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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

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

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

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

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

Japan accuses Chinese military of cyber-attacks on its space agency

200 other companies also targeted, but no data lost

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

Subaru parks plans to make 58,000 cars due to brakes on silicon supply chain

Workers to get earlier, longer, holiday, probably paid (fingers crossed)

LINE stops data flowing to China after Japanese officials ditch app over privacy concerns

App's owner says users didn't bail

Sloppy data compliance sees Japanese government cut out its own use of LINE messaging app

May! crush! super-app! dreams! of! the! company! formerly! known! as! Yahoo! Japan!

Fire takes out Japanese chip plant, owner Renesas warns of more silicon shortages

5% of clean room cooked, hopes to be back in a month

Australia, India, Japan, and USA create joint critical tech working group

'Quad' group wants alternatives to China. Also freedom and governance that reflects shared values

Azure and AWS expand their cloudy Asian boot-prints

Japan doubles up for AWS, Indonesia warms up for Microsoft as Alibaba and Google lie in wait

‘Quad’ nations sign up for meta think-tank to advance ‘Techno-Democratic Statecraft’

As China bristles, USA, Japan, India, and Australia create forum to explore the intersection of tech and regional security

Japan’s COVID-19 contact-tracing app hasn't warned users of encounters with carriers since September

Android edition just didn’t do the job and Health Ministry knew it. Now Japan is in its third and nastiest wave of infections

Japan pours millions into AI-powered dating to get its people making babies again

Attempts tech fix to solve aging crisis

Tokyo Stock Exchange lets CEO resign to atone for October outage, other execs take pay cuts and rebukes

Wobbly NAS tended by Fujitsu crashed trading – and automatic failover failed

China-linked hacking gang ‘APT10’ named as probable actor behind extended attacks on Japanese companies

Campaign even targeted branch offices inside China and sought secrets of automotive and engineering companies

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