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Two Buddhist monks, Ryokan and Santoka, separated by decades but both with a knack for expressing their chosen paths in prose. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/14/japan/history/ryokan-santoka-zen-monks-history/ #japan #history #zen #buddhism #ryokan #santokataneda #meijiera #poetry

The Joy of Zen – Part 2: Poetry

Ryokan and Santoka lived in different times, connected by a knack for words but polar opposites when it came to the monk's life they both chose.
Michael Hoffman (The Japan Times)
#History #japan #poetry #zen #buddhism #ryokan #santokataneda #meijiera

"From the beginning of the pandemic through the fall of 2023, the last period for which we have good comparative data, real #wages in both #Europe and #Japan fell. In #Germany, workers lost 7 percent of their purchasing power; in #Italy, 9 percent. By these metrics, the only workers in the entire developed world who are meaningfully better off than they were four years ago are #American ones."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/us-economy-excellent/678630/

#Economics #Economy #Biden #Bidenomics #US #USA #UnitedStates #News

The U.S. Economy Reaches Superstar Status

No, really.
RogΓ© Karma (The Atlantic)
#economy #News #Germany #Europe #USA #us #japan #Biden #Italy #economics #UnitedStates #american #bidenomics #wages

Sensoji Temple, Asakusa, Tokyo, 2020 by Shin Noguchi

@photography
#Japan

#japan @photography group

Your species is in large numbers this year.
I've never thought of you as stinky and most of all I love the hexagonal shape of your body.

#Brownmarmoratedstinkbug #kusagikamemushi #insects #hexagon #japan

#japan #insects #hexagon #brownmarmoratedstinkbug #kusagikamemushi

Former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will be one of key players in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's coming leadership race as a candidate backed by him could draw broad support from nonmainstream members of the party. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/11/japan/politics/japan-ldp-suga-key-player/ #japan #politics #yoshihidesuga #ldp #fumiokishida #shigeruishiba #shinjirokoizumi

Suga likely to be key player in LDP leadership race

Suga hopes to back a figure that can turn around the party from its woes linked to a political funds scandal, sources said.
The Japan Times
#politics #japan #yoshihidesuga #ldp #FumioKishida #shigeruishiba #shinjirokoizumi

Abacus

#Kyoto, #Japan

Donn Delson

@photography
#trees

#japan #trees #kyoto @photography group

Candy Apple

#Kyoto, #Japan

Donn Delson

@photography
#trees

#japan #trees #kyoto @photography group

45% of Japanese living abroad feel lonely: government study
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/b99f004eb8d7-45-of-japanese-living-abroad-feel-lonely-govt-study.html #psychology #expatriates #loneliness #japan #language

45% of Japanese living abroad feel lonely: government study

Nearly 45 percent of Japanese nationals living abroad feel lonely at times, a recent government survey showed, with areas lacking strong Japanese community ties believed to contribute to higher feelings of isolation.
KYODO NEWS (KYODO NEWS+)
#japan #language #psychology #loneliness #expatriates

For the first time in Japan, a local government recognized same-sex spouses on a residence certificate as a common-law marriage. Now, it looks like other governments may follow suit in a move that could pressure Japan's central government to act on marriage equality.

https://buff.ly/3V819ao

#japan #Unseenjapan #ujwebsite #lgbtq #lgbt #equality #marriageequality

In First, Gay Couple in Japan Wins Common Law Marriage Designation - Unseen Japan

For the first time in Japan, a local government recognized same-sex spouses as a common-law marriage. It could start a trend.
Jay Allen (Unseen Japan)
#japan #equality #LGBTQ #lgbt #unseenjapan #marriageequality #ujwebsite

I've been a little absent from Masto for a while and I just noticed that I missed it. Our lovely creative exchanges. I've been in Japan for a couple of weeks and will be here for almost a couple more, and travel does what travel does. Brings magic, but not in the ways I might have expected, but that's how magic works, right? It does what it will.

#Japan #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MacroPhotography #Photography

A blurry windy black and white macro shot into branches of a Japanese maple tree
Black and white photo of Japanese maple leaves in a garden
Black and white macro shot of Japanese maple leaves
#photography #japan #naturephotography #blackandwhite #MacroPhotography

Sunlight filtering through the trees highlighting the fallen leaves on the forest floor of a mountain trail on a beautiful morning in Yufuin, Oita, Japan.

