TOKYO, Oct 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading global steel and mining company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG), a pioneer in carbon capture technology, leading global resources company, BHP, along with Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd are collaborating on a multi-year trial of MHIENG’s carbon capture technology with ArcelorMittal, following […]

Toyota City, Japan, Oct 27, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – JERA Co., Inc. (JERA) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announce the construction and launch of the world’s first (as of writing, according to Toyota’s investigations) large-capacity Sweep Energy Storage System. The system was built using batteries reclaimed from electrified vehicles (HEV, PHEV, BEV, […]

TOKYO, Oct 27, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is pleased to announce its establishment on October 27, 2022 of a new joint venture company, Beyond Materials Corporation (Beyond Materials), a specialized strategy and engineering service provider that will support materials suppliers on their path to global and sustainable growth. Our […]

TOKYO, Oct 27, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has been awarded a Bronze Badge from the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), this time for complying with the requirements for TIP’s OpenRAN RU Technical Requirements Document 2.1. TIP is a global community of companies and organizations that work together to develop, […]

TOKYO, Oct 26, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu today announced the start of a digital collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) (1), Dutch consulting firm Arcadis (2) and British electricity company National Grid (3) leveraging Fujitsu’s Fleet Optimization solution to contribute to the realization of carbon neutral transportation […]

TOKYO, Oct 26, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is pleased to announce that it will be opening two new Japanese branches in November 2022, one in Akita City, Akita Prefecture, and the other in Choshi City, Chiba Prefecture. In May of this year, MC announced its new management plan, entitled […]

TOKYO, Oct 26, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Vodafone and NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) agreed to cooperate to bring the benefits of open radio access networks (Open RAN) to a wider operator and vendor community. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed today, Vodafone and DOCOMO agreed to cooperate towards harmonizing mobile operator […]

TOKYO, Oct 25, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that it has begun sales of the Honda Power Pack Exchanger e: battery swapping station in Japan, with the first unit delivered to Gachaco Inc., a battery sharing service joint venture. Gachaco today began operation of the first mass-production […]

TOKYO & LONDON, Oct 25, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today announced a new partnership with Trust Payments, a leader in fintech powering truly innovative customer commerce solutions. JCB’s growing community of over 140 million cardmembers will now be able to […]

TOKYO, Oct 25, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu today announced that it started to offer “Fujitsu Computing as a Service” (hereinafter CaaS), its service portfolio to deliver customers access to world-leading computing technologies via the public cloud to the Japanese market, with global roll out to follow in fiscal 2023. Figure 1: […]

TOKYO & PARIS & KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Japan’s only international payment brand JCB Co., Ltd. (“JCB”) has launched “JCBDC” (JCB Digital Currency) pilot project with identity technologies no. 1 IDEMIA and the world’s leading fintech company Soft Space Sdn. Bhd. (“Soft Space”). JCBDC pilot will develop a […]

TOKYO, Oct 24, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has globally released a new device that uses ear acoustic biometric authentication to identify individuals and prevent unauthorized use of devices. The “Hearable Device” was jointly developed with Foster Electric Company, Limited, and was made available from October 21 through “Makuake […]

TOKYO, Oct 24, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Osaka Gas Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), and IBM Japan, Ltd. have agreed to jointly conduct a Proof of Concept (PoC) of a system enabling visualization of the environmental value of synthetic methane, in the context of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions across the […]

TOKYO, Oct 24, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team has completed an FIA World Rally Championship treble in style by clinching the 2022 manufacturers’ title* with a superb win for Sebastien Ogier at Rally de Espana. Team Photo The manufacturers’ championship success follows the drivers’ and co-drivers’ […]

TOKYO, Oct 21, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. has developed a prototype 360-degree stereo vision system for automated vehicles traveling on regular streets. Based on multi-camera 3D sensing, the all-surrounding sensing system is both high-resolution and highly accurate. Most of the current automated driving systems are limited to highway driving. […]

TOKYO, Oct 21, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – DXAS Agricultural Technology, a joint venture between Kagome Co., Ltd. and NEC Corporation, will be enhancing NEC’s AI-enabled agricultural ICT platform, CropScope, with the addition of AI farming management advice and an automated irrigation control function for pulse drip irrigation*. CropScope Functions and Value Delivered […]

TOKYO, Oct 21, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu Limited and Toyota Systems Corporation (hereinafter Toyota Systems) today announced the launch of a new automobile production instruction system at Toyota Motor Corporation’s (1) Tsutsumi plant leveraging Fujitsu’s Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealer technology (2). The Digital Annealer offers users access to powerful combinatorial optimization problem-solving […]

TOKYO, Oct 20, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. has developed a prototype of a new steer-by-wire steering device that eliminates the conventional steering wheel and expands the cabin space. Steer-by-wire is a feature that steers the vehicles electrically–an essential technology for self-driving and other next-generation vehicles. The steer-by-wire technology links […]

TOKYO, Oct 20, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. has developed a prototype of an anti-jerk control that improves ride comfort by reducing the back-and-forth jerk* that occurs when the vehicle stops, and a motor torque control (motor ABS (anti-lock braking system)) that improves electricity consumption, driving stability and a sense […]

TOKYO, Oct 20, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (hereafter, Mitsubishi Motors) announced that the total sales of the Outlander PHEV model, its flagship crossover SUV, won the first place in the PHEV sales ranking(1) in Japan with 10,749 units(2) sold in first half of fiscal 2022. In addition, the PHEV […]