Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and beginning live trials at sea. The system, rated at 100-kilowatt power, is ...

Japan is making a huge bet to revive its long-declining advanced chipmaking industry. A new government-private joint venture named Rapidus is pursuing an ambitious target of mass-producing 2-nanometer ...

CEATEC is one of Japan’s largest technology shows, and this year’s theme is “Innovation for All.” Show organizers brought me to Tokyo to check it out! At NEC, I saw an AI-powered camera that ...

Unsurprisingly, it was also in Japan that neocognitron, the architectural ancestor of the neural networks that power systems like ChatGPT, was developed by computer scientist Kunihiko Fukushima. Yet, ...

TOKYO — U.S. technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together on artificial intelligence to deliver smart robots and a variety of ...