Japan Wut 107 "Smartphone Toilets"

ON THIS INSTALLMENT…

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… Matt discusses smartphone toilets, ingrained double-think, and why we’re told by the elites to blame everything on Putin.

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SHOW NOTES FOR EP 107

NEW PRODUCT

• Flush by phone: Japan toilet maker responds to demand for touch-free facilities

G20

• Narendra Modi: As ‘One Earth,’ we must continue sustainable goals

• Coffee quality in Japan hit by Ukraine war, global warming

• Four reasons why the world needs to limit nitrogen pollution

SOCIETY 5.0

• Carmakers fail privacy test; give owners little or no control on personal data they collect

• Japanese educators want to allow students to use robot substitutes to attend school

• App in trials for hospital patients to go on trips in the metaverse

SEXISM

• Many female election candidates face sexual harassment, verbal abuse in Japan: survey

WAR

• Security Breach at Japan’s Cyber Security Agency May Have Been the Work of Chinese Hackers

• Japan top diplomat makes first visit to Ukraine since war's start

Japan/Economy

• 40% of companies in Japan hired someone over 70 last year

CHINA

• China is strengthening its control over global logistics data under the One Belt, One Road Initiative, and the US-China hegemony battle over data

Japan Wut 106 "Electronic Skin"

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ON THIS INSTALLMENT…

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… Matt discusses Final Fantasy Whiskey, Electronic Skin for surveillance, and presents an update on the Japanese Government’s initiatives to work with the World Economic Forum on developing a circular economy. They want to change you, and you will like it.

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Show Notes for Show 106

NEW PRODUCT/HIGH OR NOT HIGH

• Canned volcanic ash erupts into huge hit for Kagoshima Pref.

• Three 'Final Fantasy XIV' whiskeys are on the way, with cool nods to the game’s starter cities

FUKUSHIMA WATER

• Japan to give extra $141 million to fisheries amid China import ban

SOCIETY 5.0

• University of Tokyo Researchers Developing Full-body Electronic Skin to Measure Physiological Data and Analyze with AI

• Japan Launches Circular Economy Collaboration with World Economic Forum

•  A Multifaceted Approach of Decarbonization, Circular Economy, Decentralization and Harmony with Nature

• The Circular Economy | World Economic Forum

• Toto develops bidet feature that can be adjusted by smartphone

• Lawson addresses labor shortage with futuristic avatars

• Nagoya subway replaces platform timetables with QR codes to cut costs

EAT THE BUGS

• Fine Sinter adds chocolate sweets to insect diet

• Business diversification into edible cricket production and electronic parts manufacturing Processing into dried products and powder, business negotiations with confectionery manufacturers progressing

• An electronic parts manufacturer in Ogaki that is challenging the food crisis with cricket production

WAR

• Japan's top court orders Okinawa to allow divisive government plan to build U.S. military runways

Japan

• Japan cab company under fire for tweet playing up female drivers' looks, ages

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