Fujitsu says it will pay compensation in UK Post Office scandal(japantimes.co.jp)

19 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 4 comments

Japan's Space One rocket explodes shortly after launch(japantimes.co.jp)

30 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 6 comments

Japanese population falls in all 47 prefectures for the first time(japantimes.co.jp)

92 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 70 comments

Japan ranked 31st in digital competitiveness, 92nd for English skills(japantimes.co.jp)

67 points by mikhael 1 year ago | 56 comments

Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IMF says(japantimes.co.jp)

30 points by mikhael 3 years ago | 31 comments

Bluesky Is Booming in Japan(japantimes.co.jp)

10 points by belter 1 year ago | 0 comments

AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules(japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

350 points by mushstory 3 months ago | 185 comments

Japan News report that Japan's Supreme Court dismissed an American engineer's appeal to have an AI named as inventor on a patent application.

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners(aljazeera.com)

120 points by mikhael 1 month ago | 323 comments

Al Jazeera article on Japan raising requirements for permanent residency and tightening rules for foreigners amid a rightward political shift.

Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)

612 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 92 comments

Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.

Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores(english.kyodonews.net)

428 points by pjmlp 2 years ago | 288 comments

Kyodo News article reporting that Japan's parliament enacted a law restricting Apple and Google from blocking third-party app stores and payment platforms on iOS and Android.

Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower(bbc.co.uk)

449 points by johndunne 2 years ago | 252 comments

BBC News article reporting that the UK Post Office lied to and threatened the BBC over a Fujitsu Horizon system whistleblower.

Japan’s government will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training(technomancers.ai)

412 points by version_five 3 years ago | 329 comments

Blog post reporting that Japan's government will not enforce copyright on data used for AI training.