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Toilet maker Toto scores a royal flush as share price rises due to AI demand in unlikely chipmaking side-gig — Japanese company develops electrostatic chucks to hold silicon wafers in lucrative segment (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-23 | by Mark Tyson | get Toto → | tags: analysts, chucks, expertise

122.

Inside the secret world of Japanese snack bars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-20 | get Snack bars → | tags: aeru, aeru shinbashi, japan

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Japanese city deploys anti-bear drones as 'human casualties at an all-time high' — non-lethal spray can be delivered with 10cm accuracy radius, 1km range (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-20 | by Mark Tyson | get Spray Can → | tags: bear, city, drone

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Glass cloth could be the next great AI shortage, as major manufacturers scramble to secure critical material — Japanese manufacturer courted by Apple, Nvidia, Google, and Amazon (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-16 | by Jon Martindale | get Glass cloth → | tags: apple, cloth, glass

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Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-12 | get Neuralink → | tags: behavior, center evolutionary, chimpanzee

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Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-08 | by Mark Tyson | get PCs → | tags: gaming, old pcs

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Major Japanese electronics store begs customers for their old PCs as hardware drought continues — ‘we pretty much buy any PC’ pleads the Akihabara outlet (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-08 | get PCs → | tags: customers sell, electronics, electronics store

128.

Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data (arstechnica.com)

2026-01-07 | get Nuclear reactor core → | tags: authority, hamaoka, nuclear

129.

This Japanese Restaurant Just Paid $3.2 Million for One Fish (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-07 | get Nigiri → | tags: fish, kimura, million

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This open-source tool uses AI to translate Japanese retro games on the fly (techspot.com)

2026-01-05 | get GamePal → | tags: aims, aims provide, bertrand quenin

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Japanese startup Ludens AI brought two very adorable robots to CES 2026 (engadget.com)

2026-01-05 | get Robot → | tags: advertisement, cocomo, ludens

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Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-02 | get Gamepad → | tags: game, install, installer

133.

Leonardo’s wood charring method predates Japanese practice (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-29 | get Wood Charring Method → | tags: heart, leonardo, notebooks

134.

This Niche Japanese Food Franchise Is Opening 20 New Locations After Record Sales Year (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-29 | get Sushi → | tags: balls, franchise, franchisees

135.

Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-29 | by Powerful | get Language Learning Tool → | tags: anki, best, manga

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Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-27 | by Jowi Morales | get Graphics Card → | tags: dram, graphics, longer

137.

Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-24 | by Juan Galt | get Bitcoin → | tags: bitcoin, mt gox, silk

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Japanese shops halt desktop PC orders until 2026 as memory shortage intensifies — built-to-order systems hamstrung by component shortages and skyrocketing prices (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-23 | by Hassam Nasir | get Desktop PC → | tags: brands, december, delivery

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The Best Japanese Planners (2026): Hobonichi Techo, Kokuyo Jibun Techo (wired.com)

2025-12-22 | by Nena Farrell | get Planner → | tags: japanese, jibun, paper

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SoftBank leads decline in Japanese tech stocks as worries over AI spending spill over to Asia (cnbc.com)

2025-12-18 | by Lim Hui Jie | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: ai infrastructure, group, infrastructure

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VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined” (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | get Virtual Reality → | tags: available ve, browser, center

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"There are more Japanese [VRChat] creators than all other countries combined " (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | get Virtual Reality Chat → | tags: available ve, browser, center

143.

Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | get Kanji → | tags: browse, chose, chose tointegrate

144.

Want to make big changes in 2026? Try this fast and easy Japanese approach (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-16 | get Smartphone → | tags: ambitious, ambitious ways, called

145.

Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | by No Author | get Kodak → | tags: agency, government, hepburn

146.

A Japanese startup built a speaker that's basically a sheet of fabric (techspot.com)

2025-12-16 | get Smart Fabric Speaker → | tags: adapting, adapting concept, advanced

147.

TSMC ponders upgrading 2nd Japan fab to 4nm — could pave the way for more advanced chips for Japanese customers (Updated) (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Anton Shilov | get 4nm → | tags: capabilities, fab phase, japan

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TMSC ponders upgrading 2nd Japan fab to 4nm — could pave the way for more advanced chips for Japanese customers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-11 | by Anton Shilov | get 4nm → | tags: capabilities, class, fab phase

149.

Japanese Firms Suffer Long Tail of Ransomware Damage (darkreading.com)

2025-12-10 | get Norton → | tags: actors, actors targeted, government

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Japanese Billionaire Plans Sprawling Series of ‘Trump Industrial Parks’ (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-05 | get Smartphones → | tags: billions, billions capital, capital