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  • ORAN problems & other news

    ORAN

    O-RAN in uncertain future – Although Europe’s four major telecom operators – Vodafone, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefonica – had signed memorandum of understanding on the implementation of Open RAN (ORAN) based networks in Europe in early 2021, Rakuten Mobile’s ongoing operating losses have put uncertainty to ORAN’s future. Rakuten Mobile is the only major telecom operator to adopt the ORAN architecture for its 5G network, but the financial results of the company for the first quarter of 2021 showed an expansion of 265% on year in its operating losses to JPY97.2 billion (US$880 million), the largest in the past five quarters. The company’s operating margin also reached negative 141.7%, down 77.4% on year. However, Rakuten Mobile’s revenues still grew JPY19.1 billion and 38.5% from a year ago to JPY68.6 billion for the first quarter of 2021. The figures show the company has continued to see its mobile business growing, but the high costs from its operation kept the company suffering losses. – so what are the hidden costs of ORAN? What is different about this ORAN situation conceptually to the use of white boxes in complex enterprise IT systems? Would this question have pointed towards the kind of problems that ORAN has been encountering?

    Banking

    US Graduates Are Snubbing Junior Banker Jobs Citing Work-Life Balance – I think that they will be replaced by candidates from China, India and other countries instead

    Consumer behaviour

    Men are much less likely to read books by women | Canvas8 – male readers are significantly less likely to opt for fiction books written by women. Of the top ten best-selling female authors, including Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, and Danielle Steel, only one of five readers are male, whereas for the top male authors, including Charles Dickens and JRR Tolkien, 45% of readers are women. Meanwhile, data on Goodreads shows that enjoyment levels are not impacted by sex – on Goodreads, men give an average rating of 3.9 out of 5 to books by women while they give books by men an average of 3.8 – Sieghart’s interpretation of the data misses a key assumption that many women authors write books that don’t appeal to the majority of male readers interests, where as she assumes that they are not accorded as much authority as male ones. Those that do enjoy the kind of content that these women authors write find as much enjoyment in it. Examples of authors that cross the gender popularity gap include Gillian Rubinstein (aka Lian Hearn), Ursula Le Guinn and JK Rowling. TL;DR – sometimes its the product doesn’t float their boat rather than sexism

    In case you didn’t notice, nationalism in China at the moment is a bit cray – by Kevin Carrico – NSL can’t cancel me – TL;DR some Chinese academics believe that the US could have used a ‘Ming the Merciless’ style weather weapon to cause floods in China. A good number of Chinese netizens find this credible. Nationalism and gaslighting is a dangerous combination

    Screen Use Strongly Linked to Failing Eyesight in Children – After over a year spent indoors staring at movies, TV, and video games, scientists say that near-sightedness and other vision problems are skyrocketing among children

    Economics

    The young ‘lie flat’ as China’s growth model begins to fray | Financial Times – the money quote in this article for me is “The bulk of China’s population is doing worse in net terms as housing affordability continues to worsen and access to education and health becomes ore and more costly” – sounds like a lot of western developed economies. The key question is what impact this unfairness might have on the relationship between the populous and the communist party of China

    Germany

    Handel mit China: Braucht Deutschland eine Wende? | Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung – there are more important things than doing good business in China. Germany’s foremost business paper editorial swipe at Angela Merkel and selected big German enterprises (Daimler Benz, Deutsche Bank, T Systems and Volkswagen Audi Group)- short of name checking them with IG Farben I couldn’t see what else FAZ could do

    Innovation

    China’s CATL unveils sodium-ion battery to diversify from lithium — Quartz – this was going to have to happen sooner rather than later due to the challenge of sourcing lithium. It will be interesting to see how recyclable these batteries are

    Japan

    China and South Korea car makers vying for SE Asia EV market – surprising that Japan isn’t in the mix given their factories in the region? For instance, Toyota has a major plant in China

    Saitama man repeatedly steals food from store by making his phone say “PayPay♫” | SoraNews24 -Japan News- – clever mix of social engineering and mobile payments in Japan

    Legal

    UK’s Draft Online Safety Bill Raises Serious Concerns Around Freedom of Expression | Electronic Frontier Foundation – which attempts to tackle illegal and otherwise harmful content online by placing a duty of care on online platforms to protect their users from such content. The move came as no surprise: over the past several years, UK government officials have expressed concerns that online services have not been doing enough to tackle illegal content, particularly child sexual abuse material (commonly known as CSAM) and unlawful terrorist and extremist content (TVEC), as well as content the government has deemed lawful but “harmful.”

