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Thursday, September 24, 2026

NORTHGATE DISPATCH INDEPENDENT GLOBAL REPORTING — DELIVERED EVERY MORNING

VIDEOS

Short documentary essays from our visual desk — cities, machines, money and music.

Documentary · 6:42

Inside Tokyo’s Micro-Living Movement

In the world’s largest metropolis, a generation is trading floor space for freedom. We spent a week inside 25-square-metre apartments, capsule offices and the tiny bars of Golden Gai to ask what home means when the city never sleeps.

Technology · 6:42

Is Artificial Intelligence Really Neutral? A Human Reflection

Every model carries the fingerprints of the people who built it. Engineers, ethicists and artists reflect on bias, accountability and the very human choices inside supposedly neutral machines.

Business · 6:42

Why the Global Economy Needs a Moral Reset

Growth is back, but trust is not. From cooperative banks to four-day-week factories, we meet the economists and founders arguing that the next boom must be measured in wellbeing, not just output.

Entertainment · 6:42

K-Pop Behind the Stage: The Making of a Global Phenomenon

Choreography at dawn, songwriting camps across three continents, and fandoms that move markets. Inside the rehearsal rooms and production houses behind the world’s most disciplined pop machine.

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