News Headlines - 28 November 2019

▽Man shot dead in Hyogo in possible yakuza feud | The Japan Times

A senior member of the nation’s largest organized crime syndicate was shot dead Wednesday in Hyogo Prefecture by a man armed with a submachine gun and a handgun amid a possible gang feud, police said.
Keiichi Furukawa, 59, a high-ranking yakuza of the Yamaguchi-gumi group, was pronounced dead at a hospital after being shot on a street in Amagasaki shortly after 5 p.m.
The suspected assailant fled by car, but police arrested him in the city of Kyoto about an hour after the shooting.

▽Panasonic leaves semiconductor business with Taiwan sale：The Asahi Shimbun

Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic Corp. is abandoning the semiconductor business with the sale of its last business in that sector to a Taiwanese company.
Panasonic said Thursday it was transferring the semiconductor business operated by Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions Co. to Nuvoton Technology Corp.
In recent years, Panasonic has sold its semiconductor plants in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

▽TikTok apologizes for temporary removal of video on Muslims in China - Reuters

Social media app TikTok apologized to a user on Thursday for removing a video that criticized China’s treatment of Muslims, blaming a “human moderation error” and saying the images had been restored within less than an hour... In the video she posted last week, the user, who identifies herself as Feroza Aziz, gave a tutorial on eyelash curling, while talking about how Muslims were being treated, and saying she wanted to spread awareness of the situation.

▽DHS Created Fake University To Lure Students So ICE Could Arrest Them

A fake university set up by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designed to lure international students who wanted to enter the U.S., resulted in the arrests of 90 students (about 250 since the beginning of the year) and drew sharp criticism from some on the left, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, who called the practice “cruel and appalling.”

▽Trump Says U.S. Will Designate Mexican Cartels as Terror Groups - Bloomberg

Donald Trump said the U.S. government intends to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups in the near future, and declined to say whether he was considering taking military action like drone strikes against the groups... Trump said that he had already offered Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador assistance but that his counterpart had declined the offer.