Japan Wut 108 "Brain-Bio Digital Twins"

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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 would be brilliant people into weirdos who want to make us eat bugs.

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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

• Could crickets be the "optimal solution" to avoid food shortages? [Part 1] / Mr. Seiya Ashikari, representative of cricket food “Ecology”

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