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Data Sustains Lives—MyDataConference 2026 Opening Address

The following is the opening address for the MyData Japan Conference 2026, delivered by Nat Sakimura in his capacity as Chair of the General Incorpora…

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Safari for Windows Handles Japanese Perfectly

It is a trivial matter, but a new PC arrived at work, so while setting it up I tried installing Safari for Windows v.3.0.4 (523.15). When I tried it previously, Japanese was comple…

Today’s Work

I woke at 6 a.m. with lower-back pain. I applied Pasta Nogen and felt a little better. Started work at half past 6 in the morning. The detailed work of placing text on tax return F…

Embedding Kanji Using MBFPDF

It went more smoothly than I expected. Procedure Copy the contents of the fpdf folder created when you extract the mbfpdf archive into the FPDF folder. (Check as you go to make sur…

Creating Fonts, Part 2

Well then, after sleeping for about 4 hours, I tried again with a fresh mind. Pressing the “T” button brings up the following dialog, “Transform Wizard.” Here, choose Width as show…

Shall I Make a Font…?

It cannot be helped. Perhaps I should make a custom font with well-adjusted letter spacing… So I searched for font-creation software. FontForge looked good, but installing it and o…

FPDI Again — Adding a Font

After dinner, I continued working. I tried placing numbers on Form A. To make it possible to place numerical values in a loop, I organized the variables into an array. Then: 1) Fir…

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