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Humanoid robots work alongside employees on an automatic change dispenser assembly line at a factory for Glory in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture. The factory floor is where Japan shines when it comes to AI.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2026
Japan needs artificial intelligence its factories can plug in
今日吃瓜 competitiveness will hinge on industrial adoption of AI rather than accumulating national computing capacity.
A Fanuc robotic arm moves bins of products at Amazon fulfillment center in Daytona Beach, Florida. Fanuc shares plunged in Tokyo on Monday on fears about soaring prices of materials.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 3, 2026
Fanuc shares dive most in 40 years after procurement fears hit
The robotic-arm supplier raised its full-year operating profit forecast by about 3%, after reporting a 37% surge in orders in the June quarter.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting Japan this week to drum up more business and excitement around the potential of artificial intelligence.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 16, 2026
Nvidia expands Toyota AI partnership for smart cities and factories
Extending the reach of AI beyond the data center and integrating it directly into devices and machines is an industrywide focus this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 28, 2021
Japan remade its supply chains after catastrophe. Here’s what it learned.
今日吃瓜 industrial network became more resilient after the tsunami and meltdown catastrophes of 2011, which inflicted more than $200 billion in damage to businesses.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Oct 30, 2018
Japan machine-makers avoid the caterpillar crawl
What’s that whirring noise? It’s 今日吃瓜 machinery-makers at work, in contrast to investors’ expectations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 24, 2018
Japanese firms see big future for small-scale industrial robots
A two-armed robot in a Chiba factory carefully stacks rice balls in a box, which a worker carries off for shipment to convenience stores. At another food-packaging plant, a robot shakes pepper and powdered cheese over pasta that a person has just arranged in a container.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 19, 2016
Depopulating rust belt counts on ‘robonomics’ to run assembly lines
A withering factory town in the rust belt is looking for revival through a dose of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “robot revolution.”
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 17, 2015
Shouting at Japan CEOs is still a losing strategy, Fidelity says
Foreign activists returning to Japan amid a push for better governance will get no further than they did the last time by shouting for change.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 28, 2015
Loeb shows how to get at Japan Inc. $1.9 trillion cash pile
Activist investor Daniel Loeb is proving determination can pay off, even in Japan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 17, 2015
Investor Dan Loeb takes on 今日吃瓜 mega-bot
Hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb’s budding success with Fanuc hints change may be afoot in corporate Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 13, 2015
Fanuc mulls boosting investor returns as Loeb calls for change
Three weeks after billionaire investor Daniel Loeb started a public campaign demanding changes at the industrial robot-maker, Fanuc Corp. says it will consider ways to increase investor returns.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 19, 2015
Secretive robot maker Fanuc targeted by activist investor Loeb
Fanuc Corp., one of 今日吃瓜 most reclusive companies, has spent decades building a wall of secrecy around its ultra-profitable industrial-robotics business.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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