Tootfinder

Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028 (Ryo Mukano/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/s…

Micron to invest $9.6bn in western Japan to make AI memory chips
US company's decision enables Japan to secure domestic access to key components

The $550 Billion Shadow Budget: Trump's Japan Deal and the Disappearing Appropriations Clause (Scott Levy/Just Security)
https://www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump-japan-deal-appropriations-clause/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p142#a251030p142

I think I got uninvited to be a guest on a podcast run by an expat in #Japan because she didn't like a post where I called convenience store #food #unhealthy & the same as eating fast food.

Cyberattack on Japanese beer giant Asahi limits shipping, call center operations https://therecord.media/asahi-japan-cyberattack-limits-shipping-call-centers

Japans neuer Raumtransporter dockt an die ISS an
Fünf Jahre lang war Japan auf andere Raumtransporter angewiesen. Jetzt kann die Jaxa wieder selbst Versorgungsgüter zur ISS bringen.
https://www.

https://tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/ghosts-in-the-newsroom-how-abes-japan

Ghosts In The Newsroom: How Abe's Japan Became Trump's Blueprint
Japan had Trump before America did: Shinzo Abe, grandson of a war criminal, muzzled the press, bullied broadcasters, and faked statistics. Now Trump, The GOP, and Disney are replaying the script

🗾 Heatstroke patient numbers jumped in cooler Hokkaido and Tohoku this summer
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/08/japan/heatstroke-cases-rising-in-hokkaido-and-tohoku/
🈚

Heatstroke patient numbers jumped in cooler Hokkaido and Tohoku this summer
In Hokkaido, the number of heatstroke patients rose 1.7-fold from the previous year, while Aomori Prefecture saw a 1.53-fold rise and Akita Prefecture saw a 1.42-fold rise.

From the neoclassical station entrance
— with its massive emerald-green sliding steel doors, pyramid-like roof and domed ceiling
— to the wide concrete staircases leading down to the cool, musty underground platform and tracks, the station exudes a peculiar mix of mystery and urban decay.
“Be careful, there’s iron dust, mud and oil everywhere,” says Mamoru Iwai,
Keisei Ueno Station’s stationmaster and my guide inside Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station,

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

Looking forward to #ISWC2025 in Nara, Japan, which starts tomorrow morning with workshops & tutorials. Perfect opportunity to meet old and new friends! We have several contributions by the @… team starting already tomorrow morning with the

Bank account: "Did you just book hotels in Japan?"
Me: "oh i did"
Seems like I'm going to japan, next year!
#japan #travel #asia

Here's an interesting take on disappearing bookstores. In Japan, some stores are leasing bookshelves.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/27/japan/society/japan-bookstore-shelves-lease/

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…

Auch wenn schon wieder etwas Zeit vergangen ist, für die Interessierten noch Website-Empfehlungen zur Planung einer Japan-Reise:
Die Seite https://wanderweib.de/ war eine Schatztruhe wertvoller Hinweise und Empfehlungen.
Mit

How Jensen Huang, who engaged little in politics until 2024, is using his newfound star power to strike deals in Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and elsewhere (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/179cc3bb-9d03-49a4-af20-049b03875379

wenn der typ der in japan die messer schmiedet wüsste dass er 40 jahre lang unter strenger disziplin sein handwerk erlernt und perfektioniert hat damit ich bei der rewe treuepunkte aktion eines seiner messer für 1€ abstaube

For railway enthusiasts and ruin hunters alike,
these so-called "phantom stations" that have ceased service
offer a glimpse into Tokyo’s past.
Hidden from daily view and often closed to the public, they mark moments of transition in the capital’s transit history
— from the early years of railway and subway construction to the rapid postwar rebuild.
More than curiosities, they stand as weathered industrial records of how Tokyo has expanded, reconfigur…

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

"Historisch wird in Japan kein wirklicher Unterschied zwischen der Wahrnehmung der #Farben #blau und #grün gemacht. Eventuell könnte dies das an der Insellage und dem umgebenen Meer liegen, das meist wie eine Mi…

