Team Mirai Emerges as Japan's Sixth-Largest Party
Team Mirai Emerges as Japans Sixth-Largest Party Young engineers party secures 11 seats, signaling generational shift from ideology to policy focus
One overlooked story in Japan’s election: the hyper-technocratic new party Team Mirai, led by AI engineer made gains. It backs digital transparency, innovation, and tech-driven bureaucracy-an emerging alternative to the xenophobic turn. www.chosun.com/english/worl...
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Tokyo Humanities Café 25 will take place on Friday, 6 March 2026 at 7 pm at ImpactHub Tokyo Meguro (hubtokyo.com). Join us for talks on topics Jane Austen, Poetry, the Opening of Japan and Japanese statues: www.tokyohumanities.org
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彼女は、満員電車で今にも性的嫌がらせをしてきそうな年配の女性に見える。She looks like an old lady who is about to sexually harass you on a crowded subway train.
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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
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Ilhan Omar: “He was saved by security”
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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
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Please come to Tokyo Humanities Café 24 for a series of engaging, 15-minute accessible talks from top experts on topics including Indian food in Tokyo, otaku, transculturalism, and graphic novels.
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I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
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The protuberance is not a stomach:
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1819 monument to console the spirits of insects that had been used as models for “Chuchijo”, a sketchbook by Sessai Mashiyama, lord of Ise.
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YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
Brian Eno on AI, Art and What Makes Us Human
Great interview and interesting to find out Eno loves London Review of Books! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYY...
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Please come to the Meiji-Edinburgh Frankenstein Symposium Saturday 18 October 2025. For details, please see poster and www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein....
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
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15-min talks on Hokusai & British art, forgotten lives, online love & visual poetry!
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
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#books are awesome.
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アピール「デマと差別の蔓延する社会を許しません」街頭宣伝
8月1日（金）18時～
#デマと差別が蔓延する社会を許しません
オンライン署名にぜひご協力ください
➡ https://chng.it/2PMr8gQPBw
#WeWillNotTolerateASocietyWhereDisinformationAndDiscriminationSpread
Street Rally
Friday, August 1
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Shinjuku Station Southeast Exit Plaza
Speakers:
Keiko Ota / Sumiko Hatakeyama / Shoichi Ibusuki / Sayaka Oki / Yutori Takai (invited)
＋ Members of Parliament
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I hiked in the rain 11 km each way to see this tree “Jomon Sugi” in Yakushima Japan. It is estimated to be between 2170 and 7200 years old.
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Please see: www.tokyohumanities.org/about.html
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IT man. Brightly lit cyclist. xPakistan, xKenya, xJapan, and a few other places. Urban Transport, Air Pollution, Tropical birds, Plov.
Leiter des Instituts für Strategische Philosophie in Heidelthal
Shadow Ontology, Postmetaphysics, Genealogy of Ideas
https://erwin-ott.web.app/index.html
https://erwinott.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
Associate Professor in English at Flinders University.
Eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Death and suicide. Graveyard poetry. The Gothic. Vampires. Jane Austen. In another life would make a killing as a wedding DJ. https://shorturl.at/GWY35
Lecturer in English | 18 & 19C women’s writing and reading practices, fandom, and the Gothic | Jane Austen, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Caroline Lamb. [she/her]
historian of modern europe global / citizenship, colonies, militarism / postdoc in the ERC project COLVET @maynoothuniversity.ie / former fellow @italianacademy.bsky.social / PhD @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Photojournalist based in Japan, often in Taiwan. Represented by Panos Pictures.
www.ericrechsteiner.com
PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Add in equal parts - History, Photography, Music, Wikis - digitise - then serve chilled. Library/Museum Curator. Works @ State Library NSW. Shared views mine own. https://geoffbarker.wordpress.com/ & Q64778919
he/him
Enjoyer of history and old books :^]
ghostcheerio.carrd.co
Historian of the British Empire. Aoyama Gakuin University. The Rule of Law and Emergency in Colonial India. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-73663-7
Journalist at Maghrebi.org specialising in Sudan and Egypt.
I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
Education, Politics, Social Justice, Europe
ex LA Senior Adviser, researcher, waitress, company director, traveller.
Historian in training focussing on 19th century Japan 🌸 | Masters student at University of Erfurt | Bun dad | Tea enthusiast 🌿 | he/him 🫐
Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
