Cycaltrust Patents AI System That Verifies Provenance Before Payment
other 1 sources · Sep 18

Cycaltrust Patents AI System That Verifies Provenance Before Payment

The patent targets the gap agentic commerce leaves open: an AI that pays on surface-level condition matching still has no proof of where a product came from, and the filing stakes out that verification step rather than the payment itself.

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OceanBase to Present Two Sessions at db tech showcase 2026 Tokyo
other 1 sources · Sep 18

OceanBase to Present Two Sessions at db tech showcase 2026 Tokyo

The f4samurai session puts a named Japanese commercial deployment of OceanBase on the program at the country's largest database conference, which is the kind of user-side evidence enterprise database vendors need to move past pilot evaluations.

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Ohouse Brings Korean Interior Showcase To Japan With Pop-Up Show
other 1 sources · Sep 18

Ohouse Brings Korean Interior Showcase To Japan With Pop-Up Show

Ohouse's Korean business passed 30 million downloads and its Japan service passed 1 million since 2022, so the exhibition is a test of whether curation built on Korean Design Awards selections can move a Japanese audience.

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Kadokawa Releases Six More Arbalest Images Ahead Of February 2027 Launch
figures 1 sources · Sep 18

Kadokawa Releases Six More Arbalest Images Ahead Of February 2027 Launch

The kit's selling point is tactical completeness: Kadokawa says it is the first plastic model of the unit able to reproduce all three of its Normal, ECS Activated, and Lambda Driver Activated states, which is what the image set is being used to demonstrate ahead of the October preorder close.

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Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Lands On iOS And Android
games 3 sources · Sep 18

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Lands On iOS And Android

The remaster had been limited to console and PC since 2024, and the mobile port extends the same single-player campaign to phones at a price below a typical console purchase.

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Chiikawa and Mofusand Pop Up Shops Open Together at Toyama's Favore
figures 1 sources · Sep 18

Chiikawa and Mofusand Pop Up Shops Open Together at Toyama's Favore

Two character brands with separate audiences are sharing one retail floor at Favore, and the mofusand shop is being held at the mall for the first time, which is the kind of pairing a shopping center uses to pull different fan groups through the same door.

Nijimen
Hello Kitty And Grove Team Up For Fall Bag And Cardigan Lineup
figures 1 sources · Sep 18

Hello Kitty And Grove Team Up For Fall Bag And Cardigan Lineup

The lineup carries Hello Kitty's ribbon-over-eyes motif into everyday bags and a cable knit cardigan, extending Sanrio's character licensing into a women's fashion brand sold through shopping centers nationwide.

Anime Anime
System Service Adds Milky Subway To Vivit Figure Prize Lineup
figures 1 sources · Sep 18

System Service Adds Milky Subway To Vivit Figure Prize Lineup

System Service is building the Milky Subway prize push around two characters first and holding the other two back a month, which paces the crane game rollout rather than dropping the whole cast at once.

Dengeki Hobby Web
CELESTAY Craft&Slowlife Sets October 8 Launch On Steam
games 1 sources · Sep 18

CELESTAY Craft&Slowlife Sets October 8 Launch On Steam

BUBBLE GUM is a Tokyo studio formed by two developers who went independent, and it is placing its idle fishing game at the desktop edge while burying a story about a world sunk 150 years ago behind the fishing loop.

Automaton
Ultra Heroes Expo 2027 New Year Festival Sets Tokyo Dome City Run
figures 1 sources · Sep 18

Ultra Heroes Expo 2027 New Year Festival Sets Tokyo Dome City Run

The expo's booking pattern shows the New Year Festival is being used as a sustained promotional platform for Ultraman Teo, with its lead billed every day of the run and its supporting cast spread across the calendar.

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Yu Yu Hakusho Pop Up Shop Runs in Ikebukuro from October 31
figures 1 sources · Sep 18

Yu Yu Hakusho Pop Up Shop Runs in Ikebukuro from October 31

The license sits with Kadokawa rather than the animation side, so an Ikebukuro retail run plus parallel online sales is the model doing the work here: drawn goods and a purchase bonus, with the online window on the same dates instead of staggered behind the store.

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SKS Japan 2026 Foodtech Summit Publishes Agenda For Three Days In Tokyo
other 1 sources · Sep 18

SKS Japan 2026 Foodtech Summit Publishes Agenda For Three Days In Tokyo

The agenda frames foodtech as one of Japan's 17 strategic growth fields and pushes the discussion past individual products toward new industries, which is where the event's stated aim of concrete cross-industry collaboration either holds up or does not.

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