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Japan thought it had a special relationship with the U.S.
Now, Tokyo is finding that its security alliance counts for little as it struggles to cut a trade deal.
After 101 tough days,
there was not much progress at all.
Japan did not readily give in to the Trump administration’s demands,
not least because of the domestic political considerations that constrained Ishiba’s administration from making concessions on key industries, such as autos, steel and rice.

Japan, after 101 tough days, learns a hard lesson about U.S. alliance
Japan though it had a special relationship with the U.S. Now, Tokyo is finding that its security alliance counts for little as it struggles to cut a trade deal.

plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…

"Scientists in Japan Develop Non-Toxic Plastic That Dissolves in Seawater Within Hours"
#Japan #Plastic #Plastics

Scientists in Japan Develop Non-Toxic Plastic That Dissolves in Seawater Within Hours
Japanese scientists were thrilled to receive significant interest from the packaging industry over their new seawater-degradable plastic.

Voguing, Edo Japan style.
Seen at the Hiroshige exhibition at the British Museum.
#art #japan

So, Japan's Minister of Defense is Gen Nakatani. NOT "General" Nakatani as this article states wrongly states several times.
More amazingly, somehow this author is based in #Japan and written books on Japan-#India security relations, but can't even get the name of a key, longtime cabine…

President Trump announces 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea, starting August 1 (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/trump-tariffs-trade-letters-japan.html

Trump announces steep tariffs on five more countries starting Aug. 1
The United States will impose 25% blanket tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea starting Aug. 1, President Donald Trump revealed.

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Japan: Forscher entwickeln künstliche Synapsen mit menschenähnlichem Farbsehen
Ähnlich sehen wie das Auge: Japanische Forscher entwickelten selbstversorgende künstliche Synapsen, die Farben mit 10-Nanometer-Präzision unterscheiden.

Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/20/japan/society/social-media-sex-tourism-japan/
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Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
Only certain sexual services are prohibited in Japan, and it is the sex workers — not their clients — who face fines or prison, if caught.

Western Japan sees earliest end to rainy season on record #Japan

Western Japan sees earliest end to rainy season on record
Japan's rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country's western regions, meteorologists said Friday, as climate change makes global weather patterns less predictable.

#Japan erlebte im Juni 2025 den heißesten Juni seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Die Temperaturen lagen im Schnitt 2,34 °C über dem Normalwert. Auch die #Wassertemperaturen erreichten Rekordwerte. Meteorologen warnen vor anhaltender

Japan had hottest June on record: weather agency
Japan experienced its hottest June on record, the weather agency said Tuesday, as climate change prompts sweltering heat waves across the globe.

"Hepburn-System soll in Japan offizieller Standard werden" https://sumikai.com/nachrichten-aus-japan/hepburn-system-soll-in-japan-offizieller-standard-werden-358022/

Kyle Liu is the Head of Engineering at Mercari, a second-hand e-commerce marketplace based in Japan. His team has been using Elastic Search for retrieval and DNN Learning to Rank for ranking for a long time. At #bbuzz, he will discuss how they re-architected their search system in response to developments in deep learning and LLM, and how they successfully convinced internal stakeholders to adopt new…

As #Japan #LNG imports peak, #China’s growth is likely to dominate imported #naturalgas. This will have profound implication…

China is eroding Japan's LNG dominance. How does that affect Japanese buyers?
Japanese companies have long held the leading position in the buying and trading of one of the world's key energy sources, but that era of hegemony has come to an end.

Hmm. Living abroad does sound good right about now...
#japan #financialservices
Original post: https://

Japan should end abusive detention conditions for transgender people
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/06/06/japan-should-end-abusive-detention-conditions-for-transgender-people/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Japan:
🎵 Ghosts
#Japan
https://randomhouseproject.bandcamp.com/album/japan-ghosts-reworks
https://open.spotify.com/track/4M3Lxm1XBJrfLGBWZjqTM7

Russia's Lavrov cautions West on North Korea security pact: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/russias-lavrov-cautions-west-on.html

"Japan had hottest June on record: weather agency"
#Japan #Climate #ClimateChange

Japan had hottest June on record: weather agency
Japan experienced its hottest June on record, the weather agency said Tuesday, as climate change prompts sweltering heat waves across the globe.

