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Japan’s Data-Center Gold Rush
Microsoft, AWS, and SoftBank are pouring tens of billions into Japanese AI infrastructure — and hitting a wall called electricity
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Japanese Food Sourcing
Source-verified Japanese food & drink products you can import, plus the overseas e-commerce stores already selling them. Reviewed by one human team in Tokyo.
1,185 source-verified products. Filter by market, certification (Halal / Organic / Kosher) or OEM availability. Add to shortlist → warm introduction.
200 overseas e-commerce stores across 62 countries. Filter by your country to see exactly what reaches you.
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AI, SaaS, Robotics, Healthcare IT — cutting-edge Japanese technology.
Microsoft, AWS, and SoftBank are pouring tens of billions into Japanese AI infrastructure — and hitting a wall called electricity
Everyone knows Nintendo. Everyone knows PlayStation. But behind the iconic brands lies a $25 billion technology ecosystem that most outsiders never see…
In a windowless room at a Fanuc factory in Yamanashi Prefecture, a row of robotic arms assembles components with sub-millimeter precision. Nothing…
Food
Japanese sake, snacks, health foods, and culinary trends going global.
How British importer-brands bring authentic Japanese food to Western shelves — the curators bridging producers and global buyers
The three-century-old sake house that became the first Japanese brewer to make sake on American soil — and invented the One Cup
How Ezaki Glico is moving Pocky from the ethnic aisle to mainstream shelves worldwide, backed by new overseas plants
Companies
In-depth profiles of notable Japanese companies making an impact worldwide.
How Japan's #3 convenience-store chain became the most interesting take-private deal of 2024 — and why the 50/50 ownership between a sogo shosha and a telco rewrites what a konbini can be.
Why the Kuroneko parent-and-kitten brand dominates ~40% of Japan's home-parcel market, how the 2017 driver-wage scandal compressed margins for years, and what the 2024 Amazon Japan restructuring means for Japan's SCM economics.
Why JAL's 2010 bankruptcy and the Kazuo Inamori-led restructuring became a global corporate-turnaround case study — and how the Oneworld + ZIPAIR/Spring Japan playbook contrasts with ANA's strategy.
Insights
Market analysis, investment trends, and strategic opportunities in Japan.
Inside the working day of a rank-and-file Japanese in-between animator — and the structural reasons wages stay low, talent is leaving, and the global anime boom faces a capacity wall.
Japan's manga market — print, digital, app — is now estimated over ¥6.9 trillion, larger than its anime business. For foreign publishers and investors, the entry point is the four Tokyo publishing houses.
How a single anime figure travels from a Tokyo production committee through Good Smile, Bandai Spirits and Premium Bandai to a foreign retail shelf — and why most foreign retailers misread the licensing stack.
