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Highly-organized pro-Trump demonstrations have been taking place in some of Japan's largest cities as a part of a thriving “J-Anon” (QAnon in Japan) movement. In a series of tweets, Jeffrey Hall, a scholar specializing in right-wing politics who teaches at Waseda University, documented a relatively large pro-Trump “stop the steal” rally on January 6 in Tokyo, hours before Trump supporters on the o
A commercial for Takasu Clinic, featuring Takasu Katsuya (left) and Japanese viral entertainment sensation Pikotaro (right). So far, the YouTube upload of the TV commercial has been viewed more than 1.2 million times. Screencap from official Takasu Clinic YouTube channel. NOTE: Since this article was published, Takasu Clinic has removed the video from YouTube. A prominent Japanese cosmetic surgeon
Nick Kapur, a US-based professional historian specializing in Japan, has made a map of Japanese stereotypes of European countries, based on Japanese Google autocomplete suggestions. Not every country in Europe was represented by Japanese-language Google autocomplete: @XENON312O @MegaMogwai I searched for Slovenia but unfortunately the autocomplete didn't return any non-tourism related results in J
Discrimination against other nationalities and cultures has often been at the root of conflicts and hatred around the world. That said, do we really know how racism starts and how we can stop it from spreading? The following courageous confessions of former supporters of racist discourse in Japan may give us some insight into the questions. Twitter user @New-OC-MAN confesses that it was her loneli
In a recent newspaper column in the print edition of Sankei Shinbun, noted Japanese author and conservative political activist Ayako Sono advocated that immigrants to Japan be separated by race and forced to live in special zones. Sono wrote the article amidst ongoing debate on whether or not to increase immigration rates to Japan in the face of an ageing population. Hiroko Tabuchi, formerly the N
Instagram co-tag graph, highlighting three distinct topical communities: 1) pro-Israeli (Orange), 2) pro-Palestinian (Yellow), and 3) Muslim (Pink). Visualization created from Gephi. If you’re rooting for Israel, you might have seen videos of rocket launches by Hamas adjacent to Shifa Hospital. Alternatively, if you’re pro-Palestinian, you might have seen the following report on an alleged IDF sni
This post is part of our special coverage Tunisia Revolution 2011. Human rights activist Moncef Marzouki, 66, has been elected as Tunisia's new interim president today. The opposition figure, who has been imprisoned and exiled under the regime of former President Zeine El Abidine Ben Ali, will stay in power until the new constitution of the country is drafted, and legislative and presidential elec
Why are Japanese companies losing their programming talent? There are no lack of discussions on the topic, but far fewer first-person perspectives. Blogger/programmer Ryo Asai (@ryoasai74) and his blog “Becoming a Master Programmer” provide one. After working for seven years at a Japanese IT company in the system integration sector, Asai recently decided to apply for a position at Amazon Japan, an
In recent days many media outlets have widely publicized news about a video by Anonymous Mexico threatening the Zetas cartel as a response to the kidnapping of one the former's members during #OpPaperStorm (‘Operation Paper Storm’) in Veracruz. Queremos que sepan que han secuestrado a uno de nuestros miembros mientras realizaba #opPaperstorm en nuestra ciudad. Exigimos su liberación [..] Queremos
In 2008, a movie was released in Japan with the title “Genkai in a Black Company”, depicting the life of a 26-year-old struggling to make a living in the gruelling conditions a so-called “black company”. The term is Japanese slang for companies with long hours, dreadful working conditions and miserable pay that exploit their employees beyond the legal limit — last-ditch options for those who can't
When IT consultant, author and developer Isseki Nagae titled an October 11, 2011, post on his blog “Why Japanese manufacturers keep losing to Apple, in the words of Steve Jobs” [jp], he probably knew he would draw some flak for it. Many of those who came to the post through Hatena, where it was bookmarked over two thousand times, no doubt expected to find some insights from the former Apple CEO on
This page is part of our special coverage Japan Earthquake 2011. People in Japan have been unplugging their lives as electricity saving measures have been implemented to cope with power shortages. At present only 19 out of 54 nuclear reactors at power plants are operating and the government has been urging citizens – particularly those living in Eastern Japan – to reduce energy consumption in orde
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This post is part of our special coverage on the Japan Earthquake 2011. Just under a week after Japan was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami on a scale never before witnessed in the country's history, a new man-made threat has overshadowed the natural catastrophe and sent waves of panic around the world. At Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor in Fukushima Prefecture, a brave group of wo
