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Japan Wut Podcast 150 "Diversity Japan"

April 25, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

ON PODCAST 150

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Japan’s top-down strategies that insist on diversity in the country, Japan’s role in the Supply Chain Wars, and how Japan could get caught up in the Dedollarization Movement.



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ODD JAPANESE ITEM

Water-absorbing, quick-drying umbrella holder

JAPAN

Sony, Nature magazine create award for female researchers

Seniors 75 and older top 20 million in Japan for the first time

'Understanding systemic discrimination' new students' 1st homework: U. of Tokyo president

Kishida secures $2.9 bil investment from Microsoft

Japan's elderly population living alone to jump 47% by 2050

SUPPLY CHAIN WAR

Southern island worries it will host long-range missiles

Phl, Japan Reciprocal Access Agreement May Be Signed By Yearend – Envoy | OneNews.PH

Russian and China warn NATO to stay out of Asia

Russia to hold talks with North Korea on increasing quota for DPRK students

Japan will prove a worthy collaborator with AUKUS

NATO and a Taiwan contingency

DEDOLLAR/BITCOIN

US deficit poses ‘significant risks’ to global economy, warns IMF

DEPOPULATION / MIGRATION

Meitetsu Bus joins hands with central Japan city to train foreign bus drivers
Japan's population falls below 125 mil; down for 13th straight year

CHINA

US, Vietnam fear Cambodia’s China-backed canal could serve military goals

China Confirms It’s Building a 4th Aircraft Carrier—and the Tables Are Turning

China is moving towards full monetary independence

NORTH KOREA

North Korea can use gene-editing tech to craft military bioweapons, US warns

GREEN JAPAN

Sumitomo Electric Unveils New Material Made from Recycled CO2 and Metal

Hitachi Zosen Leads Decarbonization of Shipping Industry with Green Methanol Technology

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Japan Wut 145 "AI Carbon Warfare"

April 05, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

ON PODCAST 145

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Japan’s Shohei Ohtani bats against against an AI version of himself, and a deep dive on Japan’s positions in the Carbon Credit Trade by leveraging its AI systems in the Supply Chain Wars. Strap in — You are living in Interesting Times.


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SOCIETY 5.0

Japan considering legally binding regulations for AI developers

New AI traffic project developed in Hungary, Turkey and Japan

Robots replicate reality: High-tech pitching machine mimics every pitcher


SUPPLY CHAIN WAR

Japan eyes rules for firms to disclose greenhouse gas emissions data

"Everyone Is Panicking": Major Cocoa Processor Scrambles To Find Beans As Prices Hyperinflate

オリーブオイル値上げ「過去に例見ないほど」欧州での不作影響

The world of coffee being reordered by EU laws to stop cutting of forests

Experts exchange views on use of international carbon credits

NEC And Sumitomo Corporation Sign Strategic Partnership Agreement To Expand Global Sales Of The CropScope Agricultural ICT Platform

CropScope innovates agricultural operations with digital agriculture utilizing AI and data analytics

Optimize the entire value chain players in food and agriculture

Taiwan's Smart City Summit & Expo 2024 attracts global carbon trading leaders

Oita forestry firm signs carbon trade deal with Line operator - The Japan Times


CHINA

Taiwan Confirms Presence Of US Green Berets On Islands Very Close To China's Coast

Taiwan training laser weapons on China's drone threat

How China ended up financing the Houthis’ Red Sea attacks

INDOPACOM Boss: China ‘Soon to Be World’s Largest Air Force’

Japan to build shelters on isles near Taiwan in case of attack | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

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Japan Wut 144 "Woven City"

April 02, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 142 "AI Agencies"

March 22, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 141 "AI Love in Normie Land"

March 19, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 140 "Logistics Sharing"

March 15, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 139 "Dystopia as a Service"

March 11, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 138 "AI Drone Swarm"

March 07, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 137 "AI Chocolate Starfish"

March 04, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 135 "Kyushu AI"

February 26, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 134 "AI Infrastructure"

February 23, 2024  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 121 "CBDC Crickets"

November 24, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 120 "Rope Drones"

November 21, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 118 "Very Clean Future"

November 14, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

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Japan Wut 117 "Billionaire Hippies"

November 10, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

ON THIS INSTALLMENT…

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… We discuss a robot worker killing a human worker in South Korea, economic inconsistencies on why Japan is doing so great and bad at the same time, and how the Philippines is moving away from China’s BRI and toward Japan’s and the US’ wide open arms.

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PHOTOS FOR SHOW 117

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Japan Wut 116 "AI Moats" (Audio Corrected)

November 07, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

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… We discuss drive through drugstores, how AI solutions used by regular Japanese people are being demonized as misinformation while the G7 (headed by Japan) seeks to regulate the AI ecosystem, and how Japan is using the cheap yen as an excuse to bow out of military spending. Strap in! You are living in interesting times.

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PHOTOS FOR SHOW 116

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Japan Wut 116 "AI Moats"

November 07, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

N THIS INSTALLMENT…

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… We discuss drive through drugstores, how AI solutions used by regular Japanese people are being demonized as misinformation while the G7 (headed by Japan) seeks to regulate the AI ecosystem, and how Japan is using the cheap yen as an excuse to bow out of military spending. Strap in! You are living in interesting times.

