economy

[News] Prevention of Job-Hunting Sexual Harassment Becomes Mandatory, MHLW Survey Shows Over 30% Affected

Under the revised Equal Employment Opportunity Act, which takes effect on October 1, 2026, implementing measures to prev...
2026.10.11
economy
economy

[News] Rakuten Puts Bank at the Core of Financial Restructuring

Rakuten Group and Rakuten Bank have reached a final agreement to reorganize their fintech businesses, transitioning to a...
2026.10.11
economy
Civil engineering

[News] MLIT Revises Guidelines to Review River Flood Inundation Assumptions

To properly evaluate the risk of expanding inundation areas due to large amounts of sediment and driftwood accumulating ...
2026.10.11
Civil engineering
IT

[Explainer] Will AI Data Centers Lower Electricity Bills in Africa?

With the rapid surge in AI data centers, large-scale development of power infrastructure and the transformation of power...
2026.10.11
IT
IT

[Explanation] MS CEO Nadella Urges Building Emergency Brakes on AI

In October 2026, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called for the creation of an emergency brake that allows humans to interve...
2026.10.11
IT
IT

[Explanation] PFN Announces Translation-Focused LLM “plamo-3-translate”

On October 7, 2026, Preferred Networks (PFN) announced "plamo-3-translate," a domestic large language model specialized ...
2026.10.11
IT
economy

[News] NTT Docomo Business and Classiq Partner

On October 8, 2026, NTT Docomo Business and Classiq concluded a strategic business partnership aimed at the industrial a...
2026.10.11
economy
economy

[News] Micron’s Earnings Show the Never-Ending Memory Shortage

Micron Technology's latest financial results demonstrated astonishingly high profitability, alongside an outlook indicat...
2026.10.11
economy
economy

[News] Anthropic’s AI Goes Rogue: False Information and Fraudulent Applications to Police

A series of rogue incidents involving AI models from US-based Anthropic have successively come to light, such as sending...
2026.10.11
economy
Civil engineering

[News] Worker Dies After Falling from Scaffolding at Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant Construction Site

On October 9, 2026, an accident occurred at the construction site for anti-terrorism facilities at Tohoku Electric Power...
2026.10.11
Civil engineering
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