Created by Crypton Future Media, a Japanese software development company based in Sapporo, the “entity” beloved by millions, which goes by the name of Hatsune Miku, is a “fabricated digital voice sporting a virtual character body,” as described by The Japan Times (eat your heart out, Daf...
While China is increasingly confident in its dazzling economic growth in past decades, the country is placing urgency on building more basic and lasting confidence -- to generate its own great minds in philosophy and social sciences. China gains new economic traction on path of restructuring While...
An 18-part look inside Japan’s game industry: Night Cry, Scalebound, Final Fantasy 15, Street Fighter 5, Yu Suzuki, Vane, Summer Lesson and more.
Two of the biggest companies in Japan are warning we’re heading towards a collapse of democracy and social order if generative AI isn’t controlled. The biggest telecommunications company and the biggest newspaper in Japanissueda manifesto calling for authorities to implement guardrails to ...
In May, around the same period in which Line started to explore the blockchain sector, sources close to Facebook revealed the social media conglomerate has been considering the launch of its own cryptocurrency that could be utilized by billions of its users worldwide. However, speaking to C...
Japan is planning the biggest minimum wage hike since it set a pay floor in 1978 BYErica Yokoyama and Bloomberg July 25, 2024 at 6:35 AM EDT Prime Minister Fumio Kishida set a target last year to raise the minimum wage to 1,500 yen by the mid-2030s, implying an annual gain of arou...
Add to that the expansion of social media in dictating musical trends, and K-pop is now arguably more streamlined, and less risk-taking. Though that has helped the genre boom, Öberg insists that the "unpredictable and experimental" music of 2015 is what made that year so special. But ev...
Based in:Tokyo, Japan Main industry:Electronics Most soldgame in 2023:Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 2. Tencent Tencent Holdings Ltd. Gaming Revenue: $25.5 billion Founded in:1998 Based in:Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Main industry:Social Media
The assassination was early in the morning in New York City outside of a hotel. The murder sparked a nationwide conversation, notably on social media, surrounding the healthcare system and insurance industry in the United States. 9 Joe Biden Abandons His Re-Election Campaign 680 ...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 (Xinhua) -- The world's largest social media company Facebook suffered the biggest one-day drop of its stocks by seven percent on Wall Street Monday in four years following reported data leakage of its 50 million users for alleged political purposes, the Associated Pre...