#photography #japan #travel #kyushu #yufuin #yufudake #nature #trees #leaves #lightandshadow #okinawa_photo_community #photosonmastodon #γƒžγ‚Ήγƒˆε†™ηœŸιƒ¨ #pixelfed

#photography #nature #pixelfed #japan #travel #trees #leaves #okinawa_photo_community #lightandshadow #γƒžγ‚Ήγƒˆε†™ηœŸιƒ¨ #kyushu #photosonmastodon #yufudake #Yufuin

Japanese Company Plans to Build a Tower Into Space by 2050
https://www.sciencealert.com/japanese-company-plans-to-build-a-tower-into-space-by-2050 #astronomy #SpaceTravel #SpaceElevator #Japan #nanotubes

Japanese Company Plans to Build a Tower Into Space by 2050 : ScienceAlert

Imagine aΒ long tetherΒ linking Earth to space that could launch us to orbit at a fraction of the cost and slingshot us to other worlds at record speed.
Business Insider (ScienceAlert)
#astronomy #japan #spacetravel #spaceelevator #nanotubes

I removed a whole person because I cough this face πŸ₯² and I don’t have enough sport knowledge to describe what’s going on here

https://goodtalk.cc/posts/2024/0607

#DailyPhoto #Tokyo #Japan #Photography #γƒžγ‚Ήγƒˆγƒ‰γƒ³ε†™ηœŸιƒ¨ @photography

Playground

Good Talk
#photography #japan #tokyo #dailyphoto #γƒžγ‚Ήγƒˆγƒ‰γƒ³ε†™ηœŸιƒ¨ @photography group

Just a picture of Covid being over in Japan.

See the grey line? It flatlined when the government decided to throw all Covid data collection out the window, told that Covid was over, and when people started to stop masking.

See the red line? That's the excess mortality rate.

I wonder what is happening.

#Covid #Japan

#COVID #japan

A white-tailed eagle in Hokkaido that was infected with bird flu has been successfully treated with a human antiviral drug and released back into the wild, marking a world-first recovery. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/06/japan/science-health/japan-bird-flu-treatment/ #japan #sciencehealth #birdblu #birds #endangered #hokkaido #medicine #health #environmentministry

White-tailed eagle treated with human drug returns to wild

After having been released in the wild in February, subsequent tracking verified that the bird was successfully living independently in its natural habitat.
The Japan Times
#health #birds #medicine #japan #sciencehealth #endangered #birdblu #hokkaido #environmentministry

Osaka police are looking to freeze some 1,300 bank accounts opened by a group conducting a money laundering operation involving at least $450 million over seven months in 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/05/japan/crime-legal/money-laundering-accounts/ #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #osaka #moneylaundering

Osaka police looks to freeze 1,300 accounts in money laundering bust

Typically, such police requests are made on an individual basis, but in this case the police have taken the unusual step of requesting a blanket freeze.
The Japan Times
#japan #moneylaundering #crimelegal #osaka #japanesepolice

From today until June 19 you can watch 23 Japanese films and 2 TV dramas for free online at the Japanese Film Festival 2024 in 27 countries. There is drama, comedy, romance, LGBTQ+, classics, SF and a new talents horror film competition.

Lineup and schedule:

https://jff.jpf.go.jp/watch/jffonline2024/

#Japan #Movies #Letterboxd #Japanese

JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL ONLINE 2024 | JFF+

The Japanese Film Festival Online 2024 - the third edition of the event and the largest one ever - will be held for a month by the Japan Foundation.
JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL ONLINE 2024 | JFF+
#movies #japanese #japan #Letterboxd

#Biden’s admin has worked to prevent the #war in #Gaza from igniting a broader regional conflict. He brokered the 1st trilateral summit w/long-distrustful regional partners #SouthKorea & #Japan, & coaxed the #Philippines to move away from China’s orbit & accept 4 new #US military bases. He has rallied countries in #Europe & #Asia to curtail #China’s economic sway. β€œWe have put together the strongest #alliance in the history of the world,” Biden says….
#ForeignPolicy #geopolitics #BidenHarris2024
#Europe #China #war #us #japan #Biden #SouthKorea #philippines #asia #geopolitics #Gaza #bidenharris2024 #foreignpolicy #alliance

First #Meta only allowed top users (like @whitehouse) to show up in the #Fediverse.

