2026-02-04 14:06:01
„Nioh 3“: Japan sehen und sterben
Brutal, aber ehrlich: In „Nioh 3“ von Team Ninja erwartet die Fans ein temporeiches wie schwieriges Actionspektakel im alten Japan.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Nioh-3-Japan-se<…
„Nioh 3“: Japan sehen und sterben
Brutal, aber ehrlich: In „Nioh 3“ von Team Ninja erwartet die Fans ein temporeiches wie schwieriges Actionspektakel im alten Japan.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Nioh-3-Japan-se<…
Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
Japan and the Octopus Trap of Modernity (file under: Takotsubo is not only a cardiac disease)
https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/2021/6/10/cgq5rildc4mxhatmak817jxn3f9bef
Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…
🤑 Nearly Half of Young Japanese Workers Spend Big on Fandom Activities
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/young-japanese-workers-spend-big-on-idol-fandom/
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…
Kirschblütenvorhersage 2026: https://wanderweib.de/tipps-kirschblueten-kalender-vorhersage-japan/
Meanwhile, in Japan:
A bicycle won a professional wrestling championship!
The bicycle named: "HyperMi Dramatic Dream", which was 'modified' by Hyper Misao (A wrestler) ran over Shoko Nakajima (another wrestler) and long enough to get the 3 count.
HyperMi Dramatic Dream became the 1799th DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion.
Their reign would be short-lived, as Mahiro Kiryu would pin the bicycle to regain the championship.
TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan; sources say that is an upgrade from an original plan to produce 7nm chips by late 2027 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/ts…
[Rescheduled to December 12] Professor John Breen - Ise Now: Shrine, Myth, Nation in 21st Century Japan https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133860/rescheduled-december-12-professor-john-breen-ise-now-shrine-myth<…
I told you - she's one of dem Good Billionaires!
#AllBillionairesAreEvil
Gosh, how inconvenient that tourists have to deal with cultural differences that don't cater to them. 🙄
☑️ Tourists in Japan Are Baffled: Where Are the Trash Cans? - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/tourists-in-japan-are-b…
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…
Urban Flexitarians Are Driving Japan’s Vegan Tuna Boom, Says New Report https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/urban-flexitarians-japan-vegan-tuna-boom/
Japan prepares for threats – defense budget rises to historic high #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/26/japan-prepares-for-threats-defense.html
We're halfway through the post-Thanksgiving week, and the cyber news machine is cranking back up again, so check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Indian government retreats from spy app mandate,
--US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website,
--Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced,
--Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims,
--Korea's Gmarket hit by string of una…
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.
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
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/
Trotz DMA-artigem Gesetz: Epic bietet „Fortnite“ weiter nicht in Japan an
Apple setzt in Japan die Öffnung seiner iOS-Plattform und seines App Store um. Epic-Boss Tim Sweeney reicht das aber noch nicht: "Fortnite" bleibt draußen.
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…
Blueberry species (genus Vaccinium) circled the Northern Hemisphere to travel from North America to Hawai'i— and then closed the loop to hybridize with a North American species
#science
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…
#Japan startet eine Tiefseemission zur Förderung von #SelteneErden, um die Abhängigkeit von #China zu verringern.
Das Forschungsschiff Chikyu soll mineralhaltigen Schlamm aus 6 Kilometern Tiefe n…
Western Tatami Mat Mania Keeping Alive Japan’s Traditional Woven Grass Flooring Industry https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/western-tatami-mat-mania-keeping-alive-japans-traditional-woven-grass-flooring-industry/
"Japan’s AI Reforestation Drones Plant Forests Ten Times Faster Than Humans"
#Japan #Trees #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
🛀 Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry
https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/japan-launches-human-washing-machine-for-public-use-after-expo-success-9721446
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/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki:
🎵 'Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde', from Cantata BWV201
#JohannSebastianBach #BachCollegiumJapanChorus #BachCollegiumJapan
他鯖からFedibirdに来た人は、出身サーバをお気に入りドメインに設定しておくといいよ。
お気に入りドメインはメニューに追加されるので、WebUIからワンクリックで辿れるようになる。
こいつは購読と違って、ホームやリストに流すのではなく、ドメインで絞り込んだ連合タイムライン(ドメインタイムライン)への導線なんだ。
サーバに蓄積されている過去投稿も全部みられるので、閉鎖されたサーバの投稿も遡れる。
なお、ドメインタイムラインは他にも導線があって、リモート投稿の右下の…から開くメニューからも辿れるから、試してみるといいよ。
ただし、対象ドメインの投稿数によっては、クエリーが凄く重いときがあるので、壊れた感があります。激重なだけでそのうち出てきたりするのでよろしくです。
mastodon-japan.net の人とか、試してみるといいよ。
@…
Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build "Trump Industrial Parks" in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-ma
From Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Poland
to Taiwan and Japan,
potentially vulnerable nations are all drawing the same uncomfortable conclusion from the past year
—that survival in Trump’s new world order no longer depends on old-fashioned U.S. guarantees
but on making yourself too painful to attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly acknowledged in December that NATO membership,
a cornerstone of his country’s strategic aspirations since th…
[Rescheduled to December 12] Professor John Breen - Ise Now: Shrine, Myth, Nation in 21st Century Japan
https://ift.tt/1j0IE6D
Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
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From predator to plate: Japan's bear crisis sparks culinary craze - The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/08/japan/japan-bear-crisis-sparks-culinary-craze/
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
Regulierung: Alternative App-Stores in Brasilien – und umstrittene Apple-Gebühr
Nach der EU und Japan sowie teilweise Südkorea und den USA muss Apple auch in Brasilien das iPhone öffnen. Entwickler sind nur semibegeistert.
