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One year after TikTok Shop entered the Japanese market, its GMV stands at around 50 billion Japanese yen, and there are still barriers to its further expansion.

Add to Google Preferred Sources Anri Samata, general partner at Japanese venture capital firm Anri, argues that Japan’s startup industry has reached a turning point where it should move beyond imitating Silicon Valley and instead forge a distinctly Japanese model of innovation—one driven by M&A integration with large corporations. Drawing on 15 years of investment…

TOKYO, Aug 27 (Reuters) – Japan’s latest effort to prop up the yen revives memories of the Asian financial crisis, with the operation bearing little resemblance to traditional coordinated interventions, former top ‌currency diplomat Naoyuki Shinohara said on Thursday.

Germany’s manufacturing PMI is showing its strongest reading in years, helped by data center investment that depends heavily on artificial intelligence infrastructure. That shine on physical capacity puts fresh attention on AI stocks across chips, software and cloud as investors look for ways to align with this build out. This article highlights three AI Stocks…

On Friday, July 31, the Japanese government formally launched its National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), among the first of several steps to reform Japan’s intelligence capabilities. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who has pursued programmatic expansion of Japan’s defense capabilities since she came into office in the fall of last year, has identified intelligence as a key…

Japan’s National Cyber Director — the official who spent six years chairing the OECD’s Committee on Digital Economy Policy and who personally led the G7’s 2023 Hiroshima AI Process to the first multilateral voluntary framework for advanced AI governance — declared on Monday that it is “inevitable” his country will integrate frontier AI into preemptive…

JPYC, which develops regulated stablecoins denominated in Japanese yen-has raised $38 million in an extended Series B round, fueling an expansion to develop a network of regulated digital payment solutions throughout Japan. 

Recent trade data from China and Taiwan points to strong export momentum in AI related electronics, which keeps the spotlight firmly on stocks tied to the ChatGPT and AI boom. That global demand story is hard to ignore if you care about where capital and computing power are heading. This article picks out 3 of…