#ListeningClub During their time as a band, they appeared on MTV, performed at Lollapalooza, and toured across the US and Japan.

[In der sehr feinen Frankfurter Ausstellung über Japanese Women Photographers las ich keine Kurzbio einer Fotografin, in der nicht ein Weg ins Ausland zwecks (Teil-)Studiums vorkam. Es würde mich interessieren, ob das bei ihren männlichen Kollegen auch so ist. Meine Wahrnehmung ist, dass man als künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Interessen verfolgende Japanerin im 20. Jh. praktisch ins Ausland musste, weil Barrieren in Japan zu hoch und Möglichkeiten zu wenige.]

Breaking Anonymity at Scale: Re-identifying the Trajectories of 100K Real Users in Japan
Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Mathieu Cunche, Heber H. Arcolezi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05611 …

Breaking Anonymity at Scale: Re-identifying the Trajectories of 100K Real Users in Japan
Mobility traces represent a critical class of personal data, often subjected to privacy-preserving transformations before public release. In this study, we analyze the anonymized Yjmob100k dataset, which captures the trajectories of 100,000 users in Japan, and demonstrate how existing anonymization techniques fail to protect their sensitive attributes. We leverage population density patterns, structural correlations, and temporal activity profiles to re-identify the dataset's real-world locatio…

At the Hiroshige exhibition, in the British Museum. It's so peaceful and cool here. And the colours are magnificent.
#art #japan

Origin of Radio Emission in Three Nearby Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies with Signatures of Luminous Buried Active Galactic Nuclei
Takayuki J. Hayashi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Yoshiaki Hagiwara (Toyo University), Masatoshi Imanishi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10549…

Origin of Radio Emission in Three Nearby Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies with Signatures of Luminous Buried Active Galactic Nuclei
We report multifrequency Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations at 2.3 and 8.4GHz of three nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxies, identified via mid-infrared spectroscopic analyses as hosting deeply embedded active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Milliarcsecond-scale observations at both frequencies reveal compact continuum emission in IRAS F00188$-$0856 and IRAS F01298$-$0744, accounting for $\sim10$% of the flux density measured on arcsecond scales. The non-detection in IRAS F00091$-$0738 and …

Japan to Begin Clinical Trials for Artificial Blood This Year https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/japan-to-begin-clinical-trials-for-artificial-blood-this-year/

Japan to Begin Clinical Trials for Artificial Blood This Year
Whether high-income or low-income, every country has challenges meeting the necessity necessary amounts of stockpiled blood donations.

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'Tariff Man' Is Back for More 'Liberation' (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/tariffs-south-korea-japan-donald-trump-trade-a9075145
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p97#a250708p97

This wwdc was so protein packed.
I am installing the betas on all my primary devices the eve before I go on a long vacation to Japan.

Google has been banned from selling the Pixel 7 in Japan due to a patent dispute related to 4G connectivity; further bans against the Pixel 8 and 9 are possible (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/26/google-pixel-japan-sales-ban/
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Google banned from selling select Pixel phones in Japan, and it might not end there
Google has been banned from selling select Pixel phones in Japan over a patent dispute, and it might not end there.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
Johann Sebastian Bach, Salomo Franck, Georg Neumark, Bible, Masaaki Suzuki & Bach Collegium Japan:
🎵 Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21: Sinfonia
#JohannSebastianBach
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vcMduHIMAi2V5PruZszhd

Joyce asked me, "Aren't there 4 terrible things in Japan, 'Kaminari' being one of them?" I counted for him: "Jishin (earthquake), kaminari (thunder), kaji (fire), oyaji (paternity)." and he laughed.
— Takaoki Katta, 1926
#fathersday #jamesjoyce #finneganswake #oyaji

Interval Walking Training
or “Japanese walking,”
is getting renewed attention after going viral on TikTok.
Nearly 20 years ago a team led by Hiroshi Nose and other researchers from Japan published a study that found that
middle-aged and older people who did high-intensity interval walking had lower blood pressure, stronger thigh muscles, and better aerobic capacity than walkers the same age who kept a more moderate, continuous pace.

