Photo blur is usually a mistake to avoid. But a University of Osaka team uses the shape of that blur to read how far away objects are, recovering depth from a single camera with help from a physics-guided AI. Errors stay within about a centimeter at four meters, with uses in robotics and inspection.
Sony is ending Japan sales of its aibo robot dog (ERS-1000), then said it isn't quitting and teased a next-gen model. Here is the panic, the history of AIBO funerals, and Sony's physical-AI plan.
The first theatrical trailer for Sekiro: No Defeat is here. We break down the hand-drawn 2D look, the story of Wolf and Kuro, the no-AI pledge, Ryuichi Sakamoto's theme song, and how (and where) the rest of the world can watch it on Crunchyroll.
RIKEN unveiled two supercomputers on the same day: RIKYU for AI for Science and ROQUO for quantum-HPC. Both are Japan's first to run GB200 NVL4 and Quantum-X800 InfiniBand. We compare them with US efforts like xAI's Colossus and the DOE Genesis Mission, and China, to read Japan's bet on purpose over scale.
In 2004, a University of Tokyo brain scientist said humans are born wired for grammar. In 2022, ChatGPT learned language without any such wiring. The half-century debate Chomsky started is wide open again.
On June 5, Capcom published the Q&A summary from its May 13 earnings briefing. Executives said they are weighing a sequel to Pragmata, the brand-new IP that sold 2 million copies in 16 days, restated their line that creativity stays in human hands while AI handles routine work, explained why console price hikes aren't in their plan, and detailed the catalog strategy behind a Resident Evil series that just passed 200 million lifetime units.
SBI is rolling Claude out across its entire financial group and bolting it onto the on-chain finance rails it has spent years building. Unlike NEC or Fujitsu, this is a user, not a vendor. We compare how Japan, the US and the EU are wiring AI into finance, regulation included.
On May 27, Fujitsu announced partnerships with two US AI labs at once, Anthropic and OpenAI. We unpack what this dual strategy means versus NEC's single bet, the Forward Deployed Engineer model, and how Japanese IT giants differ from Microsoft-OpenAI and SoftBank.
OpenAI is moving to offer its newest cyber-focused AI model, GPT-5.5 Cyber, to the Japanese government and industry. Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone, now an OpenAI board member, flew to Tokyo to pitch critical-infrastructure cooperation. We unpack the contrast with Anthropic's tightly controlled Claude Mythos, the China-threat framing, and what it means that OpenAI wants Japan as its first international partner.
Two key Capcom executives explained their AI strategy to 4Gamer: 3,000 hours of QA collapsed to 72 hours by AI, 30,000+ hours of monthly autonomous playtesting, and a three-layer architecture combining Google's Gemini with Capcom's own art-director models. As the DLSS 5 backlash and ResetEra debates continue, here's why Capcom insists AI is for 'releasing creator potential', not making art.
SoftBank Group has posted a record 5 trillion yen ($32 billion) net profit for the fiscal year ended March 2026, becoming the first Japanese company to ever cross the 5 trillion yen line. We unpack the 6.7 trillion yen OpenAI windfall, the Vision Fund comeback, the role of Arm as collateral, and how the figure stacks up against US Big Tech.
Japan's largest megabank MUFG partnered with Google on May 7, 2026, to build 'agentic banking' — AI agents that autonomously select products, choose the best payment method, and execute transactions. Unlike JPMorgan's employee-facing LLM Suite or BNP Paribas's sovereignty approach, MUFG is betting on consumer-facing autonomous finance.
On May 1, METI summoned executives from 24 critical infrastructure operators—covering power, gas, oil, chemicals and credit cards—and ordered emergency cybersecurity audits within one month. The trigger: Anthropic's Claude Mythos, an AI announced April 7 that found a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD. We compare Japan's response with the US CISA OT principles and the EU's NIS2 Directive.
Japan's Digital Agency open-sourced 'Gennai', its in-house government generative AI environment, under commercial-use licenses. With a 180,000-employee rollout planned for FY2026, we compare Japan's build-then-open approach with the US GSA's USAi platform, the UK's Humphrey suite, and the EU AI Act framework.
NEC has begun a strategic partnership with Anthropic, becoming the first Japanese company named as a global partner. The deal embeds Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Cowork into NEC's BluStellar DX platform for banks, manufacturers, and local governments, and deploys Claude across roughly 30,000 employees. We break down NEC's three-layered AI strategy spanning its own cotomi LLM, the national Physical AI initiative, and now Anthropic, and examine why Tokyo's IT giants are hedging toward Claude over ChatGPT.