Podcasts about The Asahi Shimbun

Saturday marked the 38th anniversary of a gun attack on the Asahi Shimbun major Japanese daily's Hanshin bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, that killed one reporter and seriously injured another.

Last time we spoke about the Jinzhou Operation and Defense of Harbin. After the Mukden Incident, Zhang Xueliang, despite commanding a large army, was pressured into non-resistance against Japan. As tensions escalated, the Japanese bombed Jinzhou to intimidate Zhang Xueliang and the Kwantung Army prepared to invade. By January 1, 1932, Zhang's forces retreated, marking a significant loss for China. Meanwhile, Ma Zhanshan emerged as a resistance hero, navigating complex alliances against Japanese aggression. In the face of Japanese aggression, Ding Chao rallied forces in Harbin, a crucial city in Northeast China. Together with Ma Zhanshan and other generals, they formed the Kirin self-defense army to resist the Japanese advance. Despite fierce battles, including victories at Shuiqu and Shulan, the Japanese ultimately launched a full-scale assault. After intense fighting, Harbin fell on February 5, 1932. The resistance crumbled, leading to Ma Zhanshan's defection and the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo.   #143 The January 28th Incident Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. In the words of Ron Burgundy, “phew, Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast”. Ishiwara Kanji unleashed the Mukden Incident, beginning a series of military conflicts. The Kwantung army invaded all three provinces of Manchuria, Ma Zhanshan tried to fight back at Heilongjiang, Ding Chao at Harbin and Zhang Xueliang at Jinhouz. All of this culminated in the conquest of Manchuria and the establishment of the new puppet state of Manchukuo. Yet another significant conflict also broke out in Shanghai of all places.  Now before we start this one I want to point out there are a lot of bias issues with how this incident began. It is known as the January 28th Incident or the First Battle of Shanghai. There are a few arguments as to how exactly it began, but the two main narratives are as such. During the invasion of Manchuria, anti-Japanese demonstrations broke out across China, particularly in large cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou. In most Japanese sources, these demonstrations got out of hand, requiring military action to defend Japanese citizens and property in Shanghai. Now as for Chinese sources, and I will say it here, I place a lot more credibility on the Chinese side on this one, during the Invasion of Manchuria, the League of Nations passed resolutions to get the Japanese to withdraw their troops and many of the members expressed support for China. Although the United States was not a member of the League, Secretary of State Stimson issued a "non-recognition" note in response to Japan's occupation of Jinzhou, aiming to pressure Japan. This isolation in the international arena heightened anxiety within the Japanese government and military, prompting them to seek conflicts in other regions of China to divert attention from their invasion of Manchuria.  Now a lot of trouble had been stirred up in Shanghai ever since the Mukden Incident broke out. Shanghai's business community initiated a boycott of Japanese trade, significantly impacting Japan's coastal and Yangtze River shipping industries. To give one example the "Nissin Steamship Company" halted all operations since the incident. Between July 1931 and the end of March 1932, Japanese merchants in Shanghai reportedly suffered losses amounting to 41,204,000 yen . To give you an idea, in 1930, Japanese goods accounted for 29% of Shanghai's average monthly imports, but by December 1931, this figure had plummeted to 3%. On October 5, 1931, the Japanese government convened a cabinet meeting, resolving that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would issue a stern warning to the National Government, with the Foreign Minister and Navy Minister overseeing the issue of ship deployment. Shanghai was the key hub for Western powers in China. It was here they made significant investments and maintained strong commercial interests in the region. The political and economic dynamics among these powers were intricate. Shanghai held the largest amount of foreign settlements and concessions. Any outbreak of war in Shanghai would inevitably capture international attention and prompt intervention from nations with vested interests, such as Britain, the United States, and France.  On October 1, Tanaka Takayoshi, the assistant military attaché at the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai and head of the Shanghai Secret Service, was summoned to Shenyang by Colonel Seishirō Itagaki who told him "Our next move is to occupy Harbin and make Manchuria independent. We have sent Colonel Doihara to pick up Puyi. If we succeed, the League of Nations will have a big fight and the Tokyo government will have a headache. I want you to do something in Shanghai to divert the attention of other countries. When you cause a commotion, we will take Manchuria." Tanaka promised to complete the task and said that he was "training an excellent spy who can bribe Chinese troublemakers in Shanghai to start this fake war".  Itagaki then withdrew 20,000 yen from the Kwantung Army's secret service funds and provided it to Tanaka for operational purposes. Now here it gets wild. Tanaka took the funds and paid a Japanese female spy named Kawashima Yoshiko, known also as Jin Bihui, but whose birthname was Aisin Giori Xianyu with the courtesy name of Dongzhen, meaning “eastern jewel”. Yes Manchu royalty, to be more precise the 14th daughter of Shanqi a Manchu prince of the Aisin Gioro clan of the former Qing Dynasty. Shanqi was a descendant of Hooge, the eldest son of Hong Taiji, it all comes full circle sometimes. After the Xinhai revolution, Xianyu was given up for adoption in 1915 to her fathers friend Naniwa Kawashima, a Japanese spy and adventurer. Thus here she took the name Yoshiko Kawashima. She was raised in Tokyo and excelled at judo and fencing. In 1922 he biological father Shanqi died and as Manchu royal tradition dictated, her biological mother committed suicide to join her husband in death. On November 22nd of 1925, Yoshiko stated the she “decided to cease being a woman forever”. Henceforth she stopped wearing a kimono, undid her traditional female hair style and took a final photo to commemorate “my farewell to life as a woman”. That same evening she went to a barbershop and got a crew cut and from there went to a men's clothing store. A photo of this dramatic transformation appeared 5 days later in the Asahi Shimbun under the headline "Kawashima Yoshiko's Beautiful Black Hair Completely Cut Off - Because of Unfounded 'Rumors,' Makes Firm Decision to Become a Man - Touching Secret Tale of Her Shooting Herself". This title was in reference to a prior scandal where she allegedly shot herself in the chest with a pistol given to her by Iwata Ainosuke. Historians believe it is much more likely she chose to become a man because of the death of her parents, failed romances or possibly sexual abuse from her foster father. Kawashima would go on to explain to a new reporter two days later "I was born with what the doctors call a tendency toward the third sex, and so I cannot pursue an ordinary woman's goals in life... Since I was young I've been dying to do the things that boys do. My impossible dream is to work hard like a man for China, for Asia." She was in fact something of a tomboy in her youth, despite being quite beautiful.  Now obviously the times being the times, those close to her were, lets just say not very receptive to this dramatic change. Thus in November of 1927, at the age of 20, her brother and adoptive father arranged her marriage in Port Arthur to one Ganjuurjab, the son of the Inner Mongolian Army General Babojab, who had led the Mongolian-Manchurian Independence Movement in 1911. The marriage lasted only three years, ending in divorce. Following this, she left Mongolia and began touring coastal cities of China before adopting a bohemian lifestyle back in Tokyo, where she had relationships with both men and women. She then moved to Shanghai's foreign concession, where she met the Japanese military attaché and intelligence officer Ryukichi Tanaka. This takes us back to our story at hand.  On the afternoon of January 18th, 1932, Yoshiko Kawashima orchestrated an incident by enlisting two Japanese Nichiren monks and three other Japanese supporters to stir up trouble at the Sanyou Industrial Company headquarters on Mayushan Road, located near the East District of the Shanghai International Settlement. The group of five Japanese individuals watched the worker volunteer army training outside the factory and threw stones to provoke a confrontation, intentionally sparking a conflict. Prior to this, Yoshiko Kawashima had also hired thugs disguised as workers to blend in with the crowd. During the altercation, the five Japanese individuals were attacked by unknown assailants. The Japanese Consulate General later reported that one of the Japanese individuals had died and another was seriously injured. However, the police were unable to apprehend the culprits, prompting Japan to accuse the Chinese factory patrol team of being behind the attack. This event became known as the "Japanese monk incident."   At 2:40 am on January 20, following orders from  Yoshiko, the military police captain Chiharu Shigeto led 32 members of the Shanghai "Japanese Youth Comrades Association in China" to sneak into the Sanyou Industrial Company factory. They brought guns, bayonets, and other weapons, along with flammable materials such as saltpeter and kerosene. Dozens of members of the Japanese Youth Association set fire to the Sanyou Industrial Society at night , and hacked to death and injured two Chinese policemen from the Municipal Council who came to organize firefighting. That afternoon, Tanaka Takayoshi instigated 1,200 Japanese expatriates to gather at the Japanese Residents' Association on Wenjianshi Road, and marched along Beichuan Road to the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters at the north end of the road, demanding that the Japanese Marine Corps intervene. When they reached Qiujiang Road, they started rioting and attacked Chinese shops. In response, Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng formally protested to Japan. Japan in return demanding a formal apology from the mayor and the apprehension of the person responsible for the death of the Japanese monk. Japan also insisted that China pay compensation for medical and funeral expenses, handle the anti-Japanese protests, and immediately disband any groups hostile to Japan. China had the option to firmly reject these unreasonable demands. On the morning of January 21, Japanese Consul General Murai Kuramatsu met with Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng to express regret for the Japanese arson and the killing of Chinese police officers. He promised to arrest the Japanese ronin responsible for the fire. At the same time, he presented a formal protest regarding the "Japanese monk incident" and outlined four demands: (1) The mayor must issue an apology to the Consul General; (2) The authorities should swiftly and effectively search for, arrest, and punish the perpetrators; (3) The five victims should receive medical compensation and consolation money; (4) All illegal actions against Japan should be prohibited, with the Shanghai Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association and other anti-Japanese groups disbanded promptly.  Starting on January 22, Admiral Shiozawa of the Japanese Navy and Consul General Murai demanded that Shanghai Mayor Wu dissolve anti-Japanese groups and halt any boycott activities. Representatives of Japanese business conglomerates also filed complaints with the Shanghai International Settlement's Municipal Council, calling for an official apology from China for the offensive report and attacks on monks, and demanding that the attackers be punished. As tensions rose, the Japanese Residents Association urged Japanese naval forces in Shanghai to take measures to protect their safety. That same day Yukichi Shiozawa, Commander of the 1st Japanese Expeditionary Fleet in Shanghai, made a threatening declaration, stating that if the mayor of Shanghai failed to respond adequately to the four demands presented by Matsui, the Japanese Navy would take "appropriate action." Even before this the Japanese Navy had deployed troops and sent additional warships to Shanghai under the pretext of protecting its citizens In addition to the warships that arrived in Shanghai after the Mukden incident, the Japanese Navy sent the cruiser Oi and the 15th Destroyer Squadron (comprising four destroyers) from the mainland Wu Port on January 21. They carried over 450 personnel from the 1st Special Marine Corps along with a large supply of arms and arrived in Shanghai on January 23. The following day, the Notoro special service ship (an aircraft carrier of 14,000 tons, carrying six aircraft) anchored in Port Arthur, also arrived in Shanghai. On January 22, the Japanese government convened a meeting and decided to take appropriate measures, with Navy Minister Osumi Tsuneo handling the situation as deemed necessary. By January 25, the heads of the Japanese Navy Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a joint session, where they agreed that if the Chinese side failed to demonstrate sincerity or meet Japan's demands, force would be used to ensure compliance. They also agreed on specific “emergency actions." On January 26, the Navy Ministry met again and resolved to demonstrate Japan's military strength within the next day or two. The proposed measures were as follows: (1) If the Shanghai garrison was insufficient, the Second Fleet would be deployed; (2) Japanese citizens in Shanghai would be directly protected; (3) The Japanese Navy would secure the route from Wusong to Shanghai; (4) All Chinese vessels would be detained outside Wusongkou; (5) Additional warships would be sent to ports in Nanjing, Hankou, Guangzhou, Shantou, Xiamen, and other locations, with civil unrest in those areas also being addressed. Emperor Hirohito authorized the Japanese Navy's military actions. On the 26th, Hirohito's military meeting, led by Chief of Staff Prince Kan'in (Prince Zaihito), ordered Yukichi Shiozawa in Shanghai to "exercise the right of self-defense." That same day, the Japanese Navy Ministry urgently deployed the 1st Torpedo Squadron (flagship "Yubari" cruiser, accompanied by the 22nd, 23rd, and 30th Destroyer Squadrons, totaling 12 destroyers), with over 460 personnel from the 2nd Special Marine Corps, which arrived in Shanghai on the afternoon of January 28. By this time, the Japanese military had gathered 24 warships, over 40 aircraft, more than 1,830 marines, and between 3,000 to 4,000 armed personnel in Shanghai, stationed across the Japanese concession and along the Huangpu River. On January 28, the Japanese Navy Ministry instructed the deployment of the aircraft carriers Kaga and Hosho, the cruisers Naka, Yura, and Abukuma, and four mine carriers from the mainland to Shanghai. Back on the 24th, 1932, Japanese intelligence agents set fire to the residence of the Japanese Ambassador to China, Shigemitsu Mamoru, in Shanghai, falsely accusing the Chinese of the act. On the 27th, Murai issued an ultimatum to the Shanghai authorities, demanding a satisfactory response to four conditions by 18:00 on the 28th, threatening necessary actions if the deadline was not met. Meanwhile, with threats and rumors of a Japanese naval landing circulating in Shanghai, the nearby 19th route army units moved closer to the International Settlement's Little Tokyo. The 19th Route Army of the Guangdong Army was in charge of defending Shanghai at the time, with Jiang Guangnai serving as the commander-in-chief and Cai Tingkai as the commander. Chen Mingshu, the leader of the 19th Route Army and commander of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison, was a strong proponent of responding to the Japanese army's provocations. The Chinese public, along with critics of the Nanjing government, called for punishment of the Manchurian warlord forces who had failed to halt the Kwantung Army's blitzkrieg, which encouraged officers of the 19th Route army to take a firm stance. As the Nanjing government had not enacted any policies, General Cai Tingkai and his colleagues convened an emergency meeting on January 23, pledging to resist any potential Japanese naval invasion of Shanghai at all costs. Now the Nanjing government response to this crisis was quite chaotic as you can imagine. There was still a anti communist campaign going on, Manchuria was being taken over and Chiang Kai-Shek fully understood they could ill afford an all out war with Japan. There was a general feeling things were getting out of hand, the league of nations were failing to do anything. Thus Chiang Kai-Shek retained his passive stance. On January 23rd after extensive consultations with Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek, newly appointed Executive Yuan President Sun Ke urgently telegraphed Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng. "Our priority should be the preservation of Shanghai as the economic center, adopting a moderate stance towards Japan's demands. We must immediately gather all sectors to diplomatically explain our position and avoid conflict to prevent Shanghai from being seized by force." That same day, Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin also sent a telegram to Wu Tiecheng, emphasizing, "Shanghai is our economic hub, and we must continue peaceful negotiations and avoid conflict." On that same day He Yingqin instructed the 19th Route Army to withdraw from Shanghai and relocate west of Nanxiang within five days. Zhang Jingjiang then invited Cai Tingkai to Du Yuesheng's home, where he convinced the 19th Route Army to "withdraw to the Nanxiang area to avoid confrontation with the Japanese." Upon learning of the Nationalist government's position, both Chiang Kai-shek and Cai Ying-ying were disappointed, but they expressed willingness to follow military orders and withdraw from Shanghai. As Chiang Guangnai put it, "We must simply obey the government's orders." On the afternoon of January 27, Chief of Staff Zhu Peide and Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin deployed the 6th Military Police Regiment to assume responsibility for defending the 19th Route Army's positions in the Zhabei area of Shanghai. The regiment departed Nanjing Station at 8 pm on January 27, reaching Zhenru by noon on the 28th. The first battalion arrived at Shanghai North Station that afternoon, preparing to take over defense from the 6th Regiment of the 156th Brigade of the 78th Division of the 19th Route Army in Zhabei at dawn on January 29. Back on the 27th, after Murai issued an ultimatum to the Chinese authorities in Shanghai, Mayor Wu Tiecheng, responding to a request from both the Nanjing National Government and various sectors of Shanghai, sent a letter on the 28th at 13:45 accepting all the unreasonable demands made by the Japanese. Later, at 11:05 pm the Shanghai Public Security Bureau received a response from Murai, which was directed to both Mayor Wu Tiecheng and the head of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. In the letter, Murai expressed "satisfaction" with Shanghai's acceptance of Japan's four demands, but also insisted on the withdrawal of Chinese troops from Zhabei, citing the need to protect overseas Chinese. Wu Tiecheng received this response at 11:25 pm At 11:30 pm, without waiting for a reply from the Chinese side, the Japanese military launched an attack on the Chinese garrison in Zhabei. In response, Weng Zhaoyuan's troops from the 156th Brigade of the 78th Division of the 19th Route Army, along with part of the 6th Regiment of the Military Police that had been sent to reinforce the defense, fought back.  During the January 28 Incident, the 19th Route Army, stationed in the Beijing-Shanghai area, was the Chinese military force involved. Following the September 18 Incident, Chiang Kai-shek entered into negotiations with the Guangdong faction. As part of these discussions between Nanjing and Guangdong, the Guangdong side proposed that Chen Mingshu, a Cantonese leader, be appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai garrison. On September 30, 1931, Chiang Kai-shek agreed to this proposal. Consequently, the 19th Route Army, under Chen Mingshu's command, was transferred from Ganzhou, Jiangxi, where it had been stationed after the September 18 Incident (following Chiang's decision to halt "suppressing the Communists"), to defend the Beijing-Shanghai area. By November, the army was fully deployed along the Beijing-Shanghai line. The military leadership included Jiang Guangnai as commander-in-chief, Cai Tingkai as army commander, and Dai Ji as the garrison commander. The army was composed of the 60th Division, led by Shen Guanghan, stationed in Suzhou and Changzhou; the 61st Division, led by Mao Weishou, stationed in Nanjing and Zhenjiang; and the 78th Division, led by Qu Shounian, stationed in Shanghai, Wusong, Kunshan, and Jiading. The total strength of the army was over 33,000 soldiers. By early November, after the 19th Route Army had secured the Beijing and Shanghai areas, the military leadership, influenced by the Shanghai populace's strong anti-Japanese sentiment, resolved to resist the impending Japanese invasion. On January 15th the 19th Route Army assessed intelligence indicating an inevitable Japanese attack and began preparing for defense, less than two weeks before the invasion. On th 19th Jiang Guangnai convened a meeting of the 19th Route Army officers in Shanghai. During the meeting, several strategic policies were decided, as recalled by Cai Tingkai. These included. Maintaining an invisible state of alert in response to potential enemy harassment. Ensuring that frontline units were adequately reinforced, with Qu Shounian's division tasked with holding for at least five days. Rapidly constructing fortifications in each defense zone, while rear units pre-select lines of resistance. Ensuring that the 60th and 61st divisions could reinforce Shanghai within five days of the start of hostilities. Establishing a stance on the Shanghai Concession. Issuing an order that, starting January 20, no officers or soldiers were to remain in the concession unless on official duty. On January 23, 1932, under mounting pressure from Japan, Chen Mingshu, Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai, and others issued a "Letter to All Officers and Soldiers of the 19th Route Army," urging a great spirit of sacrifice. On the same day, the army issued a secret combat order, stating that they must be fully prepared for war to defend the nation. If the Japanese attacked, all efforts should be focused on repelling them. The 19th Route Army was poised to resist the Japanese invasion in the Songhu area.   On January 24, 1932, Cai Tingkai and his colleagues arrived in Suzhou and held an emergency meeting with senior garrison commanders, including Shen Guanghan, to communicate the secret order issued on January 23. The generals unanimously supported the directive. However, under pressure from the National Government to avoid war, Chiang, Cai, and others reluctantly agreed to comply with an order to withdraw from Shanghai. They ordered the Zhabei garrison to exchange duties with the 6th Military Police Regiment on the morning of January 29. Due to the tense situation, the commander of the 156th Brigade of the 78th Division instructed the 6th Regiment at Zhabei to remain on high alert. At 11:00 PM on January 28, Dai Ji also ordered strict vigilance to prevent the Japanese army from occupying Zhabei during the guard change, instructing all units to take their positions and be on high alert. At 11:30 pm on January 28, 1932, Major General Shiozawa and the Japanese Marine Corps unexpectedly attacked the Chinese garrison located on the west side of North Sichuan Road. In response, the 6th Regiment of the 156th Brigade of the 19th Route Army, commanded by Zhang Junsong, promptly initiated a strong counteroffensive. At that moment, the Japanese forces, spearheaded by over 20 armored vehicles, split into five groups and launched assaults from different intersections in Zhabei. Upon receiving news of the Japanese attack, Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai, and Dai Ji hurried to Zhenru Station on foot during the night, established a temporary command center, and instructed the rear troops to advance swiftly to Shanghai as per the original plan. At dawn on the 29th, the Japanese forces launched a series of intense assaults, supported by armored vehicles. Aircraft from the carrier "Notoro" bombed the Zhabei and Nanshi districts, leading to rapid escalation of the conflict. The 156th Brigade of the defending forces fiercely resisted the Japanese advances, using cluster grenades against the enemy's armored units and organizing stealth squads to sabotage enemy vehicles. They held their positions and counterattacked at opportune moments under artillery cover, successfully repelling the relentless Japanese assaults. According to Japanese accounts, the battle was described as "extremely fierce, with fires raging everywhere, flames filling the sky, and the battlefield in a state of devastation." At around 10 am, Japanese aircraft dropped bombs, causing the Commercial Press and the Oriental Library to catch fire, resulting in the destruction of over 300,000 books, including many rare ancient texts. More than a thousand Japanese soldiers, shielded by heavy artillery and armored vehicles, launched a vigorous attack at the intersection of Baoshan Road and Qiujiang Road, aiming to seize the Shanghai North Railway Station. This station was a crucial land transport hub, and its control was vital for the safety of the entire Zhabei area. At 2 pm on the 29th, taking advantage of the chaos at the North Station, the Japanese forces mounted a fierce assault. A company from our military police engaged in combat with the Japanese for an hour before withdrawing from the station. By 5 pm on the 29th, the main force of the 156th Brigade entered the fray and launched a counteroffensive, reclaiming both the North Station and Tiantong'an Station. They pressed their advantage and captured the Japanese Shanghai Marine Corps Headquarters, forcing the Japanese troops to retreat east of North Sichuan Road and south of Target Road. The initial Japanese offensive ended in defeat. Following the setback, British and American consuls intervened to mediate in the afternoon of the 29th (the Shanghai government stated it was at the request of the Japanese consuls, while the League of Nations report indicated it was initiated by the mayor of Shanghai). The Chinese and Japanese forces agreed to cease hostilities at 8 pm that night. Although the 19th Route Army recognized this as a delaying tactic, they consented to the ceasefire to allow for troop redeployment. Concurrently, the 19th Route Army strengthened their positions, urgently ordering the 60th Division from east of Zhenjiang to move into Nanxiang and Zhenru, while transferring the 61st Division to Shanghai. The 78th Division, stationed in Shanghai, was fully mobilized to the front lines to bolster defenses and prepare for further combat. Following the ceasefire, the Japanese army made significant efforts to bolster its forces. The Japanese Navy Ministry promptly dispatched four destroyers from the Sasebo 26th Squadron, under the command of the cruiser "Tatsuta," to reach Shanghai on January 30 and dock at Huangpu Wharf. Accompanying the vessels were 474 soldiers from the Sasebo 3rd Special Marine Corps, along with a substantial supply of ammunition. On the morning of January 31, the Japanese aircraft carriers Kaga and Hosho reached Shanghai, bringing approximately 30 aircraft from the First Air Fleet. They anchored off the coast of the Ma'an Islands, about 130 kilometers east of Shanghai. By 4 pm, three cruisers Naka , Yura , and Abukuma along with four torpedo boats arrived in Shanghai, transporting over 2,000 marines who disembarked in groups. On February 1, the Japanese cruise ship "Terukoku Maru," carrying the Yokosuka 1st Special Marine Corps 525 men, docked at Shanghai Huishan Wharf. On the 2nd, the Japanese Navy Central Headquarters established the Third Fleet with ships from the First Overseas Fleet in the Yangtze River area, with the Izumo serving as the flagship (the Izumo arrived in Shanghai on February 6) under the command of Vice Admiral Yoshisaburo Nomura, to execute coordinated military operations. Following the reinforcement of Japanese forces, they resumed attacks on Chinese defenders in Zhabei, Baziqiao, and other locations on February 3 but were still repelled. On February 4, the Japanese launched their first major offensive, expanding the conflict to Jiangwan and Wusong. After a day of intense fighting, the Wusong open-air artillery fort suffered destruction from enemy bombardment, yet the Chinese defenders successfully prevented a Japanese landing. The anti-aircraft artillery unit from the 88th Division, assigned to the 4th Regiment of the 156th Brigade of the 19th Route Army, shot down a Japanese aircraft. Following the failure of the general offensive, Yukiichi Shiozawa was relieved of his command and sent back to Japan. Vice Admiral Yoshisaburo Nomura, the newly appointed commander of the Third Fleet, took over Shiozawa's position. Upon his appointment, the Japanese military began to bolster its forces. Even before the situation in Shanghai escalated, Japan had planned to deploy ground troops, but this was initially rejected by the navy. However, as the situation deteriorated, the navy had to request assistance from the army. On February 2, the Japanese cabinet officially decided to deploy ground forces. Due to the urgent circumstances in Shanghai, they resolved to send the Shanghai Dispatch Mixed Brigade, led by Major General Shimomoto Kuma and the 9th Division, led by Lieutenant General Ueda Kenkichi, with the Shanghai Dispatch Mixed Brigade and the Second Independent Tank Squadron being transported first. Concurrently, the Japanese Navy dispatched the Yokosuka 2nd Special Marine Corps to Shanghai. The 24th Mixed Brigade landed in Wusong on the afternoon of February 7.  Now within the backdrop of all of this Nanjing was certainly freaking out. What had started as a small incident, had escalated into a full blown battle. The Japanese were continuously sending reinforcements, and now so was China. Chiang Kai-Shek had recently resigned and came back as Generalissimo ushering in the slogan "first internal pacification, then external resistance." With that he had led a massive campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet, while avoiding a frontal war against Japan. Obviously this led to wide scale protest in China, which in turn contributed to this new incident in Shanghai. The Shanghai incident was certainly disrupting Chiang Kai-Shek's offensives against the communists, allowing those like Hu Hanmin's Guangdong based 19th Route Army to deal with the Japanese at Shanghai. Yet how long could Chiang Kai-Shek keep this up? Should he divert all attention to the Japanese? Will he step down again in shame for not facing the encroaching foreign empire?  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The January 28th Incident was yet another powder keg like moment for the very vulnerable and still fractured Chinese nation. Chiang Kai-Shek had internal enemies left-right and center and now the Empire of Japan was pressing its luck to keep seizing more and more from his nation. What was the Generalissimo to do in the face of these insurmountable odds?   

