“People in Japan express higher baseline trust in AI than people in the U.K.,” says Steven Pickering, a professor of ...

Japan unveils its first AI buddhist monk robot as Kyoto University researchers turn to technology to support temples facing ...

Fidel has acquired a majority stake in IM Corporation, a Japan-based IT consulting & software services firm with over 30 ...

Fei-Fei Li is often called the grandmother of AI. As the new technology surges, she wants to make sure humanity is at its ...

Silicon Valley venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has made headlines by backing an AI-powered virtual character company in Japan—marking what many observers describe as its first major ...

Mizuho has about 15,000 clerical positions at its core banking units and other group companies, and affected employees will ...

Japanese technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group reports it swung back to profitability in the last quarter of 2025 as ...

Unsurprisingly, it was also in Japan that neocognitron, the architectural ancestor of the neural networks that power systems like ChatGPT, was developed by computer scientist Kunihiko Fukushima. Yet, ...

Japan has launched an AI robot monk designed to deliver spiritual advice and assist with religious rituals. The humanoid, called “Buddharoid”, was presented in Tokyo by Kyoto ...

Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO has extensive experience in ceramics design—processes that could also be used to manufacture the next generation of computer chips.

FOLLOWING the signing of a trilateral collaboration, executives from three companies announced prioritizing the banking sector as a key entry point in their first year of operations in the country, ...

Mizuho Financial Group is planning to replace about 5,000 administrative jobs in Japan with artificial intelligence over the ...