JAPAN WUT PODCAST 176 "INTERNET OF GARBAGE"

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Do you want IoT Trash Cans in your neighborhood? How can hackers easily exploit Solar Farms? Why are Japan’s Facial Recognition Condos selling so well?

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SHOW NOTES

DEPOPULATION / MIGRATION

More migrant workers heading to South Korea instead of Japan

SOCIETY 5.0

IoT smart trash cans that help reduce waste in cities Low environmental impact and can be installed anywhere

Solar Power Systems Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks via IoT: Cases of Fraudulent Transfers Emerge

Google to offer "AI Overviews" of web searches in Japan and elsewhere

Hitachi and NEC look at biometric authentication for cash register payments -- what are the aims and how will it become more widespread?

[All-Facial Recognition Apartment] Crecia IDZ Chiyoda Iwamotocho Investment Condominium Units Sold Out (PR TIMES)

"Towards the world's most interesting fisheries industry" Re:Start Fisheries Invested in Ribble Co., Ltd.

Turing develops "Terra," Japan's first generative world model for autonomous driving

Yokohama National University develops smart motion recognition system integrating stretchable devices and AI

China's growing 'robotaxi' fleet sparks concern, wonder on streets

INSANE Wuhan ROBO Taxi (Why the US don't have this?)

Japan Wut 164 "AUTONOMOUS CURRENCIES" (Copy)

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Show Notes

Self-Driving Car startups are seeing massive cash injections in Japan, but can they deliver the goods? The BRICS plan on launching a new blockchain-gold-backed currency, called the UNIT. What does this mean for Japan and the G7 Economy, which is hellbent on minority issues and riding the tailcoats of its past?

DEPOPULATION

Meiji Yasuda Life to extend retirement age to 70 amid labor shortage

SOCIETY 5.0

Aichi Prefecture to start regular operation of self-driving vehicles in Nagoya City from October

Autonomous driving venture Turing raises additional 1.5 billion yen, total amount to 6 billion yen, to be used for development of computing infrastructure

Kajima and SoftBank subsidiary to operate Level 4 autonomous bus, first private company to do so

DEDOLLAR/BITCOIN

BRICS will have its own currency

Japan Wut 163 "YOU HAVE CANCER AI"

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ON PODCASt 163

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There’s an AI race for Japan Cancer Treatment and Toilet Predictions, with billions invested from around the world. And why was Klaus Schwab visiting the Japanese Govt on July 1st, 2024? Japan ramps up its defensive shipbuilding, but is China now too far ahead?

Show Notes

SECURITY AND DEFENSE

Japan’s MHI Launches Ninth Mogami-Class Multirole Frigate for JMSDF

Retired major's chilling warning over China's chokehold on US military

The Senkaku Islands:  What's Coming?

SOCIETY 5.0

Courtesy call on Minister Kamikawa by Professor Schwab, Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum

Fujitsu Conducts Demonstration Test Using Drones and AI for Tower Inspection, Achieving Efficient Deterioration Assessment

Japan unveils high-tech AI cargo solution

SoftBank to launch AI-driven medical services in bid to tackle cancer

Japan’s Juntendo Hospital develops technology for preventing patient falls

Rikei develops "Mediashi," a system to prevent medication errors using facial recognition;

Takazono Co., Ltd. begins selling the system to nursing care facilities

Sony's AI tool predicts toilet and walking movements in rehabilitation wards

Facial recognition is also used at hotel check-ins!

Newly built apartment building "Lilsia Tokyo North Gate" with all-face recognition -- energy-saving design with low-E glass and external insulation

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Japan Wut 161 "5G DRONE WARFARE"

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Are countries using AI War Divisions to sow dissent and interrupt trade agreements with unfriendly countries? Are “flash mobs” now being weaponized by AI War Divisions? Why are cities working with each other to make net zero policies, when nobody voted for them to do that?

WEIRD CORNER

Arms factory invaders told they caused £1million in damage

Nippon Aircraft Supply Corp. to sever ties with Israel’s Elbit Systems

SOCIETY 5.0

Zero Emission Tokyo Strategy - C40 Cities

Level 4 autonomous driving to be promoted nationwide, bus and rail operators to join ride-sharing...Digital administrative and financial reform plan unveiled

"Unlimited experimentation" on the road!? Cutting-edge technology is being born in the "unopened section" of the new Tomei Expressway! "Vehicle-road cooperation" experiment site unveiled to the public, aiming for "roads that are easy for autonomous driving"

Sagamihara becomes the first city in Japan to introduce a family restaurant delivery robot to its city hall to transport documents and serve visitors

https://www.c40.org/

Japan Wut 160 "AI COUNTRY SUPERSTARS"

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While Japan’s crematoriums are under the influence of Chinese money, Japan rolls out its AI crime prevention technology to Latin America, but is it too late to curb China’s expansion into the Pacific? Meanwhile, AI Country Music might end up as the real winner with a bevy of new Generated Stars.

