Speakeasy: Interrogating Japan’s Covid-19 Data
This SNA Speakeasy features Azby Brown on the theme of “Interrogating Japan’s Covid-19 Data.”
Misreporting, Bias, and Fake News
Defense Minister Taro Kono’s denunciation of NHK and the mainstream news media as “fake news” for reporting that his ministry had decided to give up the Araya Training Area in Akita city as host for an Aegis Ashore facility was a cynical ploy on his part, but it did highlight once again that many people misunderstand the news media in rather fundamental ways.
Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life
This exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, held from November 2019 to March 2020, featured more than a hundred projects, and provided a window from which to contemplate the changes that are developing right now due to the advances in AI, biotechnology, robotics, and AR.
Indigenous Community Fights Eviction in Taiwanese City
For the past five years, the Kaohsiung municipal government has been evicting residents of a community known as the city’s oldest indigenous settlement. But even though their houses have largely been torn down, some of the residents still refuse to move.
Speakeasy: Press Freedom in East Asia
This SNA Speakeasy features Cedric Alviani on the theme of “Press Freedom in East Asia.”
Bread & Roses: Workers of the World! Unite and Stay Home!
Today, we see the eight-hour workday as a social norm, albeit observed more in the breech. But workers shed blood and tears to bequeath this right to us.
Speakeasy: In the Wake of the Australia Wildfires
This SNA Speakeasy features Jess Panegyres on the theme of “In the Wake of the Australia Wildfires.”
Expanding the State of Emergency
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the last half of April 2020.
Speakeasy: Japanese Society in the Coronavirus Era
This SNA Speakeasy features Kenichiro Mogi on the theme of “Japanese Society in the Coronavirus Era.”
Speakeasy: Foreign Residents in the Coronavirus Era
This SNA Speakeasy features Debito Arudou on the theme of “Foreign Residents in the Coronavirus Era.”