Field Notes

Observations from the floor.

Technical writing on casino IT, Oasis 360 architecture, surveillance analytics, and the patterns we keep seeing across the gaming industry.

Commentary · 17 min read · Jun 17

The Unseen Sponsor

In a research city, the most important person in the room is not always the professor at the head of the table, the visiting scholar with the impressive affiliation, or the graduate student at the ben

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Commentary · 18 min read · Jun 16

Economic Espionage in the University City

Kyoto is, by design, an open city for knowledge. The municipal government and its universities promote it explicitly as an International Academic City, a place where researchers gather, ideas circulat

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Commentary · 11 min read · Jun 14

The Visible Backbone

What Tokyo's Microwave Towers Reveal About Communications Resilience, and What Critical-Infrastructure Operators Should Take From It

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Commentary · 12 min read · Jun 12

The Network Is the Territory

Japan has stopped waiting at the firewall. Its newest security body is built to detect threats early, coordinate across government and industry, and, within strict legal limits, disrupt attacks before

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Commentary · 11 min read · Jun 11

The Electromagnetic Map of Japan

Over the visible city lies a second one written in radio waves, satellite downlinks, and microwave beams, and reading it accurately is a matter of national defense.

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Commentary · 11 min read · Jun 10

The City as a Sensor

Stand on a single block in central Tokyo at rush hour and you are standing inside a sensor network that no one designed and no one owns. A traffic camera watches the intersection. A bank's CCTV watche

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Commentary · 13 min read · Jun 2

Know Your Status

A follow-up to The Six Second Threat: Why the Question Is Never About the Time The first article in this series ended on a quiet but important point borrowed from the human intelligence profession.

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Commentary · 15 min read · Jun 2

The Conversation With a Purpose

A follow-up to The Six Second Threat: Why the Question Is Never About the Time In the first article in this series, a stranger crossed a restaurant to ask a family for the time. The point was that

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Commentary · 2 min read · May 22

Your Employee Badge Might Be a Billboard

Every day, as part of my normal routine, I pass people from all kinds of companies. Most are just going about their day, coffee in hand, headphones on, focused on whatever comes next.

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