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Interesting news, China will impose taxes on conventional solar cells, and lithium-ion batteries.
This presumably also includes small scale electronics, so most of electronics will be forced to shift to sodium ion batteries as well.
This is actually a good policy, but it will hurt a lot of people's pockets.
https://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/other/bluebook/2018/html/chapter3/c030301.html
Japanese government's own chart for trade agreements kind of explains why Japan is lagging behind, even compared to itself in 1970s. Overall trade policy is strictly stuck in 1800s British naval trade politics that are bread, and butter of Japanese geopolitics, which have nothing to do with modern geoeconomics, which are strictly about investment, not movement of mass goods.
Japan in 1970s took special importance of Africa (specifically East Africa), much like how China, and Korea(s) are doing now, but modern Japan post 1990s real estate bubble is stuck in little Eastern Asia-Pacific.
The Japanese government is considering signing a free trade agreement (FTA) with African countries. The priority is the eastern part, which
There are some news suggesting this might eventually change, but this is clearly not a priority compared to the GCC, and Mercosur agreements.
By now, it’s not news to anyone that America’s fertility rate is falling. But there are different ways fertility can fall. One way is that t
Another interesting chart, it seems the pre-WWI decline in fertility rate was largely due to rising childlessness among women, which seems consistent with the works of the era. Current rate is much higher of course, but it is interesting that this also proves there was always an upper limit of women having children. It also kind shows how artificial the Baby Boom was.
However, the survey results below suggest that "true" childfree-ness is only around 1 to 5 percent, which is somewhat consistent with the assumed rates of asexuality among men, meaning this is probably close to "true" asexuality among women.
Consistent rates of 12 percent childlessness before mass industrialisation is likely due to natural rates of infertility than desire to be without children. This remains an unresolved issue, especially considering the rapid Black, and Hispanic fertility declines are almost entirely due to lack of fertility treatments, and pregnancy care.
Looking at Nauru's stats at World Bank, apparently the name has finally changed back to Naoero.
The next evolution in Dueling! VJMP-JP296 宿命の決闘 Shukumei no Duel (Destined Duel) Continuous Spell Card A card that reproduces that famous sc
Next V Jump promo is Destined Duel, which is based off Yugi vs. Kaiba castle duel in Duelist Kingdom (the artwork is from the manga).
The stats for these are quite bad, but it seems in Japan there has been a genuine resurgence of cultural Buddhism, likely due to the historical influence of Buddhists in animé (Tezuka's family being very devout Zen Buddhists, him being more eclectic etc.), which doesn't seem to occur for Shintoism, despite state support. So it is probably safe to say Japan is more Buddhist than Shintoist culturally now, which also explains the resurgence of right-wing nationalism in animé, since Shintoism is now a cultural minority.
This is somewhat important for Korea's current resurgence of births, it seems that one of the underreported aspects seems to be decline of Protestantism, and rise of Catholicism.
Some interesting economic tidbits:
China’s growing hunger for critical minerals partly drove the increase, but the tariff reduction is also fuelling trade in several new secto
Contrary to the popular wisdom, China's imports from Africa are surging, and very hard.
This means the global growth of trade to GDP ratio will increase, despite China's slowdown.
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The global apparel trade staged a notable recovery in 2025, expanding by 4.46% to reach $574.46 billion. However, Bangladesh has largely fai
Bangladesh is finally losing garment market share to Cambodia, and as such will have to move up the value chain.
There are three fundamental forces shaping fertility in the long run... and also cell phones
Lyman Stone has an interesting chart, which actually disproves the point he is making, the fertility rate, though currently lower than than the trend, was still on a low trend before the baby boom, and its echo, which means without immigration, TFR would have been below 2.1 already, just slightly higher.
Free and open access to global development data
Interestingly, trade to GDP ratio has actually increased to a new peak, though this seems exclusively due to Africa's internal trade increasing.
This probably means this issue is also solved now.
