industryevent 1 sources · Sep 14
The program's shift toward later-stage and secondary transactions puts Shiza Ventures' stated focus on Japan's growth-stage venture secondary market at the center of a conference about access to U.S. capital markets.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 14
A video production house known for amusement machine work is staffing up on both compositing and planning roles in two cities, which points to active production demand in that hardware sector rather than a single project hire.
Automaton
industry 3 sources · Sep 14
The dispute turns on whether a CC BY-SA license can coexist with a theatrical release: if the film is produced under that license, third parties could legally distribute copies of it without paying the rights holders.
Automaton, KAI-YOU, GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 14
The scheme matches a construction lender to owners who want to renovate and launch lodging without going through bank screening, which shifts these projects away from loan approval toward receivables-backed payment plans.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 14
The pitch targets workplaces where training time is short and experienced staff are thin, and Studist is selling the tool on the handover of veteran know-how rather than on manual formatting alone.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 14
Japanese publishers are drawing the same volume of machine reading as their global peers but with fewer paying paths, so a revenue-share intermediary with no upfront cost is a bet that licensing, not referral traffic, becomes the workable model.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 12
KADOKAWA is consolidating the back office of five studios while keeping their trade names and production lines, a structure meant to address talent shortages and rising production costs without folding the studios into one brand.
GameBusiness.jp
industryrelease 1 sources · Sep 11
The slate is carried by volume 1 debuts from Viz Media in a week when most of the list is mid-run volumes, which is where the print market's new-reader intake shows up.
Anime News Network
industry 1 sources · Sep 11
Itō's hiatus lands mid-run on Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, where he is currently voicing Renji Abarai, so the break is a production matter for an ongoing series as much as a personal one.
Anime News Network
industryevent 1 sources · Sep 11
The contest frames voice AI as an addition to a performer's toolkit rather than a replacement, tested first by students who plan to work in the same industry the technology unsettles.
KAI-YOU
industry 1 sources · Sep 11
A scanning technology company reaching six figures on YouTube with a mostly overseas audience suggests its production demos, not marketing copy, are what carry the reach.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 11
The addition puts Fujikura, led by President and CEO Naoki Okada, into an index built around companies JPX expects to create value, a marker that reads on capital profitability and forward-looking, non-financial information rather than market cap alone.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 11
ARK is recruiting investment-side experience from the SoftBank orbit to push its land-based aquaculture systems toward overseas markets, where the company says it needs capital and partnership reach it does not currently have.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 11
An Okayama-based regional bank fund carried a startup running workplace cafeterias all the way to a TSE Growth listing, which is the exit path regional bank venture funds are built for and rarely reach.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 11
The listing adds a fourth exchange venue for DAR after its IEO on P2B Crypto Exchange and subsequent listings on Toobit and Deepcoin, widening the token's trading footprint on the Polygon chain while DART's pushes its RWA and Web3 businesses into global markets.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 11
The rebrand is Canvi's bid to sell continuous improvement on top of staffing: keep people on the calls and interviews, let AI and CRM/SFA turn what those people learn into the next round of sales and recruitment, and bill the cycle rather than the headcount.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 11
Amazon is treating dubbing as a viewing-quality problem rather than a reach problem, and the first test case is a German-language original whose translated audio now has to hold up against matching mouths.
GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 10
The developer that cut 75% of its engineering team in January over worsening revenue now hands its framework to one of the companies that adopted it early, moving Tailwind CSS from a standalone business to an in-house project.
GIGAZINE
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 10
Cygames is routing event ticketing through the same Cygames ID that already carries its games, which puts the account, not the ticket window, at the center of how players reach official Shadowverse events.
GameBusiness.jp
industry 2 sources · Sep 10
Pop Team Epic's move into Roblox puts the IP directly in the hands of outside creators, a different route from the manga and anime development the series has run on so far.
Inside
industrybusiness 1 sources · Sep 10
The alliance pairs a Salesforce-side integrator with a NetSuite-side integrator to sell the join between ERP and CRM as a productized template set, not a custom project.
ASCII.jp
industrybusiness 2 sources · Sep 10
The gap-financing selection shows which animation projects have cleared most of their budget and are now shopping for the last stretch of funding, with OLM and P.I.C.S. the two Japanese animation names on the list.
Anime News Network
industry 1 sources · Sep 10
The board moved the co-developer of WordPress out of the CEO seat at the company he founded while leaving him on the board, so the split between Automattic's for-profit leadership and the WordPress project is now a written arrangement rather than a question.
GIGAZINE
industryevent 1 sources · Sep 10
G-gen is using a vendor conference slot to argue that agentless CNAPP visibility and AI-assisted security operations are the practical answer to multi-cloud management complexity, which is the same ground the rest of the 17th edition program covers.
ASCII.jp