Japan’s technology news headlines
in November 2024
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- “AI Safety Institutes, or AISIs, are one of the most important new structures to emerge in international AI policy…” / full item
- Japan: STATION Ai is now open in Nagoya City, Japan’s largest open innovation hub with offerings including accelerators, financial support, partnerships outside Japan and more / full item
- European and Japanese space agencies issue joint statement on boosting cooperation on areas including planetary defense, moon exploration, Mars missions and more / full item
- Japan: TechGala 2025 is set for February in Nagoya, delivering 3 days of inspiration, information and connections / full item
- Japan: A quick intro to the Kansai Startup Mashups initiative, and 6 firms from the program working on smart homes tech, AI for business, and other deep-tech solutions / full item
- Japan: Gov’t commits over $65 billion in additional funding for semiconductor and AI tech development to 2030, with Rapidus a key beneficiary / full item
- Japan and Peru are set to ink collaboration agreement on minerals mining, with Japan providing development and tech expertise to resource-rich Peru / full item
- Japan: Bank of Yokohama and IBM partnered to trial generative AI for loan document creation, seeing potential time savings of up to 19,500 human processing hours annually / full item
- Japan’s NTT DATA partners Google Cloud, looking at customized tech stacks for enterprize customers in healthcare, finance, manufacturing and more / full item
- Japan: Gov’t partners Tenstorrent, a Silicon Valley AI chip firm, to train up to 200 chip designers over 5 years, as part of Japan’s bid to develop its semiconductor industry / full item
Video: The showcase flight in Japan of Joby Aviation’s ‘flying car’, an electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle / on YouTube
- ‘Invest Tokyo Webinar 2024 for Oceania’ is set for November 8th, looking to boost overseas startup awareness of the benefits and resources available from a base in Tokyo / full item
- Malaysia’s Entomal Biotech takes overall win at the Asian Entrepreneurship Award 2024 in Japan, with New Zealand’s Formus taking 2nd place / full item
- Thailand: Japan’s Toshiba and Naturenix partner for SCiB lithium-ion battery brand in Thailand, manufacturing units for subscription packages to 2-wheeled e-bike users / full item
- Japan’s Hyundai Motor has partnered China’s HaomoAI autonomous driving software firm for China-market EV, set to feature generative AI-backed DriveGPT systems / full item
- Cambodia: Japan’s NTT Docomo and Nippon Electric Company partner for ‘Orex Sai’ 4g wireless in Cambodia, creating a base for future 5G services / full item
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Critical technologies: November 2024
- China’s SpaceSail inks MoU with Telebras, Brazil’s state-owned telecoms company, to provide its ‘Thousand Sails’ satellite internet services similar to StarLink…
- New Zealand: Dawn Hypersonics, part of Dawn Aerospace, achieved supersonic flight with prototype, completing a 66,000 foot ascent in just 118.6 seconds…
- Taiwan: An intro to the TAcc+ International SpaceTech Startup Supporting Program and some of the participating firms…
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