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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 22:04:32 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    "The govt intends to demonstrate the soil, which retains low-level radioactivity, is suitable for public works projects and other purposes across Japan"
    "Previous attempts in Tokyo and other areas to use the soil have been halted due to local opposition"
    https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250527/p2g/00m/0na/060000c
    🔸PR event for the next Gojira movie and/or next batch of nuclear power plants?
    #Fukushima #NuclearWaste #Tokyo

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      Gov't to spread Fukushima soil outside PM's office to prove safety - The Mainichi
      from https://www.facebook.com/themainichi/
      TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government on Tuesday pledged to spread soil collected from near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the ground
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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 13:19:11 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    Is That All There Is? · Peggy Lee

    Vocalist: Peggy Lee
    Conductor: Randy Newman
    Producer, Composer Lyricist: Mike Stoller
    Composer Lyricist, Producer: Jerry Leiber
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsXjKBZM74
    🔸Recall listening to this on a late night BBC radio jazz programme as an undergrad so many years ago.

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    2. Is That All There Is?
      from Peggy Lee - Topic
      Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupIs That All There Is? · Peggy LeeIs That All There Is?℗ 1969 Capitol Records, LLCReleased on: 1969-12-13Vocalist:...
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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 10:51:13 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    Replaced the thoroughly worn-out strap on a digital wristwatch with a new resin strap, but inadvertently attached the piece with the buckle below the watch display (i.e. 6 o'clock position on an analogue watch).
    Only realised when attaching watch to wrist and finding it difficult to buckle up🙁
    Prior to that, had fitted the buckle piece inside out.
    So many ways to get it wrong!😢
    #repair #replace

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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 26-May-2025 11:01:32 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    "The Federalist Papers describe the courts as the weakest link in the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of govt."
    "The authority of the courts comes into effect only when society accepts the rulings issued by the courts as just. We will need to see... how well, if at all, the courts are able to maintain the rule of law and to uphold the [US] Constitution."
    Assoc. Prof Ayako Hiramatsu, Center for Pacific and American Studies
    https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z0405_00030.html

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      United States election showcases contemporary challenges of democracy | The University of Tokyo
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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 18:48:34 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    Stumbled upon the Yamayasu Turnpike Store in Odawara, Kanagawa Pref., whilst en route to the Suzuhiro Kamaboko Village.
    Unusual architecture certainly did a good eye-catching job!
    Stocked up on dried aji (アジ= Japanese horse mackerel) caught locally and American-sourced dried hokke (ホッケ=Okhostk Atka mackerel) from the freezer cabinets.
    #DriedFish #Odawara

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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 15:21:08 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba
    in reply to

    Infection status
    Released May 23, 2025.
    - As of period from May 12 - May 18, 2025 -

    No. of patients per medical facility (nationwide) 0.96
    Change from prev. week +0.02
    [Source: Health-Labor-Welfare Ministry weekly report]
    https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001488315.pdf
    🔸Small increase
    Saga at 1.21, Tokyo at 0.68, Akita at 0.96, Hokkaido at 1.17, Okinawa at 1.98

    🔸#Influenza monitoring paused until Sept 2025
    https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/001488357.pdf
    #CovidIsNotOver #Japan

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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 00:18:08 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    "...to prevent heatstroke, basic water charges for all households in Tokyo will be free for four months starting in June or July, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said May 20"

    "#Tokyo metropolitan assembly members of the Liberal Democratic Party, Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First) and Komeito requested the policy to Koike on May 19"

    "The Tokyo metropolitan assembly election is scheduled for June"
    🔸An illuminating innuendo😎
    https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15780280

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      Tokyoites to get free basic water charges to cool down in summer | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
      In an unprecedented move to prevent heatstroke, basic water charges for all households in Tokyo will be free for four months starting in June or July, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said May 20.
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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 23:36:39 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    "...there is compelling evidence that the #sakoku phenomenon has been exaggerated historically [and can be] ascribed to a form of Eurocentrism... in which... non-Western societies are viewed primarily from a Western perspective"
    "Focusing on the religious dimension... implies that Europeans were the most important aspect of #Japan’s external world at this time [but] relations with neighbouring Korea and China were of far more concern to the Tokugawa shogunate"
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767724.2024.2361028#d1e197
    #history

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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 08:53:58 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    Have seen an increase of posts by relatively new accounts of the [Country or City name]@[server name] variety with a flag or city logo as profile picture and non-existent profile details.
    The posts are mainly news items associated with the country/city in the account name without comment.
    Not sure if they're simply trying to establish an automated Fediverse presence, but in preparation for...what?
    So, have been muting, but it's beginning to look like "whac-a-mole" time.
    #bots #WhacAMole

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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 08:24:44 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    Ella Fitzgerald performing Mack The Knife (Live)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhg2VlayHTI

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    2. Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife (Live)
      from EllaFitzgeraldVEVO
      Music video by Ella Fitzgerald performing Mack The Knife (Live).© 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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    Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:47:41 JST Nowhere Girl Nowhere Girl
    in reply to

    Attack is cheap, defense is expensive.

    Attack is easy, defense is hard.

    You can always overwhelm the system with more missiles, decoys, and countermeasures.

