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Confined my run to my local neighborhood tonight. Ended being chased by former PM Fumio Kishida’s election car. White gloves hanging out of all four tinted windows, megaphone screeching,“This is Kishida, Kishida. This is Kishida Fumio. He used to be PM,” and little else, over and over again.
February 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Confined my run to my local neighborhood tonight. Ended being chased by former PM Fumio Kishida’s election car. White gloves hanging out of all four tinted windows, megaphone screeching,“This is Kishida, Kishida. This is Kishida Fumio. He used to be PM,” and little else, over and over again.
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The number of foreign workers employed in Hiroshima Prefecture has reached a record high, underscoring the growing role of overseas labor as the region faces population decline and labor shortages.
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Foreign Worker Numbers in Hiroshima Reach Record High Amid Population Outflow
Hiroshima’s foreign worker population has reached a record high, driven by labor shortages and population outflow. See the latest data by nationality, industry, and visa status.
gethiroshima.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:01 AM
The number of foreign workers employed in Hiroshima Prefecture has reached a record high, underscoring the growing role of overseas labor as the region faces population decline and labor shortages.
gethiroshima.com/news/hiroshi...
gethiroshima.com/news/hiroshi...
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This is correct🙂
Enjoy smoother boarding with Hiroshima Station's Express Mix playlist. All our 30-min journeys through house, liquid drum and bass, and more🚄🎶
on.soundcloud.com/EfHhMCpYt8PL...
on.soundcloud.com/EfHhMCpYt8PL...
EXPRESS Mixes - Hiroshima Station Monthly DJ Mixes
Hop on to one of our EXPRESS monthly mixes for 30 minutes of dance music with no stops.
soundcloud.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:07 AM
This is correct🙂
I can find this show a bit annoying, but the one on Geoffrey Chaucer is fantastic. Sexy tights, plague, war, and all the wine you can drink!
Oh, and that book, too. Link in next thread.
Oh, and that book, too. Link in next thread.
February 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I can find this show a bit annoying, but the one on Geoffrey Chaucer is fantastic. Sexy tights, plague, war, and all the wine you can drink!
Oh, and that book, too. Link in next thread.
Oh, and that book, too. Link in next thread.
Enjoy smoother boarding with Hiroshima Station's Express Mix playlist. All our 30-min journeys through house, liquid drum and bass, and more🚄🎶
on.soundcloud.com/EfHhMCpYt8PL...
on.soundcloud.com/EfHhMCpYt8PL...
EXPRESS Mixes - Hiroshima Station Monthly DJ Mixes
Hop on to one of our EXPRESS monthly mixes for 30 minutes of dance music with no stops.
soundcloud.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Enjoy smoother boarding with Hiroshima Station's Express Mix playlist. All our 30-min journeys through house, liquid drum and bass, and more🚄🎶
on.soundcloud.com/EfHhMCpYt8PL...
on.soundcloud.com/EfHhMCpYt8PL...
Every year I decide to do this “next year”.
And this year is now exception.
It is a *cool* happening and worth dropping by to give the swimmers some encouragement if you are near the A-bomb Dome today.
And this year is now exception.
It is a *cool* happening and worth dropping by to give the swimmers some encouragement if you are near the A-bomb Dome today.
It's going to be another chilly day tomorrow, so why not go and give the members of the Shinden-ryu Hiroshima Swimming Fellowship some support as they brave the icy waters in front of the A-bomb Dome during their annual mid-winter swim display. Details in the link below.
January 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Every year I decide to do this “next year”.
And this year is now exception.
It is a *cool* happening and worth dropping by to give the swimmers some encouragement if you are near the A-bomb Dome today.
And this year is now exception.
It is a *cool* happening and worth dropping by to give the swimmers some encouragement if you are near the A-bomb Dome today.
Latest Ridgeline newsletter from @craigmod.com is awesome. An ode to Denny's as a window into the soul of Real Japan™ humorously captures some of the frustration I currently feel as a Japan lifer. Thank you and Happy New Year to Mr Mod :)
January 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Latest Ridgeline newsletter from @craigmod.com is awesome. An ode to Denny's as a window into the soul of Real Japan™ humorously captures some of the frustration I currently feel as a Japan lifer. Thank you and Happy New Year to Mr Mod :)
Gorgeous views of the Scottish lowlands on a frosty return from a Hogmanay family break. I wonder when we will all be back together again. And whether I will manage to procure a driving license and explore the hills of Scotland and the Lake District before I leave this earth.
January 2, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Gorgeous views of the Scottish lowlands on a frosty return from a Hogmanay family break. I wonder when we will all be back together again. And whether I will manage to procure a driving license and explore the hills of Scotland and the Lake District before I leave this earth.
Seems like a no-brainer
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says
www.theguardian.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Seems like a no-brainer
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I may have found my sound of the summer...
razandafla.bandcamp.com/track/window...
razandafla.bandcamp.com/track/window...
Windowlicker, by Raz & Afla
track by Raz & Afla
razandafla.bandcamp.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I may have found my sound of the summer...
razandafla.bandcamp.com/track/window...
razandafla.bandcamp.com/track/window...
I pride myself on having my finger on the pulse, so with the Emperor and Empress in town, naturally, I decided to dig into Hirohito’s 1947 visit to Hiroshima.
The current Emperor and Empress of Japan are in Hiroshima for two days as part of their commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. Here, we take a look at the first imperial visit to Hiroshima by Emperor Hirohito, 2.5 years after the bombing.
gethiroshima.com/features/hir...
gethiroshima.com/features/hir...
Showa Emperor Hirohito In Hiroshima | Get Hiroshima
Showa Emperor Hirohito visited the A-bombed city of Hiroshima two and a half years after the bombing on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
gethiroshima.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I pride myself on having my finger on the pulse, so with the Emperor and Empress in town, naturally, I decided to dig into Hirohito’s 1947 visit to Hiroshima.
