Japan

Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom

Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished

The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond20 Nov 2024 | 17

US, China agree machines must not be allowed to control nuclear weapons

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: LG struts catwalk in stretchy screen; Samsung’s strike nears end; Vietnam warns Chinese e-commerce players; and more

AI + ML17 Nov 2024 | 19

Southeast Asian nations revise semiconductor strategies as Trump's shadow looms

Analysis Korea wants to get rid of overtime cap while Japan splashes cash with vague funding

Systems13 Nov 2024 | 4

AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train Japan's engineers in $50M government deal

Government wants to make semiconductors big on home turf again

Systems07 Nov 2024 | 5

Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space

Wooden datacenters? Japan can build spacecraft out of the stuff

Networks05 Nov 2024 | 24

Toyota and Joby complete Japan's first air taxi flight test

Automaker bets big on startup while other promising eVTOL companies scrape around for funding

Personal Tech05 Nov 2024 | 27

Japan's space agency to build a digital twin of its ISS module – right before it retires

It's the space economy, stupid

Science01 Nov 2024 | 4

Indonesia bans iPhone 16 over Apple’s undelivered investment promises

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Singapore building two Supercomputers; Toyota to rebuild IT with Fujitsu AI; Are Samsung engineers jumping ship?

Public Sector27 Oct 2024 | 5

US leans on Japan to curb sales of chipmaking equipment to China

Tokyo between a rock and a hard place as Beijing threatens to retaliate

Systems22 Oct 2024 | 5

Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws

Welcome to the oidashi beya, aka expulsion rooms

Offbeat16 Oct 2024 | 60

India scores its first fab, and it looks like it was at Japan's expense

PSMC does a deal with Tata in what really might be – all hype aside – an actual 'key milestone'

Systems30 Sep 2024 | 1

Japanese orgs now paying salaries direct into e-wallets

Starting at SoftBank, using its own PayPay service

Software27 Sep 2024 | 11

VMware reportedly probed by Japanese anti-monopoly cops

Updated Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu

Virtualization25 Sep 2024 | 6

Plunging printer sales see Japan's Ricoh plan 2,000 redundancies

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Superapps in trouble across Asia; Indonesia connectivity doubles; Alibaba turns 25; and more!

On-Prem16 Sep 2024 | 1

Japan to put a small red Swedish house on the Moon

No, you read that right

Science13 Sep 2024 | 63

Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers

The Shinkansen have operated without fatalities for sixty years – how hard can it be?

AI + ML12 Sep 2024 | 125

Robot enters Fukushima's nuclear core to retrieve melted-down remains

Video Trying for 3 grams, only 880 tons to go!

Science11 Sep 2024 | 28

Rapidus, rapidly running through funds, needs $700M for 2nm chip plant

Japanese government has also earmarked $6.4B for the project

Systems09 Sep 2024 |

Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models

Business left Europe last year, but remains ticking away

Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 19

Japan abandons SLIM hopes its lunar lander will revive, ends Moon mission

Lasted longer than expected, but hasn't been heard from since late April

Science26 Aug 2024 | 2

Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan

Plus a further 200 delays, rockstars knocked off stage … all on a holiday weekend

Offbeat20 Aug 2024 | 117

Japan's Astroscale wins contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm

The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage – and prove it's possible

Science19 Aug 2024 | 9

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer released in virtual version that runs in AWS

Graviton processors get the job of helping RIKEN achieve HPC world domination

HPC07 Aug 2024 | 6

Japan stops measuring train crowding by ease of newspaper readership

The smartphone strikes again! And so might the Reg Standards Bureau, with your help

Offbeat06 Aug 2024 | 49

Japan mandates app to ensure national ID cards aren't forged

First delays, then data leaks – now fraud detection needed at point of use

Security02 Aug 2024 | 36

Ridesharing makes new and unique mess in Japan's taxi industry

Minister accuses cab drivers of gaming algos to score more lucrative fares

SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 9

Malware that is 'not ransomware' wormed its way through Fujitsu Japan's systems

IT giant says data exfiltration was extremely difficult to detect

Malware Month10 Jul 2024 | 8

Japan's digital minister declares victory against floppy disks

The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?

