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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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Dogo Beer Hall

Dogo Beer Hall is directly across from the Dogo Onsen Honkan. It is ideal for stopping by after taking a bath at Dogo Onsen. It happened to be snowing, and the seats by the window…

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Happy New Year

The flower bucket admired by visiting people— I shall set it down in the dawn of pure white snow. Still, I have been bedridden for about 3 days and could not go to the Millenario.…

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Twenty Years

Twenty years, piled higher than illness, now slowly melting away It is already year-end. Time passes so quickly. Looking back, I first went to the cancer center when I was 20, on M…

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The Kumano Road

On the Kumano Road,a deep lapis blue;over the quietThree Mountains of Ise,a curtain of night.

A Cold

It worsened rapidly from about Thursday night, and I felt awful. I could not take time off. At one point, I joked that I looked like Detective Kojak; before long, I had lost my voi…

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