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a collection about the Xerox and Fuji film merger (proposed) - 2018

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Economic integration: How Asia is reinventing its economic model

A new Era of Asian commerce. How the continent at the heart of globalization is reinventing itself. The continent’s future will involve less Weste... (2023)


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What Happened During Ispace’s Moon Landing Attempt - The New York Times

The Japanese company aimed to complete the first moon landing by a private company, but its M1 lander joined numerous spacecraft that have crashed ... (2023)


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Poison-pill popping - Will Japan’s new prime minister continue to reform corporate governance?

A hostile takeover should provide some clues | Business (2021)


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The future of SoftBank - What SoftBank’s Masa does next

Can the coronavirus-induced digital revolution restore Son Masayoshi’s reputation for investing brilliance? (2020)


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SoftBank Technology investing - The lessons from the Vision Fund

Son Masayoshi has shown that the future of technology lies as much in Asia as in Silicon Valley (2020)


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What Warren Buffett sees in Japan Inc - Schumpeter

The trading houses reflect a growing pro-shareholder culture (2020)


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How Twitter Became Ubiquitous in Japan - Bloomberg (2019)

Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company’s total revenue Now, five years after Sasamoto joined, Japan is Twitter's second-largest ... (2019)


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One of Japan’s great institutions makes way for a car park - Banyan - The Economist

LAST Saturday at six in the morning the handbells rang and auctioneers launched with guttural chanting into the last auction of bluefin tuna at Tok... (2018)


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Affordable Housing Is No Mystery: Just Build More - Bloomberg

Urban California should emulate Tokyo, which ensured the supply of dwellings stayed ahead of population growth. (2018)


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Japan is embracing nursing-care robots - The Economist

AT SHINTOMI nursing home in Tokyo, men and women sit in a circle following exercise instructions before singing along to a famous children’s song, ... (2018)


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How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History’s Greatest Solar Observers

Atlas Obscura, 2017: "A Woman Who Spent Her Life Observing the Sun Is Finally Getting Scientific Recognition. Hisako Koyama is being lauded for ... (2017)


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Kickstarter: Hardware startups in Japan

Kickstarter set to launch in Japan, where hardware startups are finding it hard (2017)


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LINE Announces 5 Dapps in Push to Build Its Token Economy - CoinDesk

LINE announced it would introduce a number of dapps in the coming weeks as part of an overarching effort to build up its own token economy. (2018)


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Space startup Gitai raises $17.1M to help build the robotic workforce of commercial space – TechCrunch

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 million funding round, a Series B financing for the robotics startup. This new funding will be used... (2021)


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PlayStation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

TOKYO -- Sony's PlayStation has won hundreds of millions of fans across the world since its launch in 1994. But few know just how much of the console' (2020)


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Online learning marketplace Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse

The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that t... (2020)


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Sony launches a taxi-hailing app to rival Uber in Tokyo – TechCrunch 2019

Sony last year announced it would enter Japan’s taxi-hailing space and, good to its word, the electronics giant has kicked off its S.Ride service i... (2019)


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Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces | The Japan Times

Twenty-five-year-old Sotaro Ito lives in a 9.46-square-meter apartment with a loft in the capital's retro-hip Koenji district. His apartment looks ... (2019)


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Uniqlo Is Gap for Millennials - The Atlantic

Will the rest of America learn to love it too? "Today, however, Uniqlo has more than 2,000 stores in 15 countries. Its owner, Tadashi Yanai, is ... (2019)


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Quietly, Japan has established itself as a power in the aerospace industry | Ars Technica

On SpaceX: "We are very much confident to compete against them.” (2018)


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Japan set to allow gene editing in human embryos

Draft proposal permits gene-editing tools for research into early human development. (2018)


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20 Years of ‘Pokémon’ in America - The Ringer

Looking back on the craze, from the late-’90s invasion to today’s mobile game phenomenon (2018)


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The US is losing the high-stakes global battery war

Over the last three decades, engineers and researchers in South Korea, China, Japan, the United States, and Europe have scrambled to develop safe, ... (2018)


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Insane golden chamber contains water so pure it can dissolve metal, and helps scientists detect dying stars

The Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector is a physics experiment the size of a 15-storey building, buried under a mountain in Japan. Neutrinos are su... (2018)


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The Xerox Takeover Saga - Harvard

On January 31, 2018, Xerox and Fuji publicly announced a transaction to combine Xerox with Fuji Xerox where Fuji would own 50.1% of the combined co... (2018)


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82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding

Masako Wakamiya learned to code only last year, but has already created the popular iOS mobile game Hinadan and spoke to the UN about her experienc... (2018)


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Inside Nintendo's secretive creative process | The Guardian

Nintendo’s ‘conductor’ takes us behind the game giant’s inner workings, how it finds talent and the philosophy that sparks its eccentric ideas... (2018)


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What Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” Gets Right About Japan | The New Yorker

Mokoe Fujii writes about Wes Anderson’s film “Isle of Dogs” and what it says about the humor and fallibility of translation. (2018)


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Japanese Wine Meets Big Data

Japanese wines are now holding their own against inexpensive imports in supermarkets as consumers find growing appeal in knowing about and identify... (2018)


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How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken)

Sign up for the Nebula/CuriosityStream bundle deal at http://CuriosityStream.com/WendoverWatch an exclusive behind the scenes video showing how we ... (2021)


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Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID)

Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID) A look at the Toyota “just in time” (JIT) supply chain system (2021)


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The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen | TEDTakaharu Tezuka

TED Published on Apr 14, 2015 At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and windows are for Santa to climb into. Meet: the wor... (2018)


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Stalking the Wild Nutrino | Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

National Geographic Published on Apr 23, 2014 The nutrino, one of the most elusive elements, takes a tremendous amount of effort to find. Abou... (2018)