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Culture & Society: Japanese protests of nuclear reactors are ignorant and pointless

20,000 people gathered to protest Japanese Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko’s decision to restart nuclear reactors. They are worthless. “No to the restart!” shouted the protestors, who were led by investigative journalist Satoshi Kamata and Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe, who started an anti-nuclear petition that has so far gathered more than 7.5 million signatures. Last Saturday, Noda gave the green ... Read More »

Culture & Society: Japan Somehow Manages To Get Creepier About Idols

Researchers at Keio University in Japan have managed to create an interactive technology for posters, which you would think would be a precursor to the type of advertisements you saw in movies like “Minority Report“. Well, that was my first thought, but the inspiration behind the actual idea? Idols. If you’ve ever been to Tokyo or any other large Japanese ... Read More »

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