SHOW NOTES

JAPAN

Kanagawa Prefecture Aikawa Town: Three chicken coops burn down at a chicken farm, killing about 45,000 chickens (神奈川 愛川町 養鶏場で鶏舎３棟焼け約４万５０００羽死ぬ｜NHK 首都圏のニュース)

Chinese money in Japanese Crematoriums) 中国資本傘下の火葬場「東京博善」またも値上げ。東京23区内でシェア7割、商売敵も皆無でやりたい放題かと募る都民の不満 | マネーボイス

SOCIETY 5.0

A Novel Solution to Public Security: Japan’s AI-Based Crime Prediction | The Government of Japan

世界初！ENEOSとPreferred Networksが、AI技術による原油処理装置の自動運転を開始

Self-driving bus crashes after switching to manual mode to overtake Yahiko village

DEDOLLAR

China's Sinopec To Build Gas Pipelines For Saudi Aramco In $1-Billion Deal

CHINA

The Jiangnan military shipyard in #Shanghai is now building the following warships:

• 2 helicopter carriers Type 075 & Type 076

• Type 055 large destroyers / cruisers.

• Type 054A frigates

• Type 052DL destroyers

• 3 Coast Guard ships

• Jiangnan is one of 2 military shipyards in Shanghai. The other one is the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard.

• The Jiangnan military shipyard built China's 3rd aircraft carrier, the Fujian.

SUPPLY CHAIN WAR

China eyes Sea of Japan access via Russia-North Korea border river

North Korean Tankers spotted at Russia’s Vostochny Port; Brazen Oil Product Smuggling Becomes the Norm

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Japan Wut 157 "AI CAMERAS RISING"

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As Japan opens its doors to the world, the tech sector pushes ahead with crucial AI systems, but will the idealists bring it all crashing down?

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Show Notes

JAPAN

Hotels put up 13 million foreign guests across Japan in April

SGOTW

Chinese man suspected of spray-painting word 'toilet' at Yasukuni Shrine

SOCIETY 5.0

Apple to allow iPhones to function as My Number cards

"Facial recognition ticket gates" that are not experimental have finally been launched -- QR tickets also introduced on the Yamaman Yukarigaoka Line

Nihon University School of Dentistry to use facial recognition to manage attendance -- Marubeni Information Systems and others aim for early commercialization

TIGEREYE releases "Face Pass Stress Checker," a health management tool that uses facial recognition technology

AI cameras enable "unmanned" video distribution of local sports! Ishigaki City and NTT West Japan enter into a partnership agreement / Business Catchy

Tonami City receives emails about bears spotted in plains area, holds emergency meeting, strengthens surveillance with AI cameras

<Original> Autonomous driving on public roads to be planned and operated at 100 locations in FY2014 to be clearly stated

EAT THE BUGS

Defeat shrimp. A new type of snack called "Cricket-san Arare" is here!

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Japan Wut 155 "LEGACY SOCIETY"

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Are Big Tech companies helping to create 2-tiered societies with AI laws? Which one are you in? Are Japanese activists halting the restarts of Nuke Plants by any means necessary? Or are they just NIMBYs? Why are Japan’s scientists aiming to create sperm cells in the lab with stem cells? Strap in. You are living in Interesting Times.

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SHOW NOTES

SOCIETY 5.0

AI companies make fresh safety promise at Seoul summit

Kipod

Nvidia's profit soars, underscoring its dominance in chips for artificial intelligence

Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on a PC

NanoTerasu accelerator looking to be game changer for Japan tech

Japan cram school creates AI detection system for univ. applications

JAPAN

Court rejects lawsuit to block restart of west Japan nuclear reactor

Japan scientists generate precursors to sperm, eggs with iPS cells

Japanese lesbian couple granted refugee status in Canada | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Japan's Norinchukin Bank mulls 1 trillion yen capital increase

NORINCHUKIN BANK OFFICIALLY JOINS THE LIST OF BANK OF JAPAN’S NIGHTMARES

Japan Wut 153 "AI GOBBLEDYGOOK"

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Japan’s new emergency drones, Japanese surgeons using AI while digging around in your guts, and how China might be using TikTok algos to fuel resentment in the Supply Chain Wars. Strap in. You are living in Interesting Times.

