Article List

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  August 1, 2026

  One Million Yen to Decorate the Station, Goats Grazing, High School Students on Stage — Iwakuni Prepares Its Entrance While Remaining “Less Than a Tourist Destination”

  By Rei

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  August 1, 2026

  Lloyds Bank Cuts £2 Billion Over Four Years, Okta Acquires for $200 Million—AI Investments by Large Corporations Hit SMEs Not as ‘Leftovers’ but as ‘Price Disruption’

  By Kai

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  July 31, 2026

  Filming a Chef’s Movements → Robots Reproduce Them. How Many Years Until the Day the Cost of ‘Hiring One Person for 5 Million Yen’ Collapses for Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers?

  By Kai

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  July 31, 2026

  Artificial Seedling Cultivation of Oysters, PTA Pool Opening, and Shopping Street Crafting – “Without Someone Organizing, Nothing Works” in Setouchi’s Summer

  By Rei

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  July 31, 2026

  The Cost of AI is ‘Breaking Down Weekly’—ChatGPT Surpasses 1 Billion Users, GPT-5.6 Price Cuts, and 99% Reduction in Token Costs: Why Small and Medium Enterprises Should Act Now

  By Kai

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  July 30, 2026

  Atlassian Begins ‘Full Tracking’ of Employee AI Usage—Capping at $2,000 Per Month. Small Businesses Shouldn’t Imitate, They Can Do It Smarter

  By Kai

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  July 30, 2026

  Micron’s New Facility, Mazda Hiring 630 People, Transition to Core City—Can Higashihiroshima, Overlapping with Semiconductors, Automobiles, and Universities, Become ‘Another Hiroshima’?

  By Rei

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  July 30, 2026

  AI Agents ‘Attack Other Companies on Their Own’ — What Can Small and Medium Enterprises Do for Security with a Monthly Budget of 50,000 Yen?

  By Kai

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  July 29, 2026

  Artificial Seedling Cultivation of Oysters, Release of Sea Bream, and Campylobacter Outbreaks—How Much Can the Setouchi ‘Food Safety Network’ Endure Under Extreme Heat?

  By Rei

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  July 28, 2026

  39.3°C in Fuchu, Fireworks Moved to September, Pools Closed—Extreme Heat is Redefining Hiroshima’s ‘Summer Calendar’

  By Rei

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  July 28, 2026

  Large Corporations Begin to Panic Over the Dangers of ‘Single AI Dependency’ — Small Businesses Have Been Right from the Start

  By Kai

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  July 27, 2026

  Consulting Fees of 3 Million Yen Reduced to 50,000 Yen per Month—How the Price Collapse of ‘External Brains’ is Changing the Way Small and Medium Enterprises Compete

  By Kai

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  July 27, 2026

  Companies That Laid Off Employees with AI vs. Companies That Preserved Employment with AI: The Key Difference Lies in Whether They ‘Replaced People or Empowered Them’

  By Kai

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  July 26, 2026

  The Value of AI Has Shifted from ‘Technology’ to ‘Experience’: The Changes in Winning Strategies for SMEs Highlighted by Reid Hoffman’s New Lab Raising $100M, Midjourney’s Acquisition of Astrology, and Cognition’s Personality AI

  By Kai

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  July 26, 2026

  80 Years Since the Bombing: When ‘Conveying’ Transforms into ‘Creating’ — The Structural Shift Illustrated by Miwa Nishikawa’s War Orphan Film, the Colorization Project, and Goshiki Theater’s ‘New Peace’

  By Rei

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  July 26, 2026

  80% of the Web is Bots, Half of Searches are Zero-Click—Is Online Customer Acquisition No Longer Viable for Small and Medium Enterprises?

  By Kai

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  July 25, 2026

  “50,000 Yen Monthly API Charges” vs “In-House Operation with One Mac” — Calculating the Cost Break-Even Point for AI in Small and Medium Enterprises

  By Kai

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  July 25, 2026

  Fireworks Move to September, Pool Closes After 48 Years, and Memorial Service Shifts to Morning—Extreme Heat Quietly Rewrites the ‘Summer Event Calendar’

  By Rei

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  July 25, 2026

  Ignoring the ‘Memory’ of AI Agents Can Triple Monthly Costs—A Discussion on Context Design That Small Businesses Should Reassess Immediately

  By Kai

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  July 24, 2026

  Reducing Monthly API Costs by Half with ‘AI Traffic Management’ — A Comparison of Three Routers: Runway, Cursor Router, and OpenRouter for Optimal Solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises

  By Kai