Project 2049Weekly essays in English by living Japanese philosopher Takahiro Mitsui (三井崇央). Fridays, 5 p.m. JST. Japanese thought without borrowing the West. No likes. Not the Project 2049 Institute think tank.https://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/enTakahiro Mitsui Project 2049 Report Vol.4: Why Has Life Lost Its Meaning? Instant Meaning, the Journey to a Teacher, and Why Amaterasu Chose Isehttps://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-4https://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-4Takahiro Mitsui on why so many people say they have lost the meaning of life: what was lost is instant meaning, not meaning itself, and those who came before us found their way by setting out in search of a teacher; and on Amaterasu's road from the Yamato palace to Ise, the Inner and Outer Shrines, Toyouke, and why pilgrims went to the sea first.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTTakahiro Mitsui Project 2049 Report Vol.3: NO ONE DECIDED: Why Japan Is So Orderly, and Where Amaterasu Was Movedhttps://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-3https://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-3Takahiro Mitsui on wa (和) as the unexplained source of Japan's order, from the question of why Japan is so clean and safe to his new Kindle book NO ONE DECIDED, and on Amaterasu, Emperor Sujin and the moving of the gods out of the palace.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTTakahiro Mitsui Project 2049 Report Vol.2: The Vacuum After the Bubble: AI, and Japan's Plural Worldhttps://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-2https://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-2Takahiro Mitsui on the opportunity a bursting bubble leaves behind, from Ura-Harajuku to the coming AI bubble, and on the plural world of Japan's myths: the Kojiki, the Nihon Shoki, and the gods who would not submit.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTTakahiro Mitsui Project 2049 Report Vol.1: Why 2049: Japan, Europe, and the True Self Beneath the Provisional Onehttps://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-1https://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-1Takahiro Mitsui on why this newsletter is named Project 2049, after Tsuyoshi Takashiro's forecast that Japan will join the EU, and on Nakae Toju's shingo and kago, the true and provisional self.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTTakahiro Mitsui Project 2049 Report Vol.0: Yohaku and Diving Deep: Japan's Thought of Dissolutionhttps://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-0https://project-2049.takahiromitsui.com/vol-0Why leave the platforms and build your own site? Takahiro Mitsui (三井崇央, b. 1991) on moving his newsletters onto a system he built himself to restore Yohaku, the anemoia for Showa Japan, and why diving deep, not transcendence, is Japan's gift.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:00:00 GMT