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Astroscale: The Startup Cleaning Up Earth’s Orbit
Tokyo-founded Astroscale is a pioneer of commercial space-debris removal, turning orbital sustainability into a business.
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Tokyo-founded Astroscale is a pioneer of commercial space-debris removal, turning orbital sustainability into a business.
Tokyo-listed ispace is building commercial lunar landers, aiming to make transport to and business on the Moon routine.
From a 90% global monopoly in coater/developer systems to record ¥2.43 trillion revenue — how Tokyo Electron is navigating the AI chip boom and US-China export controls to remain indispensable to the world semiconductor supply chain.
While the world’s attention focuses on OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic, Japan’s most valuable AI company has been quietly building something different.…
Japan has fewer than 15 unicorns. But behind the numbers, a new class of deep tech startups is raising bigger rounds and building for global markets.
Born Global: 8 Japanese Startups You Haven’t Heard of — Yet Japan’s startup scene has a reputation problem. The narrative says Japanese…
When physicists at CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, completing the Standard Model of particle physics, the detection…
The electric vehicle revolution has a bottleneck, and it is the battery. Today’s lithium-ion cells are heavy, slow to charge, prone to…
Japan has declared 2025 the “first year of quantum industrialization,” backing the ambition with over ¥1 trillion in government funding and a…
While TSMC and ASML grab headlines, one Japanese company quietly ensures that every semiconductor chip in the world gets physically separated from…
Every cutting-edge chip powering your smartphone, AI server, or autonomous vehicle passed through a single company’s inspection system before it was made.…
From Toyota‘s futuristic Woven City to the open-source Autoware platform reshaping global autonomous driving, Japan is engineering a mobility revolution that addresses…