Sankei reports [J] that Kanagawa prefectural police arrested a 19 yo university student in Yokohama on June 16 for attempted rape.

The boy raided a flat of 20 years old victim, an university student, through an non-locked front door around 21:30. Just before waking her up to threat, he used the victim’s cellphone, logged-on Mixi and – amazingly carelessly – browsed HIS profile page.

# Many Japanese mobile web services including Mixi provides so-called “Kantan Roguin”(“easy log-in”), which authenticates you by your cellphone unique ID so it is doable, unless you lock your phone.

The girl resisted the rape attempt and managed him to run away. Then, the reported police could find this suspect from her Mixi’s browsing history.

It has not been reported why he checked Mixi first of all things, or if those two knew each other before.

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Toyota Social App Award – Save The Car (Japanese/Chinese) is a social application contest run by the world largest automaker Toyota. The social applications applied are expected to deliver fun and job of car to people.

To promote the contest, Toyota prepared an official cheering song and its choreography. They lined up about 30 of D-list girls, like Anime song singer, livestreamer, charisma maid.

The responses to this on the net are, well, mostly questioning Toyota’s own sanity. Toyota USA recently went weird as well.

SAVE THE CAR – Call to Action to Creators from Toyota – Give the Car Life Joy!

Toyota loves cars. But lately we feel people’s love for care has weakened and hear voices like “We don’t need cars!” Quite honestly, we are in a crunch. What attracts people back to automobiles? Where can we find it?

We want to work with creative people who make new cultures winning over the world. Talents x Cards. That is the concept we have.

We are looking for Car Savior spreading the novel automotive charms to many people.

The contest is under the auspices of all major Japanese social game platforms, DeNA(Mobage), Gree, Mixi, NHN Japan(Hangame) and Yahoo! Japan.

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