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Show Notes
ON THIS INSTALLMENT…
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… We cover how Japanese telecoms plan to turn your brains into digital twins, why the weak yen is attracting trashy tourists, and how the UN turns Japan’s would be brilliant engineers into weirdos who want to make us eat bugs.
SHOW NOTES
NEW PRODUCT
Yamaha adopts wood-based reinforced resin for watercraft
SOCIETY 5.0
Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
Quantum Computing Startup-Nanofiber Quantum Technologies Secures $8.5m Funding
Japan to develop brain bio-digital twin technology
Japanese school students see how AI can help farming
Japan/DEMOGRAPHICS
Shibuya mayor says 'Don't come' for Halloween
Japan labor market set for change as huge worker shortage looms
EDITORIAL: College student quota shortfalls threatening the nation’s future
Chinese in Tokyo (Japanese Article)
86% of municipalities across Japan want more foreign workers: survey
One in 10 Japanese are older than 80: gov't data
WAR
Xi’s security obsession turns Chinese citizens into spy hunters
Ukraine will ask Japan to help with anti-drone technology
Japan-Britain defense cooperation pact to take effect in Oct
EAT THE BUGS