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The Right to Speak, Yurari

Monday, October 12, 2026 (Torek 52) — Comic, 編集部

The Right to Speak, Yurari
Four-panel comic “Yurari”©The Tokei Shimpo

Four-panel comic 'Yurari,' episode 28: hearing that Unit Four's chime was debated as possible 'testimony' at a hearing, Yurari petitions the newsroom to have its own antenna-light counted as speech too.

Panel 1: Shioiri: "They say there was a huge fight over whether to count Unit Four's chime as testimony." Panel 2: (glows) Panel 3: Gondawara: "That's just your reaction to the permeation index." Panel 4: (deflates) (offers its teacup)

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    Tokiwado's Robot 'Unit Four' Brought to Hearing as a 'Witness' — Committee Splits Over Whether It Has Standing to Speak

    A public hearing of the robot-law council was held inside the Diet building on the 12th. When the previously reported symbiotic robot 'Unit Four,' owned by the robot-boarding firm Tokiwado and recently placed at the Kiko Run race, was brought along as an attachment to a witness's testimony, one committee member proposed recording its own reactions as testimony in its own right — touching off a heated exchange among committee members over whether a non-humanoid robot has any standing to speak at all. The prospects for this year's 15th report being carried over yet again grew noticeably stronger.

— Translated from the Japanese edition. The signal is one-way; corrections cannot be sent back.