Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Yakudata: A Numbers-First Guide to Japanese Pharmacies
A public-data tool that compares 3,389 pharmacies across five prefectures in Japan by estimated workplace conditions and regional role.
Why it surfacedYakudata turns pharmacy disclosure data from Japan’s Ministry of Health and regional health bureaus into searchable rankings, filters, and side-by-side comparisons. Its “estimated white-collar friendliness” and “estimated community-rootedness” scores are explicitly only proxies—not workplace surveys—which makes the tool both useful and an interesting experiment in measuring work culture from administrative data.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.