2026-09

Civil engineering

[News] MLIT Releases 2026 Standard Land Prices: Nationwide Average Up 1.5%

On September 15, 2026, Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) released the 2026 prefectu...
economy

[News] Toyota Tsusho Shares Top the Seven Major Trading Companies in Growth Rate

Toyota Tsusho Corporation recorded the highest stock price growth rate among Japan's seven major general trading compani...
economy

[News] China’s August Industrial Output Accelerates, Retail Sales Slow Down

According to key economic indicators for August released by China's National Bureau of Statistics on September 15, 2026,...
economy

[News] Concerns Raised Within Ruling Party Over Prime Minister Takaichi’s 40 Trillion Yen Government Bond Remark

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's suggestion to cap new government bond issuance at around 40 trillion yen for FY2027 has ...
IT

[Explanation] LLM Agents Evolve with MCP in UE5.8

Epic Games officially released "Unreal Engine 5.8" in June 2026, introducing "Unreal MCP" to enable LLM agents to direct...
IT

[Explainer] Crusoe Signs Cloud Contract with Perplexity AI

AI infrastructure provider Crusoe has secured a multi-year cloud deal with AI search startup Perplexity. The partnership...
economy

[News] US 10-year Treasury yield rises to 5.02%, highest level since 2007

The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield briefly surged to 5.02%, hitting its highest level since 2007. This escalation is driven...
economy

[News] Nikkei average opens lower for second consecutive day, led by AI semiconductor stock declines

On September 14, 2026, the Nikkei 225 Average opened lower and extended its slide, plunging by over 1,200 points intrada...
economy

[News] MinebeaMitsumi Freezes M&A in New Fields

Yoshihisa Kainuma, Chairman and CEO of MinebeaMitsumi, has announced a freeze on new M&A ventures into unfamiliar busine...
IT

[Explainer] Rewriting 30,000 lines of “Nadesiko3” into Go using AI

The 30,000-line codebase of "Nadeshiko 3," a Japanese-based programming language, was ported and rebuilt in Go in virtua...