ARMimic: Learning Robotic Manipulation from Passive Human Demonstrations in Augmented Reality
Rohan Walia (Department of Computer Engineering, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence), Yusheng Wang (Department of Precision Engineering, Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering), Ralf R\"omer (Department of Computer Engineering, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence), Masahiro Nishio (Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan), Angela P. Schoellig (Departm…

ARMimic: Learning Robotic Manipulation from Passive Human Demonstrations in Augmented Reality
Imitation learning is a powerful paradigm for robot skill acquisition, yet conventional demonstration methods--such as kinesthetic teaching and teleoperation--are cumbersome, hardware-heavy, and disruptive to workflows. Recently, passive observation using extended reality (XR) headsets has shown promise for egocentric demonstration collection, yet current approaches require additional hardware, complex calibration, or constrained recording conditions that limit scalability and usability. We pre…

from my link log —
Pezy SC: Japan is still investing in custom floating point accelerators.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/09/04/why-is-japan-still-investing-in-custom-floating-point-accelerators/
saved 202…

Why Is Japan Still Investing In Custom Floating Point Accelerators?
It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now,

Oh, Japan-Feinkost in Hamburg schließt. Schade.
https://youtu.be/cwxRdsLed6o

Japan: Drohnen vergrämen Bären mit Hundegebell und Feuerwerkskörpern
Die zunehmende Anzahl von Bären in Japan stellt ein Problem für die Bevölkerung dar. Die Stadt Hida setzt Drohnen ein, um Bären fernzuhalten.

In talks with Xi and Takaichi, Trump looks to strike a delicate balance (Jesse Johnson/The Japan Times)
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/25/japan/trump-xi-taiwan-china-us-japan-analysis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p69#a251125p69

Apples Siri kann ausgetauscht werden – zunächst in Japan und via Seitentaste
Apple folgt einer Anweisung der japanischen Regierung und macht es demnächst möglich, Siri-Alternativen direkt aufzurufen.

A Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay a ~$3.2M fine to four major Japanese publishers for its role in hosting servers for manga piracy sites (The Japan Times)
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/japan/crime-legal/cloudflare-manga-piracy/

Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Four major publishing firms accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.

Holy... this is singularly the most Japanese news article ever. Bravo Japan Times! 😂
"Tell me your position on Japanese politics without telling me your position on Japanese politics."
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rddeinqb45gzem…

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…

Ukraine reacts to YouTubers’ arrest in Japan's Fukushima nuclear zone: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/27/ukraine-reacts-to-youtubers-arrest.html

https://finimize.com/content/ransomware-snarls-muji-and-loft-online-orders-in-japan
Ransomware Snarls Muji And Loft Online Orders In Japan

Understanding Digital Gifting Through Messengers Across Cultures: A Comparative Study of University Students in South Korea, China, and Japan
YeEun Lee, Dakyeom Ahn, JungYu Kwon, SeungJi Lee, Hajin Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16932

Understanding Digital Gifting Through Messengers Across Cultures: A Comparative Study of University Students in South Korea, China, and Japan
Digital gift-giving has become a key means of maintaining social relationships, but most existing research has focused on gifting within global e-commerce or social media platforms. The emergence of messenger-based gifting in East Asia, where Korea, Japan, and China each have distinct and deeply rooted gifting traditions, remains underexplored. This study examines how in-app gifting services on the most widely used messaging platforms in South Korea (KakaoTalk), Japan (LINE), and China (WeChat)…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Japan:
🎵 Quiet Life
#Japan
https://brasslampedits.bandcamp.com/track/japan-quiet-life-brass-lamp-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GTcfdzY73zsDINXbBzV7B

United States-Japan Framework (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/10/united-states-japan-framework-for-securing-the-supply-of-critical-minerals-and-rare-earths-through-mining-and-processing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p50#a251028p50

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to start building a second plant in Hokkaido in fiscal 2027, aiming to make advanced 1.4nm chips as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors…

Japan's Rapidus to build cutting-edge 1.4-nm chip plant in race with TSMC
Construction to begin in fiscal 2027, production to start as early as 2029

