Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru (right) holds a meeting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (center) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 3, 2025.

In the neon-lit laboratories of 1980s Japan, the future seemed already written. While Silicon Valley was in its infancy, Tokyo was already pouring billions into several major technology programs aimed ...

Japan is transforming space technology into commercial solutions to safeguard Earth’s increasingly crowded orbit.

Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, travelled to Tokyo, where he met with Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae. Following their ...

What if the future of technology hinged on a single breakthrough? For decades, semiconductors have been the invisible engines driving everything from smartphones to space exploration. Yet, the global ...

Nuvve’s V2G technology allows EVs to communicate with the power grid. Credit: Oasishifi/Sutterstock. Nuvve Holding, a provider of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, has established its new company, ...

Japan and the USA will conduct joint research into safety assurance technology for collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) that operate autonomously with artificial intelligence. Under the agreement, the ...

Researchers at Kyoto University have developed Buddharoid. This is an AI-powered humanoid robot designed to act like a Buddhist priest, amid Japan’s priest shortage.

A photographed journey in the land of the rising sun reveals how japan preserves centuries-old tradition, while at the same ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and beginning live trials at sea. The system, rated at 100-kilowatt power, is ...