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Free, Open, and Sacred Sexuality had Thrived in Japan Till 150 Years Ago(「性は聖なる自然の営み」という古来からの日本の伝統)[Dance Prayer]I am dancing at the local venue in New Jersey. These are not all myth stories, bu…
Similarly, by the time South Korea had the same number of deaths as Japan, they had three times as many confirmed cases. Yet it seems highly unlikely that under-testing alone would explain …
In the paper DeepRemaster: Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks for Comprehensive Video Enhancement, the researchers show how their novel approach can bring new life to old films. T…
Japanese Unicorn Preferred Networks Migrates Its DL Platform to PyTorch Synced Follow Dec 10 · 3 min readPreferred Networks is migrating its deep learning research platform from its own open source f…
Over many centuries, Japan adapted Chinese characters to suit the needs and form of the Japanese language. But to some, these foreign kanji remained a dirty smear on an otherwise pure Japanese c…
While 99% of these are imported from China, the remaining 1% percent are manufactured in Japan using upcycled premium wood from the construction industry. Surrounded by sustainable forests of cy…
This moment of micro-aggression further proves that Queer Eye Japan was meant to appeal to viewers outside of Japan, rather than its Japanese audience they are trying to save. Queer Eye is …
That’s the aim of Ishiguro’s companion robot “Telenoid,” which ranked #1 on the creepy list. Obviously the persons who gave my Telenoid robot that ranking just evaluated it on appearance rather …
Being a foreign software engineer in Tokyo has its ups and downs. If you work in a company of foreigners you’re mostly shielded from the experience, but if you work in an actual Japanese company ther…