JPYC gibt an den Yen gekoppelten Stablecoin heraus
In Japan ist eine neue Kryptowährung gestartet. Sie ist an die Landeswährung gekoppelt.
https://www.heise.de/news/JPYC-gibt-an-den

Flavor-changing signatures of spacetime-symmetry violations
N. Sherrill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21641 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21641

Flavor-changing signatures of spacetime-symmetry violations
This proceedings contribution discusses Lorentz and CPT violation in the context of charged-lepton flavor-changing processes. Particular emphasis is placed on coherent muon-to-electron conversion in muonic atoms. Data collected by the SINDRUM~II experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute is used to extract constraints on mass dimension $d=5$ electromagnetic and $d=6$ quark-lepton effects. The Mu2e experiment at Fermilab and COMET experiment at the Japan Proton Accelerator Complex are projected t…

#Japan 🇯🇵 finally got their first female PM! Unfortunately, I don’t like most of her far-right political views, such as opposition to same-sex marriage, desire to amend Japan’s pacifist constitution, support for anti-immigration policies, and downplaying of Japanese war crimes.

U17-WM im Ticker: - LIVE: Österreich gegen Japan um Halbfinal-Einzug #News #Nachrichten

Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/fact-check-trump-japan-troops
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p122#a251028p122

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki:
🎵 Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen (Canata BWV.215)
#JohannSebastianBach
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qyjrkWsbFPC58fIb04MKi

Japan's 2026 Oscar entry Kokuho grosses more than $111M, breaking the country's 22-year-old box office record for a domestic live-action film (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25…

目に留まった記事。最近 Threads の日本語の投稿を眺めていると、そのまま X の雰囲気を引き継いでいるような気がするね。
https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/82753

Threadsのユーザー数がついにXを上回る、公開から2年で初めて | Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブス ジャパン）
メタが提供するテキストSNSのThreads（スレッズ）が、モバイル端末における世界の日間アクティブユーザー数（DAU）でX（旧ツイッター）を上回ったことが、調査会社Similarwebのデータで明らかになった。Xユーザーが抱える不満を解決...

Japanese #ISS crew member Kimiya Yui watching the successful launch of the new unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft (HTV-X1) in Japan an hour ago - picture by Michael Fincke via https://x.com/Astro_Kimiya/status/1982242064977850552

Indiana governor Mike Braun announced today that he is calling a special session to consider redrawing congressional districts in the state, the latest Republican state to work on its maps ahead of 2026.
Indiana is one of several Republican-led states that the Trump administration has pressured to undertake mid-decade redistricting to favor Republicans,
-- which began with a push in Texas to redraw lines to add Republican seats.
“I am calling a special legislative session to…

Holy... this is singularly the most Japanese news article ever. Bravo Japan Times! 😂
"Tell me your position on Japanese politics without telling me your position on Japanese politics."
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rddeinqb45gzem…

REMINDER: Influenza has everything needed to kill people every year and produce a global pandemic every few decades forever. What keeps it at a low “just the flu” level is vaccination. One thing that kept the most recent surges from being more like 1918 is the CDC. What is left of the CDC is inadequate to that task. https://m…

Japanese regulators' plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is spurring a record number of startup buyouts in Japan, while IPOs slump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-20/de…

Deals for Startups Reach Record in Japan Before Listing Curbs
A plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is spurring a record number of buyouts of young companies in Japan, reflecting Tokyo’s push to create more billion-dollar startups to better match the country’s global standing in scientific research.

New projection technique improves flood warning systems in face of climate uncertainty. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Enhanced projection technique addresses flood warning amid climate uncertainty
The uncertainty surrounding flood risk is a major cause for concern and an obstacle to adaptation. According to researchers from Japan, their new statistical method increases the accuracy of flood risk projections across about 70% of Earth's landmass.

