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

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

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

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

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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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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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Though the app store listing simply reads “COVID-19 Contact App,” Japan refers to the app as COCOA , a somewhat convoluted backronym that stands for COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application.

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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

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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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

EV battery swapping startup Ample has locked in two partnerships this month that will help fuel an expansion into Japan and New York City after years of working on the technology. Ample and Eneos will also evaluate whether swapping stations can offer other uses, such as a backup source of power for the energy grid.

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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

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 20, 2022

The seller IGRNG has a product page on Amazon Japan offering a GPU “surprise blind box” for just $100. The box includes a randomly selected Nvidia and AMD graphics card of varying models from the last several years. The description calls it “an adventure about courage and good luck.”

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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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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A recent analysis from Japan's Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories shows that PC gaming has grown significantly in Japan over the last few years. Mobile is easily the most dominant sector of the market, but PC has seen noticeable changes recently.

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TechSpot

JUNE 15, 2022

Japan, meanwhile, is home to several major chipmaking equipment makers including Canon and Tokyo Electron. Each side has plenty to bring to the table. IBM, for example, showed off a 2nm design last year that could accommodate as many as 50 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail.

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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

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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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Japan Times writes that Nintendo has been receiving praise from social media users for updating its customer service terms and conditions in October to include a new section on harassment by customers.

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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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TechSpot

JUNE 16, 2022

Japan can already punish people convicted of "insultation" with a maximum of 30 days in prison or a fine under 10,000 yen (around $75). The amendment to the country's penal code, which will go into effect this summer, will increase the potential jail time to one year and the fine.

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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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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Japan-based Switch Science just launched a single-board computer called Naoto64. The ultra-low-end PC has a 1-bit CPU running at about 1Hz, with a 1-bit bus, two bits of address space, and a 4-bit ROM. This crazy amount of power (and it is crazy) is enough to do just three things--turn. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JANUARY 5, 2021

Japanese gaming blog Game Watch reports that Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that production has ended for most PlayStation 4 models. It has cut production of the CUH-2000 series PS4s. It has also discontinued all CUH-7000 series PS4 Pros. The only design that will remain in production is the PS4 Slim.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba revealed the $65 billion plan this week. Reuters saw an early draft of the proposal, which is scheduled to be submitted during the country's next parliament session, and notes its support of domestic chipmaker Rapidus among others. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JULY 16, 2021

To achieve this feat, the researchers (led by led by Benjamin J. Puttnam) built a transmission system that fully utilizes wavelength division multiplexing technology by combining different amplifier tech.

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TechSpot

JULY 6, 2021

The ongoing chip shortage has affected everything from LCD displays to graphics cards, game consoles, TVs, and even automakers. For consumers, this has created a hostile buying environment in some instances, while some governments have become acutely aware of the fragility of the global tech supply chain.

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TechSpot

JULY 6, 2023

The Port of Nagoya experienced a major disruption in its operations due to a ransomware attack that officials said occurred on July 4, around 06:30 AM (local time). The attack affected the Nagoya Port Unified Terminal System (NUTS), which is the central system designed to control all the container terminals. Read Entire Article

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