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Yomiuri Shimbun
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Upper House Election: Expert Concerned as Unverified Posts on X Left Unchallenged; Community Note Suggestions Published in Under 10% of Cases
About 90% of Community Notes created on the X social media platform to help users correctly understand posts containing unverified information about the upcoming House of Councillors election have not been released, it has been learned. The analysis was jointly conducted by Hiroyuki Fujishiro, professor of social media studies at Hosei University, and The Yomiuri Shimbun. The low release rate of Community Notes had also been highlighted as a problem in posts about the Hyogo gubernatorial election and the U.S. presidential race last year. Fujishiro called for caution in the use of social media in the run-up to elections. X in Japan introduced the Community Notes function in 2023 as part of measures against false and misleading information. The function allows users who have signed up as 'contributors' to add useful background information to posts that may cause misunderstanding among readers. Community Notes are not immediately displayed. Other contributors evaluate them as either 'helpful,' 'somewhat helpful' or 'not helpful.' Until sufficient ratings are obtained, notes remain unreleased. If a note is deemed helpful from a variety of people with different perspectives, it is released, but when a note is rated not helpful, it is not published. Fujishiro and the general incorporated association Code for Japan have extracted and categorized posts and notes related to the July 20 upper house election from X's database, among other sources. The Yomiuri Shimbun analyzed the collected data and found out that, as of Wednesday, 368 notes had been created for 315 posts. Of these notes, only 21 had been released with another 21 rated not suitable for release, leaving 326 notes, about 90%, remaining unreleased. Voting for the upper house election will take place in the middle of a three-day weekend. A total of 40 notes were created in response to 32 posts making such claims as that the election schedule was 'a government plot to lower voter turnout.' Combined, these posts had earned at least 36.25 million views. Most notes denied the claims, saying that they are baseless information, but none have been published, with 39 notes listed as unreleased, with the remaining note rated as not suitable for release. Regarding a post saying 'identification is not required for early voting, making it so easy to commit fraud,' which had amassed at least 5.12 million views, one note denying the content was created, but remained unreleased. 'This is completely wrong,' Fujishiro said. 'Even notes about posts that appear uncontroversial are not being shown, and the reasons why are unclear.' 'Removing false or misleading information from social media is difficult, so not looking at it when elections near is an option,' he said. The Yomiuri Shimbun sought comments from X Corp. in Japan through its official account, but no response had been received by Friday.
Japan Today
27-06-2025
- Japan Today
Woman gets suspended term over hammer attack at Japan university campus
A Japanese court has sentenced a woman to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for injuring eight students in a hammer attack at a university campus in suburban Tokyo. The court on Friday found Yoo Ju Hyun, a 23-year-old South Korean, guilty of injuring the students on Jan. 10 at Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida. The presiding judge put her actions down to a mental disorder she was suffering. The series of attacks on defenseless students were "dangerous and shocking," said Presiding Judge Keita Nakajima in handing down the ruling at the Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch. Yoo, who was a second-year student in the university's Faculty of Social Sciences at the time, had claimed she was bullied and insulted by some students. Nakajima said while it cannot be said that there was no bullying at all, there was no evidence that the eight victims, some of which suffered head injuries, had insulted her. However, the judge said that Yoo's actions were influenced to a considerable extent by an obsessive-compulsive disorder and other factors. © KYODO
27-06-2025
Woman Convicted of Hammer Attack at Hosei Univ.
News from Japan Jun 27, 2025 18:59 (JST) Tokyo, June 27 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Disctrict Court sentenced Friday a South Korean woman to three years in prison with a four-year suspension for attacking Hosei University students with a hammer. According to the ruling by presiding Judge Keita Nakajima, the woman, Yoo Juhyun, 23, hit eight other students aged 19 to 22 in the head and arms with a hammer at the university's Tama campus in the Tokyo city of Machida on Jan. 10, causing them injuries that would take one to two weeks for recovery. Nakajima said Yoo may have been bullied as she claimed during the trial but that the judge failed to confirm her allegation that attacked students had said bad things about her. "The outcomes (of the attack) cannot be downplayed," the judge stated, suggesting that the mental damage for the students was big, after being suddenly assaulted during a class. Nakajima determined the prison term in line with prosecutors' request but suspended the sentence on the grounds that the defendant was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder in a psychiatric evaluation conducted during investigations and that she has already reached a settlement with the victims. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
The Mainichi
27-06-2025
- The Mainichi
Woman handed suspended term over hammer attack at Japan univ. campus
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a woman to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for injuring eight students in a hammer attack at a university campus in suburban Tokyo. The court found Yoo Ju Hyun, a 23-year-old South Korean, guilty of injuring the students on Jan. 10 at Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida. The presiding judge put her actions down to a mental disorder she was suffering. The series of attacks on defenseless students were "dangerous and shocking," said Presiding Judge Keita Nakajima in handing down the ruling at the Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch. Yoo, who was a second-year student in the university's Faculty of Social Sciences at the time, had claimed she was bullied and insulted by some students. Nakajima said while it cannot be said that there was no bullying at all, there was no evidence that the eight victims, some of which suffered head injuries, had insulted her. However, the judge said that Yoo's actions were influenced to a considerable extent by an obsessive-compulsive disorder and other factors.
Kyodo News
27-06-2025
- Kyodo News
Woman handed suspended term over hammer attack at Japan univ. campus
KYODO NEWS - 13 minutes ago - 14:31 | All, Japan A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a woman to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for injuring eight students in a hammer attack at a university campus in suburban Tokyo. The court found Yoo Ju Hyun, a 23-year-old South Korean, guilty of injuring the students on Jan. 10 at Hosei University's Tama Campus in Machida. The presiding judge put her actions down to a mental disorder she was suffering. The series of attacks on defenseless students were "dangerous and shocking," said Presiding Judge Keita Nakajima in handing down the ruling at the Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch. Yoo, who was a second-year student in the university's Faculty of Social Sciences at the time, had claimed she was bullied and insulted by some students. Nakajima said while it cannot be said that there was no bullying at all, there was no evidence that the eight victims, some of which suffered head injuries, had insulted her. However, the judge said that Yoo's actions were influenced to a considerable extent by an obsessive-compulsive disorder and other factors. Related coverage: Student arrested for Japan univ. hammer attack sent to prosecutors
