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...
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...