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

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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!