    Shooting down regular missiles is hard enough as it is. Patriot had a 5% success rate and Israeli propaganda aside, analysis suggests its Iron Dome is little better even over a tiny area.

    Shooting down ICBMs and hypersonic missiles is orders of magnitude more difficult and requires global coverage.

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    Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:47:41 JST Nowhere Girl Nowhere Girl

    We know this won't work. We know this can't work.

    "Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader"

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-appoints-michael-guetlin-golden-dome

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      Trump rolls out Golden Dome missile defense project and appoints leader
      from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hugo-lowell
      Gen Michael Guetlein of Space Force will be in charge of defense system that could cost $540bn over 20 years
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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:31:41 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba
    in reply to

    "Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to appoint former environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi to replace Eto as agriculture minister, according to a government source"
    https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/05/9792b3a6ed3c-urgent-japan-farm-minister-resigns-over-controversial-gifted-rice-comments.html

    🔸Not sure that recycling former ministers will be any better than performatively recycling waste plastic (which largely ends up "thermally recycled". Oh, hang on...burning potential rival PM candidates?🤔)

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      Japan farm minister resigns over controversial gifted rice comments
      from KYODO NEWS
      Taku Eto resigned as farm minister on Wednesday after experiencing a backlash over a controversial admission that he does not buy rice because he receives so much of it from supporters, with the comments hitting a nerve as the Japanese public struggles with soaring prices.
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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 10:00:14 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    "[#Japan's] Farm minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after [saying] that he does not buy rice because he receives so much of it from supporters"
    https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/05/9792b3a6ed3c-urgent-japan-farm-minister-resigns-over-controversial-gifted-rice-comments.html

    "[Eto] entered a cabinet for the first time in 2019 as [PM Shinzo Abe's] farm minster. The veteran is known [to be] well-versed in agriculture and forestry policies"
    https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20241104-220534/

    🔸But seemingly didn't understand rice distribution, consumer concerns...and fresh thinking.
    Just another ossified politician🙁

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      Japan farm minister resigns over controversial gifted rice comments
      from KYODO NEWS
      Taku Eto resigned as farm minister on Wednesday after experiencing a backlash over a controversial admission that he does not buy rice because he receives so much of it from supporters, with the comments hitting a nerve as the Japanese public struggles with soaring prices.
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      Taku Eto, Keisuke Suzuki to Join PM Ishiba’s Cabinet, Replace Incumbent Ministers Who Lost in General Election
      from 新間
      Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has begun arrangements in appointing Taku Eto as the new agriculture minister and Keisuke Suzuki as the new justice minister, replacing incumbents who lost in the recent House of Representatives election, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 21:10:45 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba
    in reply to
    • David :SetouchiExplorer:

    @David It seems to have started as manga which was turned into an anime and then live-action TV drama series plus movie.

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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 11:38:53 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    "Tropical Race 4 (TR4), a disease that affects #bananas. Also known as Panama Disease, it is a fungus that has been rampaging through #banana farms for the past 30 years. But within the last decade the epidemic has suddenly accelerated..."
    "...bananas are grown on a vast #monoculture, meaning not just #TR4 but all diseases spread fast..."
    https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-pandemic-threatening-bananas.html

    🔸After the banana disappears the Minions end up running after an apple...😓
    https://archive.org/details/banana_202404

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      The ‘banana pandemic’ destroying the world’s favourite fruit
      The banana equivalent to Covid-19 is spreading to new countries, forcing the industry to change how the world’s most popular fruit is farmed and even how it could taste.
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      Banana Short film (By Despicable Me)
      Banana is a Despicable Me First short film
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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 09:11:38 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba
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    • David :SetouchiExplorer:

    @David Was there in 2023 en route to Takamatsu after visiting Naoshima.
    It also appeared in the 2024 film "Eiga Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san" (映画 からかい上手の高木さん), but it was a night scene and cut to show not much more than the railings😢
    (The English title of the film includes an awkward translation of "からかい上手")

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    bdonnelly (theblueone@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 14:27:33 JST bdonnelly bdonnelly
    in reply to

    Robben Ford Band - Ocean Blue Jazz Festival 1999

    #music #guitar

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw2XapW4c6Y

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    Or M. Bialik (ombialik@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 08:24:35 JST Or M. Bialik Or M. Bialik

    I don't think most people fully understand just how much ice was sitting atop the continents during the last glacial maximum. A good chunk of Eurasia and North America are still rebounding from the removed load.

    Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264370718301443

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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 19:45:33 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    Went down a rabbit hole re whether "aubergine" was related to "auberge". Remembered school French teacher saying it was slang for "traffic warden" due to their purple uniforms, but found actual origins far more fascinating:
    "All the aubergine-type names have the same origin, in the Dravidian languages..."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant

    Which reminds me. Early onset of summer calls for nasu nibitashi (ナス煮びたし) chilled overnight in the fridge🙂
    https://www.japanesecooking101.com/nasu-nibitashi/

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      Nasu Nibitashi (Braised Eggplant) Recipe
      from JapaneseCooking101
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    PhD from Imperial College (long time ago). Interested in physics, materials, engineering, history, sustainability, etc.

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