Figured it was finally time to watch Audition (オーディション, 1999) today. Always meant to.
#horror #Japan

Audition (1999)
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

In #Japan wurden innerhalb einer Woche über 10.000 Menschen wegen hitzebedingten Erkrankungen ins #Krankenhaus eingeliefert.
Besonders betroffen sind ältere Menschen ab 65 Jahren. Die Temperaturen überstiegen an 318 Messpunkten die 35-Grad-Marke. In 37 Orten wurden neue Rekordwerte registrie…

10,000 taken to hospital in week for heat-related illnesses in Japan - The Mainichi
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Over 10,000 people in Japan were taken to hospital due to heat-related illnesses over the course of a week in July, marking the highe

So @… reminded me of something I kind of love. The Japanese "30-hour system". Used in nightlife, broadcasting, and transport, the time extends the day past midnight to keep late-night events grouped with the same calendar day. So a club open from 11PM to 1AM might list its hours as 23:00–25:00.
We should all adopt this!
Sadly Wikipedia does n…

"Japanese Scientists Recycle PTFEs with Electron Beam Plastic Recycling"
#Japan #Recycling
https://happyeco…

Japanese Scientists Recycle PTFEs with Electron Beam Plastic Recycling | Happy Eco News
Electron beam plastic recycling breakthrough from Japanese scientists cuts Teflon recycling energy use by 50%, transforming forever chemicals into valuable gases at commercially viable costs.

Trump inspires a new wave of nationalism -- from Japan to Argentina (Daniel McCarthy/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/27/opinion/trump-inspires-a-new-wave-of-nationalism-from-japan-to-argentina/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p44#a251028p44

Japan slaps new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/12/japan-slaps-new-sanctions-on.html

1st Place - Ibara High School 2021 Japan High School Nationals (Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics)
Wow, all the empty seats.
https://youtu.be/9akUtO_3Npw?si=7B7sX6nDT5AI2pVs

🗾 Japan’s new PM faces sumo-sized dilemma: will Takaichi defy the sport’s ban on women?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/12/japan-pm-sumo-wrestling-ban-women

Japan’s new PM faces sumo-sized dilemma: will Takaichi defy the sport’s ban on women?
Women are banned from entering the ‘sacred’ dohyo. Sanae Takaichi is undecided on whether to attend a trophy presentation later this month

Die japanische NHK-Partei hat ihren Anhängern versprochen, sie müssten keine #Rundfunkgebühren für den Sender #NHK zahlen. Man hat einen juristischen Trick versprochen, um den Mahnungen zu entgehen. Zur Not würde die Partei aufkommen.
Nun sind einige Jahre vergangen, die Partei ist in d…

"Ghost of Yotei": Wenn der Wind weht
Im Open-World-Abenteuer "Ghost of Yotei" begleiten die Spieler eine Kriegerin auf einem blutigen Rachefeldzug durch das Japan des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts.
https://www.

Unprecedented marine heat waves amplified record-breaking 2023 East Asian summer, study finds #Asia

Unprecedented marine heat waves amplified record-breaking 2023 East Asian summer, study finds
In the summer of 2023, East Asia, including Japan, experienced record-breaking temperatures and humidity, accompanied by unprecedented marine heat waves in the surrounding seas. Although the simultaneous occurrence of atmospheric and marine heat waves has drawn global attention in recent years, the mechanisms through which the 2023 marine heat waves influenced land-based heat waves and the magnitude of this influence have remained unclear.

https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cybersecurity/hack-on-japan-brewer-asahi-claimed-by-qilin-ransomware-group
Hack on Japan brewer Asahi claimed by Qilin ransomware group

Hack on Japan brewer Asahi claimed by Qilin ransomware group
Platform allows users to carry out attacks in exchange for a percentage of extortion proceeds

The #Japan #media #cooperative, @…, I've been working with for 2 y…

H-US-Japan: New Book: Cooperative Evangelist: Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888–1960
https://ift.tt/8URdtz6
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
via Input 4 RELCFP

Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/376199/japan-jpyc-launches-yen-stablecoin

Japan's New Prime Minister Has an Advantage in Winning Over Trump (Javier C. Hernšndez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/world/asia/japan-trump-takaichi.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p73#a251027p73

Japan ermahnt OpenAI wegen Urheberrechtsverstößen KI-generierter Anime-Videos
Sora 2 erzeugt KI-Videos auch mit Anime-, Manga- und Spielcharakteren. Die japanische Regierung will das nicht länger dulden und stellt OpenAI zur Rede.

