"We have jingoists on both sides of the border, and they have a huge platform on Twitter (X). You can see how fake news, as well as some real news, gets amplified, distorted and presented in ways designed to generate hostility, animosity and hatred for the other side."
"I got tired of fighting retailers or restaurants that wanted me to sell rice cheaply for many years," says Shinya Tabuchi.But that's been flipped on its head, with the going rate for 60kg of rice today at 40,000 to 50,000 yen.
While higher prices are bad news for shoppers, it means many struggling farmers will finally be able to make money.But as the public grew angry with the surge, the government auctioned some of its emergency reserves of rice in March to try to bring prices down.Many countries have strategic reserves - stockpiles of vital goods - of crude oil or natural gas to prepare for exceptional circumstances. In Asia, many governments also have stockpiles of rice.
In recent years, Japan's rice stockpile had only been tapped in the wake of natural disasters."The government has always told us that they would not release its emergency rice stocks to control the price so we felt betrayed," Mr Tabuchi says.
Despite the government's rare decision to release rice, prices have continued to rise.
The cost of rice is also soaring in South East Asia, which accounts for almost 30% of global rice production - economic, political and climate pressures have resulted in shortages in recent years.The report also says a rough estimate of 10,000 cameras were accessed near "military installations, and rail stations, to track the movement of materials into Ukraine.
It adds the "actors also used legitimate municipal services, such as traffic cams."The Russian military unit blamed for the espionage is called GRU Unit 26165 but goes by a number of informal names, including
The notorious hacking team is known to haveWorld Anti-Doping Agency data, and played a key role in