In the study, the volunteers…

Just 30 minutes a day of ‘Japanese walking’ may help you get in shape
People are rediscovering interval walking training (IWT), a technique that can help you get fit in 30 minutes a day.

#Worldrecord: 1 million GB per sec #internet speed achieved by #Japan over 1,100 miles

Japan sends 1 million GB of data across 1,100 miles in a second
Current data transfer speeds aren’t enough to support AI, VR, IoT, and various other emerging technologies. Here’s a mindblowing solution.

The impact of extracurricular education on socioeconomic mobility in Japan: an application of causal machine learning
Yang Qiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07421

The impact of extracurricular education on socioeconomic mobility in Japan: an application of causal machine learning
This paper explores the socioeconomic impacts of extracurricular education, specifically private tutoring, on social mobility in Japan. Using data from the 2015 National Survey on Social Stratification and Social Mobility (SSM), we employed a causal machine learning approach to evaluate this educational intervention on income, educational attainment, and occupational prestige. Our research suggests that while shadow education holds the potential for positive socioeconomic impacts, its benefits …

Japanische Firma scheitert erneut mit Mondlandung
Mond-Missionen gelten als technisch höchst anspruchsvoll. Zwei US-Firmen ist dies gelungen. Ein Konkurrent aus Japan erlitt dagegen eine weitere Enttäuschung.
h…

Understanding Japan’s AI Promotion Act: An “Innovation-First” Blueprint for AI Regulation
https://fpf.org/blog/understanding-japans-ai-promotion-act-an-innovation-first-blueprint-for-ai-regulation/

⚡ This $7,000 single-seat electric car has become a hit in Japan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/19/japan-mini-ev-hit/
🆓 https:…

This $7,000 single-seat electric car has become a hit in Japan
In the rural suburbs of Hiroshima, a Japanese startup is trying to kick-start the nation’s electric vehicle market with the smallest, cheapest car it can possibly make.

I hit a wall inspiration-wise for the last few months to hack on my #homelab. Not entirely sure why that happened, maybe research fatigue from planning for my Japan trip?
Anyway finally got back into it a little bit today as I moved forward on setting up my M4 MacBook Pro. It's been sitting partially configured for months now but spent some time applying my dotfiles config.

TriADA: Massively Parallel Trilinear Matrix-by-Tensor Multiply-Add Algorithm and Device Architecture for the Acceleration of 3D Discrete Transformations
Stanislav Sedukhin (The University of Aizu, Japan), Yoichi Tomioka (The University of Aizu, Japan), Kazuya Matsumoto (The University of Aizu, Japan), Yuichi Okuyama (The University of Aizu, Japan)
ht…

TriADA: Massively Parallel Trilinear Matrix-by-Tensor Multiply-Add Algorithm and Device Architecture for the Acceleration of 3D Discrete Transformations
Multilinear transformations are key in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, where data is represented as tensors. However, their high computational and memory demands, which grow with dimensionality, often slow down critical tasks. Moreover, scaling computation by enlarging the number of parallel processing units substantially increases energy consumption, limiting widespread adoption, especially for sparse data, which is common in HPC and AI applications…

Aparentemente um estudo japonês apontou que a maioria dos gatos ao deitar enolado prefere se enrolar para a esquerda. rs #CatsOfMastodon
https://mstdn.jp/@unseenjapan/11474642

TikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

TikTok Shop launches in Japan as app faces uncertainty in US
The popular short-video app is seeking to diversify its global footprint while reducing its reliance on the US market.