In Giappone il percorso di vita che deve seguire un individuo è praticamente già scritto fin dalla nascita. L'importante è frequentare una buona scuola (quasi obbligatoriamente privata e magari che includa addirittura tutto il percorso di studi, dall'asilo all'università) per poi riuscire ad inserirsi nel mondo del lavoro, venendo assunti in un'azienda o prendendo parte ad un'attività di famiglia.Chi non riesce a diventare parte di questo ciclo produttivo viene escluso o si autoesclude di propria volontà dalla società, diventando fondamentalmente un NEET (acronimo per Not in Education, Employment or Training) o, peggio, un hikikomori, decidendo di chiudersi in casa. Si stima che possano essere almeno 1,5 milioni i giapponesi che decidono di ritirarsi dalla società, per isolarsi dal resto del mondo a causa di questo e altri motivi (legati ad esempio ad aspetti caratteriali o familiari) e dedicarsi esclusivamente a intrattenimenti videogiochi, anime, manga e altre attività solitarie.Depressione, rifiuto di andare a scuola e perdita delle amicizie sono poi solo alcune delle conseguenze di questa condizione che porta poi i soggetti a crescere tra le mura di casa: alcuni casi registrati sono già arrivati ai 40 anni. Come si può agire, dunque, nei loro confronti? Come si può aiutare queste persone a superare i propri traumi e conflitti e a reintegrarsi?L'ospite di questo episodio è il dottor Francesco Pantò, giovanissimo psichiatra presso il Keio University Hospital e l'Università di Tsukuba e finora unico italiano abilitato alla professione in Giappone. In particolare parleremo della sua esperienza con i suoi pazienti hikikomori giapponesi e della speciale Anime Therapy che sta sviluppando.Il dottor Pantò ha infatti avuto l'intuizione di usare proprio gli anime e i manga, media spesso amati dai suoi pazienti, per comunicare con loro e aiutarli a comprendere il loro inconscio. Ė da notare come gli hikikomori, nel tempo, sono perfino diventati protagonisti di anime e manga: basti pensare a Tatsuhiro Sato di Welcome to the NHK, oppure a Natsuki Subaru di Re:Zero. Inoltre sono sempre più rappresentati soprattutto in relazione a mondi fantasy o tratti da videogiochi, quasi a sottolineare quanto vi siano legati come unica forma di intrattenimento consona al loro stile di vita e, allo stesso tempo, anche la migliore per esprimere le loro capacità e abilità personali, che paradossalmente sono molto utili nel mondo da cui si estraniano: problem solving e valori morali sono solo alcune delle qualità che questi personaggi riescono a far trasparire nelle loro avventure.L'esperienza di Francesco è stata raccontata dai media giapponesi e italiani: vi basta una ricerca su Google per vederlo su giornali come il giapponese Asahi Shimbun o i quotidiani italiani come La Stampa, ma anche su reti televisive come NHK e la nostra RAI. Japan Wildlife è su Substack! Iscriviti alla newsletter per non perderti i prossimi episodi e aggiornamenti.Se vuoi sostenere Japan Wildlife, puoi anche lasciare una donazione su Ko-FiI nostri sponsor:Dirim: https://www.dirim.it/Granduomo: https://www.granduomocatania.it/Sinfonia del Gusto: https://www.sinfoniadelgustoroma.it/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit japanwildlife.substack.com

Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version plus all artwork created and considered for use as YouTube and podcast thumbnails: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mu7cy5rdIN THIS EPISODE: Learning of other races and cultures has been something man has sought knowledge of ever since they first discovered other races and cultures existed. But that's the thing – you have to know those races and cultures existed in the first place. And there is one race known as the Oghar that very few know about – and it has been practically wiped from history. (Mystery of the Oghars) *** Lakes are often scenes of brutal crimes and dumping ground for murder victims, but you don't often hear of the lake itself being the murderer. But one lake killed 1,700 people… in a single night. (The Lake Exploded) *** Imagine moving into a new home only to realize it already has a resident ghost living there – but not only that, but the ghost enjoys having full-blown two-way conversations with you through the walls. (The Beastie In The Walls) *** In 1593, a Spanish soldier named Gil Pérez claimed he traveled over 9,000 miles in just a few seconds. Supposedly he disappeared in Manila and appeared in Mexico. Is there any truth to the story, or evidence to back up his claim? (The Man Who Teleported) *** If you are a fan of the Neverglades Mysteries series that I've been releasing once in a while on Creepypasta Thursdays, then you'll want to listen through the end of the Chamber of Comments because there's a little piece of news about the Neverglades you might like to hear. *** A strange sighting took place in 1970 in Hiroshima Prefecture – and the way it's described, it sounds like Japan might have it's very own Sasquatch! And now, decades later – that beast might save the town it was spotted in. (The Bigfoot of Hiroshima)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Disclaimer and Show Open00:02:47.016 = Bigfoot of Hiroshima00:12:06.080 = Mystery of the Oghars00:19:46.910 = The Lake Exploded00:25:29.258 = Beastie In The Walls00:34:59.692 = The Man Who Teleported00:39:36.874 = Show CloseSOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“The Bigfoot of Hiroshima” by Kohei Higashitani for The Asahi Shimbun: https://tinyurl.com/yxumxbju“Mystery of the Oghars” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://tinyurl.com/y54y8pl8“The Lake Exploded” by Christina Skelton: https://tinyurl.com/y52q8l37“The Beastie In The Walls” posted at Fortean Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/y5bxyfx8“The Man Who Teleported” by Paolo Chua for Esquire Magazine: https://tinyurl.com/y3ez3aoxWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness.= = = = =Originally aired: October 09, 2020CUSTOM LANDING PAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/HiroshimaBigfoot

Het land van de rijzende zon, Japan, was ooit de grote concurrent van de Verenigde Staten. De Amerikanen waren bang dat de Japanse economie veel groter en sterker zou worden van die van de VS. Die gloriedagen zijn voorbij. Maarten en Tom laten zie dat Japan vandaag de dag kampt met hele andere uitdagingen. De vergrijzing is groot, de bevolking krimpt en de cultuur is streng. Vrouwen maken er weinig tot geen kans.

Taro Igarashi is the author of “Kabobi Toshi” or “Overprotective city” published 20 years ago and in a recent interview with The Asahi Shimbun Igarashi warns how phenomena such as ‘hostile benches' –  benches, often installed in public parks that are uncomfortable to sit on – are designed in way to discourage people from using them, that they have an “exclusionary purpose” which “has long been forgotten.” Episode Notes: ‘As Public Spaces Become Limited in Japan, Architectural History Professor Warns of Threat to Vulnerable Groups': https://barrierfreejapan.com/2024/06/23/as-public-spaces-become-limited-in-japan-architectural-history-professor-warns-of-threat-to-vulnerable-groups/ ‘INTERVIEW/ Taro Igarashi: Take a stand on ‘hostile benches' that exclude disabled people' (The Asahi Shimbun, June 20th 2024)': https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15284631

A woman in her 80s died after her neck became trapped under the handrail at the bottom of an escalator at a supermarket in Nishitokyo on Wednesday June 12th 2024. The incident follows an incident in March at JR Mito Station, northeast of Tokyo, in which a man in his 70s died from suffocation after his suit jacket became ensnared in an escalator handrail. Following the incident in Nishitokyo , it was reported in the The Asahi Shimbun that: “[A]ccording to a survey conducted by the Consumer Affairs Agency and others, fatal accidents involving escalators were recorded at least seven times from June 2004 through March 2024.The Japan Elevator Association reported the number of accidents involving escalators was 1,550 during the two years from 2018 to 2019, which is two times higher than the number 15 years ago.” Episode Notes: ‘Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency Reported Seven Fatal Accidents Involving Escalators Over Last 20 Years and 1,550 Accidents Between 2018 to 2019': https://barrierfreejapan.com/2024/06/15/japans-consumer-affairs-agency-reported-seven-fatal-accidents-involving-escalators-over-last-20-years-and-1550-accidents-between-2018-to-2019/ ‘Elderly woman dies as neck caught under Tokyo store's escalator rail':  https://barrierfreejapan.com/2024/06/13/elderly-woman-dies-as-neck-caught-under-tokyo-stores-escalator-rail/

This week's guest is the media artist Kasumi whose career ranges from musician, filmmaker, author, designer, illustrator and painter. Her work features short and feature length experimental films, live shows, VJ, and public art projection, creating looping electronic sculptures, designing motion graphics and animated gifs, producing immersive 360 virtual reality pieces and making fine art prints and wearable art. Kasumi studied music at the Stadliche Musik Hochschule in Cologne, Germany playing the lute. She then moved to Japan, where she lived for 12 years and taught Baroque music at the Tokyo College of Music. Kasumi performed as a soloist throughout Japan, Europe and the U.S., recorded four albums, and performed twice at the Carnegie Hall. Whilst living in Japan, Kasumi explored her writing and published her first book; The Way of the Urban Samurai, in 1992. Kasumi married and raised her son, Kitao Sakurai who became a renown filmmaker. While simultaneously pursuing her work in painting and set design she continued to publish writings on music, politics and social issues for among others; the Asahi Shimbun, The Japan Financial Journal, The Early Music Quarterly Tokyo, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacramento Bee. From prints and collage to films and video art installations at the Rocket Mortgage Field House; at the Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall; performances with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky; public art at The Cleveland Museum of Art, DC Tower, Vienna, and Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; VR 360, post-production, and gifs for The Eric Andre Show; and interactive art-making apps. Kasumi's work Surfacing, developed at The Cleveland Museum of Art, was expanded into a solo exhibition for The Sculpture Center. Perhaps her most impactful production came after being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 when she embarked on the feature-length film project, ‘Shockwaves', which included 25,000 plus short public domain film samples. It proved to be a life-changing project, which she says ‘was like being in therapy for five years'. Kasumi's next production is ‘Farandole', an hour long cinematic assemblage, selected as part of Lincoln Center Presents Women and Non-binary Artists in Tech. It will screen at 6:30 pm on March 14 at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. Free and open to the public. Kasumi's website - http://kasumiartstudios.com/ Kasumi'sInstagram: @kasumifilms Kasumi's favorite women artists:Amanda BluglassFlash RosenbergLeslie SwackhamerJulie Patton Kasumi's playlist:Lil Cherry & Goldbuuda - Mukkbang!Miles DavisDavid Starfire / CobraHarsh Kale / One Step BeyondRicardo Imperatore / Omelet BananaCheb i Sabbah / Ganga DevNightnoise / FionnghualaElectronic World MusicDublicator Host: Chris StaffordProduced by Hollowell StudiosFollow @theaartpodcast on InstagramAART on FacebookEmail: hollowellstudios@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wisp--4769409/support.

This week's guest is the media artist Kasumi whose career ranges from musician, filmmaker, author, designer, illustrator and painter. Her work features short and feature length experimental films, live shows, VJ, and public art projection, creating looping electronic sculptures, designing motion graphics and animated gifs, producing immersive 360 virtual reality pieces and making fine art prints and wearable art. Kasumi studied music at the Stadliche Musik Hochschule in Cologne, Germany playing the lute. She then moved to Japan, where she lived for 12 years and taught Baroque music at the Tokyo College of Music. Kasumi performed as a soloist throughout Japan, Europe and the U.S., recorded four albums, and performed twice at the Carnegie Hall. Whilst living in Japan, Kasumi explored her writing and published her first book; The Way of the Urban Samurai, in 1992. Kasumi married and raised her son, Kitao Sakurai who became a renown filmmaker. While simultaneously pursuing her work in painting and set design she continued to publish writings on music, politics and social issues for among others; the Asahi Shimbun, The Japan Financial Journal, The Early Music Quarterly Tokyo, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacramento Bee. From prints and collage to films and video art installations at the Rocket Mortgage Field House; at the Lincoln Center with The New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall; performances with Grandmaster Flash and DJ Spooky; public art at The Cleveland Museum of Art, DC Tower, Vienna, and Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; VR 360, post-production, and gifs for The Eric Andre Show; and interactive art-making apps. Kasumi's work Surfacing, developed at The Cleveland Museum of Art, was expanded into a solo exhibition for The Sculpture Center. Perhaps her most impactful production came after being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 when she embarked on the feature-length film project, ‘Shockwaves', which included 25,000 plus short public domain film samples. It proved to be a life-changing project, which she says ‘was like being in therapy for five years'. Kasumi's next production is ‘Farandole', an hour long cinematic assemblage, selected as part of Lincoln Center Presents Women and Non-binary Artists in Tech. It will screen at 6:30 pm on March 14 at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center.- free and open to the public.Kasumi's website - http://kasumiartstudios.com/ Kasumi'sInstagram: @kasumifilms Kasumi's favorite women artists:Amanda BluglassFlash RosenbergLeslie SwackhamerJulie Patton Kasumi's playlist:Lil Cherry & Goldbuuda - Mukkbang!Miles DavisDavid Starfire / CobraHarsh Kale / One Step BeyondRicardo Imperatore / Omelet BananaCheb i Sabbah / Ganga DevNightnoise / FionnghualaElectronic World MusicDublicator Host: Chris StaffordProduced by Hollowell StudiosFollow @theaartpodcast on InstagramAART on FacebookEmail: hollowellstudios@gmail.com

Josh Rogin joined A&G to discuss how the attacks in the Middle East on our troops are only getting worse. The US needs to do something and do it now. Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Global Opinions section of the Washington Post and a political analyst with CNN.  He is also the author of “Chaos under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century”  Previously, he has covered foreign policy and national security for Bloomberg View, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy magazine, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Computer Week magazine and Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper.  Latest Articles from Josh Rogin: Biden's ‘catastrophic' cutoff of Palestinian aid is more than inhumane Yes, North Korea is preparing for war — in Ukraine and the Middle EastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Millions of American women are buying guns for self-protection. If you are one of them, or plan to be, Paxton Quigley urges you to arm yourself with information and train with experts so that you can safely defend yourself and your loved ones against any potential violence. Reading this book is the perfect place to start.There are more guns than there are people in the United States. Guns are a fact of life here because of the Second Amendment. Many Americans love their guns, while plenty of other Americans loathe them. Gun sales jumped during the early months of the Pandemic, and continued to rise even after the country returned to work. First-time buyers made up more than 20% of all purchases. Gun violence and intimate partner violence statistics are inseparable, affecting millions of women, families and communities. Because of this harsh reality, many women who would never dream of owning a firearm have joined the ranks of first-time gun owners.Federal background checks for gun purchases hit an all-time high of twenty-one-million in 2020, and almost ten million of these new purchasers were women.If you're one of these women, or if you're considering joining the millions of American women who've taken their lives and personal safety into their own hands, Armed & Female II: Never an Easy Target will help guide you—from making the initial decision to choosing the right firearm and finding the right path for learning how to shoot and care for your gun.Because when it comes to self-defense, what you don't know can hurt you.Paxton Quigley, author of the best seller Armed and Female, is a highly regarded authority on guns and security. She has appeared on more than 300 television shows, including Sixty Minutes, Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, and The Chris Matthews Show, and featured in newspaper and magazine articles including front page profiles in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, The Independent Sunday Review, and the Asahi Shimbun. She was also featured in Elle, Glamour, People, Harpers, Health, Time, Newsweek International, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and the Washington Post, among many, many others.

