Japan needs to rapidly expand computing power as it vies to become a global leader in artificial intelligence, said Hideki Murai, a special AI adviser to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. “The government’s key priority is computing power. We feel a real sense of crisis about...
Top diplomats from the Indo-Pacific region expressed concerns over tensions in the Korean Peninsula and the South China Sea, but reaffirmed efforts to resolve issues through dialogue during last week’s meeting of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations forum, according to the...
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited gas-rich Qatar on Tuesday as he wraps up a Gulf tour centered on energy security and cooperation with Tokyo’s main suppliers. Tokyo is looking to work closely with Qatar to stabilize the global market for liquified natural gas (LNG), Kishida...
Foreign arrivals to Japan from January to June topped 10 million for the first time since the same period in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic, as the country sees a continued recovery in inbound travelers, government data showed Wednesday. Japan saw 10.71 million arrivals in the six...
Tokyo, Japan – Mr Toyozawa, an advertising sales representative in Tokyo, is not much better off today than when he started working at his company in 2001. For years, Toyozawa’s salary rose in annual increments of 1 percent and, like many Japanese salarymen at or approaching...
