National Jul 11, 2020
Japan hospital app lets nurses help isolated COVID-19 patients from afar
The app lets the isolated patients ask nurses for favors big and small while keeping physical contact to a minimum.
Business / Corporate Jul 10, 2020
Japanese college dropout builds $560 million fortune through AI firm
by Min Jeong Lee and Ayaka Maki
AI inside Inc. has ambitious plans to expand outside Japan and into other business lines.
Business / Corporate Jul 8, 2020
SoftBank-backed DCM eyes China startups with $880 million fund
by Lulu Yilun Chen and Selina Wang
David Chao, a venture capitalist who has been on the ground floor of Asian companies worth a combined $206 billion, has raised money for a new fund with a China focus, a sign that rising U.S.-China tensions aren’t turning off foreign investors. DCM Ventures, which ...
Business / Tech Jul 6, 2020
Japan restaurateur looks to AI-based management to stay ahead of curve in virus-battered industry
by Osamu Tsukimori
Entrepreneur sees a chance for AI-based program to thrive if industry abandons its low-margin, high-turnover business model.
World Jul 5, 2020
Pandemic offers solution to tech industry’s big Brexit problem
by Nate Lanxon
The pandemic taught Britain’s technology executives that business can still happen even if everyone’s working from home. That lesson is providing a source of relief as the nation’s year-end departure from the European Union looms. A range of senior members of the industry say that ...
Business / Tech Jul 3, 2020
Japan figuring out how to deliver goods untouched by people amid pandemic
by Nao Sano and Shiho Takezawa
Labor shortage and virus fears push robotics and logistics companies to explore ways to integrate technology into consumer deliveries.
Asia Pacific Jun 30, 2020
India bans TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, citing security concerns
The move, announced days after border tensions in the Himalayas left 20 Indian soldiers dead, deals a blow to the most prominent names in Chinese technology.
Business / Tech Jun 29, 2020
Japan to aid firms working on next-gen 5G in bid to catch up with China
The 5G technology will enable the transmission of large amounts of data at extremely high speeds.
Digital | ON: TECH Jun 28, 2020
Apps and gadgets to survive the ‘new normal’
by Chiho Komoriya
Whether you’re worried about a resurgence in cases or just surviving Japan’s miserable summer, here’s some handy tech that will be able to help.
Business / Tech Jun 27, 2020
Japanese startup creates 'connected' face mask for coronavirus new normal
As face coverings become the norm amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese startup Donut Robotics has developed an internet-connected "smart mask" that can transmit messages and translate from Japanese into eight other languages. The white plastic c-mask fits over standard face masks and connects via Bluetooth ...
National / Science & Health Jun 27, 2020
Japan's COVID-19 app reaches 4 million downloads in first week
Japan's COVID-19 contact-tracing app has been downloaded more than 4 million times since its launch a week ago as the government seeks to head off a second wave of infections now that businesses and schools have reopened. Health ministry official Yasuyuki Sahara said while there ...
Business / Tech Jun 25, 2020
Japanese firms testing AI tech to recruit talent
by Junko Horiuchi
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, companies look to different ways of interviewing and hiring workers.