Japan

Japan's Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot, marking a shift from its business focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies (asia.nikkei.com)
5 hours ago Japan AI chatbot

Trump catches Japanese PM off guard with surprise Pearl Harbor remark (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
3 days ago Trump Japan

Japan's bid to build a “de-Chinafied” rare earth supply system – with Australia and Brazil on-board (www.lowyinstitute.org)
5 days ago Australia Japan Brazil

Japan is now the most trusted Asian power in Australia and New Zealand (www.lowyinstitute.org)
5 days ago Australia Japan New Zealand

Japan's rare-earths gamble faces major hurdles (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
7 days ago Japan

India's expectations of Japan will shape their defence cooperation (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
7 days ago Japan India

Behind Japan's US investment pledge, a China problem (www.lowyinstitute.org)
7 days ago China Japan

Australia, Japan and New Zealand should double down on collaboration (www.lowyinstitute.org)
8 days ago Australia Japan New Zealand

PayPay shares jump 19% in their Nasdaq debut after the company's $879.8M US IPO, the biggest listing by a Japanese company on a US stock exchange in a decade (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Japan IPO

Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Tokyo, its first autonomous-vehicle partnership in Japan, with a pilot planned for late 2026 (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago Japan Uber Tokyo Nissan

Japanese auto parts makers eye Russian aluminum – Bloomberg (www.rt.com)
12 days ago Russia Japan Aluminum

Japan Approves Stem-Cell Treatments For Parkinson's, Heart Failure In World Firsts (science.slashdot.org)
16 days ago Japan

Punch has got a pal! Little monkey who had no one to love but his stuffed toy finally makes friends as he cuddles up to another macaque at Japanese zoo (www.dailymail.co.uk)
20 days ago Japan

Sources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran (www.reuters.com)
21 days ago Japan IPO Iran

Japan To Ban In-Flight Use of Power Banks (hardware.slashdot.org)
21 days ago Japan Ban

Japanese investment in China keeps rising, despite political tensions (www.lowyinstitute.org)
22 days ago China Japan

The Japanese government plans to invest ~$1.6B in Rapidus over the next two fiscal years to help it mass-produce 2nm logic chips and potentially challenge TSMC (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Japan

OpenAI says ChatGPT refused to assist a user associated with Chinese law enforcement in planning an online campaign to discredit Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago China Japan

Microsoft Japan Raided Over Suspected Violation of Anti-Monopoly Law (slashdot.org)
26 days ago Japan Microsoft

Sources: Japan's FTC raids Microsoft's Japan offices as part of a probe into whether Azure customers were improperly hindered from using other cloud services (asia.nikkei.com)
27 days ago Japan Microsoft

DoorDash says it plans to exit Qatar, Singapore, Japan and Uzbekistan, winding down both Deliveroo and Wolt, and make limited operational changes elsewhere (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago Japan Singapore Qatar

A look at Japan's Team Mirai, a party founded by software engineers that won 11 of 465 parliament seats by promising self-driving buses and high-tech jobs (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Japan

Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-21 Japan

Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US-Japan trade deal (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-2-20 Japan AI

Australia-Japan cooperation is key to sustained Indo-Pacific order (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-2-20 Australia Japan

UK activist investor Palliser says Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, is an “undervalued and overlooked” AI play due to its “advanced ceramics” used in chips (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17 Japan AI

Beijing pressured Japan over Taiwan. It only strengthened Tokyo's resolve (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-2-17 China Japan Taiwan Tokyo

Washington Hotel in Japan discloses ransomware infection incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-17 Japan

SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay files for a US IPO, and reports a $675.47M profit on ~$1.82B revenue for nine months ending December 31, 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-14 Japan IPO

Threatened by China, Japan's voters choose to stand tall (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-2-11 China Japan

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