Japan’s population (2023): 123.3 million
Japan’s online population: 117.4M / 94.2%
Japan’s median age: 49.9 years
Old age poverty and active ageing in ASEAN: Trends
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‣ Critical technologies report – February 2025
- Japan: Kinish secures $800K with molecular farming tech, developing a proprietary rice plant that produces casein, one of the main proteins found in milk / full item
- Japan: Tenchijin unveils ‘Thermo Earth of Love Project’, a proprietary satellite program to boost surface temperature monitoring capabilities, featuring development of its own satellite / full item
- Japan’s SKY Perfect JSAT Asia-wide satellite TV major and US firm, Planet Labs, partner for Earth observation satellite constellation / full item
- Japan is to invest $1.5BN in next-gen ultra-thin, flexible solar panels, subsidising commercialisation to secure first-mover advantages / full item
- Japan takes hybrid quantum computing pole position with integration of Reimei quantum computer with Fugaku ‘traditional’ supercomputer / full item
- Japan partners The Philippines for work on Open Radio Access Network System, delivering JPY 444 million grant in support / full item
ISEAS: Trends in Southeast Asia
- Japan: Toyota Financial Services is to partner Daiwa Securities and Mitsubishi UFJ Bank for issuance of blockchain-driven security token bonds in March / full item
- Japan: ArkEdge Space observation satellite produced for Taiwan’s space agency has captured high-quality Earth imagery from a spacecraft smaller than a suitcase / full item
- Japan’s Nat’l Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Tech and Intel partner to develop a quantum computer, with Intel providing its most advanced chips for the project / full item
- Japan’s SoftBank invests in Cipher Mining crypto and data center firm, gaining option to acquire undeveloped 300MW data center site in Texas / full item
- Japan: SKY Perfect JSAT to launch low Earth orbit imagery constellation, committing $230M to growing beyond geostationary business / full item
- Japan: Hitachi increases startup investment funding to $1BN with addition of $400M fund, setting sights on AI and ‘frontier tech’, and looking to deepen its India presence / full item
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launches 5th satellite to further develop domestically-managed QZSS sat-nav positioning system / full item
- Asia Pacific: Proofpoint cybersecurity report finds 88% of Forbes Global 2000 firms have not implemented highest level of email authentication, leaving stakeholders at risk of fraud / full item
- Vietnam: Japan’s Kyushu semiconductor industry bodies explored Japan-Vietnam partnership opportunities in recent meetings / full item
- Cambodia: A brief overview of Japan’s participation in the Kingdom’s moves towards digitalization, touching on development of Bakong payments and more / full item
IDC: How Southeast Asia Buys and Sells (pdf link)
Critical tech news: February 2025
- India’s first ‘Made-in-India’ semiconductor chip is expected to be launched by September or October this year, jointly developed by Tata Electronics and Taiwan’s PSMC…
- Singapore delivers 2025 fiscal budget and policy speech, pledging increased investment in industries including semiconductors, energy, and aviation…
- AheadComputing, co-founded by former Intel engineers and execs, raised $21.5M to build tech around RISC-V open standard chips architecture, alternative to current proprietary tech…
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