Josh Rogin joined A&G to discuss how the Chinese government is pro Palestine and how they share a lot of the same values. Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Global Opinions section of the Washington Post and a political analyst with CNN.  He is also the author of “Chaos under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century”  Previously, he has covered foreign policy and national security for Bloomberg View, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy magazine, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Computer Week magazine and Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper.  You can read Josh Rogin's latest article hereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Millions of American women are buying guns for self-protection. If you are one of them, or plan to be, Paxton Quigley urges you to arm yourself with information and train with experts so that you can safely defend yourself and your loved ones against any potential violence. Reading this book is the perfect place to start.There are more guns than there are people in the United States. Guns are a fact of life here because of the Second Amendment. Many Americans love their guns, while plenty of other Americans loathe them. Gun sales jumped during the early months of the Pandemic, and continued to rise even after the country returned to work. First-time buyers made up more than 20% of all purchases. Gun violence and intimate partner violence statistics are inseparable, affecting millions of women, families and communities. Because of this harsh reality, many women who would never dream of owning a firearm have joined the ranks of first-time gun owners.Federal background checks for gun purchases hit an all-time high of twenty-one-million in 2020, andalmost ten million of these new purchasers were women.If you're one of these women, or if you're considering joining the millions of American women who've taken their lives and personal safety into their own hands, Armed & Female II: Never an Easy Target will help guide you—from making the initial decision to choosing the right firearm and finding the right path for learning how to shoot and care for your gun.Because when it comes to self-defense, what you don't know can hurt you.Paxton Quigley, author of the best seller Armed and Female, is a highly regarded authority on guns and security. She has appeared on more than 300 television shows, including Sixty Minutes, Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, and The Chris Matthews Show, and featured in newspaper and magazine articles including front page profiles in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, The Independent Sunday Review, and the Asahi Shimbun. She was also featured in Elle, Glamour, People, Harpers, Health, Time, Newsweek International, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and the Washington Post, among many, many others.

Millions of American women are buying guns for self-protection. If you are one of them, or plan to be, Paxton Quigley urges you to arm yourself with information and train with experts so that you can safely defend yourself and your loved ones against any potential violence. Reading this book is the perfect place to start.There are more guns than there are people in the United States. Guns are a fact of life here because of the Second Amendment. Many Americans love their guns, while plenty of other Americans loathe them. Gun sales jumped during the early months of the Pandemic, and continued to rise even after the country returned to work. First-time buyers made up more than 20% of all purchases. Gun violence and intimate partner violence statistics are inseparable, affecting millions of women, families and communities. Because of this harsh reality, many women who would never dream of owning a firearm have joined the ranks of first-time gun owners.Federal background checks for gun purchases hit an all-time high of twenty-one-million in 2020, andalmost ten million of these new purchasers were women.If you're one of these women, or if you're considering joining the millions of American women who've taken their lives and personal safety into their own hands, Armed & Female II: Never an Easy Target will help guide you—from making the initial decision to choosing the right firearm and finding the right path for learning how to shoot and care for your gun.Because when it comes to self-defense, what you don't know can hurt you.Paxton Quigley, author of the best seller Armed and Female, is a highly regarded authority on guns and security. She has appeared on more than 300 television shows, including Sixty Minutes, Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, and The Chris Matthews Show, and featured in newspaper and magazine articles including front page profiles in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, The Independent Sunday Review, and the Asahi Shimbun. She was also featured in Elle, Glamour, People, Harpers, Health, Time, Newsweek International, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and the Washington Post, among many, many others.

PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK in your social media so others who loves strange and macabre stories can listen too: https://weirddarkness.com/bigfoot-hiroshima/IN THIS EPISODE: Learning of other races and cultures has been something man has sought knowledge of ever since they first discovered other races and cultures existed. But that's the thing – you have to know those races and cultures existed in the first place. And there is one race known as the Oghar that very few know about – and it has been practically wiped from history. (Mystery of the Oghars) *** Lakes are often scenes of brutal crimes and dumping ground for murder victims, but you don't often hear of the lake itself being the murderer. But one lake killed 1,700 people… in a single night. (The Lake Exploded) *** Imagine moving into a new home only to realize it already has a resident ghost living there – but not only that, but the ghost enjoys having full-blown two-way conversations with you through the walls. (The Beastie In The Walls) *** In 1593, a Spanish soldier named Gil Pérez claimed he traveled over 9,000 miles in just a few seconds. Supposedly he disappeared in Manila and appeared in Mexico. Is there any truth to the story, or evidence to back up his claim? (The Man Who Teleported) *** If you are a fan of the Neverglades Mysteries series that I've been releasing once in a while on Creepypasta Thursdays, then you'll want to listen through the end of the Chamber of Comments because there's a little piece of news about the Neverglades you might like to hear. *** A strange sighting took place in 1970 in Hiroshima Prefecture – and the way it's described, it sounds like Japan might have it's very own Sasquatch! And now, decades later – that beast might save the town it was spotted in. (The Bigfoot of Hiroshima) *** (Originally aired October 09, 2020)SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…“The Bigfoot of Hiroshima” by Kohei Higashitani for The Asahi Shimbun: https://tinyurl.com/yxumxbju“Mystery of the Oghars” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://tinyurl.com/y54y8pl8“The Lake Exploded” by Christina Skelton: https://tinyurl.com/y52q8l37“The Beastie In The Walls” posted at Fortean Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/y5bxyfx8“The Man Who Teleported” by Paolo Chua for Esquire Magazine: https://tinyurl.com/y3ez3aoxVisit our Sponsors & Friends: https://weirddarkness.com/sponsorsJoin the Weird Darkness Syndicate: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateAdvertise in the Weird Darkness podcast or syndicated radio show: https://weirddarkness.com/advertise= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music Library, EpidemicSound and/or StoryBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ) Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and Nicolas Gasparini (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission of the artists.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =OTHER PODCASTS I HOST…Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymagMicro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrorsRetro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradioChurch of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2023, Weird Darkness.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/bigfoot-hiroshima/This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/advertisement

Millions of American women are buying guns for self-protection. If you are one of them, or plan to be, Paxton Quigley urges you to arm yourself with information and train with experts so that you can safely defend yourself and your loved ones against any potential violence. Reading this book is the perfect place to start.There are more guns than there are people in the United States. Guns are a fact of life here because of the Second Amendment. Many Americans love their guns, while plenty of other Americans loathe them. Gun sales jumped during the early months of the Pandemic, and continued to rise even after the country returned to work. First-time buyers made up more than 20% of all purchases. Gun violence and intimate partner violence statistics are inseparable, affecting millions of women, families and communities. Because of this harsh reality, many women who would never dream of owning a firearm have joined the ranks of first-time gun owners.Federal background checks for gun purchases hit an all-time high of twenty-one-million in 2020, andalmost ten million of these new purchasers were women.If you're one of these women, or if you're considering joining the millions of American women who've taken their lives and personal safety into their own hands, Armed & Female II: Never an Easy Target will help guide you—from making the initial decision to choosing the right firearm and finding the right path for learning how to shoot and care for your gun.Because when it comes to self-defense, what you don't know can hurt you.Paxton Quigley, author of the best seller Armed and Female, is a highly regarded authority on guns and security. She has appeared on more than 300 television shows, including Sixty Minutes, Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, and The Chris Matthews Show, and featured in newspaper and magazine articles including front page profiles in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, The Independent Sunday Review, and the Asahi Shimbun. She was also featured in Elle, Glamour, People, Harpers, Health, Time, Newsweek International, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and the Washington Post, among many, many others.

Josh Rogin talked A&G to discuss the recent meeting between Biden and Xi at APEC in San Francisco and how we are basically in China's back pocket. Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Global Opinions section of the Washington Post and a political analyst with CNN.  He is also the author of “Chaos under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century”  Previously, he has covered foreign policy and national security for Bloomberg View, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy magazine, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Computer Week magazine and Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper.  You can read Josh Rogin's latest article hereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Books on Asia podcast, host Amy Chavez talks with author and translator Frederik L. Schodt, who has written/translated many books on Japan including The Osamu Tezuka Story, Manga, Manga!: The The World of Japanese Comics, The Astro Boy Essays, and My Heart Sutra: The World in 260 Characters (read our review).But the two books we're going to talk about today are his historical non-fiction books Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe: How an American Acrobat Introduced Circus to Japan and Japan to the West, and Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan. Both books, published by our sponsor Stone Bridge Press, are accounts of American men who pioneered US-Japan relations. Schodt talks about "Professor" Risley, an early acrobat of the mid-nineteenth century who starts his own circus that he takes to Japan. His trademark move involved juggling his two small sons with his feet. See an example of what is now known as the Risley Act in this video we found on Youtube:https://youtu.be/VkFIkXXyDVc?si=zXfmUyeW9QBrwM_oRisley later starts a Japanese circus that he takes touring around the world. The other book we discuss is Schodt's biography of Native American Ranald MacDonald, who makes his way to Japan during the Edo period and ends up not just teaching English but having a hand in negotiations with Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan.About the AuthorFrederik L. Schodt is a writer, translator, and conference interpreter based in the San Francisco Bay area. He has written widely on Japanese history, popular culture, and technology. His writings on manga, and his translations of them, helped trigger the current popularity of Japanese comics in the English-speaking world. He was awarded the Special Category of the Asahi Shimbun's prestigious Osamu Tezuka Culture Award, and in 2009, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, for his work helping to promote Japan's popular culture overseas.You can find him at his Website, on Twitter(X) @fschodt  and on Facebook.The Books on Asia Podcast is sponsored by Stone Bridge Press. Check out their books on Japan at the publisher's website. Amy Chavez, podcast host, is author of Amy's Guide to Best Behavior in Japan and The Widow, the Priest, and the Octopus Hunter: Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island.Subscribe to the Books on Asia podcast.

Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. **Tai-Ex opening ** The Tai-Ex opened up 28-points this morning from yesterday's close, at 17,061 on turnover of 4.8-billion N-T. The market closed marginally higher on Monday, as gains by artificial intelligence-related stocks offset ongoing losses by semiconductor heavyweights after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing announced that it's cutting its 2023 sales outlook. The Tai-Ex fluctuated within a narrow range throughout the session, as T-S-M-C dragged semiconductor shares lower, while gains posted by artificial intelligence server suppliers lent support to the main board towards the end of the day's session. **Tsai Urges Overseas Firms to Seek CPTPP Backing ** President Tsai Ing-wen is urging the World Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce to help seek support for her administration's bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Speaking during a meeting with chamber members, Tsai said she hopes overseas Taiwanese businesses can exert (發揮) their influence to rally support for Taiwan's application to join the the trade bloc. According to Tsai, the joining the partnership will strengthen Taiwan's economic resilience. She's also calling on Taiwanese businesses based overseas to invest in Taiwan and build the nation into a key global industrial hub. **KMT Presidential Candidate Hou Yu-ih to Visit Japan ** The K-M-T's presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih will be traveling to Tokyo next week. According to Hou's campaign office, the three-day trip is aimed at (目的是) strengthening his foreign policy credentials. Hou is slated to meet with lawmakers and officials from the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association. Hou's campaign office says he'll also be doing interviews with Japanese national broadcaster N-H-K and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. Hou will also be meeting with oversea's Taiwanese in the Japanese capital and will be accompanied by K-M-T think tank head Ko Zhi-yen, and Overseas Department head Chen Yi-xin. **UN Urges Russia to Revive Grain Deal ** The United Nations' highest official is urging Russia to revive a grain deal with Ukraine. AP correspondent Norman Hall reports. **Algeria Wildfires Leave Dead and Injured ** The Algerian government says wildfires raging across the country have killed 25 people and injured about 50. The Defense Ministry says Monday that includes 10 soldiers killed while trying to get the flames under control in the face of high winds and scorching (灼熱的) summer temperatures. The Interior Ministry says at least 1,500 people were evacuated. Wildfires, some spread by strong winds, moved across forests and agricultural areas in 16 regions. That caused 97 blazes in the north African country. The largest and deadliest fires ravaged parts of the Kabyle region east of Algiers. **Musk Reveals New Twitter Logo ** Elon Musk has unveiled a new “X” logo to replace Twitter's famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday, but the bird was still dominant across the smartphone app. In response to questions about what tweets would be called when the rebranding (重塑形象) is done, Musk said they would be called Xs. That was the I.C.R.T. news, Check in again tomorrow for our simplified version of the news, uploaded every day in the afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your day, I'm _____.

Hour 1 * Guest: Dr. Scott Bradley, Founder and Chairman of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation and the author of the book and DVD/CD lecture series “To Preserve the Nation.” In the Tradition of the Founding Fathers – FreedomsRisingSun.com * Sam and the Good Dr. Discuss Constitutional Currency, AKA ‘Honest Money'! * Fauci, others suppressed Brit recommendation to use ivermectin against COVID – Conclusion called for ‘immediate' approval for use – WND.com * Testimonials arose about how it was effective, even though federal officials, celebrities and others condemned it. They publicly ridiculed those who would use a “horse paste,” even though that was only one form of ivermectin. * The Asahi Shimbun, Kowa Co., the huge Japanese pharmaceutical company, confirmed ivermectin proved an “antiviral effect” against Omicron and other coronavirus variants. * a new report by Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson reveals Anthony Fauci, and others, suppressed a recommendation at the outset of the pandemic that Ivermectin be used against the killer. * A leading British physician and World Council for Health co-founder Dr. Tess Lawrie, who is director and founder of a doctors' organization called the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group (BIRD), emailed 31 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including the Director of the Offfice of New Drugs in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Peter Stein; Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks; and then-Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock; and copying several leading foreign medical figures, with an email titled ‘URGENT: The BIRD meeting and recommendation on COVID-19 prevention and treatment.'” * Lawrie's cover letter states: ‘BIRD panel conclusions are that ivermectin should be approved immediately for prevention and treatment of Covid-19:'” – The British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Panel recommends Ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with Covid-19 infection. * “Rather than educate the public about the supposed reasons for their rejection of the Ivermectin-use recommendation, the FDA, NIH, and Fauci's former agency have blacked out their responses in these documents,” explained Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Hour 2 * Guest: Lowell Nelson – CampaignForLiberty.org, RonPaulInstitute.org * 3 Years to Slow The Spread: Covid hysteria and the creation of a never-ending crisis – Jordan Schachtel. * A letter from John Adams to Abigail: “Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.” * Ron Paul Challenged the Coronavirus Tyranny from the Beginning – Adam Dick. * Covid, Courage, and Cowardice – Jordan Schachtel. * “How did you behave in the face of this public panic?” * Jordan writes, “Courage is unique because it is almost impossible to be courageous and popular at the same time. If courage were popular, it wouldn't be brave. If courage was common, it wouldn't be courageous.” * Unsound Banking: Why Most of the World's Banks Are Headed for Collapse – Doug Casey, LewRockwell.com * Bank deposits–until quite recently–were of two kinds: time deposits and demand deposits. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loving-liberty/support

* Guest: Dr. Scott Bradley, Founder and Chairman of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation and the author of the book and DVD/CD lecture series “To Preserve the Nation.” In the Tradition of the Founding Fathers - FreedomsRisingSun.com * Sam and the Good Dr. Discuss Constitutional Currency, AKA 'Honest Money'! * Fauci, others suppressed Brit recommendation to use ivermectin against COVID - Conclusion called for 'immediate' approval for use - WND.com * Testimonials arose about how it was effective, even though federal officials, celebrities and others condemned it. They publicly ridiculed those who would use a "horse paste," even though that was only one form of ivermectin. * The Asahi Shimbun, Kowa Co., the huge Japanese pharmaceutical company, confirmed ivermectin proved an "antiviral effect" against Omicron and other coronavirus variants. * a new report by Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson reveals Anthony Fauci, and others, suppressed a recommendation at the outset of the pandemic that Ivermectin be used against the killer. * A leading British physician and World Council for Health co-founder Dr. Tess Lawrie, who is director and founder of a doctors' organization called the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Group (BIRD), emailed 31 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including the Director of the Offfice of New Drugs in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Peter Stein; Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks; and then-Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock; and copying several leading foreign medical figures, with an email titled 'URGENT: The BIRD meeting and recommendation on COVID-19 prevention and treatment.'" * Lawrie's cover letter states: 'BIRD panel conclusions are that ivermectin should be approved immediately for prevention and treatment of Covid-19:'" - The British Ivermectin Recommendation Development Panel recommends Ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of Covid-19 to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with Covid-19 infection. * "Rather than educate the public about the supposed reasons for their rejection of the Ivermectin-use recommendation, the FDA, NIH, and Fauci's former agency have blacked out their responses in these documents," explained Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

More than three years later, we are still investigating the origins of the deadliest pandemic in recent history. The DOE and FBI have given credence to the explanation that the virus originated in a Chinese government lab in Wuhan – so why don't lab leak theorists feel vindicated? Because, as our guest alleges, this is just the beginning. China owes the US reparations; Biden owes the American people a focused investigation and explanation; Dr. Tony Fauci and Francis Collins owe more than an apology for their scandalous cover-up. This is a democracy, and the truth will come out eventually – but a deeper truth has already seen the light: our public health institutions have been corrupted, as has our media. Josh Rogin is a columnist for the Washington Post and a political analyst with CNN. He is also the author of Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century. Previously, Josh covered foreign policy and national security for Bloomberg View, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Foreign Policy magazine, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Computer Week magazine, and Japan's Asahi Shimbun.Download the transcript here.

