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Did you know a classic ramen topping helps save forests? 🍜
The “100% Japan Menma Project” is spreading nationwide, upcycling overgrown bamboo shoots into domestic menma (fermented bamboo shoots for ramen). This transforms an ecological threat into a sustainable resource.
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Warosoku candles create a beautifully swaying flame. 🕯️
Yet, haze trees for this wax have plummeted. To surmount this, the “Yukyu no Akari (The Eternal Light) Project” localizes the cycle: from growing scarce trees to crafting and using them in Kyoto's shrines and temples. 🌿
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#PhotoOfTheMonth: Sky or sea? 🌌 At Chichibugahama Beach in Mitoyo, Kagawa, low tide turns the wet sand into a giant mirror, blurring the line between earth and sky at sunset. ☁️ Kept beautiful by locals who've cared for the shore for 25 years.
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In some countries, people lose their sight due to limited access to eye exams.👁️ A Japanese startup's Smart Eye Camera is a portable smartphone attachment for anterior eye disease diagnosis. The device can work with limited electricity and is installed in 60 countries.📱🌍
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Play piano with one finger! 🎹
Tokyo University of the Arts' "Daredemo Piano®" is an AI piano that syncs accompaniment and pedals. Via smartphone app, it is enjoyed in hospitals, schools, and welfare facilities. This tech fosters a society where all share the joy of expression.🌟
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Generating electricity from...basically anything!?💡 Imagine getting power from soil, vegetables, brick, glass, shell...even a baguette! This may be the path to electric self-sufficiency with a Japanese company finding ways to capture power from over 4,000 different substances⚡
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Visit this link for more:
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Spot it. Snap it. Protect it.📱🦋 Biome, developed by a university startup, uses AI to identify living things from smartphone photos. It gamifies nature sightings, then shares data gathered across Japan with companies to help assess their impact on nature near their sites.🌿
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Ito Jakuchu was an Edo-period artist whose works remain popular today. Many of his works are available in the NDL Collections. #ndldigital #ndlnewsletter
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ALT Jakuchu meigashu (Jakuchu's Masterworks). Pictures by ItoJakuchu, edited by Tajima Shiichi, published by Kansai Shashin Seihan Insatsu in 1904. NDL Call Number 400-48. * Available in the NDL Digital Collections.
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50 years with forests, 50 more ahead—the 100-Year Forest Initiative in Nishiawakura, a village in Okayama Prefecture.🌲
By managing private forests with village funds and utilizing local timber, this community creates work, welcomes new people, and grows with its forests.🌿
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Tour guiding from home.🏠 In Tokyo’s Nihonbashi, people who have difficulty going outside can guide tour participants remotely through OriHime, a small avatar robot.🤖 Even from home, they bridge people and the city. This is a new form of tech-enabled social participation.
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Seaweed grows a forest? 🌊🌲
Hokkaido’s Cape Erimo, once a barren "desert" harming fisheries, used a method of covering seeds with washed up seaweed to restore it. Locals formed the Society to Protect the Greenery of Cape Erimo to pass down the mission to protect forest & sea. 🌍
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