Japan Wut 114 "Surveilling Surveillance"

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… We deliver our boots on the ground report from Japan’s biggest tech event — CEATEC. We also analyze some of the Israel/Gaza war protests that are occurring in Japan, plus an investigation into Japan’s menopausal women engaging in the costly act of “Doctor Shopping”. Strap in! It’s only getting weirder from here. Just look around you.

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Notes for Show 114

HIGH NOT HIGH

• What causes menopausal women in Japan to go 'doctor shopping'?

NEW PRODUCT

• In Japan 1st, cash register-free 'walk through' food store to open in Yokohama

WAR

• 'Stop the war!': 300 protest in Fukuoka against attacks on Gaza

• NHK reporters in the Gaza Strip detail ongoing horrors | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

• S Korea, U.S. and Japan hold first-ever trilateral aerial exercise in face of N Korean threats

• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets Russia’s top diplomat in Pyongyang

SOCIETY 5.0

• Editorial: Poor data management led to 9 million info leak cases at Japan telecom firm

• Railway firms turn to AI to shake up lost property search

• AI capable of conversation, labor on display at trade show

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PHOTOS FOR SHOW 114 — INCLUDING CONTENT FROM SEATEC 2023