The word Anthropocene has been used over the past 20 years to define the modern era during which time man has come to shape the environment.  This reality became significantly more pronounced with the advent of the nuclear Anthropocene.  As Prof. Higuchi explains in the introduction of  "Political Fallout," from 1945 to 1963, when the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) was signed by the US, the Soviet Union and Britain, these three nations conducted approximately 450 nuclear weapons tests, in sum equal to 26,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs, that caused worldwide radioactive contamination.  Though in small concentrations, radioactive particles from this period of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests are still present around the world.  How and why the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed by the US, the Soviet Union and Britain, came into effect remains important.  Among other reasons, this past August the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, concluded the world has entered “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”  Two weeks ago the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists forwarded its Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight.  The clock has move forward 4:30 since 2010.  This history is also important because it potentially offers lessons regarding how we address the climate crisis.   During this 46 minute discussion, Prof. Higuchi begins by defining the Japanese word hibakusha and defines what is radioactive fallout.  He next discusses how concerns regarding nuclear fallout became publicly known, how the US's understanding of radioactive contamination evolved through the 1950s, discusses his "politics of risk" framework used to discuss fallout's biological effects, social acceptability and policy implications, how ultimately a PTBT was achieved, and discusses what lessons can be learned from the nuclear Anthropocene relative to the climate crisis.          Prof. Toshihiro Higuchi is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University and field chair of Regional and Comparative Studies (RCST) in the School of Foreign Service (SFS), Georgetown University.  Prof. Higuchi is also an official historian for the International Commission on Radiological Protection, serves on the editorial board of Kagakusi kenkyu, the executive board of Peace History Society, and a committee of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.  A native Japanese, Prof. Higuchi received his PhD at Georgetown University in 2011.  Before he returned to Georgetown in 2016, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University (2011-12); an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (2012-14); and, a Hakubi Project assistant professor at Kyoto University (2014-15).  His Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2020) won the 2021 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.  His academic works have also appeared in Peace & Change, Journal of Strategic Studies, Historia Scientiarum, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific.  His opinion pieces have also appeared in a number of news outlets, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Asahi Shimbun.  Prof. Higuchi is a member of several professional societies including the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, History of Science Society, Association for Asian Studies, American Society for Environmental History, Peace History Society, and Japan Association of International Relations.Information on "Political Fallout" is at: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23212.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

Verso la fine degli anni '80, il Giappone decise di spendere 30 miliardi di yen per proteggere un paio di rocce, distanti circa un chilometro l'una dall'altra e situate nel Mar delle Filippine. Fanno parte di un atollo lungo 5 km durante la bassa marea. Asahi Shimbun, quotidiano di Tokyo, riporta che con l'alta marea, tuttavia, l'isola scompare e solo le “2 rocce – una di 5 metri di diametro e l'altra di 2 metri di diametro – restano da 30 a 50 centimetri sopra il livello dell'acqua”. Per circondare le rocce vennero costruiti blocchi di acciaio e cemento che assorbono le onde. Perché tutto questo trambusto e quello stanziamento in denaro? I diritti territoriali sono decisi in base all'alta marea, ma quel territorio più meridionale del Giappone stava scomparendo. Di conseguenza sarebbero andati perduti i diritti di pesca ed estrazione mineraria per 320 km intorno all'isola, un'area più grande del Giappone stesso. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/corgiov/message

Can You Secure Security Cameras? The Coming Green Energy Nightmare - Email Scams Hitting Businesses and Lonely Hearts Scams… Eight questions to ask yourself before getting a security camera https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/10/03/8-questions-ask-yourself-getting-home-security-camera/ Security cameras were once the preserve of the rich and famous. Now anyone can get their hands on one thanks to technological advances. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has created a significant new market – for manufacturers of devices like connected doorbells and baby monitors and more sophisticated whole-of-property systems. Connected to home Wi-Fi networks, these devices allow owners to watch live video footage, record video for later, and receive alerts when out of the house. Yet these same features can also expose households to new risks if the camera is compromised and the footage is leaked. Not all vendors have as big a focus on security and privacy as they should. That means you need to ask the right questions before starting. ++++++++ Romance scammer and BEC fraudster sent to prison for 25 years https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/10/04/romance-scammer-and-bec-fraudster-sent-to-prison-for-25-years/ Elvis Eghosa Ogiekpolor was jailed for 25 years in Atlanta, Georgia, for running a cybercrime group that scammed close to $10,000,000 in under two years from individuals and businesses caught up in the so-called romance and BEC scams. BEC is short for business email compromise, an umbrella term for a form of online scam in which the attackers acquire login access to email accounts inside a company so that the fraudulent emails they send don't just seem to come from the company they're attacking, but do come from there. ++++++++ How a deepfake Mark Ruffalo scammed half a million dollars from a lonely heart https://grahamcluley.com/how-a-deepfake-mark-ruffalo-scammed-half-a-million-dollars-from-a-lonely-heart/ The Asahi Shimbun reports that 74-year-old Manga artist Chikae Ide received an unsolicited message via Facebook in February 2018 from somebody claiming to be Ruffalo. With help from some translation software, an initially skeptical Ide responded to the Hollywood actor, attaching a photograph of herself. An American friend of Ide subsequently questioned whether the person claiming to be Ruffalo was genuine, noting that he wrote: “like somebody who has not learned English.” But, says Ide, a 30-second video call blew away any suspicions. “I'm sure it was Mark himself behind the screen chatting with me,” Ide said. Energy… The Coming Green Electricity Nightmare https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/02/the-coming-green-electricity-nightmare/ What this net-zero transition would require: How many millions of wind turbines, billions of solar panels, billions of EVs, backup batteries, millions of transformers, thousands of miles of transmission lines – sprawling across millions of acres of wildlife habitat, scenic and agricultural lands, and people's once-placid backyards? To cite just one example, just the 2,500 wind turbines needed for New York electricity (30,000 megawatts) would require nearly 110,000 tons of copper – which would necessitate mining, crushing, processing, and refining 25 million tons of copper ore … after removing some 40 million tons of overlying rock to reach the ore bodies. Multiply that times 50 states – and the entire world – plus transmission lines. Spooks… FLASHBACK: CIA Sabotaged Soviet Pipeline to Europe in 1982 - US Software Caused Massive Explosion in Siberian Pipeline Seen From Space https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/flashback-cia-sabotaged-soviet-pipeline-europe-1982-us-software-caused-massive-explosion-siberian-pipeline-seen-space/ Back in 1982, the CIA sabotaged a Soviet pipeline in Siberia. US software caused a gas pipeline explosion so large it could be seen in space. The Americans did not want the Europeans to purchase Soviet gas. In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a massive explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a memoir by a Reagan White House official. ++++++++ Former NSA Employee Faces Death Penalty for Selling Secrets https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/ex--nsa-employee-faces-death-penalty-for-selling-secrets When he left his job as an information systems security designer with the National Security Agency, Jareh Sebastian Dalke allegedly took a few classified documents with him. Stealing — and then attempting to sell — those secret government documents could land the Colorado Springs man on death row. Dalke has been charged with trying to sell those government secrets to a foreign government. But, according to a Department of Justice affidavit, the sale went bust when it turned out the potential buyer Dalke believed was an emissary from a foreign nation was an undercover FBI agent. Hackers… Ransomware 3.0: The Next Frontier https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/ransomware-3-the-next-frontier The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 3,729 complaints identified as ransomware in 2021, up 82% from just two years prior and accelerating. According to the Department of Treasury, the top 10 ransomware gangs raked at least $5.2 billion in extortion payments. Ransomware's growth and sheer scale captured leaders' attention in policy and business, but we must keep our eye on how its operators might adapt and evolve to protect their profits. ++++++++ Russian Hackers Take Aim at Kremlin Targets https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/russian-hackers-take-aim-at/ According to a new report, Russian threat actors have begun launching cyber-attacks at targets inside their country in retaliation for what they see as a needless war with Ukraine. The Kyiv Post claimed to have spoken to members of the National Republican Army (NRA), a Russian hacking outfit working towards overthrowing the Putin regime. ++++++++ Relentless Russian Cyberattacks on Ukraine Raise Important Policy Questions https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/russian-cyberattacks-ukraine-raise-important-policy-questions The cyber picture worsened as the war went on because critical infrastructure and systems used to support the war effort ended up in the crosshairs. Soon after the onset of the physical invasion, Microsoft found that it could also correlate cyberattacks in the critical infrastructure sector with kinetic events. For example, as the Russian campaign moved around the Donbas region in March, researchers observed coordinated wiper attacks against transportation logistics systems used for military movement and the delivery of humanitarian aid. And they are targeting nuclear facilities in Ukraine with cyber activity to soften a target before military incursions, which Microsoft researchers have consistently seen throughout the war.

“THE BIGFOOT OF HIROSHIMA” and 4 More Strange True Stories! #WeirdDarknessClick here to find Weird Darkness in your favorite podcast app: https://linktr.ee/weirddarkness IN THIS EPISODE: Learning of other races and cultures has been something man has sought knowledge of ever since they first discovered other races and cultures existed. But that's the thing – you have to know those races and cultures existed in the first place. And there is one race known as the Oghar that very few know about – and it has been practically wiped from history. (Mystery of the Oghars) *** Lakes are often scenes of brutal crimes and dumping ground for murder victims, but you don't often hear of the lake itself being the murderer. But one lake killed 1,700 people… in a single night. (The Lake Exploded) *** Imagine moving into a new home only to realize it already has a resident ghost living there – but not only that, but the ghost enjoys having full-blown two-way conversations with you through the walls. (The Beastie In The Walls) *** In 1593, a Spanish soldier named Gil Pérez claimed he traveled over 9,000 miles in just a few seconds. Supposedly he disappeared in Manila and appeared in Mexico. Is there any truth to the story, or evidence to back up his claim? (The Man Who Teleported) *** If you are a fan of the Neverglades Mysteries series that I've been releasing once in a while on Creepypasta Thursdays, then you'll want to listen through the end of the Chamber of Comments because there's a little piece of news about the Neverglades you might like to hear. *** A strange sighting took place in 1970 in Hiroshima Prefecture – and the way it's described, it sounds like Japan might have it's very own Sasquatch! And now, decades later – that beast might save the town it was spotted in. (The Bigfoot of Hiroshima)(Dark Archives episode from October 09, 2020)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“The Bigfoot of Hiroshima” by Kohei Higashitani for The Asahi Shimbun: https://tinyurl.com/yxumxbju “Mystery of the Oghars” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://tinyurl.com/y54y8pl8 “The Lake Exploded” by Christina Skelton: https://tinyurl.com/y52q8l37 “The Beastie In The Walls” posted at Fortean Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/y5bxyfx8 “The Man Who Teleported” by Paolo Chua for Esquire Magazine: https://tinyurl.com/y3ez3aox = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness Publishing: https://weirddarkness.com/publishingVisit the Church of the Undead: http://undead.church/ Find out how to escape eternal darkness at https://weirddarkness.com/eternaldarkness = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music, EpidemicSound and/or AudioBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ), Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and/or Nicolas Gasparini/Myuu (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission. 

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In this episode of the Reischauer Center's podcast, "Asia in Washington," hosts Adriana Reinecke and Jada Fraser sit down with Dr. Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies program at Northeastern University, to discuss the role social ties play in disasters and shocks. Dr. Aldrich explains the differences between "vertical" and "horizontal" ties and provides examples of innovative projects around the world aimed at strengthening community and societal resilience through the development of these ties. He also explains the critical role that these ties played in the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, and continue to play in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. Dr. Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies program at Northeastern University. An award-winning author, Dr. Aldrich has published five books, including "Building Resilience" and "Black Wave," as well as more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and op-eds for the New York Times, CNN, and Asahi Shimbun, along with appearing on popular media outlets such as CNBC, MSNBC, NPR and the Huffington Post. Dr. Aldrich has spent more than five years carrying out fieldwork in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the Abe Foundation. Recorded on Thursday, December 9, 2021. Sound-edited by Lauren Mosely. Produced by Neave Denny. From Asia in Washington, an Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies Podcast. To read a transcript of this episode, please visit: https://www.reischauercenter.org/podcasts/building-resilience-through-social-ties-covid-19-and-3-11-with-dr-daniel-aldrich/

How can we develop vaccines more quickly? What kinds of study designs are used (or could be used) during vaccine development? In pandemic situations, we need to roll out vaccines quickly; but even if we can develop and test a vaccine quickly and thoroughly, how confident can we be that there won't be long-term risks? Between ethics and pragmatics, which facet should communicators emphasize when trying to convince organizations and institutions to adopt certain vaccine development strategies? Informed consent is, of course, a hugely important requirement for using human volunteers in challenge trials; so if some people are informed, eager, and willing to volunteer their health and safety for such trials in order to aid vaccine development, then why aren't they being used more (if at all)? Since IRBs are often "all brakes and no gas", could they be given powers to accelerate research in addition to their current powers to slow or halt research? How can bioethics reviews be improved?Josh Morrison is a serial social entrepreneur and aspiring effective altruist who has founded 1Day Sooner, Waitlist Zero, and the Rikers Debate Project. His work — in the fields of clinical trials, living organ donation, and criminal justice reform — focuses on empowering particular identity groups (research participants, kidney donors, and incarcerated people) to improve decision-making processes so as to achieve impactful policy. His projects have been covered globally in outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, the Financial Times, the BBC, Der Spiegel, Asahi Shimbun, and the South China Morning Post. His writing has been published in the Washington Post, the American Journal of Bioethics, Clinical Infectious Disease, Vaccine, Risk Analysis, Vox, STAT News, and BMJ Opinion. You can email him at josh@1daysooner.org.

How can we develop vaccines more quickly? What kinds of study designs are used (or could be used) during vaccine development? In pandemic situations, we need to roll out vaccines quickly; but even if we can develop and test a vaccine quickly and thoroughly, how confident can we be that there won't be long-term risks? Between ethics and pragmatics, which facet should communicators emphasize when trying to convince organizations and institutions to adopt certain vaccine development strategies? Informed consent is, of course, a hugely important requirement for using human volunteers in challenge trials; so if some people are informed, eager, and willing to volunteer their health and safety for such trials in order to aid vaccine development, then why aren't they being used more (if at all)? Since IRBs are often "all brakes and no gas", could they be given powers to accelerate research in addition to their current powers to slow or halt research? How can bioethics reviews be improved?Josh Morrison is a serial social entrepreneur and aspiring effective altruist who has founded 1Day Sooner, Waitlist Zero, and the Rikers Debate Project. His work — in the fields of clinical trials, living organ donation, and criminal justice reform — focuses on empowering particular identity groups (research participants, kidney donors, and incarcerated people) to improve decision-making processes so as to achieve impactful policy. His projects have been covered globally in outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, the Financial Times, the BBC, Der Spiegel, Asahi Shimbun, and the South China Morning Post. His writing has been published in the Washington Post, the American Journal of Bioethics, Clinical Infectious Disease, Vaccine, Risk Analysis, Vox, STAT News, and BMJ Opinion. You can email him at josh@1daysooner.org.[Read more]

How can we develop vaccines more quickly? What kinds of study designs are used (or could be used) during vaccine development? In pandemic situations, we need to roll out vaccines quickly; but even if we can develop and test a vaccine quickly and thoroughly, how confident can we be that there won't be long-term risks? Between ethics and pragmatics, which facet should communicators emphasize when trying to convince organizations and institutions to adopt certain vaccine development strategies? Informed consent is, of course, a hugely important requirement for using human volunteers in challenge trials; so if some people are informed, eager, and willing to volunteer their health and safety for such trials in order to aid vaccine development, then why aren't they being used more (if at all)? Since IRBs are often "all brakes and no gas", could they be given powers to accelerate research in addition to their current powers to slow or halt research? How can bioethics reviews be improved?Josh Morrison is a serial social entrepreneur and aspiring effective altruist who has founded 1Day Sooner, Waitlist Zero, and the Rikers Debate Project. His work — in the fields of clinical trials, living organ donation, and criminal justice reform — focuses on empowering particular identity groups (research participants, kidney donors, and incarcerated people) to improve decision-making processes so as to achieve impactful policy. His projects have been covered globally in outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, the Financial Times, the BBC, Der Spiegel, Asahi Shimbun, and the South China Morning Post. His writing has been published in the Washington Post, the American Journal of Bioethics, Clinical Infectious Disease, Vaccine, Risk Analysis, Vox, STAT News, and BMJ Opinion. You can email him at josh@1daysooner.org. [Read full episode transcript]

英语新闻集锦|连内衣颜色都要管束？东京学校终于废止多项苛刻规范| Tokyo schools drop controversial dress code on hair and underwear colorFor decades, being a student in Tokyo meant you had to look a certain way. Under the public school system's dress code, all students had to dye their hair black, certain hairstyles were prohibited and even their underwear had to be a designated color.过去几十年，在东京上学意味着你的着装必须符合规范。根据东京公立学校的着装规范，所有学生都必须把头发染成黑色，不准留特定发型，甚至连内衣也必须穿指定的颜色。But these rules, which have recently come under scrutiny and been criticized as outdated, will now be abolished, the city's authorities announced this week.这些规范最近受到质疑并被批过时，东京政府部门本周宣布将废止这些规范。A total of five rules will be dropped by nearly 200 public schools across the Japanese capital, including regulations on hair and underwear color, and a ban on "two block" hairstyles, which are long on top and short at the back and sides -- a style currently in fashion in many countries.东京各地近200所公立学校将有5条着装规定被废止，包括头发和内衣颜色方面的规范，以及对“二分区式”发型的禁令。这种发型前面长，两边和后面短，眼下在许多国家都很流行。Other rules being cut include the practice of punishing students with a form of house arrest, and ambiguous language in the guidelines on what is considered "typical of high school students."其他被废止的规定包括用关禁闭的方式惩罚学生，以及学生守则中模糊提到的“高中生应遵守的”各种规定。The policy changes go into effect at the start of the new academic year on April 1. The move came after Tokyo's board of education conducted a survey last year that asked schools, students and parents about their views on the policies.这一政策变动将于4月1日新学年开始时生效。东京都教育委员会去年开展了一项调查，就这一政策询问学校、学生和家长的意见。Tokyo isn't the only Japanese city with a strict dress code -- similar rules are in effect around the country, with many schools requiring students to wear shoes and socks of a designated color.东京不是唯一一个着装要求严格的日本城市，日本各地的学校都实行类似的着装规范，许多学校要求学生穿指定颜色的鞋袜。Schools in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu, also have rules restricting students' hairstyles and dictating both the color and pattern of their underwear, according to Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.据《朝日新闻》报道，九州岛福冈市的学校也限制学生的发型，并要求学生穿指定颜色和款式的内衣。Like Tokyo, Fukuoka conducted a public survey last year, in which students complained that the dress code caused them stress and limited their self-expression, Asahi reported.《朝日新闻》报道称，和东京一样，福冈市去年也开展了一项公开调查，受访的学生抱怨说着装规范给他们带来了压力，限制了他们的自我表达。The issue was thrust into the spotlight in 2017 when a high school student in Osaka prefecture sued her school, a case that attracted national attention and prompted widespread public debate on restrictive dress codes.2017年，由于大阪府的一名高中生起诉学校，着装规范问题成为关注焦点。这一案件吸引了全国的目光，并引发了公众对约束性着装规范的广泛讨论。She alleged that she had been forced to dye her naturally brown hair black when she first joined the school, and was told to re-dye it every time her brown roots grew back, according to Asahi. She was eventually given academic penalties for not dyeing it often enough.据《朝日新闻》报道，这名学生声称她刚进学校时被迫将天生的褐色头发染成黑色，每次她的褐色头发长出来老师都让她重新染发。后来她甚至因为染发染得不够勤而受到学术惩罚。Her lawsuit complained that the frequent coloring had damaged her hair and scalp, and caused her mental distress. Last year, she won 330,000 yen in damages.她在起诉书中抱怨说，频繁染发损害了她的发质和头皮，并给她带来了精神上的痛苦。去年，她胜诉并获得33万日元（约合人民币17612元）的损害赔偿。Other students and families have since spoken out with similar complaints, while several schools have announced changes to their dress codes.自那以后，其他学生和家长也纷纷提出了类似的投诉，一些学校已宣布将更改着装规范。This spring, a school in Ube, Yamaguchi prefecture, will become the first in the city to introduce a "genderless" uniform, with students of all genders given a choice between slacks and skirts, Asahi reported -- a major break from the strictly gendered dress codes still widespread in Japan.据《朝日新闻》报道，今年春天，山口县宇部市的一所学校在日本首次推出“无性别”制服，所有性别的学生都可以选择穿宽松长裤或半身裙，打破了日本当前仍十分普遍的性别分明的着装规范。Ants can sniff out cancer in humans科学家发现蚂蚁能嗅出癌症Ants have the ability to sniff out cancerous cells in humans, a new study has discovered, suggesting they could be used for cancer diagnosis in the future.一项新研究发现，蚂蚁能嗅出人体内的癌细胞，这表明蚂蚁可用于未来对癌症的诊断。Researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) discovered that ant species Formica fusca has a well developed sense of smell.法国国家科学研究中心的研究人员发现，丝光褐林蚁的嗅觉非常发达。It was able to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells in humans, thanks to their sense of smell, limited trials revealed.有限的试验显示，这种蚂蚁的嗅觉超强，能够将人体的癌细胞同健康细胞区分开来。But more clinical tests must be carried out before they could be used in clinical settings like hospitals, the team said.但是该研究团队表示，还需要进行更多临床测试才能将丝光褐林蚁用于医院等临床环境中。abolish 英[əˈbɒlɪʃ];美[əˈbɒlɪʃ]v.废除，废止，取消prefecture 英 [ˈpriːfektʃə(r)]; 美 [ˈpriːfektʃər]n.辖区，省，县；地方行政长官职务（或任期）；地方行政长官官邸（或公署）scalp英 [skælp]; 美 [skælp]n.头皮；战利品vt.剥头皮vi.剥头皮

