Meta's 7,000 km US-France cable Petal targets 1 petabit per second in 2029, built by NEC and Sumitomo. Labs reach 19 cores, so why two? Repeater power.
Seven in ten Japanese bookstore companies were profitable in fiscal 2025, but only 13.4% grew both sales and profit, on a 0.6% margin. What lifted the numbers, and why bookshops are multiplying in the US and Britain.
Sony cancelled Physint in June and Xbox picked it up in September. English-language forums blamed Sony. Japanese forums argued about deadlines, budgets, and where they would even be able to play it.
Japan lost about 1.9 million dogs in twelve years, yet its pet market grew to 12.7 billion dollars in fiscal 2025. Shipment tables show dog food going from 397 to 811 yen per kilogram.
KADOKAWA is merging five anime studios, ENGI among them, into Studio One Base in November 2026. What the deal changes for overseas viewers, and what it does not.
KADOKAWA CEO Takeshi Natsuno kept his board seat on June 24 with 59.68% support, down 30.58 points, while Oasis Management's removal bid drew 26.79%. What the split vote meant, and what the next quarter showed.
Google and Microsoft park cold data on magnetic tape. Shipments dipped in 2025, then jumped 57% in the first quarter of 2026, and the business behind those cartridges belongs to a photo film company.
1 million units on day one, 10 million for the series. Capcom's own sales list has the three PS2 Onimusha games at 1.52 to 2.10 million lifetime, and the habit of borrowing movie stars' faces goes back to 2001.
Megane Fes 2026 takes over Sabae on September 19 and 20. Fukui makes 93.5% of Japan's eyeglass frames, and according to the Fukui Optical Association the town produced the world's first titanium glasses in 1983.
Mitsubishi is bringing the Pajero back after seven years with a plan for just 10,000 units. The shares moved anyway. What a nameplate is worth to a carmaker that sold 797,000 vehicles last year.
Astellas and Kyowa Kirin are the first Japanese drugmakers to sign most-favored-nation pricing deals with Washington. A September 29 tariff deadline explains the timing, and Japanese prices sit inside the U.S. formula.