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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 18

Wataru Endo Joins Athdemy as Advisor

Endo's role moves beyond endorsing a brand: he becomes a source of operational knowledge for a company building services around athletes' value, with education and investment activities alongside his playing career.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17

KADOKAWA Opens Studio One Base Hub For Five Group Anime Studios

The stated premise is hiring and retention rather than capacity: Studio One Base Corporation president Tsuyoshi Kikuchi said creative production staff are not receiving sufficient benefits while the number of young people entering the industry falls, so the hub is built around working conditions and training space.

Real Sound Anime
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17

Kurasu Joins METI Circular Economy Action Week With Discount Campaign

A startup being named among 10 supporting companies alongside established manufacturers and retailers for a METI-run circular consumption week gives the subscription reuse model a place in the ministry's public-facing push to normalize buying, using, separating, and circulating goods.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17

Sei San Sei Rolls Out RPaaS, AI Recruitment Service For Manufacturing

The launch targets a manufacturing sector where labor shortages and a shortage of staff to handle recruitment are happening at the same time, pushing general affairs, HR, and even plant managers or executives to run hiring alongside their main duties.

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industry 1 sources · Sep 17

Report Ties Pirated IPTV Services to Banned Terrorist Broadcasters

The report argues that the same reseller and credit systems that let pirate IPTV evade copyright enforcement also restore access to broadcasters the United States blocked more than two decades ago, which is why the nonprofit wants site blocking treated as a safety measure rather than only a rights issue.

GIGAZINE
industry 1 sources · Sep 17

CESA Survey Finds 85.8% of Game Developers Use Generative AI

The survey puts a number on what studios have mostly described anecdotally: generative AI is now routine in development workflows, and the industry's stated safeguards run through human review rather than tool bans.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17

SK Hynix Denies Report Of Intel Talks On US Memory Production

The denial leaves open whether SK hynix will shift any memory output to US soil, at a time when Washington is pressing chipmakers to manufacture there and the company's CEO has called any site meeting land, power, water, labor and cost conditions a candidate.

GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17

NANKAI NEXT Ventures Invests in Shumitime Operator Jellness

The investment is a bet on an operator that treats generative AI as back-office machinery for personalizing leisure tours, not as the product itself, and on a leisure business angling toward broader everyday-life services.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 17

Trash Technologies Launches NovaMine Circular Materials Brand

The launch pairs a recycled-metals brand with third-party digital certification, an attempt to make the chain from collected device to finished product checkable by manufacturers and end users rather than taken on trust.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16

TakaraTomy Sets 2027 Rebrand As R&D Spending Rises 14.9 Percent

The rebrand retires the Tomy name that carried the company abroad since the 2006 merger, so the identity a Western buyer recognizes will now depend on toy lines and anime licenses rather than a century-old infant-products label.

Animenomics
industryevent 1 sources · Sep 16

AI Video Platform AZ8 Opens Creator Program And Ad Contest

AZ8 is courting Japanese creators not with a feature drop but with a support pipeline, tying tool access to monthly production tasks and an advertising contest so the platform learns local production habits while creators keep making work.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16

Byside Appoints Kunihiro Okamoto as Outside Director

For a buyer-side M&A advisory firm whose deal sourcing and execution support have expanded, the appointment puts technology and AI oversight at the management level rather than in a single business unit.

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industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 16

FastLabel Joins ugo to Build Data Infrastructure for Physical AI

Japan's national push to industrialize physical AI depends on data production capacity, and this partnership puts FastLabel's factory operations model behind both a government-backed VTLA program and a commercial product rollout at the same time.

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