In today's Episode Ralph speaks with Elbridge A. Colby (@ElbridgeColby on Twitter). Mr. Colby is the co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. He is the author of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict (Yale University Press), which The Wall Street Journal selected as one of the top ten books of 2021. Colby's work has appeared in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest as well as in international outlets such as Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, Nikkei Asia, The Hindustan Times, The Australian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Internationale Politik, Die Zeit, Le Figaro, The Spectator, Survival, La Stampa, The Taipei Times, Hankook Ilbo, The New Straits Times, and The Manila Standard. He is also the author of many book chapters, reports, and articles on defense and foreign policy issues. He has testified a number of times before Congress and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Colby is a recipient of the Distinguished and Exceptional Public Service Awards from the Department of Defense and of the Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards from the Department of State. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute of Strategic Studies, Colby is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the1020/support

25 Tháng 1 Là Ngày Gì? Hôm Nay Là Ngày Sinh Của Cầu Thủ Xavi SỰ KIỆN 1980 – Mẹ Teresa được trao tặng giải thưởng cao nhất của Ấn Độ là Bharat Ratna. 1879 – Tại Osaka, Asahi Shimbun được phát hành lần đầu tiên, nay là nhật báo lớn thứ hai của Nhật Bản 1961 - Tại Washington, DC, Tổng thống Hoa Kỳ John F.Kennedy tổ chức cuộc họp báo tổng thống trực tiếp đầu tiên . 1890 - Nellie Bly hoàn thành hành trình vòng quanh thế giới trong 72 ngày. 1881 - Thomas Edison và Alexander Graham Bell thành lập Công ty Điện thoại Phương Đông . Sinh 1984 – Robinho, cầu thủ bóng đá người Brasil 1981 – Alicia Keys, ca sĩ, diễn viên người Mỹ 1783 - William Colgate , doanh nhân người Mỹ gốc Anh và nhà từ thiện, thành lập Colgate-Palmolive (mất năm 1857) 1822 - Charles Reed Bishop , doanh nhân, nhà từ thiện và chính trị gia người Mỹ, thành lập Bảo tàng Bishop (mất năm 1915) 1980 - Xavi , cầu thủ bóng đá Tây Ban Nha Mất 2000 – Trầm Tử Thiêng, nhạc sĩ người Việt Nam-Mỹ (s. 1937) 1881 - Konstantin Thon , kiến ​​trúc sư người Nga, thiết kế Cung điện Grand Kremlin và Nhà thờ Chúa Cứu thế (sinh năm 1794) Chương trình "Hôm nay ngày gì" hiện đã có mặt trên Youtube, Facebook và Spotify: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aweektv - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AWeekTV - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rC4CgZNV6tJpX2RIcbK0J - Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../h%C3%B4m-nay.../id1586073418 #aweektv #25thang1 #Xavi #AliciaKeys #Teresa #Colgate #GrandKremlin Các video đều thuộc quyền sở hữu của Adwell jsc (adwell.vn), mọi hành động sử dụng lại nội dung của chúng tôi đều không được phép. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message

Photo:   Mount Tokachi 1962 eruption. Taken by Asahi Shimbun.  #Australia and #Japan Defence Pact contains the PRC. Gregory Copley @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs https://news.yahoo.com/australia-japan-sign-defense-pact-065841476.html Gregory R Copley, @Gregory_Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs.  

In this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik speaks with Josh Rogin, Washington Post foreign policy columnist and CNN political analyst, about the tectonic shifts in America's China policy, how Republicans and Democrats are engaging these shifting dynamics, and what the future of US-China relations could look like. Guest Biography Josh Rogin is a Washington Post foreign-policy columnist and CNN political analyst. He has reported for Bloomberg View, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Computer Week, and Japan's Asahi Shimbun. He lives in Washington, DC. Resources from the Conversation Read Josh's book, Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century Read Josh's reporting about the University of Texas-Austin Read Josh's reporting about congressional efforts to block legislation honoring Liu Xiaobo Read background on China's earlier coverup of the SARS virus Read Josh's reporting about congressional leadership blocking Hong Kong legislation Read Josh's reporting about congressional Democrats pulling out of the China Task Force Read Josh's reporting about congressional legislation to compete with China Read Josh's reporting about the Biden administration's stance on Uyghur human rights legislation

Don Krieger is a biomedical researcher whose focus is the electric activity within the brain. He is author of the 2020 hybrid collection, "Discovery"  (Cyberwit), the 2022 hybrid chapbook, "When Danger Is Past, Who Remembers?" (Milk and Cake Press), a 2020 Pushcart nominee, and  a 2020 Creative Nonfiction Foundation Science-as-Story Fellow. His work has appeared in American Journal of Nursing, Neurology, Seneca Review, The Asahi Shimbun, The Blue Nib, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,  and others, and has been translated into Farsi, Greek, Italian, German, and Turkish. 

This week we watch The Junji Ito Collection at the recommendation of Jeb from our discord and It was interesting, to say the least. Rick though, this time was not able to finish but not because he didn't have time but because it was too scary for him. Jack on the other hand had no issues with finishing it and didn't find it scary but rather he was left empty as it did not give him the thrills he was seeking for a month of spook that he craves. But regardless if you get scared or not it is entertaining and it was still good. Middle of the road for Jack and top tier for Rick but it did do what it was supposed to do for him at least.   Producers: Nippon Columbia, Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri TV Enterprise, Pony Canyon Enterprise, Smiral Animation, Crunchyroll SC Anime Fund, Muse Communication Studio: Studio Deen Aired: Janurary 2018 - May 2018 Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural Psychological Source: Manga Number Of Episodes: 12 OAVs: 2   Jack's score: 5 / 10 Rick's score: 9 / 10
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Continued from Part 1… Firms move people every few years to nurture managers with broad experience and also as a way to ensure supplier relationships don't encourage fraud, said Rochelle Kopp, the founder of consulting firm Japan Intercultural. “Under Japanese labor law, if you are a permanent employee, refusing a job transfer or other job assignment is the same as saying that you are quitting,” said Kopp. Many solo workers are middle-aged men who transfer alone to avoid disrupting family life. Researchers at Ritsumeikan University, using census data and government surveys, estimate there may be as many as 1 million solo workers. But more than two-thirds of 3,131 respondents in an Asahi Shimbun survey published in February 2020 described the assignments as unnecessary. During his four-year stint in Yokohama, Tatebayashi saw his family once every two months, even less when pandemic lockdowns curbed travel. He chose to live alone because he had just bought a house in Fukuoka and didn't want to take his daughters out of school or away from their grandparents nearby. The government has largely ignored solo workers in recent labor reforms, which focus instead on curbing excessive overtime following several deaths from overwork. Tatebayashi reckoned it will take a month or so for family life to return to normal in Fukuoka. “My kids are happy about it ... but my wife says she'll find it hard to relax if I am around the house all the time,” he said. (Reuters) This article was provided by The Japan Times Alpha.

Solidariedade, paz, resiliência e esperança. Essas quatro palavras sintetizam o discurso feito pelo presidente do Comitê Olímpico Internacional (COI), Thomas Bach, na cerimônia de abertura dos Jogos Olímpicos de Tóquio, realizada na sexta-feira (23). Obviamente o dirigente alemão se referia à pandemia da Covid-19, que fez esta Olimpíada ser adiada por um ano e a transformou em um evento bastante atípico: pela primeira vez na história, os Jogos estão sendo realizados sem público. Gilberto Yoshinaga, correspondente da RFI em Tóquio Thomas Bach, inclusive, comparou a pandemia a um túnel muito escuro e crê que o maior evento esportivo do mundo possa trazer luz a esse túnel. “Estamos unidos para compartilhar este momento juntos. A chama olímpica faz esta luz brilhar”, discursou. Residente no Japão desde 1989, o advogado brasileiro Etsuo Ishikawa liderou o programa de recepção e aclimatação de parte da delegação olímpica brasileira, na cidade de Hamamatsu (província de Shizuoka). Ele lembra que o adiamento dos Jogos foi como um balde de água gelada na programação que vinha sendo planejada desde 2013, o que exigiu da organização algo a que os japoneses não estão acostumados: o improviso. “2020 foi realmente um estresse muito grande, refazer toda a programação, a cultura japonesa envolve muito planejamento, muito ensaio, envolve muitas responsabilidades. Se a gente comparar o padrão mundial de responsabilidade, no Japão a régua é um pouco mais acima. Então eles têm um cuidado muito grande com tudo e o Japão teve de lidar com uma coisa que é mais difícil pra eles, que é o improviso”, lembra o advogado. “E, com a ginga brasileira, temos conseguido conciliar bons resultados. Enfim, 2020 foi realmente um balde de água gelada na cabeça de todo mundo que trabalhou durante quatro anos com afinco", disse. ‘Playbook' estabelece regras de prevenção Ishikawa reconhece que, com uma campanha de vacinação ainda em andamento no Japão e incertezas quanto aos rumos da pandemia, a realização da Olimpíada não deixa de representar riscos. Uma pesquisa divulgada na segunda-feira (19) pelo jornal japonês Asahi Shimbun apontou que 55% da população japonesa ainda se posicionam contrários à realização do evento. Mas o advogado, que também é consultor do Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro (COB), lembra que a organização dos Jogos criou um “playbook”, espécie de manual com protocolos e regras rígidas para evitar a disseminação do coronavírus. “O playbook editado pelo próprio comitê olímpico, endossado pelo governo federal e incrementado pela cidade de Hamamatsu, foi realmente muito rigoroso”, explica. “Esse rigor todo foi exatamente para proteger as delegações brasileiras, para que não houvesse nenhum problema de Covid-19 positivado, o que poderia prematuramente tirar a oportunidade de participar dos Jogos.” Mesmo com todos os cuidados e restrições preconizados pela organização da Olimpíada, que Ishikawa chama de “bolha”, até este sábado (24) já tinham sido confirmados 123 casos de Covid-19 ligados aos Jogos, incluindo atletas, comissões técnicas, dirigentes e estafes do evento. Ele lembra que essa possibilidade já era considerada, devido ao grande número de pessoas envolvidas. Só o contingente de atletas chega a quase 13 mil, somando-se as 206 delegações participantes. “Não dá para cravarmos que dentro da bolha haveria uma segurança total, mesmo porque já temos notícias de casos positivados na própria Vila [Olímpica]. Mas é um risco que se está correndo e, naturalmente, isso tem um preço”, acrescenta o advogado. “Todas as delegações internacionais que chegaram para participar dos Jogos têm isso em mente. Todos assinaram um termo de responsabilidade com relação ao cumprimento do que prevê o playbook.” Atletas lamentam ausência de público Do ponto de vista de quem não reside no Japão, o jornalista André Rossi chegou a Tóquio no dia 6 para cumprir os 14 dias de isolamento determinados pelo governo japonês – a tempo de poder trabalhar na cobertura dos Jogos para o portal Olimpíada Todo Dia. Ao menos entre os atletas brasileiros, ele diz ter notado uma grande preocupação com os cuidados sanitários. Afinal, contrair o coronavírus significaria a automática eliminação da competição. “A percepção que tenho dos atletas, a respeito da pandemia, é que eles entendem tudo o que têm de fazer e estão respeitando tudo pelos motivos óbvios, mas principalmente porque sabem que, se eles pegarem [a Covid-19], estão fora dos Jogos. É como se fosse uma lesão.” De acordo com o jornalista, a grande unanimidade entre os atletas brasileiros parece ser a lamentação com relação à ausência de público nos locais de competição. "A única coisa que eles lamentam, e que é compreensível, é a falta de público, é terem de competir sem público”, conta. “Eles lamentam e percebe-se que é uma coisa verdadeira. Compreendem e não acham que isso vai ser um diferencial para ir bem ou ir mal nas provas, mas lamentam o fato de não ter público.” Japão possui histórico de superações A Olimpíada de Tóquio ainda está em seus primeiros dias e os rumos da pandemia ainda são incertos em todo o planeta. Em consonância com o discurso do presidente do COI, o advogado Ishikawa lembra que o Japão possui um histórico de superações que pode fazer do arquipélago, mais uma vez, um exemplo inspirador para o resto do mundo. "Dentro da história mundial, o Japão sempre foi acometido por tragédias naturais. A gente vê numa história mais recente a questão do próprio terremoto, do tsunami, e sem falar na questão da guerra, da bomba atômica, aquela coisa toda, e o Japão se recuperando ao longo dos anos, sempre depois de uma tragédia”, recapitula. “Há um ditado que diz que depois da tempestade vem a bonança. O Japão, sempre que se vê em uma situação muito difícil, consegue, com muita dedicação, foco, empenho e sacrifico de toda a população, superá-la", sublinha. Principal desafio é não haver percalços Já o jornalista André Rossi, que elogia a estrutura e o nível de organização da Olimpíada, também reconhece o Japão como exemplo de superação. Mas prefere ser mais cauteloso em comentários sobre a pandemia e acredita que o principal desafio do momento é que os Jogos sejam realizados sem grandes percalços. Depois da Olimpíada, que será encerrada em 8 de agosto, Tóquio ainda sediará a Paralimpíada, entre os dias 24 de agosto e 5 de setembro. “Acredito que, quando passarem os Jogos, e Deus queira que tudo dê certo da melhor maneira possível, sem nada mais grave ou uma explosão de casos em geral... Se isso acontecer, creio que vai ser um grande alívio, tanto para as autoridades quanto para o povo japonês e o mundo em geral: ‘Ufa, conseguimos fazer [a Olimpíada]'", avalia.

This week, in Part Two of the Cancel the Olympics series, Miguel spoke to Political Scientist Dr. Jules Boykoff (@JulesBoykoff) about the Tokyo Olympics being held later this month despite concerns with COVID-19, the spectacle of the Olympics sacrificing lives in the name of capitalism, the potential of athletes protesting the games, and much more! Dr. Jules Boykoff is the author of four books on the Olympic Games. His newest books, NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Beyond (Fernwood, 2020) and Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso, 2016). His writing on the Olympics has appeared in places such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Asahi Shimbun. Previously, Jules was a professional soccer player who represented the U.S. Olympic Soccer Team in international competitions. He teaches political science at Pacific University in Oregon. Next, Miguel gives you his Molotov MVP for episode 22, Olympic Hammer Thrower, Gwen Berry (@MzBerryThrows). On Saturday, June 26, 2021, Gwen Berry placed third in the hammer throw competition at the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials, which qualified Berry for the Tokyo Olympics, beginning on July 23, 2021. However, when she stood up at the podium to recognize her third-place finish, she was shocked to hear the Star-Spangled Banner begin to play. At that moment, Gwen Berry made history and showed courage in speaking truth to power! Berry responded to the playing of the national anthem by turning her back away from the American Flag and draping a t-shirt over her head that read, "Activist Athlete." Miguel ends the podcast with another Chicana/o Sports History segment. He highlights a legendary Mexican/Chicano Basketball player from the 1930s and 40s, Jose "Joe" Placencia. "The sharp-shooting King of the Mexican all-stars" led the Men's Mexican National Basketball team to the Bronze Medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany (The Nazi/Hitler Olympics). Miguel Garcia produced this episode. Be sure to listen/subscribe to the Sports As A Weapon Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer, and more!Follow us on:Twitter: @sportsasaweaponFacebook: fb.com/sportsasaweaponpodcastInstagram: @sportsasaweaponpodcastVisit our website: www.sportsasaweapon.com Links:  A Sports Event Shouldn't Be a Superspreader. Cancel the Olympics. (Jules Boykoff-The New York Times) A Bribery Scandal Hits the '2020' Tokyo Olympics (Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff-The Nation Magazine) Gwen Berry Is the Hero We Need (Dave Zirin-The Nation Magazine) Tokyo Olympic spectator cap set at 10,000 people per venue (Kyodo News) Anti-Olympics Protester Squirts Water on the Olympic Torch during the Olympic Torch Rally in Japan (via Jules Boykoff/Twitter) BNC News: Olympian Gwen Berry responds to critics (Video)

Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper called for the Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled with the games set to open in less than two months.It is the first of Japan's major newspapers to make the move and joins some regional newspapers that have recently added to the growing opposition to holding the Olympics.Coming out against the Olympics could be significant since the newspaper, like many in Japan, is a sponsor of the postponed Tokyo Games that are scheduled to open on July 23. Asahi is typically liberal-leaning and often opposes the ruling party led by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga."We cannot think it's rational to host the Olympics in the city this summer," the newspaper said in its editorial under a headline that read: "We Demand PM Suga Decide Cancellation.""Distrust and backlash against the reckless national government, Tokyo government and stakeholders in the Olympics are nothing but escalating," the editorial added. "We demand Prime Minister Suga to calmly evaluate the circumstances and decide the cancellation of the summer event."Asahi has a morning circulation reported at 5.16 million, and 1.55 million for its evening edition. It is second in circulation behind Yomiuri Shimbun, and subsequently is the second largest circulating newspaper in the world behind Yomiuri.Despite the editorial, there is no indication the International Olympic Committee or local organizers have any plans to pull the plug on the games. But opposition is mounting with only a tiny percentage of Japanese people now vaccinated.Tokyo organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said Wednesday he was aware of the editorial, but offered little response.Asahi is one of about 70 local Olympic sponsors that have chipped in almost $3.5 billion to the organizing committee budget. It is also one of a half dozen newspapers that are sponsors."Of course, different press organizations have different views. And that's very natural," Muto said, adding local partners, or sponsors, continued to offer "support."Senior IOC member Richard Pound said in an interview with Japan's JiJi Press last week that the final deadline to call off the Olympics was still a month away."Before the end of June, you really need to know, yes or no," JiJi quoted Pound as saying.The British Medical Journal called last month for a hard look at going forward with the Olympics. Local medical officials have also been skeptical, and billionaire businessman Masayoshi Son suggested over the weekend that the IOC was forcing the Olympics on Japan."Right now, more than 80% of the nation's people want the Olympics postponed or canceled," said Son, the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. who also owns the SoftBank Hawks baseball team."Who is forcing this to go ahead, and under what rights?" Son added.Asahi also criticized the IOC, calling it "self-righteous" and also lambasted IOC vice president John Coates. Last week, Coates was asked if the Olympics would be held if a state of emergency were in force."Absolutely, yes," he replied.The newspaper said there was a "huge gap" between Coates' words and the sentiments "of the people.""Despite its overgrown size and excessive commercialism and many other problems, the Olympics have been supported because of empathy for its ideals. ... But what is the reality now?" Asahi asked.On Tuesday, the Japanese government said a warning by the United States to avoid travel to Japan would have no impact on holding the Olympics.Japan has officially spent $15.4 billion to organize the Olympics, and government audits suggest it might be much larger. The IOC gets billions from selling broadcast rights, which amounts to about 75% of its income.Public opinion polls in Japan show between 60-80% want the Olympics canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and an online petition asking the games be canceled has gained 400,000 signatures in a few weeks.Tokyo, Osaka and other regions of the country are under a state of emergency that is likely to be extended p...

