economy [News] BOJ Governor Ueda to Attend G20 in Thailand Starting the 13th
It has been decided that Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will visit Bangkok, Thailand, starting October 13, 2026, to a...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...