Article List

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  May 23, 2026

  “Free Code” Comes at a High Cost—The Reality Facing Small and Medium Enterprises Amid Large-Scale Open Source Contamination and the Quality Collapse of AI-Generated Code

  By Kai

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  May 23, 2026

  A 440-Year-Old Vinegar Brewery, Seeds from 48 Years Ago, and a 10-Year Paper Cutout: How ‘Taking Time’ Becomes an Economy in a Small Setting in Setouchi

  By Rei

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  May 23, 2026

  Large Corporations Lay Off 8,000 Employees with AI, While Local SMEs Recruit Them for 50,000 Yen a Month—The ‘Reversal Structure’ Created by Mass Layoffs at Standard Chartered, Meta, and Cloudflare

  By Kai

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  May 22, 2026

  The Shocking Drop in Music Production Costs: From 300,000 Yen to 5,000 Yen—How Spotify and Stability AI are Disrupting the Notion that ‘Creativity is Expensive’

  By Kai

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  May 22, 2026

  Who Will Restore the ‘Eternal Flame’? — The Complete Destruction of the Reikado Hall, the Government-Driven Bid Rigging in Onomichi, and the Disappearance of the Buddha Statue Model Reflect the Absence of ‘Cultural Heritage Support’

  By Rei

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  May 21, 2026

  Chartering Trams, Reviving Beer Halls, and Tailoring Separate Yukata—The Small Players Supporting Hiroshima’s ‘Night Economy’

  By Rei

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  May 21, 2026

  The Era of ‘Zero Profit Margin’ for AI Agents — Three Fruits Local SMEs Should Harvest While Giants Battle in the Red

  By Kai

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  May 20, 2026

  Google x Blackstone 700 Billion Yen, NVIDIA 4-Bit Learning — When Will ‘API Prices Halve’ Come Amidst the Giants’ Clash? Small and Medium Enterprises Shouldn’t Wait; Start with Profitable Operations at Current Rates

  By Kai

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  May 20, 2026

  A Fireworks Festival Reborn, 60 Local Characters Gather, and the Marine Expo is Set—Understanding How the City of Kure is Transitioning from a “Naval City” to a “Marine City”

  By Rei

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  May 20, 2026

  Linus Torvalds Slams AI Bug Reports as ‘Almost Useless’—Shattering the Illusion of ‘AI Code = Free’ at the Cost of Real-World Implications

  By Kai

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  May 19, 2026

  DeepSeek V4 Runs on Consumer GPUs. NVIDIA Releases 4-Bit Learning Technology. — The Era of ‘Not Buying GPUs’ Breaks Down Barriers for SMEs Entering AI

  By Kai

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  May 19, 2026

  The Station Front Library Sees a Tenfold Increase in Visitors, Minamoa Achieves Sales of 53.9 Billion Yen, and Road Subsidence Continues in Hiroshima Station Redevelopment: A Numerical Look at the “Light and Shadow”

  By Rei

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  May 19, 2026

  OpenAI’s Legal Defeat, Anthropic’s Acquisition, and Giants’ AI Losses—The Protracted Power Struggle Triggers an ‘API Price Collapse.’ What Should Small and Medium Enterprises Focus on Now?

  By Kai

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  May 18, 2026

  Local AI Becomes ‘Plug and Play’ — Criteria for Ditching the Cloud for 50,000 Yen a Month

  By Kai

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  May 18, 2026

  Fires from Waste Burn 15 Hectares, Ship Dismantling Creates Smoke in the City—What is Happening in a Region Lacking a System for ‘Destruction’

  By Rei

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  May 17, 2026

  A Company That Spent 20.7 Billion Yen Yet Still Can’t Improve Its Slides, and an AI Calendar That Eliminated Five Apps for 1,500 Yen a Month—The One Question That Distinguishes Successful AI Investments

  By Kai

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  May 17, 2026

  Hanging Paintings in Barber Shops and Playing Strings in Temples: How ‘Non-Traditional Spaces’ Embrace Culture

  By Rei

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  May 17, 2026

  The Day the “500,000 Yen AI” Loses to the “50,000 Yen AI”—How the LOOP Skill Engine and GPU-Free LLMs are Disrupting the Norms for Small and Medium Enterprises

  By Kai

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  May 16, 2026

  WordPress Loses 19% to AI, GitHub’s AI Code Surges Tenfold—The Rapid Devaluation of ‘Code Writing Jobs’

  By Kai

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  May 16, 2026

  Bears Descend into Residential Areas, Schools Close, and High Schools Consolidate from 18 to 7 — What Happens in ‘Places Where People Have Withdrawn’

  By Rei