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Japan Back on a Growth Trajectory? (At Purchasing Power Parity, lol)
For the beginning of the year, I have updated the chart I introduced last April. It looks as though Japan has moved beyond the Lehman shock and returned to a growth trajectory. Mea…
Happy New Year
This is the Year of the Rabbit. I hope to make it a year of leaping forward like a rabbit. May the coming year be a wonderful one for you all. =nat
A Heartless Society and Numbering Systems: The Dangers of Entity Resolution in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (2)
In the previous installment, I discussed how combining the Internet with a system of universally used numbers (universal identifiers) could turn everyone into an Inspector Javert,…
Media Interviews Really Are Difficult
The other day, while talking with Professor Suzuki of Niigata University, we agreed that media interviews really are difficult. This was our reaction after seeing an article in the…
The 3th Masao Horibe Information Law Study Group
Beginning at 12/19 12:30 in a conference room at the National Center of Sciences, I will speak in the following session. 14:10–14:50 (40 minutes) Report 2 “The National ID System a…
The Merciless Society and the Numbering System: The Dangers of Record Linkage in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables
Humans are creatures that forget. Forgetting leads to forgiveness, and people act on that premise. But the Internet does not forget. A person who never forgets, like Inspector Jave…
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