Marriages taking major blows, record hot summers changing Japanese vocabulary, and robots taking over jobs in convenience stores! Those are the topics for this week's episode of Small Talk Japan with Mitch and Alex!

Articles from this week's episode

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/08/e05251057991-japan-population-falls-at-record-pace-to-12593-mil-with-births-low.html

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/08/34e34c946290-japan-to-offer-omicron-covid-shot-to-at-least-twice-vaccinated-people.html

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/08/204718187dee-pandemic-delivers-major-blow-to-no-of-new-marriages-in-japan-study.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shinzo-abes-assassin-tetsuya-yamagami-succeeds-in-plot-to-expose-japans-deep-ties-with-unification-church

https://soranews24.com/2022/08/10/very-limited-sale-of-glasses-that-can-halt-or-reverse-nearsightedness-begin-in-japan/

https://soranews24.com/2022/08/06/japan-weather-association-creates-new-words-to-describe-merciless-summer-heat/

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/08/10/national/crime-legal/homemade-gunpowder-embassy-man/

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/08/10/business/corporate-business/familymart-telexistence-robot-shelf-stocker/?cx_testId=23&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=1&cx_experienceId=EX6QPK02ECGS&cxTrackingId=%7Bkpdx%7DAAAAq26pSa3zbAoKYldPV1NkaFhwahIQbDZuNnJoeXQ1bjVtajdoehoMRVg2UVBLMDJFQ0dTIiUxODdpM2tvMGQ4LTAwMDAzMGs2OHVyZ3JlMzRqZ2dwOHZ1NW5rKiJzaG93UmVjb21tZW5kYXRpb25zVE8xNk4zMVFHQlY5S1laUhJ2LW0A8Bp1bnltOXN1MXZaDzExNC4xODguMjEzLjIwMmIDbWljaI-u0pcGcAF4GA#cxrecs_s

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