Japan Wut 129 "AI Scoundrels"

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ON PODCAST 129…

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… We discuss SoftBank’s quest for AI Offices via the WeWork Model, the Japanese Carbon Capture Technologies as a Breakaway Society, and more analysis on Japan’s declining population and changing demographics. Strap in — you are living in Interesting Times.

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Show Notes Ep. 129

IT'S NEW!

Japan’s Homo Sausage now comes with cheese

JAPAN

Rules outlined for storing CO2 underground in CCS projects  | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Toyota Chairman Says Electric Cars Will Never Dominate Global Market

DEPOPULATION / MIGRATION

Governor in east Japan wants to abolish nationality requirement for prefecture gov't jobs

Tokyo bus operator banks on foreign drivers as shortage looms

Japan's foreign workers surpass 2m for first time, led by Vietnamese

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Japan Wut 125 "Tele-Absentees"

ON PODCAST 125…

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… We discuss Japanese robots that encourage absenteeism, how Japan and Vietnam are using Society 5.0, and how the Supply Chain Wars are affecting you and your family. Strap in, you are living in Interesting Times.

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EP 125 Show Notes

NEW PRODUCTS

Discover trending products from Japan.

JAPAN

• Japan PM Kishida vows to take lead in decarbonization in Asia

• ‘Nowhere to go’: African refugee applicants camp in Tokyo park

• Japan's Nippon Steel to buy US Steel for $14.1 bn: firms

• Singapore, Japan work on green and digital shipping corridor development

• SK’s Chey proposes South Korea-Japan economic bloc akin to EU

• Japan to issue $11 bln in climate transition bonds in February -sources

SOCIETY 5.0

• Stability AI’s plan to counter AI’s Silicon Valley bias

• Stability AI

• ChatGPT, other AI to be studied for military risk by new Japan body

• Absent students in Kumamoto can now attend school via robot

• Vietnam, Japan enhance cooperation in high-quality human resources training

WAR

• S. Korea, U.S., Japan start operating missile-info sharing system

• US clears AMRAAM and AIM-9X Sidewinder sales to Japan

• Territorial disputes with Japan 'over,' Russia's top diplomat says

• Shippers mask positions, weigh options amid Red Sea attacks

CHINA

• China poised to eclipse Japan as the largest auto exporter in 2023

• China starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor

• China to conduct sea trials for its first ultra-deepwater drilling ship

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Japan WUT 87 "Inheritors of the Phoenix"

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… Matt discusses dumb dumb Pikachu stamps for creepy millenial office workers, think tanker and CIA connected Elbridge Colby's article about Japan and Taiwan in the Nikkei Shimbum, and genetically manipulated radioactive-proof Chinese soldiers (it's NEW!).

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Show Notes

• Spruce up your office with Pikachu date stamps

• Elbridge Colby (Twitter)

• China's military buildup shows its ambitions go well beyond Taiwan

• Phoenix Program

• "Unprecedented" Chinese Genetic Experiment May Lead To Army Of Radiation-Resistant Super Soldiers

• NTT and NEC collaborate to promote a decarbonized society

• Japan had weak basis for ordering 882 mil. COVID vaccine doses: audit

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