News Headlines - 03 February 2017

▽Reddit bans 'alt-right' discussion forums | Fox News

The banned forums, called subreddits, are r/altright and r/alternativeright. They went dark on Wednesday morning and now redirect to a landing page that reads: "This subreddit was banned due to a violation of our content policy, specifically, the proliferation of personal and confidential information."

▽Syrian refugees invited to Japan set to total 300 through 2021：The Asahi Shimbun

Japan is set to welcome about 300 Syrian refugees comprising study-abroad students and their families over the next five years, the most to date in the current Middle Eastern refugee crisis.

▽Japan's Abe Scrambles to Draft Response to Trump Ahead of Visit | Fortune.com

Japan is scrambling to respond to intensifying trade pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe planning to meet the head of Toyota Motor Corp this week, while the business lobby Keidanren puts together a 'Trump task force.'

▽Extreme Radiation Levels Detected At Fukushima Reactor, Highest Since 2011

The level of nuclear radiation detected at the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan spiked on Thursday to its highest level since the triple core meltdown in 2011.

▽What life is like living with a ‘love doll’ in Japan - The Washington Post

At first, 61-year-old Senji Nakajima’s interest in his love doll, named “Saori,” was purely to fill feelings of loneliness. But after a few months of living with her in his Tokyo apartment, Nakajima, (who is married and has two children but lives away from home because of work) started to think that the doll had developed her own personality. She became more than an inanimate object to him; he began to think of her as his girlfriend.