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Organ Donation Constraints / Information Spread Can Help Create Society Open to Organ Donation
A woman living in the outskirts of Seoul holds on to newspaper clippings about the death of her 2...
June 17, 2024
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Organ Donation Constraints / Japan’s National Mediator Struggles with Low Staff, Rising Workload; Psychological Support for Coordinators Essential
“I slept in the office three days a week sometimes. It was a rewarding job, but ...” a man said i...
June 16, 2024
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Organ Donation Constraints / Japan Lags behind from Lack of Resources; Leading Hospitals in U.S., S. Korea Have Dedicated Staff, Facilities
“My disease is getting worse so fast. I wonder if I’ll receive a transplant in time,” a woman suf...
June 15, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / Fans Benefit as Sports World Adopts AI, but Other Risks Remain
It was the final day of the Masters in April, and Tiger Woods had just chipped his third shot ont...
May 17, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / AI Lends Medicine Helping Hand, But Doctors Wary of Variation in Diagnoses
There is a neurosurgical clinic in Tokyo often visited by patients suffering from headaches. Befo...
May 17, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / AI Brings Benefits to Companies While Government Guidelines Bring Confusion; JR Kyushu Finds Innovative Uses for AI
In late March, a station worker at the lost and found center in JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka Pref...
May 15, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / Generative AI Displays Misinformation at City Official Website; Towns Limit AI Services as Mistakes Creep in
Last November, Eiji Okazaki, 51, a local government official, sighs as he looks at the computer s...
May 15, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / Students Have AI Come Up with Answers, Copy Them
“It’s like a free tutoring service has emerged,” said a 56-year-old English teacher at a Tokyo pr...
May 14, 2024
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Unbalanced Information Diet : Protecting the Facts / Access to News Erodes as AI Provides ‘Answers’
As U.S. information technology giants vie to develop generative AI, research firm Gartner, Inc. r...
April 26, 2024
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Unbalanced Information Diet: Protecting the Facts / Escape into Metaverse Tainted by Abusive Users; Need for New Norms in Burgeoning Virtual Space
This is the fourth installment in a series examining situations in which conventional laws and et...
April 25, 2024
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Unbalanced Information Diet: Protecting the Facts / Consumers Tricked Into Subscription Contracts Online;Dodgy Merchants Use Small Print, Confusing Language
Shady operators are adept at using tricks called “dark patterns” to manipulate online consumers i...
April 24, 2024
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Unbalanced Information Diet: Protecting the Facts / Generative AI Can Be Tricked by ‘Poisoned’ Data into Producing Biased, Malicious Answers
Google researchers attracted attention when they published a paper in February last year showing ...
April 24, 2024
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Unbalanced Information Diet: Protecting the Facts / Disinformation on Japan’s Noto Quake Spread for Ad Revenue
Since the Noto Peninsula Earthquake on Jan. 1, at least 10 foreign countries have become major so...
April 23, 2024
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13 Years Since the Great East Japan Earthquake / Japan’s Fisheries Look for New Sales Channels as China Continues Ban on Imports
This is the fifth and final installment of a series that explores the current reality in areas a...
March 10, 2024
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13 Years Since the Great East Japan Earthquake / Decommissioning of Fukushima Nuclear Plant in 40 Years Seems Doubtful; Three Mile Island Cleanup to Take Nearly 60 Years
This is the fourth installment of a series that explores the current reality in areas affected by...
March 8, 2024
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