Japan Wut 137 "AI Chocolate Starfish"

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ON PODCAST 137…

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A Survey About Japanese Excrement, Innovations in Medical AI Tech, and how Japanese youngsters are seeking opportunity abroad.

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SHOW NOTES

IT'S OMGWTF!

People in Japan more worried about smell of others' excrement than their own: survey

SOCIETY 5.0

AI system supports diagnosis of intractable and rare diseases, free website now available

口座開設、マイナ搭載スマホで完結　25年夏までに - 日本経済新聞

Japan firms look to AI to bolster disaster prevention and mitigation

Uber starts delivering food in Tokyo, solving delivery manpower shortage with robots

JAPAN BUSINESS

Shoma moved from Japan to Sydney for a working holiday, but instead he found a financial bonanza

CHINA

BYD expands Japan exposure with more EV models, dealership network

BYD to launch new EV in Japan yearly through 2026 to gain foothold

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Japan Wut 111 "Data Captains"

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… We cover Japanese denim made from rose branches, the Japanese Government and WEF collaboration on Data Free Flow With Trust, Chinese robo-waiters in restaurants spying and unrestricted warfare in the real estate sector.

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Show Notes for Ep. 111

NEW PRODUCT

• Project to make denim jeans from pruned rose branches launched in west Japan city

SOCIETY 5.0

• U.N. forum on internet governance begins in Kyoto; focus on AI

• Data Governance (WEF Japan 4th Ind. Rev.)

• Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT): Paths towards Free and Trusted Data Flows

• The big AI and robotics concept that has attracted both Walmart and Softbank

• Chinese startup's robo-waiters ready to take orders around the world

Japan

• Shrine-colliding festival provides a smashing time in Matsuyama

• Japan household spending falls 2.5% in August on rising prices

• Mori Building to open new development project in Tokyo as part of push to revitalize city

• BlackRock targets Japan's climate tech in investment push: Larry Fink

WAR

• Japan, eight ASEAN nations to bolster cybersecurity collaboration

• Japanese lawmakers to visit Taiwan for National Day celebrations

• China Is Becoming a No-Go Zone for Executives

• Big Chinese state-owned enterprises setting up army-linked militias

• Taiwan blockade's cost would be felt wider than COVID: U.S. official

• Repairing U.S. ships in Japan 'very important': defense chief Kihara

• China's economic ills infecting the rest of Asia

SGOTW

• US citizen arrested south of Yokohama over theft of unlocked city vehicle

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VIDEO FOR SHOW 111 (CREDIT: ASAHI SHIMBUN)

Japan WUT 89 "Government GPT"

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ON THIS INSTALLMENT…

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… Matt discusses new guidelines that will allow more self-driving trucks and drone deliveries in Japan, how CHAT GPT is making inroads in the Japanese government, and an alleged spy of Chinese origin operating super deep in one of Japan’s security agencies. Frequency expert DJO also files a report on the science behind frequencies and the nature of communication.

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SHOW LINKS/NOTES

• Japan’s new tiny ninja capsule toy collection turns your desk into a secret hideout

• Same-sex Wedding held a Japanese religious site

• Japan's Self-Defense Forces miss recruiting target by more than half

• China has spy in Japan intelligence agency, ex-detainee suggests in book

• Lowering the psychological hurdle of insect food... Especially important for children's food.

• Blueprint drafted to set routes for autonomous trucks, drones

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PHOTOS RELATED TO SHOW

1. Japanese book that contains info about an alleged spy in a Japanese security agency, 2. A same-sex marriage ceremony held in Saitama, 3 & 4. Ninja Desk Products