Was wurde eigentlich aus den Leuten die vor Monaten behaupteten Kanada und / oder Japan hätten erfolgreich auf die US-Schulden gezeigt, die sie halten und damit den Zollstreit entschärfen können? Ganz schön still, die Ecke.
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/114832158484794001

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

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Scientists in Japan Develop Plastic That Dissolves in Seawater Within Hours - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/04/1718212/scientists-in-japan-develop-plastic-that-dissolves-in-seawater-within-hours

In Little Tokyo, a five-block neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles that is among the country’s largest Japanese American enclaves,
news often gets delivered and shared at the century-old koban.
It’s a community security office similar to those in Japan,
housed in a former police substation and named after a local hero from World War II.

Brian Kito stood on the sidewalk outside the koban Wednesday,
surveying the street that’s become a hot spot of activity a…

Solidarity and dismay in a neighborhood on the edge of the L.A. protests
Historic Little Tokyo, one of the largest enclaves of Japanese Americans in the country, is supporting protests over the immigration raids — with a caveat.

„Nach mehr als dreißig Jahren löst Deutschland Japan als größten Gläubiger der Welt ab. Das Nettoauslandsvermögen der Deutschen belief sich Ende des vergangenen Jahres auf 3,6 Billionen Dollar.“ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/deu

Heatstroke alerts issued in Japan as temperatures surge #Japan

Heatstroke alerts issued in Japan as temperatures surge
Sweltering temperatures prompted heatstroke alerts in multiple Japanese regions on Wednesday, with dozens of people seeking emergency medical care in the capital Tokyo.

"Amazon to open fulfilment centre with vertical solar in Japan"
#Japan #Amazon #Business

plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…

Why is the D-party so amazingly lame about communicating to (or with) voters?
Why are they using FFOTUS' terminology of "tariff" rather than the more clearly understood "Federal Sales Tax"?
"Trump to send 12 more tariff letters after announcing 25% levies on Japan and South Korea"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
Johann Sebastian Bach, Salomo Franck, Georg Neumark, Bible, Masaaki Suzuki & Bach Collegium Japan:
🎵 Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21: Sinfonia
#JohannSebastianBach
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vcMduHIMAi2V5PruZszhd

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Researchers in Japan Discover Medicine Capable of Regrowing Third Set of Teeth for Humans - Dentistry Today
https://www.dentistrytoday.com/researchers-in-japan-discover-medicine-capable-of-regrowing-third-set-of-teeth-for-humans/

Trump suggests there won't be a trade deal with Japan (Alex Gangitano/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5377358-trump-trade-deal-japan-tariffs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p108#a250630p108

US political contradictions; knowledge systems
As Trump at least partially succeeds in constructing an alternate reality for his most ardent followers, it's tempting to think of his dogma as false, in contrast to some imagined "truth" which his non-followers are smart enough to believe in. But a more nuanced view of knowledge would admit that different groups of people have different shared truths, constituting different knowledge systems which each deviate from what's objectively measurable in different ways, and in fact they each accept different standards of what is objective, so there's not really a single "ground truth" we can even compare to to determine which of these knowledge systems is "more correct" (similar problems arise even if we only care about "more useful").
To make this more concrete, we can see that e.g., competing quantum physics theories, or likewise competing religious beliefs, have no reasonable basis on which to judge between them, either in terms of "truth" or "utility." So the Trump-dogma knowledge system, although bad, morally repugnant, etc., can't so easily be dismissed as "false" in my view. "Distorted" or "malignant" or "evil" or "contradictory" are better monikers, in my opinion.
But what I'm even more interested in thinking about is: in what ways does the current American liberal "common sense" knowledge system already bear the scars of past fascist lies & contradictions? I can think of a few:
"Columbus was an explorer."
This is "factually accurate" in the same way some of Trump's propaganda is, but it's also a cruel distortion of "Columbus was a child murderer," and it's a misrepresentation that serves an evil purpose, yet which is widely taught in elementary schools today.
Another: "dropping atomic bombs on civilians in Japan was necessary to end WWII."
Perhaps in the future we'll have "family separation & the 2025 ICE crackdowns were necessary to end the immigration crisis," although I dearly hope not.
"Reparations for slavery aren't reasonable," is yet another...
I'll close this rambling with a question: what other fascist lies have you noticed that are normalized in America right now from past Trump-like leaders (or even from less overtly fascist institutions)?

