Japan-born IoT wearable "DFree" uses ultrasound to predict urination timing and has won the Grand Prize for Developmental Support Tools at BabyTech Awards 2025-26. How the 20-gram device works, why the judges picked it, how it came to be covered by Japan's long-term care insurance, and what it means for elderly care and children with disabilities.
Japan's largest seafood company Maruha Nichiro has partnered with Singapore's UMAMI Bioworks to develop cell-cultivated bluefin tuna using cells from fully farmed fish. Targeting overseas sales by FY2027, this report covers the technical breakthroughs, commercialization challenges, and global cultivated meat market landscape behind Japan's ambitious quest to produce fish without the ocean.
Japan officially targets fusion power demonstration in the 2030s as part of its national strategy. With a new Cabinet Office task force, 80+ companies in the J-Fusion consortium, and decades of ITER expertise, Japan is accelerating its bid to lead the global fusion race against the US, China, and UK.
Osaka-based Satosen's liquid metal stretchable circuit board has been officially adopted by ATR-Promotions for biosignal measurement electrodes. With self-healing wiring that withstands over 250,000 stretch cycles, this technology opens doors for wearable devices, flexible displays, and soft robotics.
Japan's Kioxia is set for consecutive record-breaking years, with revenue exceeding $14 billion for the first time. NAND production capacity for 2026 is already "sold out" as AI data center demand far outpaces supply. From a rocky IPO to the world's best-performing stock of 2025 with a 540% gain, we explore Kioxia's remarkable turnaround and what it means for Japan's semiconductor renaissance.
Pritzker laureate Riken Yamamoto calls Tokyo's Hills-style mega-developments, Azabudai Hills chief among them, a "colony for the rich." A look at the towers, the neighborhoods they replace, and how other cities have handled the same pressure.
Japan's anime market has reached a record $25 billion globally. While aggressive M&A deals by Sony, KADOKAWA, and others have fueled explosive overseas growth, questions remain about low animator wages, creative risk-taking, and whether the industry's real creators are seeing any of the profits. A deep dive into the boom's winners and losers.
At its first global showcase, Amazon Prime Video announced worldwide exclusives on three Japanese anime titles: a 40th-anniversary Fist of the North Star reboot, a new Ghost in the Shell TV series, and a fantasy sequel. What the deals say about Japanese IP in the streaming era.
At the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, all six moguls medalists used ID one skis made by Material Sports, a five-employee company in Osaka, Japan. It was the second straight Olympics in which Japanese-made skis took every moguls medal, and ID one swept the new dual moguls podium as well.
JR Central has pushed completion of three Tsukui and Fujino tunnel sections on the Chuo Shinkansen maglev line to 2031, after the rock proved more fragile than expected. A look at what the world's first superconducting maglev is up against, with costs now at ¥11 trillion.
Up to 90% of farmed oysters have died in parts of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan's largest oyster-producing region responsible for 60% of national output. Rising water temperatures, high salinity, and oxygen depletion in the Seto Inland Sea have caused unprecedented damage to a 450-year-old aquaculture tradition. We report on the causes, impact, and what comes next.