Japan

Japan's NTT, which owns 57.7% of IT services provider and data center operator NTT Data, launches a $16.4B take-private tender offer to buy the remaining stake (www.reuters.com)
5 days ago Japan

Japan's Panasonic says it will cut 10,000 jobs, including 5,000 roles overseas, and book ~$895M in restructuring charges in the current fiscal year (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Japan Panasonic

Will a Japanese Fire Sale Crash U.S. Debt? (www.heritage.org)
9 days ago Japan U.S.

Inside Japan's Disco Corp, which has a radical HR system where no employee has a boss and manufactures ~75% of the machines used to cut and dice semiconductors (www.ft.com)
11 days ago Japan

QR codes: How a Japanese engineer's invention changed the world (indianexpress.com)
18 days ago Japan

California Becomes the World's Fourth-Largest Economy, Overtaking Japan (news.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Japan California

Japan's Nintendo fans test Switch 2 ahead of launch amid tariff worries (indianexpress.com)
19 days ago Japan Nintendo

Sources: Chinese AI startup Manus raised $75M led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation, and plans to expand to markets including the US, Japan, and the Middle East (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago China Japan Startup AI

Foreign Investors Massively Bought US Treasury Securities in February: China, Japan, Canada, Euro Area, UK, Financial Centers, Taiwan, India, even Brazil (wolfstreet.com)
19 days ago China Japan India Taiwan Canada Brazil

US Marines investigated for alleged sex crimes at Japanese military base (www.rt.com)
20 days ago Japan

Hackers have been using hijacked online brokerage accounts in Japan to drive up penny stocks globally in an illicit $700M trading spree since February 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
21 days ago Japan

Nintendo says cannot meet Switch 2 lottery demand in Japan (indianexpress.com)
21 days ago Japan Nintendo

Nintendo says Switch 2 preorder demand in Japan “far exceeds expectations” and 2.2M applied via a lottery; Nintendo is offering a cheaper, region-locked model (www.eurogamer.net)
21 days ago Japan Nintendo

Active! Mail RCE flaw exploited in attacks on Japanese orgs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago Japan

Foreign Investors Massively Bought US Treasury Securities in February: China, Japan, Canada, Euro Area, UK, Financial Centers, Taiwan, India, even Brazil (wolfstreet.com)
28 days ago China Japan India Taiwan Canada Brazil

Google faces antitrust probe in Japan over smartphone OEM deals (indianexpress.com)
29 days ago Japan Google

Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog accuses Google of violations in smartphones (indianexpress.com)
29 days ago Japan Google

Japan's FTC orders Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers, ahead of high-stakes US trade negotiations this week (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Japan Google

Xi and Putin drive Japan and NATO closer together (www.lowyinstitute.org)
30 days ago Putin Japan

UK-based high-end fashion marketplace Lyst agrees to a $154M acquisition by Japan-based fashion and e-commerce company Zozo; Lyst was valued at $700M+ in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-9 Japan

Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-4-9 Japan

Kremlin comments on Japan's call to finalize peace deal (www.rt.com)
2025-4-9 Russia Japan

Bank of Japan's QT Accelerates, 2 Years Behind the Fed & ECB, but Now Visibly Part of the QT Party (wolfstreet.com)
2025-4-8 Japan

Nintendo and Sony fell by 10%+ on April 7 amid a widespread selloff in Japan exacerbated by US tariffs; most Switch hardware is assembled in China and Vietnam (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-7 China Japan Nintendo Sony Vietnam

TikTok tests TikTok for Artists, which provides musicians with analytics and fan engagement tools, in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia (musically.com)
2025-4-4 Australia Japan Korea New Zealand Indonesia

Japan earmarks up to ~$5.4B in additional aid for chipmaker Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips in 2027, a highly ambitious target (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-31 Japan

Sources: TSMC, Intel, and other chipmakers have slowed their expansions in Japan and Malaysia due to lackluster demand for older chips and tariff uncertainties (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-3-30 Japan Intel Malaysia

Expressing Japanese Grammar Through TypeScript Type System (github.com)
2025-3-29 Japan TypeScript

Japan and Australia can fill each other's defence gaps (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-3-19 Australia Japan

World's 1st AI-generated paper by Japanese startup Sakana passes peer-review (indianexpress.com)
2025-3-13 Japan Startup AI

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