Japan

Editors' picks for 2024: ‘The curiously cozy relationship between Taiwan and Japan' (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2024-12-25 Japan Taiwan

'Kyoto is the seventh ring of Hell now': Viral video shows how Japanese hotspot has become the latest tourist destination struggling to cope with huge crowds (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2024-12-25 Japan

US and Japanese law enforcement say North Korean hackers were responsible for stealing 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth $308M, from Japanese exchange DMM in May 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-25 Japan Korea Bitcoin

'Glass fences' hinder Japanese female faculty in international research, study finds (www.eurekalert.org)
2024-12-24 Japan

Google says it plans to counter Japan's FTC over claims that it hobbles rivals in search; a source says Japan's FTC sent a cease-and-desist order to Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-23 Japan Google

Japanese Firm's USB-C Cable Rotates 360 Degrees (it.slashdot.org)
2024-12-21 Japan

Japan Sees Nuclear as Cheapest Baseload Power Source in 2040 (slashdot.org)
2024-12-20 Japan

Sony buys ~$320M of shares in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, which owns FromSoftware, taking its stake to ~10% and becoming Kadokawa's top shareholder (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-19 Japan Sony

Q&A with Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing President Yoshihiro Yamaguchi on shipping 20B+ image sensors, a new manufacturing plant in Kumamoto, Japan, and more (t.co)
2024-12-19 Japan Manufacturing Sony

An opposition party could hold the deciding vote on Japan's national security policy (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2024-12-19 Japan

Japanese car giants exploring merger to tackle China's EV strength – media (www.rt.com)
2024-12-19 China Japan

Analysis: as uncertainty looms over Japan's China-dependent chipmaking stocks, Sony, Nintendo, and Capcom have seen double-digit returns since Trump's victory (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-12-18 Trump China Japan Nintendo Sony

A profile of 114-year-old Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, whose market cap recently hit $100B after becoming an industrial software and hardware provider (t.co)
2024-12-18 Japan

Waymo steers toward Japan as it eyes international debut of self-driving taxi service (indianexpress.com)
2024-12-18 Japan

Japan's Honda and Nissan To Reportedly Begin Merger Talks (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-12-18 Japan Honda Nissan

Japanese chipmaker Kioxia's dramatic valuation drop from $18B in 2018 to $5.1B in its upcoming IPO is due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals (www.wsj.com)
2024-12-14 Japan IPO AI

Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck lists on the Nasdaq via a SPAC, closing at $13.35 for a ~$1.7B market cap; Coincheck had 2.15M accounts in November 2024 (www.japantimes.co.jp)
2024-12-12 Japan

Filing: Japanese chipmaker Kioxia set its IPO price at ~$9.70, the middle of the range, raising ~$800M and valuing it at ~$5.2B, ahead of a December 18 listing (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-9 Japan IPO

Paytm sells its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.2M, ending Paytm's ties with SoftBank, which sold its remaining Paytm shares in June (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-8 Japan

Actress Miho Nakayama's 'possible cause of death is revealed by police' as chilling last Instagram post emerges: Love Letter star dubbed 'Japan's most beautiful woman' is found dead in bath aged 54 (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2024-12-6 Japan Instagram

Sources: the US spared China's top DRAM producer CXMT from its latest round of chip curbs because of Japan's opposition; Tokyo Electron is a major CXMT supplier (www.scmp.com)
2024-12-6 China Japan Tokyo

Japan warns of IO-Data zero-day router flaws exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-12-5 Japan

Netflix says Netflix Japan passed 10M+ subscribers in H1 2024 and has doubled its user base in the past four years thanks to Japanese-language programming (www.reuters.com)
2024-12-5 Japan Netflix programming

Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin is shutting down and plans to transfer accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March, after a $300M+ hack in May (therecord.media)
2024-12-3 Japan Bitcoin Asset

Japan and Germany battle for edge in lucrative war ship deal (www.smh.com.au)
2024-11-30 Germany Japan

Japan allocates another $9.9B to boost its chip, quantum computing, and AI endeavors, with an undisclosed amount going to chip startup Rapidus (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-29 Japan Startup AI Quantum

Japan's 'God of Management' Comes Back To Life as an AI Model (slashdot.org)
2024-11-29 Japan AI

To combat disinformation, Japan could draw lessons from Australia and Europe (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2024-11-28 Europe Australia Japan

A government source says Japan's FTC raided Amazon Japan on November 26 suspecting it's inappropriately urging its sellers to lower their prices on its platform (www.reuters.com)
2024-11-26 Japan Amazon

Shares of Japan's Fujikura, which specializes in fiber optic cables for data centers, are up 400%+ in 2024 due to the AI boom, leading the Nikkei 225 index (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-25 Japan AI

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