Japan calls on India to fast-track internal process on UNICORN naval radar agreement
The pact for transfer of technology was signed during Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s India visit in July
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The pact for transfer of technology was signed during Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s India visit in July
Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government Monday held the first meeting of an expert panel on strengthening intelligence capabilities, initiating discussions on formulating a national intelligence strategy. Discussions at the panel will also focus on anti-espionage legislation, such as a foreign interference prevention law, and the establishment of a proposed external intelligen...
Tokyo, Sept. 27 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese and Turkish governments will open Turkish-Japanese Science and Technology University, or TJU, in Ankara in October to train experts who can play core roles in fields such as artificial intelligence and earthquake disasters. Japan aims to develop educational, scientific and technological cooperation with Turkey into a strategic partnership that incl...
Japan’s Financial Services Agency is stepping up its scrutiny of financing for AI data centers by the country’s biggest banks and life insurers, as major financial institutions increase their exposure to the rapidly expanding sector.
Fears that advanced artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity have dominated global headlines, but in Japan the technology is being used for a sweeter purpose – developing never-before-seen convenience store desserts. For customers tired of the usual egg sandwiches and rice balls, major chains are turning to AI to develop products, including some unexpected flavours. Lawson, one of the country’s biggest convenience store operators, said on Tuesday it would roll out three new food items,...
Technology companies gathered in Tokyo on 16 September 2026 for a one-day summit focused on physical AI, showcasing robots designed to perform tasks in the real world.
Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Air Self-Defense Force said that it lost contact with a Global Hawk surveillance drone over waters some 50 kilometers off the cost of Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, around 1 p.m. on Tuesday. According to the ASDF website, the U.S.-made unmanned aircraft has a wingspan of about 40 meters and a length of around 15 meters. It can fly at speeds of up to...
Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)--Go Inc., operator of a taxi-hailing app, Waymo LLC and Nihon Kotsu Co. said Tuesday that they will jointly launch driverless taxi services in Tokyo in 2027, marking Japan's first such commercial service. The service would use Level 4 autonomous driving, under which a system handles all driving operations under specified conditions. The companies plan to expand t...
Japan is looking to develop submarine-detecting quantum sensors for aerial drones, the latest move in a growing undersea competition pitting China against the United States and its allies across the Indo-Pacific. Released in late August, Tokyo’s defence budget request for fiscal 2027 includes research into a smaller, more capable quantum magnetic sensor, a technology that uses the properties of atoms to detect tiny changes in magnetic fields that could reveal a submarine. The project is one of...
Tokyo, Sept. 14 (Jiji Press)--Major real estate developers in Japan are stepping up their data center development, as further growth is expected on the back of an artificial intelligence boom. According to the communications ministry, the data center-related market in Japan is expected to exceed 5 trillion yen in 2028. As friction with nearby residents, particularly in urban areas, is inc...
On September 1, former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced that Alex Karp, CEO of artificial intelligence and data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, would become the lead investor in a new defence technology company he is building. This confirmed what Fedorov had only gestured at two days earlier in an interview with the Financial Times: that what he was selling investors was never really drones. In that interview, he also suggested he was ready to trade drone-warfare...
Tokyo, Sept. 11 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Digital Agency said Friday that about 246,000 sets of personal information, including the names and addresses of government employees, may have been leaked due to unauthorized access to a network system operated by the agency. So far, no secondary damage such as the misuse of the possibly leaked personal information has been confirmed. The informatio...
Tokyo, Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Defense Ministry on Friday underscored the importance of the Self-Defense Forces expanding the use of artificial intelligence, citing the results of its analysis of the ongoing conflict between the U.S.-Israeli camp and Iran. The ministry said that a new way of fighting, which combines numerous drones and AI in a complex way, has taken root, stressing th...
Susono, Shizuoka Pref., Sept. 4 (Jiji Press)--Woven by Toyota Inc., a Japanese company that runs a demonstration area for next-generation mobility technologies, signed a partnership agreement with the Shizuoka prefectural government on Thursday. The Toyota Motor Corp. unit that operates the Woven City demonstration area and the central Japan prefecture will jointly test a system aiming at el...
Tokyo, Sept. 3 (Jiji Press)--NEC Corp. said Wednesday that it plans to launch a cyberdefense enhancement service for corporate clients utilizing so-called frontier artificial intelligence at the end of this month. The Japanese electronics company's BluStellar Intelligent Managed Service will help boost users' cyberdefense capabilities through AI-driven automation for risk analysis, response ...