Now any public #Threads account (from #USA / #Canada / #Japan ?) can decide to show up / post in the Fediverse.

But can #Fedi users show up / #post to threads??? πŸ€”

Doesn't seem very fair & "fediverse-#filosophy ;)" to me :pixelfed: :mastodon:

"You're now sharing TO the fediverse."
Doesn't sharing go both ways? 🀝

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(social_network)#Possibility_of_open_interoperability

#socialmedia #social #ActivityPub #pixelfed #mastodon #tech #philosophy

Screenshot of the Threads.net setting "Fediverse sharing BETA"
Threads settings screenshot of the notification: You're now sharing to the fediverse.

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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#fediverse #pixelfed #activitypub #mastodon #USA #tech #japan #canada #social #socialmedia #meta #philosophy #fedi #post #threads #filosophy @The White House

The young figs are swelling up

#figs #fruit #rain #silentsunday #japan

#japan #rain #silentsunday #fruit #figs

#FotoVorschlag
'S, wie...' Sonnenuntergang

#Fotografie #Enoshima #Japan #Sonnenuntergang #Meer #CANON6DMark2

#fotografie #japan #Sonnenuntergang #FotoVorschlag #meer #canon6dmark2 #enoshima

Did you know that there is a 1:1 scale replica of the world-famous #Shibuya Scramble intersection that can be rented by TV and film productions located 80 km northwest of Tokyo in the city of #Ashikaga? The real intersection is so busy that nobody can close it down for controlled filming.

This set was notably used in the hit Japanese TV series Alice in Borderland.

Location in OSM: https://osm.org/go/7Q9Mdm_mk?m=

#DYK #Tokyo #Japan

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
OpenStreetMap
#japan #tokyo #shibuya #ashikaga #dyk

Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01493-8 #japan #science #research #OpenAccess #MEXT

Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape

Japan will start allocating the Β₯10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read.
Singh Chawla, Dalmeet
#science #japan #research #openaccess #mext

Sydney Solis interviews Japan specialist Steve McCarty during her most recent sojourn in #Japan. He summarizes a #legend of a #woman #diver and explains its ancient #history, wholly based on original source research in #Japanese. Then both authors interpret its rich #symbolism in terms of depth #psychology. Among their conclusions is that #archetypes in the story, such as the #divine #feminine, activated by the natural #symbolism of #diving into the depths, could help #heal our modern alienation of the #mind from the #body and #nature.

Solis, S., & McCarty, S. (2024, May 30). Healing symbolism in the Japanese legend of the woman diver. Sydney in Osaka: Living the Mindful Life in Japan.
Academic content only: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381003736
Academic content plus photos and more commentary by Ms. Solis:
https://sydneyinosaka.wordpress.com/2024/05/30/healing-symbolism-in-the-japanese-legend-of-the-woman-diver

#healing #wholeness #folklore #mythology #women #divers #Jung

@mythology @psychology


Healing Symbolism in the Japanese Legend of the Woman Diver ζ΅·ε₯³

An interview with Japanologist Professor Steve McCarty, applying a Jungian perspective to the Japanese legend of The Woman Diver.
Sydney In Osaka
#History #nature #japanese #japan #Women #woman #psychology #folklore #mythology #diving #healing #legend #diver #mind #symbolism #archetypes #divine #feminine #heal #body #wholeness #divers #jung @psychology group @mythology group

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#FotoVorschlag

Der eine oder andere #Volkswagen in #Tokio / #Japan, hat sicher auch schon bessere Tage gesehen.

Alter, rostiger, weiß/beiger VW Bulli von schrÀg vorne.
Alter, rostiger, weißer VW KÀfer von schrÀg hinten. Die Reifen sind platt. Das Innere mit Holzbalken gefüllt.
Alter, rostiger, weißer VW KÀfer von schrÀg vorne. Die Reifen sind platt. Das Innere mit Holzbalken gefüllt.
#japan #FotoVorschlag #volkswagen #tokio

Tokyo police have arrested a 25-year-old man from Kawasaki for allegedly creating malware using generative artificial intelligence tools available for free online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/28/japan/crime-legal/man-arrested-malware-generative-ai/ #japan #crimelegal #ai #japanesepolice #computerviruses

Kawasaki man arrested over malware made using generative AI

The suspect is thought to have failed to obtain a program needed to put the malware into practical use, so the police believe that it did not cause any damage.
The Japan Times
#ai #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #computerviruses

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