heise | "Assassin’s Creed: Shadows" für macOS im Test: Im Schatten der Kirschblüte
Ein ungleiches Gespann kämpft sich in durch das feudale Japan: Wie schlägt sich die Mac-Version des neuen Teils der Assassinen-Saga?

TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology…

Taiwan chip titan TSMC opens joint lab with University of Tokyo
Chipmaker 'definitely' committed to Japan despite huge US investment, says executive

It was a little strange talking with some of the #Australia focused climate/energy groups for this @… story.
They really wanted to focus on #Japan, and not

China is challenging Japan's LNG dominance. What does that mean for Japanese buyers?
Japanese companies have long held the leading position in the buying and trading of one of the world's key energy sources, but that era of hegemony has come to an end.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11292 has been replaced.
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Status of the International Linear Collider
This paper is not a proposal for a CERN future project but provides information on the International Linear Collider (ILC) considered for Japan in order to facilitate the European Strategy discussion in a global context. It describes progress to date, ongoing engineering studies, updated cost estimate for the machine at $\sqrt{s}=250~\rm GeV$ and the situation in Japan. The physics of the ILC is not presented here, but jointly for all Linear Collider projects in a separate document ``A Linear C…

#NowPlaying ❝This attention begs the question, why Japan and why noise? Perhaps the most simple answer is Japan is a very noisy place indeed.❞
From “Oh! Moro Volume 5” (1992) Kansai new art video magazine with scene report and interviews by David Hopkins/Public Bath.

A branded gTLD in use.
Nippon Telegraph and Telegram (Japan)
#domains #domain

NTT / NTT Group
NTT Group's website. Learn about NTT Group, Press Release, Business, Investor Relations, R&D, CSR, Disaster Countermeasures, Environmental Activities, Procurement, Diversity & Inclusion, Corporate Profile, Careers information.

That's two people I've spoken to who have just returned from vacation... one got a cold and a tummy bug, the other has come back with COVID.
I think I will just watch Japan Video Walks on YouTube... far safer!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Japan:
🎵 Life In Tokyo
#Japan
https://tareq.bandcamp.com/track/japan-life-in-tokyo-tareq-dub-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mJl9BQhvdao4M8s5houTL

A Two-Stage Scheduling Method for Nurse Scheduling and Its Practical Application
Keisuke Nakashima, Kohei Furuike, Yoshiaki Inoue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05182

A Two-Stage Scheduling Method for Nurse Scheduling and Its Practical Application
The creation of nurses' schedules is a critical task that directly impacts the quality and safety of patient care as well as the quality of life for nurses. In most hospitals in Japan, this responsibility falls to the head nurse of each ward. The physical and mental burden of this task is considerable, and recent challenges such as the growing shortage of nurses and increasingly diverse working styles have further complicated the scheduling process. Consequently, there is a growing demand for a…

I'm up to 109,977 CSP points, 87,182 United Miles, 30,000 Hyatt Bonus Rewards, and 102,218 Venture X miles. (It's the power of the Welcome Bonus.) By the end of the year, I want to get Hyatt up to 60,000 and then I should be able to cover hotels on the CSP and Hyatt points and cover airfare on the other two for two weeks in Japan. I'm travel-hacking the shit out of my 2026 trip.
#Travel #TravelHacking #CreditCardPoints

Kollege hängt gerade ein wenig in Japan ab.
Form und Name kommt mit entfernt bekannt vor. 😇😎🇯🇵

