TechSpot

MAY 29, 2024

On March 11, 2011, disaster struck Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when a powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the Tohoku region of Japan, killing 15,900 people. Read Entire Article

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Japan will provide subsidies of up to 350 billion yen ($2.44 billion) to 12 development projects for storage batteries – as well as the relevant parts,

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Airlines in Japan and the US have grounded dozens of Boeing 777 aircraft after the dramatic engine failure that United Airlines flight 328 experienced over Denver this weekend. Image: Hayden Smith / speedbird5280 (Instagram).

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Digital Trends

JULY 4, 2022

Tens of millions of cell phone users in Japan were unable to connect for most of the weekend in what’s believed to be the country’s worst-ever service outage.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Yahoo Japan has announced that most of its online services will cease to be accessible in the European Economic Area and the UK as of April 6th. Yahoo Japan is an entirely separate entity to the American former web giant now owned by the Apollo private equity firm. Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The rest of Asia has risen in importance If I were starting a tech website in 2011, I would probably have wanted to hire someone in Japan, which was at the time the undisputed home of gadgets — floating bathtub TVs, widespread NFC use, robot dogs, and so on. It’s a little sad to say so, but Japan isn’t the force in consumer tech it once was.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 19, 2025

A 58-year-old man from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, was arrested for selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles designed to play pirated games. According to Japanese media, this marks the first arrest in the country for circumventing the portable device's copyright protection. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JUNE 2, 2022

On Monday, researchers at Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) broke another data-rate record, with an officially recorded speed of 1.02 petabits per second. This rate is 10 Tb/s faster than its previous high-data-rate test in December 2020. And it's more than three times faster than the.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2023

General Motors, self-driving car subsidiary Cruise and Honda plan to launch a robotaxi service in Japan under a new joint venture, the three companies announced today. The companies intend to launch the service with the custom-built Cruise Origin vehicles in central Tokyo in early 2026. The service will start with dozens of Cruise Origins.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Google Japan recently introduced a mechanical keyboard with keys covering both sides. The company patterned the design after a Möbius strip to make both sides accessible. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The planet's journey to clean energy use has taken another leap forward in Naka, Japan, where the world's biggest and most advanced experimental nuclear fusion reactor has been inaugurated. Housed at the National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, the system, known as JT-60SA, is a six-story-high donut-shaped.

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TechSpot

MAY 30, 2022

Japan's A64X-based Fugaku system had held the number one spot on the Top500 list for the last two years with its 442 petaflops of performance. Frontier smashed that record by achieving 1.1 ExaFlops in the Linpack FP64 benchmark, though the system's peak performance is rated at 1.69 ExaFlops.

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TechSpot

APRIL 15, 2025

While people have been arrested in other parts of the world for selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles, it had never happened in Japan before Otobe's apprehension at the start of this year. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism regularly reports on the congestion rates of trains in the country's major metropolitan areas, notes The Reg. Up until now, the authority had used the illustration below to show just how busy trains were. Read Entire Article

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Futurism

MAY 7, 2025

But before we can eat a pork chop from a gene-edited pig, Genus says that it will have to lock down regulatory approval in Mexico, Canada, Japan, and China as well, the United States' biggest export markets for pork, as MIT Tech reports. The company is hoping gene-edited pork could land in the US market as soon as next year.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The GBoard stick version keyboard is, of course, more of a jokey project than a real product the company is launching—Google Japan has added all the technical specifications to a Github page so anyone with access to a 3D printer can build one themselves.

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TechSpot

MAY 5, 2022

Last year, we learned that Japan wants to reignite its once-dominant semiconductor industry, which has gone from producing 50 percent of the world's chips in 1990 to less than 10 percent today. Japan has 84 chip manufacturing plants but many of them use aging process technologies and are in need of expensive retooling.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 31, 2022

Japan's digital minister tweeted that floppies, CDs, and even mini-disks are still required for around 1,900 government procedures in which business communities submit applications and other forms. The country's digital agency is going to bring these procedures into the modern era (or the 21st century) by allowing them to be.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Japan's industry minister, Ken Saito, recently announced a substantial increase in public funding to support Kioxia and Western Digital's chip business. These two major memory manufacturing companies are planning to boost chip production in Mie and Iwate prefectures, anticipating significant growth in the memory business.