    2022 Beijing Olympics: Sponsors Grilled on China Human Rights Abuses – Variety – AirBnB, Coca-Cola, Intel, Visa and Procter & Gamble are going to have a bumpy ride in their home market

    Two arrested over online calls for boycotts, threats against Hong Kong broadcaster TVB | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP – continuously and widely disseminated a large amount of messages through social media groups and pages, intending to smear the media organisation, and also to use threatening means to pressure different advertisers into stopping advertising with this media. [Their] goal is to cause reputational and financial damage,” said Superintendent Wilson Tam of the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau. – sounds like what pro-Beijing politicians have done on several occasions. Angry emojis organised was seen to be criminal damage

    Marketing

    Internet backlash against Fila sportswear after Hong Kong badminton player seen drenched in sweat | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP – that has screwed Korean owned Fila brand in terms of clothing performance

    FundFemme – I think what the site is trying to do is good. The thing I don’t like about this is the cynical approach of WundermanThompson who are trying to distract and run crisis comms on their unfair dismissal of Chas Bayfield and Dave Jenner. The domain was registered on June 30th via Squarespace

    Security

    Chinese hacking group APT31 uses mesh of home routers to disguise attacks – The Record by Recorded Future 

    Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones | WIRED – Bergman has found no evidence directly linking the flood of fake AIS tracks to any country, organization, or individual. But they are consistent with Russian tactics, says Todd Humphreys, director of the Radionavigation Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. “While I can’t say for sure who’s doing this, the data fits a pattern of disinformation that our Russian friends are wont to engage in.”

    Streetwear

    Foot Locker targets Japan and sneakerheads with atmos purchase — Quartz – I can understand why Hidefumi Hommyo would want to sell, but I do wonder if the heat will move on from Atmos now the with the footlocker buy. More related content here.

  • Genesis luxury car brand

    In the space of a few decades Hyundai Motors have gone from building cars based on western and Japanese car manufacturers to having its own luxury marque: Genesis, that challenges Lexus and Mercedes-Benz.

    Genesis
    Genesis advert from the FT magazine

    Genesis origins

    The Hyundai Grandeur was an executive saloon that they started making in 1986. It was basically a rebadged version of the Mitsubishi Debonair. The Debonair was a competitor to the Nissan Cedric and Toyota Crown. It was noticeable for having the same body style from 1964 to 1986. Hyundai built the a licensed version of the mark II Debonair.

    Hyundai needed a domestic luxury car to ferry officials around in for the Seoul olympics in 1988. The focus on the Olympics was because Hyundai Motors had become an official sponsor. The Seoul olympics was put on to showcase how Korea had become a developed nation over the previous four decades.

    The early Grandeur was a world away from Hyundai’s previous range topper, a rebadged version of the Ford Granada mark II.

    Successive models of the Grandeur were the top of the range vehicles in the Hyundai Motors range until the arrival of the Hyundai Equus and Genesis. When the Genesis brand range was founded the Hyundai Grandeur reduced the number of markets were it was available to  South Korea, China, the Middle East, Latin and South America (except Mexico).

    Hyundai Genesis -> Genesis G80

    The Genesis was originally designed as an interpretation of the modern rear-wheel drive sports saloon. It was evenly balanced and lighter than the BMW 5 series and Mercedes E class. It under performed in the US and Canadian market.

    So when the mark II Hyundai Genesis was due to come to market; the company set up a new brand built around the car which became the Genesis G80 launched alongside the related but bigger G90.

    Equus -> G90

    Hyundai needed a car for its politicians and captains of industry so in 1999 it built its own version of the Mitsubishi Dignity. The Dignity is a lesser known known competitor to the Toyota Century. It was a Japan market only car that was only available for 15 months.

    By comparison Hyundai’s Equus was made from 1999 to 2008 and sold in Korea, China and the Middle East. The second generation car took its cues more from Mercedes Benz. It became rear wheel drive, got air suspension and a variety of handling technologies.

