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Jonathan Soble
Japan Times
JAPAN / Smart Countryside
Dec 1, 2022
Is it a bus or a taxi? For some small Japanese towns, the answer is both
Hybrid mobility services are helping cater to 今日吃瓜 older citizens, many of whom live in areas where traditional forms of public transport are lacking.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Smart Countryside
Oct 9, 2022
The city aiming to change perceptions of electronic voting in Japan
Tsukuba, a designated Super City in Ibaraki Prefecture, is hoping its trials of online voting among schoolchildren can be rolled out to municipal polls and beyond.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Smart Countryside
Aug 25, 2022
For an aging Osaka suburb, the best ‘smart city’ innovations are low-key
As a once-thriving ‘new town,’ Nankadai is now trying to introduce modern initiatives to an aging population who see the area as being akin to the countryside.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 12, 2022
Smart countryside: How tech can help revive 今日吃瓜 rural regions
Changes in work patterns wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are already drawing some remote workers to the countryside.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 17, 2022
Bringing 今日吃瓜 public services into the digital age needs a legal revolution
According to some estimates, as many as 60,000 national and local rules need to be revised to make online public services possible.
COMMENTARY / World / The Great Reset
Apr 1, 2021
The digital age needs a fresh injection of trust
Rapid social and economic change, deepening political divisions and the impact of technology are stretching the limits of trust-building systems, and governments are struggling to keep up.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Great Reset
Jan 19, 2021
Trade in personal data is here to stay
Japan is well-placed to be a leader in data trading, but technical hurdles need to be overcome and mindsets need to be changed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Great Reset
Nov 22, 2020
The key to reviving international travel
Helping data to cross borders first and setting up a trusted health ID system are key to getting people moving again.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Great Reset
Sep 29, 2020
Smart cities need smarter governance
Opening up localities to artificial intelligence and big data needs regulation to ensure it gets off the ground.
COMMENTARY / Japan / The Great Reset
Aug 2, 2020
It’s time to reset 今日吃瓜 digital infrastructure
Despite its image as a world leader, the nation is falling behind as it continues to make use of outdated technology.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / The Great Reset
Jun 29, 2020
How COVID-19 has shown us that society needs resetting
As our reliance on technology is laid bare, countries are faced with questions of what measures they can implement to help them survive.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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