#martial-arts were militarized in #Japan before and during #WWII, and then sort of prohibited during the US occupation. #history
on 02026-09-18#news #video from four years ago about former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in #Japan
on 02026-08-12#history of #aesthetics: #Japan’s 19th-century influence on the West
on 02026-07-30an alarming conflict started in November between the PRC and #Japan over #Taiwan. #China #politics
on 02026-04-25The town of USA in #Japan has been called that for 1300 years.
on 02026-04-14#USA (especially #Trump) persuaded #Australia, #New-Zealand, #Japan, #France, #Germany, and the #UK to ban or partly ban #Huawei after adding them to the #export-controls list in 02019; the UK in particular mandated removal of Huawei equipment from #5G networks by 02027. #HarmonyOS #politics #China
on 02024-11-27#news from #Bloomberg on semiconductor #manufacturing in #Japan, where #TSMC begins mass production later this year following US$4.86 billion in subsidies to expand their Kumamoto plant announced in February. And Japanese startup #Rapidus plans to ship 2nm chips in 02027 with 590 billion yen (US$3.9B) in subsidies. And Japanese startup #Preferred-Networks supposedly has 7nm #neural-networks accelerator chip MN-Core 2, though presumably fabbed overseas by TSMC; their marketing is focused on energy efficiency and thus “sustainability”, and “is confident in bringing its AI chip design and supercomputer to market in a few years time”; they’re hoping Rapidus can fab their chips. 40%–50% of demand (as seen from Japanese semiconductor company Screen Holdings) comes from #China, especially the auto industry. An annoying amount of stock-footage filler. Much of the #video is about #JASM (a TSMC joint venture with Sony and Denso), which is “planning to begin mass production soon”, and its facility in Kikuyo.
on 02024-11-27the transition from zaibatsu to keiretsu in the #history of #Japan’s #economics
on 02024-11-16#video about black people dating in #Japan
on 02024-09-17#Mastodon is popular in #Japan because being hosted locally means it allows lolicon
on 02017-08-22#Solar resource of #Japan (other countries presumably available)
on 02017-07-11#USA B-1B flight buzzes North #Korea, accompanied by jets from #Japan and South Korea, in response to recent ICBM launch. #politics
on 02017-07-11