This post is part of our special coverage Japan Earthquake 2011. Personal stories of survival are beginning to be told by bloggers in the aftermath of the earthquake that shook Japan on Friday 11 March, 2011. One such example is Chikirin, who shared her experience of the earthquake on March 13, 2011, with the post “On Catastrophes and Miracles” (大惨事とミラクル). She was on a business trip from her home
This post is part of our special coverage of Tunisia Revolution 2011. Slim Amamou, a 33-year-old Tunisian blogger, programmer and activist, made the headlines back in January 18th, 2011, when he was appointed Minister for the Youth and Sports in the interim government of his country, following the toppling of the dictatorship of former autocrat, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In this interview to Global
Lying lazily in the shadow of an umbrella on a beach, being a tourist and wandering around the streets of an unknown city with a guide book in your hands, or just relaxing at home enjoying free time. Common ways of spending a holiday perhaps, however, many Japanese forego these every year in order to miss as few days of work as possible. According to a survey by Expedia Japan that examines the ‘Va
1月16日17時半。14時半から実家の書斎にとじこめられている。外出間際に物音がしたので書斎に入ったら、そのままドアが 壊れて外に出られなくなった…。書斎代わりにつかっている小さな部屋でカラダが抜けられる窓はない。六畳間で南にドア（壊れてあかない）、北に窓（鉄格子 があってでられない）、東が壁、西にクローゼット。 携帯は部屋の外、電源と繋がっていないノートPC（バッテリー残一時間半／無線LANでインターネット接続は可能ですが電波が微妙）、デジカメ（バッテリー微妙）、プラスドライバー、仕事で使っている部屋なので定規やペン、紙といった一式の筆記用具が手元にあります。いい脱出方法はありますか？寒い。 January 16, 17:30. I am locked in my house's study since 14.30. I heard a noise coming from outside
Reporter Yuka Okada from the Japanese tech news site ITmedia brandished her well-regarded interviewing skills for a one-on-one session with Mochio Umeda. The result was “The Japanese web is ‘disappointing': An interview with Mr. Mochio Umeda” Part One and Part Two [ja]. In reaction, the Japanese blogosphere had to give their two cents about Umeda, Hatena, and the Japanese web. Part One of this art
A volunteer translation project sprang up and translated all of Mochio Umeda's book “Watching Shogi from Silicon Valley – Habu Yoshiharu and Modern Times” (シリコンバレーから将棋を観る-羽生善治と現代) into English in under a week. Yoshiharu Habu is a highly-respected professional shogi (also known as Japanese chess) player. Easily the most recognizable figure in all things shogi, he is regarded by some as the ultimate
What if one day Jesus and Buddha descended to Earth to spend their holidays? And what if they lived together in a cheap apartment in Tachikawa, in western Tokyo? This is what Hikaru Nakamura (中村光) [jp], a young Japanese manga author, was thinking of when he she came up with Saint Oniisan (聖☆おにいさん [jp], lit. Saint Young Men), a manga published in the monthly magazine Morning 2 (モーニング２) in 2007 that
“On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” — The words of a well-known adage dating back to a New Yorker cartoon from 1993 have been interpreted and re-interpreted, acting over the years as a starting point for debates on privacy and online anonymity. In Japan, a country with one of the world's most popular online bulletin boards, the limits of this adage have become clear in recent years, high
See all those languages up there? We translate Global Voices stories to make the world's citizen media available to everyone. Learn more about Lingua Translation » On the 16th of January a group of protesters gathered outside Shinjuku station (one of the most crowded stations in Tokyo) to denounce Prime Minister Aso and his cabinet. While others in the group were distributing handbills to passers
Britty at Brittys Wake gives suggestions to Japanese about how to learn a foreign language [ja]. “There are two things that are absolutely necessary if you want to learn a foreign language. The first is time, and the second is skill in using your native language.” On the need for time, Britty writes: “Just like gymnastics, swimming, driving and cooking, [languages] are not hard once you're used to
The Fall of the Japanese Language in the Age of English [ja], the latest book by Japanese novelist and essayist Minae Mizumura [水村美苗] [en], roused debate among many Japanese bloggers recently over the fate of their national language. In this book, the writer, who had the opportunity to live and receive an education both in Japan and in the U.S., examines the role and future of the Japanese languag
At E.L.H. Electric Lover Hinagiku, blogger y_arim reacts to a news article [ja] in Yomiuri shimbun reporting that popularity of the elderly in Japan is on the rise among young people [ja], writing that he's rarely seen news so gross. “At the heart of the grossness is the fact that this is spoken about just like any other trend,” he writes. “In other words, for young people ‘the elderly’ are the sa
In a post entitled “Google, the anti-social corporation” [ja], former Mainichi journalist and writer/blogger Hiroyuki Fujishiro [藤代裕之] at Gatonews picks up on an ongoing series of posts [ja] by blogger and security researcher Hiromitsu Takagi [高木浩光] criticizing Google's handling of the roll-out of its Street View service in Japan. Fujishiro notes that while business aspects of Google are generally
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