Article List

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  October 7, 2026

  A Swiss Blacksmith Establishes a Dojo in Mihara, Shinto Priests, Sake Brewers, and Farmers Brew Sake, and Five Trainees Arrive from the Dominican Republic — A Quiet Reversal as ‘Outsiders’ Inherit Hiroshima’s Craft

  By Rei

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  October 7, 2026

  LibreOffice Declares ‘No AI’ — Reading the Inverted Structure Where Not Having AI Becomes a Competitive Advantage

  By Kai

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  October 6, 2026

  The Monthly Cost of LLM Agents: It’s Not Just “12 Dollars”—Insights from Three Papers on “Inefficient Uses” and “Efficient Uses”

  By Kai

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  October 6, 2026

  1.33 Million Cranes, 1.6 Million Visitors, a Second Capital – Who Benefits from Hiroshima’s ‘Big Numbers’?

  By Rei

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  October 6, 2026

  The Era of AI Inference Costs at One-Hundredth: How Reflection Beam and Distillation Models Will Change the Competitive Landscape for SMEs

  By Kai

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  October 5, 2026

  Closure of Long-Established Fish Shop, Departure of Key Carp Players, and LABI’s Shutdown — What Remains When ‘Signboards’ Disappear from Hiroshima?

  By Rei

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  October 4, 2026

  NVIDIA Unveils ‘1 PetaFLOPS, $3,000 Desktop’—Companies Paying Over ¥80,000 Monthly for Cloud Should Start Crunching the Numbers

  By Kai

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  October 3, 2026

  Shopify’s ‘Canvas’ Reduces Store Building Costs from 1 Million to 5,000 Yen per Month. But Only 2% of Consumers Are Shopping with AI—This Gap Could Be the Winning Strategy for Small and Medium-Sized E-Commerce

  By Kai

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  October 3, 2026

  The Cost of AI Electricity Will Raise Your Utility Bills — Structural Issues in ‘Data Centers vs. Local Communities’ Revealed by Amazon’s NDA Abolition

  By Kai

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  October 2, 2026

  The Era of ‘Being Found for Free’ is Over—How Reddit, Google, and AI Bots are Simultaneously Disrupting the Customer Acquisition Infrastructure for Small and Medium Enterprises

  By Kai

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  October 2, 2026

  The Price of ‘Human Voice’ is Crumbling from Two Directions—The Shock of AI Voice Agents at 50,000 Yen per Month and ElevenLabs’ Valuation of 22 Billion Dollars

  By Kai

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  October 1, 2026

  Futaba Books Launches 24-Hour Unmanned Operations, Hiroshima Electric Railway Revives Charter Bus Service After 30 Years — A Quiet Turning Point in Hiroshima’s ‘System-Driven’ Approach

  By Rei

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  October 1, 2026

  DoorDash’s ‘AI-Driven Orders’ and Airbnb’s ‘AI-Powered Searches’ — When Customers Become AI, Unchosen Restaurants Quietly Disappear

  By Kai

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  September 30, 2026

  Tsubasa Aizawa as “Player-Coach,” Daichi Osera’s “13 Consecutive Wins,” and Ryosuke Kikuchi’s “Game-Winning Hit with a Broken Bat” — The “Veterans Becoming Background Figures” Reflect the Design of the Carp Organization

  By Rei

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  September 30, 2026

  The AI Pipeline Becomes ‘Dumber the More You Connect’ — The Shock of a 40-Point Accuracy Drop and the One Design Principle Small Businesses Should Follow

  By Kai

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  September 29, 2026

  The Price of AI is Crumbling from Two Directions—Interpreting Anthropic’s New Model and AMD’s $8 Billion Acquisition in the ‘50,000 Yen a Month’ Context

  By Kai

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  September 28, 2026

  McDonald’s Streamlines Drive-Thru with AI, Microsoft Abandons ‘AI PC’ — The AI That Survives in the Field Doesn’t Call Itself ‘AI’

  By Kai

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  September 28, 2026

  Hijiyama Hall, RERF Dormitory, and the Clothing Depot: When Hiroshima’s ‘Post-War Architecture’ Moves Simultaneously, It Is Not the Buildings That Are Being Questioned

  By Rei

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  September 28, 2026

  AI Runs Amok, Grades, and Makes Calls—The Price Paid by Companies That Don’t Know How to Stop It

  By Kai

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  September 27, 2026

  Despite Rapid Growth of AI, Productivity Remains Stagnant—Three Conditions for SMEs to Break Free from the ‘No Change After Implementing AI’ Mindset

  By Kai