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A memo from Tech Society session; most useful tags in HTML:

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• <li> each bullet in the list
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talks.cam is one of the best tools to find peculiar scientific talks in Cambridge

Thanks to talk.cam, I joined a lot of talks on scientific talks. This is highly recommended to those who want to join a lot of talks in different colleges in Cambridge, or even when you are fed up with your course readings. You will get new ideas of the world, or even may encounter an entrepreneurial opportunity.

How easy to register? Very and actually open to everyone, not exclusive to Cambridge studetns. Just make your own list from here and subscribe it via ical/vcal in the list page: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/list/new
and add talks you find interesting through the search engine: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/search
and/or add (Like Follow in Twitter) other's list. For example, I've followed:

• Humanitas lectures
• Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
• SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
• Lady Margaret Lectures
• Zangwill Club
• Cambridge Philosophical Society
• Manufacturing Research Forum
• Hitachi Cambridge Seminar Series
• Summer Seminar Series
• CERF and CF Events

Cambridge is definitely a cluster of creativity.

Moved out of Cambridge to London; whatever you end up doing, love it.

Whatever you end up doing, love it. (Cinema Paradiso)

Open air cinema organised by The Nomad Cinema: 'Cinema Paradiso', the best loving movie with fantastic musics. 

And our new life started here in London:

The entrance of our new accommodation in London.

Six key entrepreneurial opportunities in Cambridge

Three very important, at least to me, communities you should try all if you pursue entrepreneurial course and three more stimulating events for networking.

Opportunities to work as a team:

i-Teams: every term (Michaelmas, Lent, Easter) 3-4 teams of 5-6 postgraduate students each are formed to develop a strategy on how to commercialise a cutting-edge technology that is developed in Cambridge. This was where I met the inventor and my co-founders. The final presentations are open to the public, and thus there comes local angeles. Note that you have to go through the application process with submitting your CV and cover letter.
http://iteamsonline.org/

CUE (Cambridge University Entrepreneurs): there are famous £100, £1K, £10K competitions for which entrepreneurs try their ideas, business concepts, and business plans. These competition allow entrepreneurs to make a good pace of developing an idea into a solid business plan. You may submit an idea as an individual, but for business concept and plan you will need a team.
http://www.cue.org.uk/
http://iteamsonline.org/congratulations-to-our-1k-winners/

Accelerate Cambridge: even it is quite new to the history of Judge Business School, the accelerator has gained good attention among entrepreneurs. Theirs training sessions as well as free coachings have been quite helpful to get start-ups in very early phase. They may provide a seed funding up to £20K. This is not open to everyone as you have to pass an interview by the coordinator.
http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/accelerate-cambridge/programmes/

Opportunities to join exciting talks and discussions:

CUTEC (Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club): its Technology Venture Conference is one of the biggest tech and entrepreneurial events in Cambridge. As ARM is the main sponsor of this club, there should be a talk by Hermann Hauser (ARM co-founder), which I highly recommend to join if any.
http://cutec.org/

Silicon Valley Comes to UK: this holds a three-day event where entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from Silicon Valley conduct a bunch of talks and sessions for entrepreneurs as well as students in Cambridge and London.
http://www.svc2uk.com/

Innovation Forum: it was new to Cambridge last year. The one-day event was interesting and a good opportunity for networking.
http://innovation-forum.co.uk/

The Cambridge Phenomenon: a great guidebook to understand the Cambridge cluster further in depth.

The Oxbridge ways / オックスブリッジの流儀

The Japanese series about 'Oxbridge ways' are now on the Internet here.
I may be able to contribute in the future.

現代ビジネスのオンライン企画として、「オックスブリッジの流儀」という連載が始まりました。Cambridge MBAの同期もさっそく原稿を書いています。「友がみなわれよりえらく見ゆる日」でもありますが、ワタクシも実世界で何かしらの花を咲かしてからしたしもうと思います。
http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/40295

The Cam River and Silicon Fen.

Get busy living

The feeling of disappointment, out of unsuccessful MPhil/PhD applications, has gone in a few days, implying I might not have been utterly serious about it. Anyway, I couldn't make it on the way to academic research of management, which I felt like doing so for months. This, notwithstanding, surprisingly yet ironically encouraged me to do my best in the management of real businesses; a startup with Cambridge PhD guys.

Life goes on; I will keep moving to 'get busy living' rather than 'busy dying'.

What would I carve after all? Probably nothing other than my name and what I love.

Done!! and moving to London soon

Today 2pm, the final assignment for Cambridge MBA has been done. In two weeks or so, we will move to London. Nevertheless, it has been absolutely unique and great fun to live in Cambridge.

I won't forget the room and house where I stayed with my partner while Cambridge MBA.

Photos from our London/Cambridge trip

Photos from our London/Cambridge/(Stonehenge) trip with our family members who came all over from Tokyo and Hiroshima, Japan.

Stonehenge in the rain

A Road To The Buckingham Palace, London.

A London view from London Bus.

The Tower Bridge seen from its beneath.

The Tower Bridge viewed from Thames River Cruise, London.

BBC Proms at the beautiful Royal Albert Hall, London.

The British Museum and the national flag.

The colour-changing wall at St John's College, Cambridge

The King's Chapel, Cambridge, seen while punting and later auto-awesomed by Google.

The inside of the Bridge of Sighs, St John's College, Cambridge

Pipe Organ in the King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

The Cam River view from a room in Hilton Doubletree Cambridge.

Speedy's, London, a famous cafe for Sherlock fans.

The main building of the University College London.

Cambridge Summer School 2014: Science II and Interdisciplinary III

I have been enjoying the International Summer Schools (Science II and Interdisciplinary III) at the University of Cambridge. The best course was an introduction to cryptography, taught by the guy who did podcasting Quite Easily Done.

The Enigma , a famous ciphering machine used in WWII by Germany and deciphered by Alan Turing etc.

There are quite a few virtual Enigma online: this is good to understand the inside mechanism.

Some other photos on beautiful sunny days in Cambridge.

A beautiful summer day at the Newman College's Garden 

The Old Lab for female scientist in the past days, Newman College

The Fen on a sunny day

Cambridge cows taking a rest under a tree

MAA Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Will the current deficit become structural in Japan?

The trend of Japan's negative current account, as recorded in the first half of 2014 for the first time since 1980s, seems worsening and it will be becoming quite possible to demonstrate annual current deficit in 2014, or a few years later maybe. So my answer to the title question is, within a few years, definitely yes.

Trading Balance in 2013 showed Food (JPY -6 trillion), Raw materials (-4), and Mineral fuels (-25) are the sources of the trade deficit; and the import of Electric machinery increased fur more than the once strong export of that. These trends won't change drastically for coming years unless all the nuclear power plant reboot, which is quite unrealistic if you see the current slow debate on the new regulations.

Trading Balance in 2013 by principal commodity (In JPY Million)

To sum up, the increase of imported goods and services have been dragging down the Japanese economy by more than 1 p.p. in Q1 2014, according to the latest OECD statistics. Some would say that this should not be necessarily the negative sign for Japan, since the Japanese manufacturers have been applying to the model of producing abroad and marketing abroad, instead of the conventional model of producing domestically and marketing abroad. Yet, the current deficit suggests the income surplus from such out-out transactions are not sufficient for making up the trade deficit by importing basic goods and decreasing exports from Japan.

And in case of the structural current deficit, the only way to finance the government piling its debt more than JPY 1K trillion is to ask foreign players to buy the JGB more. Would it really be manageable by them?

Reference:
Ministry of Finance, Japan
OECD.stat
Japan logs largest six-month current account deficit ever | The Japan Times: