PayPal buys Japanese buy-now-pay-later player Paidy for $2.7bn
It's hip to be competing with Square for space on retail counters
09 Sep 2021
Articles about Japan
Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants
22-megawatt rig to be built by Mitsubishi – apparently the first direct sale agreement of its sort in Japan
08 Sep 2021
AWS Tokyo outage takes down banks, share traders, and telcos
Six-hour slump for Direct Connect caused by 'loss of networking devices' – we'll assume that means they broke, not that they fell behind a couch
02 Sep 2021
Apple to let reader apps steer users towards out-of-App-Store purchasing following Japanese watchdog probe
Updated Regulator says it's happy book, music, newspaper programs can now whisper of the universe beyond the iOS walled garden
02 Sep 2021
Japan's bullet trains replace smoking rooms with Zooming rooms
Also offers free mice, power bricks, lap pillows and fast WiFi in cars rated to allow 300km/h video chat
27 Aug 2021
Good news: Japanese boffins 3D print what looks like marbled Wagyu beef. Bad news: It's tiny and inedible
Still, that'll be 100 quid, please
27 Aug 2021
A new island has popped up off the coast of Japan thanks to an underwater volcano
The saying is that they aren't making any more land yet here we are
17 Aug 2021
NEC to move its IT into Azure and give staff – all 110,000 of ’em – a cloudy Windows desktop
Japanese services giant deepens ties with Microsoft and reckons it can address Japan’s ageing population
14 Jul 2021
Massive 3D catzilla gets crowds purring in busy Shinjuku district of Tokyo
We'd hate to see the litter tray
08 Jul 2021
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone
Human resettlement after 2011's nuclear disaster facing opposition from indestructible, betusked interlopers
01 Jul 2021
Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated
Company conspired with government to make life hard for activist foreign investors
21 Jun 2021
NTT slashes top execs’ pay as punishment for paying more than their share of $500-a-head meals with government officials
None were illegal, but they did put civil servants in awkward ethical territory and execs knew it
10 Jun 2021
Japan to dangle as many Yen as it takes to lure chipmakers to its shores, because everyone else is doing it too
National growth strategy also prioritises low power distributed data centres
03 Jun 2021
Astroboffins think strangely porous boulders found on asteroid Ryugu may be the stuff of proto-planets
Pumice-like stuff spotted by Japanese Hayabusa2 probe would float on water
26 May 2021
Yahoo! Japan! offers! free! comment!-moderation!-as!-a!-service! API!
'Constructive comment ranking model' can detect bias, promote respectful contributions, already zaps 20,000 posts a day
19 May 2021
Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date
'My Number' identifier to become central to myriad government services if the plan works
13 May 2021
Japan accuses Chinese military of cyber-attacks on its space agency
200 other companies also targeted, but no data lost
21 Apr 2021
Japan tests digital currency, because all the cool kids are doing it already
Starts year-long proof of concept for the basics, meanwhile China is already testing cross-border crypto-payments
06 Apr 2021
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