

They haven't actually restarted yet, fwiw. The operator has applied for permission to restart them, and after some controversy, the government has decided in principle to consider the request, so the relevant agency has started a safety assessment. Even if approved, they are unlikely to restart before 2016.

Maybe, maybe not.

US, Japan agree to revise mutual defense treaty for first time in 16 years

Is the U.S. Committed to Defend the Senkakus? Text of Article 5 of the U.S.-Japan Treaty

During the depths of the recession they were able to negotiate really sweet deals on their huge purchases of components. Those contracts expired, and they're now having to pay more, but they certainly can't raise prices.

Why not? They raised prices in Japan less than two weeks ago.

Ladies and gentlemen, history will title this period "1983".

History can be a tricky thing, especially when you are projecting into the future to determine what "the history" will be.

For all we know the current period could in fact be not "1983," but rather "1938." Will one of the many crisis or conflicts be the Sudetenland? Will one of them turn out to be the invasion of Poland? There are plenty of candidates.

Let us hope a shooting war between the major powers doesn't start any time soon.

Lord West: cut foreign aid to defend the Falklands

He said: “I am horrified our naval flotilla now comprises only 19 frigates and destroyers.

"In the Falklands, in the first month of fighting, we had four sunk and 14 damaged. That makes you think. We seem to have forgotten that when you fight you lose things.

"Here we are with 19 frigates and destroyers. Are they bonkers? Are they mad? How have they allowed this to happen?”

They have more than enough power projected to meet summer demand despite having only 2 of 50 nuclear power plants online:

http://japandailypress.com/no-electricity-austerity-measures-for-japan-this-summer-0926652

Anyone know how they made up the slack besides conservation? More coal? The article mentions "electric power companies have been looking to thermal power generation for their supplies", but it's not clear what that means - geothermal?

"Japan to develop new exaflop computer by 2020" ... why not? And if it's even a few microseconds into 2021 I suppose that supercomputing has failed, will pack up, and go home.

Maybe there's more rape in North Korean prisons?

More of everything.

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag

North Korea is Dark

Japanese families fear that North Korea is still abducting

Care to take a holiday?

The world's worst cruise holiday?

Two resources that they will apparently never run short of:
Nitwits that take up their cause.
Soldiers and weapons

Food, on the other hand....
The Cannibals of North Korea

NK is brutal. The problem is the US is brutal as well. Maybe if a country which actually didn't have the most prisoners in the world were to comment people wouldn't view it as a joke. It's clear the US government is not serious about human rights. Do we care about the rights of our prisoners?

I do think that American citizens care abut human rights but the lawmakers aren't voting that way. They won't even end the brutal war on drugs and outlaw for profit prisons. How can I take them seriously when they are building the worst prison state in the history of mankind. A prison state which will allow rich people to own shares in the prison camps. Laws which will arrest people on any charge they need to, in order to meet some quota so the prisons can profit.

I don't see how it's any worse or any better than what NK does. NK uses less humane methods, but the result and plan seems to be the same. Both nations have a prison industry. If the US has a prison industry it cannot speak on prisons. Outlaw for profit prisons and then you can speak on it.

Maybe there's more rape in North Korean prisons?

More of everything.

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag

North Korea is Dark

Japanese families fear that North Korea is still abducting

Care to take a holiday?

The world's worst cruise holiday?

Two resources that they will apparently never run short of:
Nitwits that take up their cause.
Soldiers and weapons

Food, on the other hand....
The Cannibals of North Korea

When was the last time N Korea arrested visitors saying they were CIA spies? On the contrary, N Korea is very welcoming to foreigners, including Americans.

Charges as CIA spies? How bourgeois. It is much simpler and a better reflection of North Korean socialist morality to just hold a trial.

2 U.S. reporters get 12 years in N. Korea - June 08, 2009

Two American television journalists today were convicted of a "grave crime" against North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, a move that increased mounting tensions between the U.S. and the reclusive Asian state.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV, were sentenced by the top Central Court in Pyongyang in a two-day trial that started Friday as U.S. officials demanded the release of the two women.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor" but gave no further details.

Because the pair were tried by the nation's highest court, there can be no appeal.

Of course the North Koreans are not especially shy about grabbing Americans.

North Korea says it has arrested American citizen - Sun December 23, 2012
North Korea arrests American; continues shelling near disputed border - January 28, 2010
North Korea arrests US man - December 29, 2009

And foreigners? The North Korean government loves foreigners. . . in a sort of "collect them and trade them!" kind of way.

Japanese kidnapped by North Koreans return home in tears
Kidnapped by North Korea
Armed North Koreans kidnap Chinese sailors
Jenkins Photo Proof Of Kidnapping? - ". . .she is a Thai national who was kidnapped by North Korean agents. . ."
Did North Korea Just Kidnap Two American Journalists?
Kidnappers Incorporated
Japanese families fear that North Korea is still abducting - North Korea had kidnapped nationals from at least 11 other countries, including France, Italy and the United States.

It seems they want to impress them, not arrest them.

Impress them in a Potemkin village sort of way, yes.

Welcome to Lenin Disney: North Korea’s otherworldly tourism experience

The surreality of visiting North Korea begins at customs. Officials in full military dress — and there are a lot of them, judging by this clandestine video shot by a Canadian tourist — announce that anyone carrying a cell phone must surrender it, to be returned on leaving. The experience gets weirder from there, based on the numerous travelogues and reports that have emerged since the country lifted many of its restrictions on American tourists in 2010.

Tourism is an opportunity for North Korea, whic