Europe crumbles.
"Europe stumbles in its attempt to bypass Trump’s global trade order
Ursula von der Leyen was supposed to sign the European Union’s largest free-trade agreement on Saturday, proving the bloc’s standing as a geoeconomic force."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/22/economy/europe-stumbles-trump-world-order/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
#uvdl #europe #mercosur #japantimes
https://get.mypost.to/NuNgzg
When I built my first website back in 1998, the internet felt expansive...
#socialmedia #bluesky #europe #japantimes
"Open protocols are not some utopian project. They are poised to upend the status quo of social media, creating a more democratic digital world. That is why European policymakers should designate these social-networking frameworks as critical infrastructure and invest in developing them."
cool but then: "Perhaps the best example is the AT Protocol, which serves as the foundation for Bluesky"
...not really I think.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/13/world/european-homegrown-social-media/
https://www.wacoca.com/tour/419475/ 【鉄道模型フェス2025】「さいたま鉄道模型フェスタ」に潜入！ジオラマレイアウトとオリジナル鉄道にマニアが集う！ #diorama #HO #HOゲージ #JamesRisner #japan #JapanTimes #jrahrig #kato #Kuga'sTravel #layout #lesics #Märklin #Mih #model #museum #Nゲージ #Railway #SHIGEMON #TheB1M #TomScott #tomix #tomytex #ToyKids★トイキッズ #Train #がっちゃんねる #カトー #がみ #ジオコレ #ジオラマ #スーツ #トミーテック #トミックス #ミュージアム #レイアウト #レオ☆スマイル #和気町 #岡山 #岡山ツアー #岡山県 #岡山県ツアー #岡山県観光 #岡山観光 #西園寺 #鈴川絢子 #鉄道 #鉄道模型
started a #wikipedia article on Austrian-born US art critic, Elise Grilli (1906-1969), who was based in #Japan after 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Grilli @wikiwomeninred @wikiasianmonth @wikipedia_la #JapaneseArt #JapanTimes #BarnardCollege #ColumbiaU
'First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.'
#JapanTimes #Akiya #RealEstate #Housing #Japan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/09/02/economy/akiya-renovations/
"Trump's VP pick signals stronger focus on #China" writes #JapanTimes. Oh really?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/17/world/politics/jd-vance-foreign-policy-focus/
This Republican platform is the first one since WW2 that makes no mention whatsoever of #Taiwan, even though Western economies critically depend on Taiwan for semiconductors and other supplies. Taiwan's security is the cornerstone of stability in Asia and a healthy world economy.
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@thejapantimes Calling #nuclearpower a #cleanenergy is totally ignoring the costs of disposing spent #nuclearfuel &, in the worst possible case, the oft unfathomable costs of cleaning a #nuclearmeltdown.
#Bloomberg is so full of industry hawks peddling biased pseudo-journalistic articles like this. After witnessing public Japanese taxpayers footing the billions of dollars expense to cleanup the #Fukushima #nuclearwaste fiasco, why does #JapanTimes still think it apt to syndicate such propaganda?
Aside from the headline, it’s nice to see #JapanTimes has an official #Mastodon account!
From: @thejapantimes
https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/110876094670869167
Predator – BBC Documentary on Johnny Kitagawa by Mobeen Azhar & Megumi Inman - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/live/t2SisAVaS-w
>PRESS CONFERENCEPredator – BBC Documentary on Johnny KitagawaMobeen Azhar, Journalist and filmmakerMegumi Inman, Documentary director and filmmaker* Speakers...
#BBC #JapaneseCulture #JohnnyKitaGawa #SexualAbuse #ChildAbuse #Documentary #Johnny&Associates #BBCJapan #BBCNews #BBCDocumentary #JapanTimes #Nhk
Government defends Japan's My Number ID system despite glitches | The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/10/national/my-number-wrong-certificates/
>Issuance of some documentation at convenience stores was suspended after users received copies of the residence certificates of other individuals.
> My first trip to #Japan ... was linguistics, purely, though on my own I met with people from #Beheiren (Citizen’s League for Peace in Vietnam). I’ve returned a number of times since, always to study linguistics. I was quite struck by the fact that Japan is the only country I visited — and there were many — where talks and interviews focused solely on #linguistics and related matters, even while the world was burning. #Chomsky #DavidMcNeil #JapanTimes
- https://chomsky.info/20140222/
