ON THIS INSTALLMENT…

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… We cover how Japanese telecoms plan to turn your brains into digital twins, why the weak yen is attracting trashy tourists, and how the UN turns Japan’s would be brilliant engineers into weirdos who want to make us eat bugs.

SHOW NOTES

NEW PRODUCT

Yamaha adopts wood-based reinforced resin for watercraft

SOCIETY 5.0

Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier

Quantum Computing Startup-Nanofiber Quantum Technologies Secures $8.5m Funding

Japan to develop brain bio-digital twin technology 

Japanese school students see how AI can help farming

Japan/DEMOGRAPHICS

Shibuya mayor says 'Don't come' for Halloween

Japan labor market set for change as huge worker shortage looms

EDITORIAL: College student quota shortfalls threatening the nation’s future

Chinese in Tokyo (Japanese Article)

86% of municipalities across Japan want more foreign workers: survey

One in 10 Japanese are older than 80: gov't data

WAR

Xi’s security obsession turns Chinese citizens into spy hunters

Ukraine will ask Japan to help with anti-drone technology

Japan-Britain defense cooperation pact to take effect in Oct

EAT THE BUGS

Could crickets be the "optimal solution" to avoid food shortages? [Part 1] / Mr. Seiya Ashikari, representative of cricket food “Ecology”