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 Daisuke Okanohara (Preferred Networks co-founder; appointed President/Representative Director on November 26, 2025) is an influential voice in Japan’s AI debate, including as a member of the “AI Business Operator Guidelines” expert committee. 株式会社Preferred Networks +1 He argues that global competition (Google, OpenAI, Chinese players, etc.) will keep improving models on a 6–12 month cadence, so we should focus on the underlying trend rather than each announcement. He frames three risks of not having a domestic (Japanese) AI option: (1) an economic risk—AI will become infrastructure and a platform for new industries, so lacking domestic choices matters over the long term; (2) a language-and-culture risk—overseas frontier models may speak Japanese well, but the share of Japanese in their training data can be tiny (e.g., 0.5% or even 0.1%), which can cause generated Japanese to converge on a narrow set of expressions and “thin out” the language; and (3) a sovereignty/security risk—w...

  Year / Date Event Electoral Base / Support Structure 1956 Won the Akutagawa Prize for Season of the Sun Established nationwide fame before entering politics July 7, 1968 Elected to the House of Councillors (then nationwide constituency) Nationwide base : name recognition and media presence rather than local support Dec 10, 1972 Switched to the House of Representatives, elected from former Tokyo 2nd District Tokyo 2nd District base : Shinagawa, Ota, and Tokyo island territories 1975 Ran for Tokyo Governor and lost First attempt to build a Tokyo-wide electoral base failed 1976 Appointed Director General of the Environment Agency Gained executive experience within national government 1987 Appointed Minister of Transport Strengthened administrative and policy credentials 1989 Ran in the LDP presidential election (lost) Attempted ascent to the national political top tier 1995 Resigned from the House of Representatives Temporary withdrawal from frontline national politics 1999 Electe...

  Name Type What it does URL Notes Milkboy Creator (ミルクボーイクリエーター) ChatGPT “GPTs” Generates Milkboy-style manzai scripts from a topic https://chatgpt.com/g/g-riXHXfcdF-mirukuhoikurieta ( ChatGPT ) Easiest “enter a topic, get a script” option Gizmodo JP (example workflow) Article + prompt approach Shows a template-driven way to have ChatGPT fill variables and output a full script https://www.gizmodo.jp/2023/04/chatgpt-manzai-milk.html ( GIZMODO JAPAN（ギズモード・ジャパン） ) Good for learning the structure Zenn (prompt design breakdown) Article Breaks the task into steps (word selection, rules, template, output) https://zenn.dev/rie_amasato/articles/125c291d4338c4 ( Zenn ) Helpful if you want a reproducible pipeline Qiita (ChatGPT / Claude approach) Article Compares approaches using modern models and using documents as input https://qiita.com/zawatti/items/b2c237d4a925fbde3c1a ( Qiita ) More “how to run it as a system” than a single prompt Name Type What it contains URL Notes ChatGPT Milkbo...

  ■ D. T. Suzuki, Japanese Spirituality Written during wartime, this book redefines “Japanese spirituality” not as national ideology but as inner religious awakening found in Zen and Pure Land thought. ■ Motoori Norinaga An Edo-period scholar of National Learning. Through classical commentaries, he argued for an original Japanese sensibility rooted in sincerity and mono no aware. ■ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure A local ethical text of the Saga domain. It promotes radical loyalty and readiness for death, later reinterpreted as a symbol of Japanese bushido. ■ Inazo Nitobe Author of Bushido: The Soul of Japan . He recast samurai ethics in English, presenting bushido as a moral system compatible with modern global values. ■ Kitaro Nishida Founder of modern Japanese philosophy. Through concepts like pure experience and absolute nothingness, he linked Japanese thought with world philosophy. ■ Tetsuro Watsuji In works such as Fudo and Ethics , he defined humans as relation...

 A hash collision is a phenomenon where two different pieces of data produce the same hash value. A common misconception is to imagine only “accidental matches,” but once an attacker can intentionally generate collisions, the assumptions behind tamper detection and digital signatures start to break. For example, if you decide “it’s safe because the hash matches what the distributor published,” a collision-prone algorithm can let a different file be engineered to yield the same value, turning verification into a formality. A well-known real-world case is SHA-1. In 2017, Google and CWI published two PDFs with different contents but identical SHA-1 hashes, demonstrating that “matching SHA-1” no longer implies “the same file.” In 2020, researchers went further and demonstrated chosen-prefix collisions, which allow collisions while preserving arbitrary chosen prefixes. That is far more troublesome in contexts like signatures and identity, because it undermines the shortcut idea that “i...

“Magic Fly” is a 1977 instrumental hit by the French synth-disco group Space, known for its repetitive synth riff and cosmic sound, and regarded as a classic of space disco.