Japan Wut 124 "Moonshot Weather"
ON THIS INSTALLMENT…
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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
JAPAN NEWS
All 47 prefectures to have same-sex partnership systems in 2024
USJ roller coaster suddenly stops, leaving passengers suspended in the air for over an hour
SOCIETY 5.0
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.