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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING--Some Japanese companies in China have offered to send their staff and their families back home after a 10-year-old Japanese boy was fatally stabbed in the Chinese city of Shenzhen ...

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 ...

Furoshiki is the Japanese tradition of wrapping objects in cloth to cover or transport them. Some are turning to it as a more eco-friendly way to wrap presents without wasting paper. Much of the ...

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 ...