economy [News] Regional banks in Aichi, Gifu, and Mie to raise deposit interest rates
Regional banks headquartered in the three Tokai prefectures of Aichi, Gifu, and Mie have decided to raise their ordinary...
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Civil engineering 【News】MLIT State Minister Ibayashi and Four Construction Associations Exchange Views
On September 28, 2026, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Tatsunori Ibayashi and four major constru...
IT [Explanation] Netflix Uses AI in About 300 Titles, Also Cutting Production Costs for South Korean Films
It has been revealed that US Netflix is implementing generative AI in approximately 300 titles to be released in 2026, a...
IT [Explanation] Real-Time Speech Recognition “Hayamimi” Runs Exclusively on CPU
"Hayamimi," a real-time multilingual speech recognition system that runs at high speeds using only a CPU, was released a...
IT [Explanation] NVIDIA Establishes $500B AI Infrastructure Procurement Network with 6 Major Financial Institutions
US semiconductor giant Nvidia has announced a partnership with six major Wall Street financial institutions to build an ...
economy [News] Yamagata Prefecture Upgrades Economic Assessment
In its September economic trends report, Yamagata Prefecture upgraded its basic assessment of the prefectural economy an...
economy [News] Osaka-Kansai Expo: 829.9 Billion Yen in Economic Impact Outside the Kansai Region
According to the final estimates released by the Asia Pacific Institute for Research, the economic ripple effect of the ...
economy [News] Weak-yen bankruptcies in the first half of fiscal 2026 total 38
Bankruptcies related to the weak yen reached 38 in the first half of fiscal 2026, exceeding the same period of the previ...
Civil engineering [News] Shizukuishi Town, Iwate Prefecture Cancels Winning Bid for the 4th Time This Fiscal Due to Bidding Error
In Shizukuishi Town, Iwate Prefecture, four cases of winning bid rescissions and contract cancellations resulting from a...
IT [Explainer] In Apple’s Latest OS, Deletion of LLM Model Data Becomes Virtually Impossible
In macOS 27 Golden Gate, released by Apple, a specification change has been made that in principle prevents users from d...