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🐴 Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-firehorse-superstition-uncover-women-japan.html

Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
The rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates across developed East Asian societies strain pension and health care systems, threaten economic growth, and reshape entire societies. To tackle this issue, governments in Japan and across East Asia have invested heavily in pronatalist measures, but often with limited success. For instance, Japan's government has repeatedly expanded childcare subsidies and parental leave provisions, yet the total fertility rate hit a record low of 1.20 in 2024.

Ensitrelvir, an oral inhibitor of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 3C-like protease,
is approved in Japan for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Previously, no antiviral agents were approved for postexposure prophylaxis in household contacts of patients with Covid-19.
The study was conducted from June 2023 to September 2024 in Argentina, Japan, South Africa, the U.S., and Vietnam. About 9% of people who receiv…

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-2…

There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative.
Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person.
German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.
And then there’s the Japanese word tsundoku, which perfectly describes the state of my apartment.
It means buying books and letting them pile up unread.
The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the M…

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.

There is a reason why I bought two washlets after my 2024 trip to Japan.
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