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TechSpot

APRIL 23, 2025

On Monday, the My Nintendo Store in Japan opened its first round of pre-orders for the long-awaited Switch 2 and closed them just as fast. Within hours, the store marked the new system's availability as "sold out," with pre-order applications closed until at least May 6 a day after launch. Read Entire Article

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VentureBeat

MARCH 3, 2025

has expanded outside of Japan, bringing virtual creators known as VTubers to U.S. Cover Corp. The market is getting its test now as to whether VTubers — where humans give voice to 3D avatars in concert performances — can catch fire on the global stage.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

Originally developed by Pyramid and Sony Japan Studio, which shuttered in 2021 , the two games combine elements from strategy and rhythm games. As part of the Nintendo Direct showcase this March, Bandai Namco announced Patapon 1 + 2 Replay , a package that brings together brand new remasters of 2007's Patapon and 2008's Patapon 2.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The US government has already imposed an export ban on KLA Corp, Lam Research Corp and Applied Materials, and now it's time for Netherlands and Japan to embrace Washington's decision to completely cut off Beijing from the. It seems China will soon be unable to manufacture its own advanced microchips.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 30, 2023

Reports last month suggested that the Netherlands and Japan were close to implementing bans on the export of advanced chipmaking devices to China following talks with Washington. While the sensitive nature of the deal means it hasn't been publicly announced, several people familiar with the matter say an agreement was.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Memory maker Micron Technology has announced plans to build a new manufacturing plant that will be located in the Hiroshima prefecture in western Japan. The new chip fab will produce advanced DRAM for the data center, as the company is shifting focus away from the consumer market after selling its.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 14, 2025

Last week's race in Japan sent many to sleep, but that was definitely not the case on Sunday. What a difference a week makes. This past weekend, Formula 1 went back to Bahrain, the site of this year's preseason test, for round four of the 2025 season.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Japan has announced plans to build the world's first zeta-class supercomputer. Still a theoretical exercise, this groundbreaking machine could reach processing speeds a thousand times faster than current top supercomputers. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JULY 3, 2024

Back in 2022, Japan declared "war" on floppy disks. Digital minister Taro Kono wrote that floppies, CDs, and even mini-disks were still required for around 1,900 government procedures in which business communities submit applications and other forms. The country's digital agency said it would be bringing these procedures into the.

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TechSpot

APRIL 11, 2025

Hermitage Akihabara reports that microSD Express cards have sold out in e-commerce stores across Japan since Nintendo confirmed that the upcoming Switch 2 requires them. Featuring significantly higher read/write speeds than standard memory units, SD Express cards are in short supply because vendors had little reason to manufacture them until.

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TechSpot

MAY 15, 2024

Scheduled for release on November 15 for PC, Mac, and consoles, the game takes players to late 16th-century Japan. Ubisoft has released a pre-rendered reveal trailer for Assassin's Creed Shadows, the next major entry in its long-running series of historical fantasy action games. Read Entire Article

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Japan In March 2024, Japan officially launched its Digital Nomad Visa under the Designated Activities residence category, opening the door for remote workers around the world to live and work in the country for up to six months. Japans appeal to remote professionals goes far beyond its big cities.

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Engadget

APRIL 19, 2025

EA and Lucasfilm shared first look at Star Wars Zero Company , a new single-player strategy game set in the Star Wars universe, at Star Wars Celebration in Japan.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 26, 2024

The SLIM was a joint effort between Japanese toy company Takara Tomy, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sony, and Doshisha University to design a craft capable of "super-precise" moon landings. In that regard, it succeeded. Aside from landing nose first, the SLIM touched down 55 meters east of its landing. Read Entire Article

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Microsoft AI

MARCH 27, 2025

Tags: AI The post Japan Airlines new AI app will make it easier for cabin attendants to report inflight events with Microsofts Phi4 small language model appeared first on Source.

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TechSpot

JUNE 23, 2020

Japan’s system, Fugaku, which is installed in Kobe and developed by Fujitsu and the government-sponsored Riken institute, managed a High Performance Linpack (HPL) result of 415.5 That makes it around 2.8 times faster than the now second-place Summit from IBM. The system also came first in the High-Performance Conjugate.

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TechSpot

JUNE 2, 2023

Test results from a recent experiment aboard the International Space Station among three wood specimens revealed magnolia to be the most versatile. The samples, which were exposed to the harsh conditions of space for 10 months, returned to Earth this past January. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Starting on January 24, Apple Music Classical will be available in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. Japan, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan: pre-order Apple Music Classical now on the @AppStore. Apple made the announcement in an X post today.

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