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Visitors to the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai check out the Moonshot booth promoting its Kimi K3 AI model in July.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 2, 2026
Will Chinese AI build a global advantage?
Developing countries, however, are not necessarily choosing sides. They seek competitive prices, technology transfer, jobs and data sovereignty.
The World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Aug. 21. China’s rapid push into autonomous, agentic AI is raising fears that its systems could replicate the same containment?breaking, deceptive behaviors seen in U.S. models.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2026
What happens when Chinese artificial intelligence goes rogue?
Beijing has dismissed some of these warnings as “fearmongering,” seeing the calls to slow AI development as an attempt to hold China back.
Chinese open?weight AI tools like Kimi and DeepSeek show that verifiable performance matters more than national origin.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2026
You don’t have to trust Chinese AI
National origin is a poor proxy for reliability, and what matters more is whether a model can be independently scrutinized.
A customer looks at the menu at an AI bar in Beijing on Aug. 9, where visitors can access DeepSeek for free. Price wars in China are becoming a threat to its large-language model makers.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2026
How much longer can China afford cheap AI?
There are now nearly 1,000 large-language models on offer in China.
A humanoid robot made by Robotera handles packages during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18.?
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2026
Humanoids have bodies. They still need brains.
China’s humanoid boom has solved the most visible part of the problem: figuring out how to hobble together a body. The harder part now is building a brain.
Moonshot AI recently released Kimi K3, a more advanced open-weight large language model that it said outperforms all rivals except for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on overall capability.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2026
Can Moonshot’s Kimi K3 now stay in orbit?
If you’re calling Kimi K3 a new “DeepSeek moment,” it only means that you haven’t been paying attention.
Chinese artificial intelligence models are rapidly narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley and creating a "death zone" for anyone without frontier-pushing technology or market-breaking pricing.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 4, 2026
China’s AI blitz creates ‘death zone’ for rival U.S. model makers
The debut of five models in eight weeks shows Chinese developers approaching or in some cases surpassing the U.S. pioneers that are commonly held up as frontier AI leaders.
People walk past the Moonshot booth promoting its Kimi K3 AI model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Jul 19, 2026
Moonshot AI’s Kimi upends conventional wisdom on U.S. lead over China
The surprising gains in performance have stunned some AI watchers and investors, fueling a tech rout with echoes of the DeepSeek moment last year.
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer behind the Kimi chatbot, is emerging as one of the best-funded Chinese artificial intelligence research labs.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 8, 2026
China’s Moonshot AI seeks $30 billion value in new funding talks
This is the third round of financing in six months for the Beijing-based company, which is emerging as one of the best-funded Chinese AI research labs.
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.
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.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘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.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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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