Vol.24

Forest of Thought

AI as the Culmination of the Left-Hemisphere World|Pursue the Right Hemisphere and Leave the Platforms

AI sits at the end of modern Western logic and has simply replaced, in full, the modern structure of left-hemisphere traits. Then humans need only push the right-hemisphere elements of the world to the limit: go in person, take primary information, put into words what you felt, and place it in your own world, built yourself, not on existing platforms.

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Kunitsukami Project

Was Shandong the Homeland of the Doigahama Yayoi? Skulls Gazing Toward the Northwestern Sea

Most skeletons buried at Doigahama were laid with their heads to the "southeast," gazing toward the sea far to the "northwest." Their gaze extends exactly toward the Shandong Peninsula. A joint Japan-China survey concluded that the ancestors of the Yayoi at the Doigahama site were probably ancient people of Shandong.

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KINEMA 2400

Masahiro Shinoda's MacArthur's Children|The Occupation and the Time of the Seto Inland Sea

In Masahiro Shinoda's MacArthur's Children, island children whose textbooks have been blacked out turn baseball, a game of the occupiers, into their own play. The English title is MacArthur's Children. Perhaps the most accurate mirror of war is the eyes of the child who looked up at it.

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Project 2049, a weekly essay by the philosopher Takahiro Mitsui

In English, every Friday at 5 p.m. Japan time. No likes, no comments, no rankings. Just the essay and you.

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