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Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee's Selection of Show Director Reveals Lack of Governance

(This article is a repost of a Facebook post published at 11:03 AM on the 22nd) The Simon Wiesenthal Center has taken action regarding the Holocaust joke made by Olympic show director Kentaro Kobayashi. Saori Imai's Yahoo News article is titled "Urgent Petition: Prime Minister Suga, take action against Olympic show director Kobayashi today, before the Tokyo Olympics are forever tainted," but this person is a professional...

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Another Olympic Opening Ceremony That Could Have Been Taken

Today, for reasons I won't go into, I went to the "Exhibition Cuttings" by Mathieu Coplan at the Hermès Gallery in Ginza. I'm completely out of touch with the art scene, but apparently, 1964, the year of the previous Tokyo Olympics, was a time when Japan was leading the world. While solo exhibitions at galleries usually have grand receptions on the opening day, this one involved closing the gallery...

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Is this the way of life for Japan?! ~ Turning the elderly into a fighting force with powered suits

Now then, for the third topic of the New Year, as promised in the previous article, we'll discuss a "dreamlike" [1] growth strategy. Currently, Japan's biggest problem is its declining birthrate and aging population. The fundamental issue here is that the consuming population far exceeds the working population. When consumption > production, national wealth flows out of the country, and the people become poorer. Furthermore, since demand is stronger than supply, imports become difficult…

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