    The mark III became the G90, a competitor to Mercedes S-class. A high performance limousine with four wheel drive like a fully specced Mercedes limousine.

    G70

    Hyundai extended the product line downwards with a sporting compact luxury saloon and hatchback. All wheel drive is offered as an option, indicating that Mercedes and Audi buyers are their target market.

    GV70 and GV80

    Finally they’ve rounded out the range with two SUVs. The GV70 is about the size of the Range Rover Velar and the GV80 is roughly the same size as a Range Rover Sport.

    Differentiating a luxury car brand

    It was 25 years since a luxury car brand had been successfully launched before Genesis. The comparisons with Lexus are obvious. Genesis has focused on getting a really high JD Power rating like Lexus did decades before.

    The kind of high technology Hyundai has used to differentiate in other categories is a hygiene factor in the luxury space. Instead Genesis is focusing on the ownership experience. Its differentiator is that you get a leasing type experience even if you buy a new Genesis.

  • Michael Malone & things this week

    Michael Malone

    Michael Malone was famous to me as a writer on the San Jose Mercury News online site. Michael Malone had been a long time writer on the paper and chronicled all the happenings in Silicon Valley. Michael Malone is now the co-host of The Silicon Insider podcast. In the past he has written numerous books covering different parts of the history of Silicon Valley. So he has a unique perspective on the place and the technology sector.

    Michael Malone was interviewed by NBC reporter Scott Budman on behalf of the Computer History Museum based in Silicon Valley.

    Dune trailer

    Denis Villenueve is the director that Hollywood seems to trust with difficult to tell films like the Blade Runner sequel. He is also the director who is likely to get closest Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt to film Dune in the mid-1970s. Green screen and digital cinema offer Villenueve tools that Jodorowsky could only have dreamed of four decades earlier.

    Junk sleep

    US speciality retailer Mattress Firm is doing a couple of new things with its adverts featuring Lev Schreiber. First of all was the concept in the creative of ‘junk sleep’ that reminded me of J Walter Thompson’s early work for Odorono, an early anti-perspirant that invented the concept of ‘body odor’ from a marketing perspective. People had always been smelly, but it was JWT that broached the subject in the adverts.

    https://youtu.be/WudcydXGWLI

    Junk sleep feels like a similar type of concept. As a strategist, I like the concept. The second aspect is the trippy nature of the ads which captures the feeling of sleep deprivation really well.

    Apple watch

    Apple put together a fun ad for health tracking on the Apple Watch. It gets over many of the activities that the Apple Watch can track.

    https://youtu.be/RkRQ_aykXw8

    It reminded me (unintentionally) of The Court of King Caractacus, made famous by Australian entertainer Rolf Harris. Harris had a five decade career in show business that ended in ignominy when he was convicted for 12 indecent assaults on against four girls.

    Emirates and Qatar Airways

    COVID-19 disrupted the airline industry since people weren’t flying. The asymmetry of opening up seems to be hammering the Middle East airline ‘super hub’ model according to this video by Sam Chui. Chui posits that super hubs offer the opportunity for a super spreading event and there is likely to be an uptake in customers wanting to fly direct in the immediate aftermath of COVID-19.

    If this is true, then there will be a knock on effect for duty free retailing and luxury sales as well.

  • Kris Wu and other news

    Kris Wu

    Canadian Chinese performer Kris Wu was in a Korean group before going out on a solo career in China as a rap artist. He has become a TV star as a judge on Rap of China – a TV talent show. Kris Wu has also appeared in some Chinese films, mostly wushu films that look and feel more like a computer game. The scandal that Kris Wu finds himself would be a career finisher in the west, but it will be interesting to see what happens in China.

