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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party on Friday picked former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba as its leader, setting him up to become prime minister next week.

The party leadership is a ticket to the top job because the Liberal Democratic Party’s governing coalition controls parliament. ……

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Yes, you could have watched a 5- (or 10-) years old movie and went there for a forum full of threads about that specific movie. Some threads might be old, but people did make new threads even after years, and they were all in one place and easy to find. It was a big loss when it was shut down, and I haven’t found a place that offers a similar experience.

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

At the moment they work like email addresses. You have an xyz@gmail.com account, you can only log into gmail.com’s server. But you can talk to abc@outlook.com, the fediverse (gmail.com and outlook.com’s servers) takes care of passing the messages / posts for you.

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

Why is there no 28 Months Later?

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The official website for the singing duo ClariS announced on Sunday that one half of the duo, Karen, will graduate from the unit at the end of their upcoming "ClariS Autumn Tour 2024 ~Via Fortuna~" concerts. The tour will end at Osaka's Zepp Namba venue on November 10 — days after the 10th anniversary of Karen's formal debut in the unit.

In a handwritten note posted on the website, Karen apologized for the suddenness of the announcement. She explained that she is leaving the unit to eventually realize another dream, namely to get married and raise a family. ……

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago

I really hate that you can only open one settings page at a time. There is no justification to making you lose your place you’re working on just because you want to adjust another minor setting. With the old interface I can e.g. have network and sound settings open at the same time and I don’t know why they took that away.

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Also see this English post about the Japanese Senator visit.

Context: In the past year there were pressure from VISA and Mastercard on shops selling content that can be considered adult; several sites tried to appease them by imposing restrictions on creators, but ultimately VISA and Mastercard stopped doing business with them (or vice versa), thus stopping those shops' ability to accept those forms of payment.

DL.Getchu.com is a Japanese shopping site for doujin manga, and was one of the shops that stopped (or was forced to stop) taking VISA and Mastercard. (Others shops include Toranoana, DLsite, FANZA doujin etc.)

People were concerned about these issues' impact on the freedom of expression. Several days ago, Japanese Senator Yamada Taro went to VISA HQ and confronted executives there. According to him, he was told (machine translation from the news article) "VISA headquarters does not make value judgments on the content handled by each site, etc., and if it does, it is at the site*. VISA also reported that it has never instructed them to stop handling content that contains specific terms (keywords)."

*at the site: the Japanese word used was 現場, on-site where the action happens, as opposed to far away in the back office or executive suite. Meaning if such judgments happened, it was done by somebody far lower and removed from HQ, or so they claimed.

A few days later, DL.Getchu.com announced that it will accept VISA again. It is unknown if it is related to the above, or if other sites will follow suit at this time.

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The full version of the PR video expressing the features and multi-layered attractions of Uji has been released to promote Uji's history, culture, and tourism to a wider audience.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18070722

after all these years, Hatsune Miku is finally becoming an anime character (outside of just being a funny cameo). don't take that statement too seriously, i'm a long time vocaloid fan who's had to explain that she isn't an anime character many times :D

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Acclaimed animator and director Hideaki Anno, best known as the creator of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, has suffered a leg injury that has left him hospitalized. He will now spend some time recuperating, with all upcoming scheduled appearances being canceled as a result.

Following a compound fracture in his left leg, Anno will be hospitalized "for a while," according to Khara's official website. [……]

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip to c/anime@ani.social

For those of you who wonder like me why there is no Tensura this week, apparently this was known prior, for "programming schedule reasons". Tensura #63 will broadcast next week, July 19th earliest.

There will be another break on August 9th, and #65.5『閑話:ルミナスメモリーズ』(Side story: Luminous Memories) will be broadcast/streamed instead of #66 that week.

Tonight (2200 JST) the normally 5 min 転スラ情報局 (Tensura Information Bureau) program on BS11 will be extended to 30 mins to fill the gap. Okasaki Miho (Rimuru) will be the host and Numakura Manami (Hinata) and Toyoguchi Megumi (Raphael) will serve as guests and talk about the first half of Season 3.

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 months ago
  • One of the government's justification for the practice was "It was lawful at the time". Now the Supreme Court ruled the law was never constitutional.
  • The Supreme Court also decided that "statute of limitations" does not apply so plaintiffs can still seek compensation.

Japanese source

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/18439514

The ruling brings to an end a decades-long fight for justice by victims who were forcibly sterilised.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/oZMR0

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This problem stems from この先 being able to mean “ahead from here in space”, or in time which (mis)translated to “the future”. Without proper context (that it is a sign on a road) the translation software had to make a guess, and it guessed wrong.

It may be possible to infer from 前へ行く in the second sentence that it is more likely referring to space than time, but I still think it is possible to construct some similar sentences which even humans might misunderstand.

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Co-founder Hideaki Anno's current studio Khara acquires Gainax's trademark


Anime studio Gainax announced on its website on Friday that it filed for bankruptcy in the Tokyo District Court on May 29. The bankruptcy proceedings are happening just short of the studio's 40th anniversary in December.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip to c/anime@ani.social

Official site: https://sakuna-anime.com/

This adaptation of Edelweiss's rice-farming RPG and simulation game is being made by P.A. WORKS and will broadcast in Japan starting July 6th.

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 months ago

He made the magnitude of a negative number bigger, and bigger is always better, right?

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 months ago

Acute subdural hematoma... isn't that usually caused by head injury? Did Toriyama-sensei bump his head somehow?

In any case, rest in peace Toriyama-sensei.

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 58 points 8 months ago

If Meta win this lawsuit, does it mean I can download some open source AI and claim that "These million 4k Blu-ray ISOs I torrented was just used to train my AI model"?

Heck, if how you use the downloaded stuff is a factor, I can claim that I just torrented those files and never looked at them. It is more believable than Meta's argument too, because, as a human, I do not have enough time to consume a million movies in my lifetime (probably, didn't do the math) unlike AIs.

But who am I kidding, I fully expect to be sued to hell and back if I were actually to do that.

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 20 points 10 months ago

He’s still bitter someone Sponsorblocked his cat segment :-)

[-] 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year ago

I know who will be the top contributor!

Their name is ChatGPT.

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