Japan

   

  Local authorities are considering plans to limit the number of hikers for the coming climbing season.  

  The tech company should minimise the sensitive data it collects for machine learning, Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission said, as regulators around the world scramble […]

  From a Japanese pop star to Hong Kong libraries, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.  

  Trash houses or ‘gomi-yashiki’ are local eyesores whose owners spill mounds of rubbish onto the streets and surrounding properties, attracting pests, causing problems for local […]

The contemporary security context has sharpened Japan’s dilemma regarding nuclear weapons.  Japan is surrounded by several nuclear-armed neighbors and depends on US extended deterrence rather than its own nuclear deterrent. An opportunity was embedded in Japan’s role as G7 chair for the 2023 summit in Hiroshima, the site of the 1945 nuclear attack and Prime […] The post Japan’s nuclear weapon dilemma growing more acute appeared first on Asia Times.