is investing some ¥20 billion into generative AI trained on Japanese text and plans to launch its own LLM next year. Softbank, which has 40 million customers and a partnership with OpenAI ...

It’s like sending a text without having to pull out your phone — only this time, your social preferences are written on your wrist. The bands come in three colors, each representing a ...

Seibu Railway incorporates four languages on the signs aboard some of its limited express trains. Despite the variety and only seconds of waiting before Japanese text rolls back around ...

A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic ... They also just skip over some text entirely.” Everyone at Orange understands that manga translation is a sensitive issue, says Kuroda ...

Mangadex has been forced to take down fan translations by Japanese publishers, many of which aren’t purchasable in other languages.

According to some media reports ... studies at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, pointed to a Japanese fairy tale with source text dating back to the 8th century. It tells the story of a fisherman ...

but it will also have Japanese text support for those who want or need it. Some members of the cast consist of industry veterans with a long and established career. [Thanks, Famitsu!] Hato Moa ...

The Japanese government and big technology firms ... predict the next word on the basis of previous words in a piece of text. The vast majority of the text that ChatGPT’s previous model, GPT ...