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Asia’s new aid diplomacy. Charity closer to home

Richer Asian countries helping poorer ones will shape the region’s geopolitics. China isn’t the only country giving out goodies in Asia. Japan and... (2023)


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Asian integration: What Asia’s economic revolution means for the world

Investing in the neighborhood. Asia’s economies are coming closer together. That will benefit them, and the world. Links between the region’s count... (2023)


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Economic integration: How Asia is reinventing its economic model

A new Era of Asian commerce. How the continent at the heart of globalization is reinventing itself. The continent’s future will involve less Weste... (2023)


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What Happened During Ispace’s Moon Landing Attempt - The New York Times

The Japanese company aimed to complete the first moon landing by a private company, but its M1 lander joined numerous spacecraft that have crashed ... (2023)


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Poison-pill popping - Will Japan’s new prime minister continue to reform corporate governance?

A hostile takeover should provide some clues | Business (2021)


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The future of SoftBank - What SoftBank’s Masa does next

Can the coronavirus-induced digital revolution restore Son Masayoshi’s reputation for investing brilliance? (2020)


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SoftBank Technology investing - The lessons from the Vision Fund

Son Masayoshi has shown that the future of technology lies as much in Asia as in Silicon Valley (2020)


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What Warren Buffett sees in Japan Inc - Schumpeter

The trading houses reflect a growing pro-shareholder culture (2020)


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How Twitter Became Ubiquitous in Japan - Bloomberg (2019)

Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company’s total revenue Now, five years after Sasamoto joined, Japan is Twitter's second-largest ... (2019)


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One of Japan’s great institutions makes way for a car park - Banyan - The Economist

LAST Saturday at six in the morning the handbells rang and auctioneers launched with guttural chanting into the last auction of bluefin tuna at Tok... (2018)


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Japanese Startup Aims to Teach Factory Robots to Think - Bloomberg

Japan’s Preferred Networks Inc. has only one publicly available product, a whimsical application that uses artificial intelligence to automate the ... (2018)


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Affordable Housing Is No Mystery: Just Build More - Bloomberg

Urban California should emulate Tokyo, which ensured the supply of dwellings stayed ahead of population growth. (2018)


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'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation - The New York Times

A bold 10-year effort by Japan to seize the lead in computer technology is fizzling to a close, having failed to meet many of its ambitious goals o... (2018)


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Gaijin Engineer in Tokyo – Medium

Being a foreign software engineer in Tokyo has its ups and downs. If you work in a company of foreigners you’re mostly shielded from the experience... (2018)


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Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women - Bloomberg

Lonely seniors are shoplifting in search of the community and stability of jail. (2018)


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Why Japan and Russia never formally ended the second world war - The Economist explains

VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russia's president, will make his first official visit to Japan on December 15th, where he will join Shinzo Abe in the hot springs ... (2018)


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Japan is embracing nursing-care robots - The Economist

AT SHINTOMI nursing home in Tokyo, men and women sit in a circle following exercise instructions before singing along to a famous children’s song, ... (2018)


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In Japan, Small Children Take the Subway and Run Errands Alone

In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone, no parent in sight. The reason why has more to do with social trust than self-relia... (2017)


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Space Startup Raises $90 Million to Start Moon Ads by 2020 - Bloomberg

Japanese companies are planning to kick-start the lunar economy by backing a local startup’s mission to land on the moon by 2020. (2017)


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How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History’s Greatest Solar Observers

Atlas Obscura, 2017: "A Woman Who Spent Her Life Observing the Sun Is Finally Getting Scientific Recognition. Hisako Koyama is being lauded for ... (2017)


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Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’

New York Times, 2017: "Japan has spent billions on an underground system to control water around the capital, but some fear that the city is vulner... (2017)


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Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan’s Startup Guru

Japan, Bloomberg, 2017: "After years of being rejected for bank loans and frozen out of business deals, the onetime pariah is now being embraced as... (2017)


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Kickstarter: Hardware startups in Japan

Kickstarter set to launch in Japan, where hardware startups are finding it hard (2017)


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Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender — blender.org

”We finally got a 3D creation tool like paper and pencil.” The reason why Khara, Inc. started moving to Blender. (2019)


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LINE Announces 5 Dapps in Push to Build Its Token Economy - CoinDesk

LINE announced it would introduce a number of dapps in the coming weeks as part of an overarching effort to build up its own token economy. (2018)


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Space startup Gitai raises $17.1M to help build the robotic workforce of commercial space – TechCrunch

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 million funding round, a Series B financing for the robotics startup. This new funding will be used... (2021)


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PlayStation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

TOKYO -- Sony's PlayStation has won hundreds of millions of fans across the world since its launch in 1994. But few know just how much of the console' (2020)


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The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did

Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie? The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject o... (2020)


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Online learning marketplace Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse

The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that t... (2020)


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How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken)

Sign up for the Nebula/CuriosityStream bundle deal at http://CuriosityStream.com/WendoverWatch an exclusive behind the scenes video showing how we ... (2021)


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Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID)

Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID) A look at the Toyota “just in time” (JIT) supply chain system (2021)


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The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen | TEDTakaharu Tezuka

TED Published on Apr 14, 2015 At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and windows are for Santa to climb into. Meet: the wor... (2018)


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Stalking the Wild Nutrino | Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

National Geographic Published on Apr 23, 2014 The nutrino, one of the most elusive elements, takes a tremendous amount of effort to find. Abou... (2018)