JAPAN WUT PODCAST 187 "GPS SLIPPERS"

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ON PODCAST 187

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What are the benefits of transplanting pig organs into human fetuses in Japan? Why is Hiroshima introducing self-driving ships? Where are Japan's eco-youth activists getting their ideas?

SHOW NOTES

Youths argue for right to live on safe planet in climate suit against Japan firms

Japan launches flagship H3 rocket carrying defense satellite

NUCLEAR

Reactor in Japan's 2011 disaster area halted just days after restart

SOCIETY 5.0

Japan-1st organ 'xenotransplant' for fetuses with kidney disease proposed by research team

Toyota, NTT to invest $3.3 billion on development of AI platform

Rivasta develops a system that uses facial recognition to control entrance and exit using the technician's own smartphone

Fukuoka greengrocer uses facial recognition to shut out shoplifters

Autonomous driving and platooning BRT demonstration experiment

Kubota increases yields with automated farm machinery, reducing base station position error to 3cm

Eight Knot, a startup developing autonomous ship operation technology, has signed an agreement with Osakikamijima Town, Hiroshima Prefecture, to introduce an autonomous passenger and cargo transport service and verify its effectiveness.

India's TCS has thousands of engineers to build AI software for Japan

GPS-equipped shoes that allow AI robots to pinpoint the location of wandering elderly people Promoting the appeal of nursing work

Picking success rate of 94.5%... Toshiba develops new AI technology for logistics robots to automate logistics sites

SUPPLY CHAIN WAR

Japan gov't-backed agency opens Kyiv office to promote trade, business

Wary of Japan's 'Asian NATO' proposal, neighboring countries stick with web of alternatives to deter China

Japan and EU announce security and defense partnership

CHINA

Chinese navy holds first dual aircraft carrier drills in South China Sea

China says it's ready to launch the next crew to its orbiting space station early Wednesday

JAPAN WUT PODCAST 186 "A.I. PENCILS"

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ON PODCAST 186

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Why are some companies blocking people injected with the latest mRNA jab? What are the latest developments in Japan’s facial recognition platforms? Where does this week’s SGOTW come from?

SHOW NOTES

JAPAN

Japan to offer $3.0 billion for G7 Ukraine loan package

Unverified info on new vaccine leads to rejection of customers

SOCIETY 5.0

Group company DXYZ's facial recognition platform "FreeiD" will be installed in the fourth apartment building developed by Mugen Estate.

Smart home service "SpaceCore" begins offering smart intercoms for apartment complexes with facial recognition

RENATUS ROBOTICS Inc. and Japan Post Capital Co., Ltd. enter into capital alliance

Kirin Holdings introduces a trial of "AI interviewer." AI supports everything from resume reading to first interviews

Dentsu to use AI copywriter "AICO2" for audio advertising. Launch of project aimed at expanding audio advertising market

Newzia launches "AI Model Agency" service, providing advanced and affordable AI models tailored to corporate needs

SGOTW

モモタロウお手柄！密輸大麻１６キロ入りスーツケースを臭いで発見…容疑のスペイン人の男逮捕

Japan Wut 107 "Smartphone Toilets"

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… Matt discusses smartphone toilets, ingrained double-think, and why we’re told by the elites to blame everything on Putin.

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SHOW NOTES FOR EP 107

NEW PRODUCT

• Flush by phone: Japan toilet maker responds to demand for touch-free facilities

G20

• Narendra Modi: As ‘One Earth,’ we must continue sustainable goals

• Coffee quality in Japan hit by Ukraine war, global warming

• Four reasons why the world needs to limit nitrogen pollution

SOCIETY 5.0

• Carmakers fail privacy test; give owners little or no control on personal data they collect

• Japanese educators want to allow students to use robot substitutes to attend school

• App in trials for hospital patients to go on trips in the metaverse

SEXISM

• Many female election candidates face sexual harassment, verbal abuse in Japan: survey

WAR

• Security Breach at Japan’s Cyber Security Agency May Have Been the Work of Chinese Hackers

• Japan top diplomat makes first visit to Ukraine since war's start

Japan/Economy

• 40% of companies in Japan hired someone over 70 last year

CHINA

• China is strengthening its control over global logistics data under the One Belt, One Road Initiative, and the US-China hegemony battle over data

Japan WUT? 80 "Yes And Money"

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ON THIS INSTALLMENT…

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… Matt discusses the Bank of Japan’s plan to test trial a Central Bank Digital Currency, Japan’s part in the push for war in the Taiwan Strait and some pushback on the push to force bugs into the diet of the Japanese people.

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Show Links:

• Bank of Japan CBDC Trial

• Learn about taxes from a talking piece of poop with the Unko Tax Drill textbook

• China and Japan square off over arms and balloons at security talks

• Tabletop War Exercise in Taiwan Strait (Japan involved)

• Japan accepted over 2,300 Ukrainians last year. Is its refugee policy finally changing?

• You will (not) eat the bugs

Photo Content related to show

Tweet thread for further insight into the Taiwan Situation

Some personal news: I’ve been quiet quitting this platform, but am going on private tomorrow. Thursday was my last day with @ACGlobalChina and I’ll be starting a new position at the U.S. Department of State.

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— Jessica Drun 莊宛樺 (@jessicadrun) February 27, 2023

I’m old enough to remember this was a racist conspiracy theory

NO SHIT!