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OpenID Summit Tokyo 2026 "Special Edition" Closing Keynote

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OpenID Summit Tokyo 2026 “Special Edition” Closing Keynote

The tickets apparently sold out instantly, so I had not introduced this event here; however, tomorrow, August 26, I will appear at the OpenID Summit T…

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What Is Family?

The other day, shortly after Mother Teresa died, I watched what I think was an NHK documentary about the religious order she led and its work. The people gathered in that order had…

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Angry Japanese People

—The market has plunged since the start of the year. It has expressed no confidence in the government’s budget proposal, but the government…— In the January issue, I mentioned how…

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Get Angry, Japanese People

—A Ten-Trillion-Yen Tax Increase, but Only Seven Trillion Yen in Government-Bond Reduction: Are We Going to Let Them Keep Making Fools of Us?— As a result of the Liberal Democratic…

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Pavane of Tranquility

—Mie Saito Marimba Recital: A Wind from Gaul— The Pavane was like Gould. Notes played with soft mallets, without rolls, dissolved one by one into the space of the wooden church bef…

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