July 6, 2018: Aum executions, clean loss, garbage house, flying cars and AI scabs.

Japan This Week

English - July 07, 2018 09:11 - 17 minutes - 7.95 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Previous Episode: June 29, 2018: Clean up cup, fatal stabbings, hero Trump, childless selfish and Japan yesterday.

Next Episode: July 13, 2018: Western Japan flooding, blind groper, expensive grapes and Tokyo Olympic heat.

In this week's news from Japan Today: Japan executes Aum Shinrikyo cult founder and six followers simultaneously without prior notice, Japanese soccer team bows out of World Cup but leaves locker room immaculate, a Nagoya ruling allows forcible cleanup of “garbage house,” think tank set up to look at flying cars to alleviate traffic problems plus a magazine reports on jobs that will be made redundant by AI.

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This weeks stories:

Aum Executions — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/Aum-cult-founder-Asahara-6-followers-hanged

Clean Loss — https://japantoday.com/category/world-cup/soccer-social-media-users-laud-japan-for-spotless-locker-room

Garbage House — https://japantoday.com/category/national/nagoya-court-orders-forcible-clean-up-of-%E2%80%98garbage-house%E2%80%99

GaijinPot Jobs - https://jobs.gaijinpot.com/index/index/lang/en

Flying Cars — https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-to-start-discussions-on-flying-cars-eyes-new-entry

AI Scabs — https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/what-jobs-will-ai-do-within-20-years-almost-everything-it-seems