Companies
The Masayoshi Son Question: SoftBank Group’s $400B bet on the AI stack
From PHS reseller to Arm-and-Stargate AI infrastructure giant. How foreign LPs, sovereigns and corporates should read Masayoshi Son's machine in 2026.
Keyword
From PHS reseller to Arm-and-Stargate AI infrastructure giant. How foreign LPs, sovereigns and corporates should read Masayoshi Son's machine in 2026.
SmartNews built a machine-learning news app in Tokyo and scaled it into a $2B unicorn with a major US presence.
Founded by ex-Google researchers in 2023, Tokyo's Sakana AI reached a $2.65B valuation with a nature-inspired approach to building AI models.
The former Toshiba Memory invented NAND flash — and now, newly listed, finds its entire 2026 output sold out to the AI boom
The world leader in chip test equipment with about 58% share — a direct beneficiary of every AI and HBM chip shipped
A century-old firm that began as a power company now makes the high-end substrates Nvidia and Intel chips depend on
Microsoft, AWS, and SoftBank are pouring tens of billions into Japanese AI infrastructure — and hitting a wall called electricity
How a shrinking labor supply is turning Japan into the world's most aggressive automation market — and what that means for global businesses.
While the world’s attention focuses on OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, Japan’s most valuable AI company has been quietly building something different.…
With nearly one in three citizens over 65 and a caregiver shortage projected to hit 570,000 by 2040, Japan is not merely…
