Japan Wut 108 "Brain-Bio Digital Twins"

ON THIS INSTALLMENT…DONATE: PAYPAL.ME/JAPANWUT … We cover how Japanese telecoms plan to turn your brains into digital twins, why the weak yen is attracting trashy tourists, and how the UN turns Japan’s would be brilliant engineers into weirdos who want to make us eat bugs.SHOW NOTESNEW PRODUCTYamaha adopts wood-based reinforced resin for watercraftSOCIETY 5.0Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged FrontierQuantum Computing Startup-Nanofiber Quantum Technologies Secures $8.5m FundingJapan to develop brain bio-digital twin technology Japanese school students see how AI can help farmingJapan/DEMOGRAPHICSShibuya mayor says 'Don't come' for HalloweenJapan labor market set for change as huge worker shortage loomsEDITORIAL: College student quota shortfalls threatening the nation’s futureChinese in Tokyo (Japanese Article)86% of municipalities across Japan want more foreign workers: surveyOne in 10 Japanese are older than 80: gov't dataWARXi’s security obsession turns Chinese citizens into spy huntersUkraine will ask Japan to help with anti-drone technologyJapan-Britain defense cooperation pact to take effect in OctEAT THE BUGSCould crickets be the "optimal solution" to avoid food shortages? [Part 1] / Mr. Seiya Ashikari, representative of cricket food “Ecology”