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- Japan’s population (2023): 123.3 million
- Japan’s online population: 117.4M / 94.2%
- Japan’s median age: 49.9 years
JIC: Going Global – Status of Japanese Startups (June 2025)
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- Download: The Japan Research Institute Ltd has published ‘Finance x Generative AI: Case Study and Strategy’ / full item
- Japan has commenced sharing cyberattack details with NATO member countries via the Malware Information Sharing Platform / full item
“While Japan ranks among the top G7 countries in R&D spending, the challenge is commercialisation. Most of that funding supports research that rarely makes it into the market…” / full item
- Japan’s Fujitsu is reportedly developing a 2nm CPU, MONAKA, based on designs from Arm and intended for AI and data center applications, with TSMC flagged for manufacturing / full item
- Japan’s government, and industry major, TDK, to work with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on offshore wind solutions, targeting development of domestic renewable energy supply chains / full item
‘Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife’ / full item
- Japan’s Rapidus and Siemens partner to develop 2-nanometer semiconductor design and manufacturing processes / full item
- Japan will require banks and credit card firms to use integrated circuit chip-based ID verification for non-face-to-face account openings, starting April 2027 / full item
- LifeCard and Pulse iD partner to launch Japan’s first ‘hyper-personalized credit card’ / full item
- Japan’s SoftBank founder looks to partner Taiwan’s TSMC to explore development of a trillion-dollar industrial complex, ‘Project Crystal Land’, in Arizona to build robots and AI systems / full item
- Ripple is providing up to $200K in grants for projects being built with XRP Ledger in Japan, under the $1BN XRP Fund and backed by players in Japan’s public and private sectors / full item
- EVONET payments infra provider launches cross-border mobile wallet interoperability with partners, enabling WeChat Pay transactions via QR code across Japan / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC has opened a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, TSMC-UTokyo Lab, TSMC’s first collaboration with an academic institute outside of Taiwan / full item
- Parliament enacts bill revising payment services law, now enabling the prevention of crypto asset outlflows from investors in Japan when overseas crypto exchanges go bust / full item
- Download: ‘Going Global – Status of Japanese Startups’, a 2025 research report from the Japan Investment Corporation / full item
“Tokyo-based ispace had hoped to make history as only the third private firm – and the first outside the United States – to achieve a controlled arrival on the lunar surface.” / full item
- TSMC flags delays in Japan expansion due to local community impacts, while US plans advance / full item
- Fiji and Japan join in Project for Improving Cyber security Capability in the Pacific Island Countries agreement for 3 years to safeguard the region’s infrastructure and government systems / full item
- Philippine Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are to partner on projects including agricultural monitoring and disaster management / full item
- Representatives from Cambodia and Japan meet to review proposed locations for a ‘Green Special Economic Zone’ in the Kingdom / full item
- Taiwan: Hon Hai Research Institute unveils critical AI server single-chip integrated circuit tech, and power management, in Japan, capable of chip operation above 150 degrees Celsius / full item
- India: “…asked state-run miner IREL to suspend a 13-year-old agreement on rare earth exports to Japan and to safeguard supplies for domestic needs… to reduce India’s dependence on China” / full item
“While Australia remains the primary partner in the… space domain, the US Space Forces Indo-Pacific is also looking to deepen ties with… Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and India.” / full item
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