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PHOTOS FOR SHOW 116

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Japan Wut 115 "Build Back Worse"

October 31, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

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… We discuss how uninformed politicians at Japan’s G7 meet are trying to regulate AI as a Build Back Better move — they don’t care if their AI solutions are worse, as long as they control them and you don’t. We also cover how the De-Dollarization movement is affecting the Japanese economy, and why tech shows seem to be stuck in dumb Sci-Fi ruts!

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Japan Wut 109 "AI Highways"

September 26, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

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… We cover Kyoto’s retro toothbrush vending machines, Japan’s plans to build highways for self-driving cars, and the US’s aim to expand Space Force in Japan amid China’s and Russia’s implementation of advanced radar systems equipped with AI post-processing capabilities.

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Show Notes

NEW PRODUCT

SOCIETY 5.0

JAPAN ECONOMY / WEF

WAR

FIVE PRIORITIES FOR THE AIR FORCE’S FUTURE COMBAT AIR FORCE

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Advances in Threat Sensors and Post-Processing Capabilities 

Russian and Chinese IADS include networks of ground-based, airborne, maritime, and space-based multi-phenomenology sensor and communication systems that improve the range, density, and sophistication of their surveillance operations. Advances in sensor resolution, post-processing power, data storage capacity, and fusing information from sensors in multiple domains have improved their ability to locate, track, and engage airborne threats.

Both Russia and China exploit the strategic depth of their home territory to create sensor and communication networks that enable them to engage U.S. forces before they can do the same.

 Operating from their own territory reduces constraints on the size, weight, and power generation capabilities of their sensor networks compared to U.S. sensor networks that must deploy to a fight. Taking advantage of their recent successful gray zone operations, Russia is deploying sensors and weapons in Crimea, and China has deployed sensors and weapons on islands it has occupied or created in the South China Sea.

 Both are simultaneously pursuing a variety of early warning and control aircraft, UAS, aerostats, and balloons that will better detect low-altitude airborne targets at standoff distances.

Advanced digital signal processing and the introduction of active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar technologies have significantly improved the detection range and resolution of Chinese and Russian radars that operate in lower frequency bands.

 Combined with passive sensors and other technologies discussed below, radars that operate in lower frequency bands could improve China and Russia’s ability to detect some low-observable aircraft designs.

 Due to their poor resolution and other limitations, earlier generation low-frequency radars could not develop target quality tracks. However, advances in signal processing have enabled pulse compression techniques that improve the range resolution of low-frequency radars, and the introduction of AESA technologies have improved their directional resolution.

The Future Conflict Operating Environment Out to 2030

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

Many such exotic detection technologies – such as wake-vortex tracking, quantum radar, three-dimensional  metre-  and  decimetre-wavelength  AESA  radars  and  LEO  infra-red scan-and-track techniques – have serious limitations when used as primary sensors as they have limited capacity to generate target-grade weapon cueing data. However, they offer advantages in detecting threats which are difficult to track using standard X- and Ku-band radars and can be extremely useful for cueing in other higher-resolution sensors if adequately integrated into a common  system  or  picture.

PHOTOS FOR SHOW 109

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Japan Wut 105 "Nuclear Sushi"

August 29, 2023  /  Matthew Bigelow

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… Matt discusses beer psyops, the threat — or non-threat — of Fukushima Nuclear Water, AI Rice, WEF Green Transformation in Japan, and the unpredictable effects of depopulation: bug farms and less help for the disabled.

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SHOW NOTES FOR EP. 105


NEW PRODUCT/SERVICE

FUKUSHIMA WATER RELEASE

SOCIETY 5.0

DEPOPULATION

EAT THE BUGS

A group from Kyushu University is working on research to utilize the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, often called the "king of insects," as insect food.

The research is being conducted by a group led by Associate Professor Satoshi Kamitani from the Faculty of Agriculture at Kyushu University. In an effort to address the issue of neglected bamboo forests, while collaborating with Kama City, they discovered that fermented bamboo chips could serve as food for the Japanese rhinoceros beetle. This discovery prompted the exploration of edible applications for the beetles.

The pupae, in particular, have a mild shrimp-like aroma and are easy to eat due to their lack of earthy odors and impurities. When dried and ground into powder, they are also suitable for processed food products.

They chose the former Chisshu Elementary School building in Kama City, which had closed in 2014, as the experimental site. The bamboo chips used were harvested from neglected bamboo forests by the city and provided at no cost. Starting with 500 beetles in the current fiscal year, they aim to increase the number to 5,000 in the following year and 50,000 two years from now.

Local residents take on the role of caretakers for the beetles, with the intention of generating employment opportunities in the depopulated region.

The group is conducting detailed analysis of the nutritional components and potential health benefits. They aim to eventually position the beetle as a viable option for human consumption, while also exploring its potential as a pharmaceutical ingredient.

Associate Professor Kamitani stated, "The Japanese rhinoceros beetle might become a 'triple-win' solution, simultaneously addressing food scarcity, neglected bamboo forests, and depopulation. We will thoroughly examine its safety as a food product."

According to research by the Japan Productivity Center, the global insect food market is predicted to expand from 7 billion yen in 2019 to 100 billion yen by 2025.

WAR

PHOTOS SHOW 105

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