VIPO Academy Opens Applications for Two Leadership Courses
The program targets content industry professionals, offering specialized leadership training with a new in-person focus and level-based class grouping this term.
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Cloudflare and Beehiiv Partner to Give Creators AI Crawl Controls
The integration puts advanced AI content controls into the hands of independent newsletter writers without requiring technical work like editing robots.txt files.
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GLOE E-Sports Sales Rise 40 Percent on VTuber and Local Government Contracts
The growth shows that e-sports revenue can come from smaller, recurring clients like VTuber agencies and local governments rather than relying solely on large-scale events.
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ROLEUP President Tatsuya Watanabe Appears on PIVOT Channel &TALK
The appearance signals ROLEUP's push to expand its public-facing thought leadership beyond traditional consulting and M&A advisory services.
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Patenty Inc. Receives Investment From Genesis Patenty No. 1 Private Investment Association
The investment signals validation of Patenty's approach to building AI that IP professionals can trust, with a network of international experts backing its global expansion.
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PR Firms Enpass and Shinfield Co-Host Free Seminar on AI-Era Brand Design Through Manga
The seminar frames manga as a strategic tool for brand communication in an AI-saturated information environment, positioning it as a human-driven method to bridge the gap between what companies say and what audiences want to hear.
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Short Film Platform SAMANSA Selected for METI's IP360 Content Growth Project
The selection marks a government-backed push to turn short films into a revenue-generating export category, with SAMANSA acting as a distribution bridge for Japanese IP in global markets.
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Asuene CEO Kohei Nishiwada to Speak at Ivs Core Alongside Former PM Kishida
Nishiwada's participation places an anime-adjacent energy company CEO in a high-level policy discussion about startup globalization, signaling the industry's growing relevance in national economic strategy.
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Nittele AI-HR Launches 'AI President' for Employee Consultations
The product formalizes a way for employees to access the thinking of executives without daily direct consultation, using AI to surface decision-making axes that are often unsystematized.
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Ridgelinez Launches AI Governance and Security Support Service
The service addresses a growing corporate need to manage AI risks-ethical, technical, and legal-as regulations like the EU AI Act and Japan's updated AI Operator Guidelines tighten, while still enabling AI adoption.
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Onono Launches Official YouTube Channel 'Onono Group'
The channel gives Onono a direct medium to explain its hybrid trading-and-promotion business, which the company says is hard to convey through service descriptions alone.
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15-Year-Old Nikoru Kondo Leads Hero Egg Founding Party With VR Experience
The founding of Hero Egg Co., Ltd. by a 15-year-old CEO marks a concrete step in a project that aims to turn Japan's 9 million vacant properties into technology education centers, with corporate and government partners already engaging.
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ProVision Launches AI System Quality Verification Service
The service addresses operational challenges like hallucinations and security concerns that have emerged as businesses adopt AI systems, offering a structured verification framework.
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Oshikatsu Expo Summer Draws Over 2,000 Leads in Two Days
The strong lead generation shows how no-code interactive tools and deliberate booth design can drive measurable results at a specialized fan-culture expo.
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Forbes Japan New Sales of the Year 2026 Grand Prize Goes to Itoki
The award highlights enterprise companies with 1,000 or more employees that practice a new sales model, with Itoki recognized as the most outstanding among the four category winners.
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Ssg Medical Becomes First Domestic CRO to Obtain ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management Certification
The certification marks the first time a domestic CRO has met the international standard for AI governance, formalizing how the company uses AI in drug development modeling without adding new regulatory risk.
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SB C&S to Host Network Meetup! Tokyo Exhibition in July
The event narrows the scope from the previous combined network-and-security format to a pure network focus, responding to rising corporate demand for AI-era infrastructure and operational efficiency.
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Ascend Employee Takeuchi Receives JUSA Meritorious Service Award
The award signals official recognition of Ascend's role in Japan's cross-agency effort to combat telephone number misuse for special fraud.
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EEFUL Holdings CEO Hodaka Moriyama to Speak at Trilateral Entrepreneurs Forum 2026
Moriyama's participation places Japan's elderly care industry, including AI-driven operational transformation, in a trilateral business dialogue alongside Chinese and South Korean tech and service leaders.
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Xaion Data to Visualize Digital Plus Group Distribution Gross Profit Margin in Real Time
The partnership applies AI data structuring to a key financial KPI, aiming to close the time lag between profitability changes and management action as the group scales.
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NE Invests in OpenFactory as Second CVC Deal
The investment signals NE's strategy to embed print-on-demand capabilities into its commerce infrastructure, reducing barriers for small sellers to produce branded goods.
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Coincheck Cuts 35 Hours per Employee per Month With Workato AI Platform
The case study shows a financial firm meeting governance and audit requirements while deploying AI broadly across non-engineer staff, a combination that has been structurally difficult for regulated industries.
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Bandai Namco Tops Patent Deterrence Power Ranking for 2025
The ranking quantifies which Japanese game companies hold the most legally potent patent portfolios, giving them leverage to block competitors from securing similar intellectual property.
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ERPC Deploys Solana v4 XDP Fast Path and Zero-Copy Across All Regional Nodes
By extending kernel-bypass networking from a single-region proof-of-concept to all production nodes, ERPC has made a latency optimization that was previously experimental into a baseline feature available to every customer regardless of region.
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