Japanese retailer Askul halts online orders, shipments after ransomware attack https://therecord.media/askul-japan-retailer-cyberattack-disruption

Mit Knörer, Engelmeier und Schulze in einem mehrgeschossigen Berghotel. Holz, Schrägen, Knarzen, Wasser tropft. Der Aufzug packt uns nicht alle, Knörer muß zu Fuß ganz nach oben. Einem anwesenden Literaten scheißt eine Taube auf den Kopf; er fängt sie. Alte Umzugskisten von mir aus Japan in einem großen Raum, darin angebrochene Champagnerflaschen, Brillen, Bücher, ein VHS-Tape mit "Der Schwimmer". Wir bestellen Aperitive und Appetizer, Schulze Salat. Einige von uns 1/2

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…

Von Luxusmarke: Neue iPhone-"Socke" nahezu ausverkauft
Issey Miyake, Nobelbrand aus Japan, hat Apple eine Smartphone-Tasche aus Stoff geschneidert. iPhone Pocket verkauft sich offenbar gut.
https://www.…

Yikes, so much cybersecurity news, so little time. Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--SpaceX pulls the plug on 2,000 Myanmar scam compounds' Starlink devices,
--PhantomCaptcha phishing campaign targeted critical Ukraine orgs,
--OpenAI is laid back on Atlas prompt injection flaws,
--Ransomware cases soar in Japan,
--N. Korean hackers have pilfered billions according to monitors,
--N. Korean ha…

SpaceX pulls the plug on 2,000+ Myanmar scam compounds' Starlink devices
PhantomCaptcha phishing campaign targeted critical Ukraine orgs, OpenAI is laid back on Atlas prompt injection flaws, Ransomware cases soar in Japan, N. Korean hackers have pilfered billions according to monitors, N. Korean hackers target drone makers, LG Uplus reports breach, much more

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Joe Hisaishi, New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra & Joe Hisaishi:
🎵 Doves and the Boy / The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
#JoeHisaishi #NewJapanPhilharmonicWorldDreamOrchestra

Freitag: Millionen für deutsches Raketen-Start-up, Japan gegen OpenAIs KI-Videos
Finanzierung einer Weltraumrakete Kritik an Anime-Videos von Sora 2 Lyft expandiert international Sprachbedienung von Windows 11 Datenschutz-Podcast

15 minutes til the launch of a new unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft (HTV-X1) aboard the 7th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F7) to the #ISS in Japan: webcast with English commentary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEq84QrSEA

With the impending arrival of Typhoon #OpongPH (#Bualoi) and the recent protests against corruption in government-funded flood control projects, the recent release of the 2025 World Risk Report, with its topical focus on flooding, is very timely.
And to the surprise of no one, the

Legacy news sources in #Japan aren’t doing their part in engaging younger audiences. I sat down with Japan Today to discuss why the new generation is turning to #TikTok clips and #Line updates instead of

🏃🏻‍♀️ Why Is Japan Still Investing In Custom Floating Point Accelerators?
https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/09/04/why-is-japan-still-investing-in-custom-floating-point-accelerators/

Why Is Japan Still Investing In Custom Floating Point Accelerators?
It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now,

Trump threatens to send 'more than National Guard' to US cities (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5576016-trump-national-guard-deployment-speech-japan/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p41#a251028p41

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…

Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/a…

Sakana AI takes crown as Japan's most valuable unicorn
AI developer valued at $2.63bn in latest funding round

The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them "irreplaceable treasures" (Verity Townsend/IGN)

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World - IGN
The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.