    Actor Kris Wu Accused of Predatory Behavior | HYPEBAE – Kris Wu has endorsement deals in place with Louis Vuitton, BVLGARI, Porsche, Lancôme, L’Oreal and Kans in China, along with other companies like Master Kong Ice Tea, Tuborg Brewery and more. Kans, a Shanghai-based beauty brand owned by C-beauty giant Chicmax, was the first to cut ties with Wu, announcing on July 18 that it has “terminated Wu’s endorsement contract. Meanwhile, Porsche, Master Kong Ice Tea, Vatti and King of Glory have deleted all their posts of Wu on Weibo. Louis Vuitton temporarily archived its Weibo posts of Wu but put them back on its feed not long after

    Kris Wu: Brands Drop Pop Star Amid China Misconduct Allegations – Variety – the interesting thing is that Chinese brands dropped Kris Wu first, before western brands. This is despite western brands being exposed to the #metoo movement. Note: the Chinese police have since found Wu did avail of the casting couch and the accuser went public to gain fame – make of it what you will

    China

    The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins | Vanity Fair – Wuhan is also home to China’s foremost coronavirus research laboratory, housing one of the world’s largest collections of bat samples and bat-virus strains. The Wuhan Institute of Virology’s lead coronavirus researcher, Shi Zhengli, was among the first to identify horseshoe bats as the natural reservoirs for SARS-CoV, the virus that sparked an outbreak in 2002, killing 774 people and sickening more than 8,000 globally. After SARS, bats became a major subject of study for virologists around the world, and Shi became known in China as “Bat Woman” for her fearless exploration of their caves to collect samples. More recently, Shi and her colleagues at the WIV have performed high-profile experiments that made pathogens more infectious. Such research, known as “gain-of-function,” has generated heated controversy among virologists. – this shows you how bolloxed China soft power is

    What if America Delists Chinese Firms? by Shang-Jin Wei – Project Syndicate – Chinese firms’ most egregious accounting frauds tend to be discovered by professional short-sellers using techniques – such as undercover company visits – that auditing firms do not employ.

    Consumer behaviour

    The New-Style Family Values Underpinning the ‘China Dream’ – the emergence of a new kind of “familism” — an ideology in which family interests take precedence over individual ones. Yan, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, sees this “neo-familism” as distinct from traditional Chinese familism, which revolved around ancestor worship and the perpetuation of one’s lineage. Success under neo-familism is defined in material terms such as wealth and consumption. 

    This year, Yan edited “Chinese Families Upside Down,” a collection of essays from academics that seeks to go beyond the conventional focus on filial piety to examine the new dynamics of intergenerational relations under neo-familism. Speaking with Sixth Tone over the phone, Yan talked about how and why family structures have received an unprecedented degree of high-level policy attention in recent years, the changes taking place in Chinese families, and the growing anxiety felt by parents and children in an increasingly risk-laden society

    We’re All Teenage Girls Now | EE Times – During the early days of mobile telephony, I was living in Tokyo, where I observed schoolgirls glued to their clunky DoCoMos, learning the obligations and pitfalls of 24-hour texting, taking proto-selfies with their primitive photo apps and flocking — like moths to a streetlight — to Harajuku and Akihabara to blow their allowance on the latest advanced purveyor of girl gab. 

    Fast forward to this month, in Paris. I was on the suburban train from Charles de Gaulle Airport to the heart of the city. I looked up from the book I was reading…  

    …and I looked around. There were perhaps forty people in the car, including a busker rendering “Au Ciel de Paris” on a battered accordion. My trainmates represented all shapes, sizes and colors of adulthood between the ages of 25 and 70-plus. Of this random cadre, not including the accordionist, three-quarters were clutching slim rectangles of metal and glass, gazing raptly downward into a tiny screen at words, photos, videos, news, games, mail, etc. One woman in her thirties, impeccable in hair, clothing and makeup, never once — as I observed — raised her eyes from her phone through the entire 45-minute haul from airport to place St. Michel. Her thumbs, when she set them to messaging, were a blur

    The first Olympic gold medal in skateboarding went to Japan — Quartz – big issue for skateboarding as a sport is how the Olympics might affect its culture and related categories. Despite its aspirations, the Olympics isn’t the X-Games.

