TOKYO, Oct 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Woven Capital, L.P., the investment arm of the Woven Planet Group, a Toyota subsidiary that is dedicated to building the safest mobility in the world, today announced that it has made an investment in UP.Partners’ newly launched $230M venture capital fund. The fund is dedicated […]
TOKYO, Oct 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (MHIENG), a Group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) based in Yokohama, has concluded testing of its new proprietary solvent for capturing CO2 at the Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM)(1) in Norway, one of the world’s largest carbon capture demonstration […]
TOKYO, Oct 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), Tohoku University and Kyoto University have become the world’s first (1) to establish technology for the highly efficient and high-quality production of actinium-225 (225Ac), a substance required for a form of radiation therapy known as targeted alpha therapy (TAT). TAT is […]
TOKYO, Oct 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Snowy Hydro Limited, a dynamic, integrated energy business, for two M701F gas turbines and related auxiliaries equipment for the Hunter Power Project in New South Wales, southeastern region […]
TOKYO, Oct 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Aichi Cancer Center (1) and Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of an AI solution able to select effective medical treatment from a wide range of drugs based on patients’ individual cancer types and various genomic variants (2). Figure1. The newly developed system The effectiveness […]
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 18, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota announced today that it will invest approximately $3.4 billion (380 billion yen) in automotive batteries in the United States through 2030. Specifically, the investment is for developing and localizing automotive battery production, including those for battery electric vehicles, and is part of […]
TOKYO, Oct 18, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is pleased to announce that it has established new greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and energy-transformation (EX) investment guidelines.In recognition of its multi-industry interests and business activities. MC will continue to simultaneously fulfill its responsibility to provide stable energy supply, such as […]
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 18, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Elfyn Evans finished second overall at the Rally de Espana to set up a final-round FIA World Rally Championship title decider with his TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team team-mate Sebastien Ogier, who finished fourth. Car 33 (Elfyn Evans, Scott Martin) Evans and […]
TOKYO, Oct 18, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu Limited conducted a joint data analysis project with Nikkei Inc., leveraging data analysis tools including Foundry from Palantir Technologies in order to provide new insights into the Japanese electoral process. Drawing on the knowledge of Nikkei, the joint project aims to provide readers and […]
TOKYO and KENILWORTH, N.J., Oct 18, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Eisai and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has adopted positive opinions recommending approval of […]
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 15, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – At Toyota, we have made repeated adjustments to our production plans since August due to a shortage of parts resulting from the spread of COVID-19, causing various inconveniences to all parties concerned. We would like to express our gratitude to all parties concerned […]
TOKYO, Oct 15, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has revealed the design of the plug-in hybrid (PHEV) model of the all-new Outlander crossover SUV. The all-new Outlander PHEV model will make its global debut on October 28, with the start of sales scheduled in Japan in mid-December. The online […]
TOKYO, Oct 14, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships (AOTS), NTT DOCOMO (DOCOMO), and its Thailand-based subsidiary Mobile Innovation (MI) announced today that they have reached an agreement to collaborate on a trial that will evaluate the feasibility of delivering AOTS’s technical training programs remotely […]
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 14, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – As the second model of the next-generation of Lexus following the NX, Lexus held the world premiere of the new LX today in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the reveal video is available online. The new LX, […]
TOKYO, Oct 13, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, and Fujitsu Limited agreed to collaborate with automotive-related manufacturers to strengthen connected car security measures. With this collaboration, Fujitsu will provide a security countermeasure solution for connected cars, the V-SOC (Vehicle-Security Operation Center) service, […]
LAS VEGAS, NV, Oct 13, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Honda Aircraft Company today unveiled the “HondaJet 2600 Concept”, at a special event hosted by Honda Aircraft Company at the 2021 NBAA Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE). Presented as the next generation of business jet, Honda Aircraft displayed a mockup of the […]
TOKYO & LONDON, Oct 12, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Woven Capital, L.P., the investment arm of the Woven Planet Group, a Toyota subsidiary that is dedicated to building the safest mobility in the world, today announced that it has made an investment in the Climate Technology Sustainability Fund of 2150 (a.k.a. 2150). […]
TOKYO, Oct 12, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that it has been named a winner in the Light Reading 2021 Leading Lights Awards program in the ‘Best New 5G Core Product’ for its cloud-native 4G/5G Converged Core and ‘Best NEW Open RAN Product’ category for its 5G […]
LONDON, Oct 12, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Highlights: – JCB, the major global payment brand and credit card issuer in Japan with 140 million global cardmembers, has appointed global B2B marketing and branding specialist agency, Transmission ( https://transmissionagency.com/en-gb ), to enable JCB to transform its brand presence and improve its customer experience […]
TOKYO, Oct 12, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The NEC C&C Foundation today announced that the 2021 C&C Prize will be awarded to two groups for their contributions to developing the neocognitron, a prototype for the core technology of today’s artificial intelligence (AI), by applying knowledge of the visual primary cortex in the […]
Toyota City, Japan, Oct 12, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), and Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. (Toyota CRDL) announced today that they have commenced discussions on joint research aimed at accelerating development and implementing advanced technologies in the field […]
TOKYO, Oct 11, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has commenced operation of a second M701JAC gas turbine unit for natural gas-fired power plants in Thailand. Inaugurated on October 1, this is the second of eight units ordered on a full-turnkey basis […]
TOKYO, Oct 11, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has started joint clinical research with the University of Tokyo Hospital to verify the effectiveness of artificial intelligence technology to estimate abnormal heart movements based on electrocardiogram(1) data. The research is planned to commence at the University of Tokyo […]
TOKYO, Oct 11, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that it has been contracted by Facebook to build an ultra-high performance transatlantic subsea fiber-optic cable connecting the USA and Europe. Until recently, subsea cable was composed of 16 fiber pairs at most, but today, by using NEC’s newly […]
TOKYO, Oct 11, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today that its Open RAN 5G massive MIMO(*) radio units have been awarded a Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Requirements Compliant Ribbon, and are listed on new windowTIP Exchange. TIP is a global community of companies and organizations that work […]
TOKYO, Oct 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team takes on the penultimate round of the 2021 FIA World Rally Championship – the Rally de Espana on October 15-17 – with the opportunity for both the manufacturers’ and drivers’ titles to be clinched on fast and flowing […]
TOKYO, Oct 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Honda and Red Bull Group have agreed on a programme of cooperation focused on a variety of motorsport activities, including Formula 1, young driver development and other forms of motorsport, as well as encompassing marketing and branding initiatives. As announced on 2 October 2020, Honda […]
TOKYO, Oct 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE:4004) hereby announces that, in connection with the issuance of new shares by way of the Third-Party Allotment, which its board of directors resolved on August 23, 2021 concurrently with the resolution on the issuance of new shares by way of […]
TOKYO, Oct 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu announced the development of a prototype health enhancement solution based on its proprietary AI-powered 3D sensing technology. The new solution will be verified in cooperation with users of Sante Gym(1) in Fukuoka Prefecture (Japan) between October 12 and 31 2021. Photos: (Left Screen) pose […]
TOKYO, Oct 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu has announced that from October 7 it will begin to provide free assessments to its customers considering the use of its FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service FJcloud, etc. in their digital transformation projects, demonstrating changes to CO2 emissions resulting from the migration of IT systems […]