Japan

QT instead of Rate Hikes to Put a Floor under Plunging Yen: Bank of Japan Sheds 15.6% of its Massive Assets (wolfstreet.com)
1 day ago Japan Asset

Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (asia.nikkei.com)
4 days ago Japan AI Honda Sony

Japanese World Cup fan goes viral with epic meltdown after their heartbreaking elimination by Brazil... but is all as it seems? (www.dailymail.co.uk)
5 days ago Japan Brazil

Japanese prediction market startups Miraima and Poyp are utilizing a “point-to-voucher” system to bypass strict anti-gambling laws, in a bid to rival Polymarket (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Japan Startup

Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Japan IPO Startup AI

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, set to close in October (www.coindesk.com)
8 days ago Japan

Shares of Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia slid 12% on Friday after a report that OpenAI was considering delaying its IPO sparked a selloff in AI-related shares (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago Japan IPO AI

Countering disinformation could anchor Australia–Japan intelligence cooperation (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
9 days ago Australia Japan Intelligence

NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Japan AI

The Netherlands joins the US-led Pax Silica initiative alongside South Korea and Japan to coordinate AI supply chains; Taiwan endorses it as a non-signatory (www.reuters.com)
12 days ago Japan Korea Taiwan AI Netherlands

Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Japan Tencent Tokyo

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Japan IBM AI

Japan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% in the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players (asia.nikkei.com)
13 days ago China Japan

Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, plans to invest $495M by 2030 to expand its semiconductor materials unit, targeting R&D for next-gen 1nm chip production (asia.nikkei.com)
13 days ago Japan

How success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan is driving stock gains, bigger bonuses, and a retail investing frenzy in Asian markets (www.wsj.com)
15 days ago Japan Korea Taiwan Retail AI

Japanese mayor sparks controversy... by taking maternity leave (www.dailymail.co.uk)
16 days ago Japan

Bank of Japan lifts rates to highest level since 1995 (www.rt.com)
19 days ago Japan

SoftBank announces an OpenAI-powered “patching service” to secure Japan's top 3,000 companies behind crucial infrastructure from cyberattacks (apnews.com)
19 days ago Japan

Taxi-hailing app Go's shares grew 21% in its Tokyo debut, after raising $553M in Japan's largest IPO this year, giving the company a market value of ~$1.16B (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Japan IPO Tokyo

After years of uncertainty, including delayed listings, memory chipmaker Kioxia's shares soared 56x in 18 months, making it Japan's most valuable company (asia.nikkei.com)
21 days ago Japan

Memory chipmaker Kioxia replaces Toyota as Japan's most valuable company; Kioxia's shares surged 7.6% on Friday, lifting its market value to ~$274B (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Japan Toyota

Japanese energy firm loses drive with data of 10.9 million clients (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
23 days ago Japan Energy

Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (asia.nikkei.com)
29 days ago Japan Startup Tokyo

SoftBank's PayPay, Japan's dominant payments app, says it will take a 70.2% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance for $840M, expected to close in October 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Japan Insurance

Public First: just 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, including the UK, Japan, and Canada (www.ft.com)
2026-6-4 Japan U.S. Canada

Moment marauding bear chases down and mauls terrified man before smashing through a glass door during rampage that left four injured in Japan (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-6-3 Japan

Suddenly, we hear of Australian–Japanese ‘strategic depth'. Here's what it may mean (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-6-2 Australia Japan

SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 Japan Toyota

Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at least one Nvidia chip shipment to China after first exporting them to Japan; Taiwan detained them last week (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-27 China Japan Taiwan Nvidia

Japanese training at Darwin offers more combined-force value than Townsville (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-26 Japan

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