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Sakana AI CEO David Ha discussed the company's Japan-focused approach on the Disrupting Japan podcast. · 2026-06-27

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Denshattack!, the train action game from Spanish indie studio Undercoders, has sold 150,000 copies and reached 300,000 players since its July 15 release on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch 2. Director David Haumandreu told Automaton the game grew out of his childhood Plarail toys and a skateboarding background, and that the studio's Japan fandom shaped the dystopian train-riding premise.

Jun 27

Sakana AI CEO David Ha Outlines a Japan-Specific AI Strategy

Sakana AI CEO David Ha discussed the company's Japan-focused approach on the Disrupting Japan podcast. Instead of competing with US giants on consumer chatbots, Sakana AI partners with major Japanese firms on task-specific workflows, such as loan document processing at Mitsubishi UFJ Bank. Ha stressed routing tasks to appropriate models as a path to AI sovereignty.