innovation

Commentary / Japan May 28, 2019

What it takes to foster innovation in Japan

by Haruaki Deguchi

The key concepts behind innovation are diversity and excellent higher education.

Business Oct 5, 2018

Collaboration and cooperation among key points for innovation, business leaders tell Tokyo summit

Cross-industry collaboration, cooperation between startups and large corporations, and closely watching business trends are key to triggering innovation, business leaders and industry experts said Friday at a Tokyo event. Innovation often occurs in the tech industry and at up-and-coming startups, but it can also take ...

Commentary / Japan Sep 23, 2018

Stop talking about innovation and act

by Yoko Ishikura

Japanese waste too much time talking about innovation instead of risking failure and blazing new trails.

Commentary / Japan Mar 23, 2018

How to unleash Japan's animal spirits

by Richard Solomon

The postwar system that built Japan's formidable middle class is faltering. A two-tiered employment system is needed.

Commentary / World Nov 4, 2015

Dreams for the 21st century

by Shinji Fukukawa

The 21st century will see many fabulous innovations that we can barely imagine today.

Commentary / Japan Jun 19, 2015

Grasping the key to innovation

by Takamitsu Sawa

Japan should make "new combination" innovation the nucleus of its growth strategy.

TV | CHANNEL SURF Mar 19, 2015

The Miracle of Japanese Manufacturing; Wandering Tamori; CM of the week: GLS Japan

Although Japan's talent for industrial innovation has lost some of its luster in recent years, Japanese products remain the envy of the world, and a new series, "Monozukuri Nihon no Kiseki" ("The Miracle of Japanese Manufacturing"), takes in a wide range of design to ...

National / Science & Health Oct 23, 2014

Nobel laureate Amano asks Abe to boost support for young researchers

Hiroshi Amano, one of the three Japan-born scientists to win this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, has asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to boost support for fledgling researchers in the country. "Young researchers are key because they are the ones who innovate," Amano, a professor ...

Business Mar 4, 2014

Firms seek to tap into Israeli startups

by Ayako Mie

More Japanese companies are looking at the Israeli startup market in search of innovative technologies and investments to beef up their businesses, although they lag far behind the buyout sprees of global tech giants such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and ...

Commentary / World Jan 28, 2014

At last, Yale surrenders to technology

by Stephen L. Carter

Yale University ran up the white flag last week in its battle to keep twin seniors Peter Xu and Harry Yu from creating an easier-to-use and more informative version of its online course catalog. As the school's real battle was against technological change, defeat ...