Even though they cannot pass the Turing test, a machine communicating with a human without seeming like a machine), for families who are coping with the loss of their loved ones, grief chatbots are helping them reconnect with the dead and find solace in the digital world.

Even at the end of an eighth Japan-led international conference on African development, Japan’s steady assistance to various African countries over many years has seemingly not left much of an impression, mainly due to China.