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Photo: private collection Fausto Godoy O Estadão recently published an article entitled “Japan invests in “nice” robots to make deliveries”, referring to a traffic law that comes into force in April of this year authorizing the circulation of autonomous “delivery” robots,. Its creators, the robotics company ZMP, are confident that they will help, for example, in the provision of services to the elderly, especially in sparsely populated rural areas. They warn that they will be monitored by remote control and by people who can intervene if necessary. The ZMP considered it important that they be “humble and charming, to inspire confidence”.. The company has already gone out into the field and partnered with business giants, como a “Japan Post Holdings”, who will test these robots in Tokyo....

Shinzo Abe, Former Prime Minister of Japan - JOHN THYS's photo / AFP The assassination of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, that shocked the world, raises profound questions within contemporary Japanese society and government. Issues beyond strict sense politics, At my point of view, also identity in the broad sense of what it means to “be Japanese” in a country that remained closed to the world for almost three hundred years during the Tokugawa shogunate., invaded its neighbors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was an aggressor during World War II and at its end, even defeated, became the second largest economic power on the planet.. and is currently experiencing a process of perceived stagnation and “depopulation”. Abe didn't just represent himself, but an entire political dynasty that crossed ...

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Iwakura Mission Route Any reflection on the emergence of Asia as (The) major axis of globalization at the beginning of this century and the role that the continent is playing on the geoeconomic / geopolitical level, have to recap, At my point of view, what happened to Japan in the late 19th century. It is worth remembering that the country has remained practically closed to the world for more than two hundred years, by imposition of the Tokugawa shoguns, who feared that the “insidious” Christianization of the population by Catholic missionaries - Portuguese Jesuits, mainly - to undermine the pillars and the soul of the nation. This poignant chapter of Japan's history, chamado Sakoku - Sakoku - "closed country"- is masterfully registered in the book “O Silêncio”, by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, catholic himself, al...

The Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, announced yesterday, 27 from December, a plan to make the country carbon-free by 2050 and alternatively encourage companies in the energy sector to gradually focus on the use of renewable energy and hydrogen. Suga promised to achieve zero net carbon emissions in 30 years. For this, he urged Japanese auto companies, of great penetration across the planet, to “become carbon-free by 2030”. As a consequence, oil-powered vehicles will be eliminated, according to the government, in about fifteen years. In contrast, such an initiative should generate almost US $ 2 trillions in “green” business and investments, as stated. Suga had already announced this purpose in a political speech in October, log...