1-La lotta paga. In Francia dopo 23 mesi di mobilitazione e 8 di sciopero un gruppo di donne delle pulizie ha vinto la sua battaglia contro Accor il gigante del settore alberghiero.(Luisa Nannipieri)..2-Forti Pressioni sull'Oms per riaprire l'inchiesta sulle origini del coronavarus. Il punto di Esteri.(Martina Stefanoni)..3-Per contrastare la campagna no vax Bruxelles intende rafforzare il codice dei social media.(Marco Schiaffino)..4-Giappone, Il principale quotidiano Asahi Shimbun,esce allo scoperto e chiede la cancellazione delle olimpiadi a causa dell'emergenza sanitaria.(Disma Pestalozza)..5-Ulster, la Brexit rschia di riaccendere il conflitto e conferma la fragilità della stabilità.(Emanuele Valenti) ..6-Amazon, azionisti chiamati a decidere se rendere pubblici i dati che indicano la quantità di plastica prodotta dall'azienda.(Marianna Mancini)..7-Progetti sostenibili: L'adattamento climatico si basa anche sulla gestione delle piogge. Il caso di Middelfart in Danimarca. (Fabio Fimiani)

1-La lotta paga. In Francia dopo 23 mesi di mobilitazione e 8 di sciopero un gruppo di donne delle pulizie ha vinto la sua battaglia contro Accor il gigante del settore alberghiero.(Luisa Nannipieri)..2-Forti Pressioni sull’Oms per riaprire l’inchiesta sulle origini del coronavarus. Il punto di Esteri.(Martina Stefanoni)..3-Per contrastare la campagna no vax Bruxelles intende rafforzare il codice dei social media.(Marco Schiaffino)..4-Giappone, Il principale quotidiano Asahi Shimbun,esce allo scoperto e chiede la cancellazione delle olimpiadi a causa dell’emergenza sanitaria.(Disma Pestalozza)..5-Ulster, la Brexit rschia di riaccendere il conflitto e conferma la fragilità della stabilità.(Emanuele Valenti) ..6-Amazon, azionisti chiamati a decidere se rendere pubblici i dati che indicano la quantità di plastica prodotta dall’azienda.(Marianna Mancini)..7-Progetti sostenibili: L’adattamento climatico si basa anche sulla gestione delle piogge. Il caso di Middelfart in Danimarca. (Fabio Fimiani)

Hyun Lee, national organizer for Women Cross DMZ, talks to us about the recent summit with US President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, how talks with the U.S. could impact South Korea’s relationship with China, now that the U.S. is has increasingly tense relations with China, and how South Korea should trace its own path in the world separate from superpower tensions. We also talk about the Biden administration’s approach to North Korea and how its focus on full denuclearization could be a non-starter in any future negotiations.Chris Garaffa, web developer, technologist, security and privacy consultant joins us to talk about Florida passing a law preventing social media companies from banning politicians, candidates, and news content, and how this could actually be good for free speech. We also talk about a provision of a bill in Canada that would make streaming media sites promote Canadian content within Canada, and Washington, DC’s attorney general Karl Racine suing Amazon for abusing its monopoly by not letting independent sellers offer lower prices outside the Amazon platform.Alan Macleod, author, journalist and media analyst and a member of the Glasgow University Media Group, talks to us about how the US government quietly removing a group called ETIM from its list of terrorist organizations after fighting them in Afghanistan for years and how this is purely political move now that the group has reinvented itself as a Uyghur separatist group that is fighting China. We also talk about Bill Gates and his foundation’s funding so many mainstream news organizations and what this means for the media landscape, and Blinken’s statements regarding support for Mahmoud Abbas despite the fact that he has lost his legitimacy in the eyes of the Palestinians.Nate Wallace, creator and co-host of the podcast Redspin Sports, talks to us about how sports can be used as a tool by neo-liberalism to distract from how it ravages poor communities, and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper is calling on the government to cancel the Summer Olympics in Tokyo over COVID concerns.

El diario japonés Asahi Shimbun propone cancelar los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020.

In a very special Worldly episode, Zack, Jenn, and Alex answer YOUR questions! From the many great listener questions sent in over the last several weeks, the gang picked four to answer in this week’s episode: What is “the Quad” and how does it fit into geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific; what’s driving migration to the US from Central America; why Imperial Japan’s use of Korean forced labor and “comfort women” in the 1930s and ’40s continues to complicate relations between Japan and South Korea today; and how to go about explaining world affairs topics to folks who don’t have a deep background in these subjects. References: Alex wrote an explainer on “the Quad.” Vox has a piece on the hurricane’s effects in Central America. Here’s Jen Kirby’s story about a better US policy for the Golden Triangle. This is the Washington Post analysis on the situation at the border. Deutsche Welle has a smart explainer on the forced labor issue on the Korean Peninsula. The Asahi Shimbun has a report on the Japanese firms facing a wartime damages suit. Hosts: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), senior correspondent, Vox Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth), senior foreign editor, Vox Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox), White House reporter, Vox   Consider contributing to Vox: If you value Worldly’s work, please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts   More to explore: Subscribe for free to Today, Explained, Vox’s daily podcast to help you understand the news, hosted by Sean Rameswaram.   About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines.   Follow Us: Vox.com  Newsletter: Vox Sentences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With just five months and six days to go until the Olympic opening ceremony, large parts of Japan are still under a state of emergency, and the first vaccine has only just been approved for use here. As if those weren’t big enough challenges to overcome, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee was plunged into scandal earlier this month after its president, Yoshiro Mori, suggested that women talk too much in board meetings, leading to his eventual resignation. Read more: Tokyo Olympics Chief Apologizes for Remarks Demeaning Women (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/sports/olympics/tokyo-olympics-yoshiro-mori.html)   (Motoko Rich, The New York Times) Tokyo Olympics Chief Resigns Over Sexist Comments (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/world/asia/yoshiro-mori-tokyo-olympics-resigns.html) (Motoko Rich, The New York Times) Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto eyed as next Tokyo Games chief (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/17/national/hashimoto-tokyo-olympics-mori/) (Ryusei Takahashi, The Japan Times) Activists demand reform after Tokyo Olympic sexism furor (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/13/national/activists-reform-furor/) (AFP-Jiji via The Japan Times) How 'indispensable' Mori came to enjoy huge influence in politics and sport (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/02/12/national/mori-influence-politics-sport/) (Eric Johnston, The Japan Times) On this episode: Motoko Rich: Twitter (https://twitter.com/motokorich) | Articles (https://www.nytimes.com/by/motoko-rich) Oscar Boyd: Twitter (https://twitter.com/omhboyd) | Articles (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/author/oscar-boyd/) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/oscar.boyd/) Motoko at the Gender Symposium Japan 2021 Motoko Rich will be joining panelists from the Asahi Shimbun and New York Times on March 3, 2021, at 3 p.m  to discuss gender inequality in Japan and around the world, sharing stories to highlight challenges and progress. For more information and to register visit http://bit.ly/gender2021. Announcements: Sign up to the Deep Dive mailing list (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/email-newsletters/) and be notified every time a new episode comes out. Get in touch with us at deepdive@japantimes.co.jp. Support the show! Rate us, review us and share this episode with a friend if you've enjoyed it. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/japandeepdive) , and give us feedback. This episode of Deep Dive may be supported by advertising based on your location. Advertising is sourced by Audioboom and is not affiliated with The Japan Times. Photo: A protester takes part in a rally against Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori outside the Olympic museum in Tokyo on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI

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Io Sakisakan lukioromanssi Aoha Ride julkaistiin loppuun suomeksi vastoin kaikkia odotuksia. Ajankohtaisina aiheina puhumme Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no yaiban huikeasta menestyksestä Japanissa, Manga Time Kirara -sarjoille julkaistusta Facebook-lukusovelluksesta sekä siitä, miten englanninkielisen mangan levittäminen on keskittymässä vahvasti Penguin Random Housen alle. Lukujonossa tutustumme Nagaben turri-taikakoulu-BL-lyhyttarinakokoelmaan The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms. ––– Kommentoi | Twitter | Instagram ––– 00:58 – HAMPAANKOLOSSA: DEVILS' LINE - Jakso 39, jossa puhuimme Devils' Linesta - Tokion metropolialueen poliisilaitoksen julkisen turvallisuuden osasto 03:17 – KUULIJAKOMMENTTEJA: TOKYO GHOUL - Petterin arvostelu Tokyo Ghoulista Anime-lehdessä 4/2016 (kuva) 07:22 – KUULIJAKOMMENTTEJA: PALAUTETTA - Jakso 38, jossa puhuimme Tokyo Tarareba Girlsistä - Battle Royale -elokuvalla on yllättävän vähän tekemistä alkuperäisen kirjan kanssa (toisin kuin mangaversiolla, joka on uskollisempi sovitus) 10:22 – KUULIJAKOMMENTTEJA: ENGLANNIN JA JAPANIN KÄYTTÖ PUHEESSA - Yle: Stadin slangiin tulee lainasanoja jo japanista asti, mutta tiedätkö, mitä ”nani” tarkoittaa? 25:54 – DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBAN SUOSIO - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no yaiba - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no yaiban osuus koko Japanin vuoden 2020 mangamyynneistä - Shueisha osti Demon Slayerille kahden sivun mainoksen Asahi Shimbun -sanomalehdestä onnitellakseen sitä sadan miljoonan kappaleen painosmäärän ylittymistä - Ufotablen tekemä komea animesovitus (YouTube) - Jakso 31, jossa puhuimme Yhdysvaltojen mangamarkkinoiden myyntiluvuista - Jakso 24, jossa puhuimme siitä miten Demon Slayerin suosio eroaa aiempien hittisarjojen suosiosta - Jakso 19, jossa puhuimme Demon Slayerin suosionnoususta Japanissa vuonna 2019 - Taisho-kausi (PDF) 35:48 – MANGA TIME KIRARA COMICSIN FACEBOOK-LUKUSOVELLUS - ANN: WFS, Houbunsha Launch Manga Time Kirara Comics App on Facebook - Wright Flyer Studios - Hobunshan Kirara-perheeseen kuuluvat lehdet Manga Time Kirara, Manga Time Kirara Max, Manga Time Kirara Carat, Manga Time Kirara Forward ja Manga Time Kirara Miracle - The OASG: Cute Girls' Time to Shine: Manga Time KIRARA Comics - Tältä se näyttää (kuva) - Flappy Bird -klooni (kuva) - Hahmoprofiileja sarjojen päähenkilöille? (kuva) - Onko Facebook paikka jossa kukaan haluaa lukea mangaa? (kuva) - eOneBook-lukulaite 43:53 – JENKKIMANGAN JAKELIJOIDEN KESKITTYMINEN - Jatkossa Penguin Random House tulee olemaan Seven Seasin ainoa jakelija - The OASG: The Big Five Publishing Houses to Four 49:27 – AOHA RIDE: ESITTELY - Aoha Ride (Tokio.fi) - Ao Haru Ride (Wikipedia) - Io Sakisaka - Jakso 39, jossa mainitsimme siitä miten sarja julkaistiin loppuun yllättäen - Ivreasuomi.com - Sarjan nimestä (kuva) - Live-elokuvan traileri (YouTube) - Animen PV (YouTube) - Strobe Edgen live-elokuvan traileri (YouTube) 01:01:53 – AOHA RIDE: FUTABA - Futaban hahmoprofiili, jossa Ivrealla on vahingossa sukunimi ensin ja etunimi vasta sitten, toisin kuin muissa hahmoprofiileissa (kuva) - Jakso 35, jossa puhuimme A Silent Voicesta ja koulukiusaamisesta - Futaba miettii hänen ja Makitan samankaltaisuutta (kuva) 01:09:20 – AOHA RIDE: KOU - Koun hahmoprofiili (kuva) - Jakso 38, jossa puhuimme Tokyo Tarareba Girlsistä - Masentuneen puhetta: millään ei ole mitään väliä (kuva) - Futaba on Koulle nimenomaan sankari, tarkoituksella (kuva) - Futaba sanoo, että ison puuttuvan asian voi korvata monella pienellä asialla (kuva) 01:17:50 – AOHA RIDE: MAKITA - Makitan hahmoprofiili (kuva) - Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun ja shoujomangan poikahahmot (kuva) 01:23:34 – AOHA RIDE: MURAO - Muraon hahmoprofiili (kuva) 01:28:05 – AOHA RIDE: KOMINATO - Kominaton hahmoprofiili (kuva) 01:30:41 – AOHA RIDE: KIKUCHI - Kikuchin hahmoprofiili (kuva) 01:32:37 – AOHA RIDE: NARUMI - Narumin hahmoprofiili (kuva) 01:38:21 – AOHA RIDE: TAIDE JA TYYLI - Love Me, Love Me Not - Strobe Edge - Manga in Your Ears -podcastin jakso Aoha Ridesta - Futaban mielestä Kou on nimenomaan söpö (kuva) - Välillä hyvinkin humoristisia ilmeitä (kuva) - Futaba nukkuu ja syö hiuksiaan (kuva) - Futaba kokeilee sanoo “su-ki“, kun juna ajaa ohi ja peittää äänen (kuva) - Sakisakan maaniset tekijäkommentit (kuva) 01:55:00 – AOHA RIDE: JULKAISU - Omanlaisensa ladonta Ivrean tyyliin (kuva) - Kahden viimeisen pokkarin takakansitekstit 01:59:48 – AOHA RIDE: SPOILERIOSIO (POKKARISTA 9) - Tokyo Tarareba Girlsin pakasteruokavertaus (kuva) - Turha roikkua tyypissä, joka on jo kertaalleen torjunut (kuva) - TVTropes: Pair the Spares 02:14:05 – AOHA RIDE: YHTEENVETO 02:18:35 – LUKUJONOSSA: THE WIZE WIZE BEASTS OF THE WIZARDING WIZDOMS - The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms - Jakso 21, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Nivawa ja minä - The Girl From the Other Side - Miten nämä eturaajat toimivat käytännössä? (kuva) - Nagaben jälkikirjoitus (kuva) - Buchou wa onee - Baka-Updatesissa on kuva Nagabesta 02:31:27 – LOPETUS

Kommentoi | Twitter | Instagram–––00:58 – Hampaankolossa: Devils’ Line- Jakso 39, jossa puhuimme Devils’ Linesta- Tokion metropolialueen poliisilaitoksen julkisen turvallisuuden osasto03:17 – Kuulijakommentteja: Tokyo Ghoul- Petterin arvostelu Tokyo Ghoulista Anime-lehdessä 4/2016 (kuva)07:22 – Kuulijakommentteja: Palautetta- Jakso 38, jossa puhuimme Tokyo Tarareba Girlsistä- Battle Royale -elokuvalla on yllättävän vähän tekemistä alkuperäisen kirjan kanssa (toisin kuin mangaversiolla, joka on uskollisempi sovitus)10:22 – Kuulijakommentteja: Englannin ja japanin käyttö puheessa- Yle: Stadin slangiin tulee lainasanoja jo japanista asti, mutta tiedätkö, mitä ”nani” tarkoittaa?25:54 – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no yaiban suosio- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no yaiba- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no yaiban osuus koko Japanin vuoden 2020 mangamyynneistä- Shueisha osti Demon Slayerille kahden sivun mainoksen Asahi Shimbun -sanomalehdestä onnitellakseen sitä sadan miljoonan kappaleen painosmäärän ylittymistä - Ufotablen tekemä komea animesovitus (YouTube)- Jakso 31, jossa puhuimme Yhdysvaltojen mangamarkkinoiden myyntiluvuista- Jakso 24, jossa puhuimme siitä miten Demon Slayerin suosio eroaa aiempien hittisarjojen suosiosta- Jakso 19, jossa puhuimme Demon Slayerin suosionnoususta Japanissa vuonna 2019- Taisho-kausi (PDF)35:48 – Manga Time Kirara Comicsin Facebook-lukusovellus- ANN: WFS, Houbunsha Launch Manga Time Kirara Comics App on Facebook- Wright Flyer Studios- Hobunshan Kirara-perheeseen kuuluvat lehdet Manga Time Kirara, Manga Time Kirara Max, Manga Time Kirara Carat, Manga Time Kirara Forward ja Manga Time Kirara Miracle- The OASG: Cute Girls’ Time to Shine: Manga Time KIRARA Comics- Tältä se näyttää (kuva)- Flappy Bird -klooni (kuva)- Hahmoprofiileja sarjojen päähenkilöille? (kuva)- Onko Facebook paikka jossa kukaan haluaa lukea mangaa? (kuva)- eOneBook-lukulaite43:53 – Jenkkimangan jakelijoiden keskittyminen- Jatkossa Penguin Random House tulee olemaan Seven Seasin ainoa jakelija- The OASG: The Big Five Publishing Houses to Four49:27 – Aoha Ride: Esittely- Aoha Ride (Tokio.fi)- Ao Haru Ride (Wikipedia)- Io Sakisaka- Jakso 39, jossa mainitsimme siitä miten sarja julkaistiin loppuun yllättäen- Ivreasuomi.com- Sarjan nimestä (kuva)- Live-elokuvan traileri (YouTube)- Animen PV (YouTube)- Strobe Edgen live-elokuvan traileri (YouTube)01:01:53 – Aoha Ride: Futaba - Futaban hahmoprofiili, jossa Ivrealla on vahingossa sukunimi ensin ja etunimi vasta sitten, toisin kuin muissa hahmoprofiileissa (kuva)- Jakso 35, jossa puhuimme A Silent Voicesta ja koulukiusaamisesta- Futaba miettii hänen ja Makitan samankaltaisuutta (kuva)01:09:20 – Aoha Ride: Kou- Koun hahmoprofiili (kuva)- Jakso 38, jossa puhuimme Tokyo Tarareba Girlsistä- Masentuneen puhetta: millään ei ole mitään väliä (kuva)- Futaba on Koulle nimenomaan sankari, tarkoituksella (kuva)- Futaba sanoo, että ison puuttuvan asian voi korvata monella pienellä asialla (kuva)01:17:50 – Aoha Ride: Makita- Makitan hahmoprofiili (kuva)- Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun ja shoujomangan poikahahmot (kuva)01:23:34 – Aoha Ride: Murao- Muraon hahmoprofiili (kuva)01:28:05 – Aoha Ride: Kominato- Kominaton hahmoprofiili (kuva)01:30:41 – Aoha Ride: Kikuchi- Kikuchin hahmoprofiili (kuva)01:32:37 – Aoha Ride: Narumi- Narumin hahmoprofiili (kuva)01:38:21 – Aoha Ride: Taide ja tyyli- Love Me, Love Me Not- Strobe Edge- Manga in Your Ears -podcastin jakso Aoha Ridesta- Futaban mielestä Kou on nimenomaan söpö (kuva)- Välillä hyvinkin humoristisia ilmeitä (kuva)- Futaba nukkuu ja syö hiuksiaan (kuva)- Futaba kokeilee sanoo “su-ki“, kun juna ajaa ohi ja peittää äänen (kuva)- Sakisakan maaniset tekijäkommentit (kuva)01:55:00 – Aoha Ride: Julkaisu- Omanlaisensa ladonta Ivrean tyyliin (kuva)- Kahden viimeisen pokkarin takakansitekstit01:59:48 – Aoha Ride: Spoileriosio (pokkarista 9)- Tokyo Tarareba Girlsin pakasteruokavertaus (kuva)- Turha roikkua tyypissä, joka on jo kertaalleen torjunut (kuva)- TVTropes: Pair the Spares02:14:05 – Aoha Ride: Yhteenveto02:18:35 – Lukujonossa: The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms- The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms- Jakso 21, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Nivawa ja minä- The Girl From the Other Side- Miten nämä eturaajat toimivat käytännössä? (kuva)- Nagaben jälkikirjoitus (kuva)- Buchou wa onee- Baka-Updatesissa on kuva Nagabesta02:31:27 – Lopetus

