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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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? 75 "Cricket Croquette"

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… Matt discusses self-driving cars in Japan, Stupid Gaijins of the Week, Marijuana Legalization in Japan, and cricket croquettes in a Japanese school.

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Show Links

1. Cricket Croquettes in Japan School

2. Legal Japanese Weed

3. Japan’s Population Collapse

4. Self Driving Cars

5. Ex-PM speaks out on Ukraine War

Below: CSIS YouTube Video and PDF on Taiwan wargaming

seems like older LIDAR equipment sucking in data for who knows what. . .

Below: Fried Meat (yakiniku) hair clips, with optional veggies

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CREDIT: PR TIMES