More. from Pulp yesterday and Little Simz Lotus today
Great weekend for new music🎶
youtu.be/Z2BplWSCZpY?...
Great weekend for new music🎶
youtu.be/Z2BplWSCZpY?...
Little Simz - Lotus feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussef Dayes (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Little Simz
youtu.be
June 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
More. from Pulp yesterday and Little Simz Lotus today
Great weekend for new music🎶
youtu.be/Z2BplWSCZpY?...
Great weekend for new music🎶
youtu.be/Z2BplWSCZpY?...
Gave "More." by Pulp a proper listen—a strong record, best judged on half-decent speakers rather than straight out of the phone. I am digging the Subculture vibe on Grown Ups. pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/album/more @welovepulp.bsky.social
More, by Pulp
11 track album
pulpmusic.bandcamp.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Gave "More." by Pulp a proper listen—a strong record, best judged on half-decent speakers rather than straight out of the phone. I am digging the Subculture vibe on Grown Ups. pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/album/more @welovepulp.bsky.social
15 mph or thereabouts is the legal limit for battery-assist here in Japan. Then again, much of that use is on shared sidewalks.
June 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
15 mph or thereabouts is the legal limit for battery-assist here in Japan. Then again, much of that use is on shared sidewalks.
“We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.”
An important, powerful, and brave speech by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
A must-watch.
www.ted.com/talks/carole...
An important, powerful, and brave speech by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
A must-watch.
www.ted.com/talks/carole...
This is what a digital coup looks like
“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “bro...
www.ted.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.”
An important, powerful, and brave speech by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
A must-watch.
www.ted.com/talks/carole...
An important, powerful, and brave speech by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
A must-watch.
www.ted.com/talks/carole...
"Whatever the bold claims made twenty years ago, at the dawn of the internet age, about the “weightless economy” to come or how we would all be “living on thin air”, data in reality has a hard physical presence."
'The scale which makes AI’s semi-magical abilities possible is also what turns it into a growing environmental problem.' | @meadwaj.bsky.social
The AI of the storm
The rise of generative AI has exploded the demand for energy, including from fossil fuels.
theecologist.org
June 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"Whatever the bold claims made twenty years ago, at the dawn of the internet age, about the “weightless economy” to come or how we would all be “living on thin air”, data in reality has a hard physical presence."
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A woman in her 70s was rushed to the hospital on May 24th, but died later the same day due to the tick-borne disease Japanese Spotted Fever.
gethiroshima.com/news/first-l...
gethiroshima.com/news/first-l...
First local death due to tick-borne disease of the year confirmed in Kure | Get Hiroshima
A woman in her 70s was rushed to the hospital on May 24th, but died later the same day due to the tick-borne disease Japanese Spotted Fever.
gethiroshima.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A woman in her 70s was rushed to the hospital on May 24th, but died later the same day due to the tick-borne disease Japanese Spotted Fever.
gethiroshima.com/news/first-l...
gethiroshima.com/news/first-l...
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NEWSLETTER: The best way to understand how society will value GenAI is to look at polyester's rise and fall: from a high-tech miracle fiber to a one-word symbol for tastelessness
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run
For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore busin...
culture.ghost.io
June 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
NEWSLETTER: The best way to understand how society will value GenAI is to look at polyester's rise and fall: from a high-tech miracle fiber to a one-word symbol for tastelessness
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
Well worth dropping by this photo exhibition if you are in Hiroshima over the next few days.
If you happen to be in Hiroshima city center for the Flower Festival, consider dropping into the Former Bank of Japan building to check out this poignant free exhibition of photographs from Hiroshima (sometimes days) before the bomb. #hiroshima
May 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Well worth dropping by this photo exhibition if you are in Hiroshima over the next few days.
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This week's classic tale, performed by Hatsukaichi's Yoshiwa Kagura Troupe at the Wednesday Night Kagura show, is Jinrin, the winged demon.
Details and ticket links here:
gethiroshima.com/event/wednes...
Details and ticket links here:
gethiroshima.com/event/wednes...
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This week's classic tale, performed by Hatsukaichi's Yoshiwa Kagura Troupe at the Wednesday Night Kagura show, is Jinrin, the winged demon.
Details and ticket links here:
gethiroshima.com/event/wednes...
Details and ticket links here:
gethiroshima.com/event/wednes...
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Iwata Mokkou, based in Hatsukaichi, the self-proclaimed birthplace of the traditional wooden toy, the Kendama, has released a beautiful new addition to its Hiroshima Like line.
April 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Iwata Mokkou, based in Hatsukaichi, the self-proclaimed birthplace of the traditional wooden toy, the Kendama, has released a beautiful new addition to its Hiroshima Like line.
I'll be spinning an eclectic selection at Friendz in Hiroshima tonight with Ante of The Waiting Room. Drop by if you fancy extending your weekend a smidge.
GetHiroshima's Paul joins Ante from The Waiting Room behind the decks for a Sunday Session tonight at Friendz International Bar & Grill in Fukuromachi. Free admission. 6pm kick-off.
gethiroshima.com/event/full-m...
gethiroshima.com/event/full-m...
Full Moon Party @ Friendz | Get Hiroshima
GetHiroshima's Paul joins Ante from The Waiting Room behind the decks for a Sunday Session at Friendz International Bar & Grill.
gethiroshima.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I'll be spinning an eclectic selection at Friendz in Hiroshima tonight with Ante of The Waiting Room. Drop by if you fancy extending your weekend a smidge.
Mt Daisen over Yonago
March 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Mt Daisen over Yonago