Japan’s tech news headlines in May of 2023 covered items in fields as diverse as: Japan’s bids in the semiconductors world; Japan-focused tech investment funds from South Korea; quantum computing in Japan with Google; insect-based fish feed; and more.
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- Japan sees rise in cyber-attacks, believed to originate from one source, in approach to May G7 Summit, set to host leaders of UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US, and the European Union
- Japan: Sumitomo trading house preps to begin sales of insect-based feed for farmed fish in Japan later this year, with sights on generating 30,000 tonnes of insect feed by 2030
- ICYMI: NATO to open Japan liaison office to facilitate consultations with security partners South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, in part looking at cyber-defence
- Japan’s Sumitomo partners Vodafone for new ‘Economy of Things’ business, aiming for ecosystem within which vehicles, devices and machines interact and transact via secure digital platform
World Economic Forum: Social implications of the Metaverse
- Japan: NTT – Nippon Telegraph & Telephone – to roll out service to protect small auto parts manufacturers from supply chain freezing cyberattacks, with recent survey finding 72% have yet to prepare
- Japan: Genesia Ventures VC raises $110M for 3rd fund with broad investment thesis, spanning as-a-service solutions, media and entertainment, robotics and more
- Japan’s SkyDrive announces first orders for airborne car, featuring a range of just 10 kilometers, seeing use-case as an air taxi
- Japan, Ukraine, Iceland and Ireland formally join NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Estonia, gaining cyber-focused knowledge-sharing
Japan: The people powering Japan’s startup ecosystem
- ICYMI: IBM and Google pledge $150M support to quantum computing research at University of Chicago and University of Tokyo, with Google also providing hardware access
- Japan: Estonia’s Auve partnered by SoftBank’s Boldly for MiCa self-driving buses, focusing on serving rapidly-aging communities
- Japan: Panasonic partners Marubeni group to supply businesses with electric commercial vehicles and recharging, seeing opportunity in electrification of Japan’s logistics industry
- South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group to launch $36.5M fund to invest in tech startups from Japan and Korea
- Taiwan’s TSMC in talks for German subsidies, potentially covering 1/2 of $10.7BN construction cost, with top subsidies being discussed placing Germany on par with Japan’s TSMC bid
CSIS: Pulling back the curtain on China’s maritime militia
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