NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) and Skyloom Global Corporation have joined forces to revolutionize space communications with the development of cutting-edge optical communication equipment for multi-orbit satellite networks. The collaboration aims to commercialize and make available on the open market one of the world’s fastest space optical terminals, achieving remarkable high-speed inter-satellite communications of 100 Gbps and more, propelling the space industry into a new era …

TOKYO, Mar 19, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – TANAKA Holdings Co., Ltd. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Group CEO: Koichiro Tanaka), the sole holding company of TANAKA Precious Metals, announced today that it constructed a new head office building in Nihonbashi Kayabacho, Chuo-ku, the founding site of TANAKA Precious Metals, and will relocate head office functions to the new building on April 1, 2024. …

TOKYO, Mar 19, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Mitsubishi Corporation has entered into an MOU with other large international companies to sponsor the creation of a global coalition, the e-NG Coalition, which is exclusively dedicated to electric natural gas (e-NG or e-natural gas), also referred to as e-methane. The founding members of the e-NG Coalition include: •Engie•Mitsubishi Corporation•Osaka Gas•Sempra Infrastructure•TES•Tokyo Gas•Toho Gas•TotalEnergies.e-NG is …

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Mar 19, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – The Pride of Hiroshima Exhibition Executive Committee has decided to set up a permanent installation for the Pride of Hiroshima Exhibition, an event that highlighted Hiroshima’s postwar recovery, current and future efforts in conjunction with the G7 Hiroshima Summit in May 2023. The permanent exhibition will open to the general public on Saturday, April …

Okinawa, Japan, Mar 19, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Since concluding a collaboration agreement with the Okinawa Prefectural Police Headquarters in February last year, Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) has been working to analyze police accident data, vehicle data (passenger cars and commercial vehicles), and rental car in-vehicle app data. This work is being carried out together with TOYOTA Rent a Car Okinawa, Yazaki Corporation, JTB Corporation, Toyota …

SANTA CLARA, CA, Mar 19, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to create a new generation of transformational artificial intelligence (AI)solutions. Hitachi Vantara will develop a portfolio of solutions, Hitachi iQ, to drive targeted AI outcomes by layering industry-specific capabilities on top …

TOKYO, Mar 18, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (Nissan) and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a new joint initiative in next-generation-mobility and energy-related services utilizing electric vehicles (EVs) to contribute to solving regional societal issues and to creating vibrant future communities. Japan as a country has been addressing issues such as driver shortages …

TOKYO, Mar 18, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Fujitsu Limited and Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced an expanded partnership(1) to accelerate the modernization of legacy applications on AWS Cloud by launching a Modernization Acceleration Joint Initiative. Launching on April 1, Fujitsu and AWS will provide assessment, migration, and modernization of legacy mission critical applications running on …

TOKYO, Mar 18, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (Nissan) and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda) announced today that the two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding under which they will begin a feasibility study of a strategic partnership in the fields of vehicle electrification and intelligence. To further accelerate efforts toward carbon neutrality and zero traffic-accident fatalities, it …

TOKYO, Mar 15, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), captured the top market share by megawatts in 2023 with a global gas turbine market share of 36% according to McCoy Power Reports data.(1) The company has also secured a 56% market share in the Advanced Class(2) gas turbine market, led by Mitsubishi …

TOKYO, Mar 15, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and TIER IV, Inc. (TIER IV), a pioneer in open-source autonomous driving technology, are proud to announce MC’s strategic investment in TIER IV through a third-party allotment of shares. Through this investment, the companies will cooperatively tackle efforts to transform mobility services in regional areas with autonomous driving technology.  MC has been …

TOKYO, Mar 15, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (“Hitachi High-Tech”) announced the launch of the LS9300AD, a new system for inspecting the front and backside of non-patterned wafer surfaces for particles and defects. In addition to the conventional dark-field laser scattering detection of foreign material and defects, the LS9300AD is equipped with a new DIC (Differential Interference Contrast) inspection function …

TOKYO, Mar 15, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – A Japanese consortium of research partners including RIKEN, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Osaka University, Fujitsu Limited, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have been recognized with the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award as part of the 53rd Japan Industrial Technology …

TOKYO, Mar 14, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), on April 1, will establish “GX (Green Transformation) Solutions” as a new business domain to promote the energy transition business that MHI Group is pursuing as a growth strategy. By reorganizing the energy transition-related business, which currently spans multiple business divisions, and establishing a structure with enhanced project management and …

TOKYO, Mar 14, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Fujitsu and Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (hereinafter THERS) today announced a joint research on the prediction of space radiation phenomena to ensure the safe human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and interplanetary space (1). As part of the joint research, the two partners applied Fujitsu’s “Wide Learning” explainable AI technology offered via …

TOKYO, Mar 13, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation aim to jointly establish a new company “EVNION Inc.” in June 2024 , to operate an online platform to provide one-stop services relating to electric vehicles (EV).  Such establishment of EVNION will be subject to receipt of regulatory clearances from the relevant authorities. …

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has concluded a license agreement with Kellogg Brown & Root, Ltd. (KBR, Ltd.), an operating company of the first-tier American engineering firm KBR, Inc., to provide CO2 capture technology for a low carbon hydrogen production plant being established in Cheshire in northwest England. The project, Hydrogen Production Plant 2 (HPP2), will be constructed at the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, which hosts …

GMO Research Activity Support & Technology, Inc. and Fujitsu Limited today announced the successful development of a service on Fujitsu’s Computing as a Service (CaaS) platform to put the research results of the supercomputer Fugaku into practical use in March 2024. GMO Research Activity Support & Technology will now deploy the service, which offers an analysis environment for brain MRI data that leverages software and …

TOKYO, Mar 11, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Koichiro Tanaka), which develops industrial precious metals products as one of the core companies of TANAKA Precious Metals, announced today that it has established a gold particle bonding technology for high-density mounting of semiconductors using AuRoFUSE™ low-temperature fired paste for gold-to-gold bonding. AuRoFUSE™ is a composition of …

TOKYO, Mar 11, 2024 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Hitachi, Ltd. has concluded a strategic alliance agreement with Amazon Web Services Japan G. K. (AWS) to strengthen hybrid cloud solutions.Based on this Agreement, Hitachi and AWS will strengthen the development of hybrid cloud solutions that we have co-created for the purpose of promoting system modernization and cloud migration for customers over a three-year period …