Japan’s technology news headlines in July 2024 captured an impressive range of technologies, implementations and successes, including: government-driven and private industry backing for semiconductor manufacturing in Japan; Japanese 5G tech’s growth in the Indo-Pacific; backing for Japan’s growing space industries; quantum computing partnership between institutions in Japan and Australia; and more.
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- Japan: Shinryo Fund sets sights on $6.7M corpus revolving around Okinawa both as a startup source and as a gateway to Japan and wider Asia / full item
- Japan’s Generative AI Accelerator Challenge to provide $180M in AI skills aid across SE Asia, alongside goal of training 100K ASEAN citizens across 5 years / full item
- Japan: An interview overview of Rapidus’ goal of becoming a global leader in the highest-value corner of the semiconductors market, the logic chips space / full item
Japan: Global Pitch Competition is set for
October 9 & 10 in Fukuoka City / full item
- Japan to help Philippines with 5G as alternative to Chinese tech for Indo-Pacific infrastructure, building on Palau and Cambodia initiatives, potentially later adding Indonesia and Vietnam / full item
- Japan: 2025 OIST Innovation Accelerator applications are open, from Okinawa Institute of Science & Tech / full item
- Japan’s Softbank Group has acquired UK’s AI chip accelerator firm, Graphcore / full item
- Download: ‘Combating Disinformation – An Agenda for US-Japan Cooperation’ from the Center for Strategic and International Studies / full item
- Japan: Semiconductor makers including Sony, Mitsubishi and Toshiba planning near $31BN in capital investments to 2029, boosting production of power devices and image sensors / full item
- Japan: Toshiba partners Rohm Co semiconductor manufacturer for $636M investment over 3 years, looking at chips for EV power control and industrial devices / full item
- Japan: Sei Foundation launches $50M Japan Ecosystem Fund focusing on Web3 gaming, social, and entertainment use cases for blockchain tech / full item
- Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Ass’n calls for amended legislation to protect intellectual property rights in response to AI service copyright infringements / full item
- Japan: Softbank and NEC, info-tech and electronics multinational, ink alliance for biometric authentication to speed digital transformation for enterprises and local governments / full item
- Japan; Toyota Motor to build an EV battery plant in Kyushu, a region dedicated to electric vehicle-related technologies and overseas firms / full item
- NTT Startup Challenge 2024 edition opens for applications from across SE Asia / full item
- Japan: An overview of the Space Strategy Fund launched earlier this year, a $6 billion, 10-year initiative to boost space-related R&D / full item
Japan: “…suborbital launch by TiSpace has faced regulatory hurdles… amid questions over whether Japan should embrace overseas business… to double the size of its… space industry over the next decade” / full item
- Japan’s Axelspace Holdings gains Epson and Epson X Investment Corp subsidiary backing in development, manufacturing and operation of microsatellites / full item
- Japan: SoftBank to re-develop soon-to-be-closed LCD panel site in Osaka into large-scale data center, seeing a range of opportunities in hosted services / full item
- Australian National University inks agreement with Japan’s Fujitsu for a new quantum research facility ‘with ambitions to build an onsite quantum computer’ / full item
- A brief intro to 8 bioengineering startups, including firms from Japan and China working on alternative proteins, collagen products and industrial biocatalysts / full item
- India’s Zypp Electric secures $15M funding led by Japan’s ENEOS energy conglomerate with goal of taking electric vehicle rental services to wider SE Asia markets / full item
- South Korea: Samsung secures a 2-nanometer AI chip foundry and package order from Japan’s Preferred Networks Inc AI applications developer / full item
- An overview of the recent Japan-ASEAN Startup Business Matching Fair 2024 which showcased more than 60 startups from 6 countries, and the new ASEAN LINK business growth service / full item
Australia’s Northern Territory Gov’t and Japan Organisation for Metals and Energy Security ink 2 MOUs to boost critical minerals and energy cooperation / full item
- Japan’s Toyota, partnering with China’s state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group, looks to launch autonomous driving-enabled EV in China, hoping to recover from sales slump / full item
- Download: ‘Anchoring the Bay of Bengal in a Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ from India’s Observer Research Foundation, and Global Policy Journal / full item
- Palau: Japan’s Soramitsu, firm behind Cambodia’s Bakong central bank digital currency, to build Pacific island nation of Palau’s digital gateway to bond markets / full item
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Asia’s Tech Newsletters: July 2024
- July 31st 2024: Indonesia cyber force, TSMC & Germany, Singapore semiconductors, Japan Space Strategy Fund…
On LinkedIn and on Substack - July 24th 2024: China’s socialist LLMs, Pacific Islands cybersec, 1nm semiconductors, 30K staff for Huawei R&D centre…
On LinkedIn and on Substack - July 17th 2024: Samsung chips, China space issues, Vietnam digital economy, Malaysia Silicon Island, Bangladesh-Huawei…
On LinkedIn and on Substack - July 10th 2024: Indonesia EV batteries, India semiconductors, Australia space-tech, China smart-car cloud, AU-JP quantum…
On LinkedIn and on Substack - July 3rd 2024: Huawei & Peru, Indo-Singapore subsea cables, China’s G60 mega-constellation, Korea’s $12BN semicon fund…
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