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A Bathrobe, a Cigarette and a Love Hotel: An Akita Official’s Bizarre Press Conference

It was supposed to be a fairly routine press conference about plans for an AI data center in Akita. Instead, it turned into an unlikely scandal involving a prefectural official, a bathrobe, a cigarette and, as it later emerged, a love hotel. Takahiro Ono, a 55-year-old enterprise attraction promotion supervisor with Akita Prefecture, joined the […] The post A Bathrobe, a Cigarette and a Love…

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