SHOW NOTES

WUT

Japan bullet trains host wrestling, dining events in new travel trend

JAPAN

Honda logs record annual profits on hybrid sales, weak yen

Tokyo police to set up 24-hour lost and found lockers

SOCIETY 5.0

KDDI to deploy drones at 1,000 Japan locations to aid disaster relief

More stores in Japan using AI for discounts, other purposes to combat food loss

Tokyo startup devises AI system to help with endoscopic surgery

Keidanren in call to make Japan an ‘AI, robotics powerhouse’  | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

US, Japan universities and tech giants Amazon, Nvidia partner on privacy-respecting AI

Making global efforts to realize ‘Society 5.0’

Japan's Kishida unveils a framework for global regulation of generative AI

Mapping The Number Of AI Startups By Country

Startup grows sea alga to slash greenhouse gas in cattle burps

CHINA

Chinese buoy in East China Sea remains a thorn in Japan’s side

China Ships Reefs

Students largely sympathize with Hamas, get most war info from TikTok: shocking survey

TikTok to start labeling AI-generated content as technology becomes more universal

Japan defense chief urges higher security after drone video of warship posted on China social media

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PHOTOS

Japan Wut 151 "AI LASER SUBMARINES"

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Japan’s AI Bear Detection Tech, Japanese government to use Google and Microsoft for AI Governance, and China’s AI Laser Submarines. Strap in. You are living in Interesting Times.

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STRANGE TIMES

Baby-crying sumo contest

JAPAN

Japan's ruling party loses all 3 seats in by-elections

Japan, EU to boost economic security ties, reduce dependency on China

India to surpass Japan as 4th-largest economy in 2025, IMF says

COVID

Japan discarding 240 mil. COVID vaccine doses, worth $4.3 bil.

SOCIETY 5.0

Japan to trial AI scheme for spotting bears as attacks on humans rise

EU-Japan to cooperate on AI, data flows

Microsoft, Google partner with Japanese cities on AI rules

Can AI help solve Japan’s labour shortages?

Japan’s first hydrogen-fuelled ferry begins service

Tokyo exhibition looks at what technology will be like in 2050  

Japan city streams AI avatar vids of mayor speaking English to connect with foreigners

CHINA

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

China closing in on laser-propelled fast, stealth subs

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PHOTOS

Japan Wut Podcast 150 "Diversity Japan"

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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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Show Notes

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"

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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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PHOTOS

Japan Wut 142 "AI Agencies"

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The rising use cases of AI for cultural and political soft power, a WEF Death Cult Economist gets his Japanese booze ad pulled, and Japan pushes to adopt ammonia as a green resource. Strap in. You are living in Interesting Times.

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Show Notes

OMGWTF

Want to spruce up your bike helmet? Switch over to Oshare-heru

JAPAN BUSINESS

Economist who advocated mass suicide pulled from Kirin ad

TOWARDS EQUALITY: Mercari official deciphers unexplained pay gap

SOCIETY 5.0

Japan prof. probes strengths, weaknesses of rapidly evolving AI translation: interview

AI supercharges threat of disinformation in a big year for elections globally

New AI tools can record your medical appointment or draft a message from your doctor

SUPPLY CHAIN WAR

4 firms plan first ammonia-fueled ammonia carrier ship

Japan's JERA, IHI to test ammonia as fuel at coal power plant

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PHOTOS

Japan Wut 137 "AI Chocolate Starfish"

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A Survey About Japanese Excrement, Innovations in Medical AI Tech, and how Japanese youngsters are seeking opportunity abroad.

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SHOW NOTES

IT'S OMGWTF!

People in Japan more worried about smell of others' excrement than their own: survey

SOCIETY 5.0

AI system supports diagnosis of intractable and rare diseases, free website now available

口座開設、マイナ搭載スマホで完結　25年夏までに - 日本経済新聞

Japan firms look to AI to bolster disaster prevention and mitigation

Uber starts delivering food in Tokyo, solving delivery manpower shortage with robots

JAPAN BUSINESS

Shoma moved from Japan to Sydney for a working holiday, but instead he found a financial bonanza

CHINA

BYD expands Japan exposure with more EV models, dealership network

BYD to launch new EV in Japan yearly through 2026 to gain foothold

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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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Japan Wut 119 "Collective Entrepreneurs"

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… We discuss Ramen in Space, how Japan is being peripherally affected by conflicts overseas, and potential SDGs in the Japan Society 5.0 umbrella.

