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For @nytimes I wrote about Japan's 'Sound Princess' toilet noise-canceling tech entering men's rooms. With comments by @TheDonnaBurke @kenmogi nytimes.com/2025/12/02/rea…

China’s leading robot company, Unitree Robotics, has filed for an initial public offering in Shanghai, moving a step closer to a domestic listing as investor interest in the sector builds. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#Japan-US summit: Takaichi’s task will be to fend off Trump's anger with promises of investment and purchases of US oil, and the possibility of help in the Middle East — after the #Iran conflict is over thetimes.com/world/asia/art…

Nothing special to see, just a robot walking its robotic dog in Shanghai

Politico - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that the near shutdown of Voice of America was illegal and has ordered the government to reinstate more than 1,000 people who were placed on leave from the media organization. politico.com/news/2026/03/1… ift.tt/ODFmlLN

Japan air force's new Kawasaki EC-2 electronic warfare plane has a unique look

South Korea gives King Lear a K-pop happy ending: A director has reimagined the Shakespeare tragedy, but as history shows he isn’t the first to tweak the masterpiece thetimes.com/world/asia/art…

@TheNightflyWJAZ What a devil, that LaRue

Steely Dan "The Second Arrangement" Gaucho (Unreleased) MCA Records (1980)

Across Japan, sushi restaurants are updating their websites & advertising with new rules in English: no perfume. “Perfume is a problem,” Chieko Tanaka, who advises foreigners in Japan on cultural etiquette, says. “We Japanese don’t wear it.” thetimes.com/world/asia/art…

[Emergency alert] North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile. More updates to follow.

Little old lady using what she thought was a hammer to open nuts etc was actually a hand grenade…

Well, Canada built a strategic maple syrup reserve🇨🇦

"Compared with the near-Dickensian Detroit auto factory that I toiled at in the 1980s, the stunning facility is a veritable MOMA: a modern museum of manufacturing art." Inside #Hyundai’s cutting-edge Metaplant in Ellabell, Georgia spectrum.ieee.org/hyundai-metapl…

Memorial event held to mark 81st anniversary of Tokyo air raid japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/1…

@james_riney No mention of the consequences of Japan's past military adventures or how people in Japan may feel about it happening again? Here's a protest the other day in front of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, right around the corner from Dai-Ichi Life

The Empire of Japan, ca 1936: Articles online here andthings.exblog.jp/21094765/

🇯🇵 Former Fukushima worker devotes life to pets abandoned after nuclear disaster Not far from the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, former power plant worker Toru Akama now dedicates his life to the pets left behind in the wake of the triple disaster in March 2011.

1,500-word CBC News article on shipment of live horses from Canada to Japan for slaughter doesn't explain that the animals end up as horse sashimi. Japanese media: 無関心 @karenpaulscbc cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is shooting lava fountains up to 1,000 feet, and falling ash and volcanic fragments are forcing temporary closures on the Big Island. The fountaining that began Tuesday morning marked the eruption's 43rd episode since it began in December 2024.

Emergency Tokyo subway evacuation on 3/11/2011

Big windfall for the Japanese gov't. Hard to swallow along with fingerprinting foreign residents (taxpayers) on every reentry. Never understood why as fingerprints don't change