Kitano now leads a new effort at Sony, announced in November, to infuse cutting-edge AI across the company.
Kitano says Sony believes AI is making such rapid progress that the company needed to make …

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Nintendo, the company behind such gaming classics as Mario, Zelda, and the Metroid series, has just given a whole new meaning to the on-the-go feature of their hybrid Nintendo Switch console.
The Jap…

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should prepare to issue digital currencies and propose bringing up the topic at this year’s G7 meetings to counter China’s move toward issuing a digital yuan, a group of rulin…

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should create its own yen digital currency, hopefully “within two to three years”, and include such plan in government’s mid-year key policy guidelines, a senior ruling party …

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Influential lawmakers in Japan’s ruling party are concerned about China’s plan to launch a sovereign digital currency, and have called on the nation to prepare to issue its own in response.
“How shou…

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Uguisudani is a neighborhood in Tokyo located slightly North of Ueno Park.
Last month in January, a new hotel called the Landabout opened just steps from Uguisudani Station.
The 169-room hotel is on …

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Ryus Noodle Bar is only the second non-Japan-based restaurant to stand among the museum’s gold-star line-up of eateries.
Chef Takahashi, with 20+ years experience in the food industry under his belt,…

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The port actually boasts a specialty pudding store, the Numazu Deep Sea Pudding Factory (Numazu Shinkai Purin Kōbō), which opened in July of 2018.
▼ Plus there’s the Asahi (Morning Sun) pudding made …

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(CNN) — Osaka's airport has just improved its facilities -- but not for its human travelers.
A world-class dog rest area, which includes shower facilities and a "pee pole" that cleans itself, will op…

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Nintendo isn’t just playing the hits when it comes to adding NES and SNES games to its Switch Online service.
The latest additions are some pretty deep cuts, including two SNES titles that were never…

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