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In Japan, there's a tradition of publishing "graduation anthologies" (or graduation albums) at elementary and junior high school graduations, featuring essays and photographs.

Graduation and Entrance Ceremonies in Japan: How They Differ From Overseas | Japaniche

These anthologies have long been criticized for their high resale value (including essays from Haruki Murakami's childhood and images of actresses in their youth) and their indiscriminate use in crime reporting as "student images" of perpetrators.

Currently, these anthologies are being used as unaltered, clean "material" for deepnude learning, leading to increasing discussion about their need for abolition.

In short, even generations who lived before the age of social media are at increased risk of becoming victims of deepnude through the resale of these publications.

I believe the era of publishing personal information on paper, like gentlemen's directories or phone books, is over.

The culture of graduation anthologies and their accompanying photographs, which even have the potential to be altered for child pornography, should end with this generation.

(Article in Japanese) 卒業アルバム加工した偽の性的画像ＳＮＳ拡散、一部は小中高生らが作成…警察庁がＡＩサイト調査 : 読売新聞

Imagine a court hearing being filled with Super Mario sound effects, laughter, and commentary like a sports broadcast.

That's exactly what news programs that use music, sound effects, and commentators who are little more than gawkers are doing.

That's not reporting; it's merely a show that looks like it, a desecration of reality.

That's why I prefer the old-fashioned form of media news, using text and images.

Of course, this also involves arbitrary intentions and editing, but the problems are far less severe than with video.

Websites in Thailand have turned black and white to mourn King Bhumibol’s death

Here is the image of the label on the other side.

I haven't eaten a huge variety of hamburgers, but I particularly liked the "Tobikiri Cheese" burger (now discontinued) from the Japanese hamburger chain Mos Burger.

Mos Burger emphasizes using "domestically sourced" ingredients, and among the many foreign-owned burger chains in Japan, it particularly pursues a taste tailored to Japanese palates.

Furthermore, this hamburger chain stands out among Japanese hamburger chains, having been the first to sell the "Teriyaki Burger" (also known as the Samurai Burger).

Unfortunately, this favorite menu item is no longer available, but I like the overall flavor direction of this brand, so I'm thinking of going back again.

My website is still under development and not yet public.

I hope to launch it sometime this year.

I also maintain a link blog on Mastodon and Bluesky, focusing on personal websites, news, and academic research.

This blog includes some of the results from my aforementioned website.

Yes, I know about it. My specialty is personal websites in the Japanese-speaking world, which is my native language, and some of the website creators occasionally use this service.

For example, DJ Telematic Visions does.

https://telematicvisions.neocities.org/

Music. Because it's sound, even when I'm at my most lethargic, depressed, and too exhausted to do anything, I can enjoy it just by feeling its vibrations in my body.

Collecting rare and high-quality pages on the internet, especially personal websites. In this age of social media where information flow is manipulated by algorithms, the culture of personal link collections is all the more necessary.

In an article written in Japanese, the author points out the differences in maliciousness between Bluesky and other Fediverse services.

For example, while Mastodon administrators can access blocking lists that include federated users, Bluesky's access is not limited to administrators and is publicly available as a fully public API not found in the official app.

https://clearsky.app/whitehouse-47/blocking/blocked-by

Both Mastodon and Bluesky fail to implement measures such as notifying users of this fact when they make their first reaction, but Bluesky's particular maliciousness lies in its excessive disclosure of API permissions.

At least I believe Bluesky should have limited its API permissions to the same level as Mastodon.

I am adding this comment as related information has come to light.

In March of this year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met with a representative of Palantir Technologies.

Courtesy call on Prime Minister TAKAICHI by Mr. Thiel, Co-Founder and Chairman, Palantir Technologies Inc. | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (March 5, 2026)

On Japanese social media, there are voices speculating that this relationship between Palantir and Japan may have led to the introduction of this bill.

I am adding this comment as related information has come to light.

In March of this year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met with a representative of Palantir Technologies.

Courtesy call on Prime Minister TAKAICHI by Mr. Thiel, Co-Founder and Chairman, Palantir Technologies Inc. | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (March 5, 2026)

On Japanese social media, there are voices speculating that this relationship between Palantir and Japan may have led to the introduction of this bill.

I am adding this comment as related information has come to light.

In March of this year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met with a representative of Palantir Technologies.

Courtesy call on Prime Minister TAKAICHI by Mr. Thiel, Co-Founder and Chairman, Palantir Technologies Inc. | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (March 5, 2026)

On Japanese social media, there are voices speculating that this relationship between Palantir and Japan may have led to the introduction of this bill.

I am adding this comment as related information has come to light.

In March of this year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met with a representative of Palantir Technologies.

Courtesy call on Prime Minister TAKAICHI by Mr. Thiel, Co-Founder and Chairman, Palantir Technologies Inc. | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (March 5, 2026)

On Japanese social media, there are voices speculating that this relationship between Palantir and Japan may have led to the introduction of this bill.

Melan & Choly (AnotherAudioVer) - 3D-CG Animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Em7D1Iqsc

This news reminds us that solar power has been chosen as an alternative energy source amid the power crisis in Myanmar during the civil war.

"It is not like we are using them for clean energy or for some environmental reasons. We are a country with civil war. We are just using them out of necessity," said a resident in the Bago region.
War-torn Myanmar embraces solar to tackle power crisis | Reuters (2025-11-14)

This is a security issue, not a content issue.

There is nothing wrong with universities posting pornography.

This is evident from the fact that Japanese universities research traditional pornographic art from that country.

Japanese Recordstore Database "Recoya"https://recoya.net/en/

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Japanese Meme Music Culture "Oto-mad" Databasehttps://otodb.net/

Yes. I contribute to Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

I wanted to contribute to the online information sources that I always rely on, so I started activities on these two sites.

Offline, I work on organizing 78rpm-record collections left by local collectors.

I like music from before the LP era, and I learned about this activity through local media and decided to participate in the organizing work.

Japanese: Last regrets (imoutoid's First regrets remix) (2006)Russian: Murat Nasyrov - Мальчик хочет в Тамбов (1997)German: Kraftwerk - Computerwelt (1981)Italian: Giuseppe Verdi, Mario del Monaco - Esultate! (1887, 1954)French: Joe Dassin - Et si tu n'existais pas (1975)Spanish: Celia Cruz - Mi Soncito (1956)Chinese: Zhōu Xuán - Hua yang de nian hua (1947)