    Design

    Humble Utility Poles Have a Long-Term Infrastructure Maintenance Plan | EE Times

    After 3D printing now comes 4D printing | Smart2Zero 

    Economics

    EDA, IC Manufacturing Gear Sales Hit Records | EE Times 

    Why Biden Seems Worse to China Than Trump – The New York Times

    In defense of sanctions – by Kevin Carrico – NSL can’t cancel me 

    China is keeping its borders closed, and turning inward | The Economist 

    Will China Retaliate Against U.S. Chip Sanctions? – Lawfare 

    Hong Kong

    Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam shrugs off scenes of residents leaving at airport, says city has ‘prosperous future’ ahead | South China Morning Post – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam shrugs off scenes of residents leaving at airport, says city has best time and ‘prosperous future’ ahead. Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday brushed off recent scenes at the airport suggesting an exodus of residents, adding that she would tell anyone considering leaving that the city would continue to prosper with Beijing’s support and the help of the national security law – this is quite shocking. I don’t think that I have seen a country allow a wilful brain drain in this way. Medical staff, teachers and the middle classes are the the people slipping away to supermarket jobs in the UK

    Now News exec. resigns, cites ‘turbulent times’ for Hong Kong media – reports – Now News is a cable news channel

    ‘Hong Kong Tram Green’ now a recognised colour | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP – great to see the ‘dingding’ having its iconic nature be recognised

    Over 90% of Hong Kong industrial estate tenants facing eviction oppose redevelopment plan | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP 

    Explainer: From ‘violent attack’ to ‘gang fight’ – How the official account of the Yuen Long mob attack changed | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP – to be fair other governments spin as well. But this shattered the illusion of Hong Kong being a place where rule of law happened and the Hong Kong Police were no longer ‘Asia’s finest’ but instead seen as Hong Kong’s biggest gang who were tight with the triads like the bad old days of the 1960s and early 1970s and then you have the wolves and sheep book prosecution National security law: Hong Kong police arrest 5 for allegedly conspiring to distribute seditious children’s books | South China Morning Post 

    Interview: London Mayor Sadiq Khan rolls out welcome mat for Hongkongers, HK$9.6m fund to help visa holders settle

    Billionaires and a Hong Kong bank chief handed seats on powerful new election body | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP – the HSBC appointee is retiring from HSBC

    Ideas

    How cryptocurrency empowered the far-right – The Face 

    Outrage reaching boiling point as virus rages out of control – by Andrew MacGregor Marshall – Secret Siam – just wow, interesting article about COVID in Thailand. I imagine that this picture has played out to varying degrees around the world

    The Year Modern Sport Watches Were Born | Gear Patrol – its interesting that all these iconic watch designs appeared in one year 1953. Every idea has its time that builds on previous innovations – an empirical proof of Kevin Kelly’s idea of the ‘technium’

    The Work of Culture – Made in China Journal – the commercialisation and bureaucratisation of academia have led to a shift from ‘poetic technologies’ to ‘bureaucratic technologies’, which is one of the reasons why today we do not go around on those flying cars promised in the science fiction of the past century. As universities are bloated with ‘bullshit jobs’ and run by a managerial class that pits researchers against each other through countless rankings and evaluations, the very idea of academia as a place for pursuing groundbreaking ideas dies (Graeber 2015: 135; 2018). As conformity and predictability come to be extolled as cardinal virtues, the purpose of the university increasingly becomes simply to confirm the obvious, develop technologies and knowledge of immediate relevance for the market, and exact astronomically high fees from students under the pretence of providing them with vocational training

    Luxury

    Coach CEO talks China: From digital-first to staff as KOLs | Vogue Business – “About two years ago, even before the virus, we developed a very extensive programme to train each of our sales into KOLs so that we can leverage not only professional KOLs but also have hundreds of our own brand ambassadors,” explains Bozec.

    Jackson Wang and Palm Angels’s Ragazzi on their new collab, making celebrity lines work | Vogue Business 

    Marketing

    Subway Tuna Is 100% REAL Wild-Caught Tuna – Subway launches response site to debate on ‘is their tuna real tuna?’

    Marketing imperatives for a cookieless world | WARC – Sophisticated marketers will attempt a shift to contextual and moment-based communication – a bit of time travel by brand custodians to the pre-internet era, where passion group targeting and focus on context might resurrect. There will likely be a pivot from the “bottom of the funnel” performance optimization to “top of the funnel” preference strategies. As the levers at the lower funnel weaken, it will become imperative to move the needle to build brand salience and affinity. Bringing the right audience to their owned website, capturing first-party data, building a strong CRM capability, and recalibrating emphasis on performance media to performance creative. The emergence of a third-party cookieless world presents an opportunity for brand marketers to truly own the consumer journey via meaningful and relevant communication strategies.

