TOKYO: Protest Japan's potential adoption of Palantir AI for Self-Defense Forces use! 📍outside the Ministry of Defense 📆 7/17 (Fri.) ⏰ 6-7 p.m. Some info: Japan looking at U.S. AI military system for SDF decision-making www.asahi.com/ajw/articles... (banner grabbed from BDS Japan Bulletin on X)

What a lovely view out a university window

Hiii

#NoPrideInGenocide Kobe Rainbow Festa has a Kawasaki Heavy Industries problem 💢 #NoGenocideDrones

Shaw Kuzki (author of Soul Lanterns) recently received the Japanese Association of Writers for Children Prize for しずくと祈り 「人影の石」の真実. It's historical fiction about the family of the person whose shadow was left on the stone steps of a bank in Hiroshima after the US detonated the atomic bomb. 1/

I keep forgetting to post this just to share as an example of anti-Trump art from Japan. Can see it at demos in Osaka these days.

Engineers Against Apartheid will be protesting in Pontiac, Michigan. There will be actions in Mexico, Germany, + FANUC has locations around the world, but calling HQ is also an option. I’d love it if their phone would ring off the hook all day.

Urgent from Engineers Against Apartheid if you live in/near Pontiac, Michigan #StopFANUCNow >>>

Bought a stack of used 国語 textbooks 😍😍😍

I worked really hard on this! Such a cool thing to be asked to do 🥹

First time to Miyajima yesterday. Definitely want to go back and hike around.

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I’m drumming today 🙇🏻‍♂️

Sadly I bet everyone can guess the ending to this story.

I just…

Anyhow, I thought it was so badass and cool how she read the part she got criticized for that I bought a copy of the book from her, and she signed it for me.

Found him wearing it in a different video from last month x.com/migikatakawa...

Organizers reported that 11,000 people (!!!) protested Trump’s war on Iran and Takaichi’s trash support of him yesterday. Here you can hear the chant 憲法守れ = protect the constitution (from Takaichi’s administration and revision). I keep checking the number cuz I can’t believe it; 11,000 is massive.

I thinnnnk the set up will be the same as in Kyobashi the other day, which means in addition to photos from Palestine (on the opposite side of this photo scene) there is an emphasis on Japan’s complicit companies.

Wrote to Chiikawa Park to request that they make it clear if they need your legal gender or not and to ask for an "other" option because right now it's only male or female even though Chiikawa doesn't even have an official gender afaik...

Stoked that I managed to find a copy of the Feb. issue of ユリイカ (at this late date) with the Ao Omae feature. He’s celebrating ten years as an author 🥳

I really appreciate the people who wrote the protest letter we are trying to submit. Fuck the U.S.

Israel bombed 170 elementary school girls… What is there to even say…

This year is his 20th anniversary as an author 😄 (I've been translated the ones published by Kodansha for over half of that time 😲) Who can forget うんちでるかな？ I'm also a fan of しかくいので and びっくりはなび.

There are also sofubi of those monster buddies. Turns out Arai had dual aspirations as designer toy creator and picture book author. He made his dream come true! 😍 www.instagram.com/p/DUZWWngkl3g/

Did a sample translation of ナイスメイク, a recent picture book by Hiroyuki Arai supervised by Olympic gold medalist skateboarder Coco Yoshizawa and skateboarding coach Yujiro Terai 🛹