Trump, After Call With China's Xi, Told Tokyo to Lower the Volume on Taiwan (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/trump-after-call-with-chinas-xi-told-japan-to-lower-the-volume-on-taiwan-3af795d6?st=zbK7Me&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251126/p116#a251126p116

Donald Trump has bizarrely claimed he didn’t approve of the massive ICE raid of a Hyundai manufacturing plant in Georgia.
“I was very much opposed,”
the MAGA leader told reporters aboard Air Force One,
en route to Japan as part of his wider diplomatic tour of Asia.
Hyundai is a major South Korean car manufacturer.
On Oct. 29, Trump will meet with its President, Lee Jae Myung, who has previously blasted the raid.
She warned the action would have severe con…

Trump Hammers His Own ICE Goons to Suck Up to Foreign Leader
He is slamming ICE over a raid at a U.S. Hyundai plant as he prepares to meet with South Korea’s president.

Einhörner unter Notebooks: Fujitsu-Modelle mit Wechselakku & Blu-ray-Laufwerk
Fujitsu zeigt in Japan, dass auch leichte Notebooks einen einfach wechselbaren Akku haben können. Ein 16-Zöller kommt zudem mit optischem Laufwerk.

Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028 (Hajime Tsukada/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

Japan readies $3.6bn for Micron to make cutting-edge DRAM
Subsidies cover memory development, mass production at Hiroshima plant

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki:
🎵 Auf, schmetternde Töne der muntern Trompeten (Cantata, BWV.207a)
#JohannSebastianBach #BachCollegiumJapan #MasaakiSuzuki

(Alltags)Dinge, die ich von #Japan *nicht* vermissen werde:
- nervige Jingles in allen Bahnhöfen und Bahnen, Geräuschüberflutung generell
- (fast immer) überfüllte Bahnen und Busse
- Kleine Zimmer
- sehr restriktive Rauchverbote und sehr versteckte Raucherbereiche
- Der soziale Druck, man könne ständig in ein Fettnäpfchen treten

"Silent Hill f" angespielt: Das Horror-Comeback des Jahres
Mit "Silent Hill f" wagt Konami einen Neustart in Japan und trifft mit einer persönlichen Reise durch eine zerbrechliche Teenager-Seele genau ins Schwarze.

Someone shared an article written by a visitor to #Japan that started by calling Nishinomiya - a city of nearly 500,000 in #Hyogo, near #Kobe a "neighborhood on the outskirts of

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…

🥃 Edo Kiriko: Shimmering Art for Your Table
#japan

Edo Kiriko: Shimmering Art for Your Table
Edo kiriko glassware is one of Japan’s most coveted crafts, prized for its complexity and beauty — here's where to buy it.

General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Joe Hisaishi, Joe Hisaishi, Joe Hisaishi, New Japan Philharmonic & Kim Hong-Je:
🎵 One Summer's Day (From 'Spirited Away')
#JoeHisaishi #NewJapanPhilharmonic #KimHongJe

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…

🍚 Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/new-rice-crop-competition/
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Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices
Competition to secure new-crop rice is intensifying, pushing up the provisional payments that agricultural cooperatives advance to growers.

Bilal Karakus, 36, is a native of Sanliurfa, Turkey,
and has lived in Japan since 2015.
He manages his own food truck,
Bilo Kebab, and serves kebabs usually around Musashi-Kosugi and Okurayama stations in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, as well as at festivals and events.

The Japanese government says it formally requested that OpenAI refrain from infringing on Japanese IPs, such as anime, calling them "irreplaceable treasures" (Verity Townsend/IGN)

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World - IGN
The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copyrighted characters from anime and video games.

About Trump's Foreign Investment Funds (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-foreign-investment-funds-japan-south-korea-tariffs-trade-f3f1e04f?st=8rHxJB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p9#a251022p9

Singapore-based used car marketplace Carro raised $60M led by Japan sovereign wealth fund Cool Japan Fund to promote Japanese cars in the Asia-Pacific region (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapores-c…

SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f6edb22a-0b19-4073-9e28-ec29b096dde3

Sony launches cheaper Japan-only PlayStation 5 console
Region-locked version at 25% discount in move to boost domestic sales

Foxconn Chair Young Liu says the company will spend $2B to $3B per year in AI in the next three to five years and is discussing potential investments with Japan (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra