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Osaka brothel district stays closed for a day out of respect for deceased PM Abe

To cover various aspects of the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's state funeral on Sept 27, Weekly Playboy (Oct 24) dispatched reporters to several locations. Part 1 of its coverage involved joining a march protesting the holding of a state funeral. In Part 2, a&#x2...
Emperor Showa Tetsuya Yamagami Abe Tobita Shinchi Shinzo Abe Nihon Budokan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

'2024 bug' to wreak havoc on Japan's logistics

&quot&#x3B;Up to now, distribution has managed to overcome several crises, but this time, there's real concern that the industry might not be able to move goods.&quot&#x3B; That is how Hiroaki Oshima, who heads the specialty think tank NX Logistics Research Institute and Consu...
Japan General Tomoharu Uchiyama Hiroaki Oshima Nx Logistics Research Institute Consulting Inc Research Institute

Majority of Japanese show scant interest in established religion

Religion -- and one religion in particular -- has frequently been in the news since the slaying of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8. But if a survey by Weekly Playboy (Aug 29) is to be believed, religion in Japan appears to have surprisingly little&#...
Hiromi Shimada Agency For Cultural Affairs Cultural Agency Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Weekly Playboy Cultural Affairs

Things people started during the pandemic but soon wound up quitting

In Japanese, a person who starts engaging in some activity only to soon give up is referred to as a mikka bozu (a monk for three days). Weekly Playboy (June 20) set out to poll people about things they'd initiated from early in the pandemic, only&#x2...
Nihon Keizai Shimbun Weekly Playboy Nihon Keizai

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Future imperfect: People tune in to the occult when the going gets rough

After the third Mideast War in 1973, when Japan's energy supplies were threatened by embargo on oil from OPEC suppliers, an author named Ben Goto (1929-2020) achieved overnight fame with his 1973 publication of the &quot&#x3B;Great Prophesies of Nostradamus.&quot&#x3B; That bo...
Les Proph Ben Goto Jyuriko Shirakami Bintaro Yamaguchi Masaki Ohsawa Mideast War

Rampant shortfalls in industrial components presage trouble ahead for businesses and consumers alike

The frantic tweets tell it like it is: &quot&#x3B;All of the major suppliers of 6kV high-voltage cables have stopped accepting orders.&quot&#x3B; &quot&#x3B;Network-related equipment is in short supply.&quot&#x3B; &quot&#x3B;Factory equipment construction has stopped across the board.&quot&#x3B;&#x20...
United States Tomohiko Nakamura Yuichi Hitomi Yoshitaka Okumiya Murata Seisakujo Mitsu Denshi

How karaoke bars are changing to adapt to coronavirus

A lot of people can live without karaoke. The COVID-19 pandemic is redefining social life in ways both obvious and subtle. Obviously, it has enforced a degree of isolation which has no modern precedent. Subtly, it raises questions such as how many of the convivial things&#x2...
Soichi Ishihara Weekly Playboy

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