    Long-Term Business Vitality Should Outweigh Short-Term Sales Gains – Nielsen – great essay and research on long termism versus short termism in marketing

    Ehrenberg-Bass: 95% of B2B buyers are not in the market for your products

    Male advertisers win sex discrimination case | Financial Times – unfortunate use of the world ‘obliterate’ in Jo Wallace’s presentation. WPP have got to hope to hell that Mark Read’s comments on older staff aren’t brought up

    Media

    Official Secrets Act reform could see journalists treated like spies | Press Gazette

    Online

    Why do people on Tinder list their Instagram? | British GQ – not terribly surprising when you think about the dynamics of Tinder. This has implications for Tinder’s business model of friends and dating based on buying premium services (visibility, bundles of super likes, ability to rewind and reexamine a profile)

    How to be an Instagram influencer | British GQ | British GQ 

    How Neopets Paved the Road to the Metaverse – by Rex Woodbury – Digital Native 

    Security

    US accuses China of masterminding cyber attacks worldwide | Financial Times 

    Who is Mr Gu? – Intrusion Truth – interesting investigation into Gu Jian a former PLA member who is an information security academic and associated with Hainan Xiandun which is one of a network of front companies for APT activity

    Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight — ProPublica 

    The Huawei Moment – Center for Security and Emerging Technology

    Technology

    AI tool cuts 3nm chip design times 

    ABB to buy Spanish autonomous robotics group | EENews Europe – I wouldn’t have set up the factory in China

    ARM shows first plastic M0+ microcontroller 

    Web of no web

    Robotaxis: have Google and Amazon backed the wrong technology? | Financial Times

    Wireless

    What the Orange Dot on Your iPhone Means | Gear Patrol 

  • Kyoto Animation & other things this week

    Kyoto Animation

    Kyoto Animation was devastated last year when an anime obsessive set fire to their studio, killing a number of the animators there. Anime artists get paid little anyway. So fans collect donations for them to help them get by. The Kyoto Animation incident made things even more tragic.

    To announce the studio’s comeback Kyoto Animation developed two 30 second television spots. Let’s hope that TV networks, film studios and advertisers respond to their return and the studio goes from strength to strength.

    This first one is called Meji – so roughly Victorian through to Edwardian times. The protagonists then get transferred into the future.

    The second Kyoto Animation video is called Imagination

    More on the studio here.

    Hajime Sorayama x Be@brick x 2G

    Hajime Sorayama has designed a golden Be@rbrick for Japanese retailer 2G. It will be available as a lottery facilitated drop at their Osaka and Tokyo stores. More at Mediacom

    Alumination documentary

    Airstream caravans are a design icon. They were made from aluminium in the post-war period. Aluminium alloy was a wonder material that revolutionised aviation from its previous materials of canvas over wood.

    Alumination tracks the history of the Airstream and the cultural impact that it had on American culture. It redefined freedom for a post-Cowboy age.

    Gravity driven ropeway

    Tom Scott usually comes up with interesting thought provoking invention. In this video he looks at an aerial ropeway that conveys shale to a brickworks near by. It transfers 300 tons of materials each day under the power of gravity and careful timing of full and empty returning buckets.

    Weiden & Kennedy’s 5G Future for Three UK was banned this week following a complaint to the ASA by Vodafone. It is a lovely piece of craft though.

    McDonald’s Japan 50th birthday

    McDonald’s Japan put together an amazing ad to celebrate 50 years of McDonald’s in Japan with its first restaurant in the Ginza area of Tokyo. This was some three years before it opened in the UK.

    https://youtu.be/WmYaiFBDbEU

    The protagonist, actress Yoshiko Miyazaki is digitally altered to look much younger for the 1971 sections of the advertisement. There is even a making of film for the ad here.

    https://youtu.be/I_PlyjIJ38g

    Olympic anime: Tomorrow’s Leaves

    Cultural creations go alone with the olympic games. For the Tokyo olympics there is this short anime film. More Japan related content here.