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Show Notes for 119

High or Not High

• More than 10 who ate 'weed gummies' hospitalized this year: Osaka police

• Osaka restaurateur sends ramen ingredients into space for six months to test effects of cosmic rays

SOCIETY 5.0

• Japan Opens New Silicon Valley Base for Japanese Startups

• Sony lures record female engineers despite talent shortage in Japan

• Uber CEO sees huge potential in Japanese ride-sharing market

COVID

• Japan medical groups urge women to check if they are pregnant before taking COVID drugs

WAR

• Car rams into barricade near Israel Embassy in Tokyo; man detained

• Mitsubishi Electric in line to be key supplier for U.S. Navy radar

• ‘Day may come’ when North Korea will attack US to help Palestine: Hamas official

• Philippines joins Japan-led naval drills as brushes with China rise in the disputed South China Sea

• Japan urges China to release national jailed on spy charges

Japan

• Japanese PM Kishida meets Chinese President Xi amid difficult ties

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Japan Wut 117 "Billionaire Hippies"

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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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Show Notes for Episode 117

SOCIETY 5.0

• Japan eyes $13bn in aid for chips, generative AI in stimulus budget

• An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packing plant in South Korea

Japan

• Japan's April-Sept current surplus triples to record ¥12.7 tril

• Japan household spending down for 7th month in Sept. as wages slide

• Germany set to overtake Japan as 3rd-largest economy 

• Kishida announces stimulus package of 17 trillion yen

• Albert Edwards: "Will The BOJ Fiasco Be The Straw That Breaks The Back Of US Debt"

• Japan's green transition bonds find 'more open-minded' investors

• Massive trove of ancient coins dug up in Gunma Prefecture | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

• Japan whaling mother ship calls it a day amid industry stupor　 | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

EAT THE BUGS

• 東京で「ザザムシ」新メニュー提供　上農高生が創作　長野県

CHINA

• Why the Philippines is exiting the Belt and Road

• Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee's LLM startup unveils open source model

• Asia’s first Gay Games to kick off in Hong Kong, fostering hopes for wider LGBTQ+ inclusion | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

• China’s AI Regulations and How They Get Made - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

SGOTW

• Vietnamese people have the highest number of foreigners arrested, surpassing Chinese people, background such as disappearance of trainees

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PHOTOS FOR SHOW 117

Japan Wut 116 "AI Moats" (Audio Corrected)

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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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SHOW NOTES FOR EP. 116

HIGH NOT HIGH/NEW PRODUCT

• Gunma’s drive-throughs offer everything from sushi to meds

SOCIETY 5.0

• Japan high school trials AI as conversation partner to boost English speaking skills

• Thousands of education board-distributed tablet computers broken in west Japan

• Fake video of Kishida spreads; creator denies malicious intent  

• (LINK TO STUPID DEEP FAKE PM KISHIDA VIDEO)

• Kishida can’t believe his ears at the sound of him speaking

• Japan PM Kishida faces questions from AI bot ChatGPT in Diet

• Elon Musk issues warning about 'humanoid robots' in AI 'age of abundance'

WAR

• Air Self-Defense Force plane evacuates 46 out of Israel

• The #US is quietly arming #Taiwan to the teeth

• Japan and Philippine leaders agree to negotiate defense pact and boost ties amid China's aggression

• Japan's prime minister tours Philippine patrol ship and boosts alliances amid maritime tensions

• PNP on watch vs Chinese ‘sleeper cells’

• Weak yen forces Japan to shrink historic military spending plan

• Japan, Malaysia to boost defense cooperation

DEDOLLOR

• China Delivers Sustainable Development Funding To Hard-Hit Egypt

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Japan Wut 116 "AI Moats"

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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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SHOW NOTES FOR EP. 116

HIGH NOT HIGH/NEW PRODUCT

• Gunma’s drive-throughs offer everything from sushi to meds

SOCIETY 5.0

• Japan high school trials AI as conversation partner to boost English speaking skills

• Thousands of education board-distributed tablet computers broken in west Japan

• Fake video of Kishida spreads; creator denies malicious intent  

• (LINK TO STUPID DEEP FAKE PM KISHIDA VIDEO)

• Kishida can’t believe his ears at the sound of him speaking

• Japan PM Kishida faces questions from AI bot ChatGPT in Diet

• Elon Musk issues warning about 'humanoid robots' in AI 'age of abundance'

WAR

• Air Self-Defense Force plane evacuates 46 out of Israel

• The #US is quietly arming #Taiwan to the teeth

• Japan and Philippine leaders agree to negotiate defense pact and boost ties amid China's aggression

• Japan's prime minister tours Philippine patrol ship and boosts alliances amid maritime tensions

• PNP on watch vs Chinese ‘sleeper cells’

• Weak yen forces Japan to shrink historic military spending plan

• Japan, Malaysia to boost defense cooperation

DEDOLLOR

• China Delivers Sustainable Development Funding To Hard-Hit Egypt

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PHOTOS FOR SHOW 116

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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IMAGES FOR SHOW 111

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VIDEO FOR SHOW 111 (CREDIT: ASAHI SHIMBUN)