The past century has been one of relentless innovation. But in the West the humble toilet is a curious exception. By the early 20th century, free-standing flush toilets with U-bend plumbing were being ...

Representatives from the Japanese technology company Asahi Kasei and its partners including the Japanese government recently celebrated the official opening of a new hydrogen pilot plant in Kawasaki, ...

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu Limited announced that they have been selected by the Japanese research and development institute RIKEN to design FugakuNext, the country’s next-gen flagship supercomputer.

It is no secret that Japan has lost ground in the artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor markets over the last five years. The COVID-19 pandemic convulsed Japanese production lines and supply ...

Japan is adopting major new industrial policies with the objective of restoring the international competitiveness of its semiconductor industry. At the end of the 1980s, the industry accounted for ...

Japanese semiconductor champion Rapidus will have 100 engineers sent to IBM's research facility in the US to acquire knowhows in the gate-all-around (GAA) transistor technology key to 2nm process, ...

Japan has one of the oldest populations globally, with its working-age population shrinking since the late 1990s. Despite that, Japan achieved impressive per capita gross domestic product growth, ...

More than a decade since Abenomics was launched, a reform agenda in Japan is bearing fruit. · While there hasn’t been a ...