The document summarizes challenges facing Japan in its international relations, providing context and examples. It discusses Japan balancing its relationships with the US and China regarding security issues like the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and US bases. Structural factors like the post-occupation security treaty and rise of China create challenges, while agencies like MOFA prioritize maintaining the alliance. Norms of bilateralism have strengthened over Asianism or antimilitarism. Examples provided on how Japan has responded instrumentally include strengthening the US alliance amid China's rising influence.
The document summarizes challenges facing Japan in its international relations, providing context and examples. It discusses Japan balancing its relationships with the US and China regarding security issues like the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and US bases. Structural factors like the post-occupation security treaty and rise of China create challenges, while agencies like MOFA prioritize maintaining the alliance. Norms of bilateralism have strengthened over Asianism or antimilitarism. Examples provided on how Japan has responded instrumentally include strengthening the US alliance amid China's rising influence.
This document discusses the politics of public demonstrations and occupying public spaces. It makes three key points:
1) Public demonstrations dispute who controls public spaces by gathering crowds in those areas. This brings politics into spaces like homes, streets and neighborhoods that are typically seen as private.
2) Arendt's view of politics requiring a "space of appearance" is criticized for not acknowledging how actions are tied to place, and demonstrations often contest control of public places.
3) By physically occupying spaces denied to them, marginalized groups challenge existing power relations, without needing to appear in formal political spheres. Their caring for each other in occupied spaces also establishes egalitarian social relations.
Werner Blessing is the founder of BIOMETRY. Biometrics can provide advantages like single sign-on capabilities and mobile authentication. Common biometric traits include fingerprints, faces, irises, and voice. Each has advantages like existing criminal databases but also inconveniences like being easy to falsify or requiring specialized hardware. BIOMETRY develops multimodal biometrics and adaptive trust systems using traits like facial recognition to continuously authenticate users.
This document summarizes an interview with Leslie Greenberg, the founder of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). In the interview, Greenberg describes the core principles of EFT, which focuses on empathy and helping clients process emotions through an empathically attuned relationship. He explains how EFT was developed by integrating elements of other therapies like client-centered and gestalt therapy. Greenberg also discusses how EFT has evolved over time to incorporate more directiveness from the therapist. He emphasizes the importance of empathy training for therapists.
The document discusses Werner Blessing, the founder of biometrics, and his company BIOMETRY. It describes various biometric features such as papillar lines, forms of lines, Y-forms, endings, and minutiae that can be used for 2D and 3D face recognition. It also discusses using multimodal biometrics and random passwords for high security. Biometric identification can be used for permanent authentication via products like ID Perma Face and ID Perma Voice which use facial and voice recognition respectively.
This document discusses the politics of public demonstrations and occupying public spaces. It makes three key points:
1) Public demonstrations dispute who controls public spaces by gathering crowds in those areas. This brings politics into spaces like homes, streets and neighborhoods that are typically seen as private.
2) Arendt's view of politics requiring a "space of appearance" is criticized for not acknowledging how actions are tied to place, and demonstrations often contest control of public places.
3) By physically occupying spaces denied to them, marginalized groups challenge existing power relations, without needing to appear in formal political spheres. Their caring for each other in occupied spaces also establishes egalitarian social relations.
Werner Blessing is the founder of BIOMETRY. Biometrics can provide advantages like single sign-on capabilities and mobile authentication. Common biometric traits include fingerprints, faces, irises, and voice. Each has advantages like existing criminal databases but also inconveniences like being easy to falsify or requiring specialized hardware. BIOMETRY develops multimodal biometrics and adaptive trust systems using traits like facial recognition to continuously authenticate users.
This document summarizes an interview with Leslie Greenberg, the founder of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). In the interview, Greenberg describes the core principles of EFT, which focuses on empathy and helping clients process emotions through an empathically attuned relationship. He explains how EFT was developed by integrating elements of other therapies like client-centered and gestalt therapy. Greenberg also discusses how EFT has evolved over time to incorporate more directiveness from the therapist. He emphasizes the importance of empathy training for therapists.
The document discusses Werner Blessing, the founder of biometrics, and his company BIOMETRY. It describes various biometric features such as papillar lines, forms of lines, Y-forms, endings, and minutiae that can be used for 2D and 3D face recognition. It also discusses using multimodal biometrics and random passwords for high security. Biometric identification can be used for permanent authentication via products like ID Perma Face and ID Perma Voice which use facial and voice recognition respectively.