It's because they got the metric system there.

If you "fail internally", you only screw yourself, your team, or your company.

When you fail externally, you screw others that bought your vision not because you're an innovator, but because they wanted to count on your service to work and keep working.

I downloaded the paper's supplementary datasheet (excel file) and for context the radioactivity of the cesium-137 that is the focus of the paper is 1 or 2 orders of magnitude below the radioactivity from naturally-occurring potassium-40 in the honey. So absolutely no cause for health concern.

> "News sites like The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, for example, were aggressively blocked in Japan when Osaka hosted the G20 international economic summit in June 2019."

Is this a typo? Did the author mean to write China? I can find no mention of this "aggressive blocking" incident anywhere, including the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

NGO Freedom House rated Japan’s Internet access as “free” with scores as low as 22.

recipients of a "trick" rather than a "treat".

> That's like saying we need to stop flying all the airplanes because of some crashes with the 737 MAX.

The 737 MAX alone has killed more people than all commercial nuclear power accidents combined (minus Chernobyl)

> Germany is on track to shut down
Did you read the article you posted? "on track" means 2038.

> shifting everything to renewables and natural gas, which is far less polluting than coal,

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-harmful-than-nuclear-power/

Emphasis on gas.

> Even if America’s massive legacy nuclear reactors shut down, a new generation of small, modular nuclear reactors is expected to come online before the end of the decade. These reactors promise to be cheaper and safer than existing reactors

I find that timeline to be ridiculously optimistic. NRC hasn't even finished licensing designs yet.
Then each site has to apply for site permit.
Then separately apply for construction & operation permit.
Then actually build them.
Then get operators licensed to operate them.
Then test them.
Then they come online.
Each step can take years.

Showing my age, but while Red Hat was not the first, Red Hat was one of the first to use the subscription for service model in an attempt to monetize open source software (and arguably make it successful). They did this back in the day when other distros attempted to make money from either proprietary add-ons to open source or via one-off or pay-as-you-go consulting service or service that was not directly linked to the software.

It also introduced the controversial philosophy of the act of converting source into binary (i.e. distributing only SRPMS and not binary RPMS... which led to the birth of CentOS) and distributing it automatically (RHN) counted as "service".

the type of person that is attracted to terrorist organizations has never, ever believed that the U.S. was part of the "good guys"... regardless of the existence of waterboarding methods. Just like you can't convince a truther than 9/11 wasn't a conspiracy, a birther that obama is an american, a fookooshimar that fukushima will kill every single person in japan and then some, a typical terrorist has an image of the West that does not need to be based in reality or fact.

I sure hope they have a No Smoking rule that is enforced.

Good luck keeping all those cars charged, day and night, using solar & wind power. Relying on batteries (for when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing) to charge batteries is like paying off your MasterCard with your Visa.

As a matter of fact yes I have and I did it. And I have zero Japanese roots (I am a white born-in-America lived there for 20 years former U.S. citizen native English speaker).
Six requirements (simplifying for the sake of the comment; there are exceptions to the below where it's in fact looser/easier than the below) to be Japanese:

1. Be an adult (defined as 20 years or older)
2. Don't be likely to become a welfare case (have a modest, stable source of income w/ an education & Japanese language level high enough that it allows you can to get/keep a job that will allow you to eat and put a roof over your head). You do not need to be rich or even well off or perfectly fluent.
3. Don't have a criminal record, overseas or domestically, and have no immigration problems (overstaying, etc)
4. Don't have any ties to organized crime or terrorism (domestic or overseas)
5. Live in Japan for five years continuously (not on-and-off) and legally (no immigration blemishes)
6. Legally get rid of your other nationalities (if the other country/countries will allow it)... either before (if country will allow it) or after within two years.

It took about five months for me to gather the paperwork and four months for them to approve me. And it is free. Permanent Residency is not a prerequisite, nor is Japanese "roots" (you can be single with no connection).

(for the sake of a comment, I'm grossly simplifying here. The immigration rules of both countries are extraordinarily complicated and there are many special exceptions to the below summaries, but this is a high level gist)

So there are no racial barriers or quotas or racial purity policies within Japan's immigration system. The primary difference between the U.S. and Japan's immigration system is that the U.S. immigration policy allows for two primary paths to legally immigrate:

1. By high skilled work: getting a job that is not considered manual/low-skill labor.
2. By "family reunion": having a family member (brother, sister, mother, father etc) already in the country.

Japan only has one path:

1. By high skilled work. How this is defined is complicated, but in a nutshell it's anything that requires a formal education above high school level. (again, lots of exceptions... too many to get into here)

In America, over 66% of immigration comes from path #2. In Japan, once you're in the country, you can bring your immediate family (your spouse and your direct children), but you can't bring your mother, father, brother, sister, etc. If they want to come, they need to qualify via path #1.

Because Japan is surrounded by seas and oceans with no land border neighbors, it is geographically very difficult for potential immigrants to enter illegally, and makes travel (airfare) expensive compared to land/car crossings. That also keeps the whole immigrant (legal & illegal) population low. Also, the language of the land is Japanese... so in order to qualify for Path #1 (high skilled labor), you usually have to speak/read/write it for >95% of most white collar jobs. This is a higher barrier than other countries, where the availability of high-skilled jobs in "popular" languages (like English) is more plentiful.

Anyway, the reason American's usually call Japan "anti-immigrant" or "restrictive" is because Japan lacks an easier "path #2" as part of their formal immigration policy, not because of race/ethnicity exclusion/quota policies... which is how the bulk of most legal immigration in the U.S. occurs.

Both Japanese sources quoted in the article were misrepresented.

See

http://blog.nobi.cc/2009/02/my-view-of-how-iphone-is-doing-in-japan-by-nobi-nobuyuki-hayashi.html

and

http://daijihirata.com/aboutwiredarticle.html

for their rebuttals of Brian Chen's Wired blog entry.

Nobi owns and uses an iPhone. I've seen him use it in person. The reason he was using a DoCoMo P905 in June 2008 is because the iPhone wasn't sold in Japan until July 2008.