Half of Chiba Flood Reports Came from Outside Officially Expected Inundation Zones
When reports arrive from beyond the official inundation zone, the map is not useless—but it is no longer enough. The lead story examines what Chiba’s flood revealed about residual risk, development and the public meaning of a boundary.
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Flood maps, space, access and resilience
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Strategic resources, memory and plant science
Today’s News: 19 Stories
15 new reports + 4 selected from August 16
Half of Chiba Flood Reports Came from Outside Officially Expected Inundation Zones
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Hayabusa2 Passed Just 400 Meters Above an Asteroid—and Set a World Record
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In Amami, Electric Beach Wheelchairs Let Disabled Children Choose Their Own Path to the Sea
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Towada Puts Its Sumo History and Local Farms Into One Pot
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A Flame-Made Catalyst Converts Carbon Dioxide Into Usable Methane
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Japan’s SPring-8 X-Ray Facility Will Close for About a Year to Become 100 Times Brighter
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Seven Thousand Stranded at Narita: What the Chiba Flood Exposed About Airport Access
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A Mitochondrial Protein in the Brain May Influence Fat Cravings and Weight
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BBCube Could Pack AI Chips More Densely While Moving Data With Less Energy
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Gold Nanoholes Help Molecular Fibers Carry Light Energy Farther
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Rights-Cleared Japanese Images Become Free Training Data for Academic AI Research
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Tokyo Employers Are Being Asked to Prepare Men for Life—and Friendship—After Retirement
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Private Fellowship Pushes Support for Basic Science Past 100 Researchers
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Young Botanical Illustrators Win Recognition by Looking Closely at Everyday Plants
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At the Nezu Museum, Ceramics Trace a Journey Across East Asia
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Six Kilometers Down, Japan and the U.S. Look for Strategic Minerals in Mud
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At 83, a VTuber Carries Memories of Manchuria Across a Digital Divide
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What Did the Country That Bombed Utsunomiya Ask Its Civilians?
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Plants That Pass Through Winter May Regenerate Better After Injury
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20. Today’s Art Choice
Bertha Lum · Moonlight, mist and the collaborative print
Today’s Art Choice: Bertha Lum and an American Journey into Japanese Woodblock Printing
An American artist crossed the Pacific to learn Japanese color woodblock production. Her atmospheric images joined serious technical apprenticeship to Art Nouveau design—and a marketable outsider’s dream of Asia.
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