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00353 has been replaced.
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ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
The International Linear Collider was conceived as a global project for an energy-frontier electron-positron collider.It employs superconducting RF and nano-beam technologies with a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. Its cost was estimated in 2013, based on the Technical Design Report published in 2013.Japan's high-energy community proposed to host the ILC in Japan as a Higgs boson factory at 250 GeV in its first phase, and a revised cost estimate was conducted in 2017 to host it in Japan. Howev…

SAKURAONE: Empowering Transparent and Open AI Platforms through Private-Sector HPC Investment in Japan
Fumikazu Konishi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02124 ht…

SAKURAONE: Empowering Transparent and Open AI Platforms through Private-Sector HPC Investment in Japan
SAKURAONE is a managed high performance computing (HPC) cluster developed and operated by the SAKURA Internet Research Center. It reinforces the ``KOKARYOKU PHY'' configuration of bare-metal GPU servers and is designed as a cluster computing resource optimized for advanced workloads, including large language model (LLM) training. In the ISC 2025 edition of the TOP500 list, SAKURAONE was ranked \textbf{49th} in the world based on its High Performance Linpack (HPL) score, demonstrating its glob…

Sources: TSMC delays construction of its second plant in Japan, originally planned for early 2025, to invest in US expansion ahead of potential Trump tariffs (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

@… ah, yeah. Japan is frustrating if you're not an omnivore unfortunately :(

I have not seen it mentioned in the media....
From the point of view of those in Iran, the US has just assumed the same role that we in the US assigned to Japan on Dec 7, 1941 - The day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

If I can only tell my self of 16 years ago about 2020...
https://www.plurk.com/p/v9lt0

Japan will be the reason if ever the WHO raises the H1N1 outbreak to Phase 6
Plurk by seav - 12 response(s)

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H-Diplo Article Review 1197: Emery on Cummins, "American Cold War Strategy and the Absence of 'Swift…
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HumbleBundle.com have Usagi Yojimbo bundle.
Those are comic books about Rabbit Rōnin set (mostly) in Edo period (I have no clue what that period was🤦, but it sounds cool 😆)
If you like samurais, old Japan or rabbits, you might like this.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/us…

plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…

Still rocking this for my #WristCheck. I actually really like this one.
On the one hand there is a lot going on on that dial bit it remains readable and everything present serves a purpose. No extraneous text* or logos, so while it is busy, it's also clean.
* Ok, ok maybe the tiny "JAPAN MOVT" at the bottom is pointless but it's so small it's almost not r…

TSMC CEO C. C. Wei blames worsening traffic for delays in expanding its new Japan facility, and reaffirms plans to spend $100B in Arizona in the next five years (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

U.S. stocks extended losses after Donald Trump on Monday posted tariff letters to Japan and South Korea, respectively, on Truth Social,
❌threatening each country with a 25% tariff rate effective Aug. 1.
💥The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 478 points, or 1.1% to 44,345, nearing its session low;
💥The S&P 500 declined 54 points, or 0.9%to around 6,225;
💥The Nasdaq Composite lost 185 points, or 0.9% to 20,411.

A (westerner) #Japan #energy expert mixed up Inner Mongolia, #China with the country of Mongolia in an energy analysis.
Just a mind-numbingly stupid error that rendered the entire analysis wrong. And, as far as I…

Jamie Oliver Highlights ‘Important Connection’ Between Tofu And Longevity #nutrition

Jamie Oliver Highlights 'Important Connection' Between Tofu And Longevity
A travel video from Jamie Oliver highlights the “important connection” between high tofu consumption and longevity in Okinawa, Japan

#NowPlaying Happy regular Friday. It’s a perfect day for this recording of Jim O’Rourke live at Banana Hall in Osaka, Japan from *checks notes* 1999. https://archive.org/details/jim-o-rour

I asked Claude to change my avatar to have a Kimono to use while I am in Japan.
The result:

“This is another snake-oil salesman’s pitch to make him look good and reward the billionaires and millionaire executives and stakeholders for US Steel,”
said Doug May, who worked for 43 years as a steel worker at a mill in Granite City, Illinois, from the age of 19.
“He’s a proven flip-flopper.
Just look at his trade cases:
on again, off again.”
Trump ditched his opposition to the deal
– which Joe Biden blocked in January, citing national security concerns …

I offered to show my sisters how to build up 500k credit card points as an alternative to paying for travel (like I've been trying to do). They are not interested, though. I wouldn't blame them but they both want to come with to Japan next year.

