I just discovered note, a popular Japanese blogging and content-sharing platform that allows users to create and publish articles, entire blogs, illustrations, photos, and videos. While in some regards it might seem similar to Blogger or WordPress, or even Instagram, what sets note apart is its homepage and discovery system, which is curated more like a magazine or news site. This, I suppose, makes it a great starting point for Japanese readers. Wikipedia Japan has a page about it.

Having received a visit from note.com, I went there, where I noticed a few major tags, such as:

I take it that Gemini and Claude became extremely popular in Japan in certain circles (otherwise, ChatGPT is dominant). Google’s NotebookLM is also increasingly popular in parts of Asia, from India to Japan.

Using automated translation, I found the following recent articles reasonably interesting. The original titles have been changed (duh).

❶ Claude Opus 4.6: The two months Claude changed the world

❷ Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3-Codex
“Rakuten says that Opus 4.6 autonomously manages its organization of approximately 50 people across six repositories, making decisions on both the product and organizational fronts, while also determining when to escalate issues to humans.”

❸ How a complete beginner released an app in 5 days using Claude Code

❹ Token count in Gemini vs. ChatGPT and Claude

❺ “Memory” and “context” in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude

❻ Free editions are not enough; paying for AI is buying time

❼ AI and reproducibility are not in the same boat

❽ On Claude’s weekly limit

❾ Claude explains Grok’s uniqueness, then Grok assesses Claude’s answer

❿ Five things I learned as an AI beginner after using generative AI for 6 months
“5. From a tool for getting answers to a tool for cultivating questions.”
“I started living with AI because I thought it was cool, but now I can’t imagine life without it, just like I can’t imagine life without a smartphone.”

⓫ I couldn’t narrow it down to one AI, so I started using four at the same time (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity)

⓬ Six types of AI use

⓭ Ditching ChatGPT to standardize on Google tools

⓮ NotebookLM x Antigravity

⓯ On uses of AI in novels and writing: ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini vs. Copilot

⓰ Things to keep in mind when writing a Kindle book in the age of collaboration with AI

⓱ Why is it hard to read novels in English?