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A bear warning sign is displayed in Shirakawa-go, a popular tourist spot in Gifu Prefecture. A town in Miyagi Prefecture has retracted its social media post warning of a bear sighting after discovering an image submitted to it had been generated using artificial intelligence.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 27, 2025
Japan town retracts bear sighting warning sparked by AI image
The town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture issued the warning after receiving the image of a bear in a residential area, but later discovered it was generated using AI.
SoftBank shares have plunged around 40% since late October as it sits at the forefront of a global AI selloff.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2025
SoftBank’s 40% slide from peak shows worry over giant OpenAI bet
Growing unease over frothy artificial intelligence valuations is weighing on shares of SoftBank Group, which traders increasingly view as a proxy for privately held OpenAI.
SoftBank Group said it is issuing a yen-denominated bond at an annual coupon of 3.98%.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2025
SoftBank ¥500 billion bond coupon highest in more than a decade
The rate on the unsecured seven-year note was set near the upper end of the previously announced range of between 3.5% and 4.1%, according to a term sheet from the company.
Google is one of the few companies that produces what the industry calls the full stack in computing, and it has a data goldmine for constructing AI models from its search index, Android phones and YouTube.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 26, 2025
Google, the sleeping giant in global AI race, now ‘fully awake’
Google’s newest multipurpose model, Gemini 3, won immediate praise for its capabilities in reasoning and coding, as well as niche tasks that have tripped up AI chatbots.
Employees work on laptops in the Moore Kingston Smith office in London on Nov. 13.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 25, 2025
From two weeks to two hours: How AI might reboot Britain’s economy
AI’s rollout is raising hopes that Britain can escape the productivity problem that has dogged it for two decades, even as slow growth pushes the country toward tax hikes.
The AI frenzy that’s gripped global equity markets for months is getting a fresh look from investors, as focus shifts to finding stocks that can drive the next leg of the sector’s rally or at least withstand future selloffs.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 25, 2025
China’s AI promise lures top Asia fund away from South Korea and Taiwan
The AI frenzy that’s gripped global equity markets for months is getting a fresh look from investors.
A truck waits outside of the gate of Nexperia factory amid a shortage of chip supply caused by the diplomatic standoff between China and the Netherlands over the company, in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China, on Nov. 7.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 24, 2025
How the Nexperia chip crisis upended auto supply chains — again
A factory in China’s industrial south has become a global choke point for automotive chips, upending a sector that swore it wouldn’t be caught again by supply-chain disruptions.
A job fair in Fletcher, North Carolina. The unemployment rate for bachelor’s degree-holders in the U.S. rose to 2.8% in September, up a half-percentage point from a year earlier.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2025
Americans with four-year degrees now comprise a record 25% of unemployed workers
There were more than 1.9 million Americans aged 25 and over with at least a bachelor’s degree who were unemployed in September.
SoftBank priced ¥46 billion in bonds on Friday, bringing its already record issuance this year to around ¥400 billion.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 21, 2025
SoftBank prices ¥46 billion in bonds, extending record issuance
The offering comes amid a sharp rise in benchmark government bond yields, driven by concerns over fiscal expansion under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration.
Japanese and South Korean tech stocks tumbled Friday, with Softbank falling over 10% amid AI bubble concerns.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 21, 2025
Asia tech stocks tumble on AI bubble fears
Seoul’s benchmark Kospi index was trading down nearly 4%, while Tokyo’s Nikkei index shed 2.3% in morning trade.
The music industry has been battling AI companies, alleging illegal use of their songs.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 20, 2025
Major music labels strike deals with new AI streaming service
The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence tools.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says owners of large data centers will continue to spend on new gear because investments in artificial intelligence have begun to pay off.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 20, 2025
Nvidia’s upbeat forecast soothes fears of AI spending bubble
Sales will be about $65 billion in the January quarter, the chipmaker said, while analysts had estimated $62 billion, on average.
Guests stand at the booth of Saudi artificial intelligence company Humain during the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh on Oct. 29.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 19, 2025
U.S. plans to approve sale of chips to Saudi AI venture Humain
Riyadh has needed Washington’s permission for such shipments since 2023.
Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister of India’s Andhra Pradesh state, speaks during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 18, 2025
India’s chief kingmaker sees Google unleashing $1 trillion boom
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu says Google’s announcement of a $15 billion investment in data centers in his state is just the beginning.
A worker checks the printed book cover of Taiwan's civil defense handbook at a printing house in Taoyuan, Taiwan, November 14, 2025.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2025
Taiwan to further tighten export controls for dual-use technology
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Taiwan has updated its export control regime to prevent Taiwanese high-tech goods from being illicitly used for military purposes.
Japan must act quickly to protect anime creators through stronger labor rights, transparency and fair compensation as AI threatens to exploit the industry’s creative work.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 18, 2025
Will artificial intelligence turn Japan’s ‘irreplaceable treasures’ into slop?
AI’s threat gives Japan a second chance to do right by the workers propping up the $21 billion industry.
Jeff Bezos has a unique set of management practices he used and espoused during his time as CEO of Amazon.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 18, 2025
Jeff Bezos brings signature management style to $6 billion AI startup
Project Prometheus, which has fewer than 100 employees, will use AI to accelerate engineering and manufacturing in fields like aerospace and automobiles.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on May 13. In his upcoming visit to the White House, the crown prince is seeking security guarantees and wants access to artificial intelligence technology and progress toward a deal on a civilian nuclear program.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2025
Saudi crown prince to visit U.S. with defense, AI and nuclear energy on agenda
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seeking security guarantees from the U.S. and wants access to AI technology and progress toward a deal on a civilian nuclear program.
David Ha, CEO of Sakana AI, is one of the founders of the startup, which was established in 2023.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2025
Sakana AI targets defense and banking markets after big funding round
The startup has achieved a ¥400 billion valuation and notes a “tailwind” from Japan’s new government.
Digital shelf displays recommend complementary products in real time at a Lawson pilot store in Tokyo’s Minato Ward.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Nov 17, 2025
Lawson taps AI and Asia growth as convenience store sector undergoes shift
Changes come as store expansion is slowing at home and inbound tourism is increasingly driving consumption.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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