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Friday (Kodansha Magazine)
is a Japanese weekly magazine that contains celebrity gossip, politics, news, and simply. It is published by Kodansha. New issues are released every Friday, hence the name. History ''Friday'' was launched on 9 November 1984. The magazine is best known for its candid, paparazzi-style photographs of celebrities and politicians, accompanied by often scandalous rumors of their private lives. Such coverage is considered too risqué for daily newspapers. To be featured in ''Friday'' in this way is sometimes referred to as "Getting Fridayed" . A special supplementary issue called ''Friday Dynamite'' is published several times a year. In 2003, the magazine published its 1,000th issue – a double issue covering both the Golden Week and the Bon Festival/Christmas and holiday season. ''Friday'' is one of three Japanese weekly magazines, along with ''Flash'', also published by Kobunsha, and ''Focus'', published by Shinchosha, that are collectively known as the "3F". In the early 1990s ...
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Shūkanshi
The term generally refers to weekly magazines published in Japan, including politically provocative weekly tabloid newspapers. As noted by Watanabe and Gamble in the '' Japan Media Review'' and in their book ''A Public Betrayed'', the genre is "often described as bizarre blends of various types of U.S. magazines, such as ''Newsweek'', ''The New Yorker'', ''People'', '' Penthouse'', and ''The National Enquirer''. In Japan, weekly magazines have been a source of anti-semitic articles, including '' Shukan Bunshun'', ''Marco Polo'', and '' Shukan Shincho'', which have repeatedly published articles denying the Holocaust. Such magazines have also been hotbeds of articles that disparage neighboring countries, especially South Korea, as well as invasions of privacy towards celebrities; for instance, ''Bubka'' (which has since transitioned into a general Japanese idol magazine) was involved in a lawsuit for their 2002 publication of unauthorized childhood photos of several female idol ...
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. Clinton, whose policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy, became known as a New Democrats (United States), New Democrat. Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in 1968, and later from Yale Law School, where he met his future wife, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham. After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as state attorney general, followed by Governorships of Bill Clinton, two non-consecutive tenures as Arkansas governor. As governor, he overhauled the state's education system and served as Chai ...
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Weekly Magazines Published In Japan
Weekly refers to a repeating event happening once a week Weekly, The Weekly, or variations, may also refer to: News media * ''Weekly'' (news magazine), an English-language national news magazine published in Mauritius *Weekly newspaper, any newspaper published on a weekly schedule *Alternative newspaper, also known as ''alternative weekly'', a newspaper with magazine-style feature stories *''The Weekly with Charlie Pickering'', an Australian satirical news program *''The Weekly with Wendy Mesley'', a Canadian Sunday morning news talk show *''The Weekly'', the original name of the television documentary series ''The New York Times Presents'' *''Carlton Dequan Weekly-Williams'' known professionally as FBG Duck American rapper, songwriter. See also *Frequency *Once a week (other) * *Weekley, a village in Northamptonshire, UK *Weeekly, a South Korean girl-group *Weekly News (other) *Weekley (surname) Weekley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * ...
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Keisuke Koide
is a Japanese actor who starred in Kwak Jae-yong's film '' Cyborg She'' and in ''Koizora''. Career In 2017, Koide admitted to drinking alcohol and having sex with a 17-year-old girl after allegations were published in ''Friday''. He was suspended by his talented agency, Amuse, Inc., a month later. Following his suspension, several acting projects he was involved in removed and recast his roles, including the Netflix series '' Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot''. In 2020, he announced that he will make a comeback in acting from his three-year hiatus from moving to the US. He is under a new agency called "Rhythmedia". Filmography Films *''Worst by Chance'' (2003) *''Break Through!'' (2004) - Norio Yoshida *'' Linda Linda Linda'' (2005) - Abe *''Heavenly Forest'' (2006) - Kyohei Sekiguchi *''Hatsukoi'' (2006) - Kishi *''Koizora'' (2007) *''Kimi ni shika kikoenai'' (2007) - Shinya Nozaki *'' Kisaragi '' (2007) - Snake *'' Cyborg She'' (2008) *''Killer Bride's Perfect Crime'' (2 ...
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Kyodo News
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business arm, established in 1972.Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). ''News agencies from pigeon to internet.'' Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 208. . The subdivision Kyodo News International, founded in 1982, provides over 200 reports to international news media and is located in Rockefeller Center, New York City. Their online news site is in Japanese language, Japanese, Chinese language, Chinese (Simplified Chinese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Traditional), Korean language, Korean, and English language, English. The agency employs over 1,000 journalists and photographers, and maintains news exchange agreements with over 70 international media outlets. Satoshi Ishikawa is the news agency's ...