Japan Ruling Party Proposes Cutting Subsidies for Solar Projects | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/japan-ruling-party-proposes-cutting-subsidies-for-solar-projects
Japan testet Abbau Seltener Erden aus der Tiefsee
Japan will seine Abhängigkeit von chinesischen Seltenen Erden verringern und sucht nach einer Möglichkeit, sie im eigenen Land zu fördern.
https://www.
Oh, Japan-Feinkost in Hamburg schließt. Schade.
https://youtu.be/cwxRdsLed6o
aus der reihe "spezielle spezialprobleme in den sprachen der welt" heute: "Verwirrende Wegbeschreibungen im Japanischen": https://japan-almanach.de/blog/verwirrende-wegbeschreibungen-im-japanischen/ 🤪
Japan's Cabinet OKs record defense budget that aims to deter China (Mari Yamaguchi/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/japan-defense-spending-china-missile-221b2cb5da0760d6e07f63ac01deba93
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p8#a251226p8
Sandisk and Kioxia announce a five-year extension of their JV manufacturing contract from 2029 to 2034; the new deal involves SanDisk paying Kioxia $1.165B (Ryo Mukano/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/sem…
Japan Review 40 published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136358/japan-review-40-published
U17-WM im Ticker: - LIVE: Österreich gegen Japan um Halbfinal-Einzug #News #Nachrichten
Back in 2018, I took the Maglev between Longyang Road and Pudong Airport. The route was so short that the train was only able to get to it's top speed for something like a minute before it had to start slowing down again. The new Chuo Shinkansen is supposed to go from Tokyo to Osaka and be faster than the Shanghai Maglev. I think that's really cool.
#Trains #Maglev #Japan
Another loft pottery find; the back says 'Hand painted', 'Made in Japan' but nothing else; as far as I can find out there were a bunch of Japanese studios doing imagined desert scenes from 1920-1950s. I can't find an exact match, but there are loads of similar ones depending on the painters mood I guess.
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s oddly retro (to Western eyes) websites, China’s reverse engineering of top-spec chipmaking equipment and North Korea’s ill-gotten crypto hoard.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/japa
iPhone-Regulierung: Warum Apple mit Japan besser klarkommt als mit Europa
In Japan tritt am 18. Dezember ein Gesetz in Kraft, das dem Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europa stark ähnelt. Trotzdem ist Apple entspannt. Woran liegt das?
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…
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…
In #Japan hat das Goto-Konsortium unter Führung von Toda den kommerziellen Betrieb des ersten schwimmenden #OffshoreWindparks des Landes aufgenommen.
Die 16,8 MW starke Anlage vor #Nagasaki
Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Japan Review 40 published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136359/japan-review-40-published
"Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature #Environment
China cites Biden’s message to Xi
that Japan could build nuclear weapons ‘overnight’
Beijing releases 30-page report that includes a call for international community to
‘take concrete and strong measures’
against Japan’s nuclear ambitions
https://…
Musk's Grok AI Faces Scrutiny From Japan Over Sexualized Images | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/musks-grok-ai-faces-scrutiny-from-japan-over-sexualized-images
Japan Review 40 published
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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
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…
Apple unveils iOS changes in Japan to comply with local law, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/17/japan-app-store-feature-updates/
🗾 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
🇺🇦 #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
From a podcast "#Japan has one of the longest lived and healthiest populations in the world, and let #Japanese startups are playing a relatively small role in the recent #longevity-
A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy
-- but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster,
residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain
Activity around the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant is reaching its peak:
workers remove earth to expand the width of a main road,
while lorries arrive at its heavily guarded entrance.
When all seven of its reactors are working, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa generates 8.2 gigawatt…
@… The Prime Minister has the power to dissolve the House of Representatives in Japan, and in most cases a general election (for all seats) is held before the end of the term. This is the largest and most important election in …
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…
Dental hygiene key to predicting mortality, Japanese researchers find - The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/05/japan/science-health/elderly-dental-hygiene/
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…
Japan Review 40 published
https://ift.tt/WS5ofJD
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"Japanese Scientists Recycle PTFEs with Electron Beam Plastic Recycling"
#Japan #Recycling
https://happyeco…
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…
🍚 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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Japan Review 40 published
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Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
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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.…
How Japan's viral horse racing game Umamusume, developed by Cygames, passed 30M downloads in Asia, spurring anime adaptations, concerts, and new racetrack fans (Katria Alampay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
SoftBank Group Corp was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on Dec. 18, as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed into the Asian markets (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/japan-tech-stocks-plun…
Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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-…
Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/tech-…
Tim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is "charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments" (Tim Sweeney/@timsweeneyepic)
https://x.com/timsweeneyepic/status/2001494517996732598
Honda plans to halt production in Japan and China from December 29 to January 6, showing the ongoing fallout of the global chip shortage and Nexperia takeover (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/chip-s…
Morgan Stanley: UK companies reported that AI led to 8% net job losses over the past 12 months, above Japan's 7%, Germany's 4%, Australia's 2%; the US added 2% (Irina Anghel/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