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Japan Times
JAPAN / Smart Countryside
Oct 9, 2022
The city aiming to change perceptions of electronic voting in Japan
Tsukuba, a designated Super City in Ibaraki Prefecture, is hoping its trials of online voting among schoolchildren can be rolled out to municipal polls and beyond.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2022
Japanese researchers develop robot that can change the way it laughs
The robot analyzes the frequency of the sound of human laughter and picks from three options to respond to the laugh using an artificial intelligence system, researchers say.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 29, 2022
Top AI guru is helping retool popular Japanese snacks for Ezaki Glico
Junichi Hasegawa's primary job at the firm is to help find the perfect blend of taste and nutrition through massive data harvesting and machine learning.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 21, 2022
Elon Musk faces skeptics as Tesla gets ready to unveil 'Optimus' robot
The company is floating ambitious plans to deploy thousands of humanoid robots, known as Tesla Bot or Optimus, within its factories.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 12, 2022
Truly autonomous cars may be impossible without helpful human touch
Human supervisors, monitoring video feeds from multiple autonomous vehicles ready to step in and get stuck robot drivers moving again, may be needed permanently.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2022
Biden administration to hit China with new curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports
The rules are likely to ban unlicensed exports of chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories making advanced semiconductors with manufacturing specifications below 14 nanometers in scale.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2022
AI panned my screenplay. Can it crack Hollywood?
Artificial intelligence hopes to bring science to picking movie winners in a business long run by gut instinct.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 6, 2022
Banned U.S. AI chips in high demand at Chinese state institutes
The development signaled a major escalation of a U.S. campaign to stymie China's technological capability as tensions bubble over the fate of Taiwan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 1, 2022
U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China
The company said the ban, which affects its A100 and H100 chips designed to speed up machine learning tasks, could interfere with completion of developing the H100, the firm's flagship chip.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Smart Countryside
Aug 25, 2022
For an aging Osaka suburb, the best 'smart city' innovations are low-key
As a once-thriving 'new town,' Nankadai is now trying to introduce modern initiatives to an aging population who see the area as being akin to the countryside.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 25, 2022
We need to talk about how good AI is getting
We're in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It's time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 24, 2022
Saudi Arabia's 'surveillance city': Would you sell your data to The Line?
The country's poor human rights record does not bode well for responsible data usage or the safeguarding of individual privacy, digital rights experts say.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 17, 2022
Google shows off soda-fetching robots
When asked to help clean a spill, Google's robot recognizes that grabbing a sponge is a doable and more sensible response than apologizing for creating the mess.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 10, 2022
Robot arms to replace shelf stockers at FamilyMart in Japan
The AI-driven arms are designed to replenish drinks in refrigerators and are now in mass production.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2022
Shenzhen accelerates China's driverless car dreams
The United States took an early lead in autonomous vehicle technology, but the industry appears to be changing gears in Shenzhen.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 26, 2022
Implementation, not innovation, is the key to economic success
Innovation has been the main driver of long-term economic growth since the Industrial Revolution. But in today's day and age, diffusion of new technologies separates winners from losers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 12, 2022
Smart countryside: How tech can help revive Japan’s rural regions
Changes in work patterns wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are already drawing some remote workers to the countryside.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2022
AI’s hold over humans is starting to get stronger
Artificial intelligence isn't on the cusp of sentience. But its growing sway over us should still be a cause for concern.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 4, 2022
Algorithm claims to predict crime in U.S. cities before it happens
Researchers used historical data on violent crimes and property crimes from Chicago to test the model, which detects patterns over time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 1, 2022
It's alive! How belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem
The issue of machine sentience hit the headlines last month when Google placed a software engineer on leave after he claimed the company's AI chatbot was a self-aware person.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
SoftBank is said to have explored potential takeover of Marvell
SoftBank explored a potential takeover of U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology earlier this year, in what would have been the semiconductor industry's largest-ever deal.
These are the hottest lower-division rikishi to watch right now
Fukazaki (right) grapples with Enho at the IG Arena in Nagoya on July 13.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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