Japan

[Psy-Fi]

Tokyo City Hall is developing a dating app to encourage marriage and childbirth

[Marie Monday]

Imagine your government having to get involved in trying to get you laid
(Not that I'm any good at that myself to be fair, but I'm not particularly fussed about it and  I'm not a breeder anyway so they would consider me a lost cause 😂)

[Psy-Fi]

Japan scientists make smiling robot with 'living' skin

[Psy-Fi]

Japan top court says forced sterilisation unconstitutional

[Psy-Fi]

Japan and the Philippines sign a defense pact in the face of shared alarm over China

[Psy-Fi]

Japan wants to make it easier to shoot bears as attacks rise

[Psy-Fi]

Here's a two-fer...

Japan tosses plan to woo Tokyo women into rural marriages for cash

Nearly 40,000 people died home alone in Japan this year, report says

[DJChameleon]

That second story is super sad to think about.

[SGR]

That second story is super sad to think about.

It truly is sad. One thought I've had about AI is once it gets to a point where it feels like you're having conversations with a kind of 'conscious intelligence' (and I think we're close), that will mitigate much of the sense of isolation and loneliness, not just in Japan, but many other countries too.

Given Japan's population crisis, they're going to need to either lift restrictions on immigration (and make it easier to immigrate and assimilate), or they need to find a way to incentivize their domestic population to start having babies. Governments need a growing tax base.

[Psy-Fi]

That second story is super sad to think about.

Yeah. It's tragic that some people grow old and get to the end of their lives with no friends or family.

It got me wondering about how other countries compare. I imagine the U.S. is probably similar in that regard.

[Psy-Fi]

World's longest-serving death row inmate — an 88-year-old former boxer — is acquitted of 1966 murders in Japan