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TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜http://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=6306IL REGIME CINESE CORREGGE IL VANGELO: GESU' LAPIDO' L'ADULTERA di Leone Grotti«Chi di voi è senza peccato, scagli per primo la prima pietra contro di lei». La risposta di Gesù, come riportato da Giovanni (8,1-11), agli scribi e ai farisei è uno dei passi più famosi del Vangelo. Altrettanto rinomato è il finale dell'episodio dell'adultera: "Alzatosi allora Gesù le disse: «Donna, dove sono? Nessuno ti ha condannata?». Ed essa rispose: «Nessuno, Signore». E Gesù le disse: «Neanch'io ti condanno; va' e d'ora in poi non peccare più»". Eppure c'è un paese al mondo dove il racconto evangelico non si conclude così.Come denunciato da UcaNews, la storia viene distorta in un libro di testo destinato alle scuole secondarie in Cina. Nel sussidiario pubblicato dall'editrice governativa dell'Università di scienza elettronica e tecnologia, che ha l'obiettivo di insegnare negli istituti professionali del Dragone "la legge e l'etica professionale", Gesù lapida l'adultera. Sembra incredibile, ma è esattamente così.Quando la folla rinuncia all'intenzione di punire la donna, spiega il "Vangelo con caratteristiche cinesi", Gesù le dice: «Anch'io sono un peccatore. Ma se la legge può essere eseguita solo da uomini senza macchia, la legge sarebbe morta». E poi la uccide.Il passo del testo, riproposto in pagina, è stato pubblicato sui social media cinesi da un cattolico. «Voglio che tutti sappiano che il Partito comunista cinese ha sempre cercato di distorcere la storia della Chiesa, di calunniare la nostra Chiesa, e di far sì che la gente odi la nostra Chiesa». Un docente cristiano in una scuola professionale, Matthew Wang, ha confermato il contenuto del libro, spiegando che può cambiare da provincia a provincia.L'obiettivo di una simile distorsione è far passare il messaggio che tutti devono obbedire alla legge in Cina, la quale è incarnata dal Partito comunista e dalle sue decisioni, e che anche i cattolici devono farlo, visto che persino Gesù si sottometteva ad essa. Kama, cattolico, spera che «le autorità della Chiesa si facciano sentire perché il libro venga corretto».Il regime non è nuovo a interventi così clamorosi, nonostante sia in trattaiva per rinnovare l'accordo sino-vaticano. L'anno scorso, ad esempio, l'Editrice per l'educazione del popolo aveva dato alle stampe un libro di testo per i bambini di quinta elementare, dove cancellava qualunque riferimento a Dio, alla Chiesa e a Cristo in capolavori come La piccola fiammiferaia e La vita e le strane sorprendenti avventure di Robinson Crusoe. L'obiettivo (finora mai raggiunto, anzi) è eliminare Dio per evitare che il cristianesimo si diffonda e resti soltanto la fede nel comunismo guidato da Xi Jinping.Nota di BastaBugie: l'autore del precedente articolo, Leone Grotti, nell'articolo seguente dal titolo "Il regime cinese rimuove Dio dai classici della letteratura per bambini" rivela come nelle fiabe per bambini il partito comunista ha censurato le parole Dio, Bibbia, chiesa, preghiera.Ecco l'articolo completo pubblicato su Tempi il 2 agosto 2019:La paranoia del regime comunista cinese nei confronti della religione non conosce limiti. Il partito guidato da Xi Jinping vuole a tutti i costi eliminare Dio dalla società e comincia dalla scuola. Nulla sfugge alla censura e al revisionismo ateo, neanche i grandi classici della letteratura, come spiegato ieri dal quotidiano giapponese Asahi Shimbun.Il partito comunista ha ordinato che ogni riferimento a "Dio" e alla "Bibbia" deve essere cancellato. Così l'Editrice per l'educazione del popolo, che ha dato alle stampe un libro di testo per i bambini di quinta elementare, ha deciso di sostituire alcune pericolose parole dai riassunti tradotti dei grandi classici occidentali.A essere manipolata è ad esempio La piccola fiammiferaia, inserita nel sussidiario allo scopo di «comprendere le altre culture». Nella storia scritta da Hans Christian Andersen, alla bambina appare in una visione la nonna morta, che le dice: «Quando cade una stella, un'anima va a stare con Dio». Nella versione cinese, invece, la nonna dice: «Quando cade una stella, una persona lascia questo mondo».Nel classico La vita e le strane sorprendenti avventure di Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe fa naufragare il suo protagonista su un'isola sperduta. Da ciò che resta della sua nave, Crusoe recupera tre copie della Bibbia, ma la versione rivista dal partito comunista sostituisce il testo sacro con la dicitura «pochi libri». Come sia possibile comprendere la storia, e quindi la «cultura straniera», senza accennare al tentativo di Crusoe di convertire Venerdì alla fede cristiana, è un mistero.Almeno una decina di modifiche sono state fatte invece a Vanka di Anton Chekhov, da dove sono stati rimossi tutti i riferimenti alla preghiera in chiesa al pari della parola "Cristo".Come riportato da AsiaNews, che ha ripreso la notizia, «queste operazioni rispondono alle direttive lanciate dal presidente Xi Jinping fin dal 2015, secondo cui le religioni, per vivere in Cina, devono "sinicizzarsi", assimilarsi alla cultura cinese e sottomettersi al Partito comunista. Secondo osservatori, la campagna contro il cristianesimo, è dovuta al timore che la Cina diventi il Paese "più cristiano al mondo" entro il 2030, come prevedono alcuni sociologi (Fenggang Yang). Allo stesso tempo, è un modo per proteggersi da idee quali democrazia, diritti umani, giustizia, stato di diritto». Titolo originale: Detto questo, Gesù lapidò l'adultera. Così la Cina stravolge il VangeloFonte: Tempi, 24 settembre 2020Pubblicato su BastaBugie n. 684

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Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Solo pensamos quizá en nosotros como turistas para poder volver a visitar el país del sol naciente... Sin embargo no os había hablado de un pequeño drama que estaban viviendo algunos extranjeros residentes allí con visa de trabajo, estudios y demás bajo algunas circunstancias durante la crisis del COVID 19. Si esas personas estaban fuera de territorio nipón temporalmente cuando estalló la pandemia, el gobierno japonés cerró fronteras con restricciones incluso para ellos, impiendo de esa forma su reentrada. En este episodio hablo de algunas situaciones realmente complicadas que han generado esas normativas y cómo la comunidad internacional las ha criticado hasta cierto punto. Desde el 1 de septiembre esas medidas ya no están en vigor y es un primer paso para lo siguiente que puede llegar: que nos permitan también entrar de nuevo a los turistas. Os pongo el enlace de Amazon que os comento en el episodio, gracias por ayudar: https://www.amazon.es/?tag=alfonso02-21&linkCode=ez Nos vemos en el siguiente, ¡que si os soy sincero no tengo ni la menor idea de qué irá! Músicas usadas: -Hanagoyomi por PeriTune: https://peritune.com/blog/2017/10/08/hanagoyomi/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 -Sakuya2 por PeriTune: https://peritune.com/blog/2016/01/01/sakuya2 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Imagen de miniatura en iVoox: Pequeño montaje con la imagen: -'Japan tightens immigration as 3 more infected by coronavirus' en The Asahi Shimbun: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ202002020013.htmlEscucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de GAIKAN - Japón/Japan Limited Podcast. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/651913

In this week's episode, Joe, Rich and Simmo discuss Japan's number 1 beer, Asahi Superdry, in the Pursuit of Hoppiness. In the Hop Topic we discuss how beer is being wasted due to COVID-19 and possible ways of reducing this wastage.Be sure to follow Asahi

Báo Nhật The Asahi Shimbun hôm 7/6 viết về anh Hoàng Văn Hoạch 26 tuổi, một thực tập sinh kỹ thuật cũng như nhiều thanh niên Việt Nam khác qua Nhật theo một trường dạy nghề để mong đổi đời, nhưng đại dịch COVID-19 đã khiến giấc mơ của họ tan vỡ. Xem thêm: https://bit.ly/2zerIoj Các tin khác: Quốc hội Việt Nam thông qua Hiệp định EVFTA. Thêm chuyến bay từ VN đưa công dân Mỹ về nước vì COVID. Khắp nơi tiếp tục kêu gọi ‘Coi trọng mạng sống người da màu’. Biểu tình ‘Coi trọng mạng sống người da màu’ tiếp diễn tại thủ đô Mỹ. Bị tố lợi dụng bất ổn dân sự tại Mỹ, Trung Quốc phản pháo. Singapore: Phân nửa số ca nhiễm COVID mới không có triệu chứng. Ông Kim Jong Un xuất hiện trên TV. NATO kêu gọi đoàn kết sau tin Mỹ rút bớt quân tại Đức.

Settimana dal 1 al 7 Marzo 2020.Questa settimana monopolizzata dal CoVid 19 e da impegni personali, hanno portato a meno notizie del solito, ma scelte comunque con il cuore! ^_^Ricordo essere tutte recuperabili sui quotidiani in lingua inglese quali Mainici, NHK, Japan Todai, Asahi Shimbun ecc...Instagram: @antticellojp

Settimana dal 10 al 16 Febbraio 2020. Notizie dal giappone selezionate da me, in base alle mie preferenze. Tutte le notizie sono recuperabili in lingua inglese nei principali quotidiani online giapponesi come Mainichi, Asahi Shimbun, Japan Today, Japan Times e altri, in modo che tutti quanti possano andare a verificare le fonti.Questa settimana affrontiamo argomenti di cronaca come i problemi del mondo dei Conbini, proteste contro le violenze sessuali, una nuova licenza per insegnare giapponese come seconda lingua, Matrimoni per persone dello stesso sesso e molto altro.Per contattarmi , Instagram: @antticellojp

Nuova settimana di news dal Giappone! Come sempre vi ricordo potrete recuperarle sui vari quotidiano online in lingua inglese quali Mainichi, Asahi Shimbun, Japan Today, Japan Times ed altri.Instagram: @antticellojp

“Medicating Normal,” a documentary feature film about the overprescribing of psychiatric drugs, premiers at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on January 16th and 17th. We had the distinct privilege to speak with two of the filmmakers this week.In part one of our two-part series, D had a wonderful conversation with director/producer Lynn Cunningham. Lynn candidly shares the struggles and successes of making this film, the inspiration behind it, and the insights gained from their private screenings and panels. https://www.easinganxiety.com/post/conversation-with-filmmaker-lynn-cunningham-of-medicating-normal-bfp051Video ID: BFP051Chapters 00:57 Introduction05:18 INTERVIEW: Lynn Cunningham50:08 Moment of Peace Resources The following resource links are provided as a courtesy to our listeners. They do not constitute an endorsement by Easing Anxiety of the resource or any recommendations or advice provided therein. MEDICATING NORMALFilm's Website: https://medicatingnormal.com/ Film's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/medicatingnormalfilm/ Film's Youtube Channel (with Trailer): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh-enG_cv0MbGoU4XdT9mxA Screenings and How to Host a Screening: https://medicatingnormal.com/watch/  BIO - Lynn CunninghamLynn began her filmmaking career editing films in the late 1980s and 1990s, for PBS, Middlemarch Films, Michael Blackwood, and the History Channel. Editing credits include: Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers' Union, a one-hour documentary for American Experience, Behind the Scenes, a children's series about the arts for PBS, as well as Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis, Tadao Ando, and Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible.In the late 1990s, as an Asahi Shimbun fellow, Lynn directed and produced A Quiet Revolution: The Emergence of Alternative Education in Japan, about Japan's ‘School Refusal' movement, that won the 1997 Japan Times Award for films and videos about Japan. Lynn holds a BA in Architecture from Yale University in 1983. The PodcastThe Benzo Free Podcast provides information, support, and community to those who struggle with the long-term effects of anxiety medications such as benzodiazepines (Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, Valium) and Z-drugs (Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata). WEBSITE: https://www.easinganxiety.comMAILING LIST: https://www.easinganxiety.com/subscribe YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@easinganx DISCLAIMERAll content provided by Easing Anxiety is for general informational purposes only and should never be considered medical advice. Any health-related information provided is not a substitute for medical advice and should not be used to diagnose or treat health problems, or to prescribe any medical devices or other remedies. Never disregard medical advice or delay in seeking it. Please visit our website for our complete disclaimer at https://www.easinganxiety.com/disclaimer. CREDITSMusic provided / licensed by Storyblocks Audio — https://www.storyblocks.com Benzo Free Theme — Title: “Walk in the Park” — Artist: Neil Cross PRODUCTIONEasing Anxiety is produced by…Denim Mountain Presshttps://www.denimmountainpress.com ©2022 Denim Mountain Press – All Rights Reserved

Why is Japan’s population declining? Why aren’t people getting married in Japan? What happens after a couple with kids gets a divorce in Japan? Check out the podcast to find out why! Sources: Japan Times, Jiji Press, The Asahi Shimbun, and The Japan News

Episode 58: Rochelle Kopp is a management consultant, columnist and author. She specializes in cross-cultural communication, human resources, leadership and organization development; working with Japanese companies doing business globally and global companies doing business in Japan. Rochelle writes for publications in Japan and the U.S., including ongoing columns in the Asahi Shimbun, Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, the Newsweek Japan website, and U.S. Frontline News. She is also the author of 37 books, including her most recent work--written in Japanese--titled "外国人と働き方" (How to Work with Foreigners). [Raw Urban Mobile Podcast rebranded to Tokyo Speaks Podcast on Mar 7, 2020]    Rochelle Kopp - Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin   [Social Links & RSS] RSS Feed: https://www.tokyospeaks.com/feed.xml Instagram: @tokyospeaks_ Twitter: @tokyospeaks_   [Support via Ko-fi] https://ko-fi.com/tokyospeaks    

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ http://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=5772LA CINA RIMUOVE DIO DAI LIBRI PER BAMBINI di Leone GrottiLa paranoia del regime comunista cinese nei confronti della religione non conosce limiti. Il partito guidato da Xi Jinping vuole a tutti i costi eliminare Dio dalla società e comincia dalla scuola. Nulla sfugge alla censura e al revisionismo ateo, neanche i grandi classici della letteratura, come spiegato ieri dal quotidiano giapponese Asahi Shimbun.Il partito comunista ha ordinato che ogni riferimento a "Dio" e alla "Bibbia" deve essere cancellato. Così l'Editrice per l'educazione del popolo, che ha dato alle stampe un libro di testo per i bambini di quinta elementare, ha deciso di sostituire alcune pericolose parole dai riassunti tradotti dei grandi classici occidentali.PICCOLA FIAMMIFERAIA E ROBINSON CRUSOEA essere manipolata è ad esempio La piccola fiammiferaia, inserita nel sussidiario allo scopo di «comprendere le altre culture». Nella storia scritta da Hans Christian Andersen, alla bambina appare in una visione la nonna morta, che le dice: «Quando cade una stella, un'anima va a stare con Dio». Nella versione cinese, invece, la nonna dice: «Quando cade una stella, una persona lascia questo mondo».Nel classico La vita e le strane sorprendenti avventure di Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe fa naufragare il suo protagonista su un'isola sperduta. Da ciò che resta della sua nave, Crusoe recupera tre copie della Bibbia, ma la versione rivista dal partito comunista sostituisce il testo sacro con la dicitura «pochi libri». Come sia possibile comprendere la storia, e quindi la «cultura straniera», senza accennare al tentativo di Crusoe di convertire Venerdì alla fede cristiana, è un mistero.TERRORE DELLA RELIGIONEAlmeno una decina di modifiche sono state fatte invece a Vanka di Anton Chekhov, da dove sono stati rimossi tutti i riferimenti alla preghiera in chiesa al pari della parola "Cristo".Come riportato da AsiaNews, che ha ripreso la notizia, «queste operazioni rispondono alle direttive lanciate dal presidente Xi Jinping fin dal 2015, secondo cui le religioni, per vivere in Cina, devono "sinicizzarsi", assimilarsi alla cultura cinese e sottomettersi al Partito comunista. Secondo osservatori, la campagna contro il cristianesimo, è dovuta al timore che la Cina diventi il Paese "più cristiano al mondo" entro il 2030, come prevedono alcuni sociologi (Fenggang Yang). Allo stesso tempo, è un modo per proteggersi da idee quali democrazia, diritti umani, giustizia, stato di diritto».Nota di BastaBugie: Caterina Giojelli nell'articolo seguente dal titolo "Il regime augura gloria eterna al Macellaio di Pechino" informa che il 22 luglio è morto Li Peng l'ex primo ministro che ordinò il massacro di piazza Tienanmen. Diecimila morti nella narrazione del partito diventano misure decisive per il futuro del paese. Mah!Ecco l'articolo completo pubblicato su Tempi il 24 luglio 2019:«Li Peng, ex presidente del Comitato permanente del National People's Congress (Npc), è deceduto per malattia a Pechino all'età di 91 anni alle 23.11 di lunedì»: così l'agenzia di stampa Xinhua ha dato notizia il 23 luglio della morte del "Macellaio di Pechino", ex primo ministro in carica durante le proteste di piazza Tienanmen.Xinhua pubblica un ritratto in cui si afferma che Li, con il «compagno Deng Xiaoping», «adottò misure decisive per fermare i disordini e reprimere le rivolte contro-rivoluzionarie: ha stabilizzato la situazione interna e ha svolto un ruolo importante in questa grande lotta riguardante il futuro del partito e del Paese». In realtà tutti sanno come reagì il partito sotto la pressione di Li Peng (che 91 anni li avrebbe compiuti in ottobre) e del compagno Deng Xiaoping: tra il 3 e il 4 giugno 1989 almeno diecimila cinesi vennero massacrati dai carri armati nelle strade adiacenti a piazza Tienanmen. Quella notte il primo ministro e il leader de facto del Dragone ordinarono ai soldati di far rispettare la legge marziale e di annientare la protesta di centinaia di migliaia di studenti che si erano assiepati sotto il grande ritratto di Mao Zedong per chiedere più libertà di stampa, democrazia e meno corruzione.Ci vollero tre giorni per lavare il sangue dalle strade. Al termine dei quali il portavoce del Consiglio di Stato cinese, Yuan Mu, dichiarò a un'emittente americana: «Non è morto nessuno. Neanche uno studente è stato schiacciato dai carri armati». Un anno e mezzo fa, il governo britannico ha declassificato un documento inviato dall'allora ambasciatore inglese in Cina, Sir Alan Donald, che parla di «minimo 10.000 morti». Tempi lo ha tradotto e pubblicato qui. La fonte? Lo stesso Consiglio di Stato cinese presieduto dall'allora primo ministro Li Peng che il 20 maggio 1989 dichiarò la legge marziale.Sono passati 30 anni da quel 4 giugno 1989, dai carri armati lanciati sui civili «a 65 chilometri orari», i sopravvissuti falciati «con le mitragliatrici già appostate», i colpi dei cecchini del 27esimo («l'armata più affidabile e ubbidiente») che utilizzavano «proiettili a espansione». Da sempre i protagonisti di quegli eventi drammatici hanno atteso una pubblica ammenda, come Jiang Lin, colonnello dell'Esercito popolare di liberazione che invece di partecipare al massacro documentò l'offensiva dei cingolati e i cadaveri ammazzati nelle pozze di sangue. Jiang ha deciso di raccontare ciò che ha visto al New York Times e di rivolgere un appello pubblico al partito comunista perché ammetta le sue terribili colpe, «la brutalità di quella notte mi ha scioccata. La visione era insopportabile: come se stessero violentando mia mamma. Una follia». O come Zhou Fengsuo, leader degli studenti, dichiarato dopo il massacro nemico pubblico numero 5 dal regime. O Albert Ho Chun-yan, attivista e politico che a Hong Kong ha fondato il Museo del 4 giugno, l'unico luogo sotto il controllo della Cina dove si può conoscere la verità su Tienanmen senza essere arrestati.Perché ancora oggi il regime nega il massacro, impedisce al suo popolo di conoscere la verità, censura internet e i libri di storia, arresta gli attivisti che chiedono al governo di riconoscere le sue colpe e vieta alle famiglie di commemorare e piangere le vittime. Ancora oggi l'esecutivo guidato da Xi Jinping augura «Gloria eterna al compagno Li Peng!». Non una parola su cosa accadde la notte del 4 giugno 1989 che gli valse l'appellativo di "Macellaio di Pechino".

Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. Plus, identity theft. There’s a clutch of data breaches this week and Coté finally learns why this is bad. Also, monitoring company IPOs, nachos, and the eating management and the terrors of European fry condiment management. Buy Coté’s book dirt cheap (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt)! And check out his other book that this guy likes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6559881947412340736/). Moodboard: I’m making my way to the microphone. The only way I know how. We need to start a YouTube channel where we do webinar reactions. We got some cool stuff to talk about with this latest breach. I just wanted a meal and now I have a problem to solve. I think I have some swamp stuff in Europe for the geographic oddity section. That’s my problem, I don’t like fun. Back to nachos The nacho of nachos Speaking of nachos, more earnings this week. The nonsense was the logs, not the log reader. Unnonsense your nonsense. Cause lawyers get paid. No time for the infinite scrolling ban. He had an affinity for green glass. Relevant to your interests All about Pivotal stuff on kubernetes (https://soundcloud.com/pivotalconversations/pas-pksand-rabbitmq-on-kubernetes) - Richard and Coté discuss it on this week’s Pivotal Conversations episode. The inevitability of K8s: Pivotal CEO describes the pain and benefits of technology transition (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/29/the_inevitability_of_kubernetes_pivotal_ceo_describes_the_pain_and_the_benefit_of_technology_transition/) Apple Acquiring the Majority of Intel's Smartphone Modem Business (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/25/apple-intel-acquisition/) Google Cloud's annual revenue run rate disclosure adds color to cloud race | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-clouds-annual-revenue-run-rate-disclosure-adds-color-to-cloud-race/) Google Cloud to run VMware Cloud Foundation workloads (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/google-cloud-run-vmware-cloud-foundation--workloads/) Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform (https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/30/google-debuts-migration-tool-anthos-hybrid-cloud-platform/) Google teams up with VMware to bring more enterprises to its cloud (https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/google-teams-up-with-vmware-to-bring-more-enterprise-customers-to-its-cloud/) Oracle has quietly altered course on the way it sells its 'private-cloud' product, a key area of its cloud-computing strategy (https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-cloud-private-sales-change-2019-7) Google Cloud’s run rate is now over $8B (https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/google-clouds-run-rate-is-now-over-8b/) Amazon reports $63.4 billion in Q2 2019 revenue: AWS up 37%, subscriptions up 37%, and ‘other’ up 37% (https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/25/amazon-earnings-q2-2019/) Microsoft reports $33.7 billion in Q4 2019 revenue: Azure up 64%, Surface up 14%, and LinkedIn up 25% (https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/18/microsoft-earnings-q4-2019/) Why Zoom Is the Best Videoconferencing Service (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-video-conferencing-service/) URGENT/11 VxWorks RTOS Vulnerabilities Found, Critical Systems Affected (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/urgent-11-vxworks-rtos-vulnerabilities-found-critical-systems-affected/) GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/8934694/github-us-trade-sanctions-developers-restricted-crimea-cuba-iran-north-korea-syria) Write like an Amazanion (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAXt9B0U4AIrRzJ.jpg) A former Amazon employee hacked the credit card data of 100 million Americans (https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/7/30/20747163/capital-one-data-hack-100-million-americans-new-york-investigation) Amazon refuses blame for massive Capital One data breach, says its cloud services were "not compromised in any way" (https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-capital-one-hack-data-leak-breach-paige-thompson-cybercrime-1451665) FTC warns Equifax claimants will get 'nowhere near' $125 cash payout (https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/01/ftc-equifax-claimants-choose-credit-monitoring/) Microsoft will drop Skype for Business Online on July 31, 2021 | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-will-drop-skype-for-business-online-on-july-31-2021/) Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/proposed-us-law-would-ban-infinite-scroll-autoplaying-video/#p3) Should your B2B brand create social media stories? (https://diginomica.com/should-your-b2b-brand-create-social-media-stories) Datadog IPO: Cloud-based Monitoring's Next Move? - ChannelE2E (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/datadog-ipo-preparation/) Dynatrace Prices IPO Above Range At $16/Share, Valuing The Software Company At $4.5B (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/dynatrace-prices-ipo-above-range-at-16-share-valuing-the-software-company-at-4-5b/) IBM Fired as Many as 100,000 in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/ibm-fired-as-many-as-100-000-in-recent-years-court-case-shows) Nonsense Our Favorite Laptop Backpacks for 2019 (https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/our-favorite-laptop-backpacks/) This is a black and white photograph. Only the lines have colour. (https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1155077311399489536?s=21) Contact Lenses That Can Change Focus and Zoom When You Blink Move Closer to Reality (https://gizmodo.com/contact-lenses-that-can-change-focus-and-zoom-when-you-1836789660) Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along：The Asahi Shimbun (http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201907280007.html) Cel (https://twitter.com/hist/status/1154898478838870016?s=12)s (https://twitter.com/hist/status/1154898478838870016?s=12)ius vs.Fahrenheit (https://twitter.com/hist/status/1154898478838870016?s=12) Get real good-like at talking English (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD_5T89Ssbn3F830QF2h_xoJJdbteSeg7). Will Matt Ray give an Emacs keynote? (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) Sponsors Solarwinds Loggly (https://loggly.com/sdt): https://www.loggly.com/sdt TrackJS (http://TrackJS.com/sdt) — https://trackjs.com/sdt/ Conferences, et. al. August 30th - Agile Scotland, Glasgow (https://www.agilescotland.com/august) - Coté giving 90 minute workshop (https://www.agilescotland.com/august#comp-jwjlafj0__item1inlineContent-gridWrapper). Use the code AS-SPEAKER-MICHAEL for a discount: from £70 to £56.13. Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA. Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th Oct 10th to 11th - DevOpsDays Sydney 2019 (http://devopsdays.org/events/2019-sydney/), October 10th and 11th Kubeyland 2019 (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevM4mDeM_P1spKbz7gysMSNm_ONRpiNN60ifg-Gi4avmJ9pg/viewform) via Justin Garrison (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1155930353250385920?s=21) December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Follow-up Italy had a swamps that were drained (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontine_Marshes): “The road proved difficult to keep above water. Under Augustus, a compromise was reached with the construction of a parallel canal. The part of the marsh above sea level was successfully drained by channels, and new agricultural land of legendary fertility came into being. Whenever the channels were not maintained, the swamp reappeared. Meanwhile, frequent epidemics of malaria at Rome and elsewhere kept the reclamation issue alive. Under Benito Mussolini's regime in the 1930s, the problem was nearly solved by placing dikes and pumping out that portion of the marsh below sea level. It continues to need constant maintenance. Italian confidence in the project was so high, the city placed by Mussolini in 1932 in the center of the marsh, Latina, became the capital of a new province, Latina.” There were German colonies (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonial_empire) - mostly in Africa. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Running from Cops (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/running-from-cops-headlong-season-3/id1459118695). Matt: Stories from the Frontlines of Synthetic Fraud (https://a16z.com/2019/06/25/a16z-podcast-stories-from-the-frontlines-of-synthetic-fraud/) Coté: Grolsch Blond (https://www.grolsch.nl/proeverij/grolsch-blond.html); Freak Kingdom (https://amzn.to/317Aj4t) and The Gonzo Tapes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE-aDdbllcI). Outro: T (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDfZ5HmA6fs)he Usual Suspects (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDfZ5HmA6fs).

The #FukuFriday Happy Hour Hangout 02.15.2019 is brought to you by Operation SAVE the Earth and your host Dave Parrish. TEPCO sent a robot down into reactor 2 at #FukushimaDaiichi this week and picked up a few pebbles worth of melted fuel. Normally I say baby steps are a good thing but sheesh! This garbage company has been doing it wrong since day one and how they're still in charge is a wonder to me. But read the preliminary results for yourself in the links below. We've got a LONG way to go. From the Asahi Shimbun in Japan, preliminary results of the 'successful' robotic journey into reactor 2: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ2... Operation SAVE the Earth is a NGO dedicated to ending the nuclear nightmare in Japan once and for all. To find out more about our 4-Step Plan and how YOUR #8minutes can have a huge impact, go to our website: http://www.operationsavetheearth.com Sign up for our FREE weekly newsletter: info@operationsavetheearth.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/oste8minutes Battle On #FukuFighters!Please like, subscribe and share.You can follow Dave on YouTube:Dave Parrishand Lonnie Clark on YouTube:nutzfoart

Autour du monde de l'actu cette semaine : Mother Jones, Il Venerdi di Repubblica, The Economist, la journal de Québec, Efecto cocuyo, El Tiempo, The Asahi Shimbun, SCMP News et TicToc by Bloomberg, l'orient le jour, al jazeera, hebdo.ahram.org / Liberté, haut commissariat à l'amazighité (site web) / al jazeera, artsy.net, facebook almarkhiyagallery, Middle East Eye, RFI

This week, we introduce you to the first installment of the Foreign Media Monitor (FMM) podcast series, based on the weekly service available to NK Pro subscribers. While North Korea coverage in Western media is typically quite comprehensive, there are plenty of unique, locally-sourced news and analysis available only in foreign language outlets that are often overlooked because of a language barrier. And every week, the Foreign Media Monitor collects those unnoticed unique stories from Chinese, Japanese, South Korean and Russian media, combined into a professionally-translated newsletter for NK Pro readers. This week, we invited the translators behind the FMM, John Petrushka (Chinese), Kosuke Takahashi (Japanese), and Fyodor Tertitskiy (Russian), to examine how foreign medias cover (or don't cover) North Korea, discuss how the countries responded to key developments in Pyongyang, and share some oddball reports on the DPRK. About the guests: John Petrushka is an NK News contributor based in Washington, D.C. He studied Asia and International Affairs at Georgetown University and George Washington University. His other research topics include transitional justice in North Korea. Kosuke Takahashi is a Tokyo-based journalist. His work has appeared in the Asahi Shimbun, Bloomberg, Asia Times, Jane's Defence Weekly and The Diplomat, among other publications. Fyodor Tertitskiy is a News Analyst at NK Pro. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Seoul National University. Interested in signing up for the Foreign Media Monitor? Check out the NK Pro service here and see if you or your institution qualifies for a trial: http://signup.nknews.org/nk-pro/ Also, the NK Shop is back in business! We have DPRK-inspired limited edition t-shirts, vintage posters and a 2019 calendar just in time for the holidays. As a thank you for your continued support, we'd like to offer listeners a special discount: just use code nkpodcast10 at checkout for an instant 10% off your total purchase. Check out the shop here: https://www.nkshop.org/ About the podcast: The “North Korea News Podcast” is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by NK News, covering all things DPRK: from news to extended interview with leading experts and analysts in the field and insight from our very own journalists.

We here at Podzilla 2000 Inc. would like to apologize on behalf of the nations of Japan and the United States for this episode. Prepare for bizarre carnie sideshows, incoherent editing, hilarious scene transitions, and a whole lot of talk about narcotic persimmons. Oh, and racism. So, so much racism. But hey, Godzilla is back! That's... that's something!Movies discussed:MOTHRA (1961)Directed by Ishiro HondaScreenplay by Shinichi SekizawaCinematography by Hajime KoizumiBased on a story in Asahi Shimbun by Shin'ichiro Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie HottaStarring Frankie Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Ky?ko Kagawa, and The PeanutsKING KONG vs GODZILLA (1962)Directed by Ishir? HondaWritten by Shinichi SekizawaMusic by Akira IfukubeCinematography by Hajime KoizumiStarring Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Y? Fujiki, Ichir? Arishima, Mie Hama, Shoichi Hirose, and Haruo Nakajima

NEW MIKE KANE CAST - iTunes|Android|Spotify In this special episode, I got the privilege of talking with Sam Ford, Director of Cultural Intelligence at Simon & Schuster. Sam's range of expertise is incredible, and includes a few shared passions: Intellectual life, Kentucky, and, of course, professional wrestling. Sam shares his small-town roots and early love of the USWA out of Memphis, and shows how he has combined that love of pro wrestling with a deep knowledge of comparative media to become an expert who remains a fan! If you've ever turned on a TV set, this episode will inform and entertain you! (From samford.wordpress.com) Sam Ford is Director of Cultural Intelligence for Simon & Schuster, a CBS company. In addition, he is leading various initiatives of the Future of Work in Kentucky with the MIT Open Documentary Lab, the University of Southern California Annenberg School’s Civic Paths team, and other partners, and is a member of the Kentucky team taking part in the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP), the first U.S. region to ever be accepted to the program. As a Knight News Innovation Fellow with Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, he is co-leading the Community Stories Lab with Dr. Andrea Wenzel–work which received the inaugural Research Prize for Professional Relevance from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in 2018. Sam also serves as a research affiliate with MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing and as an instructor in Western Kentucky University’s Popular Culture Studies Program. He is also co-founder of the Artisanal Economies Project. With Henry Jenkins and Joshua Green, Sam co-authored the 2013 NYU Press book Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, which was released in paperback in Spring 2018. The book has also been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Swedish, and Polish. It was named one of Strategy+Business’ 2013 Best Business Books and voted as a “Top 10 Best Marketing Book You Read This Summer” by the readers of Advertising Age. He is also co-editor, with Abigail De Kosnik and C. Lee Harrington, of the 2011 book The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era as well. He frequently publishes academic work on media fandom, transmedia storytelling, professional wrestling, soap operas, the marketing and communications world, and a range of other subjects.  In 2015, Sam launched and ran the Center for Innovation & Engagement at Univision’s Fusion Media Group (as FMG’s VP, Innovation & Engagement), which he ran through the end of 2016. In that role, he helped manage relationships with a range of academic, industry, nonprofit organizations, and other key communities that are focused on innovation and experimentation in storytelling or new ways of building deeper relationships with key audiences and communities. He also collaborated with teams throughout the portfolio company to foster, build, and scale new approaches to storytelling and audience engagement. The Center was the subject of a Harvard Nieman Lab feature, and projects the Center played a key role in designing were honored with a Shorty Social Good Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Before joining Univision/Fusion Media Group, Sam worked for strategic communications and marketing firm Peppercomm from 2007-2015, where he was named both 2014 Digital Communicator of the Year and a 2014 Social Media MVP by PR News, as well as 2011 Social Media Innovator of the Year by Bulldog Reporter. During that time, Sam served as both a member of the Board of Directors of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association and as co-chair of their Ethics Committee. From 2005-2008, Sam was co-founder and later research manager of the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium. He also acted as co-organizer of the MIT Futures of Entertainment conference series from 2006-2012. Sam has been a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Inc. He has also written for Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, Advertising Age, The Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Harvard’s Nieman Lab, Knowledge@Wharton, Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter, Tribeca, Portfolio, Chief Marketer, CMO.com, PRWeek, PR News, The Public Relations Strategist, Communication World, O’Dwyer PR, Firm Voice, PropertyCasualty360, Global HR News, TABB Forum, SLAM! Sports, and various other publications. He began his career as a reporter and columnist for various Kentucky newspapers and, in 2006, won a Kentucky Press Association award for Best Feature. Sam has appeared in documentaries Soap Life, Who Shot the Daytime Soap?, and VICE’s Lil Bub and Friendz and has been quoted in/on, or had his work cited by, a wide range of publications/shows, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, Mashable, CNN, APM Marketplace, BBC World Service, PRI’s TheWorld, CNBC, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Quartz, Fortune, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, CIO, Hollywood Reporter, Les Inrocks, Asahi Shimbun, Nikkei, DePers, Harvard’s Nieman Lab, American Press Institute, Knowledge@Wharton, The Washington Times, HLN, Venture Beat, AdWeek, MediaShift, ESPN: The Magazine, Télérama, Mental Floss, Boing Boing, Slashdot, Buzzfeed, Metro, Reader’s Digest, CableFAX, Soap Opera Weekly, The San Jose Mercury-News, and MIT Slice of Life…and most proudly as trivia on Jeopardy! and NPR’s Ask Me Another, as well as The New York Times crossword. In addition to being a featured speaker at South by Southwest on several occasions, Sam has spoken or moderated at a wide range of in-person and virtual events, including National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE), Social Media Week NYC, Future of Storytelling, Front End of Innovation, Back End of Innovation, Media Insights & Engagement Conference, Planning-ness, Annual Insurance Executives Conference, Media Days Munich, NeoTVLab in Argentina, Cartagena Inspira in Colombia, Consumer Culture Theory conference, Console-ing Passions, Flow, and Social Media for Utilities, as well as events for MIT, the University of Southern California, Brown University, UC-Berkeley, Northeastern University, Aberystwyth University in Wales, Western Kentucky University, ESOMAR, the Public Relations Society of America, CTAM, the Advertising Research Foundation, the Association of Cable Communicators, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, PR News, CableFAX, the Popular Culture Association, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Association for Corporate Growth, the Luxury Marketing Council, the American Association of University Presses, the Association of Management Consulting Firms, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Association of National Advertisers, MarketingProfs, the Kentucky Press Association, the Kentucky Travel Industry Association, the Corporate Communication Leaders Forum, Donate Life America, Social Media Today, and a range of other forums. Sam received his Master’s degree from MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing and a Bachelor’s degree from Western Kentucky University as part of the Honors Program, where he majored in news/editorial journalism, communication studies, mass communication, and English, with a minor in film studies. Currently, he serves as a member of the inaugural MIT Graduate Alumni Council. He is also past chair of WKU’s Department of Communication Advisory Council and a member of  WKU’s Popular Culture Studies Program Curriculum Committee and the WKU Department of Communication Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee. Previously, he served as a member of WKU’s Young Alumni Council and WKU’s Advertising+Public Relations Professional Advisory Committee. Sam is also on the editorial board of USC’s Case Studies in Strategic Communication, the Organization for Transformative Works’ Transformative Works and Cultures, and Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. He lives between New York City and Bowling Green, Ky., with wife Amanda and daughters Emma and Harper.

Recorriendo los premios manga, esta vez llegamos con el Premio Manga Osamu Tezuka, que fue otorgado desde el año 1971 por la editorial Shueisha, y desde 1997 por el diario Asahi Shimbun. Entregado a numerosos artistas, como Naoki Urasawa y Fujiko Fujio, es el premio más importante en monto monetario del manga japonés.

Recorriendo los premios manga, esta vez llegamos con el Premio Manga Osamu Tezuka, que fue otorgado desde el año 1971 por la editorial Shueisha, y desde 1997 por el diario Asahi Shimbun. Entregado a numerosos artistas, como Naoki Urasawa y Fujiko Fujio, es el premio más importante en monto monetario del manga japonés. La entrada 143 – Premio Manga Osamu Tezuka se publicó primero en Gcomics.

A Canadian reviews the last few weeks of North Korea news with a special guest. Andrea talks to Ramon Pacheco-Pardo from King’s College London about DPRK summit mania. They cover the recent high-level visits to Pyongyang, Beijing and Washington, consider North Korean pledges to refrain from certain nuclear and missile testing, and debate whether this is all a house of cards. Links of Note: Ramon’s take on the forthcoming inter-Korean summit, for War on the Rocks. Yonhap on the Pompeo visit to Pyongyang, one of several ROK outlets creating an echo chamber for the Asahi Shimbun story. The North Korean statement pledging to suspend ICBM testing and nuclear testing at the “northern” test ground. Scott’s analysis of the recent North Korean test freeze pledge, for NK News. Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!  

Twenty years ago this year, Japan was to become a nuclear wasteland, according to the leader of a sect who claimed that the only survivors would be his followers and 10% of the major cities. It was in the lead up to this year of the predicted apocalypse, 1997, that he ordered shocking acts that would eventually result in his group being labelled a terrorist organisation, and himself and 12 other sect members being sentenced to death.CW: references to physical and emotional abuse, controlling behaviours, references to suicide, murder, and psychological trauma associated with being in a cult. Please consider whether you would like to listen on this basis. Content is not suitable for children.UPDATE 2: The death penalty was carried out in Japan in July of 2018. Aum sympathizer Kazuhiro Kusakabe left 8 injured on 1 January 2019 when he drove into a crowd of people in the Harajuku district of Tokyo.UPDATE: An Aum Shinrikyo update episode was released on 21 March 2018. It includes a small correction from this episode.Full research sources listed on each episode page at www.ltaspod.com.If you have been personally affected by involvement in a cult, or would like to support those who have been, you can find support or donate to Cult Information and Family Support if you’re in Australia (via www.cifs.org.au), and you can find resources outside of Australia with the International Cultic Studies Association (via www.icsahome.com).If you or someone you know is in crisis or needs support right now, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 in Australia, or find your local crisis centre via the International Association for Suicide Prevention website at www.iasp.info.Links:Profile: Shoko Asahara — BBC News, 27 February 2004A Guru's Journey – A special report. The Seer Among the Blind: Japanese Sect Leader's Rise — by Nicholas D. Kristof with Sheryl WuDunn, The New York Times, 26 March 1995Daughters of doomsday cult leader fight to save their 'loving' father — by Justin McCurry, The Guardian, 19 April 2006How a Religious Sect Rooted in Yoga Became a Terrorist Group — by Jennifer Latson, TIME, 20 March 2015Asahara’s No. 3 daughter writes on life during, after cult — by Keiji Hirano, Japan Times, 26 March 2015Former Aum cultist publishes memoir on gas attacks, Asahara — by Eiji Shimura, The Asahi Shimbun, 10 January 2017Sarin gas attack survivor recalls near miss on Tokyo subway — by Julian Ryall, South China Post, 19 March 2015Why Japan's Terror Cult Still Has Appeal — by Tim Larimer, TIME, 10 June 200220 Years Ago, A Shadowy Cult Poisoned The Tokyo Subway — by Charlotte Alfred, Huffpost, 20 March 2015

Maia Aziz P.S.W., C.L.Y.L., C.H.P., writes and speaks on living a life of love and laughter. President-Elect of The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Maia is joined each week on Morning Moments With Maia...Conversations of Love and Laughter by an eclectic lineup of guests who live their lives with love and laughter and work to help others do the same. www.withloveandlaughter.ca    John Morreall, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William & Mary, is an internationally recognized expert on humor and its benefits. He has been teaching university courses on humor since 1983, and has published six books and over seventy articles on humor. In 2000 an international conference was held in Amsterdam based on his book Humor Works. Since 1988 he has been on the Editorial Board of Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. He is Honorary President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor. In 2004 and 2005 he was elected President of the International Society for Humor Studies. Under the name Humorworks, Dr. Morreall has addressed over 600 business and professional groups in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan. His work has been featured in the New York Times (four times), the Washington Post, Asahi Shimbun, the Manchester Guardian, Forbes, and the Economist. His clients include IBM, AT&T, and Pennsylvania Co-Operative Potato Growers.     www.humorworks.com