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Yamaguchi-gumi
is Japan's largest ''yakuza'' organization. It is named after its founder Harukichi Yamaguchi. Its origins can be traced back to a loose labor union for longshoreman, dockworkers in Kobe before World War II. It is one of the largest organized crime, criminal organizations in the world. According to the National Police Agency (Japan), National Police Agency, it had 3,300 active members at the end of 2024. The Yamaguchi-gumi are among the world's wealthiest gangsters, bringing in billions of dollars a year from extortion, gambling, prostitution in Japan, prostitution, arms trafficking, drug trafficking, mortgage fraud, real estate and bid rigging, construction kickback schemes. They are also involved in securities fraud, stock market manipulation and Internet pornography. The Yamaguchi-gumi has its headquarters in Kobe, but it operates all across Japan and has overseas operations. Its current ''kumichō'' (Boss), Kenichi Shinoda, Shinobu Tsukasa, has declared an expansionist polic ...
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Yakuza
, also known as , are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media (by request of the police) call them , while the yakuza call themselves . The English equivalent for the term ''yakuza'' is gangster, meaning an individual involved in a Mafia-like criminal organization. The yakuza are known for their strict codes of conduct, their organized fiefdom nature, and several unconventional ritual practices such as '' yubitsume'', or amputation of the left little finger. Members are often portrayed as males with heavily tattooed bodies and wearing '' fundoshi'', sometimes with a kimono or, in more recent years, a Western-style "sharp" suit covering them. At their height, the yakuza maintained a large presence in the Japanese media, and they also operated internationally. In 1963, the number of yakuza members and quasi-members reached a peak of 184,100.
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Shinsuke Shimada
is a Japanese comedian and television presenter. He first became popular as part of a manzai duo formed with his on-stage partner Matsumoto Ryusuke. The duo was active between 1976 and 1985. In 1991 he directed the film ''Kaze, Slow Down''. Shimada played an important role for keeping the popularity for contemporary manzai alive - for many years he was the driving force behind the popular manzai competition M-1 Grand Prix. On August 23, 2011, Shinsuke Shimada announced his retirement after admitting to extensive ties to the yakuza, Japan's organized crime. The yakuza's dominance in the entertainment industry was a subject that has long been a taboo."Ties to the Yakuza Are No Laughing Matter"
26 August 2011, Jake Adelstein, ''The Atlantic Wire''

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Editors' Choice Magazine Journalism Award
The is an annual prize for journalism awarded by a coalition of Japanese publishing companies since 1995. Participating companies include mainstream publishers like Kodansha, Shinchosha, and Bungeishunjū. Past awards References

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Mona Yamamoto
is a Japanese TV announcer and presenter. Her father is Norwegian and she became a naturalized Japanese citizen at the age of 6. After graduating from Gakushuin University, Mona joined the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation as an announcer. She presented the TV series '' Jackass'' in Japan. In September 2006 she worked for five days on the Tokyo Broadcasting System news program ''News23'' before stepping down due to a love affair with married Democratic Party of Japan executive Goshi Hosono. Returning to television in 2008 as an anchor for Fuji Television News, she lost her job after visiting a love hotel with married sportsman Tomohiro Nioka of the Yomiuri Giants The are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. They h ... baseball team. In 2010 she married the president of a real estate ...
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Goshi Hosono
is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Ōmihachiman, Shiga and graduate of Kyoto University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000. He was the Minister of Environment and Minister of State for Nuclear Power Policy and Administration in the cabinet of Yoshihiko Noda. He represents the 5th District of Shizuoka prefecture. Goshi Hosono considered running in the September 2012 Democratic Party (DPJ) presidential elections against incumbent Yoshihiko Noda, but was eventually dissuaded from doing so by senior members of the party. Goshi Hosono was a protégé of DPJ Secretary General Azuma Koshiishi, who saw him as a potential future Prime Minister. After Noda's re-election as party president, and re-appointment of Koshiishi as Secretary General of the DPJ, Noda persuaded Hosono to become chairman of the party Policy Research Committee. The appointment of the popula ...
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Democratic Party Of Japan
The was a Centrism, centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist: * * * * * * * to Centre-left politics, centre-left, Liberalism, liberal or Social liberalism, social-liberal List of political parties in Japan, political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016. The party's origins lie in the previous Democratic Party of Japan (1996), Democratic Party of Japan, which was founded in September 1996 by politicians of the centre-right politics, centre-right and centre-left politics, centre-left with roots in the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party and Japan Socialist Party. In April 1998, the previous DPJ merged with splinters of the New Frontier Party (Japan), New Frontier Party to create a new party which retained the DPJ name. In 2003, the party was joined by the Liberal Party (Japan, 1998), Liberal Party of Ichirō Ozawa. Following the 2009 Japanese general election, 2009 election, the DPJ became the ruling party in the House of R ...
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