Month: December 2022

The season arrived later than usual in the Japanese capital this year, but its foliage is particularly glorious — as seen in these specially commissioned snapshots taken earlier this week ... ( read original story ...)

Ubie, a Tokyo-based startup providing an AI-powered symptom checker app and hospital SaaS products, has closed a $19 million extension to its previous Series C round. This brings the health tech startup's total funding to $45. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks bounced back Friday as an increase in U.S. jobless claims raised hopes that interest rate hikes in the country could cea ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's environment ministry has announced plans to demonstrate the reuse of decontaminated soil from Fukushima at a Tokyo park. ( read original story ...)

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday that K-pop star T.O.P. will be among the eight people who will join him on a flyby around the moon on a SpaceX spaceship next year. The Japanese tycoon launched plans for the lunar voyage in 2018, ( read original story ...)

Some Japanese companies are using discarded foodstuffs to make entirely different products — and help save a bit of the planet in the process. ( read original story ...)

The Nordic nation has been evaluating the possibility of a tie-up with Britain for a future combat air requirement, better known as Tempest, for several years but in recent months has cooled on the idea. ( read original story ...)

The United Kingdom, Italy and Japan have agreed on the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) for defense that allows them to develop a military plan to build new generation fighter aircraft. «GCAP will ... ( read original story ...)

Japan must stick to its target of a primary budget surplus by the 2025 fiscal year, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday, even as a planned increase in defence spending raises the spectre ... ( read original story ...)