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 Hiroaki Fujiuchi (1st), Eiji Ikeda (2nd), Takeo Shigumura (3rd, 4th)

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 Kyodo News

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 AP/Afro

 South Korea's top actor Kim Soo-hyun has been hit by a series of scandals. He has been involved in a relationship with an underage girl and harassed staff members at a fan meeting. ...... The dominoes of contract termination are also in the air due to the continuing allegations. What are the contents of the allegations that are being viewed as problematic?

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 NHK Party leader Takashi Tachibana is planning to run in the April 6 mayoral election in Kishiwada as the "last two-horse race. However, behind the scenes, he has lost a series of court cases against election watcher Chidai ......

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 Honjamaka" Hidehiko Ishizuka's ″Mayday-to-Day″ vol.12 

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 Rakuten Securities, Inc. has received a number of horrifying reports of unauthorized access to personal accounts and the sale of stock holdings, followed by the purchase of mysterious Chinese stocks. We spoke to Rakuten Securities, which was the "epicenter" of the incident: ......

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 Masaki Sone

 Hiroshi Tanigawa

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 Takayuki Ogawauchi Yusuke Kondo Arifumi Taguchi Yoshihito Murata REX/Afro

 Special Entertainment Research Project] A thorough survey of approximately 4,800 commercials was conducted! The one that the viewers paid the most attention to among about 160 people was ......

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