There are quite a few #AsianAmericans or #AsianCanadians in #Japan.
Sadly, but not entirely unexpectedly, they're, just like their brethren back home, actively disinterested in Asian migrant …

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
Gerald Dugan, Andrew J. Lankford, Benno List, Shinichiro Michizono, Tatsuya Nakada, Marc Ross, Hiroshi R. Sakai, Steinar Stapnes, Nobuhiro Terunuma, Nicholas Walker, Akira Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00353

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
The International Linear Collider was conceived as a global project for an energy-frontier electron-positron collider.It employs superconducting RF and nano-beam technologies with a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. Its cost was estimated in 2013, based on the Technical Design Report published in 2013.Japan's high-energy community proposed to host the ILC in Japan as a Higgs boson factory at 250 GeV in its first phase, and a revised cost estimate was conducted in 2017 to host it in Japan. Howev…

The rate of descent did not slow as much as expected,
and the spacecraft probably made a hard landing.
The laser instrument that measured how high Resilience was above the surface was slow in making its measurements,
which may have contributed to the problem.
“At this point, we do not know clearly about the cause,”
Takeshi Hakamada, the chief executive of Ispace, said in translated remarks.
The loss of the second mission could lead NASA to rethink its pla…

Ispace of Japan’s Moon Lander Resilience Has Crashed
The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach Collegium Japan, Bach Collegium Japan Chorus & Masaaki Suzuki:
🎵 Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125 (Chorale Fantasia)
#JohannSebastianBach #BachCollegiumJapan #BachCollegiumJapanChorus
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Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries -- including Japan, South Korea and China -- contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews, Nikkei has found.
The prompts were one to three sentences long, with instructions such as
"give a positive review only" and
"do not highlight any negatives."
Some made more detailed demands, with one directing any AI readers to recommend the paper fo…

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

Japan scraps US meeting after Washington demands more defence spending (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/53f646e7-b4e7-4bf4-8d5d-7142b4460080
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p110#a250620p110

Indeed says CEO Chris Hyams is stepping down, replaced by parent Recruit Holdings CEO Hisayuki "Deko" Idekoba, who is returning to the role after six years (Chester Dawson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Noticing a lot more coughing people on trains in #Japan recently too. Bet it's surging here too #Covid #covid19

plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…

Another data point - flights to/from #Japan and the #UnitedStates #US are the cheapest I've seen since, basically, the border reopened to tourism back in 2022.

Shinichi Kobayashi has idyllic memories of growing up on Naoshima, one of the nearly 3,000 islands scattered across Japan's Seto Inland Sea.
"We would go clam digging," said the 75-year-old, who became the island's mayor in 2018.
"During the summer, I would spend entire days swimming in the sea, catching turban shells and fish, getting deeply tanned."
"I don't recall seeing any foreign visitors," he added.
Kobayashi's hom…

Setouchi Triennale 2025
The Setouchi Triennale is a contemporary art festival held every three years on the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.

EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX, a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Political turmoil in Washington has dried up job opportunities in what Professor Ladher calls
“the best research ecosystem in the world.”
Some decided they would now rather take their skills elsewhere, including Austria, Japan and Australia,
while others opted to stay in India.
As the Trump administration moves with abandon to deny visas,
expel foreign students and slash spending on research,
scientists in the United States are becoming increasingly alarm…

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.

Took a glance over at #Japan #Reddit to find a thread full of western #expats and #tourists complaining about