For Anjani Trivedi's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
China wants to have control over the information cars have about drivers, roads and the faces and voices they pass, according to a draft law on data-security management issued in May.
State planners released a five-year smart manufacturing development plan in late December that aims to digitize 70% of the country’s large enterprises.
Tesla is struggling to procure a raw material only available in China for a battery cell that it’s trying to develop, but U.S.-China trade tensions could stand in the way.
While lithium has been through a similar surge on the back of EVs before, this time there’s a legitimate demand-supply issue with a shortage on the horizon.
The government’s inability to adapt while failing to put in place policies that ensure long-term safety are standing in the way of keeping the public's trust.
Analysts say banks are becoming more like machines, "with less dependency on human capital.”
Japan’s industrial network became more resilient after the tsunami and meltdown catastrophes of 2011, which inflicted more than $200 billion in damage to businesses.
The technical challenges of making better batteries (and therefore, electric vehicles) are enormous and the expectations associated with them are even more fantastical.
In contrast to the rest of the auto industry, Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. said it wasn’t expecting a shortfall of semiconductors to affect its production.
Policy makers in developing nations may not have a choice but to take what they can get — cheaply and quickly. But in so doing, they might just be storing up legal troubles for later.