Storage03 Jul 2024 | 73

Like Uber, but for rainy days: Japan eases its ridesharing restrictions

Nation turns once again to technology to help with declining population

Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 12

Yahoo! Japan to waive $189 million ad revenue after detecting fraudulent clicks

Admits it's not sure some clicks came from humans, points to bettter quality as sign not all is rotten

Cyber-crime26 Jun 2024 | 11

Japan's industrial SciTech Institute plans two quantum computers and an Nvidia injection

10,000 qubits reportedly on the cards for one of them, with help from IBM

Systems19 Jun 2024 |

Japan's space junk cleaner hunts down major target

Asia in brief Plus: Australia to age limit social media; Hong Kong's robo-dogs; India's new tech minister

Security17 Jun 2024 | 10

Japan's space agency helps to target advertising with satellite photos of crops

Some would say ads for cabbage are futile – can pics from space at least make them timely?

Software14 Jun 2024 | 20

Japan forces Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and payments

DMA-like law passes in pursuit of a more innovative and open smartphone market

Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 10

Japanese vid-sharing site Niconico needs rebuild after cyberattack

Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand

Security11 Jun 2024 | 5

Tokyo takes on Tinder by developing its own dating app it hopes will arrest population decline

We're from the government and we want you to find love and procreate

Public Sector06 Jun 2024 | 17

Toyota plus 4 other Japanese automakers caught cheating on certification tests

Mazda, Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki all copped to lying on reports, while Toyota is still under investigation

Personal Tech04 Jun 2024 | 18

Flying phone base stations to take off over Japan in 2026

NTT Docomo teams with Airbus subsidiary to make it happen

Networks04 Jun 2024 | 2

JAXA's Akatsuki probe goes silent after more than a decade studying Venus

Plus: Japanese billionaire cancels joyride with artists around the Moon

Science03 Jun 2024 | 3

Japan's space agency enlists train operator's AI to foresee in-orbit failures

Shinkansen maintenance tricks boost reliability on the ground, so why not?

AI + ML24 May 2024 | 4

Toshiba to shed 4,000 jobs as part of revitalization plan

Over-50s to get early retirement offer

Storage17 May 2024 | 13

Japan may need 50% more electricity for hungry, hungry AI and chip fabs

While Tokyo pours billions into revitalizing chipmaking sector, it might want to check out the grid

On-Prem15 May 2024 | 8

Once Alibaba’s main investor, SoftBank sheds remaining stake

SoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company

PaaS + IaaS14 May 2024 | 1

Japan will use AI to find out what bears do in the woods

Because nobody wants a big surprise

Public Sector02 May 2024 | 24

Japan's space junk cleaner prototype closes in on its target

Asia In Brief PLUS: Huawei returns to top Chinese smartphone market; China's new IPv6 goals; Malaysia's golden VC Visa

Science29 Apr 2024 | 11

Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate

Interview Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators

Systems24 Apr 2024 | 2

Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app

You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles

Software24 Apr 2024 | 3

Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks

Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last

Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 9

Tokyo wags finger at Google for blocking Yahoo Japan! from using ad tech

Seven years of stonewalling and no consequences for advertising giant

Off-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 4

Japanese government rejects Yahoo! infosec improvement plan

Just doesn't believe it will sort out the mess that saw data leak from LINE messaging app

Security17 Apr 2024 | 3

OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation

Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4

AI + ML16 Apr 2024 | 3

Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses

Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market

Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 10

US, Japan announce joint AI research projects funded by Nvidia, Microsoft, others

Not that $110M will go very far, mind

AI + ML11 Apr 2024 |

Google plunks down $1 billion for extra Japan-US submarine cable

Adds Hawaii stopover for another planned link

Networks11 Apr 2024 | 7

AI could crash democracy and cause wars, warns Japan's NTT

Calls for ecosystem in which AIs keep other AIs in check, and lots more regulation

AI + ML09 Apr 2024 | 28

World's second-largest eyeglass lens-maker blinded by infosec incident

Japan's Hoya also makes components for chips, displays, and hard disks, and has spent four days groping for a fix

Security05 Apr 2024 | 5