MacroMicro is committed to consolidating global economic data, while deploying technology to efficiently discover the clues to economic cycl
MacroMicro is committed to consolidating global economic data, while deploying technology to efficiently discover the clues to economic cycl
Interesting tidbit, global youth dependency ratio will not go down below old age dependency ratio until 2065, meaning the fertility crisis won't be a big issue until then.
Decarbonisaiton of electricity is expected to be around 2055, so this won't be a big issue until 2045 globally, but individual countries will have to take action much sooner.
This is still sooner than what I expected (problems starting in 2075), though not by much.
The CREA CO2 Tracker is an online tool estimating daily CO2 emissions from fossil fuels within the European Union.
Looking at this chart, nuclear had the peak production daily in 2021 at around 90 GWh for EU.
Solar is getting close to peak gas production, but peak wind production is still far off.
Either way, no other production comes close to solar, and nuclear, and soon solar will be solo.
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Today's V Jump reveals are the Manga-style Artworks for Original Artwork Collection.
This should be the final reveal for the month, until the next set title reveal.
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Plus the pack artwork The Pack Artwork What Are “MANGA-STYLE CARDS” Cards that appear with the exact same design as “Magic & Wizards”, the g
The article is here.
The EU saw a record share of power from solar in June 2026, making it the EU's largest single source of power for only the third month ever.
Though solar power in EU saw a massive rise, wind power has largely collapsed, and hydro isn't doing so good either.
It doesn't seem like there is simply much room for growth here.
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Today's V Jump reveals are the new Senat theme cards, which feature our first Level 12 Zombie monster.
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A game of thrones. Note: This theme does not work with “Senet Switch”, which in Japan is literally the English words “Position Change” in Ka
YGOrganization re-relocalised it as Sennet.
Zen 6 is apparently is coming this year, 2026, which means PS6/next Xbox release is probably going to be late 2027, which then likely means KH4 will have to be a pseudo-cross-gen game, which further then likely means there will be 2 DLC phases rather than one singular one (one for PS5, and another for PS6 release), similar to Digimon Story: Time Stranger getting its second batch of DLC after the Switch/Switch 2 releases.
UE6 is also coming in 2028, presumably, which means KH5 would have to be 2030 earliest. Since Switch 2 isn't meaningfully different chip-wise from current gen consoles, making a dedicated game wouldn't make much sense, so most likely there will be a direct shift to KH5 (unless Verum Rex game happens).
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How do you wish to bet your immortal life? New Theme ①: セネト Senat A theme that Ritual Summons a new king by using monsters without effects!
Today's V Jump reveals are the cover themes of Deck Build Pack: Glorious Victors, and their blurbs.
Share of the female working-age population (ages 15 and over) who are economically active (employed or unemployed).
A brief look at the female participation in the labour force, it does seem that the rate roughly peaks around 62 to 64 percent, which makes sense considering how many women are either child rearing, or in school.
(There is no male equivalent to this chart, but male participation in labour force has been declining globally in favour of women. Female participation in labour force does not actually increase the amount of jobs, it merely reshuffles them.)
According to World Bank, the only high income exception to this seems to be Iceland, which is heavily agrarian socially, which is in parallel with other high female participation countries that also heavily agrarian, like Tanzania.
(General trend of labour force rate participation for both sexes is in decline, since concept of labour in abstract has been under a long decline since the peak of industrial strength around 1950-1970, the long term trend for employment is its eventual obsoletion.)
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https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.MA.ZS?most_recent_value_desc=true&locations=XD
For comparison, male labour force participation rate for high income averages around 68 percent, slightly higher than the suggested peak above, but not by much (there are more male bachelors seeking work as a means-making enterprise than women sitting in their homes).
This also seems to kill the usual Marxian assumptions about people desiring to work, it seems most of the non-participants in labour force are not the destitute poor, disabled, homeless, mentally ill etc., but rather rent seekers, and investors, ie. people who willingly leave the labour force to seek other forms of monetary gain.
Pretty weird to say that economic development leads to people seeking other forms of non-labour income, but that is pretty much what the long term trends suggest. Immortal march of the great labourers do not lead to socialist revolution, but to stock trading, and stamp collecting.