Japan Wut 131 "AI BabySitters"

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ON PODCAST 131…

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… We discuss Japan’s crazy business numbers, AI Babysitters for Japanese Cars, and Edible Cricket businesses that are declaring bankruptcy (VICTORY!).

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SHOW NOTES EP. 131

IT'S OMGWTF!

Undersea wine aging hoped to boost southwestern Japan island economy

JAPAN BUSINESS

SoftBank Group marks return to profit as it cuts Vision Fund losses

Japan's total debt swells to record ¥1,286.45 tril in 2023

SOCIETY 5.0

Japan firms unveil prototype model of robots that can babysit in car

AI 2.0: Japan Opens Up the Tomorrow of Solving Social Issues | Japan Insight - Investing in Japan - Japan External Trade Organization

DEDOLLAR

TUCKER PUTIN (INTERVIEW EXCERPT)

EAT THE BUGS

bankrupt The group's edible cricket farming business is sluggish Total debt: 242.9 million yen

A cricket farming venture goes bankrupt less than three years after its founding .

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PHOTOS EP. 131

Japan Wut 124 "Moonshot Weather"

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… We discuss Japan’s Moonshot Program to Control the Weather by 2050, the Phillippines as a flashpoint for war in the Indo-Pacific, and Singapore’s decision to allow tourists to use China’s CBDC (Dedollarization).

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Show Notes for Episode 124

NEW JAPANESE TREND

• Character for tax (税) picked as kanji of 2023 

JAPAN NEWS

• All 47 prefectures to have same-sex partnership systems in 2024

• Fukushima nuclear plant worker exposed to radiation

• USJ roller coaster suddenly stops, leaving passengers suspended in the air for over an hour

SOCIETY 5.0

• Moonshot Reseach and Development Program - Science, Technology and Innovation- Cabinet Office Home Page

• Moonshot R&D｜Program｜Goal8 Controlling and modifying the weather

• Driverless buses could be running on public roads by year-end

• Coming Soon: Your Travel Will Be Restricted By Personal Carbon Allowances

• Japan to introduce electronic arrest warrants, interrogation records

• Toyota's "Hydrogen Sharing Network" May Let You Fill Up Your Car At Home

• What is carbon capture and why does it keep coming up at COP28?

• Japan digital minister hints at move to make 'My Number' ID cards mandatory

• ANA Holdings, Joby partner with Nomura Real Estate Development for vertiports in Japan

DEDOLLAR

• china-singapore-let-each-others-tourists-pay-digital-yuan-beijing-seeks-globalise-its-e-cny-currency

EAT THE BUGS

Ecology, launched a nutrition bar containing crickets that promotes health benefits by containing iron and zinc.

https://bio.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/news/p1/23/12/06/11381/

Ecology (Shinjuku, Tokyo, CEO Seiya Ashikari), which produces food ingredients using edible crickets, announced on December 6, 2023 that it will release a new nutrition bar containing cricket powder. A press briefing was held. The company's crickets contain high amounts of iron and zinc, and the company promotes the health benefits of these ingredients. On the same day, the company also announced that it had confirmed that cricket powder promotes the immunostimulating effect of lactic acid bacteria, and expressed its intention to focus on developing products with immunostimulating effects in the future.

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Japan Wut 123 "Techno-Swindlers"

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… We discuss “Convenience Store Fashion Shows,” how stagnant Japanese bureaucracies hell-bent on SDGs are sucking the life force out Japan’s AI markets, and a potential refugee crisis brewing just outside of Japanese shores. Strap in. You are living in interesting times.

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Show Notes for Show 123

NEW PRODUCT

• FamilyMart hits the runway with ‘Convenience Wear’ lineup

SOCIETY 5.0

• TOKURA Masakazu Chairman, Keidanren and Chairman of the Board, Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

• Japan’s rural areas are depopulating – could a circular economy deliver local economic revitalization?

• Circular Economy in Japan Coming Soon: Your Travel Will Be Restricted By Personal Carbon Allowances

• Japan to introduce electronic arrest warrants, interrogation records

• 草取りの解決で、農業に革命が起きる。雑草対策ロボット開発 - さくマガ

• 田んぼの除草 (Robot video)

• Toyota Hydrogen Factory Scaling Up Its European Activities

• Nvidia to work with SoftBank, other Japan firms to push AI research

• AI-generated imaging using brain activity hits record 75% accuracy: Japan research

• Half of hospitals see no merit in My Number health insurance cards: survey

WAR

• Japan's frontier islanders decry lack of gov't plan to aid Taiwanese fleeing attack

• Hundreds of #Chinese Ships Gather Near the #Philippines

• Japan would play a key supporting role: expert

JAPAN

• Japan backs tripling global nuclear energy by 2050 

• Japan PM vows to phase out coal-fired power at climate summit

• Kobe Illuminage

• 'Roads are for people': Tokyo taxi driver arrested for allegedly running over pigeon

• NPO Director Gets 8 Months in Jail Over Organ Transplants; Arranged Surgeries in Belarus for Japanese Patients

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