Toshiba to lay off up to 4,000 domestic employees by November
Toshiba announced on May 16 a layoff of up to 4,000 employees in Japan by November this year as part of its revitalizati...
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Japanese billionaire sues Meta over scam ads on Facebook
Japanese billionaire Maezawa Yusaku announced on May 15 that he has sued Facebook Japan and Meta, the US tech giant that...
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Drone illegally captures video of Maritime SDF's destroyer
According to Japan’s Defense Ministry, it has judged the authenticity of the drone footage capturing Japan’s Maritime Se...
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Worlds highest observatory telescope site completed
The telescope site for the University of Tokyo's Atacama Observatory Project in Chile have been completed.The new facili...
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OpenAI launches first Asian office in Tokyo
US firm OpenAI, which develops conversational AI system such as ChatGPT, launched its first Asian office in Tokyo on Apr...
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TEPCO to start loading nuclear fuel into reactor in Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Tokyo Electric Power Company will start loading nuclear fuel into the No. 7 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear po...
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S.Korea says N.Korea's Spy satellite launch is imminent
South Korean defense minister Shin Won-sik said on the night of April 14 that there is a possibility that North Korea wi...
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Japanese astronauts to become first non-Americans to land on moon possibly in 2028
Two Japanese astronauts are expected to land on the moon as early as in 2028 as part of the US-led Artemis lunar explora...
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2027 launch of Tokyo-Nagoya maglev train service in limbo
Central Japan Railway plans to give up on aiming to launch in 2027 a magnetic levitation railway service between Tokyo a...
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Japanese start-up unveils radio wave-based wireless power charging technology
Japanese start-up company Aeterlink unveils a wireless power transfer technology.
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