Tuesday, August 5, 2025

My Japanese blog on the nursery school case will soo be joining the dinosaurs... as goo is closing down the service

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 Here's the link, again, for posterity's sake: 保育所一揆という関連で、京都市の保育所入所選考等に関する裁判の報告 it will be archived...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Update on continued failure of Department of State to release documents responsive to 2014 FOIA request under the Privacy Act

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The background to this update can be found in two previous posts on this blog. I have previously posted email threads related to the release...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Results of complaint to Japan Fair Trade Commission against Human Global Communications, Inc. and Kyoto City

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 I don't have time to blog much at present, so a brief update. In response to the complaint and evidence I submitted, some of which is p...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The Disclosed English Translation of the Article Kyoto City is Currently Refraining from Publishing from "京都 Innovation Studio Session Vol. 7"

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Since I am at the blog desk, let me post this article now. This translation was also obtained through a request for disclosure of public doc...

Who is Ron Read? Clue: formerly of Kurdyla and Associates, which was bought out by Human Academy, and currently heads their Osaka branch, with its "Government Contracts Division"

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This is a brief follow up introducing the American running the actual company that placed the bid on the problematic tender at issue.  https...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Documents on Human Academy' Inc.'s super-low bid on a somewhat dubious translation tender by Kyoto City

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 As I don't have time to write a proper post describing this material and the context, I have decided to simply start putting some of th...